#Chapter 1

It was the end of winter and I could already see signs of spring everywhere, but as winter was not over, you could still feel a little bit of the cold wind that afternoon that was hitting the windows of the classrooms.

"Don't forget to bring your homework to the next class"

As soon as the teacher finishes speaking, the bell rang, marking the end of classes and the beginning of the weekend, all that can be heard is the sound of people talking and arranging to leave, soon the room is empty, with only the teacher's chair. background occupied by someone with his head down asleep.

With the end of classes, the corridor became silent, with that tranquility, everything seemed calm, very different from the crowded corridors of the class period, but it didn't last long because soon, footsteps and the sound of a door opening with force destroyed the tranquility, the person sleeping in the back chair just lifted her head and glanced casually at the intruder who had disturbed her sleep

The person who had arrived and was standing in the doorway was the boy's brother, he just stood there with a displeased look on his face, with silence falling over both of them, which is soon broken when the boy's brother opens his mouth to speak. first.

"Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"

" ..." The boy just looks at him with a sleepy look before saying quietly "Sorry I fell asleep..."

"I've been waiting almost an hour for you, and the only thing you have to say is apologize?" He speaks angrily, but after seeing his younger brother's face who still doesn't seem to have fully woken up he just lets out an irritated sigh "Ah what do I do with you *Xiao Feng"

"Could you just let me sleep" he says, lowering his head again.

"Today we need to go home..." Before he could finish speaking, Li Feng cut him off.

"No, you need to go back, I won't" he says without even looking at his brother.

"Are you still mad at Dad?" He asked but he already knew the answer, and the silence he received only confirmed it, as he was tired and knew that there was no point in trying to persist in this matter with his stubborn brother, he just gave in "okay, when I get back home I'll explain to the father that you didn't want to come back"

Li WeiQing turned to leave, but before he left, he looked at his *Xiǎo dìdì, who was still lying on the table with his head facing the living room window.

Looking at this he couldn't help but sigh again before leaving.

A little while after he left, Li Feng got up and walked through the silent halls of the school, where even a pencil could be heard falling to the floor.

He walked around the school distractedly, lost in thought, and when he realized he was standing in front of an old garden that was abandoned after they built the greenhouse, and as it was much further back from the school, no one came here but him, it was his peaceful place .

Even though it is a bit untidy from not being taken care of for a long time, making the plants grow wild and uncontrolled wood, and having a desolate and decaying landscape, it makes it look beautiful and relaxing in its own way.

Li Feng just walked through the unkempt bushes, and stopped beside a wooden bench near a small pond at the bottom of the garden.

Sitting there, he just watched the fish swimming carefree in the lake, with the contrast of orange ash trees in the late afternoon sun reflected on the surface of the water, it was an enchanting scene for anyone to look at.

Li Feng liked that, it was like a parallel world, out of reality, where there were no problems or stress, there was only tranquility and that was what he needed now, this tranquility, to be able to organize his chaotic thoughts.

It was only when the sun had already set and the moon had started to take its place that Li Feng prepared to head back.

He walked along the same path, and in the dim light of the moon he could see small rosebuds that hadn't yet opened among the bushes, when he had arrived he was a little distracted and hadn't even noticed them, more now when he passed by them he could see how beautiful they would be when they opened.

As he got closer to the rosebuds, he could smell the roses almost imperceptibly, but at that time he was no longer paying attention to the roses, he was looking at a small paper in the middle of them.

It wasn't uncommon to find sheets of paper that had been blown away by the wind and ended up there in the garden, so he just held out his hand carefully so as not to get spiders with the thorns, which was in vain because she ended up scratching her fingers.

But unfortunately his scratches weren't in vain, as he managed to reach the paper, he just took the sheet and put it in his shirt pocket, planning to throw it in the trash when he got back to the dorm.

Even though this garden was abandoned, it was not right to throw human waste into nature.

Since tomorrow was Saturday and there was no class review most of the students had gone home, so the path leading to the dorms was empty, it was only when he arrived at the dorm that Li Feng saw a boy walking in the hallway and talking on the phone, to not to say that the dorm was empty.

He just kept walking without even giving the boy a second glance, and when he reached the front of his room and was about to open the door, the next door opened and a blond boy came out with a suitcase in his hand, when the boy saw Li Feng, he immediately broke into a smile.

"Let me guess, don't go home again, did I get it right?"

This blond boy was called Yi Jiamu, he was the same age as Li Feng and he was his best friend since middle school.

"Yes" Li Feng just stated and looked at the suitcase in Yi Jiamu's hand "by the way you go"

"Oh yeah, Sunday is my cousin's birthday and you know how she is" he says rolling his eyes "if I don't show up she said she's going to shave off all my hair"

"Good luck" he says, patting his friend on the shoulder as consolation, he knew how Yi Jiamu's cousin was, her name was Mei Chuijiu and she loved to play pranks, especially with her idiot cousin.

The two didn't talk much and soon said goodbye and Li Feng walked through the door of his room.

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N/T

*Xiao (晓): Means "Small" in Chinese, usually used for people younger than the person.

*Xiǎo dìdì (小滴滴): It is a term for "Little Brother" in Chinese, showing that Li WeiQing is the older brother.