The Moon comes to me - Chap 67 Lin Qinhe's Letter (Part 2)

Lin Qinhe finally received the letter again. The person who wrote the letter did not yet know that his identity had long been exposed. In the letter, he first explained that he had taken a leave of absence to stay with his sister in the hospital and did not have time to write, and then cheerfully reported to him the good news of the funding program, vowing to study harder for his sake and strive to study in Wenhua No.1 High School.

Lin Qinhe took longer than usual. After reading the letter with a frown, he clicked on the Qingshui’s No.1 High School’s monthly report card for that month that Su Yun had just sent him and his frown deepened.

The grade ranking was 20th, only three places ahead of the last monthly exam.

Too stupid, only improved three places in a month. At this rate, there was no way to rank first.

Lin Qinhe’s heart wavered slightly, should the funding limit change to the top three? He thought carefully for a moment, and then coldly rejected the idea.

If he couldn’t even make it to the top of Qingshui No. 1 High School, what qualifications did he have to say that he was working hard for him?

From then on, Su Yun began to email Lin Qinhe the student’s weekly and monthly test report cards in a timely manner. She was puzzled but did not ask about it, but occasionally she received questions from Lin Qinhe about the remote live broadcast project, asking her if Qingshui No.1 High School was seriously practicing the remote live broadcast project and how the quality of teaching was.

Su Yun repeatedly assured her that Qingshui No.1 High School could not be more serious about the live broadcast project, except that not every student was as talented as Lin Qinhe, and this student’s overall speed of progress could also be called a genius.

It was not until a month later that Lin Qinhe stopped questioning his report card, when his ranking on the report card soared into the top five.

However, as the first year of high school drew to an end, Lin Qinhe found that he received fewer and fewer letters, and there was not even a single letter in the month before the end of the semester.

In this regard, Lin Qinhe expressed his forgiveness. After all, the final exams were coming up and it was normal to have no time to write letters.

It was just that every time the security guard in the guard room saw him, he would smugly talk to him, saying that there was no letter to you today, which made him a bit annoyed.

The final exam for the first year at Wenhua No.1 High School and Qingshui No.1 High School were held at the same time.

It was already evening when the last exam was over. Lin Qinhe walked out of the exam room as usual amid the noise. He glanced at the west sky and as far as his eyes could see, the setting sun was burning.

Before he got his final report card from Wenhua No.1 High School, Lin Qinhe got the final report card from Qingshui No.1 High School first.

When he saw the name at the top of the class ranking, Lin Qinhe experienced an indescribable subtle feeling, probably because there were many things that he could easily do if he wanted to, but this was the only thing that he could not control it by himself, but someone did it for him with great effort.

And he had long been accustomed to what he did for others, and for a long time he no longer expected others to give anything for him.

In fact, at that time, Lin Qinhe did not understand why this person could do his best for another person who had nothing to do with him, but it might be a good thing to have such a person, even if his life did not intersect with his.

At that time, Lin Qinhe had a very clear idea. After the boy officially transferred to Wenhua No. 1 High School in September, if there was a chance, he wouldn’t mind becoming friends with this boy and would be willing to provide him with some help.

He even thought that if next time, this person wrote to him to report the good news, he might be willing to reply with a letter to express his congratulations.

In addition to the month before the final exam, the letters were cut off for three months in total.

This person was so happy that he forgot to send a letter? Lin Qinhe was reluctant to admit his displeasure, but the fact was that he was really unhappy.

This displeasure had accumulated over the summer and made him withdraw his previous vision.

On the morning of the start of school in September, Lin Qinhe, who was planning to go out early, was stopped by Luo Zhengyin, saying that Yang Duole was a little uncomfortable and didn’t want to go to school.

Lin Qinhe had to go to Yang Duole’s room, letting Yang Duole play tricks for a while before finally agreeing to help him take a leave on the first day of school before he could finish.

“Qinhe, remember to take notes for Lele, and if the teacher wants to rearrange the seats, make sure to leave the seat next to you for Lele. It’s too hard for him to get into the first class this time.” Before leaving, Luo Zhengyin instructed.

Lin Qinhe stopped in his tracks and nodded his head in agreement without any temper.

He had long been accustomed to taking notes and making up lessons for Yang Duole, and this was one of the reasons why he had never skipped a grade and attended school accordingly.

“Why are you in such a hurry today?” Luo Zhengyin couldn’t help but ask after instructing.

Lin Qinhe was stunned and only said, “I’m going to be late.”

The city was inevitably congested on the first day of school. Lin Qinhe was sent to the school by the driver as usual. When he arrived at the school gate, the bell rang.

Although he was still upset about a certain someone who had not written him any letter for three months, he learned through his class teacher that this person had already moved into Wenhua No.1 High School dormitory yesterday and was reporting today like the other students.

As for Tao Xi, Lin Qinhe actually did not think much about his looks, thinking that it was the simple appearance that was common in the mountains. He never judged people by their appearance anyway.

In early September, the sky was bright and the air was so clear. Lin Qinhe held a bottle of iced mineral water and walked through the grand summer heat before pausing at the moment he entered the classroom door.

On the podium, Zhou Qiang and a dazzling white boy looked over at him at the same time.

Lin Qinhe naturally knew who the good-looking boy was. The boy was looking at him with a pair of good-looking eyes that looked very similar to the person in the portrait in the villa, and there was a hidden surprise in his gaze.

Lin Qinhe frowned imperceptibly, averted his gaze, and replied perfunctorily to Zhou Qiang’s nagging reproach.

After a long time, Lin Qinhe recalled the scene at that moment, and he could still remember the complicated emotions in his heart at that time.

He was too much like Fang Sui, almost like Fang Sui’s own child.

This was his first impression of Tao Xi, and afterwards, as their relationship deepened, he instead downplayed this impression intentionally or unintentionally.

He just didn’t expect that a prophecy would come true, and his initial impression would coincide with the truth that was later revealed.

“You just missed the new classmate’s self-introduction. Come, I’ll introduce you, this classmate is called Tao Xi and he is the first in Qingshui County! Do you think it’s okay for him to be your tablemate in the future?”

Zhou Qiang pulled the boy who was at a loss for words and pushed him in the direction of Lin Qinhe.

“No.”

Lin Qinhe refused indifferently, he was not used to being too close to other people. Not to mention that he didn’t want to see Yang Duole making a fuss when he went back.

With a straight face, Zhou Qiang tried to persuade him and winked at him.

Lin Qinhe clearly saw that the boy on the podium lowered his head slightly, pursed his lips, showing a look of pity that was quite a blow.

He was a little amused, knowing that this person was mostly pretending, probably rolling his eyes and cursing him for being ignorant.

In the end, Lin Qinhe was noncommittal about Zhou Qiang’s persuasion, and went back to his seat, acquiescing to the appearance of this new tablemate.

Lin Qinhe, who received a total of 68 letters three months ago, believed that he had gained a preliminary understanding of Tao Xi’s character through these letters.

He believed that Tao Xi was a boy with a very strong character. Once he had a goal, he would definitely achieve it, so when he showed his vulnerability generously, he was mostly pretending.

At the same time, Lin Qinhe also believed that Tao Xi was introverted and withdrawn. He rarely wrote about other classmates and friends in his letters, and rarely wrote about his relatives except his sister.

Probably he was not good at communicating with people in real life; just like some people who were very active on the Internet, but they were reticent in life. Except Tao Xi had no Internet, he was active in writing letters to Lin Qinhe.

Perhaps only when writing to him did Tao Xi show his cheerfulness.

However, the facts told Lin Qinhe that he was wrong in his judgment.

After Lin Qinhe returned to his seat, he started to study the competition book with headphones on. In the corner of his eye, he saw Tao Xi step over and sit on his left side; his movements were very light. He took out a Chinese Language book from his school bag and put it on the table. His right hand was casually holding a black gel pen, the hand was so white that you could clearly see the light blue veins.

Lin Qinhe noticed that Tao Xi glanced at him, as if he wanted to say something, but did not speak.

The next moment the class teacher left the classroom, the classroom quickly became restless. Bi Chengfei in the front row turned around like a spinning top and pulled Tao Xi to ask questions. When it came to the letter sent by the students of Qingshui No. 1 High School, Lin Qinhe felt that Tao Xi was obviously stiff. For a moment, he glanced at him without a trace.

After a while, more and more people crowded into this row. Tao Xi turned the pen in his right hand, smiling and communicating with these students with ease, not only being able to call most of them by name easily, but also joking around freely.

The neighborhood1 became noisy, making Lin Qinhe irritable. He frowned, picked up his cell phone, which happened to be vibrating with incoming calls, and walked out of the classroom.

In the Chinese Language class, He Wenjiao talked about Tao Xi’s excellent model essay ‘The Man Who Chased the Moon’. It was this nonsense essay that allowed Lin Qinhe to see through Tao Xi’s true identity, and also made the people on the side feel embarrassed at the moment.

Lin Qinhe laughed in his heart, thinking when would Tao Xi take the initiative to confess to writing to him while being disguised as a girl.

The next moment, He Wenjiao turned the spearhead on Lin Qinhe, connoting that his narrative essay was emotionless. For such accusations Lin Qinhe had long been accustomed to, yet he clearly heard the person next to him laughing prodigiously, very blatantly.

Lin Qinhe glanced coldly at Tao Xi and saw that the man was fearlessly staring at him with an innocent face and a hint of provocation in his expression.

He withdrew his gaze and asked himself how he could think that Tao Xi was an introverted and pure person. He even worried that Tao Xi would have trouble fitting in here and be bullied and excluded.

After a few days, Lin Qinhe once again reshaped his understanding of Tao Xi’s character. He was not withdrawn and could get along well with others. Even when faced with Lin Qinhe’s deliberate cold treatment, he could deal with it calmly.

At the same time, he was very guarded and did not easily show his true emotions. Underneath his seemingly easy-going appearance, he hid a self-esteem that couldn’t be easily offended.

This kind of character should not suffer in the fiercely competitive class. Lin Qinhe thought that Tao Xi would spend his time studying in Wenhua No. 1 High School so peacefully, but the twist began on that day.

Lin Qinhe didn’t understand for a long time why Tao Xi, who met Yang Duole for the first time, suddenly lost his temper.

It was also from that day that Lin Qinhe noticed a sudden change in Tao Xi. He would occasionally show a gloomy look. Especially when he met Yang Duole, he would show hostility.

When facing Lin Qinhe, Tao Xi was not as calm as he was at the beginning, he became sensitive and even a bit sharp and paranoid.

Lin Qinhe wondered if it was because he lent the notebook to Yang Duole after he refused to lend it to Tao Xi but he denied the idea.

So in that day’s physical education class, when Lin Qinhe sensed that Tao Xi wanted to watch him play basketball, he went along with it and agreed to Bi Chengfei’s invitation.

The basketball game was not really interesting. Lin Qinhe was not focused on playing. He could feel Tao Xi’s gaze following him closely until Yang Duole appeared beside Tao Xi. The two spoke a few words, then Tao Xi’s newly improved mood became gloomy again.

Lin Qinhe paid attention to this gaze, so when the accident happened and the basketball slammed over there, he could clearly see that the basketball was originally directed at Yang Duole.

But Tao Xi blocked the basketball for Yang Duole. He could have avoided it, or pulled Yang Duole out of the way, but it was as if he had rushed into the ball.

Lin Qinhe knew that Tao Xi did it on purpose, which made him confused and displeased.

On the way back from the infirmary, Lin Qinhe dismantled Tao Xi’s little trick that he thought was clever. He watched the teenager in front of him turn pale instantly, like a small child caught in trouble. He was stiffened for a long time before stumbling over him and saying that he wanted to be friends with him.

Lin Qinhe didn’t quite accept this reason. He was angry at Tao Xi’s inexplicable self-harming behavior and a little disappointed that he put his heart into such a trivial matter.

He hoped that Tao Xi would study well in Wenhua No. 1 High School and cherish the opportunity to change his life.

Even if Tao Xi wanted to be friends with him, just say so— why did he need to do such things to get his attention?

Lin Qinhe stared at Tao Xi, those wet eyes lowering slightly to avoid his gaze, as if full of strong grievances and unwillingness that could not be expressed.

Lin Qinhe hesitated for a moment, but finally said to Tao Xi in a stern tone, telling him to study hard to stay in the first class and stop doing meaningless things.

More importantly, if there was something to say, say it to him directly, he would listen.

Lin Qinhe hoped that Tao Xi would let go of his inexplicable targeting of Yang Duole and focus on his studies.

But Lin Qinhe did not expect that Tao Xi would indeed study harder from that day on, while treating him completely like air.

He coldly watched Tao Xi bury his head in his desk doing practice papers and darting out of the classroom as soon as class was over, as if the person sitting next to him was some kind of fierce god. Even during lunch break at noon, he would rather waste time helping his female classmates drawing on the blackboard rather than sitting in his seat.

Lin Qinhe developed some anger that he didn’t understand. He knew that perhaps his last words had hurt Tao Xi’s self-esteem, but he intended to deal with it coldly and let Tao Xi figure it out clearly.

A week passed, and this person still avoided him like the plague. It was not until the last day of the week, on the eve of the seat change, that Lin Qinhe finally realized that Tao Xi seemed to have something to say to him, but never said it.

This hesitant anxiety was partly transmitted to Lin Qinhe, making him also a bit absent-minded.

Later, he saw Tao Xi tear a note and bury his head in writing something. For this reason, after the last class, even if Yang Duole came to urge him, he stayed and continued to write unnecessary homework for a while, but the note was not handed over to him until Tao Xi left the classroom.

In the concert hall on the top floor of the Qiushi Building, Lin Qinhe with other members of the symphony orchestra rehearsed this semester’s assignment piece, ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’, a piece he liked very much.

It was just that when he was playing the piano, he inadvertently saw outside the door, separated by a small piece of glass, in a dark corner, Tao Xi’s gaze was focusing on him.

Those bright eyes were filled with a clear and clean yearning. Obviously it was only a door away, but it was like looking up at some kind of unreachable existence in another world.

Lin Qinhe quickly withdrew his gaze, looking at the piano score calmly as his hands continued to play the climax of the piece. The conductor glanced at him and reminded him that he had just made a mistake.

When he looked out the door again, there was no longer the figure of the person who had just been there.

Lin Qinhe ended the rehearsal early.

He was reluctant to admit that when he saw Tao Xi’s longing but fearful look in the concert hall, he softened for a moment.

When he returned to the classroom, Lin Qinhe was not surprised to see Tao Xi alone in the classroom, nor was he surprised to find that Tao Xi’s attitude toward him had become sharp again.

He indulged Tao Xi’s choking tone and gave him the corrected test papers one by one and analyzed how far his grades were from staying in the first class, as well as telling him what to do next to improve.

Lin Qinhe found that Tao Xi quickly became tame. His thin shoulder blades slowly relaxed from tightness, and he lay on the desk with his arms in Lin Qinhe’s direction. There was a reddish mark on his white forearm because of being pressed by the chin for a long time. He always looked seriously at the test paper in Lin Qinhe’s hand, occasionally lifting his thick eyelashes to quietly glance at Lin Qinhe.

When Lin Qinhe looked over, Tao Xi moved his gaze away again, lowering his eyes to look at the paper, and said in an obedient tone that he got it.

Lin Qinhe felt that Tao Xi was like a docile pet. He became in a good mood and took the initiative to ask Tao Xi what he wanted to say to him, and simply agreed to Tao Xi’s request to continue to be his tablemate and to help him with the make up lessons.

From that day on, Tao Xi did return to the person he was when he first arrived, and even though he also encountered the slander of stealing, Lin Qinhe quickly resolved these disturbances.

Lin Qinhe believed that all his initial intentions were just to create a better environment for Tao Xi to study. After all, he was the only one here who had personally witnessed how much effort Tao Xi had put in, and he was the one who personally made Tao Xi’s arrival possible.

To this end, he asked his friends to take care of Tao Xi in the art club, and he also recorded a listening tape in person overnight. In order to take care of Tao Xi’s self-esteem, he could only use a recorder.

Lin Qinhe thought that as long as Tao Xi focused all his attention on his studies and lived up to his original intention, he would be satisfied.

But Lin Qinhe found that he was still unhappy because of Tao Xi’s distraction.

He didn’t like to see Tao Xi getting too close to other people, even for the purpose of discussing their study, and he felt even more inexplicably annoyed after finding out that Tao Xi had a good impression of Huang Qing.

Lin Qinhe gradually realized that it was not that he could not tolerate Tao Xi focusing on something other than his studies.

He just couldn’t tolerate Tao Xi’s attention not being on him.

The author has something to say:
A belated New Year’s greetings to everyone! I wish you all a safe and prosperous 2022!

This chapter is mainly about the awkward mental journey of Lin Qinhe in the early days when he was stubborn and get slapped on his face again and again.

T/N: Thank you author for this extra! At least now we know what’s going on in Qinhe’s mind and his confusing actions in the early chapters are explained. Also, ahhhhhh I missed these two so much and I actually missed Bi Chengfei too. Anyway, hoping there will another extra, doesn’t matter if we have to wait for another year lol

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