All Four Are Empty

The first time Su Su bumped into Xu Yan was at the corner of the examination room during independent enrollment. When they bumped into each other for the second time, she discovered that they had become classmates in the next class. She thought his name was Chen Xiao. For the next three months, this name was kept silently in her mind. It wasn't until the school sports meeting, when he went up to sing a song that she knew his name, and he realized that she had recognized the wrong person. Xu Yan noticed Su Su for the first time after the embarrassing collision in the corridor. She muttered the words: "I'm sorry, sorry, sorry..." As if she was memorizing these three words as a mantra. The second time I noticed her was because she was first in grade in math, more than ten points behind the second place. In contrast, her English is so bad that her English teacher treats her as a negative teaching material. Xu Yan, the top student in the science experimental class, is the top student in Chinese, Mathematics, English, and Physics, but he is always ranked second in the grade, sometimes third. Everyone said he was stable, but only he knew that the bottleneck was stuck there, like a wall that couldn't be pushed down. When they met in the math class, they were at the front and back desks. When he learned from her ideas for answering questions, he found that her sketchbook had drawn a tree basking in the sun. One of the branches of the tree turned into the shape of a thumb, and attached a line of small words: "This question is a bit interesting." He began to secretly look at her math papers. Her ideas for solving problems were wild and unconventional, and some of her methods made him shine. Xu Yan did the boldest thing in his life - he stuffed his English notes into her desk. The title page read: "I heard that you are very good at mathematics. Can you help me with the last question? - Chen Xiao (cross out) Xu Yan" From that day on, the two began a secret "academic transaction." She used her wild mathematical intuition to help him break through the dead ends of the final question, and he used his systematic general thinking to help her make up for her shortcomings in Chinese and English. The scratch paper was passed between the two, and conversations gradually began to appear in the corners - she drew a small tree holding a "Come on" sign, and he responded with an expressionless stick figure. The seventeen-year-old's favorites are the emoticons on the draft paper, the eyes that hurriedly look away after looking at each other in the library late at night, and the small smiles only given to each other across the crowd after the mock exam. What Su Su didn't know was that Xu Yan kept the original English notebook title page - she drew a cat holding a trophy, and wrote next to it: "Congratulations to Xu Yan for finally ranking first in grade." The cat's whiskers are drawn crookedly, which is a bit cute. Just like the arc of her ponytail when she bumped into him for the first time. Going in both directions | Mathematics top student × all-rounder | Emoticon girl and the ten thousand year old second child | Going to Tsinghua University together "She thought she had a crush on him first. In fact, as early as the day they bumped into each other in the hallway, when he picked up her admission ticket and saw the tree where she was taking a bath, she never left his mind." Intention: The best result of liking someone is not to become the other person, but to see a more open self in the other person's eyes.