Chapter 30 The Cycle "Life is like a..."
Ning Yanzhao had somehow returned to nine years in the future, carrying the groceries she had just bought at the supermarket.
Looking at the current situation and drawing on her two previous experiences, Ning Yanzhao roughly concluded that time did not flow here when she traveled back to the time nine years ago. Her spirit was in the past nine years, while her body remained still in the place where the time travel occurred nine years later.
However, Ning Yanzhao seemed to know that this was of no use, because nothing had changed significantly. She opened her phone to check her messages, and An Nianyu's news still showed that he had passed away.
Was it because He Shenmo's matter was resolved that Ning Yanzhao was able to travel back nine years?
Or was it all just two fleeting dreams within dreams? Ning Yanzhao's mind was already confused. Perhaps she had been thinking too much lately. She even felt dizzy. So she quickly paid and went to the supermarket entrance to get some fresh air.
Ning Yanzhao looked at the sky and sighed deeply. Life is really too hard!
Before going home, Ning Yanzhao also picked up the package that Jing Yiran had sent her from her business trip at the courier station. When she opened it, she found various exquisite and unique postcards, several cups, and some local specialty snacks such as chocolates.
Ning Yanzhao contacted Jing Yiran again, "Hey? Yiran, are you off work today?"
"Um, I'm off work today, what's up?"
"I just received the gift you sent me. It's very beautiful. Thank you."
"There's no need for thanks between us. You're too kind. You even sent me a magazine with my idol on the cover, didn't you? Oh, and you absolutely have to try those cookies. They're super delicious. I regret not buying more."
"Thank you so much. By the way, Yiran, I have another question. Do you remember a classmate of ours named He Shenmo? She was the girl who transferred here in the second year of high school."
"Of course I remember. What are you trying to say?"
"Do you know what she's doing now? Or what university she got into back then?"
"She probably went to university in the capital, and I've heard she works there too. What's wrong?"
The capital? Ning Yanzhao clearly remembered that He Shenmo shouldn't have gone to this city for the college entrance examination, so the past really has changed.
"Nothing's wrong. I just suddenly remembered what happened after the spring outing in my second year of high school. It caused quite a stir back then."
"...Yan Zhao, I've noticed that you've been quite interested in your old high school classmates lately."
"Just consider me one of them. Aren't I getting old and starting to reminisce about my youth?"
"Okay, but actually, after graduation, I basically don't keep in touch with my old classmates anymore, unless we're really close, or we've known each other for a long time like the two of us. Of course, our relationship combines both of these elements."
"Okay, thank you, Yiran. Let's have dinner together again next time. Goodnight for now."
"good evening."
Ning Yanzhao opened the class QQ group again, and sure enough, there was another person in it, including He Shenmo.
Ning Yanzhao chose to add He Shenmo's QQ account, but just like with Xu Yongqing, she didn't receive any news for several days. Does nobody use QQ anymore?
Ning Yanzhao had just searched for An Nianyu's news in the supermarket, hoping for a miracle and that something would change in the next few minutes. However, when she searched for An Nianyu's news again, she found that his situation remained unchanged.
Miracles, as always, never seem to happen to Ning Yanzhao.
Having experienced two time travels, Ning Yanzhao increasingly felt that things might not be as simple as they seemed. In the face of obvious facts, there are often unknown and overlooked truths hidden. Therefore, she still planned to sort out these matters a bit.
Ning Yanzhao organized the events involving Xu Yongqing and He Shenmo from back then according to the timeline in her memory and wrote them down in her notebook. On the surface, Xu Yongqing chose to run away from home because of domestic violence, but she ended up in a car accident. In reality, her parents at the time were not her biological parents, and she had the accident on her way to find her biological parents.
He Shenmo dropped out of school after being slandered. On his way home, while trying to heal his soul by watching small animals, he encountered someone who was harming the animals. As a result, he was beaten up and, because he was feeling unwell, he couldn't stand up for a while. And because no one noticed, he froze to death on a deserted street on a winter night.
As for An Nianyu, after these days of traveling back in time and his interactions with Ning Yanzhao, he really doesn't believe that An Nianyu is the kind of person who would commit suicide. So if there is still a chance, he must investigate the matter thoroughly.
Ning Yanzhao printed out the news about An Nianyu and pasted it after the summary of the Xu Yongqing and He Shenmo incident.
Ning Yanzhao looked at the big picture and felt that something was missing, but she hadn't figured it out yet.
The reasons why he traveled through time, why he returned after traveling through time, the conditions for traveling through time, and why the time travel is related to the revelation of the truth about those people are all questions that Ning Yanzhao needs to figure out.
The next day, Ning Yanzhao went to work according to the schedule. On her way home, while listening to music with her headphones on and waiting for the bus, she belatedly realized that both times she had time-traveled to bus stops.
The first time was at a bus stop near her home, and the second time was at a bus stop near the place she went on a spring outing. She believed it was definitely not a coincidence, because both bus stops were places she had been to before.
The bus stop near her home was very close to the funeral home, which was one of the opportunities that reconnected Ning Yanzhao with An Nianyu, whom she hadn't seen for many years; the second bus stop was near the park where they went on their spring outing, and if she had to connect it to An Nianyu, it would be that during her first spring outing, it was An Nianyu who first noticed her fall to the ground and then told the teacher...
So, is a bus stop one of the conditions that triggers time travel? But it's definitely not just any bus stop that will work; figuring out exactly which bus stop it is is the key to time travel.
In Ning Yanzhao's life, only three people died in accidents when she was young: Xu Yongqing, He Shenmo, and An Nianyu.
"Life is like a circle, where the end is also the beginning, and the beginning can also be the end..." Just then, the music playing in Ning Yanzhao's ears began to play.
Based on the concept of a cycle, which is both the beginning and the end, is it possible that An Nianyu was at the bus stop under the overpass when Ning Yanzhao first traveled through time? Regardless of whether it is true or not, she decided to give it a try.
Realizing this crucial point, Ning Yanzhao thought that she had to deal with it quickly, as the longer it was delayed, the worse it would be.
"How do I get there? Why does this map keep changing?" Just as Ning Yanzhao was looking at the map on her phone and hurrying on her way, she accidentally bumped into someone. Her notebook fell out of her hand and spread out, scattering several printed news articles and postcards that had been tucked inside the notebook onto the ground. She quickly squatted down to pick them up.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"It's alright, here you go." The woman picked up the other postcards that Ning Yanzhao hadn't had time to collect and handed them back to her.
Ning Yanzhao took the postcard from the person she bumped into and then looked up at her: "Thank you. Oh, it's you?"
"Do you know me?" Zhou Luoyin looked at the woman opposite her, but she clearly remembered that she did not know the person in front of her.
"I don't know you, I don't know you, I'm sorry. I just thought you looked a bit like someone I know, but I mistook you for someone else."
Ning Yanzhao had actually seen this person before at An Nianyu's funeral. Because not many people attended An Nianyu's funeral, she had a vague impression of the people present, but she didn't know what the specific relationship between this person and An Nianyu was.
However, most of the people who could attend the funeral were relatives or friends, but Ning Yanzhao did not deliberately check the list one by one, after all, it was An Nianyu's privacy.
When Ning Yanzhao first saw her, she clearly wanted to ask her something, but a voice in her heart suddenly told her not to. She didn't know where that inexplicable "resistance" came from, but after a brief struggle, she decided to pretend she didn't know for the time being. Maybe it was just that she didn't want to bring up her friend's sad story.
"Oh, I see. It's okay. I often hear people say I have a generic face."
"No such thing, I just admitted my mistake. I have to go now, anyway, thank you very much."
"Well then, goodbye."
"goodbye."
Watching Ning Yanzhao's departing figure, Zhou Luoyin recalled the text fragments she had just seen, her eyes becoming somewhat dark and unreadable.
After Ning Yanzhao had completely walked away, Zhou Luoyin looked up at the sky where the rain was about to fall. She subconsciously checked to see if the umbrella in her bag was still there. Only after confirming that the umbrella was in her bag did she breathe a sigh of relief. She made one last phone call and continued walking in the opposite direction from Ning Yanzhao. Her voice and figure were slowly swallowed up by the noisy crowd.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Ning Yanzhao, after taking a bus for more than an hour, finally arrived at the overpass on the other side of the city again after many years.
Ning Yanzhao looked up and saw that the overpass was still crowded with people, just like every time she passed by. This was the first time she had seen An Nianyu after her first time crossing over.
As Ning Yanzhao climbed the stairs onto the overpass, the closer she got to it, the more vividly the past seemed to come to mind. She then descended the overpass from the other side and finally arrived at the bus stop where An Nianyu had spoken with Ye Fanghuai.
Ning Yanzhao looked up at the sky. The sky was as gray as it had been on the first day she transmigrated. It looked like it might rain later. She hoped that a miracle would happen.
Ning Yanzhao closed her eyes and mentally counted down one last time, "Three, two, one."
"Excuse me, are you looking for someone?"
When Ning Yanzhao opened her eyes again, she was indeed back. She was standing at the door of Class One's classroom, seemingly during class time.
The person who had just called Ning Yanzhao was, as she remembered, the history teacher from Class 1. He was now looking at her with a puzzled expression, as was everyone else in the classroom, including An Nianyu.
It was an absolutely horrific scene, unlike anything Ning Yanzhao had ever experienced in her life.
"I'm sorry, teacher, I accidentally went to the wrong classroom," Ning Yanzhao apologized softly with her eyes closed.
After Ning Yanzhao apologized, there was a moment of silence. The scene she had expected did not occur. It seemed that the students in Class One were very kind and held back their laughter.
"Alright, if there's nothing else, go back to your classroom." The history teacher of Class 1 was also kind and did not criticize Ning Yanzhao for wandering around during class and suddenly showing up.
"Thank you, teacher. I'll be going now." Ning Yanzhao practically wanted to wear a mask to survive in this school, but just as she was about to leave, she noticed a gaze from the window that made her very sensitive.
Ning Yanzhao looked around and was surprised to find that there was such a person in Class 1.
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