"Heh... I'm nothing, but I'm going to marry Qin Chengyao. Just this alone makes me win over you."
Liu Xuejiao looked at Ji Siyue and said fiercely.
But even with such an attitude from her, Ji Siyue just shrugged nonchalantly: "So what?"
Liu Xuejiao: "..."
Yeah, so what?
She had called Ji Siyue out, doing everything possible to make her regret and feel inferior, but it seemed that Ji Siyue simply didn't care.
Just like what she said - so what?
Ji Siyue didn't care, and that meant she had won.
Liu Xuejiao took out an invitation. Ji Siyue glanced at it and stuffed it into her bag.
After leaving the coffee shop, the wind outside had turned cold.
Ji Siyue tightened her clothes, looked at the sky, sniffed, and tried hard to hold back the tears that had been building up for a long time.
It was finally going to end. Liu Xuejiao coming to tell her this specifically seemed to be a wake - up call.
It was time to end it.
That night, Ji Siyue went to a bar alone, rented a private room, and drank a lot of alcohol. When she left, her feet felt like they were floating, but her mind was extremely clear.
She walked slowly and reached the street in the middle of the night. Looking at Yulong Street with the occasional passing vehicle, she finally felt a pang in her nose. Unable to hold back, she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Qin Chengyao! I wish you happiness!!!"
The shout was extremely loud. A stray cat passing by looked at her warily. Ji Siyue bent down to meet its gaze, smiled, picked it up, and slowly walked back home.
Xiao Zhang was sleeping when he heard someone knocking on the door. He was too annoyed to care, but the noise outside managed to drive away his drowsiness.
Helplessly, he had to go open the door with a belly full of anger.
When he saw who was behind the door, he managed to hold back his anger.
"Ji Siyue?"
Yes, Ji Siyue, as soft as a pile of mud, was holding a dirty little orange cat and leaning against the door frame. She looked like an unwanted little thing.
When Ji Siyue saw Xiao Zhang come out, she stuffed the cat in her arms into his hands and turned around wordlessly and went back.
Xiao Zhang and the cat just stared at each other, both a bit confused.
After closing the door, Ji Siyue collapsed directly on the floor and then slowly sank down, lying on the cold floor.
The coldness of the floor seemed to calm her restless heart and body. Taking advantage of the alcohol, she allowed herself to madly think about that person's every frown and smile in her mind, temporarily forgetting that she was coveting someone else's fiancé.
Thinking of that person's name, Ji Siyue slowly fell into a deep sleep, and her thoughts drifted away bit by bit...
...
"Bang!"
When she was hit on the head with a stick, Ji Siyue let out a scream and got up reluctantly, squinting her eyes and shouting, "Who is it!"
"Your teacher! You're not being serious in my class! You're already a sophomore in high school!" the person shouted.
"My teacher? What teacher? What sophomore year in high school?" Ji Siyue still didn't understand what was going on and squinted her eyes to ask again.
Suddenly, there came laughter in her ears. It wasn't just one person's laughter but the combined "roar" of many people's laughter.
This kind of laughter was most common in the student days.
Everything in front of Ji Siyue gradually became clear.
A bright classroom, a blackboard with English written on it, faces with kind - hearted ridicule, blue curtains dancing in the wind, slanting sunlight shining in, and the homeroom teacher wearing glasses.
This... wasn't this the most familiar scene from her high - school days?
Ji Siyue hadn't had a dream for a long time, and everything in this startling dream seemed so real...
Tears quickly filled her eyes and were almost about to burst out.
When the homeroom teacher saw Ji Siyue crying, he patted her on the shoulder again and said, "Are you okay? What did you dream about? Am I so wrong for waking you up that you're this upset? I'll apologize to you?"
The feeling of the homeroom teacher patting her on the shoulder was extremely real, which made Ji Siyue stunned.
"This..."
Wasn't this a dream? Why could she feel it?
"Still not awake? Forget it! It's almost time for class to end. Students, copy the content the teacher taught today twice when you get home. I'll check it randomly in class tomorrow. That's it. School is over!"
All the students stood up and said, "Goodbye, teacher." Only Ji Siyue still sat there motionless, as if thinking about whether this was a dream or reality.
At this time, a fair hand tapped in front of her twice.
"Did you have a dream just now?"
This voice was extremely familiar. Ji Siyue subconsciously looked over and saw a person.
At seventeen, he looked a bit immature, but his eyes were brighter than when he was twenty - five.
"I... had a dream?"
Ji Siyue was now confused. Where was the dream?
Was this the dream? Or were those heart - wrenching futures the dream?
Qin Chengyao reached out to touch Ji Siyue's forehead and said again, "It seems you really aren't awake yet. You just looked like someone who had their beautiful dream interrupted - "
Before he could finish his words, Qin Chengyao's eyes widened slightly, and his pupils seemed to be in an earthquake.
Because Ji Siyue suddenly rushed over and hugged him tightly.
Ji Siyue threw herself into Qin Chengyao's arms and refused to lift her head. She just replied, "It wasn't a beautiful dream. It was a nightmare."
It was a nightmare.
Although Qin Chengyao didn't understand why Ji Siyue suddenly became like this, he still stretched out his trembling hand and comforted her with a somewhat immature touch: "Don't cry. I don't know what dream you just had, but it's good that you're awake."
"Yeah. It's good that I'm awake."
Ji Siyue packed her things and quickly resumed her role as a sophomore in high school.
She left school with the person she liked, ate snacks, and they parted ways at the intersection and went back to their respective homes.
Days passed like a blink of an eye. Before Ji Siyue could react, it was already the day before graduating from senior high school.
That day was the day when Qin Chengyao and Ji Siyue got together.
They hugged in front of the blackboard and promised to be together no matter what happened in the future. Their clasped hands seemed to be able to break through all the hardships in the world.
The next day was the college entrance examination.
After leaving the examination room, Ji Siyue stopped at the intersection in front of the examination room.
Her heart suddenly started beating faster. Her body uncontrollably stood in the middle of the road. She let the cars roar past her ears but couldn't move an inch.
What... was going on?
Ji Siyue vaguely felt that she would definitely have a car accident today, and after the accident, it seemed that something big would happen...