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At first, Yueming thought it was just a coincidence.

Yo Yo is not the kind of character who would silently give gifts behind her back. If she wanted to give flowers to others, she would have to start picking flowers, then she would run all the way and shout and rush over and shove them into the other person's arms.

And Gu Miaomiao and Shen Jingchuan would not do such a thing.

It's strange to say that they are obviously a few years younger than him, but Yueming occasionally forgets about this, and unconsciously treats them as adults.

... So why would someone give him flowers when they have nothing to do?

Yueming was lying on the window, looking down at the flower that silently fell on his window sill, and decided to regard it as a romantic supernatural event.

"Xiao Ming, did the cram school's last English test result come out?"

Two days before her birthday, Aunt Zhang asked about Yueming's study.

"It's out." Yueming went to the schoolbag and found its paper, his eyes flickering with the light of Ai Ai, "I did the questions for the first year of junior high school, and the teacher said it was better than most of the students in the first year of junior high school..."

"How many points?"

"One hundred percent!"

"Well, then we have to work hard. A perfect score of 120? Our foundation is not as good as others, so we have to work harder..."

"But……"

"Also, last time I asked your teacher, the teacher said that your speaking and listening are not good, and suggested that I change schools for you, Xiaoming, let's work hard and spend more time on study, don't look next door The young master Cen Sui plays every day, people can talk to foreigners without going to elementary school..."

Aunt Zhang was chattering, but she didn't notice the change in Yueming's expression.

"And Miss Yoyo. Although Miss Yoyo doesn't seem to be learning things very quickly, she speaks English like a little foreigner. Last time I saw her watching that foreign cartoon, she didn't need subtitles..."

The light in Yueming's eyes completely dimmed.

"Do you think I can do it as long as I work hard?" the beautiful little boy said blankly, "Yoyo's father can talk to her in English at home from a young age, and Yoyo's mother will invite foreigners to be her teachers, what do I have? ?"

As soon as the voice fell, not only Aunt Zhang, but Yue Ming himself was stunned.

Looking at his mother's hurt expression, he couldn't believe that the words just came out of his mouth.

...that was not his intention.

He knew that his mother was working very hard. Before she arrived at Gu's house, she needed to work two jobs by herself. After arriving at Gu's house, her family situation improved a little, but the working hours were too long. In order to go home, she needed to be at the intersection in the middle of the night. Wait an hour or two for a taxi.

He knows all this.

But sometimes he would rather not know.

If he didn't know, when his mother blamed him for not working hard, he could justly blame her for not giving him better conditions.

If he doesn't know, he can blame his parents for the reason when others are unfair to him.

Instead of being able to bear the strictness of a mother and bear these pressures alone, as it is now.

"...Xiao Ming..."

Yueming gritted his teeth and hurried out of the room.

He knew that he had said something wrong, but he was really sad, even for a while, he didn't want to be an obedient and sensible child, pretending to comfort his mother well, telling her that he would work hard, he would try his best next time will do better.

His footsteps stopped outside Yoyo's door.

He hadn't seen him much in the past few days. After dinner, she seemed to have some secrets. As soon as she put down her job, she secretly hid it in the house.

The door was not closed tightly, and through the crack of the warm yellow light, Yueming vaguely saw someone else.

There seemed to be the voices of Gu Miaomiao and Shen Jingchuan.

And Cen Sui's voice.

Even the big monster named Yong Ze next door was there.

Yoyo: "... Sticky! I will! I'm so smart!"

Gu Miaomiao: "put it down, I have to stick you once more!"

Yoyo: "...Brother, elder sister murdered me."

Shen Jingchuan: "You better put it down. I may not be able to bear it any more if you make trouble."

YoYo:"……"

Yueming couldn't see what they were doing, just thought they were probably very happy.

"……YoYo?"

He gathered his courage and knocked on the door.

"I-I can..."

Not long after his voice sounded, Yueming found that the room suddenly became quiet.

His hand trying to push the door froze in place.

"Wait, wait a second—!"

Yo Yo hurriedly ran out of the house.

The little girl in the bunny-print pajamas had loose hair, and her hair was soft like some kind of animal fluff.

She was so anxious that she didn't even wear shoes, she ran out barefoot and closed the door by the way.

"You, what's the matter with you?"

Yoyo swallowed nervously.

She won't lie, but now they are preparing the decorations for the birthday party, and if Yueming sees it, it will not be a surprise.

Yue Ming's intuition is very keen.

He felt Yoyo didn't want him in.

"...Nothing important."

Yueming tried his best to make himself look less expectant, pretending to ask casually:

"What are you guys playing? Can I... see?"

Yoyo subconsciously opened her arms to protect the door behind her.

"That...you...you can't go in..."

The three-year-old girl didn't know any euphemisms yet. She looked anxious. She only knew that brother Yueming couldn't see the surprise they prepared, but ignored Yueming's mood.

And on the surface, Yueming couldn't see the slightest difference.

"That's it." He sounded relaxed, and even smiled tenderly, "It doesn't matter, I just asked casually. I haven't finished my homework yet, so I'll go back to my homework first."

Yoyo stared blankly at the back of Yueming who turned around in a hurry, inexplicably, feeling that the heart that was excited and looking forward to it just now was suddenly not so happy.

And Yueming, who turned his back and ran away, almost at the moment when Yoyo couldn't see, his eyes were instantly shrouded in mist.

He flew back to his tiny room and slammed his head into the soft pillow.

The pillow was immediately wet.

……Fool!

His mother had warned him before, why did he still have fantasies and unilaterally treat the other party as his friend like an idiot?

He clearly knew that no one would want to be friends with him. He wasn't lively and cheerful enough, and he wasn't lively enough, and he wasn't generous enough. Just picking someone from Yoyo's side would be more interesting than him. He had a better family background and was more suitable to be friends with Yoyo.

Yueming, who was extremely sad, felt that he who tried so hard to become friends with Yoyo before was a fool who was stupid and had no self-awareness.

...he won't do this kind of useless work again.

Yueming, who was hiding in the bed and crying a lot, thought, it doesn't matter if you don't have friends, a person can have his own world, and he can become the person he wants to be.

There is nothing wrong with being alone.

He doesn't want friends, and from now on, he doesn't need any more.

In the dark room, the sobbing little boy huddled into a ball, like a small animal curled up because of an injury.

However, just when Yueming was tired from crying and was about to fall asleep in a daze, he was suddenly awakened by a slight movement.

If it was normal, he was sleeping soundly at this time, but tonight he was unable to fall asleep because of sadness, and because he remembered the flower by the window during the day, when the movement came, his first reaction was Just rolled over and sat up, pushed open the half-small window, and then—

Under the moonlight, the ignorant little lamb stood outside his window, like an elf running out of a fairy tale.

It held a rose flower in its mouth, as if the flower was open in its mouth.

Yueming, who cried with swollen eyes, stared at it blankly.

"...Am I making brother Yueming angry?"

Yoyo lying on the bed murmured.

Everyone went back to their respective homes, and Gu Miaomiao, who was the last to coax you to sleep, heard her recite "I seem to have made Brother Yueming sad" a hundred times before she went to bed, and finally exhausted her patience and tucked her in through gritted teeth. Tucked by the corner said:

"That's right, you made him sad. Your brother Yueming is now in the bed. If you don't sleep, I will punch you."

YoYo:"……"

The interesting Yoyo shrank into the bed and said obediently:

"Good night sister."

"install."

Gu Miaomiao turned off the light with an expressionless face.

The room fell silent.

After Gu Miaomiao closed the door and left, she pretended to be asleep and quietly opened one eye to confirm that her sister was really gone, then she sighed softly and rolled around twice in the bed. .

...why is he unhappy?

The three-year-old Yoyo is full of question marks.

However, her worries did not last long. The next morning, after watching Yue Ming get up early as usual and go to the cram school, Yoyo happily started to arrange it together with her brothers and sisters.

Decorations made of colored paper are to be hung on the wall.

Collage of birthday slogans on glass.

And the balloons that bought, after blowing it for a long time, found a pump beside sister's white eyes.

And after everything was ready, Yue Ming, who knew nothing, finally returned to Gu's house.

As he passed the door, he glanced at Mianmian grazing in the yard.

Mianmian is still the ignorant and ignorant that he usually looks like, quiet and not at all like a monster.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that it was the one who sent flowers outside his window for days in a row.

... stupid.

Yueming pursed his lips and walked faster into the house.

He won't be fooled.

He doesn't need friends anymore, human friends don't need, monster friends even less, he can be alone, he can be very happy alone...

However, the moment opened the door and entered—

boom!

What greeted him was a confetti fireworks that exploded suddenly.

"Happy birthday to brother Yueming!"

Not only Yoyo, but Gu Miaomiao and Shen Jingchuan, Cen Sui and Yong Ze, as well as his mother and Yu Lan, all gathered to watch him.

Behind them, there were decorations made by them that they had seen in Yoyo's room.

...So, is it because of this that he is not allowed in?

Yue Ming froze in place.

At this moment, everyone's eyes fell on him.

It seemed that he was no longer a weed in the corner that no one noticed, and finally there was light through the heavy haze, illuminating the corner.

The little girl who hugged him had a sweet voice and said in his ear:

"I'm sorry, we'll be okay."

Behind him, Mianmian blew softly.