Chapter 93: Another encounter with lightning across dimensions, as if to tear this world apart...
At this moment, Guo Qingyu was standing there, existing so realistically, breathing, laughing and joking with his classmates.
So much she wanted to say was stuck in her throat. Her heart felt like it was being gripped tightly, a dull pain rising up, instantly constricting her throat. Her body trembled uncontrollably, an inexplicable urge boiling in her blood. She subconsciously took a step forward, wanting only to see him more clearly, even if it was just his back. But the moment before she took the next step, reason struck her. She shouldn't have gotten closer. Even if they did meet, what would it matter?
She can't change anything!
All the debts can only be suppressed deep in my heart.
Suddenly, a low thunder was heard in the distance. Wen Yi looked up and found that the sky over the city had been covered with dark clouds and there was a hint of a storm coming.
She looked down and saw Guo Qingyu had already walked away with his classmates. She subconsciously tried to catch up. Just as her toes moved slightly, a hand suddenly reached out from behind, grabbed her wrist, and violently pulled her back.
"Ugh!" Wen Yi screamed, stumbling a step and nearly losing her balance. She turned her head sharply and met a pair of deep eyes—Gu Yifeng.
He was breathing rapidly, obviously having run all the way here. "Why are you here?"
"I... I'm just... taking a walk." Wen Yi explained softly, subconsciously pulling her hand back.
He didn't let go, but tilted his head slightly, as if wondering, "You were taking a walk and ended up at my school?"
He paused, smiled shyly, and asked in surprise, "Are you here to see me?"
"Well, yes." She forced a smile with a hint of embarrassment.
As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of lightning suddenly tore through the sky above his head, followed by thunder that exploded above his head.
Wen Yi shrank her neck guiltily.
This is too disrespectful. She didn't swear to the sky, so why should she be struck by lightning?
Amid the rumbling thunder, she seemed to hear Gu Yifeng laugh very softly.
His eyes were still gentle when he looked at her, but she could only feel that there was a turbulent undercurrent beneath the calmness, and an invisible sense of oppression made her gradually breathless.
Is it because heavy rain is coming and the air pressure is too low?
As he stared silently, Wen Yi's smile gradually froze on her face.
A thin streak of lightning suddenly exploded in the clouds, instantly illuminating their faces. The smile on Gu Yifeng's lips remained, as if he was wearing a perfect mask, but beneath the mask, his eyes were no longer pure and clear, leaving only a cold and distant feeling and an unpredictable mind. For a moment, she thought she was looking into the eyes of Gu Yifeng, the future director of the Investigation Bureau.
He looked up at the sky and said calmly, "It's going to rain soon. Come home with me, Yi Yi."
Despite hurrying no matter how hard they tried, they were still covered in rain when they got home.
The entrance light came on, and Wen Yi looked down and saw her schoolbag casually thrown on the ground. She thought silently, it turned out that he had come home and found her missing, so he immediately came out to look for her.
Gu Yifeng was soaking wet, with water dripping from the ends of his hair, but he pulled her to the bathroom door and urged her, "Go take a hot bath, don't catch a cold."
When he finished his shower and came to the guest bedroom, he saw her sitting by the bed and asked softly:
"Are you hungry?"
"Not hungry yet." She shook her head.
"I want to tell you something." He held out his hand to her. "Come to my room."
Wen Yi was stunned: "Can't we talk about it here?"
Without saying anything, he stepped forward, took her hand, and led her straight to his bedroom.
Wen Yi sat down at Gu Yifeng's desk, which was piled with books and notebooks. She had been by his side for a long time, and now, finally sitting here in person, she felt both familiar and unfamiliar.
She looked up into his eyes and waited for him to speak.
He leaned over, one hand on the table, the other on her side, trapping her in this small space.
"You were at the school gate just now, were you looking for me?" There was no emotion in his voice, and his dark pupils were bottomless, but Wen Yi felt that his eyes were becoming more and more like the Gu Yifeng in her memory.
Without waiting for her answer, he continued, "Are you still looking for someone?"
Wen Yi looked up in shock. Did he see something just now?
Lightning outside the window occasionally tore through the night sky, and the white light reflected the rain on each other's faces, just like when they looked at each other in the violent rain that day.
"If not you, who else can I look for?" She smoothed her hair with feigned composure and changed the subject. "When will your parents be home? Are we waiting for them to have dinner together?"
Gu Yifeng lowered his eyes to look at her and smiled: "They are busy with work and rarely come home."
He said seriously, "What I want to talk to you about is between us. It has nothing to do with anyone else." He emphasized again, "It's just you and me. No one else."
Wen Yi: “…”
"Yiyi, do you like Yunhu?"
"Huh?" She was startled.
"I don't have to be here. If you like your hometown, I can go there with you."
“…”
"The physics department at Yunzhu Institute of Technology is also very good. I can study there."
“…”
"Don't worry, my grades are good, so I can get into any university."
“…”
"If you don't absolutely have to go back to Yunzhu, we can also go north together. All the resources in the capital, Yunchuan, are the best. Developing in Yunchuan in the future is also a good choice. What do you think?"
"I don't think I understand what you mean..." Wen Yi was confused by what Gu Yifeng said, "Why are you discussing this with me?"
Even if he has special feelings for her, he wouldn't be so determined to spend the rest of his life with her now!
"This is what I want to discuss with you, our future." His tone was relaxed as if he was discussing what to eat tomorrow.
“…”
"Last time you asked me what I wanted to study?" he continued. "What do you want me to study? Where do you want me to go? I can promise you anything."
"But I won't let you separate. Nothing can stand between us."
Wen Yi: ...
This familiar smell is Gu Yifeng, that's right.
"But shouldn't you discuss your major and future with your parents?" She tried to save his sanity.
"I said, this is our future, not theirs. So, don't think about them." He was silent for a moment, then added, "I also hope that you don't think about others."
"I……"
"You asked me if I believe in love at first sight." Gu Yifeng interrupted her and suddenly brought up the past. "I didn't believe it before. I didn't believe there would be love without reason in the world. But now I do."
“…”
"Wen Yi." He suddenly reached out, held her cold hand, and looked straight into her eyes.
“I know you’re having a hard time acting.”
"But in front of me, there's no need."
Every word fell clearly, hitting her heart hard, and her mind went blank.
Outside the window, heavy rain was pouring down, lightning streaked across the night sky, and a loud thunder exploded. Wen Yi was startled by the strong light and loud noise.
At this moment, the room was plunged into thick darkness due to a power outage caused by lightning.
She blinked in the darkness, inwardly thankful for the sudden power outage, which finally saved her from having to face his eyes.
My heart was pounding in my chest.
It turns out that Gu Yifeng knows everything.
All his shy and boyish behavior in front of her was just acting.
His only goal was to "get her", and he made it clear without any concealment.
Gu Yifeng stood up, stopped looking at her, turned and walked towards the door, as if giving her some time to calm down.
"I'm going to restore the power." His voice came from the door. "And prepare dinner."
Wen Yi was still sitting in front of the window, looking at the whole city being swallowed by heavy rain. What she was worried about was the time and space where Gu Yifeng was. Was it raining?
*
On a night filled with thunder and lightning, Gu Yifeng pushed open the heavy door of the Disciplinary Review Committee and walked quickly towards the black SUV waiting for him. The rain instantly wet his shoulders.
The review was over, and he was free. The counterattack of the developmentists temporarily suppressed the conservatives, and he was finally able to go back to her.
His time in the committee was not easy, but he was not afraid of suffering or being killed. He was only worried about how she would live alone in the future.
He almost ran into the rain.
Sitting in the car, he contacted Wen Chi first, only to find out that Wen Yi had gone through so much trouble after he was taken away.
Gu Yifeng's knuckles crackled. In the future, he would get back everything those conservative bastards had done to her, with interest.
"Go to Zero Labs," he ordered.
However, when he stood in front of Xu Xiaoyi, soaking wet, he received a regretful answer:
"I'm sorry, your wife... and Director Guo have entered the past timeline to carry out the history correction plan."
"The signal is interrupted and his whereabouts are currently unknown. He has been missing for over 72 hours."
"Send me to her!"
"Director Gu, no." Xu Xiaoyi shook his head, his tone businesslike, "They've already completed the historical revisions. There's no point in sending you there. It's best to wait for them to return on their own."
"Come back on her own? How can she come back?!" Gu Yifeng's voice suddenly rose, "Bring her back the same way you sent her there!"
"I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do."
“…”
Gu Yifeng held the steering wheel and drove aimlessly through the empty streets.
The wipers were already at maximum speed, moving frantically back and forth across the windshield, but they still couldn't wipe away the thick curtain of water.
He didn't know where to go. Without her home, he didn't want to go back at all. Wen Yi struggled in the cracks of time. Although he held power, he had no idea where she was, let alone how to save her.
The car finally stopped downstairs of the old house. His mother still lived there, and he should go back and report that she was safe.
Finally, he dragged his wet body into his bedroom, which once held the memories between him and Yi Yi.
He sat dejectedly at his desk, silently looking at the heavy rain outside the window. A thin layer of water vapor gradually appeared on the glass.
This kind of rain reminded him of his first inter-dimensional encounter with Yi Yi.
He misses her very much.
If possible, he really wanted to say "I'm sorry" to her. He failed to protect her and he did not keep his promise.
The crackling sound of thunder continued, as if it was about to tear a rift in the world. Another thunderclap roared, and he instinctively glanced toward the window. Lightning repeatedly illuminated the dark room with a bleak white.
The moment the white light came on, Wen Yi was sitting at the table, looking at the foggy window.
The power had been restored, but she didn't want to turn on the lights, leaving the house in darkness, where lightning would occasionally illuminate the room and then swallow it up in an instant.
The heavy rain isolated the city into a shadow, and the only thing she could hold on to on the isolated island separated by time and space was her obsession with going back and her longing for Gu Yifeng.
Is he okay now?
If the timeline is rewritten again, can they find each other in the vast crowd?
The sound of rain never stopped. She looked towards the end of time and space, only to see the endless rain curtain rushing towards the boundless darkness.
An exceptionally blinding flash of lightning suddenly tore through the sky, and the thunder that followed pierced the eardrums.
In that instant of strong light and energy impact, her heart trembled, as if she was pushed hard by an invisible hand, and she slowly stood up.
The glass in front of me was covered with water marks due to the backflow of the Milky Way. The world outside the window was hazy, and the light and shadow were distorted and swaying, like ripples on the water.
Driven by intuition, she raised her hand and slowly wrote on the white mist with her fingertips - "I'm sorry".
sorry.
For my departure.
For the promises I couldn't keep.
For the fate that we can never be together.
Just as she finished writing the last stroke, the thunder had not yet subsided when another blinding bolt of lightning struck.
At the same moment, the glass under her fingertips seemed to transmit a faint vibration that did not belong to her, as if a force from another world was following her strokes at the same position, retracing the words "I'm sorry" she left behind.
Wen Yi suddenly retracted her hand.
She could clearly feel that at the end of the stroke, there was another hand, completing the word "I'm sorry" with her across time and space.
"sorry"
The moment the white light came on, three wet words appeared out of thin air on the glass in front of Gu Yifeng. It was a handwriting he was extremely familiar with, and it struck his heart like a bolt of lightning.
My breathing stopped at this moment.
His pupils suddenly constricted, and he practically lunged forward, his fingers trembling as he traced those three words—not an illusion! These were traces of reality! These were the words she had left for him!
His fingertips were cold, but his heart was burning. Tears blurred his vision. He stared at the three words, his throat choking with sobs.
Why should I say sorry?
You haven't wronged anyone.
The one who should say sorry... is me.
Gu Yifeng looked out the dark window, the violent lightning reflected in his pupils was as bright as daylight, as if it wanted to reverse the endless darkness.
He raised his hand and wrote "live" below her "I'm sorry".
Lightning once again tore through the darkness, vowing to deliver these three words to the lover, breaking through the barriers of time and space.
We will definitely see you again.
So, please persevere.
Survive.
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Author's words: Wen Yi: Wow, a new way of communication has been developed! [Come on] Wait until I get home~~
Gu Yifeng: I have become another love rival! [Scared]
Young Gu: The college entrance exam is so awesome. I can take any exam I want, as long as I'm with Yi Yi. [Let me see]
Director: Today's playlist is "The Last Page". I wish everyone a happy mood~ Thank you for my parents who provide me with food and clothing! [Rose][Rose][Rose]
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