The biggest shadow in my life is the boy named Lin Xubai from the house next door.
He always ranks first in exams, is always clean, and is always watched by everyone.
In order to escape from him, I secretly changed my choice after the college entrance examination and went to a university thousands of miles away.
When we met again four years later, I became a fashion designer and he was the youngest attending physician in the hospital.
He smiled and blocked the door of my company: "Cheng Yi, do you think you can escape?"
What's even more frightening is that the gentle customer consultant who always smiles at me is also involved.
"Yiyi, choose me," Lin Xubai trapped me in the corner, his voice hoarse, "otherwise I don't know what I would do."
My brother Cheng Chen frantically handed him the key: "Brother-in-law, take my sister!"
Best friend Xu Weiwei held Gu Yan's brother's hand and said, "Xu Bai is handsome and has long legs and eight-pack abs. I mean you're in good hands."
Until that day, Gu Yan pushed me in front of the fitting mirror, and Lin Xubai happened to push the door open and enter.
He slowly took off his watch and chuckled: "The game is over, my little green plum."
Summer in Nancheng is always so hot that it makes people breathless. The asphalt road was slightly softened by the scorching sun, and the sticky smell of camphor trees floated in the air, as well as the never-ending dull noise coming from an unknown construction site in the distance.
Cheng Yi struggled out of that suffocating dream for the umpteenth time. His forehead was wet and his vest was cold. In her dreams, it was always her fifth-grade classroom, with the old fan whirring overhead, casting a swaying, dizzying light spot. The math teacher held the paper he had just handed out and said in a sharp voice that could pierce the eardrum: "Cheng Yi"
