"Borrowed it."
This was the first thing Lin Wanqiu said to Xu Mian. On the third day of the second year of high school, the transfer student who smelled of cedar pressed the thermos cup accurately onto the scratches on Xu Mian's desk, like pressing a secret switch.
When the whole class stayed away from this top student who always came to school ten minutes early and took turns answering questions with twelve sharpened pencils, Xu Mian found a crumpled cat food purchase list in her eraser scraps; when everyone thought that Xu Mian was a lazy person who could only lie on the table and draw musical notation, Lin Wanqiu remembered the slightly red tips of her ears every time she said "mind your own business."
Starting from the 38th line drawn with a pencil:
- The shoulder to lean on while pretending to be asleep during morning reading
- During the heavy rain, the CCP held a black umbrella filled with formulas
- Cat food records that appear alternately on the convenience store's ledger
- There is a sketch hidden on the back of the crumpled physics notes
When the countdown to the college entrance examination reached the last page, there were still two drafts of the application written in overlapping handwriting on the blackboard of the empty classroom. Xu Mian finally asked the question: "Will the university continue to teach me?"
Lin Wanqiu's movement of turning the pen stopped in mid-air: "There is a fee."
"How to collect it?"
"Every time..." The pen fell to the ground, "... A correct answer is required."
The moment the score check text message came on, they found all the notes that had been passed on in the past three years in the cracks in the desk - those heartbeats disguised as mathematical formulas, finally completed the final verification at this moment.
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Intention: Study hard and make progress every day