Insufficient balance

  After Yan Nian threw away the breakfast Lin Cijie gave him, Lin Xiaoyu hadn't seen Yan Nian for three days. In the afternoon when the team was training, Yan Nian didn't show up in the stands either. Lin Xiaoyu, who was practicing his left-handed shot alone by the court, felt a bit unaccustomed to Yan Nian's absence during practice. He would often involuntarily glance at the seat where Yan Nian usually sat, but the empty seat always made him feel a little lost.

  Actually, Lin Xiaoyu had already forgiven Yan Nang's mistake in her heart that day, but the boy's pride made Lin Xiaoyu not take the initiative to find Yan Nang to resolve their misunderstanding for these two days.

  The team's female manager, Lin Cijie, seemed to still not know that Yan Nan had thrown away the breakfast she sent over. Every morning during the first class break, Lin Xiaoyu could still see Lin Cijie coming to her classroom to deliver her breakfast.

  The girl named Yan Nan who threw away the breakfast that Lin Xiao Yu had brought for her was actually something that Lin Ci Jie had known about all along. When Lin Ci Jie found out that Lin Xiao Yu and the pretty girl named Yan Nan had gotten into a fight in class, she felt a sense of victorious joy. Lin Ci Jie really hadn't thought that bringing breakfast to Lin Xiao Yu would cause the other girl to get into a fight with him, Lin Ci Jie wasn't the type of girl who liked to use little tricks to scheme against others. But seeing her rival already at a disadvantage still made Lin Ci Jie feel very happy.

  For the past few days, Lin Cijie noticed that the girl who always came to watch Lin Xiaoyu train was nowhere to be seen. This made Lin Cijie feel like her relationship with Lin Xiaoyu had taken a huge leap forward. During training, Lin Cijie learned from Yan Nan, another female student, that she secretly bought several bottles of Sprite for Lin Xiaoyu. Lin Cijie only dared to hand over the Sprite when everyone in the gym had left, knowing that if other teammates saw her buying Sprite just for Lin Xiaoyu, they would tease her mercilessly. As a tall and beautiful team manager, many male students on the basketball team had a crush on Lin Cijie, and several bold players had already confessed their love to her. However, Lin Cijie didn't have any feelings for those boys, so she politely rejected them all. Lin Cijie discovered that Lin Xiaoyu had a special fondness for Sprite, and she also loved the refreshing taste of it. This common interest made Lin Cijie happy for half a day.

  It's another early summer day with a brilliant sun. The sun at nine o'clock always emits a kind of youthful energy and light, illuminating the earth to an extraordinary brightness, making all things radiant with vitality.

  The second class was the time for radio gymnastics, and the music with a strong beat came from the school's broadcasting system. Lin Xiaoyu disliked doing radio gymnastics the most, and the awkward and ridiculous movements made her feel like a fool when she did it. Now that Lin Xiaoyu had an excuse to sit in the classroom due to her injury, she didn't have to follow her classmates to the playground to do exercises. Lin Xiaoyu felt that her injury not only brought her many inconveniences but also some unexpected benefits. The saying "a blessing in disguise" was truly and deeply understood by Lin Xiaoyu.

  Just as Lin Xiaoyu was alone in the classroom listening to rock music on her Walkman, a girl walked into Lin Xiaoyu's classroom.

  This girl Lin Xiaoyu was familiar to her, she was a very good sister of Yan Nan. She walked up to Lin Xiaoyu and told her something that surprised Lin Xiaoyu.

  Yan Nan is sick.

  Lin Xiaoyu rushed to the school infirmary in a hurry. The school nurse, a woman in her 40s, was sitting there and thought Lin Xiaoyu had come to see a doctor because of the bandage on his hand, so she asked him where he didn't feel comfortable.

  Lin Xiaoyu knew that the school doctor had misunderstood, so she explained that she was there to see a classmate who was ill.

  The school doctor pointed behind the screen in the infirmary and said that there was only one girl inside getting an injection, asking if Lin Xiaoyu was looking for her.

  Lin Xiaoyu nodded and walked behind the screen.

  Behind the screen was a small white hospital bed, with several long chairs placed beside it. On the bedside rail stood an iron frame, and from the hook at the top of the frame hung a half-full IV drip bottle. The transparent liquid inside the bottle dripped slowly down from the bottom of the bottle mouth, flowing slowly through a thin transparent tube, which was inserted into the back of a pale white hand.

  The owner of this hand lay quietly on the hospital bed, her white and light green school uniform unable to conceal her beautiful and slender figure. The snow-white neck exposed outside the collar was more dazzling than the white sheets, and a few strands of black hair scattered on the delicate and smooth neck emitted a moving luster. The face lying flat had some sickly tired look, but with the perfect and flawless features, it formed a stunning sleeping beauty pose. However, if you observe carefully, you will find that the pale face slowly gathered a faint flush, and the long eyelashes on the closed eyes slightly trembled from time to time, quietly telling people that this beauty was not in a deep sleep.

  Lin Xiaoyu walked softly to the bedside and saw Yan Nan lying on the bed with an IV drip, Lin Xiaoyu felt a surge of desire to protect this delicate and lovely person.

  Lin Xiaoyu, who was always a bit careless about certain things, didn't notice that as her footsteps got closer and closer to the hospital bed, Yan Nian's face turned a deeper shade of red. In fact, Yan Nian wasn't asleep, and she had heard every word of Lin Xiaoyu's conversation with the female doctor when she first entered the nurse's station. Yan Nian hadn't expected Lin Xiaoyu to actually come visit her here, and she couldn't help but feel grateful to her good friend Lili for passing on the message to Lin Xiaoyu.

  Yan Nan was really ill this time. After crying and running out of Lin Xiaoyu's classroom that day, Yan Nan ran to the empty football field at school and cried loudly. After crying, Yan Nan also thought that it was his own fault for being unreasonable and shouldn't have thrown away the breakfast in anger towards Lin Xiaoyu. So Yan Nan waited for Lin Xiaoyu to come and find him, he would quietly apologize to her. But one day, two days passed, and Lin Xiaoyu still didn't come to find him, which made Yan Nan even more worried in his anxious heart, fearing that Lin Xiaoyu would ignore him from then on because of this matter. Like this, Yan Nan spent two days in anxiety, losing his appetite, and finally fell ill today.

  As Lin Xiaoyu's footsteps drew closer, Yan Nan's heart on the hospital bed grew more and more restless. Yan Nan thought that since Lin Xiaoyu had come to visit him, he should not be angry with himself anymore. Moreover, Lin Xiaoyu was not the kind of person who would hold grudges over such small matters. But how should he face Lin Xiaoyu? Hadn't Lin Xiaoyu noticed his feelings for him yet? If Lin Xiaoyu didn't like him back, what should he do? Many thoughts swirled in Yan Nan's mind, making him feel a bit at a loss, so he dared not open his eyes and could only pretend to be asleep.

  "Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan." Lin Xiaoyu softly called out to Yan Nan by his ear. Lin Xiaoyu didn't know that Yan Nan was pretending to sleep, nor did she know about the turmoil in Yan Nan's heart at this moment.

  Listening to Lin Xiaoyu softly calling out her own name in her ear, Lin Xiaoyu's warm breath occasionally sprayed on her earlobe, making her little ears itchy and her little face start to flush. However, Yan Nang felt that she was suddenly wrapped in happiness, and the discomfort and chaotic thoughts in her mind due to illness seemed to disappear into thin air.

  Lin Xiaoyu saw that after calling out twice, Yan Nan still hadn't woken up. Lin Xiaoyu thought to let Yan Nan sleep well here and rest for a while, and he would go outside the screen to ask the school doctor about Yan Nan's condition. But just as Lin Xiaoyu was about to leave, a hand grabbed his hem.

  Lin Xiaoyu turned around and saw Yan Nan opening her eyes staring at him, one hand tightly grasping his hem.

  Lin Xiaoyu saw such complex emotions in a pair of eyes for the first time. In Yan Nan's beautiful eyes, Lin Xiaoyu saw expectation, saw pleading, saw joy, saw sorrow... In Yan Nan's big eyes, there were many more emotions that Lin Xiaoyu couldn't understand...

  "Are you awake? Are you feeling better? You......" Lin Xiaoyu asked anxiously as soon as she saw Yan Nang wake up, but Yan Nang interrupted her words.

  "Don't leave me, Xiao Yu...... I love you." Yan Nan didn't know why he had the courage to say this sentence. When Yan Nan felt that Lin Xiao Yu was about to leave him while pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, he felt an unprecedented fear, and the sense of loss from seeing his most beloved thing about to disappear made Yan Nan recklessly reach out and grab Lin Xiao Yu's hem. After two days of intense inner struggle, Yan Nan could no longer bear to express the love that had been hidden in his heart for so long.

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