A Young Woman's Heart

Li Wanyan, who hadn't said a word, suddenly turned her head and glanced at them, startling the two of them.

"What's wrong? Didn't you catch up? If you still want to catch up, you're a freak," Mo Xueyao muttered.

"No, no." Li Wanyan nodded.

"Xiaoyao, if you really had a chance to become a star, would you take it?" Lu Chengyuan asked curiously. "I mean, I'm very sure, it has to be through the official channels."

"Even if it really exists, I don't want to be one." Mo Xueyao subconsciously took out a cola candy from her pocket, hesitated for a moment, handed it to Lu Chengyuan first, and then took one for herself and put it in her mouth.

The reason she didn't hand it to Li Wanyan was because Mo Xueyao had already made her develop the habit of reaching into Mo Xueyao's pocket whenever she wanted a Coca-Cola candy.

This is also a form of intimacy.

Moreover, it's impossible for one person to be influenced by the other when they are good friends; in reality, they should influence each other.

Mo Xueyao was influenced by Li Wanyan in some ways, and Li Wanyan was also influenced by Mo Xueyao in some ways.

At least now, when facing Mo Xueyao, Li Wanyan sometimes appears just as carefree and easygoing as her.

Sure enough, Li Wanyan casually reached into Mo Xueyao's pocket, but she didn't take her hand out; she just kept it there.

"Wanyan, what are you doing?"

"Keep it with you."

"It's a bit inconvenient to walk like this."

Li Wanyan ignored Mo Xueyao's complaints and instead reached her hand further inside, deliberately tickling her waist.

"Pfft, hahaha—"

"Wow, Xiaoyao, what are you doing? Did you suddenly have a mental breakdown?" Lu Chengyuan was startled.

"Pfft, hahaha—Wanyan tickled me!"

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Chapter 311 Children's Day

The day finally arrived: Thursday, June 1st.

However, for most people, it was just an ordinary day.

The light rain outside the window was pattering down, making the green leaves and grass appear even more lush and vibrant.

Mo Xueyao, wearing headphones, lay on the table, listening to the news radio on the cassette player, feeling increasingly sleepy.

"Today, City X announced the closure of its last Vietnamese refugee center, marking the end of a 20-year-long Vietnamese refugee crisis in City X..."

"Dap, dap...patter..." The sound of raindrops was mixed in, like someone slowly and steadily tapping a drumbeat.

Mo Xueyao felt someone sit down next to her, and she subconsciously opened her eyes a little to take a look.

"Good morning." As usual, Huang Yuxi held up the whiteboard in front of her.

"Hmm..." Mo Xueyao yawned, resting her head on her arm. She was actually a little sleepy, but she couldn't really fall asleep. However, lying there in a daze, listening to the rain and the radio, was quite peaceful.

"Didn't sleep well?" Huang Yuxi erased a few words on the whiteboard and wrote new ones.

"It's alright... It's just that this kind of weather makes people want to sleep..." Mo Xueyao reached out and poked Huang Yuxi's smooth face. As a boy, his skin was really too good. Girls usually liked to pinch his face. After a while, even Mo Xueyao sometimes couldn't help but want to touch his cheek.

Huang Yuxi blushed slightly and dodged Mo Xueyao's hand, then wrote on the whiteboard: "Happy Children's Day".

"What Children's Day? I'm not a child anymore..." Mo Xueyao yawned widely, sat up straight, and propped her chin up with her hand. "Do you think I'm childish?"

Huang Yuxi hurriedly shook her head.

"Pfft, haha, don't be nervous, I was just joking with you." Mo Xueyao hadn't taken off her headphones. If someone else were talking to her, they might not be able to hear clearly, but Huang Yuxi communicated with others by writing, so that wasn't a problem at all.

"Little Yaoyao~" Her voice arrived before she did, referring to Hua Yinyin.

Then Mo Xueyao saw a petite figure rush into the classroom and slam a beautifully wrapped gift box onto Mo Xueyao's desk with a thud: "Happy Children's Day, Xiaoyao!"

"Huh? Hey, what Children's Day? I'm not a child!" Mo Xueyao muttered, her eyelids drooping.

"It's okay, I just wanted an excuse to celebrate the holiday. A peaceful life always needs some ups and downs, right?" Hua Yinyin stuffed her schoolbag into her drawer and sat down in her seat.

"What's this?" Mo Xueyao poked at the beautifully wrapped gift box in front of her.

"Of course, it's a Children's Day gift for Yaoyao!"

"What? A Children's Day gift? I want one too!" Wang Jiale immediately came over.

Mo Xueyao looked at her helplessly: "Lele, how old are you..."

"I don't care! I just want a present! I'm a child today! Yay!"

"Then you'll have to ask Xiaoyao if she's willing to share with you."

"I don't want Xiaoyao to share with me, I want my own portion!"

Upon hearing this, Hua Yinyin pushed Wang Jiale's face aside and said, "Then you'll have to ask your boyfriend for it."

"Ahem..." Lu Bolun gave an awkward chuckle. "I'm going to the restroom."

"See, my boyfriend is completely unreliable!" Wang Jiale slammed her hand on the table in dissatisfaction.

"Hey, your boyfriend isn't a machine that gives you gifts..." Mo Xueyao was a little unhappy, after all, she used to be a man herself.

"Just kidding, why are you taking this so seriously, Xiaoyao?" Wang Jiale pressed her cheek close to Mo Xueyao's and rubbed it against hers. "Quick, open it and see what it is!"

"It's probably just something boring..." Mo Xueyao muttered as she opened the gift box.

Inside were lollipops of different flavors.

"Wow, it's cola flavored! Haruka, I want some!"

"Then take it..." Mo Xueyao nodded helplessly, "I'm not a child, why would I need a lollipop?"

Hua Yinyin grinned mischievously, picked up a lollipop, and said, "Little Yaoyao~ want to eat my lollipop~?"

"Is that all you wanted to say?" Mo Xueyao rolled her eyes.

"Xiao Xi, do you want to eat my lollipop?" Then, as if she hadn't had enough fun, Hua Yinyin went to bother others again.

Besides the ones she gave to Mo Xueyao, she also brought an extra box. Whenever she saw a classmate she knew, she would take one out and ask them with a mischievous grin.

By the end of the morning, more than a dozen people had already eaten Hua Yinyin's 'lollipop'.

What a guy with a really twisted sense of humor.

The last time I ate a lollipop was probably when I was in elementary school, right?

Mo Xueyao rested her chin on her hand, recalling Children's Day when she was in elementary school.

Back then, the school had activities where children would participate in games from different classes and collect stamps, which could then be exchanged for candy based on the number of stamps collected.

Although it was just a very ordinary and cheap hard candy, I still enjoyed eating it back then.

"Wanyan, here, do you want the chocolate flavor? Or the strawberry flavor? Lele took the cola flavor." Mo Xueyao poked Li Wanyan's arm with two lollipops in her hand.

Li Wanyan was currently reviewing the contents of her textbook, but it seemed like she hadn't turned a page in a long time.

Upon closer inspection, her eyes appeared somewhat unfocused.

He seems to be spacing out.

"Hmm...?" Li Wanyan finally came to her senses, glanced at Mo Xueyao, and nodded slightly. "Either is fine."

“Then let’s go with the strawberry flavor.” Mo Xueyao placed the pink lollipop in her palm. “This was given to me by Yinyin… That bad girl has already given her ‘lollipops’ to a lot of people, tsk tsk.”

"Hmm." It was getting late, almost time for morning reading. Li Wanyan didn't open the lollipop, but just put it in the drawer. Then, she looked ahead and said, "Hua Yinyin, go and lead the reading."

"Huh? It's already time for morning reading?" Hua Yinyin complained softly, tossing the lollipop she hadn't given away into her drawer, picking up her Chinese textbook and standing on the podium.

"Ahem, let's begin morning reading. Everyone, take out your Chinese textbooks and turn to page 101..."

Compared to other classes, Class 2 is relatively orderly during morning reading. At least no students deliberately cause trouble; at most, they just slack off and don't read.

Most people would read aloud along with Hua Yinyin, and even standing in the corridor, you could hear the neat reading voices coming from Class Two.

"Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion"

As Hua Yinyin read out the title, the others followed suit, their voices growing more and more unified over time.

"What I once cherished has, in the blink of an eye, become a thing of the past, yet I cannot help but feel nostalgic for it..."

“Squad leader, squad leader, Cui Bianzhan hasn’t arrived yet. I asked Tian Xinnan to delay the other side he’s in charge of, but she refused.” Ye Banxia said, standing next to Li Wanyan, but the latter didn’t react.

"Class monitor? Class monitor?" Then, she gently patted Li Wanyan's shoulder again.

"Hmm?" Li Wanyan slowly turned her head.

“Cui Bianzhan didn’t come, so I asked Tian Xinnan to take over the other side he was in charge of, but she refused.”

"Okay." Li Wanyan nodded, stood up and walked towards Tian Xinnan, "Tian Xinnan, drag the other side."

"Why should he get to slack off just because he's late, and I have to do his work? I'll just come late on my assigned cleaning days from now on, and I can skip the morning cleaning altogether," Tian Xinnan said, glaring at Li Wanyan with dissatisfaction.

"You can mop it in the morning, and after school in the afternoon, he can take care of your half, and you can go straight home."

"Tch..." Tian Xinnan's tone softened, "Fine, fine, I'll stall, okay?"

"Hmm." Li Wanyan looked at Ye Banxia beside her, as if blaming her for not being able to handle such a simple matter.

"Hey... the class monitor is really something, he solved it so easily..."

Li Wanyan neither agreed nor disagreed, and sat back down in her seat.

But before she could even sit down, she felt someone pat her on the shoulder.

Mr. Xue asked in confusion, "Li Wanyan, did you sit in the wrong seat?"

"Huh?" Li Wanyan was taken aback. She turned her head to look at Gao Yuan sitting next to her, and didn't react for a full three seconds before she remembered that her deskmate was no longer Gao Yuan, but An Ruosu. "Sorry."

"It's alright, Li Wanyan. Is something on your mind today?" Mr. Xue waited for Li Wanyan to stand up, but instead of sitting down, he looked into her eyes and asked.

"It's nothing," Li Wanyan replied somewhat inexplicably.

"Are you alright?" Mr. Xue asked with concern.

"fine."