[Cool-headed and rational gentle confidante x Sunny and cheerful (?) puppy boy]
One morning, reborn, Yan Sui returned to her seventeen-year-old self. A high-tech entity calling itself a "...
Chapter 14 He Doesn't Believe It
The system did not answer Yan Sui's question in the end. The voice disappeared from her mind as if it had crashed.
Yan Sui found its reaction a little funny. Without the system telling her, she had a vague answer in her heart.
Because of this little episode, Yan Sui's anxiety about the unsolvable answer to Yu Shuli's question was greatly reduced.
Back at the rest area where the class was located, Chen Ling was standing in the stands cheering for her classmates who were running on the track.
Seeing Yan Sui, she walked over and took Yan Sui's arm: "Come and cheer with me."
Yan Sui followed her strength and came to the edge of the railing: "Who are you cheering for now?"
"Jiang Luonan! He's in first place now! Did you see that?"
In the 400-meter race, Jiang Luonan from the same class came first in the group.
Yan Sui wasn't a particularly outgoing person. She stood at the front railing of the stands, with classmates from various classes behind her. Too embarrassed to wave her arms and cheer for her classmates like Chen Ling did, she simply covered her mouth with her hands and shouted a few "Come on!" toward the track.
The 400-meter race ended quickly, and Jiang Luonan won first place in the group.
Chen Ling shouted excitedly.
Even happier than Chen Ling was the physical education teacher who was standing beside her and watching all the classmates compete.
He couldn't wait to turn around and share the current class scores with Chen Ling, saying, "Jiang Luonan's group is first right now. I think there's hope of making it to the finals."
"The list of finalists for the 400m will be announced when the meeting is over, right?"
"Yes, I'll pay attention to it later."
After talking about the game, Chen Ling turned around and put her arm around Yan Sui's wrist. "I didn't have time to ask you just now, but weren't you going to watch your friend's game? Didn't you say you were going to have lunch with her at noon?"
Yan Sui: "A student in their class was injured. Since she was the student life committee member, she helped to find the teacher."
"Injured? Is that the one who just fell after a hundred meters?"
Yan Sui recalled the race Yu Shuli participated in, and wasn't sure if it was the 100-meter race. "Maybe? I don't know."
"Wen Qingman and I were waiting for someone at the 100-meter finish line. We happened to see someone fall down as they were crossing the finish line. Their face was covered in blood, and they were helped to the infirmary by their classmates."
After listening to the time, Yan Sui guessed that the person Chen Ling was talking about was probably Yu Shuli, "It should be the same person."
"When that man and his classmate walked past us, I heard the classmate ask him why he fell, and he just said he was distracted," Chen Ling said with a sigh, "He can lose his concentration while running. He fell pretty hard!"
Chen Ling was talking to herself and didn't notice the change in Yan Sui's expression.
Recalling what Yu Shuli did before running, Yan Sui's thoughts were lost for a moment, and she couldn't help muttering: "Yeah, even running can make me lose my mind..."
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"Now, let me announce the men's 400m finalists. First place: Chen Lei, Science Class 3. Second place: Chen Sheng, Arts Class 5. Third place...seventh place: Jiang Luonan, Arts Class 1."
Physical Education Teacher Qin Yuanjia breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the names of his classmates as he wished.
Yan Sui stood behind him and noticed that his expression was relaxed. She took this opportunity to step forward and said, "Qin Yuanjia."
Qin Yuanjia turned around: "What's wrong, Sui?"
Yan Sui: “…”
Yan Sui was choked by his sudden familiar address, but thinking that he was in a good mood at the moment and she also had something to ask him, she did not argue with him about the address.
"I want to ask you something."
"how?"
Yan Sui lowered her eyes and sorted out her words in her mind: "Do you know Yu Shuli?"
Qin Yuanjia grinned instantly: "I know him! He's from the Science Class. We often play basketball together."
After he finished speaking, he narrowed his eyes and leaned closer slyly, "Why are you suddenly asking me about him? Are you interested?"
Yan Sui pushed him away with a stern face and changed the subject: "Did you tell him I wanted to run 3,000 meters?"
Hearing this, Qin Yuanjia frowned and fell into deep thought: "Really? Why do I remember that you don't have a 3,000-meter run?"
Seeing Qin Yuanjia's expression of being completely clueless about this matter, Yan Sui was about to wonder if Yu Shuli was lying to her, when Qin Yuanjia suddenly slammed his palm and said, "I remember now."
"Are you talking about what he asked me yesterday afternoon? He asked me about it when he came to play basketball with me after school, and I pointed at Chen Ling. He didn't mention her name, and we didn't talk about it afterwards. We went to the court to play basketball."
Yan Sui pondered these words carefully and asked, "How did he ask it then?"
"Why did he ask? Let me think. It seems he was asking me who in our class would participate in the 3,000-meter race, and I pointed at Chen Ling." At this point, Qin Yuanjia guessed the strangeness and looked at her in surprise. "What's wrong? Did he misunderstand Chen Ling's participation in the 3,000-meter race as your participation?"
Yan Sui said "hmm".
"Maybe you two were sitting together at the time, and I didn't mention my name, and he didn't ask, so maybe he saw it wrongly. Is this okay? Participating in the 3,000 meters is not a secret."
Yan Sui waved her hand: "It's nothing, I just ran into him today and he asked me something, I felt a little strange."
"Oh, that's no big deal. No one from their class is running the 3,000 meters anyway, so they won't be competing with ours."
Yan Sui smiled and said, "Yeah."
At this moment, Qin Yuanjia's name was called from behind them. Qin Yuanjia said hello to Yan Sui and left first.
Yan Sui still stood there without moving, still thinking about Qin Yuanjia's words and Yu Shuli's explanation.
"Host."
As soon as Qin Yuanjia left, the system appeared in her mind, “He didn’t lie.”
"Who?" Yan Sui answered subconsciously in her heart, but quickly replied, "Qin Yuanjia? He is not lying."
"So what are you thinking about?"
Yan Sui bit her lip lightly, and when she looked up again, a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
"He didn't lie, but he lied."
In the distance, Chen Ling waved at her.
Yan Sui stopped thinking about this question and walked quickly towards Chen Ling.
After chatting with Qin Yuanjia, she was certain of one thing.
It seems that in order to find out what happened to Yu Shuli, we have to find him and ask him about both the old and new issues when he reveals any flaws again.
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At noon of the sports meeting, Yan Sui slightly changed the direction of the story based on her memories from her previous life.
She offered to help Chen Ling deliver the information and asked him to stay in the classroom to prevent him from spraining his ankle when going down the stairs as he did in his previous life.
This time, Yan Sui wants Chen Ling to successfully participate in the 3,000 meters in the afternoon.
Yu Shuli's strangeness made her not dare to take the risk of participating in the 3,000-meter race in the afternoon.
At the beginning, Yan Sui meant to change the timeline of the choir, and the subsequent story would change like a butterfly effect, and her contact with Yu Shuli would become less and less.
This way she can complete the task given to her by the system.
However, after being reborn, he encountered all kinds of strange things about Yu Shuli.
And what he had accidentally let slip this morning due to negligence. These things told Yan Sui that Yu Shuli was not simple.
She was unwilling to take the risk knowing that the two of them would be connected.
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The 3,000-meter race started in the afternoon. In the stands of the class rest area, Yan Sui noticed Yu Shuli with a bandage on his face appearing on the playground.
She remembered what Yu Shuli said -
"If I can get back in the afternoon, can I come and cheer you up?"
Yan Sui stood up, and her protruding figure allowed the people in the audience to notice her position at a glance.
The eyes of both parties met in the air. Yan Sui looked down at Yu Shuli and saw a hint of surprise on his face, which was mostly covered by gauze.
She didn't believe him, and he didn't believe her.
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The sports meet lasted for three days, and in the next two days, Yan Sui rarely met Yu Shuli again.
Perhaps because she almost discovered his lie on the first day, he restrained himself a lot in the next two days and no longer appeared beside her suddenly.
The school sports meet officially came to an end at three o'clock on Friday afternoon.
Yan Sui and Tan Shu went home together.
Because classes ended much earlier than usual that day, Tan Shu suggested going to the boutiques in the mall. Yan Sui, thinking she had nothing to do in the afternoon, agreed.
The shopping mall is not in the same area as the residential area where their family lives, but there is a direct bus to the school gate, which takes only about ten minutes to get there.
Tan Shu has always loved visiting these boutiques, but Yan Sui has little interest in them. However, she couldn't stop Tan Shu from liking them, so she dragged her to visit one boutique after another.
By the time the two of them had almost finished shopping in all the boutiques in the mall, Tan Shu was already holding two bags in his hands.
Yan Sui didn't buy anything, but when she saw two nice-looking clips, she bought them and prepared to give them to her sister when she got home.
Tan Shuyi ate two ice creams in the afternoon. Before leaving, her stomachache was unbearable, so she asked Yan Sui to find a nearby cafe to wait for her while she went to the bathroom.
After Tan Shu left, Yan Sui looked through her shopping bag and realized that she had forgotten to buy something for her brother.
Yan Jiaping and Yan Jiaan, a pair of twins, have the characteristics of twins. They have been fighting all the time since they were young. The gifts she prepares for them must be in duplicate, otherwise the brother and sister will quarrel.
Yan Sui thought of the boutique she had just visited with Tan Shu, which had a lot of things that boys would like, so she immediately sent a message to Tan Shu and went back to pick out a gift for Yan Jiaping.
The boutique is located next to the ladies' section of the shopping mall. When Yan Sui finished paying and came out of the boutique, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in her sight.
Almost instantly, she retracted her steps from the boutique, using the forehead-high shelves to shield her body.
After being silent for about half a minute, she estimated the time and quietly peeked out to look for a man and woman who had just walked outside.
Yan Sui's gaze searched the crowd for a while, and finally settled on the entrance of the Ladies' Hall.
Her heart had been beating wildly the moment she saw the couple, and during the half minute she waited for them to pass by, her heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was about to burst out of her mouth.
Her adrenaline surged, and no matter how she tried to calm herself down, the excitement she couldn't hide made her face flush.
Yan Sui walked out of the boutique quickly, staring at the backs of the man and woman, and followed them into the ladies' room.
Catching Yan Zhaoting and his cheating partner together in the mall was an unexpected event in Yan Sui's plan.
Before Yan Zhaoting's plan succeeded, he had always been very careful about his infidelity and would not leave any evidence that could be used to accuse others of his infidelity.
Even though Yan Sui sneaked into his study many times, she could not find any evidence of his infidelity.
If she hadn't known about this because she was reborn, she wouldn't have been able to find any trace of her father's infidelity in Yan Zhaoting's daily life.
No wonder it wasn't until the truth came out in my previous life that I realized Yan Zhaoting had cheated on me and I was ready to safely withdraw from this family and company debts.
Yan Sui took out her cell phone and took a picture of Yan Zhaoting and the strange woman from behind.
But she knew clearly that just a few photos of their backs could not explain anything. Risking being discovered, Yan Sui quickly pressed the shooting button with the help of the human-shaped model outside the glass, and took several photos of Yan Zhaoting and the strange woman.
She hid to one side, her fingers pressing quickly on the keys of her mobile phone.
But because of her excitement, her trembling fingers always pressed the wrong buttons, her heart became more and more anxious, and her hands moved faster and faster.
Finally, among a pile of blurry photos, she saw a clear photo that clearly captured the faces of Yan Zhaoting and the woman.
Yan Sui's tightly gripped heart suddenly relaxed, and physiological tears instantly welled up from her eyes, falling uncontrollably.
She cried and laughed, constantly wiping the tears from her eyes.
Even though her strange behavior caused passers-by to stop and stare, Yan Sui did not feel embarrassed at all.
She held the phone tightly in her hand. It was a small phone, and the photo stored in it made her feel a little satisfied.
When Tan Shu came to find her, Yan Sui had already calmed down and was waiting for her at the door of the cafe.
Tan Shu was a little embarrassed and clasped his hands together: "I'm sorry, Sui Sui, for making you——"
Before she could get close, Yan Sui in front of her suddenly hugged her shoulders.
Tan Shu opened his mouth and noticed her red eyes. His thoughts raced, and he almost thought that Yan Sui was angry because she had waited for her for too long, and this hug was the last before they broke up.
Thinking of this, Tan Shu quickly slid down on his knees and apologized: "I'm sorry, Sui Sui! It's my fault! I made you wait for so long, don't be angry! I'll treat you to dinner tonight!"
Yan Sui burst into laughter and said, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Aren't you crying because you waited for me for too long?"
Yan Sui: "What are you thinking about?"
She hugged Tan Shu again and whispered, "How could I be angry..."
Thank you for letting me wait for you for these ten minutes.
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After returning home, Yan Sui saved the photos taken in the afternoon into her computer for future use.
She specially bought a USB drive to store the things she would use to attack Yan Zhaoting in the future.
When uploading the photos to the computer, Yan Sui's eyes paused when they met the face of the woman next to Yan Zhaoting.
When taking pictures this afternoon, she was too excited. The joy of taking the picture washed away all her rationality. At that time, she was still immersed in the joy of successfully taking the picture and did not notice the strangeness of the woman's face in the photo.
Yan Sui slid the mouse lightly to enlarge the photo, and his eyes swept across the woman's face inch by inch.
There was something very familiar about her features.
But for a moment, Yan Sui couldn't remember who this sense of familiarity came from.