Chapter 51: Fire
As they spoke, several cats gathered around Lu Qingmian, baring their teeth, shaking their whiskers, and meowing loudly as they surrounded Lu Qingmian.
Those meows were automatically translated into human language in Lu Qingmian's ears:
"Pervert! Come and fight me to the death!"
"Let go of our beautiful cat lady, and I will spare your life today!"
"You guys also want to monopolize our beauty!"
"Are you afraid to look at me?"
"Look down at me, you bastard!"
The black and white cow cat that cursed Lu Qingmian as a cub hooked Lu Qingmian's trouser leg with one claw, raised its head and screamed the loudest, but it was the smallest among the cats.
Lu Qingmian clenched his teeth, veins throbbing on his forehead. He lowered his head and looked into the eyes of the cow cat. Under the cow cat's gaze, he slowly turned his head, opened his mouth wide, and bit Jiang Jinyue's little cat mouth directly into his mouth.
Jiang Jinyue felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and then the hair on his mouth became wet.
“…”
The cow cat's already round eyes widened even wider. It looked like it had been greatly stimulated and insulted. Its whiskers trembled violently and it didn't know how to react.
Jiang Jinyue stretched out his paw, and pressed the warm and soft little pad on Lu Qingmian's face and pushed it. The cat's head turned to the side, saving his face.
He rubbed his face vigorously with his paws until he could no longer feel the wetness on his face.
Standing back on Lu Qingmian's shoulders, Jiang Jinyue lowered his head and meowed at the cats below.
"You're mistaken. I'm not some beautiful woman! I'm a man! A male! Do you understand what a male cat is? The man next to me is indeed my boyfriend! We're in a relationship! He's not a pervert!"
The cow cat was stimulated again, its claws softened, and it let go of Lu Qingmian's trouser legs. It kept backing away and returned to its little friend.
Several cats huddled together, their small bodies pressed tightly together, their eyes darting between Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian.
The largest orange cat among them showed a serious expression and meowed a few times.
"It's actually a male...it's a male, so it's a male. I'm not...not allowed."
Jiang Jinyue tilted his head in confusion, "Meow?"
What? What do you mean?
The other tabby cat followed suit and swung its tail. "A male like me can do that too! I want to have a romantic relationship with a beautiful woman... no, a handsome man! Before winter comes!"
After the tabby cat finished speaking, the other cats echoed, "That's right! Males are males! We just want to have a passionate love affair with you before winter comes!"
After determining their common goal, the cats looked at Lu Qingmian again.
"We've decided! We're going to be your human rival!"
"We want to compete with you! We have an innate advantage! We are cats! You are a human! You are ugly!"
"The handsome guy is dating you because he is temporarily blind. After feeling our charm, he will definitely abandon you!"
With each cat's meow, Lu Qingmian's face became darker and darker.
He simply didn't leave, but squatted in front of the cats and said with a smile:
"You want to be my rival? Compete with me? You think I'm ugly? Fine, then let me ask you, who does he really like?"
As Lu Qingmian spoke, he picked up Jiang Jinyue and held her in front of him by her arms.
Compared to Jiang Jinyue who was suddenly lifted in front of them, the cats were obviously more shocked by another thing.
"What's going on? This pervert seems to understand what we're saying?"
"Impossible? No human has ever been able to understand what we're saying."
"But he's already squatting down... maybe he's talking to us?"
"Ahhh, look at him looking at me when I was talking, he really does understand!"
"I understand." Lu Qingmian interrupted the quarrel between the cats and held up Jiang Jinyue to let him express his opinion.
Jiang Jinyue originally wanted to play dumb to amuse Lu Qingmian, but seeing Lu Qingmian's gloomy face, he decided not to add fuel to the fire.
He lowered his topaz-like cat eyes, and his pair of cat ears drooped softly. His black, white and orange fur was a stunning beauty in the eyes of several cats!
"Don't fight over me... I really like the person next to me and I won't change my mind!" Jiang Jinyue said slowly, feeling that what he said sounded weird.
Several cats were so shocked that they lay on the ground, lying like a cat.
Lu Qingmian curled his lips slightly, stood up straight again, stuffed Jiang Jinyue into his arms, stepped over the stretched bodies of several cats, and continued walking towards the teaching building.
Suddenly, the cow cat stretched out its claws and hooked Lu Qingmian's trouser legs again.
Lu Qingmian lowered his head and strangely saw anticipation and caution on a cat's face.
Cow Cat quickly gave up his passionate love affair and asked, "Are you going to that big house?"
The big house refers to the teaching building.
"Yes." Lu Qingmian replied.
The cow cat loosened its claws, sat up gracefully, and asked cautiously, "Then... can you take us into that big house?"
It is getting colder in H City, and people have put on thick coats. Although these stray cats are born with fur, their fur can only resist a small amount of cold. If possible, who would not want to stay in a warm place?
Jiang Jinyue in his arms tightly grasped Lu Qingmian's clothes with his claws, and Lu Qingmian had no intention of refusing.
"Follow me, don't make any noise, and don't shout."
Several cats got up and stood in a row behind Lu Qingmian obediently, even lining up according to their size.
Lu Qingmian led the cat team into the teaching building. The students passing by exclaimed in surprise, and many of them secretly took out their mobile phones to take pictures.
Lu Qingmian is the campus idol of H University. With his outstanding appearance and figure, and the obedient cats lined up in a row behind him, who wouldn’t find this scene magical!
Entering the classroom, Lu Qingmian led the cats to sit at the back of the classroom.
Several cats gathered around Lu Qingmian's feet, lying down obediently, not walking around or meowing, because they were under the table, and the teacher who came to the class did not notice that there were several cats in the classroom.
After that, the cats followed Lu Qingmian to attend two more classes. When Lu Qingmian was about to leave the campus, the cats thanked him and prepared to leave.
Lu Qingmian called out to them, "Are you hungry? Do you want to come to my house? Anyway...feeding one cat is the same as feeding a group of cats."
A cat named Jiang Jinyue proudly patted Lu Qingmian's cheek with its paw.
Several cats gathered together to discuss for a while, and finally resolutely followed Lu Qingmian to his home.
When preparing to cross the road, Jiang Jinyue pointed at the translucent soul of the little black cat and showed it to the cats, but the cats couldn't see the soul of the little black cat at all.
Back at 1303, Lu Qingmian put Jiang Jinyue on the table to eat. Jiang Jinyue was not an ordinary cat after all. He ate the meal that Lu Qingmian ordered from the restaurant. The cats ate the minced meat that Lu Qingmian had specially asked the restaurant to steam for them according to the proportion of cat food, which was oil-free and salt-free.
After dinner, Jiang Jinyue lay down like the other cats, slowly wagging his tail.
Jiang Jinyue narrowed his eyes, remembering how the cats had always mentioned "falling in love before winter" during their previous arguments, and asked, "Why do you keep saying you want to fall in love before winter comes?"
The Cow Cat was the first to answer. While licking its paws to wash its face, it replied, "Our elders told us that if we don't have a passionate love affair before winter, we'll never have another chance!"
Jiang Jinyue was puzzled: "How could there be no chance?" A cat's lifespan is at least a dozen years.
Lu Qingmian suddenly said, "In the winter in H City, the average temperature is around -35 degrees Celsius, and the coldest time is close to -50 degrees Celsius."
Jiang Jinyue fell silent. With such temperature, these stray cats living outdoors could not survive at all. Even if they escaped various man-made disasters, they would eventually be frozen to death.
In places like H City, winter lasts nearly half of the year, and the lifespan of these stray animals is like wheat in the fields, cropping one after another, and they rarely have the chance to see the spring of the following year.
Jiang Jinyue looked at the heartless cats lying on the floor, and his heart sank.
"Do you... want to live in my house?" Jiang Jinyue asked.
He knew that he could only save a few cats, but when he saw it, he couldn't just stand by and watch, and he always did so.
Lu Qingmian understood Jiang Jinyue, and he knew what kind of Jiang Jinyue he liked was like, so he had no objection.
At first, the cats didn't understand what Jiang Jinyue meant, but after they understood, they were overjoyed. They came over one by one, trying to stick to Jiang Jinyue and rub against him, but Lu Qingmian quickly grabbed Jiang Jinyue away.
At night, the man and the cat huddled together and ordered daily necessities for the new family members.
In the next few days, Jiang Jinyue did not turn back into a human. He was somewhat accustomed to living with Lu Qingmian in the form of a cat. Every day after class, he would listen to the cats at home talk about the gossip they knew.
During these few days, they picked up a few more cats. It happened that someone next door to Lu Qingmian had moved out, so he bought the house and turned it into a huge cat room for these cats to live in.
In the last few days of October, H City had its first snow of the winter. The snow was so heavy that it lasted all night. The next day, when Lu Qingmian went to school, he found that the snow outside had already reached above his ankles.
Jiang Jinyue looked at the silver-white ground and felt a little anxious.
The first snow of this winter in H City came earlier than in previous years. Looking at the snow-covered sky, Jiang Jinyue began to worry about the stray cats in the school.
As far as he knew, there were several very timid cats in the school who had not been found and had not been brought home in time. The temperature dropped sharply after the snow, and if they were not found quickly, it might be too late.
"There are many people in the school during the day, and the cats are too timid to come out, so we come to look for them secretly at night," said Lu Qingmian.
Jiang Jinyue had no better idea, so he agreed.
After the afternoon class, Lu Qingmian took Jiang Jinyue home first.
Perhaps because he was too worried, Jiang Jinyue suddenly turned back into human form in a burst of warm orange light. Even the ears on his head and the tail behind him disappeared. Jiang Jinyue was particularly happy, as this made it easier for him and Lu Qingmian to go find those stray cats tonight.
At night, after 10 o'clock, Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue went out together.
H University is relatively traditional. Except for the graduate student dormitories and international student dormitories, the dormitories for freshmen to seniors have power cut off at 10:30 every night, and the dormitories are locked. There will be no students on the playground at this time.
Two people climbed over the broken fence next to the back door and entered the school. They turned on their flashlights and began searching in the corners of the teaching building.
Just like every time a Mary Sue incident begins, Jiang Jinyue still has only a vague understanding of the Mary Sue incident of "Everyone Loves the Little Kittens". He wants to try to see if he can sense the location of those kittens, but to no avail.
They first searched around the teaching building, then slowly groped their way to the dormitory area, searching along the corners of the boys' dormitory.
H was pitch black at night, and the flashlight had very low visibility on the silver-white snow.
"Just walk one building further and you'll find the girls' dormitory," Lu Qingmian said.
If you go near the girls' dormitory at night and are accidentally discovered by the doorman or security guard, they won't be able to explain themselves clearly.
Jiang Jinyue had been wearing warm clothes when he came out, but after walking for a while, he was almost frozen. Thinking of the cats, he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's look further ahead. If we're careful, we shouldn't be discovered."
Lu Qingmian didn't refute, but just said, "Let's go."
The two continued walking forward for a distance, and suddenly found a strange light coming from the window on the first floor of the dormitory building in front of them.
The light was different from that of an incandescent lamp. It was orange and flickered continuously on the glass.
Jiang Jinyue frowned and looked for a while, then his eyes suddenly widened, and he and Lu Qingmian quickly ran over.
That's not some strange light, it's fire! There's a fire in the girls' dormitory!
They ran to the door of the girls' dormitory. Not only was the door locked, but the security iron door outside the dormitory building was also tightly locked. They ran to the window on the side, which was where the dormitory aunt lived.
Lu Qingmian shone the flashlight inside and found that the fire spread from here. The aunt in the dormitory was lying by the window, and seemed to have been fainted by the black smoke inside.
The windows on the first and second floors of the dormitory building are sealed with iron railings. The gaps in the railings are very narrow and there is some distance between them and the windows. Not to mention crawling in, even if you want to stretch your arms in to open the window, you can't reach it.
Jiang Jinyue used a flashlight to knock hard against the iron railing, making a loud noise. "Auntie? Auntie? Wake up! There's a fire! Open the door!"
Lu Qingmian had already dialed the fire alarm, and then called the school guard room and school leaders one by one.
The fire spread quickly, as if there was some special burning point inside, and soon black smoke filled the first floor.
Unable to wake up the dormitory aunt, Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue each picked up a big stone and smashed the security iron gate outside the dormitory door, shouting as they did so.
"Fire! Fire! Wake up! Wake up!"
Jiang Jinyue ran to an outdoor faucet not far away and turned it on, but found that not a drop of water came out.
It snowed heavily for a whole day and night, and the faucets outside had already frozen.
The girls living on the first floor were awakened by the thick smoke, followed by the second and third floors, and the entire dormitory building was awakened.
There were bursts of exclamations and screams one after another, and soon some girls in their pajamas ran to the first floor. They rushed to the locked door of the dormitory building and banged on it, calling for help, and then banged on the dormitory aunt's door, but it was all in vain.
The single room where the aunt lives in the dormitory has a security door that was replaced by the school. The small window next to it is also protected by iron bars. Several girls found heavy objects to smash it, but they couldn't break it open.
The black smoke on the first floor was getting thicker and thicker, affecting their vision. The flames were spreading, and if they continued to crowd in front of the dormitory building, they would be waiting to die.
"Run up! Run upstairs!" Jiang Jinyue shouted.
The girls dropped their heavy objects, gave up smashing the door, and started running upstairs frantically.
The noise here woke up the nearby dormitories, and the dormitory managers and students from other dormitories came downstairs and gathered around.
Jiang Jinyue anxiously asked the dormitory managers, "Do you have the key to Building 2? Do you have the key to Building 2?"
"No, no! The keys are under the care of a designated person. If you take them without permission, you will be fined!"
Jiang Jinyue felt a chill in his heart. He looked up and saw that all the windows on the fourth floor were open. The girls were crowded by the windows, shouting for help, and some even planned to jump out of the window.
Many leaders of H University lived in the nearby family buildings, and they arrived before the fire truck.
Seeing the students gathered in front of the burning Building No. 2, they immediately directed the doormen and security guards to stop the students.
The crowd pushed and shoved, and Jiang Jinyue was squeezed in. His eyes went dark, illusions fluttered in front of his eyes like flying flowers, and terrible auditory hallucinations flashed in his ears from time to time.
Jiang Jinyue gritted his teeth, and he and Lu Qingmian struggled to squeeze out of the crowd and continued to smash the iron gate outside the dormitory building.
When many classmates saw this, they took out heavy objects and started to smash the door together. Finally, with everyone's efforts, the iron door was completely smashed down.
They rushed in and smashed the glass door inside, but before they could rejoice, thick darkness, engulfed in flames, rolled out, and they could no longer enter the first floor! Even if they smashed the door, was there anyone who could still rush in to save people in the flames?
The students gathered here ran to the nearest dormitory building, picked up anything that could hold water and rushed over to pour water on the flames.
The dormitory aunt finally woke up from her fainting. She staggered out and the flames on her body were immediately extinguished with water. This was the only good news at the moment.
Jiang Jinyue, Lu Qingmian and other students who were closest to the scene were pushed to the periphery by teachers and security guards. Jiang Jinyue looked at the flames in front of him, and a trace of despair filled his heart.
Why at this moment? If he were an angel, a mermaid, or a vampire, none of them would be so helpless!
But at this moment, he is just a human! A human who can turn into a cat!
Jiang Jinyue gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and suddenly rushed towards the nearest dormitory.
Lu Qingmian followed Jiang Jinyue closely, and he seemed to know exactly what Jiang Jinyue wanted to do.
The two of them rushed to the dormitory bathroom, took off their coats, soaked them with water, and then rushed back.
Jiang Jinyue put on his wet coat and glanced at Lu Qingmian who was also wearing a coat.
They all knew that rushing into the sea of fire was a very dangerous thing, and they might not even be able to come out alive.
They also know that their behavior is too reckless, irrational, and even irresponsible to themselves.
But……
Lu Qingmian did not stop Jiang Jinyue. He just looked at Jiang Jinyue deeply and said word by word:
"We're together."
Jiang Jinyue nodded vigorously, "Together!"
While the teacher and security guard were not paying attention, Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian rushed out of the obstruction and suddenly rushed into the dormitory door from which black smoke continued to pour out!
There was a huge cry of surprise from the crowd. Seeing this, several students' eyes turned red and they wanted to rush forward, but they were immediately stopped by their friends.
"Are you crazy? The fire is so big, you'll die if you go in there!"
"Someone has already gone in!"
"They are crazy and looking for death. Are you crazy too?"
"I've already called multiple times. The fire truck will be here soon. Stop making trouble!"
"Are we just going to watch? Do nothing?"
"Didn't we just try pouring water in there? Pouring it in basins is too little, it won't work at all!"
"Just wait. There's nothing else to do."
"If you want to blame someone, you can only blame their bad luck. Let's just leave it to fate."
At this time, in the corridor filled with black smoke and flames, Lu Qingmian searched each dormitory on the left and right.
Their goal was clear. The girls who had already hidden on the fourth floor were not in danger for the time being. They were looking for those girls who did not have time to run or who fainted or were injured while running!
The fire on the first floor was huge and the black smoke was thick. Jiang Jinyue covered his mouth and nose and felt very uncomfortable as his lungs were choked.
The temperature around was very high, and the moisture in his coat was evaporating quickly. Jiang Jinyue searched every dormitory without stopping.
At the door of the innermost dormitory on the first floor, he saw a girl who had fainted.
The girl had one hand stretched out in front of her, tightly clutching a coat. It seemed that she fainted while running away, but her hand was tightly holding onto her companion, who took off her coat and abandoned her together.
Jiang Jinyue covered the girl's head and face with his wet coat, bent down and picked her up.
The close physical contact made the fragmented illusion in front of his eyes even clearer. Jiang Jinyue gritted his teeth and tried to open his eyes wide in the thick smoke, trying to distinguish between illusion and reality.
"It's fake, all fake! Jiang Jinyue, after all these years, haven't you already decided to move on? Those things are long gone, there's no need to keep letting them affect you!"
Jiang Jinyue ran and murmured, as if to cheer himself up.
He was not a man of good physique and was not very strong. It was difficult for him to run wildly while holding a girl. His lungs twitched violently while running, and the air mixed with black smoke was inhaled into his lungs, causing a sharp pain.
Jiang Jinyue didn't dare to stop for a moment, for he was afraid that if he stopped he would never be able to run again.
Finally, he rushed out of the dormitory building covered in black smoke.
The crowd roared loudly. They all thought that Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian would never come back, but they didn't expect that Jiang Jinyue actually carried out a person!
Jiang Jinyue put the girl down, and the teacher next to him subconsciously pulled Jiang Jinyue's arm to prevent him from going in again.
At this time, there was another noise from the crowd.
Lu Qingmian also rushed out, holding someone in his arms.
Jiang Jinyue took advantage of the teacher's stunned moment and rushed in again.
He and Lu Qingmian passed each other and just glanced at each other quickly without saying anything.
Both of them were covered in black dust, and their facial features were almost invisible.
The fire grew bigger and bigger.
Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian sent out another girl, turned around and rushed in again without hesitation.
The third time we rushed into the sea of fire, the first floor was no longer safe.
The coat Jiang Jinyue was wearing had long been dry. The flames licked the corners of his clothes and quickly burned. He immediately took off his coat and continued running forward.
He only felt flames and black smoke all around him, and his hair was burning.
"Save one more... Let me save one more..."
Jiang Jinyue tried hard to open his eyes wide and searched for a figure in the flames. Finally, he saw a girl at the corner of the stairs from the second floor to the third floor!
He bent down and picked up the girl. Just after running a few steps, his body went limp and he fell to the ground with the girl.
Not only because of fatigue, the choking smoke and flames, but also because of the illusions in front of Jiang Jinyue's eyes and the hallucinations in his ears.
The traffickers' hideous laughter seemed to be getting closer and closer. They slapped their palms with thick steel needles and discussed where on his body they would stick them.
Jiang Jinyue knelt up with his arms supported. In the firelight, he seemed to see steel needles sticking out of his fingertips, and blood was dripping.
“It hurts…it hurts so much…”
The tears just overflowed from her eyes but were evaporated by the high temperature. Jiang Jinyue bent her arms and wanted to fall back to the ground.
Just close your eyes and all the pain will disappear.
Suddenly, a faint cough was heard.
The girl he was hugging slowly opened her eyes and saw Jiang Jinyue, who was dressed in black and gray, with his clothes tattered by the flames and his hair almost burnt off.
Her pupils contracted, she didn't expect anyone to rush into the fire to save her.
The surrounding flames flickered with orange light, and crackling sounds were heard from the flames. From time to time, buildings were burned and collapsed.
The girl looked at Jiang Jinyue, her eyebrows suddenly curved, and she smiled and said, "Classmate, thank you for coming to save me. You couldn't get out with me. Put me down and go quickly."
Jiang Jinyue's unfocused gaze slowly fixed on the girl. The girl seemed to be afraid that he would not leave, so she raised her hand with effort, pushed him, and then quickly dropped it again.
"Let's go..."
Jiang Jinyue bit his lips, propped up his weak limbs, and used all his strength to pick up the girl again.
He staggered to his feet, looked at the sea of fire surrounding them, suddenly raised his head, and roared shrilly:
"Meow!!!!!!!!"
The roar stirred up a gust of wind, which spread out with invisible sound pressure. The strong wind suppressed the flames, and Jiang Jinyue took the opportunity to rush out.
The students gathered outside looked anxiously at the dormitory building engulfed in flames, murmuring:
"Come out, come out quickly."
"Please don't get into any trouble. You must get out alive."
"God bless you, please, come out!"
Suddenly, a few cats squeezed out from the crowd.
They held a ball of snow in their mouths, ran to the burning dormitory building, and spat the snow towards the flames.
Then several more cats ran out, holding snow in their mouths and spitting it into the flames.
After the cats, several dogs came out and did the same thing.
"What are they doing? Are these cats and dogs putting out a fire?"
"That's speechless, isn't it? What's the use of a little snow like this?"
"It's totally useless..."
Suddenly, there was a sound of flapping wings above the crowd's heads.
People looked up and saw countless birds flying in the night sky illuminated by flames. They were of different species and colors, but each of them held a leaf in its claws, and in the leaf was a small ball of fallen snow!
They flew to the roof of the dormitory building, loosened the fallen leaves and let the snowflakes fall down.
After one round, the birds would go to the nearest place to get snow and repeat this action over and over again.
Watching the animals' continuous efforts, someone in the student group suddenly moved.
They picked up basins, cups, bowls and other utensils that could hold water and rushed into the nearest dormitory building.
The help from the little animals was so weak and powerless, but they did not give up. Why should these humans who claim to be at the top of nature give up so early!
The crowd began to fetch water to put out the fire in an orderly manner. The flames were reflected on the windows and had already spread to the third floor.
Finally, the sirens of the fire trucks pierced the night sky and echoed in everyone's ears.
"There's hope, there's hope..."
"The fire truck is coming!!! The fire truck is coming!!!"
"Where are the two people who rushed in?"
"Are they coming out yet?"
At this time, Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian rushed out of the dormitory building door filled with smoke.
They each held a girl in their arms, and a raging fire had already started behind them.
The flames rose high like wings, and the two of them became the most dazzling presence in the dark night.
"Put out the fire!"
The classmates rushed over with basins of water and put out the fire on Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue.
They put down the person in their arms, and both of them fell to the ground, shoulder to shoulder, breathing weakly, unable to utter a word.
Both of them looked equally miserable, with burns all over their bodies, their clothes were unrecognizable, and their hair was almost burnt off.
The fire truck arrived and poured water down with a column of water that shot up into the sky.
After a few hours, the fire was completely extinguished and the girls hiding upstairs were also rescued.
The sky is getting brighter and the winter sun is rising slowly.
In the early morning sunshine, teachers counted the number of people and firefighters did the final cleanup.
After taking the roll, the teacher clutched a thin piece of paper and said excitedly, "Great! Great! No one died! No one died!"
Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian finally came to their senses. After hearing what the teacher said, they looked at each other. Before they could say anything, they were suddenly lifted up by the students.
"Heroes! You are heroes!"
"Hero! Hero! Hero!"
The students raised their arms and cheered, lifted the two of them up, threw them up and caught them, threw them up again and caught them again.
Countless hands touched Jiang Jinyue, and Jiang Jinyue was thrown into the air and turned to look for Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian kept looking at Jiang Jinyue with his head tilted, as if Jiang Jinyue was the only one in his world.
When Jiang Jinyue looked over, Lu Qingmian's lips moved.
Jiang Jinyue knew what Lu Qingmian was asking.
He shook his head slightly, curled up the corners of his lips, and smiled with tears in his eyes. The tears shattered in the air as he threw and caught, exploding into countless pieces of light.
Tears had covered his face in a patch of black and gray, but Jiang Jinyue's eyes were exceptionally bright.
"No hallucinations, no discomfort, I'm fine."
The students threw enough and finally put Jiang Jinyue and Lu Qingmian on the ground.
Lu Qingmian immediately squeezed out of the crowd, and Jiang Jinyue also squeezed out. The two of them shuttled among the cheering students, their arms reaching out to each other.
Finally, their fingertips touched, and then the two hands covered in black dust and wounds were tightly clasped.
Jiang Jinyue threw herself into Lu Qingmian's arms and said with a smile:
"Lu Qingmian, I'm completely healed. No more hallucinations, no more PTSD. I'm not afraid of anything anymore!"
Lu Qingmian tightened his embrace with all his might. His chest was heaving with emotion. He looked down at Jiang Jinyue and suddenly said, "Jiang Jinyue, I love you!"
"Did you hear that? I love you!"
Jiang Jinyue stood on tiptoe and hugged Lu Qingmian's neck tightly, then whispered in Lu Qingmian's ear, "I heard it, Lu Qingmian, I heard it!"
Jiang Jinyue then let go of his hand, turned around and ran to the flower bed nearby, stepped on it, raised his hands, and shouted:
"I heard it!"
"Lu Qingmian!"
“I love this world!”
"I love you too!"
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