Chapter 243 Broken
"your hands……"

Li Zhuangsheng took a quick glance and finally found that Wang Shuangmei's fingers were red from the cold. Her already short and thick fingers were now swollen and swollen like little carrots.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Wang Shuangmei immediately hid her hands behind her back.

"Are you cold?"

"I'm not cold..."

"I have a pair of unused gloves. Do you want them?" Li Zhuangsheng took out a pair of half-worn gloves from the table.

"want!"

Wang Shuangmei subconsciously grabbed the glove, fearing that if she hesitated for a moment longer, Li Zhuangsheng would change his mind and take it back.

However, as soon as she grabbed the gloves, she realized that she was too eager and her face turned red.

Why are you so impatient? Why am I such a loser!

"Here, take it. I recently bought a new pair, and I don't need this old one anyway."

However, seeing Wang Shuangmei's appearance, Li Zhuangsheng did not take it to heart and just waved his hand generously.

Wang Shuangmei clutched her gloves in both hands and stared at Li Zhuangsheng in a daze. Suddenly, she felt a thousand impulses in her heart and she wanted to tell the boy in front of her how much she liked him.

But she understood that even so she couldn't say it out loud, she didn't deserve it, she had to bury this feeling deep in her heart.

"Why are you crying again..."

Seeing Wang Shuangmei's expression, Li Zhuangsheng was a little flustered. He seemed to think that she was still struggling with her "first period" just now, so he gently patted Wang Shuangmei's shoulder and comforted her again: "Really don't be afraid, menstruation is very normal, all girls have it, my sister had it last year!"

Wang Shuangmei remained silent.

Li Zhuangsheng coughed again, and then said seriously: "Ahem... Growing up requires a process, just like a beautiful butterfly needs to break out of its cocoon before it can grow beautiful wings. Your menstrual period means that you have begun to grow up, and you will break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, and you will become more and more beautiful!"

Wang Shuangmei raised her head and saw Li Zhuangsheng's eyes sparkling, full of expectations for her future.

As if by some magical power, Wang Shuangmei was no longer so pessimistic about the future. She believed what Li Zhuangsheng said, that she would emerge as a butterfly from her cocoon.

Because it was said by Li Zhuangsheng, because it was said by her lover, it must be true. She believed it inexplicably.

A few days later, she was sent to her father's house, where her father arranged for her to transfer to another school and changed her back to her original name.

The name Wang Shuangmei was completely discarded, and from then on she was called Zhu Zhixue again.

She didn't tell anyone before transferring to another school. She knew that no one in her class would be sad about her leaving, and no one would miss her.

Perhaps, only Li Zhuangsheng would think of her, so she couldn't tell him. Zhu Zhixue didn't want to see him unhappy.

Before leaving, Zhu Zhixue gave Li Zhuangsheng a beautiful notebook, saying that she was thanking him for his help, but she secretly left a message for Li Zhuangsheng in the cover. But she was afraid that he would really see it, so she wrote it with an invisible pen. This kind of thing was very popular in elementary school, and it cost one yuan in a small store.

The message to Li Zhuangsheng was the most difficult one she had ever written. Although she had written countless love letters to Li Zhuangsheng in private, she was so nervous that she couldn't write a single word when she thought that the following words might be read by Li Zhuangsheng. In the end, out of thousands of words, only one sentence remained: I love you.

After transferring to a new school, what Li Zhuangsheng said turned out to be true.

Her body stopped growing horizontally, and she continued to grow taller in the next six months, even before the third year of junior high school, she was already 1.63 meters tall. Although she was still not tall, she was at least as tall as an ordinary person. She controlled her diet, ran to and from school every day, and her weight actually decreased as she grew taller.

She seemed to be getting more and more beautiful. The compliments from people around her, the occasional jealousy, and those of the opposite sex who took the initiative to contact her... all reminded her of the changes that had taken place in herself.

As he said, she emerged from her cocoon as a butterfly.

Zhu Zhixue became more and more confident and cheerful. She sometimes wondered if it was Li Zhuangsheng's magic that his words could be fulfilled, or if she was actively moving towards what he said.

Maybe it was the latter, but she was more willing to believe the former.

More and more boys pursued her, wrote love letters to her, brought her breakfast, and handed her chocolates... She was caught off guard at the beginning, but finally rejected them calmly.

Some boys are pretty good, with good grades, good looks, and good relationships. It seems like they have everything.

But in her heart, she always thought about the boy who bent down to pick up a pen for her, the boy who testified for her in front of everyone, the boy who stood up for her against the teacher, the boy who paid her class fees when she was asked to pay, the boy who gave her lollipops, the boy who patiently accompanied her when she had her first menstrual period, the boy who saw that she was cold and gave her gloves, and the boy who believed that she could break out of her cocoon and become a butterfly.

He appeared again and again, when she needed him most in her life. He brought light to her life, and he was the only light in her life.

Therefore, Zhu Zhixue's heart can no longer accommodate anyone, and no one else has a place in her heart. She will seriously reject every suitor, and then tell them that she has a boy she likes, and that boy is the best in the world, and no one can compare to him.

……

Zhu Zhixue opened her eyes and saw a dark room. It was not yet dawn outside the window.

Why did she dream about the past again? Zhu Zhixue supported herself and got out of bed powerlessly. She felt a little dizzy and her stomach was growling with hunger.

The sound of firecrackers was heard outside the community. Zhu Zhixue was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses and realized that today was New Year's Eve.

Happy New Year.

When Zhu Zhixue was a child, she loved the Chinese New Year very much. She could eat delicious food and play to her heart’s content. The whole family would be there, pampering her and giving her lucky money – even though the lucky money would eventually be taken away and “saved”.

In short, the atmosphere of the New Year is really great, as if these days should naturally be happy and joyful days...until my grandparents passed away one after another.

My parents also divorced.

But now, she hates the Chinese New Year the most. It is the most embarrassing and difficult time for her.

Her grandparents made some money during the reform period, but they didn't have a son until they were middle-aged. So they loved their youngest son even more and spoiled him almost to the sky... As a result, he became a famous gambler in the area at a young age.

But he still had his parents to back him up, and he was able to marry and have a daughter. However, even after marriage, he still had a wife and a daughter, and he was still addicted to gambling.

The scene that Zhu Zhixue saw most often since she was a child was that people came to collect debts and forced her father to ask her grandparents to pay back the money. Then her father swore to her grandparents that he would never gamble again, but in the end he would return to his old ways... This cycle repeated over and over again.

(End of this chapter)