Chapter 55 Bleeding at the First Meeting (Please Read)

The small path from the dormitory to the cafeteria is littered with gray, dead branches and leaves.

“crunch…”

Two young girls were walking on the cobblestone path with backpacks on their backs, and the soles of their shoes made crisp sounds from time to time.

Wang Danping chattered about the interesting things that happened in the past few days, but found that Liu Xiaoli kept her head down and remained silent.

“Sister Xiaoli, what’s wrong with you?”

But when Wang Danping turned her head, she found that Sister Xiaoli was looking at the ground with unfocused eyes.

For Wang Danping, Liu Xiaoli is like a sister who has always been taking care of her.

The relationship between the two is also much better than that of ordinary people.

“Nothing, let’s go eat first, the performance will start soon.”

Liu Xiaoli smiled and took her to the cafeteria.

After dinner, the two went to the dressing room backstage at the performance hall to change into their dance costumes. The dance they were going to perform today was a classical Chinese dance drama.

After changing her clothes, Liu Xiaoli looked tall and slender, wearing a green dress with long flowing sleeves and a hairpin on her head, like a lady walking out of an ancient painting.

“Dear audience friends, good morning. The first dance performance is a Chinese classical dance drama…”

The host’s loud voice came from the loudspeaker.

Soon, the lights in the auditorium went out, leaving only a single light on the stage.

As the soft and soothing sound of the guzheng sounded, the black curtain slowly opened to both sides.

A group of women dressed in classical costumes revealed their true faces, and Liu Xiaoli was among them.

Although it was not the first time for Liu Xiaoli to perform a dance on stage, she was still excited.

Every time she stood on the stage, under the gaze of the audience, she felt that her movements and dancing postures were more accurate and better than those in her daily training. It was as if she was born for the stage and for dancing.

“Music starts, dance starts!”

Following the sounds coming to her ears, Liu Xiaoli tapped her toes to the rhythm of the guzheng and the clear sounds of the flute, and slowly spread her arms on the stage. Her sleeves fluttered with her movements, as soft and beautiful as flowing water.

While she was immersed in the dance, she also felt that the audience seemed to be staring at her.

Well, it feels like she is the only one in my eyes.

Who on earth is it?
Liu Xiaoli took a quick look and saw a very tall young man sitting there. She couldn’t see his face clearly, but he was smiling at her.

Without having time to think, the music gradually reached its climax and Liu Xiaoli immersed herself in the dance.

Her dance steps began to become rapid and powerful, and her sleeves drew graceful arcs in the air, like the flying white strokes written by a calligraphy master, which were both powerful and gentle.

The dance is over.

She finally had time to look in the direction she was sighted, only to find that the seat where a young man had been sitting just now was suddenly empty.

“It must be an illusion, right?”

Liu Xiaoli frowned, bowed to the audience, and followed everyone off the stage.

“Clap clap clap!”

There was continuous applause from the audience.

……

Backstage.

After finishing her performance, Liu Xiaoli sat on a stool to rest. She lifted her green skirt with one hand and put it over her knees to prevent it from getting dirty on the ground, revealing a section of her slender, white calves.

After a while, a staff member came over and said, “Xiao Li! There’s a man outside looking for you.”

“A man? Did you say who it was?”

Liu Xiaoli frowned and asked.

“He didn’t say anything. He just asked me to tell you two words. It was a surprise.”

The staff member scratched his head and asked in confusion.

“surprise?!”

When Liu Xiaoli heard this, she stood up suddenly, and at the same time, an idea grew like weeds in her mind.

Could it be that Comrade Xiao Cheng is here?
But isn’t he in Beijing now?

How come you are in Jiangcheng?

“I’ll go take a look!” Liu Xiaoli took a deep breath and immediately trotted outside.

The sudden movement made the young ladies in the lounge a little confused.

“Where did Sister Xiaoli go?”

“I don’t know if someone is looking for her.”

“I gonna go see.”

The girls all grew up in a musical theater, and they often heard teachers and seniors in the theater remind them that they should not go out alone to meet strangers, and that girls should protect themselves.

……

“Hoohoo… Where are the people?”

Here, Liu Xiaoli was running in the corridor with her long skirt lifted up, looking around for that person. Her long skirt fluttered in the wind with her brisk steps, and her delicate fingers holding up the hem of her skirt and patting it looked particularly beautiful.

“Whoosh…”

The girl’s chest rose and fell, she breathed softly, and beads of sweat dripped from the corners of her eyes, her rosy cheeks, and her chin.

At this time, when she passed a corner, her center of gravity shifted, and she unexpectedly stepped on the fluttering hem of her skirt. Then her eyes went dark and she fell out.

“thump!”

“Hey…it hurts.”

Liu Xiaoli fell to the ground, covering her knees and elbows with her painful hands. Waves of pain came over her. She looked down and saw bright red blood gradually flowing out, staining her palms red.

But Liu Xiaoli had no time to care about these things at this time. She supported herself on the ground in a somewhat awkward manner, with her hair hanging down beside her ears. She gritted her teeth and muttered to herself: “It shouldn’t be him. Any surprise is a lie…”

“Why are you running so fast? And when did I lie to you?”

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps on the wooden floor of the theater corridor, and a young man’s voice came from far away.

Liu Xiaoli looked up and saw a very familiar face appear in front of her, then quickly enlarged.

Her eyes were full of surprise. She slightly opened her tender and rosy lips and shouted in disbelief: “Ah! It’s really you!”

Is this what it means to be in a situation where you turn a corner and encounter… a surprise?
“Ah! Why let me go…”

The girl screamed, but before she could react, she felt a pair of warm hands hugging her, and then she was lifted into the air.

The sudden leap into the air frightened Liu Xiaoli a little. She subconsciously hugged Cheng Kaiyan’s neck and curled up in his arms, with her forehead resting on Cheng Kaiyan’s chest. A long-lost sense of security filled the girl’s heart.

Cheng Kaiyan put one hand around her slender and warm waist and the other hand around her knees. He looked around and saw a small pavilion outside the corridor.

So he carried her in his arms like a princess and took her to the small pavilion outside the corridor and sat her down.

“You ran so fast and looked around, not even looking at the road.”

Cheng Kaiyan squatted in front of Liu Xiaoli, his eyes fell on her blood-stained knees and elbows, and said with a frown.

“It’s not because of you…”

Liu Xiaoli looked down at the familiar face in front of her and said in a low voice with some dissatisfaction.

“Okay, okay, lift up your skirt and let me see.”

“Ah?” She widened her eyes.

“Look at the wound. It’s bleeding.”

“oh oh.”

Liu Xiaoli pretended to be calm and smoothed her hair, then lifted up her skirt, exposing her knees to Cheng Kaiyan.

Because the wounds on the knees and elbows were not big, about the size of a broad bean, Cheng Kaiyan used the handkerchief she carried with her to wipe the blood off Liu Xiaoli.

“Okay, wipe it clean.”

Cheng Kaiyan handed over another handkerchief and said, “Wipe the sweat off your face.”

“understood.”

Liu Xiaoli had regained her usual composure by this time. She took them and wiped the sweat off her face, then clenched the two dirty handkerchiefs in her hands.

In the small pavilion, the two sat side by side, and the atmosphere was a little depressing for a moment.

At this time, Liu Xiaoli broke the silence, nudged the man next to her and said, “Is this the surprise you mentioned?”

Cheng Kaiyan took out a small bouquet of flowers from behind her and handed it to her, “How is it?”

Liu Xiaoli’s eyes lit up, she took it and smelled it, then recalled her mental journey over the past few days and gritted her teeth and said:
“Is it okay? And you were the one staring at me from below, right?”

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