Chapter 69 Light Jumps into His World

There is no explicit agreement.

However, since the first day of school, getting up an hour earlier every morning and taking the early bus to Shenghai Community seems to have become Yan Ning's new daily habit.

And corresponding to it.

Every time she arrived there, Lu Chen would appear. Sometimes, he would just come out of the community gate, and sometimes, he would sit on a bench by the roadside waiting.

Yan Ning would buy breakfast from her aunt first before going over.

Lu Chen eats breakfast.

She sat next to me, chattering on and on about the trivial things that happened yesterday.

She talked about a cotton cloud in the sky, a puppy she met on the road, the delicious snacks she shared with her classmates, and so on...

The candy in Lu Chen's pocket was replaced with osmanthus flavor.

He didn't ride his bike again.

After breakfast, the two of them would take bus No. 258 to school together. Moreover, because they left early, the bus wasn't as congested as it would be on the first day of school, and there were usually empty seats.

The place where we got off the bus was not far from the gate of No. 1 Middle School.

So, the two boys and girls in blue and white school uniforms blended into the crowd, walking in the same direction at a small distance from each other, and were not so conspicuous.

And just like that, the first week of school passed quickly.

The second week of senior year.

On Thursday and Friday, No. 1 Middle School will hold a baseline test for the new senior class as usual, completely following the college entrance examination model.

It is said to be a practice for everyone, but in fact, it is more like the clarion call for hard work in this year.

In order to create an atmosphere, in addition to holding mobilization meetings in each class, a new column "Strive! My senior year life!" has been opened in the recent broadcast, which accepts student submissions and also provides some inspiration.

Yan Ning and other high school seniors of the same class have nominally withdrawn from the radio station, but because there is still some handover work to do, they still visit the department from time to time.

That day, at the radio station, when Yan Ning saw a familiar sophomore girl, she complained bitterly that she was dizzy from screening manuscripts for the senior column. There were not many positive and inspiring manuscripts that could be broadcast and met the requirements of the school teachers. Most of them were just fancy stuff.

Also because of the exam.

In the past two days, Yan Ning did not go to see Lu Chen in the morning.

The two had already agreed on this matter on Wednesday.

On the day they last met, before getting on the bus, Yan Ning's last words to Lu Chen were the ones he had been preparing for a long time:

"We'll have the exam tomorrow. Do your best! I'll do my best too!"

As she said this, she clenched her fists, made a cheering gesture, and her eyes were full of determination and seriousness.

Lu Chen did not attend the final exam and the subsequent make-up exam last semester, so it was similar to the situation when Yan Ning missed the exam due to fainting.

Lu Chen has no results.

When the classes were divided, he fell out of the key class and went to the ordinary class.

For most people, ups and downs are normal.

But once he becomes Lu Chen.

This is perhaps a rare opportunity in a century for a genius who becomes the top scorer as soon as he enters the school and continues to lead the way and remain at the top of the list.

undoubtedly.

Like a god falling.

In addition, during the month that Lu Chen disappeared, no one else knew the reason, and all kinds of rumors inevitably began to spread around him.

Although Lu Chen himself obviously doesn't care much about these things.

But Yan Ning still has selfish motives.

These days, her relationship with him seemed to have returned to normal, but deep down in her heart, she could still feel—

The death of a loved one.

Deep in his heart, there is still a huge wound, and he doesn't know when or whether it will heal.

This will still have a great impact on his condition.

Therefore, she did not hope that he would become a "god" in one so-called battle.

Instead, I hope that even if he falls into the mud, he can stand up again and see many people on the shore cheering for him.

Among them, of course, is her.

The sunlight shines through the dappled shadows of the trees.

That early morning.

Lu Chen was there, and after listening attentively for a moment, his dark eyes curved slightly, and he smiled, looking over, and replied in the same serious tone:

"Okay, I'll remember that."

Thursday.

The first day of the placement test.

The first test in the morning is Chinese.

Early in the morning, although he didn't have to look for Lu Chen, Yan Ning still got up early as usual in order to prevent his mother from noticing anything unusual. When he arrived at school, the classroom was still empty.

She opened the window, sat down, and began to concentrate, ignoring everything outside, as she read the summary notes of Chinese knowledge points.

Slowly, the classroom began to fill up. After a while, the girl sitting next to Yan Ning patted his arm and reminded him:

"It's time to take the exam."

Yan Ning finally woke up from the ocean of studying, nodded, put the notes back into her schoolbag and put it in the cabinet, then she took the water cup and examination supplies and went to the examination room.

As previously rumored, the test questions were quite difficult.

After the exam started, Yan Ning was fully prepared to take it.

However, Chinese is also her strong point, and she can write it quite easily.

She worked like this all the way, with her head down and full concentration, until she had finished conceiving the composition and decided on the topic.

Outside the window.

Suddenly, a high-pitched and piercing bird cry broke the silence.

In the classroom, several students looked up at the sound, confused and curious, and looked outside for a moment. Then, after being reminded by the invigilator's eyes, they lowered their heads and continued to write furiously.

Yan Ning finished writing a few more lines and the beginning before he felt his neck getting sore.

She stopped writing, looked up, and glanced at the clock on the wall. While calculating the remaining time in her mind, she moved her neck left and right.

Then, Yan Ning was about to look away.

At the moment when I was about to bow my head.

She couldn't explain why, but she tilted her head and glanced outside.

Yan Ning was sitting in a seat by the window in the classroom on the third floor.

That's just one glance.

That morning, under the dazzling sunlight, she saw a lonely figure with an elongated shadow walking on the road in the distance.

Yan Ning immediately clenched the pen tightly in his hand.

heart.

It even seemed as if a large piece of it had been hollowed out.

My mind is too confused.

It took a while for Yan Ning to come back to his senses after the invigilator knocked on the table to remind him.

That figure has disappeared.

But Yan Ning knew that the scene just now was not her illusion——

That person.

Yes, Lu Chen.

The sound of knocking on the table was heard again.

For a moment, Yan Ning had an impulse to get up and run out towards him regardless of anything.

But the next moment.

Reason told her again.

We're in school now, and acting too rashly and impulsively might not only be unhelpful, but even counterproductive...

On that fair face, a pair of almond-shaped eyes flashed with too many complicated emotions.

Seeing this, the invigilator was about to raise his hand, pat her shoulder and ask if she was feeling unwell.

Yan Ning finally abruptly withdrew his gaze.

She whispered an apology to the teacher, and then, as if she had made up her mind, she gathered her energy and threw herself into the exam.

The bell for handing in papers rang.

The papers were passed from the back to the front as soon as they were collected.

Yan Ning couldn't wait any longer, so he took his exam stationery and went down from the third floor of the teaching building. He then ran along Wutong Road and arrived at the multimedia building.

Finally arriving at the destination, Yan Ning stopped, breathless.

At this moment, the place where she stopped was where she saw Lu Chen.

But, of course—

He is no longer here now.

Yan Ning looked around, anxiously and quickly thinking about where Lu Chen was most likely to have gone from here.

The Multimedia Building was used as the examination room for liberal arts. Now that the examinations were over and it was lunch time, a large number of students came down from the building, talking and laughing, chatting as they walked, and headed towards the cafeteria.

Yan Ning was under a tree, a little distance away from the crowd, but he could still hear the conversations of several people nearby -

Girl 1: "Did you hear? Lu Shen actually handed in his paper an hour early. I think he hasn't even finished his composition yet. That's a bit too crazy!"

Girl 2: "Not an hour, maybe 40 minutes. I was next door to the one next door and saw him walking past the door. Who knows what the boss is thinking? Maybe he's tired of being the top dog and wants to give up."

The girl continued, "But at the end of last year, Shen Yunlai ranked first in the exam, and his grades were very high. He's always been second, and once he gets to the top, he might become unstoppable."

The second girl waved her hand. "But Shen Four Eyes isn't handsome at all! I still hope that Lu Shen is number one in the grade. Ah, a super handsome guy like him, with an undefeated legend, would be so impressive if he could be shown around!"

A boy happened to pass by, and probably knew the two girls who were waiting for someone, so he made a face and interrupted:

"Perhaps someone is afraid that their reputation as a 'god' will no longer be recognized, so they deliberately surrendered their weapons and left the battlefield."

Another boy who was following them laughed and said, "Haha! Shouldn't we give him a new nickname then? Like 'Lu Deserter King'!"

In an instant.

Yan Ning, whose mind was already in a state of confusion, tightly clenched a corner of his pencil case.

"you!--"

Before the two girls responded, and even before Yan Ning herself realized it, she had already frowned and angrily shouted at the boy who had just teased Lu Chen.

The two boys were stunned and turned their heads to look in confusion.

Many people around turned their attention.

But the word "apology" was about to come out.

Yan Ning's attention was drawn away by the words of the other two girls who were traveling with them:

“…The reading comprehension passage about grandma’s death was so tear-jerking.”

"Yes, yes! The author's writing style is so strong. As soon as I read it, I couldn't help but miss my grandma..."

So everyone around was muted.

Yan Ning lost his strength for a moment, and his pencil case fell to the ground with a bang.

But her world seemed to be enclosed by a vacuum.

I couldn't hear anything. I couldn't pay attention to anything.

At this moment, her only real feeling was heartache, which was beyond words.

Why?

Why did Lu Chen have to encounter such a thing at this moment? It was like sprinkling a thick layer of pale salt on a wound that was already bleeding.

Worried about him too much.

I really want to see him.

This campus wasn't normally that big, but at that moment, it seemed so boundless that Yan Ning didn't even know which direction to go...

After a while.

A girl with round eyes came over, helped Yan Ning pick up the pencil bag that had fallen on the ground, handed it back to her, and kindly asked her if she needed help.

The sound revived.

Amidst the noisy voices around, there was the routine music starting from the campus broadcast.

In an instant, Yan Ning thought of another pair of big round eyes.

She thanked him hastily and shook her head.

Immediately, just like a drowning person, he found a rope to climb up.

Yan Ning lowered his eyes, without stopping for a moment, and ran in one direction without delay.

Lu Chen sat on the stone bench.

This is a secluded bamboo forest behind the No. 1 Middle School auditorium.

At noon, the sun was scorching and even the wind was hot, but in the bamboo forest, it was damp and cool.

Lu Chen came out of the examination room early in the morning and walked around the campus aimlessly. Finally, he came here, lowered his eyes, and stared at the moist and loose black soil in a daze.

His mood wasn't too bad.

only.

It was like being shrouded in a dark night with no light source, pitch black and silent.

Just like that, I don’t know how long it took.

until--

The fragmented and scattered words that drifted past his ears became more real because of those last three words, as if played in reverse, and quickly pieced together into a complete sentence:

"You will always be indestructible and unbeatable!"

"From Xiao Haiyan, Class 1, Senior 3, Science, Contributing."

The bamboo forest is quiet.

Lu Chen was stunned for a moment. Then he understood.

He leaned back against the chair, then raised his head and looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the bamboo forest. The corners of his lips raised and he couldn't help but chuckle.

After a moment, he raised his hand again to cover his eyes, which were slightly uncomfortable with the changes in light and dark.

He remembered.

At the opening ceremony of his first year of high school, when he was young and full of vigor and ambition, he stood on the stage, facing everyone, and declaring to the world:

The only one who can defeat me is myself.

And now.

There was a girl, carrying light, jumping into his world.

Say to him loudly:

You are forever indestructible and unbeatable—

She believed him.

Don't be defeated by yourself.

The boy finally suppressed the heat in his eyes and put down his hand after a while.

He looked away.

On the bench that could accommodate two or three people, there was a sandwich he had picked up from the supermarket and a bottle of lemon-flavored sea salt sparkling water.

Although he had no desire to eat, Lu Chen decided early on that he would eat these things.

Not only because, as grandma always said, "Eat well."

Recently, there is one more thing——

Because, "Little Sea Salt" once said to him: -[Take good care of yourself!]

He doesn't want to.

Let this child who cares about him.

No more worrying.

Even just a little bit.

-

A few days passed in a flash.

It's another Monday.

It was just daybreak, and even before the alarm clock for getting up an hour earlier rang, Yan Ning suddenly opened her eyes. After staying awake for a while, she quickly got up, washed, and changed her clothes.

Coming out of the bedroom, Lin Xinci's breakfast was just served on the table.

Lin Xinci was a little worried about Yan Ning getting up earlier and earlier, so she gave him a warning:

"If you're sleepy, sleep a little longer tomorrow."

Yan Ning shook his head and put some fried dumplings into his mouth, "I'm not sleepy."

And the reason why she is not sleepy.

Of course, it’s not due to the lack of sleep from last night until now.

But because——

She wanted it so much.

Hurry up, I’m going to see Lu Chen.

This weekend after the exam, after barely finishing his homework, Yan Ning held his phone and almost never put it down.

In the dialogue interface with "L".

She typed a long paragraph in the edit box of the unsent message, and deleted and deleted again. In the end, only a short message was sent:

Xiao Haiyan: -[Knock knock! I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow, okay?]

Words are sometimes too pale.

She tried her best to make her words more lively, just wanting to accompany him, even if it could only bring him a little joy.

In less than a minute, Lu Chen replied——

L: -[Kitten Opens the Door.gif]

L:-[Of course it’s good.]

So, Yan Ning left home today and took the No. 285 bus, which was more idle. The road was empty, and this bus took her to her destination faster and earlier than before.

There was no one on the bench yet.

Yan Ning went to the aunt to buy breakfast as usual. However, because she was worried that it would get cold, she only paid for it and told the aunt who already knew her that she would come back to get it later.

Yan Ning sat down on the bench first, swaying on his toes with uncontrollable joy.

However, the surroundings are quiet, and the gentle and soft morning sunshine makes people feel lazy.

Also, last night, Yan Ning had been thinking over and over again about what topic to talk to Lu Chen about when he met him today, so he didn't fall asleep until the early morning.

After a while.

Sleepiness also found her.

In anticipation of waiting.

Yan Ning unconsciously closed his eyes, tilted his head to the side, and fell asleep.

Lu Chen came out of the residential complex and turned his head to see this scene.

A girl bathing in the morning light.

Holy and beautiful.

He lacked the language and could not find the words to describe it.

Then, the haze was gone, and his heart suddenly softened.

How could he?

Aren't you happy to see her?

Three months ago, he gave her a birthday present that contained a hidden meaning.

And whether she could know.

Like, the cat in Schrödinger's box.

Even so, during those days, whenever he thought of her, his heart was filled with light anticipation, joy, and beauty...

Even Jin Zishuo next to him couldn't help but say:

"Brother Lu, is there any good news? Why do I feel like you haven't smiled at all these past two days?"

It was during a break.

Lu Chen was sitting in a seat by the window, his eyes unconsciously cast towards the railing outside, where Yan Ning often stood when he came to see Xin Jing.

He was looking forward to her appearance.

The corners of his lips were indeed raised again.

Is that so?

It turns out to be so obvious.

He was so easily seen through.

It was totally unlike his usual self, but he accepted it with great pleasure, without any intention of hiding it.

So, Lu Chen turned his pen, continued to be in a good mood, and did not deny it, "Guess."

It was a time that was too short and too happy.

And then.

Grandma became ill, gradually recovered, and then suddenly passed away. Everything happened too suddenly.

It turns out that it only takes a moment to go from heaven to hell.

In the mourning hall.

After meeting Yan Ning for the last time.

Lu Chen's days seemed very busy, yet also very empty, with no sense of being alive at all.

Zhao Ruifeng had a heavy burden on his shoulders. Even if he tried hard to coordinate, he still had to go back to the office most of the week.

So, Lu Chen accompanied Grandpa, chose a grave for Grandma, kept vigil, sorted out Grandma's belongings at home, and handled various procedures...

Until the dust settles.

Grandma lived in a cemetery not too far from home. Grandpa embarked on a journey to fulfill the wish of grandma when she was seriously ill: "When I recover, I want to travel around and see more places."

Zhao Ruifeng and Lu Yao both said that they hoped Lu Chen would move in and live with them.

This means that he has to give up everything in Wancheng.

So, Lu Chen refused.

In the end, only Lu Chen returned to Shenghai. This was the wedding room where Lu Yao and Zhao Ruifeng got married, and it was also the small home of the three of them.

At that time, he moved here from Huize when he was in the third grade of junior high school. The main reason was that he didn't want to disturb his grandparents' rest.

The second most important thing was that he picked up a kitten weighing seven pounds in the underground parking lot. This kitten was alone, could only bark at people but not run, and had poor survival ability.

He wanted to keep it.

He took it back and gave it a home.

And now come back.

But because.

There was no one else waiting for him.

In the dead of night.

Memories come flooding back.

Lu Chen always thinks of every moment he spent with his grandmother from childhood to adulthood.

Then, as I thought about it, when I was in high school, my memories of Room 302 on those weekends couldn't help but include a girl with a pair of beautiful almond-shaped eyes and dimples on her lips.

Her name is Yan Ning.

Grandma always praises her, saying that Ningning is very well-behaved, quiet and very likable.

But he knew that she also had a side that was not so obedient and quiet. And what was more, what he had not yet had time to say was——

He also.

I like her very much.

In August, on the day they met for the last time in the mourning hall, Yan Ning's red almond eyes from crying were like a brand, deeply engraved in Lu Chen's heart.

He really does.

I didn't want her to cry.

And after that, the door of 301 opposite was never opened again.

Lu Chen could probably guess that after the sudden change, Yan Ning's parents might have taken her to visit her grandmother, whom she used to visit often, to relax.

Lu Chen did not update his status again, nor did he contact Yan Ning directly.

Even if mature.

After all, he was just a seventeen-year-old boy.

For the first time in his life, facing the death of a loved one, he was not sure what his condition was, and he didn't want to cause even the slightest harm to the girl he loved.

The night is dead silent.

During those sleepless nights, Lu Chen felt like a huge empty shell. Negative and dark thoughts kept creeping up on him like ghosts.

Will it?

Never see her again?

Will it?

Even though they met, they no longer had weekend interactions, and from then on, they were just ordinary classmates.

We only meet occasionally and say hello.

Then.

Wait until you graduate from high school.

She was like the little dolphin in her favorite animated movie, turning around in joy and jumping into the boundless ocean.

And he.

It became a dry rock on the seashore.

Never again, see her figure...

But all of this, the delusions that have been nurtured in the darkness, and the depressed mood that has been pent up for many days.

All on the first day of school.

She suddenly appeared in front of him, a smile on her lips, and called him - "Classmate Lu Chen".

dissipate.

In that ray of morning light.

Just like now.

As soon as he saw the girl on the bench, all his worries were thrown away.

Lu Chen's lips curled up slightly, and he walked over quickly, deliberately making his steps light. Before Yan Ning's head fell down again and woke him up, he raised his hand and gently caught her forehead.

Yan Ning was drowsy and felt that he touched something warm and comfortable. Subconsciously, he shook his head and rubbed it gently.

Just like.

A very beautiful and cute kitten.

It deserves to be described with all the most beautiful descriptions in the world.

The boy's brows relaxed and he sat down next to the girl.

He carefully and gently guided her, letting her lean on his shoulder and continue to sleep.

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