Gu Beilu suddenly grew rapidly when he was twelve years old. He was already tall and seemed to have been injected with growth hormone. He became the tallest student in the school. His bones became stronger, and he looked like a teenager.

Yu Xi has maintained the habit of swimming in recent years, and has grown from being shorter than his peers to having an average height.

He was obviously of normal height, but in front of Gu Beilu, he was still like a little white rabbit under the claws of a carnivore.

At this moment, the little white rabbit was being pinched by the back, and was forced to look up to meet a dissatisfied look.

“Did the competition go well Derek?” He remembered that Gu Beilu finished the competition today and would not be home until tomorrow morning.

He looks so bad and came back early. Did something go wrong during the game?

But Gu Beilu didn’t seem to be ready to answer this question at all. His eyes, full of pressure, moved up to his forehead, and the temperature dropped another two degrees.

Yu Xi had already realized what he was going to do, so he gave up resisting and was lifted up from the chair and taken aside to have his hair blown.

Gu Beilu was particularly persistent about not liking to blow dry his hair after swimming, so he had no choice but to close his eyes and wait for the hot wind on his head to stop, and then he would open his eyes after his head was stroked lightly.

The hair dryer made him almost sweat, but he felt comfortable after it was done. He shook his refreshed hair, feeling very proud.

“Why didn’t you answer the phone?” Gu Beilu looked at this heartless kid and found that Yu Xi stayed at home every day during the summer vacation and became a little whiter. But he went on a long trip and got a tan.

The increasingly obvious difference in skin color made Yu Xi look even weaker.

He pinched Yu Xi’s little cheek, and Yu Xi didn’t hide, but just looked at his phone.

After glancing at the red dot on the phone screen, Yu Xi said softly, “I forgot to bring my phone down to the swimming pool, and you don’t have time for the game today, so I thought I’d call you in the evening…”

How could Gu Beilu not know that Yu Xi would easily forget things when swimming? He just cared that whenever he was not around, swimming almost monopolized Yu Xi’s time, and Yu Xi had no time to call him.

No matter where he goes or what he does, he will never forget Yu Xi. How can best friends forget to call each other?

Looking at the 25 missed calls, Yu Xi pursed his lips and reached out to hold Gu Beilu’s little finger.

When the slender fingers were held, Gu Beilu’s anger immediately subsided by half.

Gu Beilu scratched his nose with his other hand: “Who said I don’t have time?”

Fortunately, the place he was going was not far and he could come back in time. If he didn’t come back, Yu Xi would almost forget about him.

Yu Xi sniffed. He hadn’t paid much attention to Beilu’s hand recently, but it seemed to have grown a lot, with a bigger palm, longer fingers, and more distinct phalangeal joints.

He opened his hands and folded them together, and when he found that they were actually smaller, he pouted. The difference was not so big when he was a child. Gu Beilu was growing too fast. He was already trying hard to eat, but Gu Beilu was growing like crazy and didn’t wait for him at all.

Above his head, Gu Beilu’s gaze softened. He grasped the slender hand with his backhand and squeezed it twice.

Lost weight again.

Gu Beilu was very discouraged that Yu Xi had not been able to gain weight in six years. He sighed inwardly and turned around to take out the cake.

Seeing the cake, Yu Xi’s eyes lit up instantly: “Did you take the cake?”

Great, he thought there would be no cake to eat today.

Gu Beilu didn’t say anything. He took a small piece and said, “Open your mouth.”

Yu Xi stretched out his hand and said, “I’ll eat it myself.”

Gu Beilu had been feeding him since he was a child, and he indeed wasn’t very good at using tableware before, but he has grown up now.

Gu Beilu looked dissatisfied. Yu Xi no longer let him fed him, nor was he close to him, and he no longer jumped on him and rubbed against him. He felt more and more that he had raised an ungrateful person.

Thinking of this, he was even less likely to let go, and repeated: “Open your mouth.”

A strange desire for control was at work, and he just didn’t believe that he couldn’t feed his little marshmallow a bite of cake today.

Gu Beilu’s tone was stern, so Yu Xi had no choice but to put down his hands obediently and let him feed him, which made him feel relieved.

The cake is delicious. Gu Beilu knows his habits. He takes a bite of cream and a bite of cake. The ratio should be 1:2. Too much cream will make it greasy, and too much cake will make it dry.

He has become more and more picky over the years, because Gu Beilu always says that it is not his fault that he is picky about food, but that the food is not tasty.

Gu Beilu felt that there was no one else in the world who could feed Yu Xi better than him. Even Yu Xi’s mother would ask him what Yu Xi liked to eat recently, because he always had a way to make unpalatable things suit Yu Xi’s taste.

After finishing the last bite, Yu Xi licked the cream from the corner of his mouth. Gu Beilu threw the empty plate and fork on the coffee table, leaned back on the sofa, and stretched out his long legs casually, as if he had marked out his own territory. Yu Xi was trapped in his territory.

He only had such a relaxed posture when he was with Yu Xi. He liked to see Yu Xi’s satisfied look after he fed him, and sometimes he would greedily ask him if he had any more.

But this time Yu Xi didn’t ask because the phone next to him beeped.

Yu Xi looked down, clicked on the message, and replied seriously. Gu Beilu’s eyes were glued to him, capturing every little movement and micro-expression.

Sometimes he pursed his lips, sometimes he curved his eyebrows, as if he was replying to a very happy message.

Gu Beilu nudged him with his knee, but got no response, so he tried to grab the phone unhappily.

The phone was snatched away without any warning. Yu Xi screamed and reached out to grab it: “Derek! I haven’t finished sending it yet…”

Yu Xi was very agile, but Gu Beilu had already predicted his movements. He threw his phone into the air with his left hand, caught it with his right hand and immediately raised it high.

The difference in body shape was too great, and Yu Xi couldn’t reach it at all.

“You’re almost getting into the phone!” Gu Beilu’s voice was filled with obvious dissatisfaction.

He completely forgot about calling him, and now he is so engrossed in chatting with someone else.

“Shen Di is looking for me, please return my phone to me first.”

Hearing this name, Gu Beilu’s face darkened even more. Yu Xi actually ignored him for that four-eyed guy!

“Why is he looking for you?” The phone was in his hand, but he didn’t look at it. He just stared at Yu Xi.

In the past, Yu Xi’s attention was all on him, and he often cared about whether he was happy or not, but now he just ignores him.

Sometimes he wanted to go back to his childhood, the year when Yu Xi first moved in. At that time, Yu Xi was very well behaved, following him every day, like a little tail.

Yu Xi said: “He said he was assigned to the same class as me.”

They both went to the city’s key Experimental No. 1 Middle School for junior high school, but Gu Beilu was a recommended student and went directly into the competition class, which meant that he and Yu Xi would not be in the same class.

He was very worried that Yu Xi would leave him alone to attend classes.

Because of this incident, he already had some complaints about this school, and now that he knew Shen Di could still be in the same class with Yu Xi, he was even more unhappy.

“Why is he in the same class with you?” Gu Beilu said with a dark face, “His parents must have gotten some help through the back door.”

Yu Xi finally got his phone back: “Don’t talk nonsense, he is an art student, and was randomly assigned to a class. He only found out about the class assignment today.”

In the past few years, Gu Beilu still had a bad attitude towards Shen Di, but Yu Xi always enthusiastically invited Shen Di to play with them, so Gu Beilu allowed this person to hang around in front of him, but often treated him as a transparent person.

Six years passed in a flash. Gu Beilu recalled that he had suggested him to learn painting just to get rid of him. He should not have suggested it earlier. It was really like inviting a wolf into the house.

“Kick him out in two days.” Gu Beilu said unhappily.

Yu Xi quickly replied to the message and put his phone away. He could understand Gu Beilu’s feelings. All his good friends in the same class continued to be classmates, but he was the only one who had to go to a strange class. This feeling of being alone was not good.

He comforted Gu Beilu: “Derek, don’t worry, our class is not far away. Shen Di said he went to check it out, class one is on the fifth floor, and class seven is on the third floor.”

Gu Beilu frowned, thinking, this is not far? There are two floors between them. They have never been so far away.

*

On the first day of school, they arrived very early. Gu Beilu sent Yu Xi to the third floor first and disinfected the desks and chairs three times before letting people sit down.

Then he took Yu Xi’s textbooks out of his schoolbag, put them in order according to the schedule, and reminded him several times about things big and small, but was reluctant to go upstairs.

Yu Xi thought he was shy, so he suggested, “I’ll go with you to see your classroom.”

The two of them came to the fifth floor. Gu Beilu pointed to the last table and said to Yu Xi, “I’ll sit there. Come find me anytime if you have anything.”

He thought about it and changed his words: “Forget it, don’t climb the stairs. I’ll go downstairs to find you.”

The students in the competition class were all top students, and they all came early. There were already people on duty in the classroom. When they saw the students coming, the students on duty in the classroom waved to them enthusiastically.

Gu Beilu glanced at him coldly and ignored him. Yu Xi tugged at the corner of his clothes and quickly gave him a friendly wave in return.

“Derek, get along well with your classmates.”

“What’s so good about getting along with them?” Gu Beilu didn’t know why he liked the cleaner. He hugged Yu Xi and walked towards the stairs.

“Come on, I’ll take you back.”

Yu Xi: …It’s just two floors. Do we really have to send it back and forth like this?

*

There is a huge difference between junior high school and elementary school. Yu Xi’s first feeling was that there were more courses.

Moreover, the teachers in key middle schools are very strict. After two classes, he found that there were too many knowledge points, and he didn’t have time to remember many of them. No wonder Gu Beilu reminded him to prepare well before, but he was busy swimming and diving during the holidays.

“Student, do you need notes?”

A strange voice

His thoughts were interrupted, and he looked up, seeing a well-mannered boy in front of him.

The boy handed over a notebook.

“Yes, thank you!” Yu Xi happily took the notebook and quickly became familiar with the new classmate. “I remember you. I just heard the teacher say that you are the student council member, right? Then your notes must be amazing!”

The student council member smiled modestly: “No, I just prepared in advance. If you have any questions, you can ask me. By the way, my name is Su Weifan, what is your name, classmate?”

Just as Yu Xi was about to give his name, Shen Di called out from the door.

“Yu Xi!” Shen Di shouted, “Your brother is looking for you.”

Since the second grade, Shen Di was too lazy to pronounce Gu Beilu’s name, and occasionally heard Yu Xi call Gu Beilu “brother”, so he gave him this code name.

He was stopped by Gu Beilu as soon as he came back from the toilet. He asked for a long time who the person who was very close to Yu Xi was. If he didn’t call Yu Xi out, he would be annoyed to death.

Yu Xi looked out the window and saw Gu Beilu, wearing a neat school uniform and standing at the door of their classroom with a stern face, attracting a lot of attention.

As the top scorer in college entrance examination and recommended student, his photo has been posted on the school’s honor roll and almost everyone in the school knows him.

Yu Xi turned to Su Weifan and said, “Sorry, I’ll be out for a while. We’ll talk later.”

Su Weifan watched Yu Xi’s back as he walked out of the classroom, then looked at Gu Beilu and met an unfriendly gaze.

As soon as Yu Xi walked out of the classroom, Gu Beilu grabbed his arm and took him to the corner of the corridor.

“What did that nerd give you?”

They stopped at the corner, but Gu Beilu did not put down his arms.

Yu Xi was used to his behavior and did not struggle to break free. He just patiently corrected him: “Don’t give people nicknames randomly. His name is Su Weifan. Seeing that I didn’t remember the key points in class, he gave his notes to me.”

Before Yu Xi finished speaking, his eyes fell on the notebook in his hand.

Gu Beilu sneered: “See, you haven’t memorized the key points?”

He knew without even looking that Yu Xi definitely didn’t remember everything.

The notebook was stuffed into Yu Xi’s arms. Seeing his name, he opened the notebook with some confusion. Then the confusion turned into surprise: “When did you write it? So many subjects… You didn’t finish it before school started, did you?”

Gu Beilu hummed expressionlessly: “If I had known you had so many top-student classmates to help you, I wouldn’t have to spend so much time on this.”

As soon as he entered the class, he realized that he had forgotten to give his notes to Yu Xi. When the bell rang, he ran downstairs as fast as he could. However, he saw that Yu Xi didn’t seem to need his notes.

Well, that’s great, I made new friends so quickly!