Chapter 42 Past Tense
After the party, the group dispersed in twos and threes and went home separately.
Yu Shuli didn't know if it was because of the five bottles of wine, but he felt a little drowsy in the second half and kept sleeping on the sofa.
Cheng Jia called him several times but he didn't respond. Everyone almost thought he had fainted. They pinched his arm and were about to call an ambulance. Only then did Yu Shuli say that he was fine.
Yu Shuli was so drunk that Tan Shu was worried about him going home alone. None of the students in the class lived in the same direction as Yu Shuli. The few students who lived closer to him were also too drunk to look at him.
Tan Shu himself was also drunk, and in the end the burden had to fall on Yan Sui, who had not drunk a drop of alcohol at the party.
After watching the other classmates leave by car, Yan Sui stopped a taxi on the side of the road.
Tan Shuhui was carsick, so he chose to sit in the passenger seat, leaving Yan Sui and Yu Shuli in the back seat.
As soon as the car drove out of this intersection, Tan Shu fell asleep in the passenger seat.
Yan Sui called her twice from the back row but failed to wake her up.
Maybe it was because the only person in the car who had a relationship with them fell asleep, but the two people in the back seat were caught in a strange atmosphere.
Although Yu Shuli's cheeks were flushed and he leaned his head against the car window, his eyes were much clearer than when he was in the store just now. I wonder if it was because of the wind blowing in from the open window.
Yan Sui was sitting a little distance away from him, next to the car window on the other side, looking at the scenery passing by outside the window.
Coincidentally, the song "Give Me a Reason to Forget" that we just sang in KTV was still playing in the car music.
With the background music playing, Yan Sui couldn't help but recall the scene of her speaking the truth just now.
The moment he asked the question, Yu Shuli turned his gaze to her.
She caught his gaze and saw the question in his eyes.
His narrow eyes were narrowed by the light behind Yan Sui, and his trembling eyelashes were beating like his heart.
He was asking her if she was willing to give him an answer.
Yan Sui understood his expression, so she avoided that scorching gaze.
It was precisely because of her evasion that Yu Shuli seemed to understand what she meant, knowing that no matter how he pestered her, she would not change a thing she had decided.
He seemed to understand that this moment was the last.
But he didn't want to face it and didn't want to hear the answer to this question from anyone, so he was unwilling to answer it and chose to accept double punishment.
The car was driving on the elevated highway, gradually increasing in speed. The cityscape outside the car window quickly receded towards the rear. The light and shadow of the streetlights on the elevated highway were reflected in Yan Sui's eyes, flickering as the car moved.
Tan Shu was sleeping soundly in the front seat, there was no sound in the back seat, the driver was concentrating on driving, and the only sound in the whole car was the sound of A-Lin singing.
The driver, perhaps because she loved the song, had it on repeat. The climax vibrated her eardrums. For some reason, the music felt like an invisible hand gripping her heart, holding onto the heaviness in her chest.
There were two people drinking in the car. After just a while, the whole car was filled with the smell of alcohol.
Yan Sui sat by the window, the smell of beer constantly lingering in her nostrils.
Just by smelling it, she felt as if she was drunk too, and her brain was also invaded by alcohol.
The system sensed her emotions and kept calling her name in her mind, reminding her of a certain task.
Yan Sui agreed and silently emphasized the system's words to herself.
But the feeling of boredom in my heart still exists.
Suddenly, Yan Sui's body stiffened.
Someone grabbed her fingers that were resting on the seat.
She froze and didn't look back.
There were only her and Yu Shuli in the back seat, and the person who held her finger would not be anyone else except him.
The system in her mind was like facing a great enemy, sounding the alarm in her mind.
But at this moment, the sharp alarm occupied her brain, paralyzing her senses further, pushing her rationality back bit by bit, and a certain emotion in her body tried to cover up her remaining rationality.
"Yan Sui."
Yu Shuli had sat next to her at some point, occupying the empty seat between them.
Yan Sui suddenly came back to his senses and subconsciously tried to pull his fingers out of her hand.
The other party seemed to have noticed that she was about to move, and immediately tightened his fingers, holding her fingertips tightly.
Yan Sui couldn't pull away and turned back to glare at him angrily.
Hearing her glare, Yu Shuli immediately loosened his tightly clenched hand. His puppy eyes drooped in grievance, and he muttered, "Why don't you let me hold your hand?"
Ding——
This familiar scene flashed through her mind, recalling all the details of her love affair in her previous life.
She was too familiar with it. Yu Shuli would often use this trick when in love.
His eyes were originally round and bright like a puppy's, and his emotions were all expressed on his face. Whenever she was angry, his puppy eyes would instantly dim, and his raised eyebrows would droop in frustration, with a look of grievance that made her always have no reason to be angry with him.
The current Yu Shuli is exactly the same as the Yu Shuli in the previous life.
They all looked at her with pitiful eyes and asked her why.
Yan Sui felt that the air around her was becoming thinner and thinner, and the voice of the system in her mind had long been drowned out by alcohol.
In this world, there are only her and him.
"Don't be angry, okay?"
Yu Shuli tried to grab her hand again, but Yan Sui's body trembled, and her other arm accidentally touched the car window button.
The car window was lowered and the wind outside rushed in.
The smell of alcohol was blown away, and so was the charming atmosphere.
The cold wind immediately woke Yan Sui up. The alcohol in her head was blown away, and her rationality returned.
Yan Sui quickly dodged Yu Shuli's touch, leaned back, and whispered, "Don't touch me."
Yu Shuli was stunned, his eyes filled with confusion. Yan Sui took two deep breaths and slowly regained her breath.
She raised her eyes again, staring closely into Yu Shuli's eyes, and said word by word: "The me in your place is already a thing of the past."
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When I brought Tan Shu back home, Sui Yuling was still awake and was curled up on the sofa in a daze.
Ever since she found out about Yan Zhaoting's affair, Mom has always been like this.
Only when she heard Yan Sui coming back did she come back to her senses.
Noticing Tan Shu being dragged back by Yan Sui, Sui Yuling exclaimed, "How did he get so drunk?"
Yan Sui explained, "A lot of friends came over for my birthday today. They played games, so Shushu drank a little too much."
"Will Shushu sleep at our house tonight?"
"Well, I'll take it back to my room and take a shower."
"Okay, then I'll go to the kitchen and make some honey water for Shushu."
Yan Sui took Tan Shu back to her room.
Tan Shu was only half drunk, his mind was half clear and half confused.
She forced herself to hold on, and with Yan Sui's help, she finally removed her makeup. She wiped her body with a warm towel. After changing into pajamas, Tan Shu collapsed drunkenly onto Yan Sui's large bed.
Yan Sui was standing by the window, gasping for breath, when suddenly there were two knocks on the door.
Sui Yuling then opened the door and came in, holding two cups of honey water on a tray in her hand: "I made a cup for each of you. Drink this so you don't have a headache when you wake up tomorrow."
Yan Sui paused: "I didn't drink alcohol, so I don't need to drink this."
Sui Yuling's expression was also taken aback, but only for a moment, she smiled and interrupted: "I forgot, I forgot that Sui Sui can't drink."
"It's okay, I'll leave a glass for Shushu! Don't let her drink too much, otherwise she will have to get up later in the evening and won't sleep well tonight." Yan Sui said.
"Okay, I'll take the other bowl downstairs."
After Sui Yuling left, Yan Sui coaxed Tan Shu to finish drinking the honey water.
After completing the last task, Tan Shu also crawled into bed and fell asleep quietly. Only then did Yan Sui go to the bathroom to clean herself up.
By the time she finished everything and lay back on bed, it was already early morning.
She had clearly gotten up at six o'clock today and went to help Tan Shu put on makeup without taking a break at noon, but Yan Sui didn't feel sleepy at all.
She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling.
Her eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, she wrinkled her nose, sighed deeply, and silently called the system in her heart.
The system was angry about what happened in the car, and ignored her when it heard the call.
Yan Sui felt guilty and apologized in her heart: "I'm sorry, what happened tonight is my fault."
After receiving her apology, the system finally spoke in her mind, its tone filled with disappointment: "Host, you've already violated the agreement once before and received the corresponding punishment. Why do you still want to do something that is detrimental to yourself? I've been playing alarms in your mind tonight to remind you that you're almost crossing the red line of the agreement. If you cross the red line again, the terminal will impose some punishment, and I won't be able to help you anymore."
Yan Sui closed her eyes and said, "This time it's my fault."
System: "Why? Host, you are not as calm as usual today."
"I was in the car and I couldn't control myself."
In fact, how could the system, as an integrated system, not be able to sense Yan Sui’s situation?
But he didn't understand why Yan Sui always lost her mind and acted emotionally whenever it came to Yu Shuli.
"Forget it. Fortunately, the host finally woke up and didn't let him lead him around."
Yan Sui nodded, and thinking of Yu Shuli's unusual appearance tonight, the guess in her mind came to her mind again.
Only this time, the guess is getting closer to being confirmed.
The system sensed her suspicions and questioned, "Host, if it was someone who had been reborn, there's no way I wouldn't have noticed it."
Its authority was expanded some time ago, and it used its authority to check for abnormal people around Yan Sui.
There is only one, not Yu Shuli.
The system also told Yan Sui this information, and Yan Sui thought: "It may not be limited to rebirth, could it be another way?"
"What method?"
Yan Sui slowly uttered two words.
The system's voice paused for a long time before saying, "If this is it, I may have to wait until I have greater authority before I can check it."
Yan Sui nodded, and did not need to look for the system to confirm this guess. Her heart was already leaning in this direction.
She didn't know why, she was just so sure.
After chatting with the system, Yan Sui's inner blockage eased a little.
Before falling asleep, a mechanical voice rang out in her mind: "Dear host, this is a gift from the previous world. It has been synchronized to your computer in the form of a digital code. Please check it."
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