Chen Rang and Qi Huan stayed alone in the private room for a long time. The wind was strong on the balcony, which made Qi Huan's face dry and wet, wet and dry. Minxue and a few people from No. 1 Middle School sat in the corner of the hall downstairs. For half an hour, no one said a word.

Then, Chen Rang and Qi Huan came down from the upper floor. Qi Huan's face had obviously cried and was swollen.

Everyone moved out of their seats and asked them to sit down. Zhuang Mu asked, "What should I do now?"

Qi Huan shook his head, his voice dulled: "I don't know either."

Zhuang Mu was anxious: "But then you can't just let her send you away..."

"Send it away?" Zuo Junhao was puzzled, "What to send it away?"

Zhuang Mu looked ugly: "Qi Huan's mother--" paused for a moment and changed his words, "That woman, I want to drive Qi Huan out."

"Chop out?"

Zhang Youyu, who has always been nervous, also had a bad face and wrote a strange name: "Have you heard of this school?"

Zuo Junhao and Ji Bing looked at each other, "I haven't heard of it."

"In Australia." Zhang Youyu said, "It's a pheasant school, so rubbish that it can't be more rubbish. She even arranged the pheasant university. When Sister Huan went, she wasted a few years in vain."

"Then it's over if you don't go..."

"It's useless." This time, Qi Huan spoke, "My custody is still in her hands." She was not yet eighteen years old, and her birthday was in the summer vacation. It was not until the start of the senior year that it was really eighteen.

"Minxue won't let me study anymore," said Qi Huan, "Give me half a month to go to the provincial capital exam. If I pass the exam, I will go to Australia. If I fail, don't want to keep my academic qualifications."

Fang Qiuheng could say that he could do it, Qi Huan wanted to laugh, but couldn't touch the corner of his mouth, "Our school principal said that my tuition fee could be waived, but she refused directly. She just didn't want me to be nice, but she still told those friends that she was so kind to me and was going to send me to study abroad."

What's the fact? Pheasant High School, Pheasant University, Fang Qiuheng and Shi Congru made arrangements. As long as they spend a little money, they could throw her to the distant Australia, pretending to give her some living expenses every month, allowing her to fend for herself.

She stayed in China and could clearly get into a very good university, but Fang Qiuheng just didn't give her this opportunity and would rather give her far away and be clean.

When he was notified of this, Qi Huan's heart felt like he fell into a cold cave, and the last glimmer of hope was gone.

She remembered that during the summer vacation of the first year of high school, Shi Shanshan came to her house to play. At that time, Shi Shanshan was almost talking about her grades and future choices. She didn't want to talk to Shi Shanshan at all. Shi Shanshan couldn't answer the words. She said, "I want to take the exam wherever I want to take the exam. I can get it after filling in the application. You should worry about yourself first."

At that time, Shi Shanshan's face changed. A few days ago, Fang Qiuheng told her to prepare for the overseas exam, she sat in the room. Shi Shanshan pushed the door and stood by the door. She bent her lips like every time she smiled at her, with a soft face. However, the glare in her eyes could no longer be held back and finally she couldn't bear it.

"Take wherever you want?" Her face half hidden in the shadow, pacing word by word, "I hope you can be as confident in Australia as before."

Qi Huan heard that they were discussing buying a new house, maybe they moved after buying it, or maybe they waited for Shi Shanshan to finish the college entrance examination before leaving. In short, those things were not her part and had nothing to do with her.

They had so much time, but Fang Qiuheng refused to go to see Qi Chan and didn't want her to go there.

What else would she expect?

It's gone.

From the moment she watched her father be tortured with her own eyes, from all the following, she and that woman could only be enemies in this life.

...

Everyone in the table was silent, and no one could do anything about it.

After a long quiet time, what else do they have to say? Chen Rang stood up and said: "Let's go."

Qi Huan stood up and followed him.

"Where are you going?" Zuo Junhao asked.

"Let's go for dinner," Chen Rang said, "You guys go back."

Zhuang Mu wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth but still didn't say anything.

Everyone at the table looked at them, but Chen Rang and Qi Huan didn't say anything, and did not stay much, so they walked out of the store.

Chen Rang held Qi Huan's hand, holding both hands tightly, and walked side by side into the light and shadow outside the door.

They left, and the rest were still sitting, probably a little stunned. Ji Bing said angrily: "It's so irritating. What a thing? I really want to take someone to her house and beat the dog man and woman!"

Zuo Junhao said, "What can I do if I beat you up? After beat Qi Huan? Can you be responsible for her future life? Can you take her home and give her tuition expenses to support her life? Can you convince your family and be the one who can make this decision? Nothing you can't say is nonsense."

Ji Bing said: "What are you doing to challenge me? I'm not angry."

"I'm not urging you." Zuo Junhao was rarely deep, with a sadness on his face, "I just felt uncomfortable for Qi Huan... and made it uncomfortable for Chen."

As high school students, they are not afraid of anything, but they are too far away from the real adult world.

There are so many things that cannot be decided or protected.

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Qi Huan and Chen Rang went for dinner. The table was full, and Chen Rang ordered everything she liked. He picked up food for her, but he didn't move a few chopsticks. Qi Huan was having fun in pain and joked: "You won't worry that I have no food to eat, right? Don't worry, she won't starve me to death."

"No." Chen Rang still put it into her bowl.

As he ate, Qi Huan shed tears.

"My father also likes to eat this. Our taste is very similar. He likes everything I like. Even if he doesn't like it, he will eat it all just to accompany me."

Chen Rang looked at her crying silently.

The chopsticks fell from her hand, and she was a little out of control. She raised her hand to cover her face. The vegetables in her mouth could not be swallowed, and the smell was like chewing wax.

"He always said that I was his little princess, and he would give me whatever I wanted. I wanted dolls and beautiful clothes. He never refused."

"I'm all lying. I said I'm very good, I'm great, I'm very good, I like myself very much, they're all fake, fake... What's so great about me? It's all because of my dad. All my confidence is because I'm his daughter, little princess, and... Without him, I'm... It's all... It's all..."

Her tears flowed to her chin and dripped onto the table.

Chen Rang sat next to her, pulled off her face-blocking hand, and pressed her head onto her shoulders. His voice was soft and patient, and he told her over and over again: "You are excellent, you are very good, you are very good."

She couldn't control her tears. She cried at home for many days, but she still couldn't control her.

"I'm really useless, I can't do anything..."

Chen Rang closed his eyes and his lips pressed against the corners of her eyes. The bitter smell seemed to moisten the tip of his tongue.

"You're fine."

He was so upset over and over again, just as she said while crying at his bed.

She is very good.

Fortunately, he saw her crying, and his heart felt like he was scratched by a knife.

Chen Rang kissed her tears, and his throat was a little sensation.

"You are the little princess. You will always be."

...

That night, Qi Huan made a decision and Chen Rang knew.

She was very quiet. After crying, she quietly accepted the reality. She decided to go home and bow to Fang Qiuheng and agreed to study abroad. Staying in China was because her academic qualifications were lost, and going to Australia was to study in a bad school, and her future might be ruined.

The two harms are the least.

The meal was not finished, but Chen Rang would never forget. Qi Huan finally cried in his arms and swollen eyes again, and said to him in a hoarse voice: "No matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than now, right?"

"She wants me to go, she wants me to get out of here, and at worst she can go."

"There is nothing that can't be overcome, there is still hope, isn't it..."

He said yes, and told her very seriously that this is not the end, nor the end. It is just a hurdle. After passing through it, there are still many futures.

She was in his arms, wiping tears by his clothes, laughing and crying, and nodding constantly, saying, "Yes, there is nothing that can't be passed, nothing. I will be fine, I will work hard. When my father comes back, he will just go on a long journey..."

This time, the distance was longer than before. Without her father's care, she had to learn to take care of herself alone, learn to move forward, and learn to face everything she should face and what she should not face.

Then……

"When he comes back, I will support him."

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During the last half month of Qi Huan staying in Hecheng, Chen Rang spent every day after school. The two of them had dinner, went shopping together, and did a lot of things they didn’t have time to do together.

Several times, Zuo Junhao and Ji Bing saw them on the street, and the two of them held hands tightly. Occasionally, because of some slight release, Chen Rang would stop waiting for her, then stretch out his hand, and wait for him to hold him again and continue to move forward side by side.

They just stood far away and never disturbed them. For those two people, the time passed by day and the day was less, and when Qi Huan left, they didn't know how long it would take to separate.

Time flies, Qi Huan's father completely collapsed, and many business people in Hecheng are talking about this matter. The verdict came out, and it was just seven years. Qi Huan finally saw him. After returning, she cried for a long time in front of Chen Rang. That day passed, and then she stopped crying. She went to the provincial capital for an exam calmly and counted down calmly.

Life is passed by your fingers, and what is time to come is still here.

On the last day before leaving, Chen Rang and Qi Huan had dinner and shopping as usual, and walked hand in hand through most of Hecheng. They walked all the things they had been together and had never been to before.

At around nine o'clock, Chen Rang accompanied Qi Huan to the doorstep. There was a bus stop sign not far away, and then it was the main entrance of the community where she lives now.

Stopped at the intersection, Qi Huan asked him to send it here.

"I went in by myself."

"Um."

They stood face to face, and he was much taller than her. Qi Huan looked up at him, carefully looking at every inch of his face clearly and remembering it in his heart.

"You were so fierce when I saw you the first time," she said. "Will you smile at other girls in the future? That's not OK, you are so fierce to me..."

She was laughing, but in her eyes without tears, she was clearly crying.

"No." He said.
To be continued...