Section 3

"These are truly the most touching words I have ever heard. Hi, Su Lu, do you believe that ten years from now, I will still remember that you were the first and the last person to tell me that I am a good girl." Zhou Danna said, embracing Su Lu's shoulders, her voice hoarse.

The person who entered was none other than Zhou Danna, surprisingly enthusiastic about school, arriving so early. The first thing Zhou Danna did upon entering the classroom was to nervously look at the blackboard; only after not seeing any words did she let out a sigh of relief

Vivian listened to Zhou Danna recount the story of "Sister Act" with an admiring gaze, her eyes filled with envy

Zhou Danna spoke highly of Jiang Sen, mentioning the color of the shirt he wore one day, the color of his CK underwear, and how beautifully he sang love songs. However, Su Lu was quite perplexed; to her, Jiang Sen was merely a little boy.

Zhou Danna stared at the white down jacket with a raccoon fur collar for a long time, licked her chapped lips, and swallowed hard, saying: "This garment must be very warm to wear, right"

Zhou Danna was once concerned that those girls would take revenge on Su Lu. In the following week, everything was peaceful, and no one came to cause trouble. Her heart calmed down a little; how guilty she would feel if she had dragged Su Lu into this.

That winter, Su Lu met Zhou Danna, breaking her previous friendship principles

Zhou Danna is a local from Nanjing. Her mother runs a beauty salon, and she lives in the shop with her mother. Zhou Danna has never brought Su Lu and Ai Xixi home.

Su Lu and Ai Xixi are both in the cello class, and Ai Xixi seems to be more passionate about painting, spending more time carrying her drawing board than her cello. Besides their major courses, art students in the college entrance examination still attend cultural classes just like regular college entrance examination students.

Zhou Danna excitedly recounted the story from "Sister Act" in her halting Chinese. In the story, the nun Deloris sneaks out at night to drink and sing, forcing the Mother Superior to assign her to the choir. However, she is dissatisfied with the poor choir and boldly decides to transform it, even singing pop songs during Mass.

Zhou Danna was unaware that nuns are married to God and cannot fall in love with other men

That's it

Ai Xixi pouted and exclaimed that one day she would become a great painter, and now what Zhou Danna has ruined is a priceless masterpiece, for a painting is invaluable

Those clothes, like Zhou Danna's face, which was somewhat peeling from the wind, are fragile yet resilient

Zhuo Ang, I want to live with you

Occasionally, Zhou Danna quietly embellished Ai Xixi's fruit oil painting, transforming it into a sensual image, where two peaches became the softest and most voluptuous parts of a woman, and the lychee was adorned with long hairs, turning into a rambutan.

After watching the movie, the three of them exchanged glances, disdainfully regarding each other's swollen eyes and their own moral decay

Zhou Danna remarked how much Vivian looked like a penguin, and even pressed her with the question of whether Vivian was a virgin

In the movie, when the female lead and the male lead break up, they embrace and cry bitterly. If they are going to cry so sorrowfully, why do they still choose to part ways

Su Lu smiled and shook her head

At first, Ai Xixi had some reservations about Zhou Danna, but gradually she came to like this girl who appeared to be a bad girl on the outside yet was kind-hearted and innocent. The three of them listened to Sister Vivian read the Bible together in the church

Zhuo Ang, you do not understand me

Su Lu saw Zhou Danna wearing her oversized shoes, and as she passed by a puddle, mud and water seeped in. Despite shivering from the cold, Zhou Danna elegantly tossed her hair and declared that she preferred style over warmth, choosing to be beautifully frozen.

She understood that Zhou Danna came to the classroom so early to erase the writing on the blackboard

Those green climbing tigers and those golden sunflowers are all imagined by Ai Xixi

Only during this season, the ivy has withered away

A long white trail left by an airplane streaks across the sky from one side to the other

Your compassion for me, my gratitude for you, keeps our love in a state of perpetual wandering

As she spoke, Zhou Danna felt awkward and said, "I am such a fool; I can't even speak Chinese properly when I'm with you"

He rarely calls her; on the rare occasion that he does, it is merely a symbolic greeting, and he also sends her living expenses.

She misses Fang Zhuoang so much that for a long time, she has been restless. She knows he went to Beijing, but beyond that, there are no more details.

Ai Xixi can be considered to come from an upper-middle-class family within this school. Her father is the director of a hospital, and her mother is also a head nurse. She has been a well-behaved girl, cherished and pampered by her parents since childhood

Accompanied by Bach's "Air on the G String," Su Lu was immersed in her own musical kingdom, her long hair cascading over her shoulders, the scattered light of the stars illuminating her face. At that moment, Su Lu was so beautiful that it left Zhou Danna in awe.

Zhou Danna's frail silhouette appeared so thin in the cold wind, her hands tightly clasped around herself as if she were trying to curl up into a ball. She wore an extremely old denim jacket, with frayed cuffs, and her jeans were faded, looking as if they would tear with just a little more scrubbing.

Zhou Danna said that the only story she knows from the Bible is that of Adam and Eve, the couple who stole the fruit of love in the Garden of Eden

"Are you still a virgin? It doesn't matter, in a few years you won't be anymore," whispered Zhou Danna into Vivian's ear

On Monday morning, Su Lu brought two servings of soy milk and took out a thick sweater from her backpack, intending to place the sweater and the soy milk in Zhou Danna's desk drawer

Jiang Sen is two years older than you; he is certainly not a little boy and is unaware of how manly he is. Hey, Su Lu, since you like older men so much, you wouldn't happen to have a father complex, would you?" Zhou Danna nudged Su Lu with her elbow.

On winter mornings, students tend to arrive later, and she did not want other students to see her placing items in Zhou Danna's drawer

She held the blackboard eraser and vigorously wiped away the words on the blackboard, placing the soy milk and sweater in Zhou Danna's drawer

The sunlight slanted into the church, and Ai's long eyelashes gently curled upwards. She enjoyed painting sunflowers; outside the church, there was a vast expanse of ivy. Ai always repeated the same painting, depicting a large field of sunflowers beside a weathered wall, which was covered in lush green ivy.

Su Lu is pondering, Fang Zhuoang, are we like this as well

Vivian smiled shyly, with fine capillaries and small freckles on her flushed cheeks. She said that she was abandoned by her parents to a convent for girls when she was young and grew up to become a nun

At that moment, footsteps were heard at the stairway, indicating that students from Class 5 had come for their lesson, prompting her to hurriedly hide at the back door of the classroom

Arriving at the door of the dance class, she pushed open the classroom door and entered. On the blackboard were several blood-red characters: Zhou Danna, just like her mother, twenty yuan.

Su Lu smiled as she watched the two of them bicker, often being the quietest among them.

The sky is very blue, so blue that even the white clouds shyly burrow into the bright sunlight, not daring to peek out.

Ai Xixi proposed to her parents that Su Lu should move in with them. Although she received their consent, Su Lu politely declined. She did not want to impose too much, especially since Ai Xixi could not understand the sense of inferiority that comes from living with a perfect family as an orphan. Every time Ai Xixi's parents came to school to see their daughter, the scene was enough to make Su Lu feel sad for several days.

When Su Luila was playing the cello, Ai Xixi was painting. They were both women who could find tranquility, while Zhou Danna was conversing with Vivian, discussing the vivid sentences she found interesting, entangling Vivian to teach her how to curse in French

"You are a good girl," Su Lu said, gazing at Zhou Danna

It is just that there are no warm clothes to get through the winter, right

Zhou Danna is a member of the dance class, specializing in ballet