“Hmph, not as good as me.”

In the glass-house piano classroom, a little boy in a neat white shirt and suspenders sat outside with his arms folded, listening to the piano music coming from inside and making a critical and arrogant comment.

The little boy has a delicate appearance. He is five years old, with slightly curly black hair, and looks a bit mixed-race. He has peach blossom eyes, black and shiny pupils, long and curled eyelashes, and a look of arrogance when his eyes turn around, which is very interesting.

Several children of the same age holding music scores passed by, holding their parents. When they saw the little boy, they all walked away, pouting and avoiding him.

The young master of the Xi family is notoriously picky, arrogant, and has a sharp tongue!

Why are you so annoying!

The same voice emerged in the children’s minds at the same time.

Xi Yu felt quite bored. He tapped his feet in his little leather shoes on the ground in annoyance, not caring at all about the awe-inspiring or avoidant looks of the other children around him.

Geniuses are always lonely, Xi Yu thought in his little head.

There were classrooms on an entire floor from 301 to 309, and there was not a single person who could fight.
Tsk, my mom and sister praised this place so much, but it seems like it’s just so-so.

Xi Yu raised his head and spoke to the butler standing next to him.
“I don’t want to study here anymore.”

The butler bowed and said, “Master, this is the sixth teacher you have changed.”

“I know. I don’t want to study here anymore.”

“Master, this is already the sixth teacher you have changed.”

“I want to drop out of class.”

“Master, this is the sixth teacher you have changed.”

With a bang, Xi Yu jumped off the chair, stomping his little leather shoes on the floor, furious.
“Are you the young master or am I the young master?”

“Well, that.”

The door of classroom 306, which was directly opposite Xi Yu, was suddenly pushed open. A very cute little girl with pigtails pushed the door open and spoke timidly with a little expectation.

“Xi Yu.”

“what?!”

Xi Yu was arguing with the housekeeper and was very annoyed. He couldn’t control his tone for a moment, which scared the little girl even more.

Although she was timid, a light appeared in the little girl’s eyes and she spoke while pinching her plaid skirt.

“What do you think of my playing?”

Xi Yu’s eyes widened slightly as he moved from the housekeeper to the little girl.

The little girl’s chest was pounding and a shy blush appeared on her face.

Xi Yu has a bad temper, but he is really good-looking. Everyone is afraid of him, but they can’t help wanting to get close to him.

Seeing that Xi Yu didn’t say anything, the little girl called out again, “Xi Yu?”

“Ah.” Xi Yu blurted out, “It sounds bad.”

“.” The little girl’s mouth moved, and then her eyes turned red, and she burst into tears, “You are so annoying!”

“?” Xi Yu stared at the housekeeper, “Why did she say I was annoying?”

He could understand why those kids hated him just now, after all, he was so awesome.

But he wasn’t targeting her. It was true that everyone on this floor played the piano badly, right?

The butler was silent, speechless.

The little girl sobbed and wiped her tears while speaking, “If only, if brother Xiaozhi was here!”

“Brother Xiaozhi?”
Xi Yu frowned.

Ash? The one with Pikachu?

“Yes!” The little girl was angry and sad. She said, turned around and ran away, “Brother Xiaozhi plays much better than you!”

Xi Yu looked at the little girl’s back expressionlessly, “Who is Xiaozhi?”

So awesome? Even better than him?
How can it be?

Xi Yu turned around quickly, speaking in a cool tone and expression, imitating the tone of the male protagonist in the novel he read from his sister.

“Uncle, within three minutes, I want all the information about this Xiaozhi.”

The butler was already used to it, so he nodded, “Okay, young master.”

“Also, don’t follow me, I need some quiet time!”
Xi Yu left the butler behind and disappeared without a trace.

Along the way, he met many other children, who all kept their distance from him and took detours.

“It’s Xi Yu.”
“I hate him so much!”
“But he plays the piano really well.”
“My parents said his family is very rich, otherwise he wouldn’t be so successful.”

The kids seemed to understand, “Oh, so you are so powerful because you are rich?”

Xi Yu didn’t say anything, but his little leather shoes made a loud noise and directly knocked the little boy who had just spoken to the side. He even patted his trouser legs before leaving.

“you!”
“Humph, Brother Xiaozhi is much better than him.”

The voices reached Xi Yu’s ears from behind. Xi Yu walked around a corner with a proud and lonely back. He persisted until he went downstairs, and then his fists began to click.

It’s Xiaozhi again.

Why are you hanging around here if you don’t want to catch his Poké Ball?
Xi Yu unknowingly walked to the back garden of the piano classroom, sat down on the steps at the back door, and looked at the lavender flowers blooming in the distance.

The clean and shiny little leather shoes were shining, which hurt Xi Yu’s eyes.

“hello.”

Suddenly, a clear and pleasant voice came from behind me. The ending was light and a little soft, which is the same as that of other children, but it was much lighter than that of children of the same age.

A breeze picked up, blowing through the leaves and flowers.

The lavender flowers that Xi Yu was staring at swayed quietly, looking cute and beautiful.

He sat there, looking up.

The wind blew Xi Yu’s eyelashes.

There was a very beautiful face in his sight. If it weren’t for the long black hair, it would be almost impossible to tell the gender of the face. The face was standing on a few steps higher than him, leaning over to look at Xi Yu.

That face had eyes with slightly upturned corners, which curved slightly when smiling, and a tiny red mole at the end of the eyebrow.

“Why are you sitting here alone?”

Xi Yu opened his mouth but couldn’t come back to his senses.

The beautiful child leaned forward and reached out her hand, touching the tip of Xi Yu’s ear with her fingertips, her expression confused, “What’s wrong with you?”

Xi Yu tilted his head back and finally uttered, “Ah?”

The handsome boy laughed, hugged his knees and sat down next to Xi Yu. He was a head taller than Xi Yu.

He was wearing a clean white T-shirt, with a cell phone hanging around his neck. His black hair looked very soft and fine, with a golden brown glow in the sun. He was wearing simple trousers and a pair of whitish sneakers.

He smelled like fabric softener, and the scent was a bit pungent, but when the wind blew, Xi Yu actually felt it was okay.

“I saw you just now. What’s your name?”

My parents and sister all told me not to tell anyone my name.

“Xi Yu.”
Xi Yu did it without hesitation.

“Then I’ll call you Yuyu.” The handsome boy laughed again, and his eyes turned into the shape that Xi Yu couldn’t recover from just now.

“.”Xi Yu didn’t say anything.

At his home, his parents would never call him that, at most they would call him Xiaoyu.
But for some unknown reason, Xi Yu did not correct the boy in front of him.

“Yuyu, why are you unhappy?”
The pretty child imitated Xi Yu’s actions, hugged her knees, pressed her cheek on her knees, and tilted her head to look at Xi Yu.

Xi Yu’s fingertips touched the child’s soft hair.

He shrank back, then straightened up quietly after a while, pretending that he had not touched anything, and let the hair fall on his fingers.

“I’m not unhappy.”
Xi Yu secretly touched the ends of the beautiful child’s hair and gently pinched it between his fingertips, but he maintained his aloof personality and refused to admit it.

“lie.”

Xi Yu was stunned.
No one would ever contradict him, they would just go along with him.

“I can tell at first glance.” The voice beside me was vague and had a sly smile. It sounded very gentle.

“Oh.”
Xi Yu refused to break his own personality and remained silent.

But the child spoke again, his head shaking slightly as he spoke, and his soft hair rubbed against Xi Yu’s hand.
“Tell me what’s wrong with you. My mother said that if you are unhappy, you should speak out. It will be better if you speak out.”

Unexpectedly, the child raised his head.

Xi Yu saw clearly the mole at the end of the eyebrow, which was brighter than the sunlight falling into the eyes, and was located next to the corner of the child’s eyes that were slightly bent because of his smile.

The hair between Xi Yu’s fingers suddenly slipped away, and was replaced by a hand as small as his, but slightly longer than his. It clasped his fingers in a friendly manner and shook them.

“I’m listening.”

Xi Yu couldn’t help but move his feet, and the heels of his small leather shoes rubbed against the clean, white sneakers next to him.

He told the child everything.

“They are just too weak, and they are not allowed to speak.”

The child hugged his knees and couldn’t help laughing, “Yuyu is so cute.”

Xi Yu opened his eyes wide in shock.

He? Cute?
How can I describe him as cute?
“I understand why you’re unhappy.” The child nodded, and the tip of his sneakers lightly touched Xi Yu’s small leather shoes. “What’s wrong with having money? Isn’t that good?”

Xi Yu was stunned.

“Is it a bad thing to be rich? That means your parents are as capable as you.”

The toes of the sneakers swayed back and forth as if they were keeping the beat.

It felt like there was a deflated balloon in Xi Yu’s heart, which was inflating little by little.

“They also say that I am not as good as others.” Xi Yu snorted, “I want to see who is so powerful.”

“Really?” The child opened his eyes wide, “Who is it?”

Xi Yu replied: “The one in the cartoon that throws a Poké Ball and emits electricity.”

After he finished speaking, there was no movement for a long while.

Xi Yu turned his head in confusion.

“Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t really understand.” The child’s eyes showed a little apology, “I don’t have a TV at home.”

?
No TV, but can afford piano lessons?
Xi Yu couldn’t understand it, but when he saw the child’s eyes turning away, the balloon in his chest moved.

He stood up and immediately grabbed the child’s hand.

The child was stunned. “Yuyu?”

“Let’s go.” Xi Yu’s tone was very firm, leaving no room for refusal, “Let’s go to my house and watch cartoons.”

Xi Yu skipped classes and took the beautiful child home secretly by climbing over the wall through a hole.

“Wow, what a big house!”

“Go to my room.”

Xi Yu tried to pull the beautiful child away, but failed. “Huh? What’s wrong with you?”

The pretty kid was a little hesitant, his eyes wandering to his sneakers. Xi Yu was very generous, “It’s okay, go ahead, step on whatever you want.”

Xi Yu’s room is on the third floor. It has a big TV and a piano.

The piano is made of dark brown angle steel. I don’t know if it is mahogany or some other wood, but it has a honey-colored luster in the sunlight.

Xi Yu was fiddling with the TV, and the pretty child was standing next to him looking at the piano.

“It seems that there is no such show during this time slot.” Xi Yu muttered to himself as he adjusted the screen. “Let’s watch another cartoon, okay?”

He turned his head and saw the child’s appearance.

The child stood one step away from the piano, looking up, but with his hands behind his back, his fingers hooked and twisted, he did not touch the clean, dust-free angle steel.

There was a hint of longing in his eyes, the hair hanging by his ears swayed in the afternoon sun, and he leaned forward slightly.

Xi Yu unconsciously stopped what he was doing and squatted beside the CD player to watch.

It’s almost time. Those slightly longer hair ends floating in the sunlight will soon touch the mahogany guitar lid.
Just like before when the two of them were sitting on the steps at the back door of the piano classroom, the child’s hair fluttered lightly against Xi Yu’s fingers.

His hair looks very nice, Xi Yu thought silently, his eyes fixed on it.

Just like mahogany, when the sunlight falls on the ends of those hair, it also creates a very warm golden-brown glow.

But the next second, just when those beautiful hair touched the piano, the child suddenly came to his senses, tucked the slightly long hair behind his ears with his fingers, and moved away from the exquisite piano.

Xi Yu walked over and lifted the piano cover with force, almost hitting his hand.

The child hurried over to help.

“I haven’t heard you play the piano yet.” Xi Yu said in a very fake manner, “Let me see what level you are at.”

“Okay.” The cautious look disappeared and the child laughed again.

Clear and clean notes flow out, leisurely and agile, yet delicate, interweaving with the clear afternoon sunshine.

Xi Yu’s expression gradually became serious.

He had never heard this song.
very nice to hear.

“What song is this?” Xi Yu asked involuntarily.

The child turned his head, and his hair was almost transparent and shining in the sunlight.
“It’s Rachmaninov’s ‘Lilacs’.”

The image of the lavender flowers swaying in the sunlight seemed to reappear before Xi Yu’s eyes.
“You play really well.”

The child was stunned for a moment, then said shyly: “Thank you.”

Xi Yu pondered for a moment, “You must really like playing the piano. My sister said that only passion can lead to improvement.”

Unexpectedly, the child was silent for a while, “No, actually I don’t like piano.”

“why?”

“Because my parents always quarrel about this.”

Xi Yu was sensitive enough to realize that he shouldn’t bring this up, so he stopped talking and changed the subject, “Your hair is a little long.”

The beautiful child was a little embarrassed, “Hmm, that’s too weird? I haven’t had time to cut it yet.”

“No.” Xi Yu commented seriously, “I think you are pretty. It wouldn’t look weird even if you kept your hair long.”

The child touched his hair, as if he didn’t expect Xi Yu to say that, and said shyly, “Really? Well, but I can’t grow it long now.”

Xi Yu said as a matter of course: “Of course I will wait until you grow up before staying. Then no one will say anything more.”

The child nodded, “Okay, well. I’ll try it when I grow up and show you then.”

Xi Yu’s fingers moved, as if to warm up the soft touch between his fingers, and blurted out, “Then you must remember this.”

The child was stunned for a moment, “Well, I will definitely remember it.”

Xi Yu couldn’t figure out what emotion he was feeling, so he simply changed the subject.
“By the way, how come I didn’t know there was such an amazing person in the classroom, what’s your name?”

The beautiful child in front of him was about to speak when the cell phone hanging around his neck rang, so he had to answer it first.

“Hello? Xiaozhi, where are you hanging around? Where’s your mom? Why hasn’t she cooked? Come back with your mom quickly!”

The cell phone was obviously of inferior quality, and the microphone sound was loud and rough, all of which was transmitted into Xi Yu’s ears.

The child was obviously a little nervous, and the happy and beautiful smile just now turned into cautious and flustered.

“Yeah, yeah, I’ll be back with mom soon.”

After he hung up the phone, Xi Yu’s eyes widened.
“Wait. You are Xiaozhi brother?!”

The pretty child had become a little restless since answering the phone call, and reacted to the words.
“Hmm? Yes, I’m Xiaozhi.”

Before Xi Yu could continue speaking, the child jumped down from the piano stool and continued speaking uneasily and apologetically.
“I’m sorry, I have to go first, otherwise my dad will give birth – otherwise my family will be worried.”

Xi Yu didn’t expect Xiao Zhi to leave so soon.

They haven’t watched cartoons together yet.

But Xiaozhi seemed to be in a very difficult situation, as the moles at the end of his eyebrows were all tangled together.

Xi Yu took a deep breath and suppressed the strange feeling of loss in his heart.
“Okay, I’ll ask the driver to take you back.”

The child shook his head. “No, my mother will call me.”

“.Oh well.”

The child’s mother came soon. She was a gentle and beautiful woman. There was always a hint of guilt in her eyes when she saw the child.

“Hello.” She didn’t seem to know Xi Yu and just smiled, “Thank you for bringing Xiao Zhi to play with us.”

“Xiaozhi” held his mother’s hand and looked at Xi Yu, his eyes also a little lost.

Xi Yu was like a follower and couldn’t help but follow behind until he walked out of the door, chattering with “Xiao Zhi” all the time.

“You play the piano really well.”
“I haven’t met anyone better than me in a long time.”
“You will be on stage in the future. All the powerful people will be able to do that.”
“I’ll go on stage with you then, okay?”

The child was also very happy, “Okay, then I’ll grow my hair long in advance and show it to you when the time comes!”

When they reached the gate, Xi Yu had always been difficult to control, and the servants reluctantly asked him not to walk around alone. He had no choice but to hold on to the iron gate and wave to the pretty child who was walking farther and farther away. The faint emotion in his heart could not be suppressed, and it grew as his shadow got longer and longer.

“See you next time!”

The child also waved his hand loudly, “Well, see you next time!”

“Next time, let’s watch another cartoon together. It’s also very good. I’ll buy the disc and wait for you!”
“What kind of cartoon is this!”

“A story about an adult turning into a child! You must remember to come!”
“it is good!”

“By the way, what’s your name?”
“My name is Gu Zhi!”

“See you tomorrow then!”
“Ok!”

Xi Yu was unable to come back to his senses for a long time, and Su Yun’s voice flowed into his ears.

Su Yun did not know the details of these memories, the lavender flowers, the soft hair, and the song “Lilac” in the clear afternoon.

She gave Edmund a brief explanation.

“Oh – and then what?” Edmund was very interested.

Xi Yu turned his gaze to Su Ye standing beside him.

The long, clear, light golden hair draped behind Su Ye, very elegant and just as beautiful as Xi Yu had imagined in his childhood.

Su Ye listened to Su Yun’s words, his eyes seemed to be fixed on one point, until he noticed Xi Yu’s gaze, then he turned his head and looked silently into Xi Yu’s eyes.

Su Ye once asked Xi Yu why he knew this relatively unpopular song “Lilac”.

Xi Yu answered casually at the time, “Because I’ve heard someone play it before.”

Childhood memories are always complicated, but once you hear a familiar melody, the past emotions will quietly revive.

The emotions that Xi Yu could not fully understand when he was five years old, burst out again when he was eighteen years old, in the form of “love at first sight” towards the same person.

In a corner that has gradually faded from the depths of their memories, they had actually met each other a long time ago.

“And then–and then I don’t know either.” Su Yun laughed, and Edmund spread his hands regretfully, “Why is it like this?”

Edmund pushed Su Yun downstairs first.

Su Ye fell into a long state of disbelief and confusion. He tried hard to search in the memories that he had forgotten due to his injuries, but he could not find too many details.

“later.”

In the silence, Xi Yu suddenly spoke, as if he was continuing the unfinished part of the story that Su Lan had just told, which no one else knew.

“The TV station always broadcasts it at a fixed time. I couldn’t wait, so I asked the housekeeper to take me to buy a disc, and then I kept waiting for that brother.”

Xi Yu has been waiting.

That day, he prepared everything and went to the piano classroom, but he did not see the brother “Xiaozhi” again.

The next day, Xi Yu secretly picked lilacs from the back garden. It was raining, so he tied them into a bunch and put them in his school bag, holding an umbrella and waiting on the steps at the back door.

The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day.
One week, two weeks, three weeks.

Xi Yu is always waiting.

The little brother never came again.

The little girl who was once made to cry by him once quietly asked him, “Who are you waiting for?”

Xi Yu did not answer, but just carried a small schoolbag. In the bag was a bunch of clean lilacs, which were a little wilted due to being stuffy, and a set of brand new discs that had not been opened.

“Brother Xiaozhi won’t be back.” The little girl had long forgotten the unpleasantness of the past and whispered to Xi Yu.

Xi Yu shook his head, and the schoolbag behind him made a rustling sound as he moved.
“He promised me he would see me again.”

The little girl hesitated for a while, “But Yuyu, it’s already been a month.”

Xi Yu stood stubbornly on the steps at the back door, refusing to go up or down.
“He promised me that he would come. If he doesn’t come, I will keep waiting for him.”

“What if he doesn’t come for the whole semester?”
“Then I’ll wait for him for a semester.”

“What about those years when you didn’t come?”
“Then wait until he comes.”

The little girl became more worried, “But, by then you will all be grown up. Everyone says that things will change when you grow up. How will you know who he is?”

Xi Yu’s fingers gripped the shoulder straps of his schoolbag tightly.

“He said he would grow his hair long for me to see and would go on stage with me. He is very handsome and gentle. I will definitely recognize him at first sight.”

“I went there every day, waiting for him. Half a year later, I heard that he had not been here for a long time. The course was automatically cancelled. Even the teachers in charge of administration didn’t know what happened.”

When Su Ye listened to Xi Yu’s words, the scar on the back of his head twitched slightly.

“How could I forget.”

Xi Yu smiled, stretched out his hand, and finally touched the familiar soft hair he had been waiting for for a long time.

Memories never really fade away, they just keep pushing us forward.
Su Ye with long hair is really beautiful, and as gentle as ever, but she is no longer half a head taller than she used to be.

“It doesn’t matter. When I was eighteen, I finally waited for him, didn’t I?”

Su Ye was stunned.

Xi Yu smiled happily, as if he had returned to his childhood.

“It was a sunny day. He greeted me at the door, took my outstretched hand, and told me his name was Su Ye.”

(End of this chapter)