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The Socially Anxious Me Became the Class Darling After Hearing Everyone's Inner Voices
- When you think you're the most invisible dust in the classroom, but suddenly hear the heartbeat of the world
"I'll pretend to have forgotten my pen again today." I crouch in the last row of the classroom, picking at the cuff of my school uniform, staring at the stray hairs on the back of the girl in front of me-she's thinking: "How the hell do I solve the last math problem?"
This was the norm in my 17 years: socially anxious, overlooked, even clapping only when others started first. Until that stormy day, when I squatted in the corridor crying and suddenly heard my deskmate Xiaoyu's thought: "Her eyelashes are dotted with raindrops, like a drenched little kitten..."
From that day on, the world changed.
I heard the math rep mutter while flipping pages: "I actually didn't understand a thing, I just dared not ask." I heard the monitor sigh while erasing the blackboard: "If only someone would volunteer to team up with me." I even heard the stray cat at the school gate think: "The girl who always brings me bread seems upset today..."
Then, I did something a socially anxious person would never do-
I raised my hand.
After that, new keywords popped up in everyone's inner voices: "Her smile is like summer," "I want to be her friend," "Please teach me how to build a nest for stray cats..."
Now, my desk drawer overflows with notes. The top one reads: "Turns out you're not invisible-you're our secret hideout."
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If you've ever felt "not good enough" or "unseen",
this book tells you:
Sometimes, hearing the world's heartbeat is braver than being heard by it.
(P.S. The last chapter has an easter egg: even the proudest transfer student slipped a note into my textbook-"I've actually known for a while about the little sun hidden in your workbook.")