Disabled Childhood Sweetheart: A Humble Puppy Begs for the Young Lady's Pity

During my school days, three things were especially popular: braided bracelets, folded stars, and lyric books.

During the Spring Festival of 96, Wen Zhiting bought a new cassette player for Wenxi and Zhou Jingchen as a New Year's gift. The player was exquisite, compact, easy to carry, and could be used with headphones.

The two men used it very differently after receiving it; Zhou Jingchen used it to listen to English tapes, while Wenxi used it to listen to songs.

The girls in the class all had a lyric book with the lyrics to many songs written in it. Wenxi had one too, and the pages were decorated with little hearts, flowers, and other patterns.

While Zhou Jingchen was memorizing vocabulary with headphones on, Wenxi was listening to Little Tigers songs with headphones on, singing and dancing along, nodding and swaying her head.

Zhou Jingchen told her to keep her voice down, but she immediately turned it up louder in his ear. He said he was going to sleep in the apartment across the hall, but she immediately frowned and ignored him all night.

The next morning, she happily ordered him to serve her rice.

Zhou Jingchen picked out the scallions one by one from the bowl of noodles, then pushed the bowl in front of her.

Wenxi likes soup seasoned with scallions, but she doesn't eat scallions. In short, she's a very picky girl.

She picked up a large mouthful of noodles and stuffed it into her mouth, saying indistinctly, "I'm going to dance class tonight. After school, you can take the bus home by yourself."

"Okay." Zhou Jingchen lowered his head to help her put on her socks, his well-defined fingers gently brushing over the slightly swollen wound on her right foot, which she had twisted while dancing last time and which hadn't fully healed yet.

After Wenxi entered the Second High School, her grades remained at the bottom. Xiang Qin knew that Wenxi was not academically inclined, so she intended to pave the way for her daughter to apply to an art college in the future.

So she enrolled her daughter in a more professional dance class, three times a week. The price was not low, and the teacher was a famous dancer in the province who had even performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

Just like before, sometimes Zhou Jingchen would accompany her to dance practice after school, and sometimes Xiang Qin or Wen Zhiting would pick her up after get off work and accompany her to the dance studio.

After class that day, Wenxi went to the dance studio alone. The training ended very late that day. Wen Zhiting was supposed to pick her up, but he had something come up and couldn't leave. He called her teacher and told her to take a bus home by herself.

Zhou Jingchen waited and waited at home for Wenxi to return, but it was already dark. He was a little worried, so he went to the gate of the compound to wait, leaning on his cane.

After waiting for a long time, I felt inexplicably anxious, so I walked to the alley entrance with my cane to wait.

He didn't know how much time had passed when he saw a bicycle approaching in the distance. A moment later, the bicycle came to a steady stop in front of him.

Chen Xu greeted him with a smile, "You've brought your sister back safely!"

Zhou Jingchen nodded slightly.

Wenxi jumped down from the back seat, her face as radiant as a peach blossom: "Brother Chen Xu, thank you for giving me a ride."

"It's nothing, see you later." Chen Xu waved his hand, turned his bike around, and rode home.

Zhou Jingchen's eyes were shrouded in gloom as he asked Wenxi in a low voice, "Didn't Uncle Wen come to pick you up?"

"My dad had something to do, so he told me to take the bus home by myself. I just happened to run into Brother Chen Xu when I came out of the dance studio."

"Brother Chen Xu is such a nice guy. He specially brought me back. It would take him a long time to ride home from here."

Wenxi kept calling him "Brother Chen Xu" over and over, completely oblivious to the increasingly complex and profound eyes of the boy beside her.

For a period of time, Wenxi suddenly became very busy.

Zhou Jingchen sometimes stayed at her house and would see her sitting at her desk folding stars. Colorful little plastic tubes would turn into little stars and be put into a large transparent jar.

Wenxi saw others weaving stars, so she started weaving too. Others would weave a jar of stars to give away, but she did it because she heard that weaving 1000 stars could grant a wish.

After working on it for a while, Wenxi got tired of it and lost all the raw materials.

Zhou Jingchen asked her if she had finished writing it. Not wanting him to know that she had given up halfway through again, she lied and said she had finished.

She would unconsciously touch the tip of her nose when she lied, and Zhou Jingchen noticed it.

He asked if it had been sent out, and Wenxi said yes.

Zhou Jingchen lowered his eyes and didn't ask who it was for.

From then on, he spoke even less than before, focusing all his energy on his studies.

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As the second semester began, Wenxi suddenly grew taller and became even slimmer. At the same time, the girl's breast features began to show.

The girls in my class are all around the same age, and they're all going through puberty. When they run, they sway back and forth, and they feel embarrassed doing certain things during PE class.

Xiang Qin bought Wenxi small bras in pink, white, and light yellow.

After dinner, Wenxi nestled on the sofa, wrapped her arms around Xiangqin's waist, and chatted with her while burying her face in her chest: "Mom, the girls in my class all walk with their backs hunched over, as if they're afraid others will notice."

Xiang Qin gently stroked her stray hairs: "What's wrong with that? It's a normal physiological phenomenon for girls."

"There's a girl in my class named Li Na. She's a good student and an honest person. But she's quite strong and has a large bust. Some people always make fun of her behind her back, calling her 'big-breasted girl' and saying that her breasts got bigger from being rubbed by men."

"Ugh, these brats, how can they bully others like that?" Xiang Qin clicked her tongue twice and sighed, "Don't laugh at them, you know? Those people are either ignorant or haven't experienced it themselves, using ridicule to cover up their own ignorance. As girls grow older, their breasts will grow bigger; this is a sign that their bodies are becoming healthier and more mature, a normal physiological phenomenon that every girl will experience."

"Yes, I know. Our dance teacher told us that too."

The next day, there was a physical education class.

While running, Li Na slouched and was scolded by her PE teacher, who told her to straighten her back and run properly.

Li Na was tall and strong. When she ran, her chest bounced, and many girls and boys in her class would laugh at her. Li Na's face would turn as red as an apple.

Wenxi couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she took off her coat and threw it on the playground, tucked the hem of her short-sleeved shirt into her pants, revealing her slender waistline and full breasts.

Several boys on the playground whistled at her, and Chen Xu, who was playing basketball nearby, also noticed her.

Girls at this age are usually ashamed to show these physical characteristics, and most of them wear loose jackets when running, or hunch their backs to hide the signs of their development.

Wenxi is the first to be so flamboyant.

Wenxi yelled at the group, "What are you looking at? Your mother and sister have them too!"

"Ignorant, boring, and utterly pointless! If any of you had a modicum of sense, you wouldn't be laughing at us like this."

"Aren't you going to develop? Is there something wrong with your body?"

"My breasts are so big, much better developed than your little matchstick penis, hehe."

"And some girls, you're a girl yourself, yet you make fun of girls. Are you out of your mind? You'd better never develop."

......

His words were blunt and powerful, like a mortar shell, leaving everyone speechless.

Zhou Jingchen, sitting on the bleachers of the playground, held his textbook in his arms, his fist pressed against his lips, and laughed until his chest trembled.

As Wenxi passed by, she proudly tossed her ponytail and winked at him.

Because the running group was too disorganized and everyone wasn't focused, the PE teacher made them run an extra 800 meters as punishment today.

When school was over, Wenxi was too tired to talk. She had practiced dancing for three hours the night before and had run for so long today, her legs were trembling.

There were no seats on the bus, so someone offered Zhou Jingchen a seat. As soon as he sat down, Wen Xi picked up his backpack from his lap and sat sideways on his lap.

Zhou Jingchen's thighs tensed instantly, his breathing became heavier, and he didn't know where to put his hands for a moment.

As people around him cast surprised glances, Wenxi clasped his hands together and smiled, saying, "My brother, my brother."

Afraid she might fall, Zhou Jingchen gently put his arm around her waist and whispered, "Why don't you sit down? I'll stand."

"Is that appropriate? Someone offered you their seat." She turned her head to look at him, thinking that Zhou Jingchen didn't want her to sit on his lap, and touched his face: "Little brother, my legs hurt today, so let me sit here and rest for a while, okay?"

Her scent filled Zhou Jingchen's nostrils, sweet and youthful, like fresh milk or creamy ice cream in summer.

As the car bumped along, strands of the girl's soft hair occasionally brushed against Zhou Jingchen's nose. He closed his eyes briefly and tightened his grip on her waist...

The main concern was that she might fall.

No one else knew except Zhou Jingchen: Two days later, Wenxi secretly put a small note and two brand-new bras in the schoolbag of a girl named Li Na in her class. She had asked Xiang Qin to help her buy them.

The note read: "To the cutest girl. There's nothing shameful about it; we're all the same."