Model of Love

  After entering university, Gu Xiaobei and I became the model of romance for everyone. To be more accurate, Gu Xiaobei was the model, if others saw him as a flower, then I must have been the one who inserted that flower. Because my behavior was terrible. Gu Xiaobei once said he never worried about me dumping him for another man because no one else could tolerate my bad temper except him.

  I remember when we were dating, I was very sentimental and always wanted the stars and moon, but Gu Xiaobei indulged me, and my bad temper became more and more unmanageable. For example, during the extremely cold winter in Beijing with temperatures below -10 or -20 degrees Celsius, I asked Gu Xiaobei to run far away from school to a baozi shop to buy me baozi for breakfast every morning. Gu Xiaobei smiled and went to buy them without saying a word.

  Every day at 7:30 am, he would wait under my dormitory building and call out to me. Meanwhile, I would spend hours getting dressed up in the room, dawdling around, finding things to do, until all the girls in the dorm couldn't take it anymore and said "Lin Lan, you should be shot." When I went downstairs and stood in front of Gu Xiaobei, he would hand me the baozi and say "hold this to warm your hands," then smile at me. He would hold his hands up to his mouth to breathe on them, and I saw that they were cracked from riding his bike in the cold. At that moment, I felt a pang of heartache and thought to myself, "I must marry Gu Xiaobei and bring my bed with me."

  As I came out of the bathroom, I was still immersed in memories. As soon as I opened the door to my room, I heard a deafening noise and the whole house was unusually lively. As soon as I entered, I saw so-and-so, so-and-so, and a bunch of people sitting on the big sofa in the corner of the room. Our school has many high-ranking officials' children who are particularly wasteful, one more than the other, really a degenerate class. Someone was calling out, "Lin Lan, come sit over here."

  When I walked over, I saw Yao Xiangxiang, our school's campus belle. She was sitting next to Gu Xiaobei, looking like a radiant peacock. Gu Xiaobei was peeling an apple and handed it to Yao Xiangxiang after finishing, but she said, "Help me cut it into small pieces, I don't want to bite." Geez, even more pretentious than I was back then. And Gu Xiaobei actually had a good temper and helped her cut the apple into small pieces.

  So I found out that Gu Xiaobei's new girlfriend is Yao Shanshan.

  I glanced at Wen Jing, and she looked back at me with a meaningful smile, accompanied by a hint of sympathy. I knew that her eloquent eyes were telling me, Lin Lan, you're really in trouble this time.

  There were countless people in our school who had a crush on Yao Shanshan, and they kept coming one after another without stopping. When I first heard about this person, I immediately thought of the scene where millions of soldiers rushed through the blockade line, and Yao Shanshan was that impregnable fortress. One soldier fell, countless soldiers stood up. A school was messed up by her. Gu Xiaobei was really lucky to have accidentally stumbled upon a treasure.

  I sat down beside Gu Xiao Bei and said, "Kid, you're quite patient."

  Gu Xiao Bei stared at me with a serious expression, not saying a word for a while. Then he handed the apple to me. Yao Shang Shang immediately became unhappy, and I said, "You little scoundrel, you're quite bold, openly flirting in front of your lover's comrade."

  Gu Xiao Bei seemed to be sleepwalking again and turned around to hand the apple to Yao San San. Yao San San's expression was not pleasant when she took it, I guess something big is going on, probably a steel-reinforced concrete thing. I'm particularly afraid of getting into awkward situations with people, but it seems like I'm born to cause trouble. However, today's matter has nothing much to do with me, the masses are witness, it's all because Gu Xiao Bei is muddled.

  He gave me a sideways glance and said, "You're used to bullying people in the past. As soon as you sit next to them, they feel like slaves."

  Then I heard Yao Xiangxang biting an apple with a crisp and clear sound, I guess she took the apple as my head.