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"Love only takes up a very, very small part of life."
"There are many things in this world far more important than dating."
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These two sentences
were said to Xu Yong by one of his best bros a few days ago, on a sunny, breezy afternoon.
As for this best bro of his, that was a long story.
That year, they had just started their first year of high school.
Xu Yong sat in the last row of the classroom, while a boy named Lin Tian was assigned as his deskmate and sat by the window.
From the very first moment he saw Lin Tian, Xu Yong knew
that he and this guy, who wore a deadpan expression every day and seemed terrible at talking,
would absolutely never get along.
But one time, when Xu Yong secretly ate Lin Tian's takeout and got caught, Lin Tian instantly turned into a horse hunter, slaughtered Xu Yong's entire ancestral line within three seconds, and declared that he wanted to personally sample the offerings made to Xu Yong's mother—
Xu Yong's eyes filled with tears.
He immediately knew that Lin Tian was the brother he had been born to different fathers and mothers with.
Though in the days that followed, Xu Yong often cursed Lin Tian for having no mother, deep down, he had always admired this good bro of his.
He studied diligently and never let himself be distracted.
Whenever he set his mind on something, he always worked hard to achieve it.
An "orphan" in a certain sense, he had still relied on his own will to rank among the best in academics, work part-time to support himself, and make it all the way to where he was today.
So whenever Xu Yong cursed him for having no mother,