Chapter 117
The sun at four o'clock in the afternoon already had an orange-red hue, and Jiang Yunu's white hair was like a pure paint palette, and the sun instantly painted this golden and red color on her hair.
Joyson stared at Jiang Yunu's hair for a moment.
After a moment of silence, the red-haired boy said, "Then this means... in at most six months, you might be away from home for a long time?"
Jiang Yunu couldn't say "yes" directly. She felt that if she said yes out loud, it would be a heavy blow to Joyson.
So she just nodded.
Joyson added, "You...will not be in school for a long time?"
Jiang Yunu nodded, then shook his head.
"At school." She finally spoke, explaining her future studies. "But I'm probably not in Enge anymore. I'm in one of the high-level schools for supernatural powers that I could get into."
This time it was Joyson's turn to remain silent.
He just nodded, but very slowly, as if he was a freshly manufactured artificial intelligence, with a human appearance, but the joints of his body had not passed the anthropomorphic test - for example, the neck joints were still a little clumsy.
Jiang Yunu was still waiting for Joyson's next reaction. She hoped that he would continue to say something.
But Joyson said nothing.
The red-haired boy turned around in a daze, and just took a step forward, walking in the opposite direction of her.
And walk faster and faster.
When Jiang Yunu tried to shout at him: "Qiao——"
Joyson suddenly changed from walking to running, and sprinted around the corner of the corridor, disappearing from Jiang Yunu's sight as if he was escaping.
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Is this what Aunt Daisy meant by “no worries, no complaints”?
This person just ran away!
Jiang Yunu didn't chase after him. She watched Joyson's figure disappear around the corner at the end of the corridor, and the footsteps gradually faded away until they could no longer be heard.
That afternoon, the two did not go to the study room in the multi-purpose building to study together as agreed, nor did they eat together in the South Canteen in the evening.
Jiang Yunu, who was rarely seen without anyone around, walked into the cafeteria by herself...and then ran into Zhou Jinxue who was waiting for her at the cafeteria entrance.
Whenever Zhou Jinxue wanted to stalk a schoolgirl, he would always succeed.
"Are you eating alone?" Zhou Jinxue asked.
Jiang Yunu silently gestured to the air beside her, indicating that she indeed had no companions.
Zhou Jinxue said: "Then you have two people now."
If Leis Daniel is the teacher who has been teaching Jiang Yunuo since she enrolled in school and his understanding of her is incomparable to other teachers, then Zhou Jinxue is also the senior who has been teaching Jiang Yunuo since the day she reported. She has an unusually high level of attention, high sensitivity, and strangely well-informed attitude towards her junior's affairs.
Jiang Yunu was obviously a little depressed. Zhou Jinxue was having dinner with her when she was halfway through, and she sat across from her at the small double table and sighed softly.
The listless Jiang Yunu was still paying attention to the senior. She quickly raised her head from her plate and asked, "Senior, what's wrong?"
Why are you sighing suddenly?
Zhou Jinxue looked at her from across the table: "I thought you were going to bury your face in your plate for the entire dinner."
"I..." Jiang Yunu tried to argue for herself, but after thinking about it carefully, she found that what her senior sister said was right. It seemed that she had not straightened her neck since the food delivery robot brought the meal to her.
"I forgot." Jiang Yunu simply said nonsense, "I just forgot that humans have the cervical spine function of raising their heads."
Zhou Jinxue listened to her junior sister's nonsense without even moving her delicate and smooth eyebrows.
"I wanted to come and congratulate you," Zhou Jinxue said, "but you didn't look happy, which made my congratulations seem out of place. What's wrong?"
Jiang Yunu paused.
She looked at Zhou Jinxue, and Zhou Jinxue looked back at her calmly.
Jiang Yunu raised her hand and brushed the white hair that fell from her shoulders to her chest. She said, "Senior, you already know?"
Zhou Jinxue admitted bluntly: "I know."
She had already learned this important news just as the news that Jiang Yunu could take the skip-level exam entered the school system and before the teachers called the white-haired girl to the office for a talk.
——Because Zhou Jinxue also returned home last weekend.
Zhou Jinxue had just walked into the house when her family, who hadn't seen her for over a month, showered her with concern. Then, the elders suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Did you know that little girl you tutor one-on-one at school is about to surpass you?"
Zhou Jinxue has a good family background and grew up in a very favorable environment. However, her family, which is considered very well-off in the Seventh District, sometimes unconsciously puts pressure on her child.
Zhou Jinxue replied at the time: "I didn't know at first, but now I know."
She answered calmly, just as she was facing Jiang Yunu now.
"You didn't act surprised that I knew about it." Zhou Jinxue said to Jiang Yunu.
The white-haired girl took a sip of her drink, chewed the glutinous rice ball in it and swallowed it. "I've already seen how well-informed you are during the inter-school competition."
Thinking of Zhou Jinxue's "congratulations" earlier, Jiang Yunu hesitated for a moment, but she still chose to ask her senior directly: "Senior, don't you think this is something that is difficult for people to accept?"
"What's so hard to accept?" Zhou Jinxue asked back, "Are you saying I should be more jealous of your achievements, or that you don't deserve this opportunity? Or do you think I'd stop you from skipping levels for some other reason?"
Zhou Jinxue rarely makes close friends, partly because she often speaks in a "merciless" manner.
Her calm analysis was too rational and objective. Sometimes she didn't actually have any unnecessary emotions, but it was easy for others to feel as if she was questioning, interrogating, or forcing them to answer.
Fortunately, Jiang Yunu and her senior were on a two-way journey: Zhou Jinxue never cared about her senior's familiarity and recklessness, and Jiang Yunu could also accurately discern the true emotions in Zhou Jinxue's words.
"—None of that." Jiang Yunu also sighed, "Senior sister, you're not like that. You must have calmly analyzed the situation and felt that my taking the skip-level exam was the best choice. It's a good thing, so you came all the way to congratulate me."
"That's right." Zhou Jinxue said, "That's what I thought."
And she thought Jiang Yunu should think so too.
But now Jiang Yunu looked listless, as if he had suffered a blow somewhere.
Zhou Jinxue combined the two's conversation and said with more concern, "You say that because someone objects to you taking the skip-level exam?"
"...He didn't object." Jiang Yunu stirred the straw in his drink cup. "He just didn't express any opinion, and then... he left."
Joyson turned around and ran away. It was not so much that he clearly opposed Jiang Yunu's skipping-level exam, but rather that he was completely avoiding the matter.
It was as if if he quickly ran away from the white-haired girl and did not contact each other for the time being, this incident would be as if it had never happened. He did not hear the "bad news" that was like a bolt from the blue, and there was no possibility that Jiang Yunu would leave Chat City for a long time in the near future.
Zhou Jinxue didn't ask who ran away after hearing the news, but based on her understanding of Jiang Yunu, she knew that the people Jiang Yunu would specifically notify must be very important to her junior sister - she herself should also be considered important, but she knew the news in advance and didn't need to be notified, so she came to congratulate first.
"It doesn't matter." Zhou Jinxue didn't even know who the person was, but she assured Jiang Yunu, "Even if the other party can't accept it right now, they will eventually accept it."
Jiang Yunu was not very confident. She asked weakly, "Really?"
"Really." Zhou Jinxue said.
She was even more certain than Jiang Yunu, the person involved, which made Jiang Yunu unable to help but ask, "Why?"
Zhou Jinxue looked at her and suddenly smiled.
This smile has the effect of melting ice and snow.
"Someone who can't accept that you're going to get better and go higher," Senior Zhou said, "from the beginning, this person shouldn't have been on your personal notification list."
Joyson was just escaping from reality for a while, and the core of his escape was "family separation" rather than anything else.
Zhou Jinxue unexpectedly came to congratulate Jiang Yunu in advance, which saved Jiang Yunu the step of notifying the senior schoolmate and also allowed him to get a "vote of support" in advance.
Bonds are both good and bad. Without them, people will seem rootless in the world, as if no one will care about them no matter where they go, disappear or appear, but at the same time, they are free. With them, they have roots, and people will care about them wherever they go, like a kite with a rope on it, or an anchor on a sailing ship, but at the same time, they can no longer leave at will.
Joyson hid from Jiang Yunu for three days in total.
It's the weekend again.
Jiang Yunu was eating in the South Canteen, debating whether to head to the Multipurpose Building after dinner. It was finals month, and she'd noticed that competition for simulator spots wasn't as intense as before. Sometimes, she could simply log in to the reservations page on weekend evenings and snag a spot during off-peak hours. She could then book a spot in the lab and use it immediately.
I haven't played games in a long time. I occasionally go online to play a few games during the final month, which doesn't really affect my study progress...
Jiang Yunu was thinking this when suddenly someone came and sat opposite her with a tray of food.
The other person put the plate on the table a little hastily, causing the bottom of the plate to hit the table, and the dishes on the plate also shook, making a "clang" sound.
Jiang Yunu sighed.
"Can't we just make ends meet?" she said. "Even though my meal allowance has doubled, it's still a bit of a loss to use it to help pay for the canteen's dishes."
The person sitting opposite me had a somewhat stiff posture and said in a stiff tone, "You can only enjoy the double meal allowance until the end of next semester at best. I don't know if the school will give it to you in the future."
Jiang Yunu looked at the other person. Qiao Yisen, who had been avoiding her for several days, stiffened his neck and looked back at her as if forcing himself not to run away.
"You said 'future school'." Jiang Yunu said, "Can you... accept it?"
Joyson said, "What else can we do?"
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