What's wrong with me?

He couldn't describe what he was feeling right now: nostalgia, joy, anticipation, excitement, guilt, fear, it seemed like a little bit of everything.

"What are you thinking? I just happened to see a movie I was interested in last night and accidentally stayed up too late to watch it. What other reason could there be?"

Qi Xia explained casually. Although as an adult with a much older mental age, he was a little uncomfortable with suddenly returning to high school.

But after all, these were his own personal experiences, and not too far away in the past, so he quickly found a little bit of the feeling he had when he was getting along with his peers in high school.

"Look, do you think Qi Xia is just like you, thinking about those nonsense all day long? The homeroom teacher asked you to sit with Qi Xia because he wanted you to learn from Qi Xia and improve your grades, not to let you lead Qi Xia astray."

After hearing what Qi Xia said, the squad leader glared at Jia Shuai fiercely, which made Jia Shuai wonder if this tigress had taken the wrong medicine today. Why was she more ferocious than usual?

He was also a little hesitant. Could it be that he really guessed wrong? But this shouldn't be the case. That was Jiang Xinyao, Lao Xia's ex-girlfriend. Why did Lao Xia seem to not care at all now?

"Is this true, Old Xia? It's really not because of Jiang Xinyao? I heard that Jiang Xinyao is really interested in you and wants to reconcile with you. I heard it from Jiang Xinyao's best friend. Don't you want to consider it?"

Lu Yuwei glared at Jia Shuai, but surprisingly this time she did not stop him from bringing up the topic.

It seemed that they were as curious about Qi Xia's answer and reaction as Jia Shuai. The two of them actually looked at Qi Xia in unison, as if they were very curious about how Qi Xia would answer.

Chapter 11 Childhood Sweethearts

Jia Shuai's words once again evoked Qi Xia's memories.

As far as he could remember, it was during this period of time that Jiang Xinyao had indeed thought about rekindling their old relationship.

However, young people are arrogant and proud. At that time, Qi Xia felt that Jiang Xinyao betrayed him first, so this relationship naturally ended in failure.

During that period, Jiang Xinyao came to him many times, and even hinted or directly mentioned that she wanted to be his girlfriend again, but Qi Xia rejected her without hesitation every time, and even made the girl cry several times because his rejection was too ruthless.

Because of this incident, he and Jiang Xinyao, his childhood sweetheart, drifted further and further apart, which was something Qi Xia regretted very much later on.

At the end of the first semester of senior year, Jiang Xinyao rested at home for a while and did not come to school. It was said that she seemed to have depression, and it was so serious that she had to be sent to a relevant hospital for treatment.

During that time, Qi Xia also heard that Jiang Xinyao had tried self-harm while treating depression, and even seemed to have attempted suicide. When Qi Xia heard about it, his first reaction was disbelief, because in his memory, Jiang Xinyao had always been an overly optimistic and carefree person.

But the reality left him no choice but to believe it. Shortly before the college entrance examination, Jiang Xinyao returned to school, but she was no longer as young and beautiful as she was in the first and second year of high school.

Her beautiful long hair, which originally reached almost her waist, was cut cleanly because of the treatment. Her pale face and the faintly visible scars on her arms also proved what she had been through during this period of time.

Her face was ashen, as if only a soulless shell remained, a lifeless walking corpse.

After all, he and she were childhood sweethearts. Even though they had been in a cold war for more than a year and had caused many unpleasant things, when Qi Xia saw his childhood sweetheart become like this, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

That day, when he went to her house to visit her, he was shocked by her condition.

She always looked lifeless when looking at anything, and only when she saw him could he see some emotional fluctuations in her eyes that proved that she was still alive, but she quickly looked away and stopped looking at him.

In Jiang Xinyao's current condition, it was impossible for her to take the college entrance examination with Qi Xia and others, so her parents arranged for her to take a leave of absence from school and let her concentrate on recuperating at home. However, her depression did not improve after that, but instead became worse.

In order to treat her illness, her uncle and aunt tried many methods, including medication and psychological therapy. In order to make her feel better, they took her traveling everywhere, thinking that this would make her feel better, but it turned out to be completely useless.

Her condition has left many doctors at a loss, and they said that if they don't find out the cause of her condition, her depression may not be cured.

But who knows what happened to her? Why did a healthy and carefree girl suffer from such severe depression? She refused to tell me.

Later, her uncles and aunts were at their wits' end. Her depression gradually turned into a mental problem, and they could only send her to a mental hospital on the doctor's advice. Later, one day, news came out that she had committed suicide by falling from a building in the mental hospital.

When this news reached Qi Xia's ears, Qi Xia didn't know how to feel. After all, she was his childhood sweetheart and they had been in love for a while in the first year of high school. This made him sad for a long time and was one of the several things in his memory that often made him regret.

Qi Xia used to think that Xinyao’s death had nothing to do with him. Even if he rejected her, high school girls’ feelings come and go quickly. After a few days of sadness, she would forget about it. So he didn’t think that he was the culprit who made her become like that.

But thinking back on it now, Qi Xia was shaken.

Maybe for most girls, although feelings are important, they are not everything. There are many other things in life that deserve attention.

But with Yue Ran's example, he, who had just committed suicide with her, would never again dare to believe that there were no girls in this world who valued love above all else.

Think about how coincidental that period of time was. Almost immediately after he rejected her, news came that she was suffering from severe depression.

Even if he was not the real cause of her depression, he probably had to bear a large part of the responsibility. Who made him hurt the girl's heart?

Thinking of this, Qi Xia almost fell down. He immediately wanted to get up and find Jiang Xinyao. She should be in the classroom not far away on the same floor.

But Qi Xia thought about it and decided to hold back. If he went to find her now and told her that she must never be depressed in the future, he would be considered a fool by her.

Anyway, nothing has happened yet, there is still time.

Qi Xia comforted himself.

He could pay more attention to her and find out why she became depressed. As soon as she showed signs of depression, he could tell his uncle and aunt to cut off the possibility of her becoming depressed at the source.

"I'll consider what you're considering. You know we're both in the third year of high school now, so we should focus on studying. If Uncle Jiang knew that I wasn't studying hard and was playing house with Xinyao, ruining his little cabbage, I'm afraid Uncle Jiang would skin me alive."

Qi Xia rolled his eyes. Even now, he still believed that high school students' romances were meaningless and a waste of time.

It wasn't because he was dumped by Jiang Xinyao in his first year of high school, but he really believed that. He was in a relationship with Xinyao in his first year of high school. Although he did have some good feelings for her, it was more out of curiosity rather than that he really liked her.

The romance among high school students has no foundation and is too fragile, so it may die if you are not careful.

Although time could go back, Xinyao still hadn't had time to find him to "revive" the relationship, and only now had there been some rumors.

Now that he had the opportunity to change everything, he would naturally not let the same thing happen to his childhood sweetheart again.

But, this doesn't mean that in order to prevent her from thinking too much, he has to put on a show and go on a date with her, right? That would be too unfair to both him and her.

At most, he would be gentler and not reject her so bluntly like he did in the past, so as not to make her feel her self-esteem was damaged. Besides, since they couldn't be lovers, they could be friends or siblings. With his current mental age, he was just the right person to be her brother.

"What? That's all? Lao Xia, are you a man? I've told everyone in the online group about this, and everyone is ready to attend your wedding, but you're just like this?"

"Heh, Jia Shuai, you're itching again, aren't you? Isn't it a good thing that Qi Xia thinks this way? You're actually encouraging him! I have to tell the class teacher that you're not studying hard and are just corrupting Qi Xia."

"Come on, squad leader. I'm just worried about Lao Xia. This is Lao Xia's lifelong event... Uh, I don't know anything."

Frightened by the monitor's glare, Lao Jia shrank his neck and silently picked up his phone without saying anything.

But compared to Lao Jia's disappointment, the class monitor was in a good mood. Before class, she even took a math problem to ask Qi Xia.

Chapter 12 Old Things

She turned around and placed her hands on Qi Xia's desk. Her well-developed chest pressed against the back of the chair under her school uniform shirt, revealing a kind of cute charm that only belongs to high school girls and a hint of vague temptation that does not belong to her age.

It's a pity that this charm is greatly reduced because of the ugly glasses on the monitor's face, and Qi Xia seems to smell a faint and pleasant scent like vanilla from the monitor.

"Honestly, Qi Xia, don't you really want to try dating? Isn't Jiang Xinyao your childhood sweetheart? She's so pretty."

The high school that Qi Xia attends is a key school in the city, so the school rules are quite strict.

High school is the time when boys and girls' feelings begin to blossom. Other schools are already full of couples, but Qi Xia's school is like a paradise. There are still young people in love in the school, but they are much fewer.

Girls all love gossip, especially when the protagonists of the story are a beautiful girl like Jiang Xinyao and a top student in the eyes of others like Qi Xia.

It seems that even the squad leader is not immune to this kind of thing, and Qi Xia can understand it.

"You are also very beautiful, squad leader."

"I, how am I pretty! How can a Cinderella like me compare to Jiang Xinyao? From the first year of high school till now, no boy has ever looked me in the eye!"

Qi Xia looked at the curious monitor and suddenly said this out of the blue. The monitor got anxious and his face turned red. He couldn't help but kick Qi Xia under the table.

Yes, Cinderella, when she took off the ugly dress and put on crystal shoes and gorgeous dress, she transformed into the beautiful Cinderella.

"Yes, for example, me." Qi Xia nodded with a smile. The monitor who originally had the courage to look him in the face suddenly lost her courage. It seemed that she felt embarrassed by the gaze. She forgot the math problem she wanted to ask Qi Xia just now, turned around and ignored him.

Although it was such a small disturbance, Qi Xia enjoyed it very much. He really felt like he was a high school student again.

Lao Jia, who was standing by, was playing games on his mobile phone, muttering from time to time, as if he was scolding his teammates for their despicable behavior of stealing other people's heads.

Seeing this, Qi Xia seemed to suddenly remember something. He patted his trouser pocket and then hurriedly took out a brand new cell phone from his pocket.

Looking at the familiar color and shell in his hand, Qi Xia's eyes couldn't help but warm up. This phone was bought for him by his aunt during the summer vacation before he entered the third year of high school. It was the latest Fruit 6s plus from the fruit company that year.

During the summer vacation, the cell phone that Qi Xia had used before broke down. He originally planned to endure it for a while and buy a new one after he graduated from high school, since he wouldn't need a cell phone at school anyway.

But who would have thought that just a few days after his cell phone broke down, his aunt secretly bought him this new cell phone.

My aunt's dance studio business is not very good. Usually there are only a few interested people coming. Only during the summer vacation will there be more people.

It was only later that he found out that in order to buy him this mobile phone, his aunt had actually misappropriated the funds that she had originally intended to use to purchase some new equipment for the classroom.

He has always cherished this mobile phone. Even after Qi Xia went to college and it gradually became outdated, Qi Xia was reluctant to change it and kept using it.

But when he was about to graduate from college, he accidentally lost it. He looked for it everywhere but couldn't find it, which made him very upset for a long time.

He touched the cover of the phone and couldn't help but feel an impulse rising in his heart. However, just as he stood up and wanted to put the rising impulse in his mind into reality, the class bell rang.

The third class in the morning was a foreign language class. Seeing that their English teacher had already walked in, Qi Xia had no choice but to be patient and sit back down.

Qi Xia’s foreign language teacher’s surname is Lin. She is a very young and beautiful female teacher. It is said that she just graduated from college and came to their school to teach them not long ago.

During the three years of high school, Qi Xia had never heard that she had a boyfriend. She usually drove a mini car to and from get off work. She came from a well-off family and was young and beautiful. Unsurprisingly, she was very popular among the boys in his school and even among the young male teachers.

But for Qi Xia, no matter how beautiful she was, she was far inferior to her aunt.

Because there is such a bad fate involved.

Didn’t I say it before? She came to Qi Xia’s school to teach not long after she graduated. But what a coincidence! She was actually a classmate of my aunt, graduated from the same university in the same year, and was also my aunt’s best friend in college.

Perhaps it was because of this relationship that Qi Xia was often targeted by her during his three years in high school!

Whenever questions needed to be asked in English class, Qi Xia would most likely be the first one to be called up. When something needed to be done, he would also be the first one to be drafted. What's worse, if Qi Xia's English grades dropped even a little, she would tell her aunt about it without saying a word.

This really made Qi Xia suffer for a long time. You know, among all the subjects Qi Xia was weakest in, foreign language was relatively weakest.

"Qi Xia, get up and recite the short article I asked you to memorize yesterday."

You see, what you fear will come true. Before Qi Xia could even sit down, Lin Shihan had already called out Qi Xia's name.

Grass.

Qi Xia's heart skipped a beat. He had just been reborn. Not to mention whether he could recite it or not, he didn't even know what she asked them to recite yesterday.

Qi Xia stood up from the stool reluctantly, but felt embarrassed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

With Qi Xia's hard work in high school, he had basically memorized things like this that required memorization. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for him to stand up and be unable to do anything like he is now.

"I, I forgot to memorize it."

At this point, even if it didn't fit Qi Xia's personality, Qi Xia had no choice but to admit it. Amid Lao Jia and the squad leader's surprised expressions, Qi Xia admitted it cleanly and neatly.

Looking at Qi Xia's embarrassed look, Lin Shihan on the podium was also stunned. This was the first time she heard her best friend's nephew say that he didn't know these words.

She was a little surprised, but her face remained calm and even had a hint of blame on it, she said.

"I reminded you to recite it yesterday, how could you not recite it? Qi Xia, come to my office after class. Okay, sit down first."

Qi Xia sat down. Although he had been called to her office more than once when he was in high school, this was probably the most embarrassing one in his memory from beginning to end.

Thus, the entire English class passed by unknowingly as Qi Xia's mind wandered away.

Chapter 13 Eyes

The English class in high school was the most impressive course in Qi Xia's memory, but Qi Xia was in a daze during this class and did not even notice when the bell for the end of get out of class rang.

However, this cannot be blamed on him. Apart from the fact that such an embarrassing thing happened to Qi Xia right after the class started, the main reason was that Qi Xia's mood had not yet completely calmed down. He was still immersed in the shock and excitement of his rebirth.

After class, Qi Xia obediently followed Lin Shihan to the office.

There was no way. If he didn't go, based on her three years of high school experience, she would definitely secretly report him to her aunt and tell her that he was disobedient in school again.

The English office of the senior year was still the same as Qi Xia remembered. Perhaps it was because Qi Xia came here so often. When they saw Qi Xia and Lin Shihan returning to the office together, the English teachers from other classes just smiled knowingly and went about their business.

Lin Shihan, wearing a pair of black high heels, sat in her seat. Qi Xia stood next to her. He thought she would take the opportunity to lecture him, but just when he was ready to be criticized, he saw her handing him a box of chocolates.

"Here, this is a thank you gift for you."

"what?"

Qi Xia didn't react for a moment. According to his past experience, shouldn't she teach him a lesson at this time? And a thank-you gift, what thank-you gift?

"Of course it's a thank you gift for helping me move. How come you even forgot about that? You don't look very well today, Xiao Xia. Not only did you forget the essay I asked you to memorize, you even forgot that you helped me move a few days ago."

As if she noticed Qi Xia's confusion, she explained.

As his English teacher for three years in high school and her "eldest nephew" who she paid special attention to, although she was not as good as Wanxia, ​​she thought she knew Qi Xia very well. Qi Xia was not the kind of student who would forget the homework she assigned because of other things.

Qi Xia understood. At this moment, he suddenly recalled the feeling he had when he was with his aunt's best friend, who was also his high school English teacher.

Qi Xia still remembered what she said about helping her move. If he remembered correctly, it should have happened a few days ago. Lin Shihan moved out of the dormitory provided by the school where she had been living and moved to a community not far from where he and his aunt lived.

Because he was the only useful tool she could use, and it was such a hot day, he helped her move things for the whole day, and he was extremely tired and hot, so Qi Xia still remembers it vividly.

"So that's it. Thank you, Sister Shihan."