In her previous life, what allowed Yang Yajing to truly have a free and open conversation with Zhou Pengfei was the pen pal craze that swept through the early 1990s.

However, Yang Yajing knew that the other party was Zhou Pengfei, but Zhou Pengfei had no idea.

Back then, Yang Yajing and Zhou Pengfei went to different junior high schools after graduating from elementary school. Although they were good friends, their relationship wasn't as close as it is in this life.

Knowing that Zhou Pengfei would go to the park to paint every weekend, Yang Yajing would come to visit him every weekend.

At that time, in Zhou Pengfei's eyes, Yang Yajing was a cheerful child who loved to play. She would go to the park every weekend and was very good at entertaining herself.

Little did he know that Yang Yajing went to the park not because she enjoyed running around, but simply because she could spend some time with Zhou Pengfei.

Zhou Pengfei was painting, so she couldn't just stand by and watch, could she? That's why she went to watch the old man play chess, chase the kites the children were flying, climb trees and catch longhorn beetles and such.

Zhou Pengfei didn't have any close friends, and his parents were strict, so there seemed to be a generation gap between them.

One day, Zhou Pengfei was browsing the Youth Daily when he came across the pen pal section. He stared at it for a while before turning away.

"Zhou Pengfei, do you want to have a pen pal?" A week later, when they met again, Yang Yajing handed Zhou Pengfei a copy of the Youth Daily.

“Hmm,” Zhou Pengfei nodded, “I’m not good at speaking, but I seem to be less restrained when I write.”

"Then let's make a date!" Yang Yajing tore off the dating ad and handed it to Zhou Pengfei.

"But what if the other party is bored?" Zhou Pengfei was still a little uncertain.

"Then let's choose another one. Aren't there several names listed?" Yang Yajing pointed to the row of about ten names. "Choose any one!"

Yang Yajing was able to let Zhou Pengfei choose freely because before this issue of the newspaper was published, she took out all her savings and went to the newspaper office to buy all the dating advertisement slots for this issue.

She thought to herself that as long as Zhou Pengfei was determined, he would keep her.

Back then, all email replies were sent to a single email address, and the recipient had to pick them up themselves.

People exchange addresses only if they feel they can become friends with this person, but find it troublesome to go to the post office to pick up mail.

In her previous life, Yang Yajing, due to her low self-esteem, didn't change her address and continued to collect her mail from the post office. That's why Zhou Pengfei never guessed who the sender was.

The Zhou Pengfei of that life was also quite different from the one now. In Yu Yue's words, he was just a pretty boy with good looks but no intelligence!

A good person? What good is being a good person? If you're fooled by a green tea b*tch, you'll end up like Tang Sanzang, unable to distinguish between good and bad, and constantly wrongly accusing Sun Wukong.

Back in 2016, videos were just emerging, and the terms "pure and innocent" and "green tea" had just been categorized, let alone before that.

Yu Yue would always tell Yang Yajing to teach Zhou Pengfei a lesson. Even Yang Yajing was often fooled. How could Zhou Pengfei, who had never learned the tricks, avoid them?

However, Yang Yajing in her previous life was rather naive. She felt that talking badly about others behind their backs was detrimental to her character. In addition, she hadn't seen through Jiang Xuanxuan and had always regarded her as a gentle and good best friend.

By the time she turned 26, although she finally saw through her, it was too late. Everything was gone. As for Yu Yue's words, "I told you long ago," she had missed her chance to know the truth.

Now that she can start over, Yang Yajing will no longer be arrogant and foolish!

Although she and Zhou Pengfei had a good relationship in this life, they remained only friends.

Yang Yajing didn't come here to visit her friends; she came back to win back the man she loved!

As the saying goes: "It's easy for a woman to pursue a man."

But once friends get used to each other's company, the passion fades. If you want to take it to the next level, the barriers would probably be hundreds of layers thick.

Although Zhou Pengfei didn't seem as enthusiastic about having pen pals in this life as he had in the previous one, Yang Yajing knew that deep down he still had things he didn't want to communicate with acquaintances about.

It was the same issue of the Youth Daily, the same small park, and Zhou Pengfei was indeed staring blankly at that page again.

A week later, Yang Yajing took the page and urged Zhou Pengfei to choose one, with a persistent attitude that he wouldn't give up until he finished writing the first letter in front of her.

In their previous life, Zhou Pengfei's pen name was Zhifengcao, while Yang Yajing's pen name was Yun Shijin.

Knowing that he would choose this name, Yang Yajing did not buy the entire page again in this life.

I simply used a modern poem during my self-introduction:

"You look at me for a while, and then you look at the clouds. I feel that when you look at me you are very far away, but when you look at the clouds you are very close."

As expected, he still chose Yun Shijin. Perhaps it's because "Zhifengcao" is also a modern poem, and he felt that this person shared a common language with him?

Zhou Pengfei quickly received a reply, and just like in his previous life, the letter read as follows:

Don't ask who I am?

Don't ask me where I am?

The rest...I will speak freely and without reservation.

Well then... Wind-Reading Grass, who loves to admire scenery, we're best friends!

Looking at the pretty pink floral letter paper, Zhou Pengfei could roughly guess that the recipient was a girl.

As for the concise and to-the-point nature of these few sentences, Zhou Pengfei smiled and wrote four words in his hand: Just what I wanted.

Soon, Zhou Pengfei discovered that although the other party was a girl, she was surprisingly insightful.

At first, he didn't know what to talk about, so he just wrote down some gossip that happened in the class.

But when he received the reply, he discovered that 'Yun Shijin' would analyze the psychological motivations and purposes of these people, and would interpret this gossip as a reflection of the myriad aspects of life.

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