IACF [QT] Chapter 23.1

The weather was getting colder. When the first cold wave hit, it snowed lightly.

Su Yi had never seen snow in the small fishing village. When she woke up that morning, she saw a layer of white falling far and near outside the window. She immediately ran out happily.

With her, the golden retriever Mimi was wagging its tail wildly.

“Be careful of catching a cold. Come back and put on some clothes!” Grandma Qu shouted from inside the house.

So, the girl and the dog ran back.

Su Yi put on the down jacket she had just bought, and Mimi was covered with a heart-brand sweater by Grandma Qu.

The snow was actually very small, and most of it melted when it fell to the ground. After one night, there was only a thin layer on the ground.

Su Yi ran a few laps in the open space, leaving footprints in every corner of the garden.

She also spent a lot of time collecting the fallen snow from the leaves, car roofs, and windowsills and made a palm-sized snowman using chocolate beans as a mouth and jelly beans as a nose.

After finishing, she showed it off to Mimi and then put the little snowman into the refrigerator like a baby amid the expectant whimper of the golden retriever.

As the New Year approached, two things happened that seemed insignificant to Su Yi, but it would certainly be serious if they happened to others.

The first one was that the school was going to hold a New Year’s Eve party.

According to tradition, each class in the first year of high school needed to perform a program, while the second and third year students were responsible for enjoying it.

Last week, the head teacher notified the class of this matter in the class meeting and asked the students who were interested to contact her to sign up.

However, a week passed, but there was no movement at all.

She had to mention it again, but still, no one volunteered. She had no choice but to do ideological work on the students.

Su Yi was the first one to be talked to. After all, in the eyes of teachers of various subjects, she was the most obedient, had the best grades, and was the most capable one.

And she really lived up to the expectations. She agreed as soon as the teacher asked her to do it, and she carried the whole show by herself.

Su Yi had not planned to participate before.

Firstly, she felt that such a party would require singing and dancing, and she didn’t know any of them.

Secondly, there was no prize money to attract her.

But now that the head teacher had specifically mentioned it, she had no choice but to participate. And the teacher said that it could be other projects, such as skits, crosstalk, gymnastics, musical instruments, etc.

Su Yi remembered a program she had seen on TV a few days ago, and with a wave of her hand, she filled in the words ‘martial arts performance’.

The second thing was that someone was openly pursuing her.

After school one afternoon, she walked out of the school gate, but before she could find the Xiao family’s car, she was stopped by a boy.

“Are you Xiao Yan’s sister?”

The boy was quite tall, with a schoolbag on one shoulder and one hand in his pocket, looking relaxed and casual.

Su Yi stopped and nodded, “Yes.”

The other party took a step closer and looked at her with a half-smile, “I’m Xiao Yan’s friend. Have you heard of me?”

Among Xiao Yan’s friends, Su Yi had only met Han Lu a few times and had only heard the names of the others.

The boy in front of her, although with a smile on his face, his eyes were not very friendly. His eyes were full of arrogance, as if saying that he could easily dismiss the world’s number one mortal.

He didn’t look like a friend of Xiao Yan at all. If the two of them stood together, it would look more like they were ready to fight.

“I haven’t heard of you. Do you have something to do with me?”

Su Yi looked at him, thinking that if he really came to fight Xiao Yan, then she would beat him up first.

Anyway, after eating so much of Xiao Yan’s food, the other party was already her own person in her heart. She could not stand by and watch someone from her faction being bullied by others.

Xie Shengkai looked at the girl in front of him with interest. She was quite pretty, not tall, slender, and light, with a ponytail. She had no makeup on her face, looking fresh and clean.

He couldn’t believe that someone as pretentious as Xiao Yan would have such a sister, even though she was only a step-sister.

It was precisely because she was just a step-sister, but he still valued ​​her so much, which was more intriguing, wasn’t it?

He had known Xiao Yan for quite a long time, and the elders of both sides were good friends, so they had met each other when they were still wearing diapers. However, they did not get along.

He knew everything about the Xiao family and had known for a long time that Xiao Yan had a new younger sister, but he didn’t take it seriously at first.

After all, she was brought by his stepmother, and she was a country girl, so what was so strange about it?

But the result seemed to be a bit surprising.

Even someone like him who rarely stayed in school had heard of her fame.

When he saw her in person today, he found that she was indeed different from what he expected. Considering how much Xiao Yan valued ​​her, it became quite interesting.

Xie Shengkai changed his foot to support his body, leaning against the tree trunk next to him, smiled, and said, “Did Xiao Yan not mention me to you? That’s not right. I have been friends with him for more than ten years and have known him since childhood.”

Su Yi said ‘Oh’.

The colder she was, the more interested Xie Shengkai became.

With one hand in his pocket, he leaned forward slightly, getting closer to Su Yi, invisibly drawing her into his sphere.

 

 

 

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