Chapter 43: Cheating in the Postgraduate Entrance Examination and Changing Destiny
Wait, there is a problem.
Li Ming suddenly thought in astonishment: Why would the traffickers take a baby girl from the capital city where the control is the most stringent? They could have taken countless babies from more remote areas. Unless...
He is not a human trafficker at all.
Li Ming took a breath, but he couldn't come up with a reason why he knew about Jiang Huai's sister's situation. Even now, he actually only had a general idea of what would happen in the future.
His information comes from the forum, but the forum is an illusory and indescribable existence.
Li Ming was silent.
He should have lied that he had the gift of precognition.
Well, he couldn't do that either... Li Ming thought sadly: comics had already exposed his talent a long time ago, and even the comic forums were now doubting his identity.
When will the readers stop?
Li Ming felt that he might have to wait until the finale.
"Now it's my turn." Li Ming took a deep breath and said in a cold tone, "What I said before was true, but I didn't tell the whole story."
"Ah?" Jiang Huai blinked unexpectedly.
"I said my parents are dead, and now there are only me and my sister at home." Li Ming said coldly, "But I didn't say that I was abandoned first, then taken in, and then my parents died."
"Um?"
"It's not right to say that they were my parents. An old gentleman adopted me and my sister. He was very rich and knowledgeable, but he got sick very quickly and passed away very quickly."
"Um……"
"I went home every week during my sophomore year to cook for my sister. She was preparing for the college entrance exam at the time, and I was worried that she wouldn't have time to eat, so I went back to cook for her." Li Ming suddenly frowned and muttered, "I remember... I remember what I said at that time?"
"You said your grandmother would come to your house occasionally."
"Oh, yes, the volunteer grandma." Li Ming said after realizing it belatedly, "For a while, I was always worried that an adult would take Li Yixi away from me, and every time I made up different lies to different people."
“It’s tiring, but I’m used to it.”
Jiang Huai fell into speechless silence.
"Heh," Li Ming sneered and continued, "I was 12 years old when I was abandoned. The police at the Public Security Bureau couldn't understand why Li Yixi and I were abandoned. Our parents had raised us to a ripe old age, so they had no reason to abandon us. So during that time, I often heard them comforting my sister and me, saying that our parents would come back."
"Li Ming you..." Jiang Huai said helplessly.
"I don't feel sad because I have no concept of parents." Li Ming interrupted calmly, "I don't have any impression of parents at all. I don't even know the most basic common sense of life. At that time, some people in the welfare home thought I was a fool."
I don't know how to respond to this.
The words Jiang Huai wanted to say to comfort him were stuck in his throat.
"But Li Yixi remembers..." Li Ming lowered his head and sighed, "She remembers that her mother once told her that she would take her and her brother to Disneyland... It's really strange, why would Li Yixi remember..."
Li Ming's tone was annoyed and disappointed.
I can't tell whether I'm regretting that I forgot, or feeling sad about the fact that my sister still remembers.
"My mother said this before." Jiang Huai finally found his words and said dully, "She said that when my sister grows up, she will take us to Disneyland."
"...Hmm?" Hearing this, Li Ming looked at Jiang Huai with a strange look in his eyes and said, "That's great. Maybe you can run into my sister when you go to Disneyland in the future."
"Aren't you going?" Jiang Huai asked curiously.
"No, I have no intention of leaving Shencheng." Li Ming shook his head and said, "If my sister had not chosen to go to college in another province, I would probably never leave Shencheng in my life."
After reading the comments from a forum reader that Li Ming lacks initiative, Li Ming really didn't even think of refuting them. He admitted that he was very passive when faced with things.
"Don't you plan to go outside and take a look?"
"I have no plans." Li Ming sighed and held his chin up, "My world is small to begin with."
Even when he first entered college, Li Ming was cautious. He never thought about getting along well with his roommates, nor did he imagine that he could live a youthful and passionate college life.
He is like a hedgehog, wanting to hold on to what he has.
"During the first few years of my life in the orphanage, I had nightmares all the time," Li Ming recalled with surprising relief. "Every night, something indescribable would appear before my eyes."
The evil-eyed spider with a broken neck, the hanged female ghost in red, the pig-headed butcher dragging a corpse through the streets... They would appear on rainy nights, on the streets, and in the desert, walking slowly along specific routes.
Li Ming could occasionally see them killing each other or chasing prey.
He didn't have any opinion on this, he just wanted to go home quickly. In every dream he was looking for a way home, but once he had a fever and was in a bad mood...
The scenery that had been bearable suddenly became unbearable.
So he cut off the hands and feet of the evil-eyed spider with scissors, smashed the organs of the red-clothed female ghost with a shovel, and fried the pig-headed butcher who was passing by in a frying pan.
Boiling sparks splashed before his eyes.
He watched all this with indifference until his old classmate, who appeared out of nowhere, ran over across seven streets and eight avenues to stop him:
"Listen, listen. I know you are angry, but this is not how torture works!"
Hmm... Li Ming suddenly realized that the reason why he took the initiative to make friends with Wei Zhehan instead of others might be because of this incident...
The old classmate in the dream spoke in a very similar way to Wei Zhehan, both were the noisy type.
But Wei Zhehan is not his old classmate.
Li Ming suspected that he must have pieced together this image of an old classmate from some corner of his subconscious.
“I’m still pretty good.”
Li Ming in reality murmured thoughtfully: "Even so, I can still be admitted to the same university as you. Maybe if I repeat a year, I can directly become the top scorer in the college entrance examination."
Jiang Huai's hand that wanted to comfort him suddenly froze in mid-air:
Is Li Ming mocking him?
"Oh no, I'm not saying our school is bad, I'm..." Li Ming's words suddenly got stuck in his throat. Cold sweat ran down his forehead. He was...
He is suppressing all his classmates who attended their university equally.
Li Ming immediately looked at Jiang Huai who was sitting next to him with a guilty conscience, only to see Jiang Huai reluctantly retract his hand and said with a smile: "If you are not satisfied with your academic qualifications, you can try to change your destiny by taking the postgraduate entrance examination."
Take the postgraduate entrance examination and change your destiny.
“Hahaha,” Li Ming laughed disapprovingly, “If you had told me this half a year earlier, I would have been willing to consider it. If I were to take the postgraduate entrance examination now, my postgraduate advisor might be on the run.”
"Being able to escape proves that we can still accept students, unlike some universities where all the teachers may be wiped out."
"You are implying your own university!" Li Ming couldn't help laughing.
*
"In the end, I ended up in the passenger seat."
After a while, Li Ming pulled out the seat belt and silently fastened himself in the passenger seat. While fastening the seat belt, he looked at Jiang Huai who had already gotten in the car with resentment.
Previously he thought Jiang Huai was being considerate of him, but now it seems that he was overthinking.
Jiang Huai has a physique that makes him feel dizzy if he doesn't drive.
"I'm sorry, I thought I could bear it." Jiang Huai said guiltily as he sat in the driver's seat again, "But the situation is more serious than I thought..."
Li Ming smiled instantly: "Why don't you just say that my driving skills are rubbish?"
"Ahem," Jiang Huai coughed hard and deliberately, "It's just that I, the passenger, have a problem."
Li Ming: “Haha.”
No matter how nicely you speak, it cannot stop the facts from being revealed.
But before he knew it, Jiang Huai suddenly asked, "So where are you going now?"
"let me see……"
Li Ming muttered to himself as he took out a map to compare the current positions of the two people.
The two of them were currently on the highway leaving Chuncheng. Although Li Ming had learned from the forum yesterday that they could not leave the domain directly, the next day they both wanted to try to see what would happen if they "left directly".
So the two innocent and stupid college students were trapped in a maze on the highway.
"We should probably head towards the city center," Li Ming said hesitantly. "We are now on the edge of Spring City. If we head towards the city center, we might be able to find a way to leave..."
The point is…
Li Ming silently touched the location of the tall buildings shown on the map of Spring City with his finger and fell into deep thought:
They should be able to meet the little witch here.
"It seems that they won't appear during the day." Jiang Huai, who knew nothing about the current situation, looked at the blue sky and white clouds and said in a relaxed tone, "But maybe it's because of the sunny weather."
He was in a good mood before he got on the bus, and even motion sickness couldn't dissipate it.
"Don't set a flag."
Li Ming didn't even raise his eyes and said casually: "If anything happens to Qingtian in the future, I will hold you directly responsible."
"Not really, not really..." Jiang Huai smiled bitterly upon hearing that.
He turned the key again, stepped on the accelerator, and drove towards the center of Spring City. Perhaps because he suddenly knew the secret that others had concealed, Jiang Huai suddenly couldn't help but sigh:
"I originally thought I was the only one in the dormitory whose family was unhappy."
"How is that possible?" Li Ming shook his head disapprovingly. "To be more precise, Xiao Wei is the only student in our dormitory who has a happy family."
"Hmm? Is that so?"
Li Ming immediately asked in disgust: "Why do you think Zhou Haoyu didn't go home?"
"This is really my negligence."
Jiang Huai recalled belatedly and finally found solid evidence from his vague memory. The evidence showed that what Li Ming said was the truth.
He was indeed too slow.
"Oh, right!" Li Ming suddenly turned to Jiang Huai and said seriously, as if he had thought of something: "If we find that each other has fallen into some kind of memory trap later, you must remember what I said this morning."
"I don't have any family except my sister."
Jiang Huai tilted his head in confusion.
"If there are other derivatives in this field, then those derivatives may have talents related to reading and confusing memories." Li Ming explained righteously, "Although we don't expect to encounter these, we should still take precautions."
Jiang Huai nodded seriously upon hearing this:
"Well, my family background is a little complicated. Just remember that none of them will appear here."
Li Ming: “…”
Li Ming said with difficulty: "Are you sure?"
"Maybe..." Jiang Huai suddenly said hesitantly, "Maybe my brother will be there. I remember his university is a few hundred kilometers west of where we are now, but he should choose to go home directly... maybe..."
"You can't possibly come to me, right?"
As Jiang Huai spoke, he became unsure himself.
Li Ming smiled: "..."
He knew this would happen.
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