Resisting Winter

>“Hey……”(Wu Hanwen)

The two opened their mouths at the same time.
Wu Hanwen scratched the tip of his nose and said, “You say first.”

Bai Lu: “Let’s go have a meal.”

Wu Hanwen was caught off guard and had a momentary relapse, “Huh?”

Bai Lu: “Or do you have something to do?”

Wu Hanwen immediately replied, “No.” He looked up at her embarrassedly before looked around as if checking the weather and said, “It’s getting dark.
I haven’t eaten anything yet and I’m starving.”

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Bai Lu said generously , “Then I’ll treat you.”

Wu Hanwen didn’t refuse, “Okay.”

The cafeteria was closed since most of the dormitory students went back their home.
So Bai Lu and Wu Hanwen went to a nearby fast food restaurant in the Tesco supermarket and sat by the window.
They could see the campus of their school across the street.

The sky was painted orange and red outside.
Soon, the glow of the twilight will be over and it would be dark.

The end of a cheerful day had left with an afterglow of exhaustion.

Wu Hanwen sat opposite Bai Lu with the foods he ordered.

Bai Lu looked at his plate and said, “You eat so much.”

Wu Hanwen smiled and said, “Ah, today it was my body who worked.”

Bai Lu stared at him for a moment before suddenly remembering something,

“How’s the competition? You got any news on it?”

The corners of Wu Hanwen’s mouth curled up more as he said,, “It wasn’t bad, I will let you know when I’ve confirmed the result.”

“Congratulations.”

Wu Hanwen waved his hand and said, “Don’t congratulate me now.
Let the results come first.”

Bai Lu only ordered a bbq pork bun, wrapped with soft paper.
She took a bite before asking, “Your results have always been good since middle school, right?”

Wu Hanwen gulped a mouthful of rice and said, “Not bad.
In fact, my results at the beginning of junior high school weren’t particularly good.
The Middle school I was in wasn’t divided in groups, so my results were a little bad compared to now.”

“Why?”

“The students were mixed.”

Bai Lu nodded indifferently and took another bite of the bun.
Wu Hanwen saw her biting on her bun and couldn’t help but say, “Your mouth is very small, just like a kitten.
How long does it take to eat a bun?”

Bai Lu pursed her lips and lowered her head.
Wu Hanwen thought he had spoken too rashly and quickly added, “But it’s good to eat slowly.
According to scientific analysis, a meal should take more than twenty minutes for it to digest properly.”

Bai Lu stared at her bun and whispered, “Oh yes, I suddenly remembered that you mentioned that the boy from the vocational high school that Jiang Ru liked, was in junior high school with you, right?”

Wu Hanwen let out an ‘ah’ and nodded, “Xu Hui? Yeah, right.
He was my classmate.”

Bai Lu looked at Wu Hanwen and said, “He must have been very good at messing up, right? But you still managed to get into the Sixth Highschool in such an environment.
You are really great.”

Wu Hanwen paused eating before shaking his head.

Bai Lu put down the bun and asked in puzzlement, “What?”

“It’s nothing ……,” Wu Hanwen whispered, “Actually, he was, not ……”

Bai Lu stared at him, “Xu Hui? What’s wrong with him?”

“That.” Wu Hanwen took another mouthful of rice, gulped them before suddenly laughing out loud.
“Hey, if I told you that his results were better than me in junior high school, would you believe me?”

Bai Lu was stunned: “What?”

Wu Hanwen nodded and said, “It’s true, in the first and second year, his grades were the best in the whole grade, and since he was handsome, he was very popular in school.”

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Bai Lu laughed a little and asked, “Then what happened for his grades to deplet?”

Wu Hanwen recalled, “Something happened to his family.”

Bai Lu asked curiously, “What happened?”

Wu Hanwen rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders, “Why are you asking about this?”

Bai Lu also shrugged her shoulders and said carelessly, “Just casually asking.
I just didn’t believe it when you said he studied better than you.”

Wu Hanwen laughed in embarrassment.
“You think too highly of me ah ……”

When Wu Hanwen was immersed in happiness for being complimented by her, Bai Lu returned to the topic at hand, “What happened to his family?”

“Ah …… I heard it from someone.” Wu Hanwen replied instinctly, “Everyone knew that his family conditions were very good.
He was young at that time and liked to show off.
He often treated or bought birthday gifts for people.
Sometimes even lent his friends money.
He always pretended it was not a big deal.”

“What does hid family do?” Bai Lu probed more.

“His father seemed to have a big company.
I’m not quite sure of the information since he never mentioned much about his father.
But then ……”

Wu Hanwen wanted to say something but suddenly stopped.
Hesitation could be seen on his face.
But Bai Lu still asked, “What happened later?”

“Xu Hui’s mother died of an illness when he was in elementary school, and in his second year of junior school, his father married another woman ……” When talking about the privacy of other families, Wu Hanwen was slightly embarrassed.

Bai Lu asked a little unsurely, “That’s it?”

“No, there was more drama than that.” Saying this, Wu Hanwen lean down and whispered, “I heard his father had a mistress whom he had been hiding for a long time.
They even had a child.
His father married that woman after his mother died.
Everyone at the school also knew about it.
You don’t know, Xu Hui was a complete mess at that time.
His attitude also became bad amongst the students.”

“So his results depleted?”

“Not exactly ……” Wu Hanwen put down his chopsticks and said, “Actually, something happened at that time.”

Bai Lu raised her brows in question as Wu Hanwen continued, “His half-brother, who was more than four years younger than Xu Hui, liked Xu Hui a lot……At that time, Xu Hui was good both in study and sports, he was also good-looking and handsome, so all the boys and girls liked him.
He just behaved casually with his brother and his brother started to cling him every day.
His brother even followed him to school one day.
We’ve all seen him.”

“And then? What happened?”

Wu Hanwen licked his dry lips.
The foods he was eating with enthusiasm was left aside, without him noticing it.

“In junior year on his birthday, Xu Hui may have not wanted to take his brother to him to celebrate his birthday, so he lied to him and said that he was going to celebrate his birthday at night in school.
But he actually invited a dozen of his friends to a club to celebrate his birthday.
That night when Xu Hui didn’t return, his brother secretly went to school to find him.
And then, something happened.”

Wu Hanwen raised his hand and gestured, “When his brother came to school to find him, the gate was already locked, so he went to climb the back door.
At that time, our back door was under construction, and there was a pit in the ground.
The little kid didn’t pay attention and since it was too dark, he fell into the pit.” He pointed to his head and said, “He was knocked hard to the head.
The injury was very big.
It was even in the newspaper.”

Bai Lu opened her mouth slightly in astonishment, “It was that serious?”

Bai Lu suddenly remembered that hot summer day at that day in the hospital.

The gray and black hallway.

Seventh floor.

Rehabilitation ward of the Neurology department.

Wu Hanwen didn’t notice Bai Lu’s distraction and continued explaining, “It was very serious.
He was sent to the hospital but he never got better …… It was actually very pitiful and sad.
His brother was found with a robot model he made for Xu Hui in his arms.”

Wu Hanwen said this and sighed.

“Xu Hui has completely changed from that time on.”