The morning breeze of late summer and early autumn blew across his face, carrying with it the faint fragrance of yellow horn orchid, refreshing his heart, but it could not blow away the depression in Alex Xu's heart.
Alex Xu rubbed his sleepy eyes. There was not a trace of the spirit of a senior high school student on his face. He looked like a withered leaf wilted by frost and dew, vying to be the first fallen leaf heralding the arrival of autumn.
A girl with shoulder-length hair chased up from behind and slapped Alex Xu on the B*tt with a careless hand.
"Morning, wake up!"
The girl's voice was bright and cheerful.
Alex Xu turned around to look, only to see Emily Tang standing in front of him biting a lollipop. She had changed into a new outfit: a red backpack on her shoulder, red sneakers on her feet, and a bright red school badge lanyard around her neck. Even the lollipop in her mouth was red and tasted like watermelon.
When Emily Tang's outfit is paired with the dark blue school uniform, she is sure to attract a lot of attention.
Emily Tang and Alex Xu are childhood friends who grew up in the same alley. Although their two families moved into new homes in the community separately after junior high school, Emily Tang and Alex Xu have always been classmates in the same school and class. Even when they had to draw lots to assign schools for junior high school, they could not be separated.
Alex Xu made no comment on Emily Tang's new taste, and silently climbed the stairs with a look of despair on his face.
Emily Tang was amused when he saw this. He patted Alex Xu's shoulder and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so depressed so early in the morning?"
Alex Xu sighed silently. He was not just feeling depressed this early in the morning, but he had been feeling depressed for three whole days.
No one would believe this, but three days ago, Alex Xu woke up from a deep sleep and suddenly developed a strange ability - he could see a red thread connecting lovers.
Although Alex Xu had acquired such a miraculous superpower, he was not at all happy, because he also discovered that he had a red line on his body.
However!
The red line connects the two ends, tying his left hand to his "transmitter" :)
Alex Xu: ...
This means that if his "Marriage Eye" is a genuine full-point skill, then he is destined to be solo for the rest of his life.
As a young man who is about to enter adulthood, the gift of fate to him is to let him know the bad news of his life in advance. It can be said that the trick of fate is that in addition to sincerity, it also throws 90% malice.
Alex Xu was immersed in sadness, and Emily Tang took Alex Xu's hand, stuffed a lactic acid milk flavored lollipop into his hand, and comforted him with a smile: "There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome. Be happy, and I'll give you some candy."
Emily Tang suddenly caught a glimpse of two figures at the corner of the stairs and was immediately attracted to them. She didn't notice that when Alex Xu lowered his head and stared at the palm of his left hand, there was an expression of heartache and difficulty breathing on his face.
Emily Tang nudged Alex Xu with his elbow, and pointed the lollipop in his mouth in a certain direction, asking meaningfully: "How many more couples do you think will appear in our class this semester? I'm curious who will take the lead."
Alex Xu looked over and saw a boy and a girl walking together and talking and laughing on the stairs. The girl was the biology representative of the class, her name was Iris Yu; the boy was the girl's deskmate, his name was Ethan Liu.
Emily Tang gossiped quietly: "Ethan Liu is definitely pursuing Iris Yu. It's so obvious~ I just don't know if the two are together now."
Alex Xu casually stuffed the lollipop into his trouser pocket and said in a firm tone: "It's impossible for them to be together. Ethan Liu pursuing Iris Yu is definitely not going to work."
Emily Tang turned around and asked, "Why?" She stared at Alex Xu suspiciously, "Don't tell me that you've been secretly together with Iris Yu?"
Alex Xu said nonchalantly: "Iris Yu likes someone else, okay."
When Emily Tang heard this, she curiously asked Alex Xu: "Who did you hear that from? Who does she like? Someone from our class?"
"She..."
Alex Xu looked forward and saw a bright red thread coming out of Ethan Liu's left chest, floating around Iris Yu's left ankle. The red thread coming out of Iris Yu's chest was heading backwards, extending towards Alex Xu and Emily Tang...
Alex Xu and Emily Tang had already climbed to the third floor, and his classroom of Grade 7 was at the end of the corridor. Alex Xu saw Iris Yu's red line bypass him, turn a corner and disappear along the stairs behind him. He couldn't help but feel curious, so he stepped back a few steps and looked towards the stairs. At this time, a figure just walked up from the bottom of the stairs and bumped into Alex Xu head-on.
"Hey...be careful!"
Emily Tang's sharp scream almost pierced Alex Xu's eardrum.
Alex Xu subconsciously dodged to the side, but his feet went soft and he stepped on empty air. He fell into a strong chest like a baby bird with bare wings.
The person who caught Alex Xu was standing on the next step of the stairs, but was only slightly shorter than Alex Xu.
He stood still with his right hand raised. The reason he acted as a shield for Alex Xu was actually just to protect the half-opened cup of hot milk tea in his hand.
"Watch your step as you walk."
The boy's cold voice carried a strong milky aroma and penetrated into Alex Xu's ears and nose.
Alex Xu suddenly met a pair of sleepy eyes, but the light in them was like ice, cold enough to distance the two people. Alex Xu felt cold in his heart, and suddenly he said "Fcuk" secretly, and apologized repeatedly.
Emily Tang went forward to pull him, and when Alex Xu turned around and said "It's okay" to Emily Tang, the boy had already walked up the stairs and walked to the left side of the corridor, leaving only his back to Alex Xu.
Alex Xu was still thinking about Iris Yu's red string. He looked down the stairs but couldn't find any trace of it. At this moment, he heard Iris Yu's sweet voice: "Leo Lu, good morning~"
A cold voice responded to her: "Not early."
Alex Xu turned back subconsciously and saw Iris Yu standing in front of the corridor, and Ethan Liu standing still behind her. However, Iris Yu's smile was all directed to the boy who was walking towards her.
The red string around Iris Yu's chest fluttered and swayed, and finally ended up tied to the foot of a boy named Leo Lu.
---To be precise, most of the red lines floating from all directions gathered at Leo Lu's ankles.
Alex Xu was dumbfounded. The two large balls of red thread on Leo Lu's ankles could probably be knitted into a cardigan if they were removed. He didn't know if his legs felt as heavy as lead when he walked.
Emily Tang sighed quietly beside him: "I have to say, Leo Lu is really handsome. No wonder he has secured the title of school hunk after playing a basketball game..."
Leo Lu is half a head taller than Alex Xu, who is 1.8 meters tall. He has three-dimensional facial features, fair skin, and an excellent figure. His cold and indifferent temperament at first sight aroused the desire to conquer thousands of girls. He transferred to the school at the beginning of the second semester of the second year of high school. He first led the class team to defeat the so-called internally designated champion class of Class 4, which had four basketball athletes. Later, he represented the school in the city-level high school basketball competition. He became famous in the round-robin competition, not only winning the championship cup, but also capturing the hearts of many boys and girls.
Alex Xu didn't want to agree with Emily Tang's praise, but the bundles of red strings on Leo Lu's feet were strong proof: if one red string represented one admirer, then the two bundles of red strings must represent at least dozens of people.
Alex Xu noticed with his sharp eyes that among the two red lines, there was a red rope with a brighter color floating towards Alex Xu and passing between his feet.
In addition to being able to see the red line, Alex Xu could also touch it. He used the tip of his shoe to push aside the bright red line, curiously looking back for the red line, but was interrupted by Emily Tang, "Hey, Xingxing, have you ever offended Iris Yu?"
Alex Xu was puzzled by Emily Tang's question and said in bewilderment: "How could that be possible? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
He has no connection with Iris Yu, so he has no chance to offend her.
Emily Tang shrugged and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Maybe she also ran for class monitor, and you were elected, so you two became enemies."
Emily Tang was not sure if he was dazzled. He took a casual glance just now and found that after Iris Yu called out to Leo Lu, his eyes seemed to be aggressive when he saw Alex Xu.
Alex Xu agrees with this: "If I offend someone without realizing it... then I can't do anything about it."
Just like... him and Leo Lu.
Alex Xu recalled that two days ago, when he just realized that he had the marriage eye, he was anxious and worried all day long. After thinking about it, he finally confessed the matter to his sister, trying to get her comfort and guidance.
When his sister heard this, she first warned him seriously, "This matter must be kept secret from everyone for the time being, and don't think too much about it... just let nature take its course." Then she let him be alone and calm down.
Alex Xu returned to his room in a daze. Apart from random thoughts, he had completely given up thinking.
His sister opened his door 20 minutes later, and Alex Xu naturally thought that his sister had come to his senses to comfort him. However, his sister went off topic as soon as she opened her mouth: "Leo Lu... is he the boy who transferred to your class last semester?"
Alex Xu: ...
Under the circumstances at that time, Alex Xu must have felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. The two people who originally had little interaction with each other, just because of his sister's words, Alex Xu unilaterally announced that he and Leo Lu had become enemies.
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Alex Xu and Emily Tang walked to the end of the corridor and found the door number of Class 7 of Grade 3.
Emily Tang stood in the corridor and looked around, muttering: "It's over! Our classroom is on the outermost layer of the teaching building, with no shelter. It will definitely be terribly hot in May and June next year. Oh, I still like our Class 7 of Senior 2."
They moved from Class 7 of Grade 2 in Building B to Class 7 of Grade 3 in Building A, which was only separated by a ten-meter-long overpass. However, the ban on traffic stripped them of the title of "quasi-senior high school students" and pushed them into the huge team of "senior high school students".
Alex Xu walked into the classroom, which was as noisy as ever. The one-month cram school during the summer vacation had not given them the label of being rigorous and self-disciplined high school seniors, but the five-day vacation after school had completely brought them back to their original state.
The only difference was that Alex Xu saw many intertwined marriage lines floating in the class. However, Alex Xu was not as gossipy as Emily Tang, and he did not have the time to track which couples each red line corresponded to. He glanced at them without interest and returned to his seat.
Alex Xu's deskmate has built a wall of books on his desk. Two thick piles of books are stacked high, with a small space hidden in the middle, inside which is an opened box of Pocky cookies.
The classmate was holding a small bag of chocolate beans in his hand, stuffing them into his mouth non-stop, eating happily. When he saw Xu wake up, he asked, "Do you want to eat?"
The hand that was stretched out to Alex Xu was white and plump, with two chocolate beans rolling on the palm.
My deskmate's name is Nathan Wang. He is white and plump, with a pair of peach blossom eyes that always smile. He looks like a mascot, but he is a typical short, fat and rich man. Nathan Wang's family is in the real estate business. When the school built a gymnasium, his father donated a large sum of money to the school.
Alex Xu took out a whole bag of chocolate beans from the secret compartment, confiscated them all, and said, "Eat, eat, eat. Didn't you say you want to go on a diet? Stand on the scale and see if you still want to eat."
The bright smile on Nathan Wang's face instantly deflated, and he nodded aggrievedly: "To eat, of course. I weigh more than 200 kilograms, the base is too large, and even if I stand on the scale and eat for a day, I won't see any slight change."
Alex Xu: ...
Emily Tang took the chocolate beans from Alex Xu, stuffed two into her mouth, pinched Nathan Wang's big face, and said, "Our little prince already has a girlfriend, what is there to be afraid of."
Alex Xu felt a tightness in his chest when he was poked in the painful spot.
Nathan Wang not only has a girlfriend, but what's even more infuriating is that his girlfriend is also very beautiful! She has fair skin, beautiful looks, a nice B*tt and a thin waist!
The two of them standing together look like a beautiful mother holding her fat son, not a good match at all. But Alex Xu, who is 1.8 meters tall, sunny and handsome, has only the fifth girl to accompany him for the rest of his life.
Alex Xu stared at the red line growing from Nathan Wang's chest. The more he looked at it, the more glaring it became. His mood once again plummeted.
Emily Tang sat next to Nathan Wang, and the two of them were chatting and laughing, but Alex Xu was in no mood to join in their meaningless conversation. He rested his chin on one hand, looking depressed, and held a Pocky biscuit stick in his mouth without any taste.
Alex Xu was feeling melancholy, when at that moment, a male classmate from the front row came over and entered his field of vision, instantly brightening his eyes - the vague and fleeting red line sank into his palm, and the other end disappeared into his crotch!
Alex Xu was almost about to clap his hands in applause!
Discovering that others were also solo from birth, Alex Xu suddenly felt a deep sense of sympathy and mutual understanding, and at the same time, a little joy at having found his organization.
Alex Xu called out excitedly: "Hey, Dylan Xiao..."
Alex Xu was trying to greet his classmates in a friendly manner, when a voice suddenly came from the back door: "Hey, Leo Lu!"
A deep male voice drowned out Alex Xu's greeting, and Alex Xu and Dylan Xiao looked towards the door together.
There was a tall boy standing at the back door, leaning against the door frame. Xu Xingwang could see clearly at a glance that there was a red line connecting the boy's crotch. The moment his eyes touched it, the brightness of the red line suddenly brightened a lot.
The red line, which was originally loose and dragging on the ground, suddenly came alive.
Alex Xu's eyes subconsciously followed the red line. It happened that Dylan Xiao threw away the garbage and turned around. The red line on the boy's crotch at the door was instantly stretched straight, and the other end of the red line ran along the seam of Dylan Xiao's B*tt0cks...
Got in.
"???"
Alex Xu's expression froze, and the biscuit stick in his mouth fell to the ground with a plop, breaking into several pieces.
Dylan Xiao's situation was really beyond Alex Xu's scope. He stared at the crotch of Dylan Xiao's trousers, wishing he could get in to find out what was going on.
Dylan Xiao had no interaction with the boy standing at the door, not even their eyes met. But after seeing the boy, Dylan Xiao quickly lowered his eyes and returned to his seat calmly.
His expression was calm, but Alex Xu could clearly feel that his every move was very deliberate.
Alex Xu's heart was pounding.
The joy that he had just had when he wanted to go up to Dylan Xiao and shake his hand to recognize his relationship had completely vanished. At this moment, his heart was filled with dark clouds, and an intense sense of uneasiness was roaring in like a violent storm.
Alex Xu turned his head and looked behind him. His beating heart froze instantly after seeing the truth! He clearly saw... a red line was pressed under his B*tt0cks.
Alex Xu's eyes widened in disbelief. He stood up suddenly, spread his legs, bent down and looked, only to see that the red line disappeared between his legs.
---Exactly the same situation as Dylan Xiao.
Alex Xu: excuse me? ? ?
His mind went blank and he bent down in a trance to confirm several times.
The result is that I can only accept my fate.
Emily Tang leaned against Nathan Wang's desk, glanced at the floor beside Alex Xu without sincerity, and asked casually: "What's wrong? Did something fall?"
The biscuits in my mouth were crunchy.
Alex Xu didn't answer.
He stretched out his hand woodenly, grabbed the red string and pulled it upwards.
The red rope shook and suddenly tightened. The other red lines intertwined and entangled around it seemed to have lost 50% of their transparency, opening up new territory for Alex Xu's red line and collectively making way for it.
Alex Xu looked along the stretched red line. The end of the red rope was passed through the crotch of the person sitting at the table behind him and tied into a unique and coquettish bow.
...
Alex Xu's sight climbed up tremblingly, and the hand holding the red line shook uncontrollably, causing the red line to tremble slightly. Because of this shaking, Leo Lu, who was originally playing with his phone with his head down, was pulled by the red line and subconsciously looked towards Alex Xu...
Leo Lu's profile was enveloped in the golden morning light, which weakened the sharp lines of his features and added a touch of warmth. Unfortunately, this was just an illusion caused by the sun being too bright and dazzling. Leo Lu was not at all amiable.
The two looked at each other.
Alex Xu looked shocked.
Leo Lu looked indifferent.
Alex Xu: ...
Suddenly, Alex Xu felt that the thing in his hand was out of control. He subconsciously reached out to grab it - the bright blood-red thread had turned into a phantom and slipped away lightly through his fingers.
Alex Xu grabbed nothing when his finger pierced through the red line.
Can’t touch the red line! ?
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