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"No, we'll all watch it together," Lin Zhou said. "Coco, Wanwan, and Yuning, we've all agreed, we're just missing you."

Ye Zhiyu: "..."

After a few seconds of silence, Ye Zhiyu said, "Others invite one person, but you invite a whole bunch... What's wrong? Can't you make a choice?"

"What choice?" Lin Zhou pretended not to understand. "I don't get it."

Seeing Lin Zhou feigning ignorance, Ye Zhiyu didn't expose his thoughts, but suddenly said, "Sometimes you think you have it all, but in the end you end up not having it all."

Lin Zhou: "..."

Ye Zhiyu looked at him. "So, what's your thought?"

"I……"

"Um?"

"I……"

"I..." Lin Zhou said, "I want to stay with everyone... I don't want to be separated, ......"

Lin Zhou seemed to have fallen into some kind of obsessive state, shaking his head incessantly and speaking louder and louder.

"..." until a pair of slightly cold hands cupped his face and then suddenly pulled him into their arms.

Lin Zhou was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, yes, I understand you..." Ye Zhiyu said, gently stroking the back of Lin Zhou's head. "Of course I understand you... No one in this world understands you better than me."

Lin Zhou quieted down.

Leaning against Ye Zhiyu's chest, perhaps not as soft as Luo Xiaoke and the others, there was a strange sense of security.

"Have you calmed down?" I don't know how much time had passed.

"Ah... I'm sorry." Lin Zhou then realized that he seemed to have lost control. He roughly understood why, so he could only give a wry smile.

"Comfort service costs 100 yuan per second." Ye Zhiyu held out a QR code. "Thank you."

"Huh?! That's too expensive!"

"Tsk, you think it's too expensive, but I think it's too expensive too. Do you think just anyone can hug me?" Ye Zhiyu raised an eyebrow.

Lin Zhou sighed, "I don't have any money right now."

"Okay, you can pay on credit then. Remember you owe me, okay?" Ye Zhiyu said, then glanced at Lin Zhou. "So...we'll watch fireworks together? All of us?"

"..." Lin Zhou said, "I wanted to invite you to come along."

"What if I don't want to go?" Ye Zhiyu said. "It's always fireworks every year, I'm not interested, isn't it a bit too boring?"

"I think it's great to be together... It's not just about the fireworks, but also about the people you watch them with."

"Am I important to you too?" Ye Zhiyu suddenly asked, her expression serious, something Lin Zhou had never seen before.

"You are the most special, little fish."

Ye Zhiyu was taken aback, perhaps not expecting such a response, "You...you're quite eloquent."

Suddenly, Ye Zhiyu brushed aside Lin Zhou's bangs, and upon seeing her own incredibly familiar face, she seemed relieved at Lin Zhou's astonishment.

"It's still about modeling."

Lin Zhou: ?

"What...?"

"You're so ugly," Ye Zhiyu said. "Next time, please look at my eyes properly."

Lin Zhou's lips twitched slightly.

The wind was still blowing on the rooftop, and someone downstairs was shouting through a megaphone about the last batch of discounted drinks. The sound was carried up by the wind, making it intermittent.

Ye Zhiyu leaned against the railing, her soda bottle lightly touching the railing beside her. She seemed preoccupied with something, enjoying the breeze and the scenery, completely oblivious to everything about the school anniversary celebration.

"That's true." After a while, she finally spoke.

"What is it too?"

"It's fine if we all watch it together," Ye Zhiyu said.

"It's just to watch fireworks."

"Yeah, it's just watching fireworks." Ye Zhiyu drawled, turning to look at him. "Hey, I gave you my first kiss, can't you watch it with me alone today?"

Lin Zhou was stunned.

We were just talking about everyone, how did we suddenly jump to this?

"No, what does my first kiss have to do with watching fireworks?" Lin Zhou said. "Or... do you want me to confess my feelings to you?"

"No way, it's so weird..." Ye Zhiyu hugged her arms and trembled. "It's disgusting. Even as an O-friend, you shouldn't confess. It's so messy... um, anyway, no way. Maybe it's because we're too familiar. No, no, ugh."

Lin Zhou was embarrassed. "What do you mean by 'it's weird'..."

Oh well, I'm used to it.

"I know you like people who are better than you," Lin Zhou said.

"Good to know~" Ye Zhiyu replied lazily. She laughed for a while, then stopped, turned to look downstairs, and said casually, "But, after all, I gave you my first time."

"That sounds a bit strange..."

"If I ever want to date in the future, I might consider you."

After Ye Zhiyu finished speaking, she didn't continue. She simply brushed the strands of hair that had been blown onto her face by the wind with her fingers.

Lin Zhou looked at her. "Think about it? Your attitude changed so quickly."

"Yeah, that's how girls are~"

"Do we have to wait in line?"

"You can join the queue if you want, but there are already quite a few people ahead of you."

Who's up ahead?

Ye Zhiyu turned her head. "You really want to know?"

"Just asking."

"Oh—just asking." She mimicked his tone, repeating the words, and moved a little closer to him.

The two were already standing not far apart, and when she moved slightly closer, their shoulders lightly touched. Lin Zhou looked down and met the girl's raised eyes.

Ye Zhiyu still had a mischievous smile on her face, "So, who do you hope will be in front of you?"

Lin Zhou: "..."

The girl leaned against him, her face quite close, and didn't move away after she finished speaking, as if she was patiently waiting for him.

Lin Zhou felt his ears slowly getting warm.

Ye Zhiyu saw this and suddenly laughed, "Wow, you can even blush... What's wrong, do you really have feelings for me?"

"No, it's from the sun."

"There's no sun."

"...It was sun-dried before."

"Okay, it's from before." Ye Zhiyu nodded.

Lin Zhou scratched his head. "So, what you've been telling me... is all of this for real?"

"Who knows?" Ye Zhiyu said. "Not everything has an answer. Maybe we need an answer."

After saying that, Ye Zhiyu shoved the soda into Lin Zhou's hand and prepared to leave. "Let's go."

"fireworks."

"Yes, yes, I'll go... You're so nagging, like an old woman. When did you become like this?" Ye Zhiyu turned around. "Well, I'm leaving now."

"good……"

Lin Zhou watched Ye Zhiyu go downstairs, while he himself leaned against the railing, lost in thought.

Seeing Ye Zhiyu finish the soda, he chugled it all down in one go, then made a whooshing sound—it felt as refreshing as drinking an ice-cold beer in the middle of a hot summer day.

After a while, Lin Zhou muttered to himself,

"Soda..."

"Oh, it wasn't breathing... no wonder that guy gave it to me."