Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 334 That Year Today
The temperature today was not low, and the weather was even rare and sunny. However, when he saw the news, Han Zhou felt an inexplicable chill in the sunshine.

Blackjack thirty-three.

There is no doubt that this is a message sent last night.

However, the scary thing is that before he learned about Xiao Xiaoxiao's situation from Ouyang Lianyu, he had no idea about the news.

But he was extremely convinced that whether it was last night or this morning, he had checked the chat list more than once. With his photographic memory, he would never forget the message once he saw it, but he didn't recall it until just now. .

This feeling is not like amnesia, but more like the memory has been diluted and blurred, just like the blurred background in the photo, giving people an insignificant feeling. If you don’t enlarge the photo to find more details, you will subconsciously Everything in the background is ignored.

including people.

This is undoubtedly a terrible thing.

An inexplicable feeling of helplessness swirled in Han Zhou's heart.

Especially when he realized that he had just thought about it for two seconds after hearing Xiao Xiaoxiao's name, his heart sank - obviously, Xiao Xiaoxiao was the blurred and ignored background in the photo.

Thinking about it carefully, although he had met Xiao Xiaoxiao many times during this week, he did not leave much of an impression. It was like a character with a name suddenly reduced to an NPC without a name or a face. As for him, he has almost forgotten the strange things that happened to the other party.

"What's wrong, Han Zhou?"

Seeing Han Zhou looking dazed after taking out his cell phone, Ouyang Lianyu asked with concern, "Did something happen?"

"No."

Han Zhou shook his head, put away his thoughts, and said seriously, "Teacher Ouyang, please go to the hospital to confirm the minor situation and tell me, and also help me say sorry to her, and tell her that I will take time to see her in the afternoon. of."

Seeing that his expression was unprecedentedly solemn, Ouyang Lianyu was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't quite understand, he still nodded and said, "I understand... But why do you have to apologize to Xiao Xiaoxiao? Could it be..."

She frowned slightly, suspecting that it was not enough for this guy to offend Gu Zheng and Noila Mo at the same time, but also deceived Xiao Xiaoxiao's feelings, who knew nothing about it.

"Teacher, don't think too much. It's not what you think." Han Zhou saw Ouyang Lianyu's thoughts and interrupted helplessly, "I just forgot to reply to Xiaoxiao's message. That guy might be here now." He is scolding me from the bottom of his heart.”

"That's it?"

Ouyang Lianyu didn't believe it. Looking back carefully, Han Zhou and Xiaoxiao seemed to be quite close to each other during this period. Occasionally, she would hear her classmates coaxing the two of them during class.

"It's really just like this." Han Zhou looked like he was swearing to God.

"Well, although I always feel that you didn't tell the truth to the teacher, I believe you once and hope that you will not betray the teacher's trust."

Ouyang Lianyu was considerate and did not ask for details. He said warmly, "Okay, go back. If you have any problems that cannot be solved, remember to communicate with the teacher in time. The teacher will find a way to help you."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

"Wait a minute, Teacher Ouyang!" Han Zhou called out to her, "I have something to ask you for help now!"

Ouyang Lianyu stopped, sighed softly, turned around and rolled his eyes at this student who didn't know how to be polite at all: "Let me make it clear first that I can help you, except for emotional matters."

"It has nothing to do with feelings, it's a trivial matter. Why do you always like to think about it?"

Han Zhou fumbled around for a moment and took out a small box from the inner pocket of his coat. "Please help me give this to Xiaoxiao."

"What is this?" Ouyang Lianyu took the box curiously.

"A little gift, she'll know it when she sees it."

Ouyang Lianyu took the box and looked at it for a while, then glanced at Han Zhou and said, "You really like giving gifts to girls."

Han Zhou looked at her angrily: "I also brought you a souvenir when I went to Yecheng before. If you think it's too frivolous, you can give it back to me."

Ouyang Lianyu looked embarrassed and seemed a little guilty. He immediately turned around and walked away quickly: "I really have to leave. You should go back quickly."

What is this guy running for?
Han Zhou didn't know why, but suddenly thought of something, and said with a strange expression: "Wait a minute... You must have lost the thing I gave you!"

Ouyang Lianyu ran faster.

Because she ran too fast, she accidentally hit the telephone pole in front of her. She spun around in circles, then covered her head and supported the wall, and continued to stumble away.

When you go to the hospital this time, you may have to go to the surgery to check in...

Han Zhou twitched the corner of his mouth. Seeing that the impact on the other party was not serious and his head was protected by a wool hat, he didn't pay attention and turned around to leave after thinking about it.

Obviously, there was something wrong with his memory again, and it was probably related to Xiao Xiaoxiao. But what concerned him was, was it only him whose memory was affected, or was there someone else?
Judging from Ouyang Lianyu's reaction just now, the answer seems to be the former. When Xiao Xiaoxiao was mentioned, the other party did not show any abnormality. Both his expression and tone were normal, and it was not like he had "forgotten" Xiao Xiaoxiao.

However, if we change another example, the answer seems to be the latter.

Han Zhou and Xiao Xiaoxiao have a good relationship, and Gu Zheng and Xiao Xiaoxiao have also met each other several times. Logically speaking, even if he temporarily ignores Xiao Xiaoxiao's existence, Gu Zheng will still invite him to his birthday party. , but Gu Zheng never mentioned this matter.

This matter made him feel quite concerned, but he could not make a judgment about the specific situation until he asked Gu Zheng.

When Han Zhou returned to the store, everyone was still sitting around the dining table eating. Lin Anyu showed dissatisfaction when he saw him and shouted: "Han Zhou, what did you do, why are you back now?" ?”

He held his forehead with one hand, covering half of his face with his fingers, and kept winking at him, as if he wanted to convey some kind of message with his eyes.

It's a pity that Han Zhou doesn't have the mind-reading ability like Noila Mo, so he couldn't understand what he meant at all. However, he could sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere at the scene, so he secretly kept an eye on it.

"I discussed something with Teacher Ouyang."

As he explained, he sat down and saw everyone looking at him with different expressions. No one moved their chopsticks. He couldn't help but wonder, "What are you looking at me for? Are you all full?"

"I'm full." Wang Runxue looked like she was watching a good show and said happily, "I'm full after eating melon...hisss——"

As soon as she finished speaking, she took a sharp breath and felt her feet being kicked hard. She was about to ask loudly which bastard it was when she heard Lin Anyu next to her cough twice and interrupted her words.

"I said Han Zhou, do you still remember Gu Zheng's birthday last year? You didn't know what gift to give her, so you kept asking me for my opinion. At that time, I searched for information on the Internet and pondered with you. For several days, I couldn't eat or sleep, so I finally chose the dolphin pendant that Gu Zheng is wearing now. "

Is there such a thing?

Wasn't your original words at that time, "Stop being a licker, kid? Why don't you just pick a piece of dogtail grass on the roadside to give you a birthday present?"

Han Zhou complained in his heart, but he also understood that Lin Anyu must be covering up for himself, so he cooperated: "Of course I remember, I am indeed not very good at picking gifts, but it is not as exaggerated as being unable to eat."

"Ahem, that's what it means anyway."

Lin Anyu waved his hand and continued to wink at him, saying in a nostalgic tone, "I remember you seemed to be working part-time at the time. Before Guzheng's birthday, you even asked me to advance you a month's salary. By the way, why didn't you tell me earlier that you had such great cooking skills? Otherwise, I would have asked you to be a chef in my restaurant."

His words were not exaggerated or fabricated, but he just deliberately obscured the facts in order to make everyone misunderstand one thing, that is, the reason why Han Zhou advanced his salary in advance was to celebrate Gu Zheng's birthday.

As soon as these words came out, Gu Zheng, who had been staring at his job gloomily, was really moved. He glanced at the blue dolphin pendant hanging around his neck, and the scene when Han Zhou gave him a birthday gift for the first time gradually emerged in his mind.

During that time, the two were just in their third year of high school. They were under a lot of academic pressure and had almost no holidays. They also stayed in school on their birthdays. Since they were not allowed to use mobile phones in school, they could not receive reminders from their parents, so that even she herself Forgot that it was her birthday.

But Han Zhou remembered.

At that time, the class had the habit of running at night. In order to keep the students in a good mental state, at the end of the third period of self-study every night, the class teacher would ask her, as the monitor, to lead everyone to run three laps on the playground.

This requirement started right after the second semester of the second semester of high school. At first, everyone complained. After all, the weather was still very cold at that time, and it was very hot as summer approached. Running at night was equivalent to self-torture. Later, the class teacher accepted the suggestions from the students. , we are no longer forced to run, but we are required to at least take a slow walk to move our bodies.

From there, the class tradition of night running—or night walking—began.

Gu Zheng is the only one who really insists on running every night. Anyway, for her, running three laps is no different from warming up.

That day seemed to be a rather special day. She couldn't remember exactly what was special. She only remembered that get out of class ended very late or the lights were turned off very late. When she went to the playground, she couldn't see anyone. Amidst the rhythmic footsteps, The only thing accompanying her was the dim streetlight.

She was used to wearing headphones to listen to English listening while running, and at the same time summarizing today's wrong questions in her mind, she didn't notice at all that when she finished her second lap, someone was chasing her desperately behind her, and shouted "Let's go" She stopped.

I heard that the sound was so loud that it woke up the vice-principal who lived in a residential building outside the school and had a very poor sleep quality. He remembered the name Guzheng deeply and suspected that a student had a puppy love, so he called her and Han Zhou together the next day. When I arrived at the office, I received severe criticism and education.

However, after learning that the two were the first and second graders in the senior year of high school respectively, the vice-principal's attitude became quite mild, saying that the two have the vigor unique to young people and are able to do both sports and studies, which is very worthy of praise. .

Of course, these are things for later.

Gu Zheng was caught up when he ran under the third streetlight.

The reason why she remembered it so clearly was because Han Zhou was already exhausted when he grabbed her hand from behind and almost fell into her arms. She suddenly panicked and pushed the other person against a lamppost in desperation.

It is said that this scene happened to be seen by the grade dean who was walking, and it was precisely because of his report about "female students banging against the wall late at night in the playground" that the vice principal became furious.

She used a little too much strength, and Han Zhou's head was hit against a lamppost, but before she could apologize, she heard the latter say out of breath: "You... you ran so... fast What are you doing? Did you hear me calling you?

"I didn't run very fast. I ran at a normal and steady speed, okay?"

She pointed to the headphones hanging around her neck and muttered unconvincingly, "And who knew you would suddenly run behind me and chase me."

"Don't you know that your... your even speed running is faster than my full sprint..."

"Who told you not to exercise properly? You didn't run with me before I asked you to." She rolled her eyes at him.

Han Zhou smiled bitterly and panted, "I would like to exercise, but conditions don't allow it."

He had been looking at his watch while he was talking. Perhaps he felt that he was running out of time, so he suddenly took out a box from his pocket in a hurry.

"So why are you looking for me..."

Gu Zheng was still wondering why he caught up with her, and when she was about to ask a question, she was interrupted by the other party's gasping voice.

"Happy birthday, Guzheng!"

To this day, Gu Zheng still remembers Han Zhou's look when he said these words.

Sweating profusely and out of breath, one hand was covering the aching back of his head, and the other hand was holding the other person's pencil box that had been used for a long time and had faded - it was supposed to be a beautifully wrapped gift box. But it seems to have been taken by mistake.

She was lost for a moment, and suddenly understood the reason why the other party tried his best to chase after her.

"Is this why you are chasing me?"

Realizing that he had picked up the wrong thing, Han Zhou's hand holding the pencil case froze in mid-air, and he said awkwardly: "God knows why today's time flies by so fast. It's almost twelve o'clock in the blink of an eye, and you don't agree to my request. I I was afraid of not being able to catch up, so I had no choice but to catch up.”

"It's almost twelve o'clock?"

"Yes, there is still one minute. It's too late to rush back to get the gift." Han Zhou coughed dryly and said shamelessly, "How about you take the pencil case first and treat it as if I have already given it to you?"

"How can you be so casual!"

Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him, suddenly couldn't help laughing, and asked with her eyes bent, "Why don't you run in the opposite direction from me because you're afraid you won't be able to make it in time?"

The air was quiet for a moment.

Seeing that Han Zhou's embarrassed expression turned dull, she couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing. She raised her hand to show the dial on her wrist in front of him: "Also, it's 10:59 now." , your broken watch is jumping around again, it’s time to replace it.”

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, and then he let out a long sigh of relief: "I'm a little dizzy from being busy today... That's just right. Come back to the classroom with me, and I'll give you your birthday gift."

"What gift?" "If you tell me, there will be no surprise."

"Didn't you give me the pencil case as a gift? What more surprises could there be?"

"Then you can keep the pencil case."

"I do not want it."

"..."

Last winter was a bit cold. The cold wind blew over the playground from time to time. The shadows of the trees stretched by the lights swayed slightly. Also stretched were two figures walking side by side.

There are withered yellow leaves scattered on the track, which make a "clicking" sound when stepped on.

Gu Zheng looked at the fallen leaves on the ground and said dissatisfiedly: "The school always plants trees just for the sake of appearance and not for practicality at all. Our class has to clean the playground every day. It's annoying."

Han Zhou smiled: "If we only focus on practicality, some people will definitely say that the trees planted in the school are not pleasing to the eye at all, and they can't relax even if they go for exercise."

"How could there be such a person?" Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him, thinking that he was making excuses.

"Why not? There will never be a shortage of people in this world who blame others. They complain about everything but never think about their own problems. Just ignore such people."

Gu Zheng was stunned for a moment, her expression became a little unnatural, and she muttered: "Are you comforting me?"

Because the head teacher praised her again in class today and decided to use her as an example to increase "intensity" for everyone in the final sprint of the senior year, many people in the class who already disliked her became even more uncomfortable. She did.

But she was used to this kind of thing.

"Do you need my comfort?" Han Zhou asked with a smile.

"of course not……"

Gu Zheng subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when faced with the half-smiling look in her eyes, she decided to tell the truth and looked away, "Occasionally, you still need it...just occasionally!"

Even if you are used to it, it doesn't mean you really don't care at all.

She didn't feel wronged, but she was inevitably a little disappointed.

Han Zhou smiled, raised his hand and grabbed a fallen leaf that flew towards the girl, crushed it and threw it aside.

"Then just think that I am comforting you."

The leaves turned into fine dust, scattered on the playground in the wind, and disappeared in the darkness.

Gu Zheng looked at him blankly.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing." She quickly looked away, quickly thought of a reason, and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't throw the leaves away."

Han Zhou shrugged, with an innocent expression on his face, "It's our class that we clean anyway."

The air became quiet.

A car was speeding past outside the wall, and the volume of the music in the car was turned up very loud. It was playing a very popular song, and it happened to include a line that Gu Zheng liked.

"If I want to give you half of the headphones, please give me half of your thoughts in exchange. The other half will be a secret file. I want to spend the rest of my life looking through it slowly."

She lowered her head and looked at the headphones hanging around her neck, and suddenly became a little absent-minded, wondering why she had only downloaded English listening.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and she suddenly came back to her senses. She straightened her hair that was messed up by the wind, quickly glanced at Han Zhou's side face, and asked pretending not to care: "Han Zhou, how did you know today is My birthday?”

"I helped the teacher organize the class files a while ago. The files have the birth dates of everyone in the class. I was bored and wrote down your birthday."

"What does it mean to be bored?" Gu Zheng looked dissatisfied.

"That's wrong. I should have written down your birthday on purpose."

"That's pretty much it." Gu Zheng rolled his eyes and immediately smiled.

Han Zhou couldn't help but laugh and said with a smile: "You are really easy to coax."

"That's because I didn't want to lose my temper with you, otherwise it would be useless for you to coax me, and I wouldn't even care about you." Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him.

Han Zhou was shocked: "So heartless?"

"It's so heartless." Gu Zheng put on a straight face to show that she was serious.

"Then if one day I really make you angry, isn't there any way to remedy it?"

"Let me think about it...if you are willing to sincerely apologize at that time, then I might consider forgiving you."

"What does a sincere apology mean?"

"that is……"

"..."

The two returned to the classroom while chatting. It was already past eleven o'clock and there was no one in the classroom. Han Zhou turned on the light and walked towards his seat.

Gu Zheng's heartbeat quickened and she tried her best to appear nonchalant about the gift and followed him silently.

"Sure enough, I got the wrong one."

Han Zhou took out an exquisite rectangular gift box from the drawer, put the pen box together with it, and said helplessly, "They are about the same size. I took the wrong one in a hurry."

"Oh."

Guzheng looked around carelessly, with his hands behind his back, as if "I don't care what the gift is at all". In fact, he was already guessing what was in the box with great anticipation.

She waited quietly for a while, her neck was almost broken, but she still didn't see Han Zhou giving her the gift, so she couldn't help but become anxious: "Why are you lingering?"

Han Zhou stared at the gift box for a while, then said with a wry smile: "I'm suddenly worried that you don't like this gift."

He didn't have such worries before, but because he failed to deliver the gift for the first time, Gu Zheng's expectations may continue to rise. Therefore, even if he knows that the other party won't mind, he is still somewhat worried that the other party's expectations will be disappointed.

Gu Zheng rolled her eyes: "I like whatever you give me. Even if it's a dogtail grass, I'll wear it on my body every day. Bring it!"

She no longer concealed her true emotions, and stretched out her hand openly. Seeing that the other party still didn't move, she simply snatched the gift box over.

"I want to see what it is..."

She muttered and opened the gift box, only to see a string of blue dolphin pendants lying quietly in the box. It was not considered gorgeous, but rather simple in style.

"Happy birthday, Gu Zheng."

Han Zhou's voice sounded in his ears, and he seemed a little embarrassed, "This is the most suitable birthday gift for girls I found online, but after buying it, I remembered that you never seem to wear jewelry, and you don't even use hairpins. , I don’t know if you like it or not..."

"I like it." Gu Zheng blurted out.

"Really?"

"I told you that even if it was a dog's tail grass, I would hang it on my body every day, let alone such a thoughtful gift."

Gu Zheng bent her eyes, carefully took out the pendant from the box, and gently stroked the little blue dolphin, "I thought you would give me dumbbell gloves or something like that."

Han Zhou was a little surprised: "Why do you think so?"

"nothing."

Gu Zheng shook her head, pushed back her hair, and smiled brightly, "I can't reach it, please help me put it on."

"it is good."

Han Zhou nodded, took the pendant, walked behind Gu Zheng, and helped her put it on boyishly.

"Does it look good?"

There were no mirrors in the classroom, so Gu Zheng had no choice but to ask Han Zhou, the only person present, for his opinion.

Of course, she just doesn't care what other people think.

"It looks good." Han Zhou commented seriously, "At least ten times better looking than the models in the store."

"You don't have to say that."

Gu Zheng rolled her eyes at him proudly, then pressed the pendant tightly to her chest, her eyes bent into beautiful crescents.

"Thank you Han Zhou, I like your gift very much and I will always wear it."

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "As long as you like it.

"By the way, there is no cake today, but you can still make a wish. Have you thought about what you wish for?"

"Think about it."

Gu Zheng seemed to be waiting for his words, and immediately pulled him out of the classroom, "You accompany me to the playground for a run, and we will see who can run faster."

"what?"

"This is my birthday wish, aren't you willing to help me make it come true?"

"That's not true, but how could I possibly outrun you..."

"I run at a constant speed, you run with all your strength."

"Then I can't outrun you."

"Do not."

Gu Zheng shook her head seriously, her eyes turning into crescent moons.

"You just ran past me."

This is her favorite gift.

　No one can rewrite a chapter twice... This chapter has nearly 2,500 more words. After writing it twice, it is 5,000 words. If you round it up to 10,000 words, let me shamelessly reward myself with a day off. Please give me a day off today. Take a vacation and relax:.ヽ(*`).:

　　In addition, I heard that a reader who scored 600% in the college entrance examination wanted to give me the title of leader, but he did not study hard and actually fell from third place to thirty. His attitude was really not correct enough. I severely criticized this and must correct it! Everyone must not follow suit. Well, I mainly want to advise everyone to learn. It doesn’t matter whether you are an ally or not...

　　Just kidding, but you really need to focus on your studies, otherwise you will have no choice but to write novels like the author in the future.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)