I want my long hair to flutter in the wind
The countdown to the Gaokao was written on the blackboard in a key girls' middle school's prep classroom, scribbled very boldly and covered with formulas and math problems: "One day left until the exam." The numbers were deliberately written in red pen to highlight the urgency of time.
However, the classroom for evening self-study was not as quiet as it should be.
On each narrow wooden desk, two piles of books stood crookedly, behind which hid tender and rosy little faces. The little faces emerged from behind the piles of books, gathered in groups of three or five, and fantasized about their future: "After finishing the exam, what do you want to do?"
"I want to sleep for three days and three nights first, let's talk after I wake up! I'm really too tired..."
I'm going to go work...
"I want to go traveling, alone..."
"I'm going to the amusement park, riding the most thrilling roller coaster and screaming at the top of my lungs!"
"I want to throw away this ugly school uniform, buy the most personalized and exaggerated super short skirt, a pair of toe-exposing strappy high-heeled sandals, wear four ear piercings, two on each side, and the school can't control me anymore!"
This topic made them excited and enthusiastic, and a pair of eyes that had been dull for too long suddenly sparkled again.
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The whole classroom was quiet except for Luo Lian at the front desk who was still reading through her textbook one last time.
"Luo Lian, how can you be so calm? Can you really still focus on reading books? Tell us, what do you plan to do after liberation?" They pulled and tugged at Luo Lian's oversized school uniform that could fit two of her.
Lian turned her head, and there was not so much spirit on her face. She smiled slightly and said: "I don't have any extravagant hopes, I just want to be able to let my hair down every day, and let the wind blow through it, and let the sun shine on it. Not like now." She shook her head helplessly at the big bun on top of her head, which was tightly wrapped up with many hairpins and hair ties.
Her hair was thick and long, if it were to be let down, it would reach her knees. It was black with a reddish tint, shining golden in the sunlight, without any split ends or dryness, naturally curved, and slightly disheveled due to its thickness and fluffiness, like a golden-red velvet blanket wrapped around her slender body.
In this all-girls school that emphasized discipline, Luolan's long hair was the thorn in the teachers' eyes. She was called in for "talks" countless times and ordered to cut her "wasteful" long hair into a "bobbed haircut" immediately. The normally obedient Luolan, just for the sake of her beloved long hair, became uncharacteristically rebellious for the first time in her life, with a thick skin and stubbornness that refused to yield. Of course, she also worked hard to study and prove that the length of her hair had nothing to do with her academic performance. In this way, she bravely resisted for six years, preserving her beautiful long hair and creating a miracle in this "bobbed haircut school", earning her the nickname "the embodiment of the perfect combination of gentleness and toughness, high-profile and low-profile" among her classmates.
The most distinctive feature of Luolan's body, apart from her long hair, was a pair of blue eyes that no one could explain. In the daytime under sunlight, they appeared sky blue, and at night they turned dark blue. This blonde hair and blue eyes made everyone who saw her for the first time think she had foreign ancestry, making her spend a lot of effort explaining this matter, but she herself couldn't explain it clearly either.
Luo Lian's facial features were well-defined, like a European, but her skin tone was the same golden brown as South Asians, as if she had just returned from a seaside vacation, but in reality, she spent every day in the classroom, unable to get much sun.
In this place full of girls, and all the girls are dressed in school uniforms like sacks, no one will know who is a beauty.
