20 Chapter 20: Questioning Life

◎He pursed his dry lips and stood still in the darkness◎

"Haha..." Wu Yahua laughed awkwardly twice.

It's really embarrassing and confusing.

Wu Yahua wanted to dig a rat hole and crawl into it again.

After Xie Yun successfully scanned the QR code and added him as a WeChat friend, Wu Yahua couldn't wait to leave with a bag of Chinese medicine.

"Bye, thank you for your luck."

As soon as she turned around, Wu Yahua bumped into a tree.

It was a tree planted outside the girls' dormitory. She didn't know its scientific name. Wu Yahua only knew that everyone called it the itchy tree. If you scratched the branches of the tree with your fingers, the leaves would shake.

Wu Yahua, a huge man, bumped into the itchy tree, and the whole tree was shaking with joy, and its leaves were swaying.

Xie Yun asked her if she was okay. She rubbed her forehead which was dizzy from the collision. She could hardly tell up from down, left from right, and didn't know where the dormitory door was.

"I'm fine, bye."

Wu Yahua ran up to the third floor in small steps before stopping, holding onto the wall to catch her breath. After catching her breath, she climbed the stairs step by step and returned to dormitory 607.

Putting the Chinese medicine aside, the most urgent thing is to check Xie Yun’s circle of friends.

The permissions are visible for half a year, and there are only a few forwarded news and current affairs in the circle of friends.

Looking at his WeChat avatar again, Wu Yahua used two fingers to zoom in and out on the screen.

His profile picture was a cow cat. Wu Yahua wasn't sure if it was herself. When she was a cat, her activity areas were mainly Xie Yun's dormitory and the campus of World University.

The men's dormitory is different from the women's dormitory. The full-length mirror that is most common in the women's dormitory is not available in the men's dormitory.

There wasn't even a desktop mirror in the men's dormitory. Wu Yahua had never seen what she looked like as a cat. She only knew that her paws had pink pads, and her feet and legs were white. She turned her head and licked the fur on the cat's back and saw that the fur on its body was black.

She was basically certain that she was a black and white cat, but she was not sure if she was the same cat as the one in Xie Yun's WeChat avatar.

What if Xie used an online picture as his WeChat avatar?

Wu Yahua cut open the bag of Chinese medicine, tilted her head back and gulped down the medicine.

I hope that after seeing a doctor and taking some medicine today, my insomnia at night will improve.

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Xie Yun suddenly opened his eyes while lying on the bed, with big beads of sweat on his forehead. Everyone was sleeping soundly, but he seemed to be abandoned and isolated by the world, waking up at an inappropriate time.

He pursed his dry lips and remained motionless in the darkness.

This time he didn't wake up from the dream because he dreamed of Wu Yahua, but he dreamed back to his childhood when his parents had divorced. His mother had a boyfriend at that time, and Xie Yun called him Uncle Song.

At that time, my mother was only 28 or 29 years old, and Uncle Song was about 31 years old.

Uncle Song teaches junior high school mathematics at a famous local experimental middle school. He is very kind to Xie Yun. Every time he sees him, he brings toys and snacks to Xie Yun, and also takes the initiative to offer to tutor Xie Yun with his homework.

Perhaps because his parents divorced when he was young, Xie Yun grew up without a father, so he naturally regarded Uncle Song as his father.

But one day, while his mother was out, this "father" took off Xie Yun's pants and started to molest him, claiming that this was for Xie Yun's good and that he did this because he liked Xie Yun.

Xie Yun was already in elementary school at that time, not a kindergarten kid who knew nothing. Although he realized that this was wrong and shouted loudly to try to stop Uncle Song from violating him, the beast did not stop his criminal behavior.

The power disparity between an adult and a primary school student is too great.

There was a physical education class the next afternoon. Xie Yun used the excuse of having a stomachache to ask the physical education teacher for leave as he didn't want to run.

The physical education teacher is a stubborn old man. As long as he doesn't allow it, students have to get wet even if it rains. He is a little lenient with girls, but very strict with boys.

Xie Yun said he had a stomachache and didn't want to run, but the physical education teacher insisted that he run.

The female students finished by running one lap of 400 meters, while the male students had to run two laps of 800 meters.

Xie Yun bravely ran for a lap and a half before collapsing from exhaustion. The male students behind him stopped urgently and shouted to the physical education teacher who was sitting in the stands playing Landlord on his phone, "Teacher Wang, this is bad! Xie Yun has fallen."

The physical education teacher stood up and heard a student shout again: "Oh no, Teacher Wang, Xie Yun's butt is bleeding and his pants are dirty."

The matter ended up in nothing. Uncle Song soon broke up with Xie Yun's mother Xie Baiyang and married a female teacher who had been divorced twice and had two sons.

Xie Yun didn't say anything, and Xie Baiyang never knew what the man surnamed Song did to Xie Yun.

That incident caused trouble to the little Xie Yun, and he became sensitive and cautious. After entering junior high school, Xie Yun understood more and realized that he had been molested by a damn pedophile and a dead gay.

The nightmare that woke Xie Yun up tonight was about Uncle Song who existed in his childhood.

He had a chubby face and wore a pair of black-framed glasses. He walked towards Xie Yun with a smile and said, "Xie Yun, uncle likes you."

A pair of white calf socks were worn over the calves exposed by the white shorts.

The big hands stretched out, and the black shadow covered Xie Yun. Xie Yun retreated in fear in his dream, and did not wake up from the nightmare until three o'clock in the morning.

After waking up in fright, Xie Yun couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He was afraid that if he fell asleep, the beast would come to find him in his dream again, so he had to keep his eyes open until dawn.

There are not many courses in the third year, which is a little easier than the intensive courses in the second year. Graduation is in one year, and Xie Yun is preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Wu Yahua has no expectations for going to school and studying, and taking the postgraduate entrance examination is not an option for her. She has no plans for the future and just lets things take their course. Especially after experiencing turning into a cat and then turning back into a human, all the strange things happened in her life. She only hopes for an ordinary and peaceful life in the future.

She doesn't want a life full of twists and turns, she wants an ordinary life, not something bizarre.

She also hopes that she can have a good and complete sleep during her insomnia, and when she wakes up from a beautiful dream, her world will return to normal.

The parents did not divorce, and Chen Xi, who had disappeared from everyone's memory, reappeared.

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In the junior year's course schedule, Xie Yun's class and Wu Yahua's class did not have any common large classes to attend. Wu Yahua's frequency of seeing Xie Yun in class once a week dropped to zero from the previous semester.

Although Wu Yahua added Xie Yun as a WeChat friend through many coincidences, it was impossible for her to chat with someone on WeChat for no reason. In Wu Yahua's view, this was undoubtedly an act of harassment.

Besides, she didn't have the courage to harass others, so she could only repeatedly click on Xie Yun's circle of friends and stare blankly.

Two weeks after school started, students began signing up for elective courses.

After a fierce battle in the Internet cafe with super fast internet speed, Wu Yahua avoided her main course and grabbed an elective course on mobile phone photography. This elective course has always been the first choice and popular elective course for many students because the course is simple and credits can be easily obtained.

Wu Yahua felt really lucky to be able to get this elective course.

This class is in the second period on Friday afternoon.

After Wu Yahua finished her first professional class in the afternoon, she rushed to take this elective course.

Before the first day of this elective course, Wu Yahua's period arrived early, so she frantically borrowed a sanitary napkin from a female classmate. After class, she went to the bathroom to deal with this emergency.

Wu Yahua only pulled up her pants when the bell rang.

The elective course teacher stood in front of the podium and started calling the roll.

As soon as Wu Yahua's name was called, she appeared at the front door of the classroom, raised her hand and whispered "Here". She bent down and lowered her head, glancing at the crowded classroom. Seeing that there was an empty seat in the last row, she trotted over and sat down.

She didn't even see who was sitting next to her.

She took her schoolbag off her shoulders and held it in her arms, unzipped it, took out the thermos and drank the hot water.

"What a coincidence, we meet again." Xie Yun's familiar voice came.

Fortunately, Xie Yun greeted her after she finished drinking the water, otherwise she would have sprayed a mouthful of hot water on the back of the head of the classmate sitting in front of her.

Turning around and seeing Xie Yun sitting next to him, Wu Yahua's eyes lit up. "You, you, you are also taking this elective course."

Xie Yun: "Yes, I didn't get a spot in the online class, but the teacher had 30 spots available for offline classes, so my classmate signed me up."

"Very good, very good." Wu Yahua sighed awkwardly and did not continue chatting with Xie Yun.

When the two of them first met, they were more awkward than intimate, and could only chat and get along awkwardly.

The class ended at 5:30 in the afternoon.

Wu Yahua and Xie Yun walked out of the teaching building together. Workers were placing green plants in the flowerbed at the entrance. A tall, dark-skinned man was holding a pot of green plants. The pot of green plants blocked his face, and he walked slowly past Wu Yahua and Xie Yun.

Wu Yahua stared at the tanned man and called out uncertainly, "Xiao Hei?"

Lin Yaonan had already walked past Wu Yahua when he heard someone calling Xiao Hei. He turned around, stopped, looked at Wu Yahua with a puzzled look, and said, "You called me?"

This voice sounds so familiar.

Xie Yun's eyes widened when he remembered. Wasn't this the man who called to say he'd found a cat? He'd introduced himself to Xie Yun as Lin Yaonan.

Xie Yun, like Wu Yahua, called out uncertainly, "Lin Yaonan?"

Lin Yaonan's gaze shifted from Wu Yahua to Xie Yun who was beside Wu Yahua.

"Do you know me?"

Three people stood in the corridor, forming a one-two opposing stance.

Lin Yaonan was very confused. He didn't know the two students in front of him, so why did one of them call him Xiao Hei in a very familiar way, and the other one even called out his name accurately?

Thinking of Lin Yaonan at this moment, who had no idea that the person standing in front of him was once the cat he picked up, Wu Yahua immediately said, "Sorry, I recognized the wrong person."

Lin Yaonan's eyes were on Xie Yun, and he asked silently, "What about you?"

"Don't you know me?" Xie Yun asked back.

Lin Yaonan looked at Xie Yun's face and confirmed again and again that he really didn't know him and this was the first time they met.

Xie Yun reminded: "You picked up my cat."

cat!

Lin Yaonan and Wu Yahua shuddered at the same time.

This man is so weird, Lin Yaonan thought. He not only knows his cell phone number, but also his name.

"So it's you. You called me before to ask about it, but I made it very clear that I didn't pick up your cat. Hey, where did you get my phone number and know my name and appearance?"

In contrast to Lin Yaonan's indifference, Wu Yahua excitedly grabbed Xie Yun's arm and blurted out, "You once had a cat! Was that cat called Goudan? Is that cat your WeChat profile picture?"

Xie Yun was shocked.

Everyone denied that he had a cat. Even his roommates who had seen the cat denied the existence of the cat. But Wu Yahua, who was not very familiar with him, could actually say that he had a cat and even said the cat's name.

This surprised and delighted Xie Yun.

When Xie Yun continued to question life and the world, Wu Yahua's words made him confirm that this world was real.

Finally, there was a reassurance in Hu Lai's chaotic life.