Chapter 93 The Past
Jiang Zhao remembered that in her previous life, she had met the boy who gave her a nickname on the streets of New York.
It was before Christmas, and she and her friends were out relaxing.
The man recognized her first and greeted her.
He drove a blue convertible sports car, looking bright and handsome, dressed lavishly, and casually took off his sunglasses. "Jiang Zhao? I didn't expect to see him here."
He was the first boy to give her a nickname.
At that time, he talked to others with a disdainful tone: "Jiang Zhao has poor grades and is unsophisticated and violent, just like a dinosaur from the fucking Jurassic period."
When someone chatted with Jiang Zhao, he would shout, "You're actually talking to a female dinosaur? Are you going to have baby dinosaurs?"
When the head teacher mentioned that Jiang Zhao was very serious about doing exercises and that he was encouraging his classmates to learn, he would laugh unscrupulously: "I've said it before, dinosaurs are just simple-minded with strong limbs."
And now, he got out of the car, as if nothing had happened, and just chatted with his old friend: "What? Have you forgotten all your old classmates?"
Jiang Zhao said: "I haven't forgotten, I just don't want to have anything to do with you."
The man just smiled nonchalantly: "I was just joking with you at that time. I was young and naive in junior high school. Miss Jiang wouldn't mind, right?"
It seemed that if Jiang Zhao still brought up the past, she would be too stingy.
Jiang Zhao read a short article.
Hanshan asked, "If someone slanders me, deceives me, insults me, laughs at me, looks down on me, despises me, hates me, or cheats me, how should I deal with it?"
Shi De replied, "Just tolerate him, let him be, let him be, avoid him, endure him, respect him, ignore him, wait a few years and see what happens to him.
At that time, more than ten years had passed since Jiang Zhao's first year of junior high school.
The man who had bullied, mocked, belittled, and demeaned her was standing in front of her, grinning mischievously and saying, "I'm sorry."
He did not live a miserable life like in the story of Hanshan and Shitou, nor did he suffer retribution as people often say, "evil will be punished."
His family was wealthy, and even though he couldn't speak a word of English during his three years of junior high school, they still helped him apply to a well-ranked university and sent him abroad early, waiting for him to finish his studies and inherit the family business.
He lives a very comfortable life.
He could greet Jiang Zhao with a smile, act appropriately, and turn the past into an excuse of youth and ignorance, with even a hint of complaint in his tone about Jiang Zhao's lack of tact.
The friend who came out with Jiang Zhao was impressed by her appearance and demeanor, and asked her who her man was.
It was then that Jiang Zhao realized that her so-called "letting go of the past" was only because she was living a good life now.
Because she was living a good life, she could not take it to heart when someone called her "dinosaur" again.
Because she knew that no one would take this nickname seriously.
She is smart and beautiful, comes from a wealthy family, graduated from a prestigious university, and has had countless suitors.
She has achieved worldly success.
So you can face the past calmly and say, "I don't want to have anything to do with you."
but.
What if nothing happened later?
If she was still the self-deprecating and self-pitying Jiang Zhao.
If the boy had not appeared in front of her that year at Mingyuan No. 1 Middle School.
At that moment, she suddenly missed Luo Yan very much.
She was a decisive person and immediately bought the next flight back home.
She kept thinking along the way.
If he already has someone he likes, then she can pretend nothing happened and leave gracefully.
If he still doesn't like her, she can just treat him as an ordinary friend and say thank you for the past.
When Lin Chongyang asked her if she wanted to attend the class reunion, she agreed without hesitation.
She has been hiding like a turtle for almost ten years, and now is the best time.
She could do what she had enjoyed for a long time—at a class reunion, she could hold up a glass of wine, pretend to have forgotten the past, and say to him, "Long time no see."
She made a thousand assumptions.
None of them would receive the news that he had passed away.
Fate is so unreasonable.
And now, he stood before him, telling her.
He had liked her a long time ago.
Why then?
She could believe that Luo Yan liked the current Jiang Zhao because this was the best version of her.
She could also accept that Luo Yan liked Jiang Zhao when she was in the first year of high school, because that was the self that was always moving forward.
But she just didn't believe that he would like Jiang Zhao, who was like a weed, inferior, cowardly and reckless.
That dusty Jiang Zhao, the one who made her sad and disgusted even when she mentioned him.
How ridiculous.
Who would believe it?
Why hadn't he told her before?
The sadness that spanned several years came like a tide and engulfed her.
Her voice was low: "What's good?"
"What?"
"What was there to like about me back then?"
The string of reason in Jiang Zhao's mind finally broke at this moment.
"I don't understand anything, my grades are terrible, no one talks to me, no one wants to be friends with me. What's so noteworthy about this?"
What is there to like about Jiang Zhao like that?
She squatted on the ground, clutching his clothes, crying hysterically and without any image.
If people passing by see them, they will probably think they are some kind of scumbag or resentful woman.
She buried her head in her arms and curled up into a ball.
Luo Yan also squatted down. He hugged Jiang Zhao as if he was holding a beast trapped in a cage.
Jiang Zhao sobbed, "You lied to me."
He said, "No."
“I have terrible grades.”
“I hadn’t figured it out yet.”
"I don't know anything."
“Everyone has things they haven’t seen.”
"I have no friends."
"Now there are many, and they are very good. They are pestering you all day long. I am almost jealous."
"They all say I'm a violent person, a female dinosaur."
“That’s their fault,” he said. “I like whatever it is.”
"I don't believe it." Jiang Zhao was extremely stubborn: "You must have made it up. You can even praise me back then, you liar."
Luo Yan was very patient: "But the Jiang Zhao I know has always been serious and stubborn, kind and stubborn. He is a hot-blooded idiot who is full of energy every day. He has not changed at all."
It has always been like this and has never changed.
This is exactly the kind of Jiang Zhao he likes.
He said, "I'm sorry, I should have told you sooner."
Sorry, I have to let you take the initiative in the end.
Jiang Zhao cried for a long time, and finally raised his head with red and swollen eyes: "You are the idiot."
Luo Yan followed her: "Okay, I am."
She saw that Luo Yan's eyes were also red, so she added: "He's a very good, very good idiot."
After Jiang Zhao finished speaking, he felt that he had completely lost face today and stood up: "Let's go back."
"There's one more thing." He held her down and said, "If, as we just said, we want to bet on the national competition, then if you lose, what is the bet..."
Jiang Zhao interrupted, "I won't lose."
"I mean if."
“No ifs.”
When Jiang Zhao glared at him, Luo Yan said, "If you lose to me, you will be my girlfriend, right?"
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