For the next period of time, Xia Lin continued to study hard every day and work hard.

Because he happened to be ranked 30th in the grade in the monthly test, and he was quite good in the original class, but when he entered the key class, he became a sad "tail of the crane".

Everyone in the key class is an elite. If you want to surpass the students in the front, you need to put in more effort, which used to be as big as in the ordinary class. jump. Progressive progress is impossible to achieve in key classes.

But Xia Lin was not discouraged, he felt that since he was able to enter the key class, he must be able to continue to climb up.

When it came to the second monthly test, he advanced eleventh place, and in the third monthly test, he advanced seven places, and he was considered to be in the middle and upper ranks of this class, which made the teacher very impressed.

At the same time, Xia Lin heard news about Song Yan intermittently from Zhou Shuo's mouth.

I heard that Song Yan made great progress in the second monthly test, almost repeating the miracle that Xia Lin had done before. By the third monthly test, he was already at the top of the regular class.

For these students who have made rapid progress in the later period, the school is naturally happy to send them to key classes for careful cultivation. At present, several students have been transferred from ordinary classes one after another. Xia Lin estimates that with Song Yan's current ranking, it is necessary to It's too late to get into the key classes.

In fact, Xia Lin both expected and resisted Song Yan's transfer. The expectation is because he also hopes that Song Yan can really soar to the sky and stand out; but the resistance is because he is afraid that the appearance of Song Yan will disturb his heart again.

However, Song Yan did not appear in the key class for a long time, and Xia Lin finally couldn't help asking Zhou Shuo.

Zhou Shuo told him that, in fact, a teacher had offered Song Yan an olive branch before, but Song Yan refused. Song Yan said that he was still comfortable in the ordinary class.

After hearing this, Xia Lin was silent for a long time.

He thought that the reason why Song Yan refused to be transferred to the key class might be that he didn't want to be in the same class with himself, or that he was reluctant to leave Yu Luotong alone in the regular class, or both.

In May, the weather is getting hotter.

Xia Lin's birthday was on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival. The school took a rest day and gave the students a short vacation.

However, such a holiday, for the senior three students who have to take the college entrance examination in more than half a month, is just a different place to review.

That night, Xia Liang couldn't help but drag Xia Lin and Zhou Shuo out to eat Pizza Hut together, which was a birthday celebration for Xia Lin. His father and grandmother who were far abroad also called to wish him a happy birthday.

My grandmother is in poor health and spends years recuperating in a foreign hospital. My father accompanies grandmother while managing foreign business. He rarely has time to return to China during the year. Usually, Xia Lin is disciplined through Xia Liang to convey instructions, so When called back this time, didn't say a word to Xia Lin, and then transferred it to Xia Liang, telling him to urge his younger brother to study for the college entrance examination.

In this regard, Xia Lin has long been accustomed to it.

The mother died of dystocia when Xia Lin was born. Although the father did not remarry, the woman outside never broke up. Xia Lin did not have much affection for his father, but heard it on the phone. When grandma called his name, her nose suddenly soured.

In the last life, my grandmother passed away a year after he came out of the closet to his family.

His father blamed his grandmother's death on him, saying he was mad at his grandmother. But Xia Lin knew that it was not. Grandma always loved him. Even if she knew he was gay, she would not look down on him. Otherwise, she would not have secretly left him 10% of her shares as an inheritance.

Grandma hoped to use this share to save his life, but in the end he didn't live past the age of twenty-eight. He felt that he was most sorry for his grandma.

The meal suddenly became sad because of an ocean-going phone call.

Xia Liang saw that Xia Lin was not in high spirits, and thought he was concerned about reviewing, so he didn't ask more questions, and drove them back after dinner.

Xia Lin went home and took a shower, then went back to the bedroom and planned to continue working on the unfinished simulation volume.

But as soon as he sat down at the desk, he heard his cell phone ring.

is an unfamiliar number. Xia Lin didn't have the habit of answering unfamiliar calls. He thought it was some kind of harassing call.

Finally, Xia Lin picked it up helplessly: "Which one?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone, except for the faint sound of breathing.

Xia Lin frowned and asked again, "Who is it?"

The other party still did not speak.

Just when Xia Lin was about to hang up the phone, he heard the other side whisper, "Happy birthday."

The voice was so familiar that he suffocated inexplicably.

Before he could respond, the other party quickly hung up the phone.

Xia Lin was stunned for a while with the phone, and then he remembered that Song Yan's number was still on his blacklist.

On Song Yan's eighteenth birthday, Xia Lin drank a can of beer with him; on Xia Lin's eighteenth birthday, Song Yan could only make an anonymous call to send a wish.

In this way, the relationship between him and Song Yan has really come to an end.

Xia Lin sighed, rested his forehead on the edge of the table, and closed his eyes gently.