The Fourth Most Heartbreaking Thing When You Like Someone (17)

  Today is a holiday, but starting from tomorrow, I have to make up for a week's worth of classes. Originally, I had planned to update twice a day from today onwards, but unfortunately, I fell ill again. It'll take at least ten days to half a month to recover, by which time it'll be Chinese New Year and updating twice a day will be impossible anyway. Guess I'll have to visit relatives and friends instead... sigh, plans always can't keep up with changes!

  It was during the early morning study session that Qin, the class teacher, came in instead of either the Chinese or English teachers. This was somewhat unexpected for the students, had something happened?

  Everyone else didn't have the heart to read either, they all lifted their heads and cast their eyes on Teacher Qin.

  Teacher Qin looked a bit serious and glanced around at all the students in the class, asking: "Who saw Sugar's rainbow umbrella?"

  Classmates looked at each other in dismay, Sugar's heart sank, why did Teacher Qin ask this?

  "Teacher, I saw Tiantian's rainbow umbrella." Tonghua stood up and replied.

  "Oh?" Teacher Qin looked at Tong Hua, "What's going on exactly? Try to be more detailed."

  "Yesterday after school, I hurt my foot. Gu Xian Nian borrowed Tang Tang's umbrella to send me home. Today early in the morning, he returned the umbrella to Tang Tang." The child spoke clearly and fluently, telling the whole story in just a few words.

  Mr. Qin turned his head and asked Tang Sugar: "Is it like this?"

  Embarrassed nod.

  "Come with me for a trip," said Teacher Qin to her.

  Tangtang followed Qin teacher out of the classroom under the suspicious gaze of his classmates and came to the end of the corridor.

  Mr. Qin stopped in his tracks and asked, "What's going on? Your aunt called to say that your umbrella had been stolen."

  Tang sugar looked down and explained: "It's all a misunderstanding, because I lent my umbrella to Gu Xiannian yesterday, and as a result, I got soaked. I was afraid of being scolded by mom, so I told a lie, didn't expect things to get out of hand."

  She raised her head and smiled apologetically at Teacher Qin before quickly lowering it again.

  "You can't do this again in the future. Although it was unintentional, sometimes it will also hurt innocent people." Qin teacher criticized seriously.

  "Mm." Tang Sugar nodded in embarrassment.

  The whole morning, during class breaks, Tangtang would quietly slip away to the southwest corner of the school, carrying a plastic bag containing yarn and scarves. This place was colder than anywhere else in winter, with biting north winds howling through, and few people ventured there.

  Tang sugar was hiding there, a person concentrating on weaving that scarf with one needle and one thread.

  She had only woven a few stitches when her hands became numb and bright red, so she put down the scarf and placed her hands in front of her mouth to blow out a few white puffs of warm air. Her small, red and swollen hands regained some feeling, and she continued weaving.

  The weather is getting colder day by day, so Tang sugar decides to finish knitting the scarf before Christmas and give it to Gu Xian as a gift. She wants him to feel her warmth throughout the entire winter season, so that every time he wraps the scarf around his neck, at least he will think of her slightly.

  Tang sugar didn't plan on crying, but tears somehow fell down, and the more they fell, the more there were.

  Having a secret crush is so hard, unable to see the direction of the future, no one to work together with her, only herself in endless fantasy, everything she puts in gets no response. A heart like a duckweed in the stormy rain, drifting aimlessly without knowing where it will go.

  But because of liking, everything can be endured again.

  It was soon noon, and since yesterday when Gu Xiannian had a conflict with someone in the cafeteria, Tang Tang helped to resolve it, but instead of thanking her, Gu Xiannian became even more disgusted with her.

  She can't stand his condescending gaze, and she doesn't want to see Gu Xianye and Tong Hua's affectionate display either, so she has stopped ordering meals at school. Xia Ye takes her to a small restaurant outside the school instead.

  After finishing lunch in three or two mouthfuls, she took out the woolen yarn to knit a scarf. It's warm here, much better than sitting in the cold wind, and the boss is very gentle and won't drive her away.

  On a summer night, he couldn't help but advise with a heavy heart: "You're doing so much, it's only worth it if that guy appreciates you! To you, he's just a cold stone that can't be warmed up, give up."

  Tang Sugar seemed to have not heard his words, remaining silent all along, with only the needle in her hand flying up and down rapidly.

  "It's hopeless on a summer night, so I might as well give up treatment: 'You take your time weaving, I still have a lot of homework, see you later.'"

  Tang sugar was dazed, still didn't raise her head, and continued to focus on knitting.

  She returned to the classroom just before class started, and as soon as she entered the classroom, she felt that the atmosphere in the class was very eerie.

  She clearly saw many classmates gathering around Tong Hua, indignantly discussing something, and as soon as she came in, everyone closed their mouths at the same time, with each person looking at her with extreme disdain. Even some classmates said sarcastically: "Indeed, a ugly appearance matches an evil heart."

  Tang Sugar was taken aback, feeling that this remark seemed to be directed at herself. She felt inexplicably puzzled, thinking to herself that apart from class time in the classroom, she spent all her other time hiding outside knitting sweaters, so who would she provoke?

  Maybe it's just what I thought, and they didn't mean it that way after all.

  She comforted herself.

  Tangtang sat down in his own seat, took out the textbook, and accidentally knocked over the pen holder, with stationery rolling all over the place.

  She hastily squatted down to pick it up, and a water-based pen happened to roll under the feet of her neighbor Li Xiaoyan. Just as Tang Sugar was about to pick it up, Li Xiaoyan kicked the pen far away with one foot.

  Tangtang stood up angrily, so angry that she only said one word "you", and couldn't say anything else, staring at her blankly.

  Li Xiaoyan did something wrong but had an air of righteousness: "What? Shouldn't I have kicked your pen away? I didn't want to, but I had no choice. If your pen went missing here, I was afraid you would go to Teacher Qin and accuse me of stealing it. At that time, even if I jumped into the Yellow River, I wouldn't be able to clear my name, and I'd be more wronged than Dou E!"

  Tang Sugar was confused: "When did I ever wrong anyone?"

  Li Xiaoyan snorted, looking at her with disdain: "I think you'd definitely win an Oscar if you went into acting, bringing glory to the country. Don't pretend anymore, the whole class has seen your true face. You're one way in front of people and another behind their backs. You pretended to be a good person in front of the class leader, lending him an umbrella, but then told the teacher that it had been stolen. Luckily Tong Hua spoke up as a witness, or else the class leader would have been wrongly accused!"

  Tang Sugar finally understood, it turned out everyone suspected that they themselves had told Teacher Qin that their umbrella was stolen.

  Who eavesdropped on my conversation with Teacher Qin and distorted the facts?

  Sugar sugar can't guess.