Never Meeting Again In Our Next Life (Living Life Over) - Volume 1 (39)
For the next period of time, Xia Lin continued to study hard every day and work hard.
Because he happened to be ranked 30th in his grade during the monthly exam, he was quite prosperous in his original class, but once he entered the key class, he became a miserable “lower student”.
Everyone in the key class is an elite. If you want to surpass the students in the front, you need to put in more effort. The big, leap, and forward progress that you made in the ordinary class before is impossible to achieve in the key class. .
But Xia Lin was not discouraged. He felt that since he had the ability to enter a key class, he must have the ability to continue climbing up.
In the second monthly exam, he advanced eleven places. In the third monthly exam, he advanced another seven places and entered the middle and upper ranks of the class. This already impressed the teacher.2
At the same time, Xia Lin also heard news about Song Yan from Zhou Shuo intermittently.
I heard that when Song Yan took the second monthly exam, he made great progress, almost replicating Xia Lin’s previous miracle. By the third monthly exam, he was already at the top of the ordinary class.
For these students who have made rapid progress in the later period, the school is naturally happy to send them to key classes for careful cultivation. At present, several students have been transferred from ordinary classes. Xia Lin estimates that with Song Yan’s current ranking, it is necessary to It’s only a matter of time before you enter a key class.4
In fact, Xia Lin was both looking forward to and resisting Song Yan’s transfer. The expectation is because he also hopes that Song Yan can really soar into the sky and become famous; but the resistance is because he is afraid that Song Yan’s appearance will disturb his heart again.
However, Song Yan did not show up in the key class for a long time, and Xia Lin finally couldn’t help but ask Zhou Shuo.
Zhou Shuo told him that in fact, a teacher had offered an olive branch to Song Yan before, but Song Yan rejected it. Song Yan said that he was more comfortable staying in the ordinary class.
Xia Lin was silent for a long time after hearing this.
He thought that the reason why Song Yan refused to transfer to the key class may be that he did not want to be in the same class with him day and night, or he was reluctant to leave Yu Luotong alone in the ordinary class, or it was both.
In May, the weather gradually became hotter.
Xia Lin’s birthday was just before the Dragon Boat Festival, so the school took a day off and gave the students a short vacation.1
However, for senior high school students who have to take the college entrance examination in more than half a month, this kind of vacation is just a change of place to review.2
That night, Xia Liang couldn’t help but drag Xia Lin and Zhou Shuo out to eat at Pizza Hut to celebrate Xia Lin’s birthday. His father and grandmother who were far away from home also called to wish him a happy birthday.2
Grandma is in poor health and has been recuperating in a foreign hospital all year round. While her father is accompanying her, she is also taking care of business abroad. He rarely has time to return to China during the year. Usually, Xia Lin’s discipline is conveyed through Xia Liang, so When I called back this time, I didn’t say a few words to Xia Lin, and then transferred it to Xia Liang, telling him to supervise his younger brother to review for the college entrance examination.
Xia Lin had long been accustomed to this.
His mother died in childbirth when she was giving birth to Xia Lin. Although his father did not remarry openly, he never broke up with women outside. Xia Lin didn’t have much feelings for his father, but instead heard on the phone that When grandma called his name, her nose suddenly sore.
In his previous life, his grandmother died of illness a year after he came out to his family.3
His father blamed him for his grandmother’s death, saying that he had made his grandmother mad. But Xia Lin knew otherwise. Grandma had always loved him. Even if she knew he was gay, she would not look down on him. Otherwise, she would not secretly leave 10% of her shares to him as a legacy.
His grandma hoped to use this share to save his life, but in the end he failed to live past the age of twenty-eight. He felt that the person he was most sorry for was his grandma.3
A meal suddenly became sad because of an ocean phone call.
Seeing that Xia Lin was not very interested, Xia Liang thought he was worried about his review, so he didn’t ask any more questions and drove them back after dinner.
Xia Lin came home and took a shower, then returned to the bedroom and planned to continue doing the unfinished simulation paper.
But as soon as he sat down at the desk, he heard his cell phone ringing.
It’s an unfamiliar number. Xia Lin didn’t have the habit of answering unknown calls. He thought they were harassment calls and originally planned to ignore them, but the other party seemed to be very persistent and kept calling over and over again.
Finally, Xia Lin picked up helplessly: “Who is it?”
There was silence on the other end of the phone, only the faint sound of breathing could be heard.
Xia Lin frowned and asked again: “Who is it?”
The other party still didn’t speak.
Just when Xia Lin was about to hang up the phone, he heard the other party whisper: “Happy birthday.”6
This voice was so familiar that it made him feel suffocated for no apparent reason.
Before he could react, the other party quickly hung up the phone.
Xia Lin held the phone and was stunned for a long time before he remembered that Song Yan’s number was still on his blacklist.
On Song Yan’s eighteenth birthday, Xia Lin drank a can of beer with him; on Xia Lin’s eighteenth birthday, Song Yan could only make an anonymous phone call to send a blessing.1
Counting it this way, the relationship between him and Song Yan has really come to an end…8
Xia Lin sighed, rested his forehead on the edge of the table, and gently closed his eyes.
