Bai Yu, Hao Ying, and the others asked her to go play. There was no competition in the morning, so Bai Yu brought two decks of poker cards. They had already set up a spot on the lawn below the teaching building. They were going to play Fight the Landlord, and whoever lost would have to slap their head.

Qiao Lan held the phone and stood on her tiptoes to look at the small parking lot outside the sports field. She looked past the students coming and going and saw the familiar Cayenne that sent Tan Mo to school every day.

Qiao Lan's eyes lit up. She quickly walked out of the sports field and let Bai Yu and the others go first. "You guys go ahead, I have something to do."

"What is it? Do you want me to go with you?" Bai Yu asked her.

"No need." Qiao Lan waved her hand and walked out of the sports field without looking back. Hao Ying couldn't help but look back. A few boys who were close to him laughed and pulled him away. "Stop looking, your eyeballs are going to fall out."

"Get lost." Hao Ying laughed and kicked the boy. Everyone laughed.

Hao Ying took the initiative to ask Qiao Lan to be his deskmate when school started. Later, he played with Bai Yu and the others who were close to Qiao Lan. Every day, he would ask Qiao Lan questions when he was free. Today, when Qiao Lan dressed up, Hao Ying was dumbfounded.

Everyone knew what Hao Ying meant to Qiao Lan.

Back then, a few of his buddies even joked about Hao Ying. Who would have thought that Hao Ying would also be around girls and spend his time chasing girls every day?

However, if this girl was a Qiao Lan, it was no wonder.

After walking in the square formation today, the school's Tieba, which wasn't very active before, was about to explode. The whole school knew the name of this top student. The post that was used to select the best joke was pushed to the top. Most of the new replies were from people who nominated Qiao Lan.

Just now, a senior from the third year of high school had come over to inquire about it.

It was no wonder that Hao Ying, who had been quite calm and collected before, couldn't sit still in front of Qiao Lan every day.

Hao Ying panicked. Fragrant cakes were in high demand now.

A few of Hao Ying's buddies who had a good relationship with Hao Ying knew Hao Ying very well. He usually looked carefree, but when it came to serious matters, he was very decisive. Perhaps he was preparing to do something big recently.

Tan Mo watched as Qiao Lan quickly ran out of the field, bypassed the surrounding railings, and appeared in front of the car in less than a minute.

She bent down and knocked on the car window. Tan Mo slowly rolled down the car window and watched Qiao Lan's face slowly appear in front of him. The first thing he saw were his favorite eyes, then her nose, and then her red lips.

She had put on makeup and looked slightly unfamiliar, but the smile on her face was still familiar.

Qiao Lan smiled and greeted Uncle Chen, then turned to Tan Mo and said, "When did you come? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I just arrived," Tan Mo said. He watched as Qiao Lan got into the car and sat in the seat next to him.

Usually, when they went out or went home together, Qiao Lan would sit next to him. In the early days, they even stayed in the same room to read and talk. Tan Mo only knew that he liked the feeling of being in the same space with Qiao Lan. When he was with Qiao Lan, he always felt more relaxed and comfortable.

However, recently, he didn't know when, but the feeling of being with Qiao Lan changed little by little.

Tan Mo was too slow when it came to feelings and emotional changes. Even if he felt that something was different, he couldn't tell what it was.

Until today, when he saw Qiao Lan so stunning. It wasn't the first time he knew that Qiao Lan was beautiful, but it was the first time that his heart couldn't help but beat faster because of her beauty.

And now, Tan Mo didn't know why, but he felt that the space in the car was so small that it made it difficult for him to breathe.

He liked to look at the other person's face and eyes when he was talking. He looked at Qiao Lan as usual, but when he met Qiao Lan's eyes, it was as if he was burned by a spark. He didn't know what to do and hurriedly looked away.

His gaze accidentally moved down and fell on Qiao Lan's white and slender waist. Tan Mo's fingers trembled, and when he lowered his head again, he saw two extremely beautiful long legs that were exposed outside.

The spark seemed to have suddenly burst into flames. Tan Mo didn't have time to distinguish what kind of emotion he was feeling at this moment. He suddenly turned his face away and closed his eyes.

His heart was in a mess, and he couldn't sort it out at all. Tan Mo could only rely on his instinct to change the topic, but his eyes still didn't dare to look at Qiao Lan.

"Is there a competition in the morning?" Tan Mo asked.

"Yes, at 11 o 'clock," Qiao Lan said. She glanced out of the car window and saw that the multi-jump competition at the edge of the field had already started. "The 800-meter heats."

"Then what are we doing now?" Tan Mo didn't know what he was talking about at all. He was like a machine that followed the conversation.

"Bai Yu brought poker cards and took a spot on the lawn next to the teaching building. She said that we'll play cards together later," Tan Mo didn't know what he was asking. Qiao Lan answered seriously. After answering, she had a new idea. She suddenly grabbed Tan Mo's arm and said happily, "Tan Mo, do you want to play with me?"

The people who asked her to play cards were all friends that she had a good relationship with. They were all friends that Qiao Lan had verified, and their characters were quite good. It would be good for Tan Mo to get to know them.

Tan Mo's body stiffened. He glanced at Qiao Lan's white neighbor and refused stiffly, "I don't know how to play cards."

"I'll teach you if you don't know how to play cards." Qiao Lan didn't think it was a problem at all. "You're so smart. You'll definitely learn after watching it once or twice. We'll be a family. I'll teach you how to play cards when the time comes."

Tan Mo's heart trembled slightly when he heard the words "we'll be a family." Just as he was hesitating, Uncle Chen, who was in front of him, said cheerfully, "I think it's pretty good. Playing cards is quite interesting. If Young Master learns how to play cards, we'll be able to play at home when Lan Lan comes."

Tan Mo was silent for a moment before he finally agreed.

Qiao Lan was very happy. However, before playing cards, she still had to change out of her clothes and remove her makeup. She went back to the dormitory and tidied everything up before coming back. Tan Mo looked at Qiao Lan, who was wearing her school uniform again, and finally dared to look at her again.

However, when he looked directly into Qiao Lan's eyes, he subconsciously wanted to look away.

On the other side, Qiao Lan had been walking for almost half an hour. Hao Ying, Bai Yu, and the others had already played a few rounds of Landlord. They seemed to be playing very happily, but in fact, Hao Ying was a little absent-minded. She would look back from time to time.

Finally, she saw the person she wanted to see come back. Hao Ying was stunned, because it wasn't just a person.

Qiao Lan left alone, but she brought Tan Mo with her when she came back.

Tan Mo's arrival silenced everyone instantly. Probably because no one expected Tan Mo to come to school during the sports day. However, after a few seconds of silence, they hurriedly said, "Welcome, welcome."

Bai Yu and the others moved a table on the ground next to the lawn and surrounded it with people. Now that Qiao Lan was here, they made room for Qiao Lan. Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo's faces for a long time. In the end, her gaze landed on Qiao Lan's face. She thought to herself, "She's still so beautiful even without her makeup."

She opened another deck of cards. "There are two more people. Let's add another deck of cards. Qiao Lan, do you want to sit here?"

"No need," Qiao Lan moved a chair and sat next to Tan Mo. "I'll sit here. Tan Mo and I are one person. What were you guys playing before? Was it Landlord?"

"Ah?

Yes, Landlord. "A boy glanced at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo before continuing," Qiao Lan, how are you at cards? Are you good? If you're good, hurry up and get Hao Ying off the stage. I can't play anymore. "

There were many people playing, so everyone had discussed who would get off the stage if they lost. Hao Ying hadn't gotten off the stage since the beginning of the game. Not only did she not get off the stage, but every time she won, she would be in pain.

Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan with a smile. Qiao Lan looked away and smiled faintly. "I'm not good at it. I just know how to play." After saying that, she turned to Tan Mo and whispered, "I'll play a few rounds first. You can watch and learn. It's very simple."

Tan Mo nodded and turned to look in Hao Ying's direction. However, he met Hao Ying's gaze.

Hao Ying was stunned for a moment, then smiled at Tan Mo. Tan Mo's eyes darkened, and he looked away. His gaze fell on Qiao Lan's hand again.

There were many people watching. Qiao Lan moved her chair close to Tan Mo so that everyone could sit down. In order to let Tan Mo understand, she even moved a little closer to Tan Mo. This attracted a few more glances from the students around them.

Qiao Lan didn't think much of it. She wasn't modest at all when she said that she was not good at cards. She rarely played these kinds of games. She only knew how to play Landlord. The cards she got weren't very good, and her card skills were average. Hao Ying snatched the landlord. She quickly won and got off the class.

Playing cards wasn't the main point. The punishment was. Especially now that the person being punished was Qiao Lan.

The other girl held her arm and acted coquettishly, asking Hao Ying to hit her gently. Hao Ying hit her with a finger. Everyone said that Hao Ying didn't know how to be gentle with girls. When the next girl got to Qiao Lan, the people around them who knew what Hao Ying was thinking immediately started to jeer.

Qiao Lan generously extended her arm. Hao Ying's finger touched Qiao Lan's arm lightly. In an instant, the jeering around them became louder.

"Hao Ying, you're treating us differently!"

"You weren't like this just now …"

Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan with a smile in her eyes. She turned around and scolded her with a smile. Qiao Lan took a deep breath and withdrew her hand. When she received the cards again, she leaned against Tan Mo's arm and felt Tan Mo's extremely stiff body.

Qiao Lan turned around and asked Tan Mo if he was feeling unwell. Tan Mo shook his head and said, "I'm fine."

The second round began. Three minutes later, Qiao Lan lost again.

Hao Ying usually played cards too much. Compared to the students who didn't play much, she was simply bullying them. Qiao Lan was gently pimped by the jeering crowd again. When the third round began, a pale hand suddenly took the cards from Qiao Lan's hand. Tan Mo said expressionlessly, "I'll do it."

The crowd instantly quieted down. Someone whispered, "Tan Mo lost. Who would dare to hit him? Isn't he afraid that something will happen to him …"

"If he loses, it's on me." Qiao Lan's face darkened. "Is that enough?"

The person who spoke glanced at Qiao Lan, then at Tan Mo, and finally at Hao Ying. He frowned and didn't say anything.

Hao Ying skillfully shuffled the cards. She frowned but didn't say anything in the end.

Qiao Lan stared blankly at Tan Mo's fingers, which were prettier than the girls in the room. When she got tired of sitting, she simply put her arm on Tan Mo's wheelchair and watched Tan Mo play cards.

"His cards are terrible," Qiao Lan whispered to Tan Mo.

"It's okay," Tan Mo said.

Qiao Lan smiled. "Of course it's okay for you. I'm the one who got hit. Play well."

Tan Mo glanced at her and whispered, "I don't know how to play."

Qiao Lan looked at Tan Mo's terrible cards. Qiao Lan felt that it was over.

In the end, Tan Mo played the first round. He blocked the landlord and gave the other farmer a card. In the end, the farmer won.

After that, Qiao Lan understood what Tan Mo meant by "I don't know how to play".

In the second round, Tan Mo got the landlord. With his excellent cards, the other person only played two cards.

In the third round, Tan Mo deliberately didn't play and tricked the other person into getting the landlord. Then, Tan Mo seized the opportunity and cleared the cards in both rounds.

Qiao Lan was stunned.

In the beginning, everyone thought that Tan Mo was just lucky. However, after Tan Mo broke Hao Ying's winning streak and monopolized the game, Bai Yu finally put down her cards, rubbed her red wrist and sighed. "If I play cards with the genius again, I'll jump off a building."

Hao Ying's brothers were speechless. Didn't he say that he didn't know how to play? Why did he end up like this?

Qiao Lan was stunned for a long time. She whispered to Tan Mo, "I thought you didn't know how to play."

"I really don't know how to play," Tan Mo said. "I can count the cards."

Qiao Lan was speechless.

Everyone played a few more rounds. Bai Yu looked at the time and turned to Qiao Lan. "Lan Lan, it's almost 10: 30. Don't you have to go check the records?"

"Then it's time to go." Qiao Lan stood up. "You guys continue playing. I'll go check the records."

Hao Ying put down the cards in her hand and stood up as well. "We've played for so long. I'm going to the supermarket to buy some things. Let's watch the competition together. Do you guys still want to play?"

"No." Bai Yu and the other girls naturally wanted to watch Qiao Lan's competition. Hao Ying and the other boys went to the supermarket.

Qiao Lan lowered her head and said to Tan Mo, "Tan Mo, I'll send you to Uncle Chen first."

She had to go to the competition later, so she wouldn't be able to care about Tan Mo.

Tan Mo nodded and took out his phone to call Uncle Chen. After a while, Uncle Chen rushed over. Qiao Lan was relieved and jogged to the field.

As soon as Qiao Lan entered the field, she bumped into Qiao Yuan.

Qiao Yuan had grown fatter after not seeing him for half a year. He rushed over excitedly and grabbed Qiao Lan's arm under everyone's surprised gaze. "Come with me."

Bai Yu frowned and pushed the little fatty away without thinking. "Who is it? Are you crazy?"

"I'm her brother," Qiao Yuan replied impatiently. He was playing with his classmates just now and a few boys urged him to bring Qiao Lan over.

Looking at Qiao Lan up close, he was still shocked by how much Qiao Lan had changed. However, he didn't have time to be shocked. His classmates were still waiting there. Qiao Yuan didn't want to waste time with Qiao Lan. "Let's go and meet my classmates."

Qiao Lan didn't hide her disgust as she pulled her arm away and turned to leave. "I'm not going."

"I already promised my friends that I would bring you over. If you don't go, I'll have to treat them to a meal …"

Qiao Lan stopped and suddenly laughed. "Then treat them to a meal. It's not the first time you stole money to treat them to a meal." Qiao Lan was in a good mood, but when she saw Qiao Yuan, her mood worsened. She didn't want to waste time with Qiao Yuan. "If you dare to bring me over, I'll tell your friends where you got the money from."

After saying that, she ignored Qiao Yuan, who was so scared that his face turned green, and walked towards the field with Bai Yu.

On the other side, Tan Mo looked at Qiao Lan's back from afar and didn't say anything. After a while, Uncle Chen asked tentatively, "Why don't we go and see how Qiao Lan is doing?

I think we can go to the stands. There are fewer people there. "

Tan Mo raised his head to look at the grandstand and nodded.

Uncle Chen pushed Tan Mo to the stands. Tan Mo sat on the high ground and finally saw Qiao Lan standing at the starting line.

She didn't wear her school uniform jacket. Instead, she wore a loose white short-sleeved shirt. She stood at the first track, which was the furthest inside, and talked to Bai Yu, who was even more nervous than Qiao Lan.

There were obviously more people around her than the others. Tan Mo recognized many of them as his classmates from Class 18, but there were also many boys he didn't know. The most eye-catching one was Hao Ying, who had just left but returned. Two minutes later, even Chen Yaoyang appeared on the field and watched from afar with Li Fan.

A few boys were sitting behind Tan Mo and playing games. They suddenly looked up and said, "Why is this race suddenly so lively? There are so many people?

Isn't that Hao Ying? Hao Ying, run? "

"Run? Can't you see it's a girls' race?"

"Then why is Hao Ying here?"

"Maybe she's here to see who's competing."

See who?

"Qiao Lan." Gossip could never be hidden, especially from the so-called famous people in school. The boys sitting behind Tan Mo happened to be students from the class next to theirs.

"Hao Ying has been chasing Qiao Lan recently. I f * cking know about it. Don't you guys know?"

Tan Mo's body suddenly stiffened.

In the distance, gunshots rang out.

The track was even more lively than before. Both sides of the track were full of students. Bai Yu was running behind Qiao Lan and cheering her on. However, a figure quickly passed by her.

The boy was tall and handsome. He was wearing a black T-shirt. The style was simple, but he looked very stylish. His long legs quickly overtook Bai Yu, causing the girls next to him to look back.

Hao Ying was running with him.

Only Hao Ying, who was being chased, would take the initiative to run with a girl.

No matter how many girls were jealous, there was only one sentence left in Tan Mo's mind.

Hao Ying is chasing Qiao Lan. Don't you know?

He didn't know.

It wasn't until this moment that Tan Mo suddenly realized where his inexplicable and strong hostility toward Hao Ying came from.

However, in the next moment, Tan Mo only had one thought.

Tan Mo's body stiffened. His hands were tightly clenched together. Because he was clenching them so tightly, he couldn't help but feel numb.

Qiao Lan was very fast. She steadily maintained the first place and was the first to reach the finish line. Tan Mo looked at the boy behind her and quickly rushed over. He unscrewed the bottle cap and handed the water in his hand to her.

He couldn't run with her. He couldn't even stand up. He also couldn't go forward and give her a bottle of water because there were so many people around her. He couldn't get close to her at all.

They were talking and laughing. They were so close to each other. He was the only one sitting there, far away from them.

The few boys behind him stopped playing their games and started gossiping.

"I didn't expect Hao Ying to take the initiative to chase someone. In the past, so many girls chased after him, but he didn't accept them."

"He followed her the whole way and even gave her water. Hao Ying really likes Qiao Lan. The girls who chased after him in the past must be heartbroken."

"Qiao Lan treats girls like that. She's good at studying and is also pretty. To be honest, it's normal to like her."

"Hao Ying is so obvious. What does Qiao Lan mean?"

"I don't know. I think he likes her too. I heard that they have a good relationship. After all, Hao Ying is so handsome …"

The athletes' march was still in his ears. It was so loud and noisy. However, at this moment, Tan Mo couldn't hear anything in his ears.

After an unknown amount of time, maybe five seconds, maybe ten seconds, he suddenly regained his hearing.

It was as if something had exploded in his head.

Hao Ying was chasing after Qiao Lan. Hao Ying liked Qiao Lan.

His inexplicable hostility wasn't because of possessiveness towards his friend.

Possessiveness, possession, these words didn't describe friendship at all.

Friendship was like what people once wrote in their essays. They all said that friendship was selfless friendship and sharing.

Possessiveness, a space where a third party couldn't interfere, was never friendship. That was the word Tan Mo didn't dare to think or say after he suddenly understood.

That was love.