Chapter 11 She and He

Previous life.

Yan Sui and Yu Shuli attend the same university.

She didn't want to go too far from home, so when she applied for the college entrance exam, she chose a nearby double-first-class university in Sushan. Yu Shuli performed poorly on the college entrance exam, with scores much lower than those in the third mock exam. After careful consideration, he applied to the same university as her.

Yu Yunxi is a classmate of Yu Shuli, who was in the same school but different department.

As Yu Shuli's girlfriend, Yan Sui had met Yu Yunxi several times at club gatherings, but they were not familiar with each other.

At that time, she was busy using her spare time to work part-time to make money, and the number of times she met with Yu Shuli was so few that she could only barely see him. Not to mention getting to know his friends and understanding his social circle.

Yan Sui learned about Yu Yunxi from her roommate.

Her roommate also went to No. 1 High School. After learning that Yan Sui's boyfriend knew Yu Yunxi, she approached her mysteriously and reminded her, "Sui Sui, I think you should pay attention to your boyfriend and Yu Yunxi!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Sui frowned slightly and looked at her roommate.

"There were rumors about Yu Yunxi back in high school, saying she was taking advantage of her good looks and family connections to have an ambiguous relationship with someone else's boyfriend. I think since your boyfriend and she are in the same club now, they're bound to have some contact, and since you're not often with your boyfriend, you should keep a close eye on them."

When she heard these words, she didn't believe that Yu Shuli would betray her, nor did she like to hear ambiguous rumors from a girl.

So she shook her head at her roommate, not really caring: "You already said it's a rumor, so let's stop spreading it. Spreading rumors about a girl is not good for her."

But at that time she didn't expect that the reminder from her roommate would become a reality.

As graduation season approaches, many couples at school break up due to post-graduation issues. Yan Sui never expected that she and Yu Shuli would be the same.

That day was peaceful, or perhaps she'd been prepared. She and Yu Shuli sat in the café where she worked, and she was even wearing the apron she wore when making coffee. They were unusually not sitting in the same row, but facing each other, looking at each other.

After a long silence, Yu Shuli finally decided to break up. He wanted to choose someone who was more suitable for him.

And that person is Yu Yunxi.

Yan Sui didn't ask him why hysterically after the breakup as she had imagined. She stared into his eyes for a long time, and finally the corners of her lips curled up slightly, a smile that seemed to be both understanding and bitter, and she said softly, "Okay."

Yu Shuli seemed to have guessed her reaction to this, or perhaps they both knew each other's personalities. But he still said something: "It's not your fault, it's mine. I'm too tired, Yan Sui. I overestimated my own willpower, and I still can't accept my current life. It's my fault, not yours."

Yan Sui hummed, picked up the cup of coffee she had made for herself on the table and took a sip.

She couldn't get used to the taste of coffee; it was too bitter.

But today, when she saw Yu Shuli coming to see her, she made a cup of coffee for herself as if she had expected it.

Yes, it's still bitter, but the bitterness of the coffee seems to mask the bitterness in my heart.

After putting down the coffee cup, she raised her head and smiled at Yu Shuli with curved lips: "I know I am good, and I know you are good too. Go live the life you want."

The breakup that day didn't seem to affect Yan Sui's mood at all. She continued to work part-time and submit resumes to companies recruiting on campus. It was as if Yu Shuli's departure was just a small loss for her, not worth wasting her emotions on.

Her roommates all said that she had a strong inner strength and she was not angry at all when her boyfriend cheated on her and chose to be with another girl and abandoned her.

The roommate who had reminded her sighed, "Hey, but Yu Shuli and Yu Yunxi are together. After graduation, he should have gone straight to Yu Yunxi's company, right? This guy is smart. He found a way out for himself as soon as he graduated. It's just that he wasted all these years of your time."

Yan Sui rarely refuted this matter.

Maybe the roommate's reminder was right, but she really had no right to stop someone from moving towards a better future.

Yu Shuli did not cheat, but he did give up himself for his own future.

This incident was unacceptable to many people. Both her roommates and younger brothers and sisters were indignant for her after learning about it. Yan Jiaping was even ready to go out to settle the score with Yu Shuli, but was stopped by Yan Sui in the end.

She shook her head and said, "Forget it, it's human nature."

Her life has sunk into the mud, and although she has been trying hard to climb out, she is still at the bottom.

It's normal that Yu Shuli doesn't want to live the same life as her.

Just like she said, it's human nature.

She seemed not affected at all by the breakup, but was even more energetic than before. She went out early every day to work part-time or go for interviews, and came back in the evening to start searching for job information without stopping.

Her roommates all lamented that even such things couldn't defeat her, and that Yan Sui's heart was truly too hard.

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But no one knew that on the day she received the email confirming her successful interview, the joy that should have been on her face was absent. The strings in her heart snapped at the moment of the successful interview, releasing the emotions that had been pent up deep in her heart for so long.

She hunched her back over the desk and cried for who knows how long. There was no one in the dormitory during graduation season, and the other roommates were all busy preparing for interviews.

The empty dormitory allowed her to vent her emotions freely without having to suppress her crying.

Fragments of her time with Yu Shuli appeared in her mind frame by frame, connected into a line, outlining the feelings in her heart that she dared not express.

In fact, she could understand Yu Shuli's giving up. Who doesn't want a better future? She had no choice, but Yu Shuli did. But she suddenly thought of the time when Yu Shuli found out about her family affairs in high school. He hugged her, his eyes red, and kept repeating one sentence:

"I will be with you, I will be with you Yan Sui, you believe me."

He felt sorry for what he had experienced, so he empathized with her and shed tears with her.

After that, Yu Shuli never left her family even when things were tough. He would work with her to find ways to make money and set up stalls with her. When she worked the night shift at a restaurant, he would wait outside for her to get off work.

On his days off, he would go home with her for a simple meal.

Even when her mother was admitted to the ICU due to depression and attempted suicide during her sophomore year, which once again added a huge expense to the family, Yu Shuli did not leave. He helped her borrow money from everywhere to pay for her mother's medical treatment.

Later, she heard from a mutual friend of hers that Yu Shuli had borrowed money from everyone around him to help with her mother's affairs. To repay the loan, he started delivering food to make money, and only paid off the last loan in his senior year.

So Yan Sui was always grateful to him because he helped her when she was in the most difficult time. Even if he broke his promise later and didn't do what he promised, she knew he tried his best.

Not knowing how long she had been crying, Yan Sui slowly calmed herself down. When she looked up again, she had returned to her previous nonchalant demeanor, collected the things on the table, and left again.

Her relationship with Yu Shuli was just like graduation season. They reached a certain point and went their separate ways.

After that, Yan Sui and Yu Shuli never saw each other again.

Many years later, when she had saved enough money and wanted to repay the loan she had taken out from Yu Shuli during college, she discovered that all of Yu Shuli's accounts had been deactivated. She asked all their mutual friends, but no one could contact Yu Shuli.

I only learned from a classmate who was in the same club with Yu Shuli at a university that Yu Yunxi went abroad, and it seemed that Yu Shuli went abroad with her.

Yan Sui could only put the money, including the credit and interest, in cash in a bag and place it at the door of Yu Shuli's brother and sister-in-law's house.

After noticing them taking the bag into the house in the dark, I left with peace of mind.

From then on, the last trace of contact between her and Yu Shuli came to an end.

In her previous life, she never saw Yu Shuli again until she died in a car accident.

Just like the relationship between them, Yu Shuli was left on the university campus together.

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After the opening ceremony, the school sports meet officially began.

Yan Sui doesn't like sports, but she signed up for basketball shooting under the coercion of the class physical education committee.

The spot shooting event was on the second day of the sports meet, so she had no events today, and there were no group events in her class that she needed to cheer on. When Tan Shu found out, he dragged her to the long jump venue to watch her compete.

During the sports meet, the school relaxed the conditions and allowed students to use electronic devices such as cameras.

Yan Sui held up the digital camera that Tan Shu brought from home and squatted outside the sand field to film her long jump.

It was a bright sunny day, the sun hanging high above her head, its glare obscuring the screen of her digital camera. She used her free hand to cover the top of the camera, but still couldn't see the camera's image clearly.

Just as she was worried about not being able to see the picture clearly, someone suddenly stood behind her. The shadow cast by the figure just happened to cover her squatting body.

In the shadows, the camera's image becomes clear.

Yan Sui was delighted and was about to take this opportunity to take a few photos of Tan Shu across the battlefield when a voice suddenly came from behind her -

"This way, can you see more clearly?"