Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Christmas at the Rent Bookstore

Lin Zhenxin did not expect to see Guo Xuanhua again in the bookstore. On the day of early September, she was helping out in the store in the afternoon, and saw him walking in wearing a cool shirt. She froze for a moment, he smiled shyly and asked: "Is the procedure for renting books still the same as before?" "Oh yes," she said from behind the counter. "Any new books?" he asked. "Do you like crime novels? I have Jeffrey Deaver's. Have you read his?" Jeffrey.Deaver's series of detective novels feature the paralyzed detective Lincoln.Lime as the protagonist is Lin Zhenxin's favorite detective novel in recent years.

"Of course I've read it, even the movie version. Is this new book good?" She nodded cheerfully. Then, Guo Xuanhua first said: "I came back to school to teach, this time not a substitute teacher, but a long-term worker." "Oh, really?" She grinned, but didn't continue. Ever since she met in that Italian restaurant, she has been avoiding Shen Luyi.After a while, Shen Luyi called her and complained that she hadn't found her since she became a disc jockey.She said it was because the radio station was too busy.Shen Luyi said on the other end of the phone:

"I broke up with him." "You mean Guo Xuanhua?" "Who else?" "why?" "He's not my type and I'm not his type." "Then why did it start?" Shen Luyi smiled and said: "Some people just transition." Lin Zhenxin might have been happier if she had known the news earlier.The news came too late. Recently, she dated a boy.The boy's name is Gao Tiansan, and he is the lead singer of a new band. He is small in stature, but he is very lively and handsome.The first time they met was at a small concert on the radio.She was the master of ceremonies, and his band was one of the performing teams.She ran into him at the bus stop after the concert.

He smiled at her awkwardly and said: "Are you waiting for the bus too?" She nodded, seeing him holding an electric guitar and wearing a leather jacket waiting for the bus, she felt a little funny in her heart. "I live in low-rent housing." He said. She smiled and didn't answer. Leaning against the railing, he asked: "Do you like our song?" He nodded. "I listen to your show every night," he said. She was a little flattered and didn't know what to say. He looked at her with childish eyes and said: "Your voice is beautiful."

She blushed suddenly, responding to his shy smile. That night, the bus was late and they were the only ones at the station.He suddenly asked: "Can you play the guitar?" She shook her head. "I'll teach you next time." He said confidently. She never said she wanted to learn, but she didn't know how to refuse. The next night, when she was doing a show, Gao Tiansan came in and said he was looking for a friend.She knew he was looking for her.He stayed in the studio and waited until she had almost finished the show before resigning.The next night, he came again and fell asleep in front of her.

When he awoke, he said apologetically: "I've had insomnia for a few days, and I fell asleep listening to your voice." "You can listen to the radio at home," she said. He smiled and said: "Others are not as lucky as me, and can sit here. So far, this is the biggest benefit of being a singer." She couldn't say she wasn't touched at all.Takada-san is not her type.She didn't like a boy in a leather jacket and played an electric guitar with a silver ring on his finger, and she didn't think he would like her. "Why do you keep staring at my fingers?" He asked in the live broadcast room that night.

"Nothing." She said awkwardly. When he came back the next day, the silver rings that he always wore were gone.His cleverness moved her.Gradually, she got used to him coming to the studio whenever he had something to do.She hosts two shows every day, one at midnight and one at noon.She used to play songs from their band.He sings well, but he doesn't have many bosom friends. One night, after he attended a concert, he met her in the studio. He lay down on the table in frustration and didn't say a word. "Is something wrong?" she asked concerned. He shook his head, continued to lie on his stomach, then straightened up suddenly and said:

"The audience booed when we came out." She looked at him sadly, and said: "Many popular singers were booed before." "I knew you would say that." He said listlessly. "You will become famous." She didn't know why she said this, maybe it was a premonition. "When I become famous, I will invite you to watch every one of our concerts." He said sweetly. He likes her, right?she thought.Otherwise, why would he come every day?Why are you so childish in front of her?Sometimes he would bring his favorite records and beg her to play them on the show.He would call and chat with her, chasing after her and asking:

"When will you learn guitar from me? In the future, I will be popular, but I won't have time to teach you." She smirked, unable to imagine the future.Since he liked her, why never said it?As if waiting for her to speak.If he had known her a little, he would have known that she would not speak. Finally one night, when he left the studio, he gave her a ticket and said: "We have a concert at the university tomorrow, can you come?" She went to that concert alone.Gao Tiansan sang a new song he wrote with full of emotion, a very beautiful song. His singing voice attracted everyone in the audience. At that moment, he found that he liked him on the stage.She always thought that she would not like this type of boy, but fate loved to play tricks on her.

On the way back, she called Takada San on the street.He asked nervously: "Why can't I find you?" "I'm leaving." "Why didn't you wait for me?" "A lot of people surround you! Congratulations!" "Do you like my new song?" he asked anxiously. "Well, it sounds good." That song was about a boy's love and dreams.She always felt that there were some words in the lyrics that he said to her.When I went to help out at the bookstore the next day, Guo Xuanhua came.His appearance has not changed at all, and he talks more than before.

"I heard you on the radio," he said. "Oh yes." "Your voice sounds like a human being." "Who?" she asked. She thought he was talking about Xia Xinju.He said: "Xing Lijun. When I was in junior high school, I listened to her show every night to do my homework." "Me too," she said, and then: "Her voice is so beautiful, how could I be like her?" She said shyly. Why didn't Guo Xuanhua come earlier?The night before, she had left a concert.Gao Tiansan knew she was gone, and said on the other end of the phone: "Where are you? I'm coming to you." He came, sweating from running, with an excited look on his face. "A lot of people like my new song," he said. He suddenly took her hand and said: "Let's celebrate!" If Guo Xuanhua had come earlier, her story might have been different. She handed him the book, which she had just finished and had not yet put on the shelf.At this moment, Takada-san walked in, like the previous few times, he got into the counter very skillfully, changed the record in the record player, and played the new song he sang the day before. "I brought you this song." Gao Tiansan said affectionately. She looked at Guo Xuanhua in embarrassment, the expression on Guo Xuanhua's face was a bit stunned.She didn't know what to say, so he took the book, said goodbye, and walked out of the bookstore. "Is that person your friend?" Gao Tiansan asked. "Uh, it's my friend's ex-boyfriend." "It's a bit dirty." Takada San said. "I'm ugly, too," she said. He showed a charming smile and said: "You are not earthy." She was suddenly a little confused.Does Takada-san really like her?Looking at Guo Xuanhua's leaving back, she felt a little pity in her heart. "Does he like you?" Takada San asked. "Who said this?" "His eyes said it." "No!" "Are you going to play this song tonight?" She nodded. "You pay attention to the lyrics, don't you?" His eyes looked at her emotionally. She blushed. Then he said, "See you tonight." He left, but she was a little confused.At night, when she played that song on the show, she actually thought that Guo Xuanhua might hear it. Two days later, Guo Xuanhua came to return the book with an unnatural expression on his face. "Is the book good?" she asked. He nodded and went back to his book. Grandma dozed lazily on the chair.She hid behind the counter and read without looking at him.What would Guo Xuanhua think about her relationship with Takada San?does he careWill he be disappointed?She didn't understand why she wanted to know how he felt. He borrowed a book, and when registering, he said: "The song your friend played that day was very nice." "He sang it." "Is he a singer?" She nodded, seeing a sour look in his eyes. In the next few days, she didn't go to the bookstore, so she didn't know if he came.Then one day she bumped into him in front of the window of a boutique. She wants to buy some clothes for herself.There are two sets of clothes in the shop window.One set is relatively plain, which she likes, and the other set is relatively trendy, which Takada Sankai likes.She didn't know which set to try. At this time, someone called her from behind, it was Guo Xuanhua, who had just walked out of the bookstore with a bag of new books in his hand. "What a coincidence," he said.Then, pointing to the plain suit, he said: "You'll look good in these clothes." She looked at him in surprise, and he said awkwardly: "Just my opinion." As a result, she bought both sets of clothes.On the day of wearing trendy clothes to work, Gao Tiansan did not come to her.He's been very busy lately, and his new song is very good.She knew he was talented. For countless nights, she stayed alone in the live broadcast room, sometimes looking towards the door of the live broadcast room, hoping that it would be him who opened the door and came in the next moment.She found that she knew nothing about boys.When she didn't pay much attention to him, he seemed to care about her a lot.When she missed him, he didn't care anymore. Until one evening, she bumped into him in the corridor of the radio station, and he pestered another female disc jockey, saying sweetly: "Can you play my song?" She suddenly understood. When he turned his head to see her, he looked a little embarrassed, and soon he said to her kindly: "Jane, how are you?" She still believed that he would become famous, and by that time, he would no longer need to use his handsome looks to curry favor with these disc jockeys, expecting them to order more of his songs. In the middle of the night, she finished the show and hid alone to listen to the music.She didn't like Gao Tiansan at first, why does she feel sad now?She was sad for her innocence, why didn't she expect that she had the power to play songs on the show?She was sad not because she felt that she was being used, but because she found that there was nothing worthy of love in herself. Then one day she bumped into him at a concert the radio station was hosting.When he appeared on stage, a large group of young female fans in the audience shouted his name hoarsely. It was completely different from the loneliness before. She met him on her way backstage, leaning against the dimly lit walkway, smoking a cigarette.She hadn't seen him smoke before.When he saw him, he straightened up, and she nodded and walked past him. "Being famous feels good, like owning the world," he said. She smiled but didn't answer, she caught a glimpse of several shiny silver rings on his hands. Maybe, she thought, he never intended to stop wearing those silver rings. At this time, her cell phone rang, and it was her mother who came to her and told her that grandma passed out at home and was sent to the hospital.It was a difficult night. Grandma suffered from a heart attack. If she hadn't been sent to the hospital in time, she might not even be able to save her life.At the moment she was waiting outside the emergency room, she suddenly realized that it didn't matter whether she was being used, whether she was worthy of love, or even whether she would become famous in the future. Although grandma has recovered, the bookstore can no longer continue to operate.Ever since she started working in the radio station, only her grandma supported the entire bookstore, and she was finally exhausted. No matter how much grandma was reluctant to part with the bookstore left behind by grandpa, she had to give up.This is the place where Lin Zhenxin grew up, how could she be willing?However, there is always a moment of farewell in life, just like the song that Takada San sang popular, the lyrics say: "I'm going my way, it's time to say goodbye." That day, when she was packing her things in the bookstore, Guo Xuanhua came. "I heard you say on the show, your grandma is sick, is she okay?" "It's a heart attack. She underwent an operation and has been discharged from the hospital. It's fine, but we don't worry about letting her come back to work." After a pause, she said, "The bookstore is going to close. I plan to send these books to the library. Hall." His eyes were full of disappointment, he put down the book in his hand, and said, "I'll help you." He didn't expect that when he came, she was leaving.He quit his job in the publishing house and came back to teach at school, just hoping to see her again.He can't tell what he likes about her, and he likes the books she likes.The songs she plays are also his favorites.Isn't it because of her that he broke up with Shen Luyi?The day he saw Lin Zhenxin again in that small Italian restaurant, he suddenly realized that he liked her.He didn't know how much he regretted not opening the Christmas card she sent earlier, and then it was too late. "I separated from her," he said.Maybe it was because she knew that the time to part was coming, and she would have no chance if she didn't say anything, even though she might find him abrupt. "I know." She smiled at him, then said nothing. The flower shop next to the rented bookstore is already filled with Christmas flowers. In previous years, she and grandma would decorate the bookstore. This year, they didn't even sell Christmas cards. "The mini Christmas card you gave me that year, do you still have it this year?" he asked suddenly.After a pause, he said again: "I didn't use the third Christmas card until Christmas last year, and there are fewer and fewer friends who can send Christmas cards." He blushed as he spoke. It dawned on her that he didn't see that Christmas card until a year later. She looked at him with mixed feelings.The Christmas card she sent him was like a lost letter she thought was lost.After a long time, the letter suddenly appeared again, reminding her that the story was not over yet. "That kind of Christmas card is not for sale. If you want it, I can give it to you." With a smile from the bottom of her heart, she told him.