Very soon, the other girls all retreated. Everyone guessed that Zhao Menghua would fall into Su Xiaoqiang's hands sooner or later.
"I want us to pool together to book a small theater to watch a movie.”Chen Wenwen said.
There was another round of applause. Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat as Nuo Nuo's words rang in his ears. Everything seemed to have been prepared for him. The small hall of the cinema, the movie, the music, and yes, the roses!
Even the heavens were helping him. If this still didn't work, wouldn't there be no justice?
"What are you looking at?" Zhao Menghwa asked.
"Transformers 2!"
"It's not even as good as Terminator 4!"
"Up is better. It's been the hottest these days.”
"Let's watch 'Story of the Robots'…I want to watch it again.”Chen Wenwen said.
"Wall-E? That's fine too. Let's bring food and drinks in.”Zhao Menghwa sounded a little regretful. He had a private English teacher since junior high school, and his TOEFL score was unimaginable among high school students. He never watched Chinese movies, so he only remembered the English titles of the movies.
"I'll pack popcorn and coke. I don't care about the rest!”The little angel was always generous when it came to paying.
"Then, little angel, we're a perfect match. I'll buy you popcorn and coke. What do you think?”Lu Mingfei couldn't help but say something like that again.
This was his personality. Obviously, the pocket money that his uncle and aunt gave him was only enough for him to buy a movie ticket for himself. However, he could not help but say something. Moreover, the words he said were cold and owing.
"Tsk! Who's a perfect match for you?" As expected, the little angel expressed her disdain.
Everyone else's chatter quickly drowned out Lu Mingfei's cold joke. Everyone was very interested in this plan. Before graduation, the students of the club would watch a cute cartoon in a small hall. It sounded like a great memory.
A cartoon with love! Yes, the key was love! Lu Mingfei's heart was about to blossom.
All of this seemed to be a hint. Chen Wenwen chose " Wall-E." The film was about a little robot with a dirty face. It was called Wall-E. It was a little guy who collected garbage and fell in love with a little princess-like girl, the robot EVE. Lu Mingfei actually liked the film very much, but he was too embarrassed to tell anyone. Others might not believe that he was so moved to tears at the last scene. He didn't even realize that it was the scene where Wall-E was crushed into a pile of scrap metal by the evil Captain robot. EVE rushed to find parts to save it and broke the sound barrier with Wall-E in his arms. That was probably love. Lu Mingfei felt that it was so touching that he purposely took a screenshot to use as his wallpaper.
Wait, wait! He was stunned. Maybe it wasn't fate, but Chen Wenwen was the one who chose that film…What was Chen Wenwen trying to say? Chen Wenwen told Lu Mingfei about the movie. She said that she cried when she watched it and felt sorry for the little robot.
"Then Lu Mingfei, come with me to buy tickets. Everyone, give your money to Lu Mingfei.”Chen Wenwen said.
Everyone in the group agreed. Lu Mingfei's main task as the director of the literature club was to collect money and run errands from house to house. It was customary to leave this job to him.
However, this time, Chen Wenwen said that she wanted to go together…
Fate
Some roads were ridiculously long when you walked with some people, but when you walked with others, they were so short that people were reluctant to take a step.
The cobblestone road along the river that Lu Mingfei took after school was like this. This road was specially designated as a scenic pedestrian street by the municipal project. It cost a lot of money. On one side was the green and blue river, and on the other side was a cafe, a cinema, a flower shop, and various specialty stores. Although the scenery was good, it had nothing to do with Lu Mingfei because he had always walked alone.
But today was different. He was walking side by side with Chen Wenwen on this road.
"Lu Mingfei, which school do you want to apply to?”Chen Wenwen asked her.
The two of them had just booked a small hall at the cinema and decided to play " Wall-E." Then, he accompanied Chen Wenwen to buy a paper bag of bellflowers. Chen Wenwen said that her mother liked them. Lu Mingfei secretly looked at the price of roses. They were not sewn for the holidays, so they did not seem expensive. He could still scrape together the money to buy ninety-nine flowers. Now, Chen Wenwen was strolling home with him with a paper bag of bellflowers. This was the first time Lu Mingfei knew that Chen Wenwen's house was actually not far from his.
Lu Mingfei turned his head and glanced at Chen Wenwen. Chen Wenwen was wearing a white cotton dress. The setting sun shone on her skin, making it seem transparent.
"I can apply to any school as long as I can get in.”Lu Mingfei said. He didn't tell anyone that he had received an admission letter from an American university.
"Yes, will you go to school here at home?”
Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat. He thought that Chen Wenwen was secretly asking him where he would be going.
"It doesn't matter where. A university with many classmates is the best.”Lu Mingfei said.
"Yes, I want to go to Beijing. Zhao Menghua and Su Xiaoqiang are going to Beijing universities.”Chen Wenwen whispered.
"Beijing is good." Lu Mingfei said.
"You like Beijing too?"
"Beijing has a big pot of lamb scorpions!" Lu Mingfei wanted to slap himself when he said that. What a good opportunity. As long as he was thick-skinned, he could say something affectionate like 'It's good to have you in Beijing'. He thought that he was too listless and did not even do what Nono had instructed him to.
Chen Wenwen smiled silently and replied with a low "hmm".
The sound of their footsteps was exceptionally clear in the silence. Lu Mingfei counted his steps and did not dare to look at Chen Wenwen.
He couldn't keep silent like this. He looked up and was stunned for a moment. The person opposite him was also stunned for a moment. He adjusted the huge sunglasses on his face and pulled the brim of his baseball cap.
Chen Motong, or Nuo Nuo, was also strolling along the street. He was wearing a pair of purple jogging shoes, a pair of tight jeans, a white tank top, and a blue striped short-sleeved shirt. She was stunned for a moment before a malicious smile appeared on her face. She waved her hand at Lu Mingfei." Hey! Hey!"
Lu Mingfei knew why she was so excited about meeting an old friend. It was purely for Chen Wenwen to see. He had experienced the wickedness of this little witch.
"Your friend?" Chen Wenwen was a little embarrassed. She was also affected by the sharp pressure on Nono's body. Nono did not look like she had grown up in this small southern city.
Lu Mingfei stammered, but Nono had already jumped in front of them.
"Hey hey! What a coincidence!" Nuo Nuo turned to Chen Wenwen." This is Chen Wenwen, right?”
"How do you know my name?" Chen Wenwen was a little surprised. She had always been shy in front of strangers.
" Listen to him, he said…" Nono suddenly paused and said," Right, you owe me ice cream, right?”
Blackmail, this was blatant blackmail!
However, as long as Nuo Nuo didn't spout nonsense, Lu Mingfei could even call her sister. Lu Mingfei quickly took out his wallet." I'll buy it for you, I'll buy it for you. What flavor do you want?”
"Strawberry jam on top." Nono took off his baseball cap and combed his dark red hair.
Lu Mingfei could only spend money to buy three ice-creams. He didn't have much money left in his pocket. He wasn't stingy when he bought it for Chen Wenwen, and he didn't feel bad when he bought it for Nono. As long as this little witch shut up, he was a little reluctant to buy the one for himself. The three of them chewed on ice cream as they strolled along the river. The locust tree flowers fell on Chen Wenwen's white cloth circle and Nono's baseball cap. Nono kept complaining while Chen Wenwen spoke to her in a soft voice. When the two girls were around, Lu Mingfei was like a huge light bulb. He had nothing to do with them at all. Lu Mingfei couldn't help but give Nono an angry look, but Nono acted as if she didn't see it.
"Did Lu Mingfei say a lot of bad things about me?”Chen Wenwen asked.
" No," Nono answered casually." He said he liked literature very much, so he joined the literature club.”
"Oh, I like reading too." Chen Wenwen said," Are you two junior high school classmates?”
"No, we were classmates in elementary school. But I've been studying in the United States and only came back recently.”Nuo Nuo turned to Lu Mingfei." Do you remember the creeper on the wall of our school building? When I went back that day to take a look, I had already climbed to the top of the building!”
Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously, thinking that the ice cream was worth it. Nono was a trustworthy businessman, and her words were vivid. However, he suddenly had an illusion that what Nono said seemed to be true. He clearly did not remember Nono being his classmate in primary school, but he remembered the Boston ivy. He was a little slow and had a bad memory. He had basically forgotten all his classmates in primary school. He only remembered the light shining through the green leaves of the Boston ivy on the wall. For a moment, he almost could not tell if Nono's words were true or if his own memories were true.
"Are you an immigrator?" Chen Wenwen asked. Many people in their school were talking about their family migrating.
"No, I have a Chinese passport. I'm just going to school. I'm a freshman at Kassel College.”
"Did you skip a grade? Lu Mingfei is only in his third year of high school."
"Oh, we're not classmates. I'm his senior sister.”Nuo Nuo quickly covered up her lie." Lu Mingfei, right?”
"Oh, Senior Sister." Lu Mingfei knew why Nono asked.
Nono smiled like a blooming flower.
In the end, they parted ways at the fork in the road. Lu Mingfei and Chen Wenwen continued to walk forward and Nuo Nuo went to the other side. Lu Mingfei looked at Nono's back as she skipped away. Once again, he felt that she would disappear just like that, along with another possibility in his life.
His uncle and aunt had been treating Lu Mingfei much better these past two days. After all, his aunt wanted Lu Mingfei to talk to his parents, whom he would never meet, and get Lu Mingze to study in America. Lu Mingze was very resistant to this. At the dining table, he pulled a long face and said that even if he wanted to go abroad, he had to rely on his grades and not his connections. Lu Mingfei knew that his younger brother was still brooding over his dumb luck. Moreover, Lu Mingze had been very unhappy these past few days because Sunset's Mark was always offline. It made him anxious as if he was scratching his heart and liver. Therefore, he hogged the old-fashioned laptop even more, not giving Lu Mingfei a chance.
As the aunt nagged at Lu Mingze for not being able to go online all the time and for him to learn more in order to be successful, she instructed Lu Mingfei to buy breakfast milk for tomorrow. Lu Mingfei walked out of the door and heard Lu Mingze suddenly become anxious for some reason and quarrel with his aunt.
His heart was in a mess, so he didn't go downstairs. Instead, he walked up the stairs. There was no elevator in this building, and the highest floor was only seven floors. The rooftop was filled with air-conditioning units and pipes. The property management had set up an iron gate in the corridor with the words "rooftop closed" written on it. In fact, no one would run up there if it wasn't closed. The stairs leading to the top floor felt like a horror movie. It was filled with cardboard boxes, two broken engines, and some broken sofas and wooden coffee tables that were abandoned by the seventh-floor residents. Everything was covered in dust, and the gap was too small to fit.
Lu Mingfei jumped through the gaps like a light kangaroo. He clearly remembered every landing spot, such as the two bricks in the cardboard box, the solid base of the broken motor, and the only leg of the wooden coffee table that was not broken. These landing spots were like a series of islands that helped him cross the ocean of trash. Opposite him was the iron gate. Outside the iron gate, there was a shadow and thousands of miles of starlight.
Lu Mingfei crawled out through the biggest gap in the iron door. He stood under the starlight and took a deep breath, looking at the city under the night sky.
Now that he was free, every time he arrived here, he felt like lying on the ground and enjoying the wind on the top floor, the sunlight, and the different smells of the city. Sometimes it was locust flowers, sometimes it was leaves, and sometimes it was the sweet fragrance of pineapples sold on the street below.
He sat on the edge of the concrete platform and carefully stretched his legs out so that the ground was dozens of meters away from his feet. He felt dangerous and light, like a bird flying high in the wind.
This was his secret territory. For the past few years, he would stay here for a while every afternoon and then tell his aunt that he was doing his homework at the long table outside the post office.
Under the night sky, the lights of the entire city lit up. The neon lights of the commercial district were pieced together, making it seem illusory. The hard skyline was hidden in the lights. The commercial buildings looked like square cages made of light from afar. In the distance was a wide lake, adjacent to the lake. The busiest elevated road in the city was filled with traffic. The elevated road passed by Lu Mingfei's residential area. From this position, Lu Mingfei felt that the lights formed a stream of light. Every speck of light in the stream was a living firefly. They were bound by the curved, slender elevated road and could only run forward to find an exit.
But there would never be an exit.
This was how the city treated Lu Mingfei in the past. They never had an exit. Now, there were suddenly two of them. One was going to the United States, and the other was Chen Wenwen.
In the afternoon, after he broke up with Nono, Chen Wenwen suddenly said that she wanted to go to the river to take a look, so Lu Mingfei accompanied her all the way to the river. They saw dandelions blooming on the grass and fluffy balls one after another. Chen Wenwen happily picked a lot and put them in a paper bag with the bluebells she bought. Then, she sat by the river with Lu Mingfei and talked. She took off her shoes and soaked her feet in the clear water. Chen Wenwen said that everyone would be separated after going to university. They might only be able to see each other during the summer vacation, and they might not be able to see each other for a long time. Many good friends would slowly forget each other like this.
When she said this, Chen Wenwen's eyes were filled with sadness, even more so than when she read Duras 'Lover when she entered school.
Lu Mingfei sat beside her and looked into her eyes. He watched as the wind blew the dandelions in the paper bag in her arms and scattered them on the water surface like a light snow.
Lu Mingfei couldn't be sure if this was a hint, but there was a little bird jumping in his heart.
At this moment, his phone vibrated. Lu Mingfei was a little surprised because only Professor Guderian knew this number. He had not told anyone yet.
"Lu Mingfei?" Nono's voice came from the phone.
"It's me. Who else could it be?”Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
"I'm just calling to tell you that there's another person on the list, but we'll only be taking in one student from China. Professor Guderian said he's flying to Beijing tomorrow, so he asked me to call you to make a decision tonight.”Nono's tone was calm and emotionless.
Lu Mingfei panicked." Can we wait until tomorrow?" Tomorrow…"
He wanted to say that he was going to do something earth-shattering at their literary club's event tomorrow. Then, he knew if Chen Wenwen was willing to accept his confession. If she accepted, he wanted to stay in China. Anyway, he wouldn't be able to see his parents in the United States. If he didn't accept it, he could bring the memories of his failure to the United States with Professor Guderian and leave a legend in his high school. A legend of a guy with average grades who got lucky and got an admission letter from an American university…
"No, Professor Guderian booked a flight for tomorrow morning.”Nono's tone was resolute.
Lu Mingfei was silent for a long time before he scratched his head." I understand."”
"What do you mean you know?"
"That's right. Then forget it." Lu Mingfei said," I'm not interested in studying abroad anyway…"
"You're ruthless enough. That Chen Wenwen looks just like that.”Nono said," Kassel Academy's door can only be opened once for each person.”
" Just because you're prettier than Chen Wenwen doesn't mean I'll like you…" Lu Mingfei said listlessly.
"Hero! I didn't expect you to be so ruthless!”Nono seemed to be angry." Fine! Goodbye!"
"What did he say?" In the presidential suite of the Regent Hotel, Professor Guderian stared at Nono nervously.
"He said forget it." Nono shrugged." Anyway, Professor, you can fly to Beijing tomorrow as planned.”
" But…" Professor Guderian was really anxious.
"But I'm not Chen Wenwen. If I were Chen Wenwen, I'd take care of him.”Nono frowned." You can't handle it even if you stay, Professor.”
"Who is Chen Wenwen?" Professor Guderian was confused.
"Professor, you look so anxious. If I told you that she was a girl who could defeat the entire Kassel Academy, would you use the commando team of the operations department to erase her from the world?”Nono stuck out her tongue.
"I'm afraid that I don't know how to do it, but the principal does!”Professor Guderian's eyes widened.
After the call ended, Lu Mingfei looked at the screen of his phone that was gradually turning off for a long time. Then, he lowered his head listlessly. He looked at the city under the night sky and thought about the farewell party tomorrow. Chen Wenwen had asked him to give a speech. He was going to do the most daring thing in front of the dozens of students from the literature club…
This listless fellow had always been like this in his later extraordinary life. Usually, he was as listless as a dried cucumber, but once he decided to do something, he would be as energetic as a soaked celery.
"I'm a person who occasionally goes crazy.”Is this Ricardo? M? It was Lu Hou's catchphrase.
There was only one fate, but there were many choices in life.
Confession (Part 1)
On the most important evening of his life, Lu Mingfei heard his heart pounding in the bathroom of the theater.
He looked at the mirror and wondered if he had thought of every step in advance.
The flowers should be fine. In the afternoon, he went to the riverside to pick a lot of dandelions and wrapped them in a paper bag. He didn't need to give them to Nono. The scene of Chen Wenwen hugging dandelions by the riverside was engraved in Lu Mingfei's mind. At the thought of this, Lu Mingfei started to miss Nono again. Although they had only met a few times, it was that little witch who had pushed him to this point with all kinds of sharp and vicious words.
Lu Mingfei thought that she had probably arrived in Beijing. If he succeeded, he would go for a walk along the river road with Chen Wenwen at night. Then, he would run home and open QQ to thank the big-faced cat. However, he had a feeling that the profile picture would go black forever.
There didn't seem to be a problem with his attire tonight. Lu Mingfei deliberately tidied his hair and swept away his dejected aura. The dark purple rubber-rimmed glasses that his aunt had given him covered his listless eyes and made him look a little fashionable.
Lu Mingfei didn't even bother with the music. He took a pack of genuine soft Zhonghua from his uncle's drawer and went to the old man downstairs to exchange for two packs of fake ones. Then, he put one pack of fake ones back and gave the other pack to the projectionist uncle. This had always been Lu Mingfei's way of making money. The projectionist agreed to play a cut of Eve breaking the sound barrier with Wall-E before the show started. There was music after that, and it was very touching.
As for his confession, he searched the internet and gathered what he thought was the most touching statement. It was roughly like this:
"It's been three years. The students of our literature club are probably going to be separated. Maybe we won't be able to meet again after we're separated. In the future, when the flowers bloom and snow falls, we won't be together anymore. Thinking about it makes me a little sad. As the director of the literature club, I'm very happy to stand here and give a final speech. These speeches were originally meant for all the students, but I only want to say it to one person."
At this moment, the most impatient little angel might jump out and say loudly," Lu Mingfei, what are you blabbering about?”
Lu Mingfei decided that if she asked this question, he would use his fiercest tone to say," Shut up! I didn't want to tell you! I just want to tell Chen Wenwen! I've liked her for three years! Don't let it be three years after three years! I don't want to be a good person forever!"
This line, which was adapted from " Infernal Affairs ", made him excited. He felt that he was a man now. He didn't want to say it in a bitter and tactful way. In the end, Chen Wenwen even gave him a good person card on the spot. This was a little lacking in boldness. Nuonuo had said that men had to be strong. Who would want a man who was like a little rabbit? At the end of his life, he was just a woman's friend!
Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously. He looked at himself in the mirror and admired the ferocious expression on his face. He was quite satisfied.
"Lu Mingfei, what are you doing?" Zhao Menghwa asked tentatively as he walked into the bathroom.
" I don't know why, but the muscles on my face suddenly felt itchy, so I twisted and turned to see what was going on." Lu Mingfei turned around and faced Zhao Menghwa, making his expression even more exaggerated." Do I look like Stephen?”
" No, more like Ala Lei," Zhao Menghua said. "Here are your clothes. Change into them for the speech later.”Zhao Menghua handed him a bag." Chen Wenwen, be more formal when you say this.”
Lu Mingfei rummaged through the clothes in his bag. It was a two-button black suit, a white shirt, and a narrow black tie. It was a typical Korean suit, and the size was just right for his thin figure. Lu Mingfei had once wanted to buy one, but his aunt had not agreed. But how did Chen Wenwen know that he wanted such a set of clothes?
A huge sense of happiness hit his head like a hammer, making him almost dizzy.
He hurriedly went to his pocket to feel for the phone. He wanted to call Nono and tell him that he had already walked towards Vuitton before the time came.
" Sorry, the user you are calling is offline."
Lu Mingfei slowly closed his phone. He thought that his other choice had really disappeared just like that. It was like fireworks and bubbles, along with that little witch Chen Motong. He was given up, and he cut through the Gordian knot quickly. He could only enjoy a loving life with Chen Wenwen in the future. Perhaps it would be good to get married and have children after graduating from university.
He was overjoyed again.
When Lu Mingfei walked into the small theater, Su Xiaoqiang's voice pierced his ears like needles." Wow! Hahahahaha! Look, Monkey is wearing a suit!"
The dozen or so members of the Literature Club who had already taken their seats and were drinking Coke and eating popcorn all burst into laughter. Lu Mingfei's face turned as red as an eggplant.
"What are you laughing at? Piglet is wearing a suit.”Someone said.
On the other side, Xu Yanyan and Xu Miaomiao, the fattest twin brothers of the Literature Club, also walked over in the same black suit as Lu Mingfei. Xu Yanyan and Xu Miaomiao were born only three hours apart, but the master said that one of them lacked soil and the other lacked water, so their parents gave them these two names. However, these two names were really good for them. The two brothers were round and fat, and they stood there like two basketballs.
"You two are giving speeches too?" Lu Mingfei asked Xu Yanyan.
"If we don't give a speech, we'll just be a foil.”Xu Yanyan said," They're extras. It's a waste not to work if they get paid.”
Lu Mingfei was confused for a moment. He glanced at Chen Wenwen. Chen Wenwen seemed a little surprised to see him. Her eyes, which were always lowered, widened and became bright and clear. Lu Mingfei thought that she probably didn't think that this dress would look so good on him, so he didn't take Su Xiaoqiang's sharp laughter to heart.
"In a while, you will stand in that position and give a speech.”Zhao Menghua pointed at a piece of photocopied paper in front of the screen and said," Just step on it, don't block the center of the screen. The big screen will show the photos of the Literature Club."”
"Put up the photos of the Literature Club?" Lu Mingfei felt that something was wrong. Then what about the movie clip he requested?
The projectionist uncle's towering figure appeared in front of him. In his memory, when he handed over the pack of cigarettes, the uncle in the baseball cap snapped his fingers with 120,000 heroic spirit and disdainful eyes, saying,"The theater is our place! Don't worry! He didn't run away! I'll cut it in for you no matter what." This was an uncle who made people feel at ease. Lu Mingfei believed that the uncle would definitely help him settle this.
"Yes!" Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.
Confession (Part 2)
The lights in the theater quickly dimmed, leaving only the white photocopied paper on the stage exceptionally clear. Alright, that was his stage. It was a battle of a lifetime. If he took this girl, he would have happiness for the rest of his life, a son, and so on! And that girl was probably waiting for him behind him. Everything was okay. Dandelions, Wall-e, confession lines. At this moment, he was dressed in a suit and in high spirits.
Lu Mingfei jumped onto the stage and stood on the photocopier in front of the screen, waiting for a beam of light to shine on him.
Then, he would be able to say loudly to the whole world, Chen Wenwen, I like you!
Didn't Nono say that she was going to block up everything about men? Lu Mingfei felt that he had come to this realization.
The strong light suddenly blinded his eyes. It was not the spotlights from above, but the light from the projector in front. Everyone in the room hushed. Lu Mingfei raised his arm to cover his face and thought, Damn it!”Could it be that the projectionist got the screening time wrong? But there was no music. What was going on?
When Lu Mingfei's eyes got used to the strong light, he suddenly realized that Xu Yanyan and Xu Miaomiao were standing on his left like a pair of bowlers. They were far away from him, and their chubby faces were expressionless.
"What are you guys doing here?" Lu Mingfei shouted at Xu Yanyan.
"To be an extra." Xu Yanyan revealed an innocent expression.
Lu Mingfei suddenly realized that there was a huge English letter "L" on his left hand, and it was motionless. What the projector projected on the screen was not a changing image, but some characters.
There was still booing from the audience. Lu Mingfei couldn't take it anymore. He left the copy paper and ran a few meters away from the screen to watch. He saw a line of words,"Chen Wenwen, Lve, Yu!”
He couldn't understand the two strange words, but he had a premonition that something was wrong, and his head buzzed.
"Stand back, stand back!" Xu Yanyan whispered to him," It wouldn't be a sentence without a single letter from you.”
"Alphabets?" Lu Mingfei looked at the line of words again. At the same time, he caught a glimpse of Zhao Menghwa from the corner of his eye. He was holding a large bouquet of crimson roses as he jumped onto the stage surrounded by his good friends.
For the first time in his life, Lu Mingfei felt his body go cold inch by inch from his fingertips to his heart, to the depths of his bones, and to his joints that were still sore from running too much to pick dandelions. Xu Yanyan and Xu Miaomiao were the two " o " s, and he was the small " i ". Together, they formed the perfect " Chen Wenwen, iLoveYou."”
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