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Yao Mingyue has been gone for over twenty minutes, and Xu Musen glanced at the time; the grilled meat rice is already getting cold.

He just wanted to stand up and go to the convenience store to find her.

But in the next second, he heard the sudden halt of the piano music from the campus broadcast.

"Cough..."

A crisp cough, a familiar tone wafted out from the broadcast, echoing across every corner of the campus.

"Hello everyone, I am Yao Mingyue from Class 2 of Senior Year, sorry for taking up the broadcast time today, there's a song I want to dedicate to someone, and there are many things I want to say to you..."

The campus broadcast of the school accepts song requests every noon, but usually, it plays birthday wishes or motivational music.

Of course, some people subtly play confession songs, and the school generally turns a blind eye.

But it's the first time hearing something directly spoken out like today.

"Wow, that's quite bold, directly naming the confession!"

"And it's a girl, judging by the voice, she must look good too, wow, I'm envious..."

"Class 2 of Senior Year... Yao Mingyue?? That's strange, is there such a girl in our class?"

At this moment, whether students are still diligently writing in the classroom, enjoying their meal in the cafeteria, or leisurely strolling on the playground, they all curiously perked up their ears.

Especially the students from Class 2 of Senior Year, who were even more curious, opening windows one after another to hear more clearly.

In the office, Director Wang, who's balding, was drinking wolfberry water from his thermos cup, looking at the speech he prepared for the afternoon about preventing early campus romance.

The young couple from last time still hasn't been caught, which cost him his bonus last month, and it made him angry.

The sound of the broadcast also startled him, what's going on?

He picked up his phone and called the music teacher on duty in the broadcast room.

"Xiao Liu, what happened on the broadcast just now?"

At this moment, Music Teacher Liu was standing at the door, looking at Yao Mingyue sitting by the piano.

The noon sunlight fell on her, with indescribable emotions in her eyes, as if art had walked into reality.

She couldn't bear to ruin the atmosphere at this moment.

Thus, for the sake of art, she prepared to make a decision against school rules.

"Um, Director Wang... there's nothing much here, a student is practicing a song, probably reciting lines, I'm watching, it's fine."

"It's fine as long as there's nothing; today's students just fool around with romance all day long, really..."

Director Wang grumbled a few words and then hung up the phone.

At this moment, the whole campus was waiting for the next voice.

Xu Musen stood quietly in this tranquil backyard, he lifted his head, silently looking towards the source of the broadcast sound.

"Ding... Ding... Ding..."

Simple and clear piano notes came from the broadcast, a simple prelude, while the characteristic light melancholy sentiment and melody already let many recognize it.

Dandelion's Promise...

"The dandelions beside the elementary school fence.

Are memory-fragrant scenery.

The cicada sounds from the playground during the afternoon nap.

Years later, still pleasing to the ear..."

Yao Mingyue's voice flowed through the broadcast, despite the poor sound quality, her clear and delicate voice couldn't be concealed.

In just four short lines, she had already delivered the most beautiful daily youth to everyone's ears.

And these outdated broadcast speakers with electric currents and hoarse sound quality made Xu Musen feel as if he returned to childhood.

That was, the unspoken understanding between them.

"Folding wishes into paper airplanes and sending them as letters.

Because we waited in vain for that meteor.

Seriously toss the coin deciding fate.

Yet unsure of where it might lead.

The promise of growing up together

So clear, I believe the pinky swear

The agreed travel together

Is your only insistence now, a whim..."

They were childhood friends, even more like siblings from different parents.

They were born in the same hospital, lived under one roof, and grew up in the indulgence of each other's parents...

From kindergarten, they were always in the same school, possessing an even deeper bond than real siblings.

Yet, because they weren't siblings, they also had distinct emotions from a young age.

At that time, perhaps they still didn't understand what love was, they just knew, they wanted to be together forever. For original chapters go to novᴇlfire.net

Yao Mingyue still remembers once naively asking him.

"Will we also grow apart like other kids when we grow up?"

Xu Musen however, seriously retorted: "Why would we grow apart?"

"Because when we grow up we have our own things, we can't play together every day..."

"But our parents are adults, aren't they also able to be together often for meals?"

"What if we study and aren't in the same school?"

"Won't happen, if you go to that school I'll go with you."

"What... what if we don't live together, last year Little Mei from next door moved away..."

"I won't move away, and even if I do, I'll take you with me."

"You're not an adult yet, what you say doesn't count... what if, in the future, you grow up and have to go to work like mom and dad, and we can't see each other every day..."

"Then I'll find a job that can be done at home, so we can keep playing together! We can still go to many places to play together..."

"What if you grow up and don't keep your word? Grown-ups love to lie..."