Chapter 892 Chapter 9: It’s so nice to say goodbye to you at last
If only time could go back to that night ten years ago.
Meng Yang might try his best to stop her from continuing training.
"You've been training for a month straight, swimming until after 10pm every night. Do you think your body can handle it?"
"Oh, I'm going to Pingjing City for the assessment in a few days! Wait for my good news!"
She is still so optimistic, so what if she is chosen...
"If you are chosen, will you leave me?"
The taciturn, short boy actually asked such a question. The girl was stunned and stopped. Then she turned around and walked to the boy, raised her hand and touched the boy's forehead.
"I don't have a fever, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"...Because if you're chosen, you'll definitely leave, go to another city, or even another country..."
The boy clenched his fists and his thin body was trembling slightly.
"Ah~ Indeed~ By then I'll be a member of the national team. Besides training even harder~ I'll definitely be competing all over the country~ maybe even around the world!"
The girl looked at the boy excitedly and told him her dream, but she didn't seem to notice the increasingly indifferent expression on his face.
Yeah...if you hadn't chosen us, we could have been together forever.
If you didn't select that... that's fine.
"Oh, by the way, Xiaoyang, come watch me train tonight! My performance has improved again recently!"
"I..." The boy wanted to refuse. He even wanted to step back. Since they were destined to be from different worlds in the future, wouldn't it be better to let go sooner?
"Come on~" the girl took his hand and said mysteriously.
"I have a gift for you tonight~"
After saying that, the girl kissed him on the cheek. Before the boy could react, she ran away with her face red and her mouth covered.
The boy stayed where he was. He didn't know what this kiss meant, but his desire to not let the girl be chosen became stronger and stronger.
But he can't be a burden...
So he didn't go at night.
He didn't go... If he had really gone, I would have been able to save her...
I won't let her struggle painfully in the swimming pool and then slowly sink to the bottom. How lonely, painful, and self-hating she must have been in the last moment of her life.
Those three idiots, they killed Yingxue... No.
It wasn't them...it was me who betrayed Yingxue and let her down. I'm the one she should hate the most!
So why......
Why would she be so gentle now?
"You've grown so tall, Xiaoyang."
The girl, who was soaked all over, was gently stroking Meng Yang's face with her cold hands.
Meng Yang could no longer hold back his tears, and he held Yingxue's hand tightly.
"No, don't leave me again, please, please... I miss you, I really miss you..."
He knew that he had no right to say such things.
He broke his promise that day. He did not keep his promise and did not go to see her.
So he lost the chance to save her.
But the girl did not accuse him like the ghost of Feng Yingxue he saw in his dream.
Instead, she comforted him gently as always.
"Okay, Xiaoyang, you're already that old...um~how old are you now?"
"...Thirty years old."
Meng Yang kept holding Feng Yingxue's hand, as if the girl would disappear from his sight if he let go.
"Wow~ Then I can call you uncle! Oh, I'm just kidding! Don't cry, don't cry~"
The girl ruffled Meng Yang's hair.
"Xiaoyang, no matter what you become, you will always be that shy and taciturn person in my heart..."
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry Yingxue, I didn't keep my promise. If I had been there that night..."
The girl's cold fingers gently touched Meng Yang's lips.
"Alright, idiot. You're already thirty years old, but you're still the same as before, always thinking about weird things. But... well, I'm really angry! You didn't come that night!"
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
"But I'm not angry because you couldn't save me, but because..."
"I clearly told you I had a gift for you...but you didn't come. Seriously...I guess the gift is gone now..."
“I got it!”
At this moment, a huge bat suddenly appeared by the window.
No, that wasn't a bat, but a girl with giant bat wings.
She kicked the window open and walked in with an old sports bag.
While folding her wings, Xia Yue threw the bag to Meng Yang.
"I went to her house on purpose. Her mother had kept the bag and was reluctant to throw it away. The things inside were still there. Take a look for yourself."
Li Muhan stood at the door and kept waving to Xia Yue.
"Come out quickly, hurry up."
Xia Yue originally wanted to sit nearby and watch the show, but Li Muhan kept urging her, so she had to stand up and walk out of the ward.
"Did you see that just now?! Her, her, her wings!!"
Meng Yang looked at Yingxue in surprise and said.
Feng Yingxue raised her hand and cupped Meng Yang's cheek.
"Okay~ Shouldn't you be looking at me carefully now? Don't worry about those things~ Now, open my bag and see if the gift I prepared for you is still there."
Meng Yang was stunned for a moment, then slowly unzipped the old sports backpack.
Then he saw Feng Yingxue's school uniform inside.
"Ah!! You can't look at this! It's a girl's spare clothes! No, don't look at it!!"
Feng Yingxue snatched the bag, her cheeks slightly red.
"Really, really, I'll help you find it."
After saying that, Feng Yingxue squatted down and began to rummage through her backpack. Finally, she found a yellowed letter under the clothes and textbooks.
"Ah~ found it."
The girl stood up excitedly holding the letter.
Then he turned and looked at Meng Yang.
The moonlight, like silver, shines through the half-drawn curtains, casting a clear light on the room, gently caressing the outline of the girl.
The girl was still wearing the one-piece swimsuit, with water droplets dripping down the ends of her hair, interweaving with the moonlight to form a quiet picture.
There was a barely perceptible excitement on her face and a glimmer of anticipation in her eyes.
She held the letter gently, as if it was not just a piece of paper, but a carrier of all her emotions.
"Xiao Yang, even though it's ten years late... well! It's all your fault that it's ten years late~ Don't blame me!"
Meng Yang stared blankly at the girl in the moonlight. Her beauty was the same as it was back then, without any change.
"This... is for you."
She reached out and handed him the letter, her movements gentle and slow, as if she were performing a sacred ritual.
Meng Yang took the slightly wet letter and opened it.
The moment when the double train ticket to Pingjing City ten years ago was revealed in front of him.
Meng Yang slowly knelt on the ground.
"...Yingxue."
Tears blurred his vision, and he seemed to understand everything.
That girl never thought of abandoning herself.
She does have a dream, to stand on a higher, better and bigger stage.
But in the audience, beside her, among the first people who came up to greet her after she won the award, the best seat was always reserved for the young man.
"Yingxue... Yingxue..."
He held the two yellowed and faded train tickets tightly in his hands, fearing that they would be eroded by time in the next moment.
"Xiao Yang... um... actually I wanted to ask you back then... would you be willing... well, how should I put it..."
Feng Yingxue blushed and spoke while tangling her wet hair with her fingers.
"That is~will you marry me~"
“I do…I do!!”
Meng Yang once again held the girl in his arms.
The girl took a deep breath and then slowly patted Meng Yang on the back.
But at this moment, the girl saw the little Taoist priest at the door of the ward. She looked at her with a smile and then said something with her mouth.
Almost there.
The girl's expression gradually grew dim, and finally turned into a helpless bitter smile.
"Okay, Xiaoyang."
Feng Yingxue slowly pushed Meng Yang away.
"I have to go now."
"Leave...? Where are you going?! I finally found you! I finally hugged you again! No, I won't let you go!!"
"Hahaha, you idiot, it would have been better if you had expressed it so directly back then... You're not married yet, are you?"
"No, no!! I will only marry you!! In this life!! I will only marry you! Yingxue!!"
"Silly boy, if you really love me, just promise me..."
The girl gently stroked the man's cheek.
"Live well and forget me."
"No... no, I will never..."
"It's time to move on, Xiaoyang. You, me, and the rest of them should all move on."
"Please, Yingxue..."
Meng Yang suddenly discovered that Feng Yingxue's body was gradually becoming transparent. He stretched out his hand desperately to grab Feng Yingxue's wrist.
Unfortunately, this time, he caught nothing.
"No!! No!! Take me away!! Yingxue!! Take me with you!! Please!! Please!"
"Forget me, Xiaoyang, forget me... Then find a girl who loves you and live a good life..."
Looking at the girl who was gradually disappearing, Meng Yang screamed like a madman in the ward.
His hands kept waving in the air, but he could no longer hold on to his memories and obsessions.
"No, no no!! I don't want to forget you!! If you don't take me with you!! Then I will follow you!!"
After saying that, Meng Yang rushed to the window like a madman, and just when he was about to jump up.
Yue Linglong's whisk slapped his cheek again.
The man's eyes suddenly widened, and then he slowly knelt on the ground, his consciousness gradually becoming blurred.
He couldn't faint.
If he fainted, then in his entire life... he would never be able to remember...
Can't.......
His consciousness became increasingly blurred and his eyelids became heavier.
In the last moments of his coma, he heard a familiar yet unfamiliar voice echoing in his mind.
Thank you, Xiaoyang.
It's so nice to be able to say goodbye to you at last.
[Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, what should go should not be left behind...]
The sound of the bell gradually faded away, and everything began to slowly become silent.
…even though I don’t know who you are.
But...goodbye.
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