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

  Tang Sugar turned around with a smile, and saw Gu Xiannian and a girl walking in, chatting and laughing. The girl was petite, paired with Gu Xiannian's 1.7-meter height, her skin was fair, her eyebrows were painted, and she looked really beautiful.

  Tang Su's mood inexplicably sank, inferiority complex grew like weeds, the smile on his face had long since disappeared, he quietly withdrew his gaze, sat silently reading a book, but the corner of his eye was secretly paying attention to Gu Xian Ye's every move.

  He walked to her desk with a beaming smile, accompanied by the girl. Tangtang's heart suddenly thumped painfully, but she tried to maintain a calm expression on her face.

  In the past, Gu Xi lightly opened her book and said with a half-joking and half-serious tone: "I've already walked up to you, and you're still reading, isn't that being too disrespectful to me?"

  Tang Sugar anxiously explained: "I really didn't mean to."

  When she spoke, she glanced at Gu Xianian quickly and then glanced at the girl again, finding that she had a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, with a smile as thick as honey in her eyes. That kind of smile, not to mention boys who would see it and be moved, even girls who saw it would like it.

  "Let me introduce her to you, her name is Tong Hua, she's new here, and it just so happened that you were sick those few days."

  Tang Sugar noticed that Gu Xiannian's eyes sparkled when he watched the cartoon, a light she had never seen before. At that moment, her heart suddenly felt painful, so painful that it stopped beating. She clenched her fists under the table and bit her lip, trying to force out a smile.

  She looked at Tongtong with a spoiled and doting gaze, smiling: "Her name is Sugar, she's my friend."

  Gu Xiyan paused for a moment, scratching his head in embarrassment as he added, "Actually, I've always thought of her as my little sister. She's younger than all of us."

  He bit off the two words "my sister" very heavily, as if he was afraid that the other person would not believe him.

  Tangtang's heart became heavy, she lowered her head, tightly closed her mouth, and stubbornly refused to let them see the expression that was even uglier than crying.

  "Tang sugar? What a strange name!" Tong Hua asked curiously: "Why are you called this name?"

  "My mother hopes that I will be as sweet and lovely all my life, just like eating sugar." Tang Sugar explained, earlier she still had hostility towards the fairy tale, but now suddenly liked her, it was also the first time someone asked about the origin of her name, which made her feel particularly close.

  "Auntie is so profound, I hope to meet her someday." The fairy tale's eyes gave people a very sincere feeling, Sugar felt warmth in her heart, but the question brought up the pain hidden deep within her, and she couldn't help but feel melancholy.

  The fairy tale strangely asked Gu Xianian who was standing beside him: "What's wrong with her?"

  He smiled stiffly: "Her temper is quite strange."

  "My temper is not weird at all, it's just...my mom has already passed away." Tangtang suddenly summoned up the courage to explain hastily.

  The fairy tale was completely startled and said to Tang Sugar with great embarrassment: "Sorry. I didn't mean to."

  "It's okay." Tangtang wanted to smile at Tonghua, indicating that she didn't mind at all, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't bring out a smile.

  Tonghua stretched out a big hand and said to Tangtang with a smile on his face: "I really like you, can we be friends?"

  Tang Sugar was delighted and a little flustered, nervously stood up from his chair, rubbed his hands on his pants repeatedly before daring to extend his hand for a brief handshake with Tong Hua.

  But Tong Hua was like a long-lost sister, enthusiastically covering Tang Tang's hand with her other hand, and the two hands tightly grasped Tang Tang's hand, shaking it vigorously. Tang Tang felt that the two pieces of meat on his cheeks were trembling violently, and he must have looked very ugly. He turned his head and saw Gu Xiannian, who was holding back laughter to the point of internal injury, and when he saw Tang Tang staring at him, he immediately put on a serious expression.

  Tang Tang awkwardly pulled out his hand, squeezed out a smile, and didn't notice that Tong Hua had already turned around, her thick black ponytail swinging proudly in the air, making Tang Tang's eyes dizzy.

  Tangtang didn't know what had happened in class for the three days she was absent, but she knew that all her classmates, boys and girls alike, loved fairy tales.

  Her people are like her name, a bewildering dream in itself. The tone of her speech is soft and gentle, but the words are quite spicy, and she often blurts out phrases like "bitterly poor, old lady".

  "Hey! You're still struggling to finish your homework!"

  "You dare to provoke me again? Just wait and see if I don't give you a good thrashing!"

  The boy who was scolded not only didn't get angry but seemed to enjoy it, hehe smiled foolishly and willingly let her order him around.

  In the short three days when Tang Tang was not around, Tong Hua had already become the trendsetter among the girls in the class. Almost all the girls were imitating her tone of speech, and as soon as the bell rang, they would hear the sound of "Lao Niang" and "Ku Bei" coming out of their mouths. This made Tang Tang feel a bit uncomfortable, feeling like she had entered an unfamiliar female-dominated world, and even more so, feeling that she didn't fit in with this class collective.

  As long as it's recess, boys and girls all love to gather around Tonghua's desk. Her knowledge is extremely broad, from games to sports, dressing up to makeup, she's simply an encyclopedia, able to chat with anyone about anything under the sun.

  Gu Xian didn't fall behind either, she had long stopped cultivating feelings with her male classmates. After class, she would squeeze into the crowd and gaze at Tong Hua, who was being chased by everyone, with eyes full of surprise.

  Tang sugar watched him like a crazy fan, thinking he was shallow and ridiculous. But just as the smile at the corner of his mouth began to spread, it was immediately overwhelmed by sourness, and he looked enviously at Tong Hua, who was constantly drawing circles on the draft paper.

  She found that as long as Gu Xiannian saw Tong Hua, his eyes would be filled with sparkling light, and perhaps even he himself didn't know how dazzling the light in his eyes was.

  Outside the window, the cold wind was howling and swirling around the school, its mournful sound like someone's sorrowful sobbing. But the winter sun still shone brightly, though without a hint of warmth. Tang Sugar sat alone in her seat, huddled into a ball, staring out the window silently, her heart as icy as the cold winter, all the commotion seemingly having nothing to do with her.

  By the time it was the third class, Tangtang received Gu Xiannian's secret signal, her heart skipped a few beats, as if the wait for an entire morning had finally brought some comfort.

  She carefully opened the note, which read: Help at noon, okay? The fairy tale's meal is also packed together.

  Tang sugar stared at each word on the note with wide eyes, as if she wanted to see into the words themselves. However, each word seemed so piercing that she couldn't look for long, and her heart was filled with a sense of loss, as if there was no way out, as if compromise was the only option. She hated herself for not daring to let go, but it was as if she had grown accustomed to hiding her true feelings, suppressing the grievances in her heart, and put the note into her pocket.

  As soon as the last class in the morning ended, Tangtang rushed to grab three portions of food, holding one in each hand and another pressed against her chest with her arm. She carefully moved forward, but people passing by looked at her with disdain. Some girls even whispered to each other, pointing and giggling, and Tangtang vaguely heard comments like "She's already so fat and still eats so much." Her face was burning with embarrassment.

  At the moment when she was struggling to take a step, she saw Gu Xiannian and Tong Hua walking in side by side. She wanted to call out to Gu Xiannian for help, but her mouth opened without making a sound. She looked at them with distress as they chatted intimately, seemingly sharing a joke that only they understood, their rapport so strong that it left no room for others to intervene.

  Gu Xiannian and Tong Hua found an empty table with a vacant seat and sat down. Gu Xiannian turned her head to search for Tang Sugar's figure in the crowd of people waiting for food, shouting at Tang like she was calling out to a server in the cafeteria: "Here!"

  Tong Hua's hands were propped up on the table, holding her face, and a pair of bright eyes stared at her with a smile.

  Tangtang really wanted to pretend to be magnanimous and give her a big smile, but the burden was too heavy, she didn't dare to distract herself, and with a frightened heart, she guarded the three meals in her hands and bosom, only able to awkwardly curve her eyes at Tonghua.

  It's now the peak hour for dinner, and the cafeteria is crowded with people. Some energetic boys are dashing around without any regard for public manners, so Tang Sugar has to be extra careful, it's like walking on thin ice, she's starting to worry that the food won't make it safely into their hands.