Chapter 58 The Pain of Losing a Beloved
He suddenly chased after Ye Qingyu in the direction she had fled—
Lu Ran was incredibly fast. The moment Pei Ci gave the order, his body shot out like an arrow, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Pei Ci blinked, turning her gaze away from Lu Ran, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
...Indeed, it's always good to be more careful.
If she hadn't given Lu Ran a heads-up beforehand, he might not have been able to react so efficiently in this unexpected situation.
Now all that's left is for Lu Ran to play the hero and save the damsel in distress, and then win over Ye Qingyu's favor.
However, when he thought of this, Pei Ci paused for a moment, and a thought suddenly popped into his mind.
After a hero saves a damsel in distress, can feelings of affection really develop?
Can love really arise so casually?
However, this thought only lasted a few seconds before Pei Ci quickly convinced herself.
This isn't the real world; it's a world created from a campus romance novel. In this world, there's a 90% chance that a hero rescuing a damsel in distress will lead to love.
All we can do now is wait.
She stepped off the stage, sat down in the nearest chair, and opened her phone to check on the Anta School anniversary celebrations. She looked for a long time, and as Pei Ci had expected, Ye Qingyu's action had gone viral, with the internet buzzing with discussions about Ye Qingyu's confrontation with Anta School.
—Good heavens, has Ye Qingyu gone mad? To do something like this at such an important school anniversary celebration, she's offended everyone at the top of the pyramid. I feel like her life is in danger.
—+1, I feel like she doesn't want to live anymore.
—Ruozhi.
—This bright future has been ruined just like that. Luckily, my parents are dead, otherwise they would have been driven mad with anger even if they were still alive!
—That's right. As an ordinary person, she had already achieved quite a good status. If she had just behaved herself and cooperated with the school and politicians in their show, achieving upward mobility would have been the most basic thing. But it was all ruined, hahaha.
—It must be possessed by some demon or monster.
—Ah…this…does everyone think she's stupid? Actually, I quite admire her.
—Admire her? Do you admire her for going crazy like she's lost her mind?
—Look, you also think it's stupid to do this, so why did Ye Qingyu do it? Did Ye Qingyu really not know?
—They've gone mad.
—Do you mean someone who was willing to be beaten up in order to gather evidence, and who placed a police officer at such a big event as the school anniversary celebration?
—What an idiot.
—I don't think Ye Qingyu is stupid; she just did what we've always wanted to do but couldn't. But it's ridiculous, since when did stopping bullying become such an impractical and foolish thing?
——……
—But what's the use? Ye Qingyu is finished. She's completely finished. Why did she do this? Why did she have to do something so self-destructive? Was there nothing in this world worth her staying for?
When Pei Ci saw this post, she paused, and for some reason, she suddenly thought of the day she and Ye Qingyu went to get their hair cut. It was a rare moment of joy and relaxation for Ye Qingyu. She was holding their photo together and sticking it on the wall. Her newly cut hair revealed the slightly reddened skin on her neck, and the light shone on her profile, making her lips curve slightly.
Pei Ci has always been oblivious, and at the time she didn't think much of it, until now, she suddenly realized...
Ye Qingyu was happy at this moment.
I just got my hair cut.
I now have a photograph that can be displayed on a faded, yellowed wall.
That's all.
Based on this recollection, Pei Ci easily concluded that Ye Qingyu had something she cherished in this world.
Pei Ci should be persuaded.
But countless memories churned within her. She thought of the ring Ye Qingyu had returned to her, a ring whose origin she only remembered much later. Then she thought of a long time ago, of Ye Qingyu's cold face, constantly trying to push her away.
She thought of the sunflowers in Van Gogh's paintings; even with sunlight shining on them, they still drooped their flower heads, folded their leaves, and looked half-dead.
She is the sunflower in the painting.
So they don't look up even when they see sunlight.
Is there nothing in this world that she would cherish?
Pei Ci couldn't help but start thinking about this question again, and she tried to think about it from a positive perspective.
If there is nothing in this world that she cherishes, then everything she has done today is quite reasonable.
She was an orphan, without any obsessions, so she could go crazy without restraint and burn herself out.
What will she do after burning herself?
What can Ye Qingyu do?
Pei Ci pursed her lips, her normally beating heart beginning to pound wildly. She was horrified by her own thoughts.
No.
That can't be the case.
That's absolutely not true!!!
Just then, Pei Ci's phone rang.
It's Lu Ran's call!
Pei Ci eagerly pressed the call button, interrupting Lu Ran hastily while he was still calling her name.
"How is Ye Qingyu?!"
Why is there no sound? Lu Ran? Lu Ran??
"Has something happened to Ye Qingyu?"
Where are you now???
There was another long silence on the other end. Just when Pei Ci thought there was something wrong with the phone, the voice on the other end finally came through.
"Ye Qingyu is alright."
Lu Ran's voice was low and deep, almost devoid of emotion.
"Are you really alright?" Pei Ci asked, still worried.
"It's alright," Lu Ran explained. "Don't worry, after I chased after them, I soon encountered the security guards who were trying to arrest Ye Qingyu. After dealing with them, I found Ye Qingyu. She's with me, and no one will lay a finger on her."
Hearing this, Pei Ci finally felt relieved.
"I see." Pei Ci rubbed her slightly aching temples. "Where are you guys now?"
The meaning was clear: she wanted to go and take a look. Lu Ran remained silent again, and after a few brief seconds, he gave the location.
The top floor of the teaching building to the left of the auditorium.
"Okay, I understand." Pei Ci was about to hang up when Lu Ran suddenly called her name. Not the usual intimate "A Ci," but "Pei Ci."
Pei Ci was still a little unaccustomed to being addressed like that, so she didn't hang up. "What's wrong?"
So Lu Ran asked the question he had been pondering—
"Pei Ci, Ye Qingyu, or me, who is the most important?"
Pei Ci was stunned. After experiencing so much, she was no longer as ignorant as before, and she understood Lu Ran's unstable nature more deeply. At such a crucial moment, she absolutely could not provoke him.
"You are the most important." Pei Ci said without hesitation, as if she hadn't thought it through at all.
But Pei Ci wasn't sure if her words would work. So she added, "Lu Ran, stay where you are, I'm coming to check on you."
"Are you looking at me or Ye Qingyu?"
Pei Ci didn't answer this multiple-choice question, because answering it would only lead to more binary choices. So she stepped out of the question itself and said directly, "Lu Ran, I really want to see you right now."
Pei Ci chose to appease her.
This soothing gesture wasn't a simple pat; it carried a commanding tone, brooking no argument. Perhaps it was this sense of control that calmed Lu Ran's emotions. Soon, Pei Ci heard Lu Ran give a soft "hmm."
After persuading Lu Ran, Pei Ci hung up the phone and walked towards the teaching building.
Because of Ye Qingyu's affair, the outward elegance and nobility of Anta Academy were partially exposed. When Pei Ci came out, she saw many girls gathered together, unusually not putting on airs of nobility, discussing Ye Qingyu with expressions of doubt or mockery.
Pei Ci ignored her and continued on her way.
It was a sunny day, not too hot. But on the way, Pei Ci was still given an umbrella by an unknown girl. She could only open the umbrella under the girl's gaze.
"Thank you," Pei Ci said.
"No...you're welcome." The girl blushed.
After saying goodbye to the girl, Pei Ci walked for a while and arrived at the teaching building. Just as she was about to enter the building, she heard the sound of fierce fighting coming from the fifth floor.
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The fifth floor?!
Ye Qingyu and Lu Ran are on the fifth floor!
Pei Ci quickly took out her phone to call Lu Ran, while looking out the window on the fifth floor.
In the past, Lu Ran would always answer the phone instantly. But now it rang for a long time. Pei Ci's bad premonition grew stronger.
Something went wrong?
What exactly went wrong?
Just as she was about to hang up, the call was answered.
"Lu Ran, Ye Qingyu, she..."
Before Pei Ci could finish speaking, Lu Ran replied, "She's fine."
Pei Ci breathed a sigh of relief. Just then, a voice suddenly darted past her, followed by—
"Thump!"
With a loud bang, Pei Ci's transparent umbrella became dirty.
The air fell silent. Pei Ci blinked, feeling as if she were dreaming. Finally regaining consciousness, Pei Ci looked at the bloodstains on the umbrella and belatedly realized that what she had just seen was a human body. Now, five or six steps in front of her lay a life about to end.
Pei Ci's eyes widened, a sense of foreboding washing over her. She took a few steps forward, and amidst the blood-soaked body, she saw a familiar face.
Ye Qingyu.
It is Ye Qingyu.
Ye Qingyu jumped off the building while she was on the phone with Lu Ran.
Ye Qingyu...
Ye Qingyu is going to die.
Ye Qingyu is going to die?!
Because she has no attachments, because she has gone completely mad, because she has done everything she should have done, because her mission has been completed, because her farewell has ended without her even realizing it, she has now decided to walk towards death and end this bizarre and absurd life.
No! ! !
You're the female lead, how could you die?!
Pei Ci disregarded everything else and rushed towards Ye Qingyu. She slapped Ye Qingyu's face with her hands, her thick eyelashes trembling, and her voice was short as she kept calling out to her, "Ye Qingyu, it's alright, it's all alright."
"Hang in there a little longer, I'll get you an ambulance."
How could the female lead die? How could she die? The female lead couldn't possibly die.
so……
so……
So, so, so...
"Ye Qingyu!!!" Pei Ci roared at the person who had stained her dress red.
This action clearly had some effect; Ye Qingyu's bleeding eyelids opened, revealing lifeless, brownish-red pupils. In her dying moments, her will subconsciously searched for something.
Ye Qingyu saw a figure.
Slender and upright.
Unfortunately, the blood had blinded her, and she couldn't see anything.
But she knew she had won.
She became a shadow, a nightmare, and a thorn in the side of Lu Ran and Pei Ci's relationship.
She finally steered this abnormal world, which was too bright and beautiful for Lu Ran, back to the worldline she knew.
Yes, someone as wicked as Lu Ran should be a stray dog, a defeated dog, and should forever lose his loved one.
Now, her revenge plan has been perfectly executed, but as her life is about to slip away, Ye Qingyu discovers that, compared to resentment, jealousy, and the thrill of achieving her goal, perhaps…
Ye Qingyu could speak now. He raised his finger toward the figure, and blood flowed down between his fingers.
"Miss Pei, I also want to see you."
I want to see you first, to meet you as my true self, to say so many things to you—things without any heavy or depressing topics—and to do so many things, just being with you. Happiness always surrounds me. But…
This is a road of no return.
I never had a choice.
"Miss Pei." Ye Qingyu's eyelids trembled, and beads of blood rolled down his eyelashes. He forced a smile and uttered his last words—
"Feel sorry."
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Author's note: I'm late, I'm late!
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