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The weather was bright and sunny, with blue sky and white clouds and a good mood.

One month after the Hanchung High School's school anniversary and sports party, a dark and chaotic girl who had always wanted to blow up schools and cram schools in Taiwan asked for leave again to run away.

But before taking leave, she was still struggling. Because the high school curriculum was compared to that of junior high school, all subjects suddenly jumped to an incredible level of difficulty. Even if she takes classes seriously, she can still catch up to the top 20 in the school rankings, but she plans to use the ranking list to enter university, so this ranking is not enough.

At least it's not enough for her ideal university.

But Yu Ruoling still handed in the leave card in the last week of the deadline. The reason is that if she doesn't play now, she won't have the chance to play in the future. Thinking about the turbulent life in the second and third years of senior high school, she rather trying to play until the heck in the first year.

And this time she took leave to go on a trip with her mother - an employee trip - in Little Liuqiu under the jurisdiction of Pingtung County. She heard that there are snorkeling and night tours. Snorkeling is a novel activity where one can see turtles. Even if she is ranked behind third in exam this time, it is still worth it.

The waves on the sea continued to rise as the engine on the bottom of the yacht started. The wind was strong, so the ship was shaking violently. Li Qiao, Yu Ruoling, and several company colleagues stood on the deck. Compared with the dizzy space inside the ship, the fresh air and wide view here are much more comfortable.

The shallow waves rush towards the distant shore one after another, gradually forming a silvery white fantasy world. With the salty wind blowing, the black-haired girl leaned against the pole of the boat and recorded a sailing video on her mobile phone and posted it as a limited-time update on Instergram.

Looking across the sea, Yu Ruoling felt strangely willful and rebellious, as if she deliberately put aside her schoolwork, skipped classes and ran away.

Since that incident in the third grade of elementary school, she had been immersed in various books. Although it was true that she had read other books before that, the amount of reading and the quality of the books were far from what she had read since then.

She sighed secretly, feeling that as a rebellious high school student, she seemed to be too quiet.

...She doesn’t mean to be “real” rebellious, don’t get wrong, she has no such thing as a rebellious period.

"Ling, "Wan Lanyou, one of Li Qiao's colleagues, held a single-lens camera with both hands and took a picture of the sea, "your posture is beautiful！Come, Auntie help you take a picture."

"Lanyou, don't praise her, look at her fox tail, it's almost poking me. "Li Qiao turned around and said with a smile, "Me, I'm more beautiful, hurry up and take pictures for me！”

"Naaah. Mom, how many pictures did you take just now？"

"A woman has lacked a photo forever！"

Isn’t it be “there always lack some clothes”？Is this grammatical mess really okay？Yu Ruoling twitched her mouth, and when her mother quietly turned around, she took advantage of the shutter moment to secretly make a "yeah" gesture on Li Qiao's head.

"Okay, three princesses~ "The head of one of the company's departments put on her backpack, "Get off the ship, get off the ship, the four of us are in the same room~"

They laughed together. The number of people in this small company is not that many, but the relationship is a little deeper than that of an ordinary company. By the time everyone had disembarked and gathered together, and rented their own motorcycles, it was already 1:45 pm.

The B&B is very beautiful, in a standard Nanyang island style. The open-air balcony is equipped with two or three deck chairs, and a small round table is placed between each deck chair.

Facing the setting sun, the afterglow is reflected on the balcony and glass windows, forming an irregular and broken orange mosaic, which looks extremely romantic and lyrical.

Yu Ruoling and Li Qiao coincidentally recalled that when they traveled to Australia in April this year, they walked slowly in the square of the Sydney Opera House in the evening and dusk, and felt the unparalleled relaxation and the temporary accumulation of worldly complexity, and through these beautiful things and a time when they seemed closer to God.

A group of people rode motorcycles to the bay where Vase Rock is located, which is a must-win spot for snorkeling. They were lucky enough to see as many as 7 to 8 adult turtles. Since now is the grand gathering period for sea turtles, one may almost come into contact with these precious animals that are in urgent need of conservation and reproduction if human are not careful.

As a reminder, turtles are very cute, but please pay attention to the precious 10,000 dollars in the deposit, and the Coast Guard cares about you.

Wan Lanyou is snorkeling next to Yu Ruoling. She loves taking pictures, but it's a pity that her camera cannot enter the water. The exclamations one after another spread through the sea water more clearly. Li Qiao saw a group of tropical fish. Just as she was about to reach out for some toast to feed them, a large sea turtle leisurely slid past her.

She quickly patted her daughter and Wan Lanyou next to her, but unexpectedly, the turtle swam towards the group of people who were tied to the same lifebuoy.

'Aaahhah！'

'Turn, turn！'

'Three hundred thousand！'

The three people wore oxygen masks that breathed through their mouths and could not speak, which only aroused a lot of exclamation marks in their hearts. The guide who was taking them swimming with them pulled away expressionlessly, and the turtles seemed to pass by them with angry eyes.

For the huge protection fees that could have been obtained from humans.

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After snorkeling, they changed their clothes and rode the same motorcycles back to the B&B with the sea water flowing all the way.

In the evening, the boss of the company loudly announced that it was time for dinner. A group of people immediately set up the barbecue grill, charcoal, ingredients, drinks, and the indispensable worship songs - this small company staffs' hands and feet could not be faster more, and nearly all the staffs are Christian.

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A few of the male staffs even brought out three bottles of Royal Salute that were round and evenly colored. Yu Ruoling maintains her consistent attitude：she loves wine but must abide by the law, unless her mother nods.

Then Li Qiao nodded.

A small cup of it is almost as intense as ten packs of concentrated popping candy. ...Okay, she knew this metaphor was really weird. The wine has a rich aroma, and a light sweetness spreads in the mouth after entering the throat.

Different from the usual bitterness of ordinary brewing, Royal Salute Whiskey has a strong alcohol concentration, but it is comfortable and smooth, as if it is slowly brushed by a veil. In the aftertaste, it seems that she can glimpse the vast boundless wheat fields, which makes her feels relax and luxurious. People are yearning for it and are intoxicated with it.

The group of people partyed until eight or nine in the evening, and fortunately, the back building of the B&B was almost completely booked by them. After packing up the remaining things, the B&B tour guide led a group of people out for a night tour.

From the coast of Little Liuqiu, they looked at the famous landmark of Kaohsiung - the 85th Building. And looked up again and got to know the three constellations of Sendo, Big Dipper, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and Orion. They went to a coral reef area on land for a while. After the whole trip, they didn't return to the B&B until early at midnight.

Back in the room, Yu lays on the bed with Li Qiao and play on her phone. At the table next to the bed, the department head was playing poker with another colleague. The black-haired girl, with her black waterfall-like hair hanging loose, tilted her head and played a business management healing game - Happy Aquarium. Her mother's cell phone next to her suddenly heard the words "Your Majesty！has gone…" loudly. She couldn't help but laugh out loud, guessing that her mother was watching The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem.

The last day of the staff tour was the trip to Wugui Cave. This is one of the most eerie tourist attractions in Taiwan. They didn’t have too many objections, after being reminded by local residents who generally believe in Buddhism and Taoism, they obediently followed the instructions and did not enter the cave until 13:00 in the afternoon.

As Yu Ruoling walked and looked, her head almost hit the coral reef. Even though it is noon when the sun is high, it is still quite dark inside the cave. Tourists who go out for a stroll can hardly see the road under their feet unless they turn on a flashlight.

The damp and cold wind blew rustlingly, and even though she was wearing a coat, she felt the coldness.

It's not just physical cold, there's also a chill that penetrates the bones and chills the soul. She was born to be more sensitive than ordinary people in "that aspect" of her constitution. Along the way, she kept calling the name of the man who stayed in the mind world - the four-dimensional space - to protect them.

It's not because of fear, but because this place feels really wrong to her. For the safety of herself and others, having a backer is really important.

Let's find out what the origin of Wugui Cave is after she returns to Kaohsiung, the black-haired girl quickly stepped out of the cave entrance, thinking.

Looking at the azure blue ocean that formed a straight line with the sky, reflecting the sparkling waves like broken crystals, she then turned to look at the black cave behind her which was so dark that even no light could penetrate.

She took a sip of green tea in her hand and left without looking back.

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The result of two days of leave was various small test papers on mathematics, English, geography, Chinese and history, as well as a total of 6 subjects, and a total of more than 30 pages of progress.

She laid out the five test papers on the table and planned to finish them in one lunch break today. As for the progress of the more than 30 pages scattered in various textbooks...

Just take time and watch.

Yu Ruoling was still sitting in the corner of the first row of the class. This seat gave her an inexplicable sense of security. Especially when looking out from the window here, she can see the building where Erling Church is located, and across the middle is the school where she spent the happiest three years of her school career - Zhonggang Junior High School.

What's even more perfect is that no matter how she looks at the location she choses, she can't see the Star Elementary School next to Zhonggang Junior High School.

The location was perfect. She curled up and worked hard to write the exam paper, trying to suppress the anxiety and panic that vaguely surged from the bottom of her heart. The pen in her hand moved quickly and did not stop until all five examination papers were written. She was forcing herself to think about what she should do in front of her. Every time she sat here, she inadvertently thought of things outside the school, and besides being anxious, she was still anxious.

Except for the incomparable IQ, she has almost become a female version of Tony Stark. Nestled in various types of Mark armor, he couldn't even take it off at home. The armor and the basement became a haven in his heart, or a kind of salvation, just to get rid of the uncontrollable terror and confusion after leaving the armor.

The black-haired girl put down her pen, rested her forehead with her hands and closed her eyes. Fatigue and weakness gradually came to her heart. At the end of December, this winter is getting colder and colder.

Yu sighed, took out a list from the drawer, stood up, and quietly inserted it into the roll call book.

In the next national defense class, she would go to the counseling room to chat with Jin Shu again. Although the list said "coaching interview" they both knew in their hearts that this was not done to make her "get better", just so that she can sit here and go to class every week, and not run to the top floor like she did when school first started.

Even though she didn't want to commit suicide, the shock of looking down from a high place still made her want to get closer and closer. A sense of freedom that she can jump up and fly up like an eagle.

She could not hear His voice at any time like others who had practiced for so long. At least she doesn't have this ability now, so Jin Shu stays in this school. Going to the tutoring room every week becomes her whole motivation to come to Hanchung High School.

One is motivation, and the other is spitting out all those secrets to a stranger at once. It felt relatively safe to tell people who didn't know her than people who knowing everything about her（or not everything but just, know her）.

Yu Ruoling was thinking as she walked, looking at the iconic wall of blue sky and white clouds in the counseling room, thinking inexplicably.

Maybe it's because Jin Shu has a particularly secure relationship. His name is very kind, and his appearance is also very kind. Both of them are so kind that she seems to be facing a big star.

The class bell rang, the office door was gently opened, and her hand stopped flipping through page after page of college entrance information. Jin Shu was punctual as usual.

"Ruoling, long time no see. "He said with a smile, his eyebrows curved at a very beautiful angle, "How was your trip？"

"How do you know？"

"You told me last week, but you forgot."

"It that so？"She scratched the back of her head and smiled flatteringly.

"How have you been lately？"Jin Shu brought a whole plate of biscuits and entered the consultation room with her. The wooden floor made a squeaking sound due to the footsteps, "Why are you still wearing short sweatpants after it's already December？"

"I'm not very afraid of the cold, "She said, "but it's okay to wear long pants."

She sat on a dark green sofa and crossed her legs habitually. The legs of her pants were slightly pulled up to her knees, and the blades of the electric fan above her head were spinning. The result of the coolness was that she hugged a pillow and pressed it in her arms -

- Hands are warm and whole body is warm.

Jin Shu then sat on another extended sofa and took out the recording pen from his pocket. By coincidence, his eyes were drawn to her as she hugged the pillow.

Yu dented the pillow in half and hid her hands in the compressed space. He was about to turn off the fan when he saw a shocking scar in the center of her right knee. Jin Shu couldn't help but hesitate.

This is the scariest scar he has seen since he started practicing - of course he has no more case experience - almost forming a zipper-like shape on the knee. No matter what the cause of the injury, the immediate pain must be unbearable.

Let alone a child, even adults may not be able to endure it. Just by the thickness of the scar, he could almost imagine what caused it.

She noticed Jin Shu's gaze, and Yu Ruoling subconsciously wanted to hide the rather ferocious traces, but her actions were naturally noticed by Jin Shu, who had been paying attention to her.

"Don't even think about covering it up, "He frowned and asked, "How was that happened？"

"..."

She sat on the sofa, feeling a little guilty for no reason.

...Weird, she is doing nothing and was doing nothing, it’s no need to her to feel guilty, she thought to herself. But no matter what, the sharp eyes in front of her made her not dare to raise her head at all.

She really couldn't resist this kind of "both shocked, angry and distressed" eyes.

"Kid."Jin Shu asked.