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◎Like a funny drowned rat.◎
Xu Xingluo finished off the large portion of braised chicken and rice in front of him, not leaving even a grain of rice.
Then he walked back to S University Affiliated High School and found the subsidy qualification review form in the dormitory.
Looking at the two big words "Orphan" at the top of the form, Xu Xingluo felt very depressed.
He obviously has a father and a mother, but now he is no different from an orphan.
He originally thought that as long as he told his mother that information, even if she didn't believe him immediately, she would at least agree to let him do a paternity test.
He was just thinking too simply.
Or... try to find his dad?
As soon as this thought came to mind, Xu Xingluo shook his head.
He knows his father even less than Xu Yingxi.
He had a feeling that his father might be even more difficult to deal with than his mother, and that acting rashly would be very risky.
More importantly, he had recalled countless times in the past few days the dream that led to his time travel.
The question the voice in the dream asked him was whether he wanted to change his mother's feelings towards his father.
Xu Xingluo's intuition told him that the key to everything lay with his biological mother, Xu Yingxi.
Thinking of this, Xu Xingluo began to beat his chest and stamp his feet again.
How could he forget that Xu Yingxi was no longer the mother who generously gave him pocket money more than 20 years later, but a senior student.
For most students, the cost of a paternity test is a considerable amount of money.
How could his mother easily give him so much money when she didn't completely trust him?
He could feel that his mother's impression of him had improved a lot, but now not only did his efforts go to waste, but he also deepened his image as a liar in his mother's mind.
Xu Xingluo felt regretful, melancholy, and a little aggrieved.
He sat at the table with his mind in a mess for who knows how long before he was awakened by the sound of rain outside the window.
I don't know when it started, but it started raining outside, and it was quite heavy.
The dormitory window was closed, but the sound of heavy rain still entered his ears through the glass.
Xu Xingluo looked at the dark sky outside the window and felt a little confused for a moment.
His thoughts drifted away inexplicably, and he remembered something Xu Yingxi had told him.
Xu Yingxi said that when she was an undergraduate, she once returned to school alone on a rainy summer night. In order to take a shortcut, she chose a small road and was followed by someone with bad intentions.
After discovering the stalker, she called her family, and while still on the line, she led the stalker to a crowded place, thus escaping danger.
Xu Yingxi rarely talked to Xu Xingluo about her youth.
That time, I wanted to teach him safety knowledge, to teach him not to take small roads in a hurry, and what to do if he encountered a bad person.
But now, when Xu Xingluo vaguely remembered this story, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Undergraduate, summer, rainy night...
It can’t be such a coincidence, right?
Xu Xingluo certainly knew that his future mother was fine, and Xu Yingxi was not someone who would lie to comfort him.
The problem is that now he has traveled through time, and according to the butterfly effect, a small action may change the course of the future.
What if the situation when Xu Yingxi was stalked changed because she treated him to that braised chicken, leading to even worse consequences?
The more Xu Xingluo thought about it, the more anxious he became. He quickly took out his cell phone and dialed his mother's number.
A minute later, the call was automatically disconnected because no one answered.
Xu Xingluo: “…”
He typed again with trembling fingers.
The result is still the same.
Xu Xingluo took a deep breath, told himself to stay calm, and then edited a message.
[Xu Yingxi, I know you still don't trust me and think I might be a scammer. But I really don't have any other intentions in calling you, and I'm not asking you for money. I just want to make sure you're safe. If you can see this message, can you please reply to me?]
After sending the message, he stared at the wall clock and waited for two minutes, but received no reply.
When no one answered the third call, Xu Xingluo could no longer sit still.
He suddenly jumped up from his seat and almost bumped into the dormitory manager as he ran out of the dormitory building.
"This kid." The dorm manager squinted his eyes and watched the boy's retreating figure. "Why is he running so fast? Is there a ghost chasing him?"
Xu Xingluo didn't care about anything else and didn't have time to get an umbrella. He ran out of the high school campus and ran towards S University.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and without shelter, we would soon be soaked.
Pedestrians holding umbrellas or wearing raincoats on the street looked sideways when they saw the young man running wildly on the sidewalk with his clothes soaked.
Xu Xingluo had no time to care about other people's eyes. He only knew that he had to find Xu Yingxi as soon as possible.
But where is his mother?
Xu Xingluo could only guess from his memory what Xu Yingxi said that she was walking back to school at that time, so she should be near S University.
However, there are several doors in S University, and he has no idea which way Xu Yingxi will go.
Although he tried hard to understand the surrounding environment after coming here, it was only the third day after all. He was not very familiar with the area and had no idea which shortcut Xu Yingxi took.
There was no other way, Xu Xingluo could only continue to call Xu Yingxi while asking passers-by on the street like a headless fly if there were any alleys nearby and whether they had seen Xu Yingxi.
A kind-hearted person saw that the boy looked anxious and asked him if he needed an umbrella.
Xu Xingluo declined without even thinking.
It's okay for him to get a little wet. Holding an umbrella will affect his vision when looking for people and his running speed.
Finally, when I walked into a nearby KTV and asked the boss if he had seen a particularly beautiful girl, the boss pondered for a moment.
"A particularly beautiful girl? Are you talking about the one in the purple dress who came with the other three girls?"
Xu Xingluo was wiping the raindrops from his forehead. Upon hearing this, his eyes widened like bells. He nodded with a gasp, "Yes, yes, a purple dress! Boss, you saw her? Where is she?"
Boss: "You asked that question. The person who came here must be singing! She should be singing in the private room right now."
Xu Xingluo was stunned for a moment. Singing in a private room?
Could it be that he was mistaken and Mom was not in any danger at all?
No matter what, you have to confirm it.
Seeing the boy's reaction, the boss narrowed his eyes and said, "What's wrong? Young man, what do you want to do with her?"
Xu Xingluo hesitated for a moment. "I'm her brother, and I need to see her urgently! Boss, can you tell me which private room she's in?"
As he spoke, he seemed to suddenly remember something and pulled out his student card from his trouser pocket and slapped it on the counter. "Really? I'm a high school student at S University Affiliated High School, and my sister is an undergraduate at S University. I'm not lying to you!"
The boss glanced at the student card on the counter, and then looked at the boy who was soaked by the rain: Looking at his appearance, he is really in a hurry.
Since he is a student from a nearby key high school, he should not be a bad person.
Thinking of this, the boss flipped open the registration form on the counter: "Let me see, um... small packet 105."
"Thank you, boss!" Xu Xingluo said as he was about to leave.
"Hey wait, you're running just because you know the way?" the boss called out to the boy, "Go straight this way, then turn left twice and it's there."
Xu Xingluo thanked the boss repeatedly and ran in the direction his boss had indicated.
…
After singing three solo songs in a row, Liu Xueyi felt a little thirsty and started drinking mineral water.
Now playing in the private room is a duet love song between a man and a woman. Xu Yingxi sings the female part and Chai Mengtian sings the male part.
This was Chai Mengtian’s strong request.
"Baby Xixi!" Chai Mengtian slammed the table, "Didn't you say you weren't going to find a boyfriend? From now on, I, Dongfang Buku, will protect you! I will never allow anyone to bully our baby Xixi!"
Chai Mengtian works part-time as a novelist online, and "Dongfang Buku" is her pen name.
As for why she chose this pen name, it was probably because she likes to read martial arts novels and her name contains the word "sweet".
Xu Yingxi was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and she couldn't talk seriously to a tipsy person.
So the two of them sang love songs to each other.
When she was singing the chorus, Chai Mengtian was covering her chest and singing the high notes with a look of deep emotion when the door of the private room suddenly opened.
"mom!"
The music in the box was very loud, and if you spoke at a normal volume, your voice would be easily drowned out by the accompaniment and singing.
However, the person's voice was very loud, so he still attracted everyone's attention in the box.
Xu Yingxi was the first to turn around, frowning.
Zheng Lei was the second to react and pressed the pause button on the wall, and the accompaniment stopped.
Liu Xueyi put down the bottle of water in her hand, blinked, and looked towards the door in confusion.
Chai Mengtian reacted the slowest. The music stopped for several seconds before she looked around in confusion, the microphone still held to her lips.
moment.
Xu Yingxi walked to the door of the private room and looked at the wet boy in front of her: "Why is it you? And you're all wet, what's going on?"
"I..." Xu Xingluo's chest heaved, his breathing uneven, "You didn't answer the phone... I thought, I thought you were in danger, so..."
As he spoke, the boy wiped the water droplets from the ends of his hair, otherwise they would drip into his eyes.
Xu Xingluo's words were a bit incoherent, but Xu Yingxi understood.
She thought for a second, bent down and picked up the phone she had thrown in the corner of the sofa, and saw the unread messages and a series of missed calls on it.
Xu Yingxi opened the message and glanced at the content, then looked at Xu Xingluo.
The boy was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and sweatpants. He was soaked, with water dripping from the corners of his clothes and trouser legs.
There was water all over her hair and face, and the water droplets on her neck were sliding down her collarbone.
Like a funny drowned rat.
The weather forecast said there would be thunderstorms tonight, so Xu Yingxi and her roommates brought umbrellas, but the rain hadn't started when they arrived.
It's obvious from the looks of it that it must be raining heavily outside right now.
To be honest, Xu Yingxi has encountered similar situations before.
There are so many people pursuing her, and in order to stand out, some people will make very humble attempts to impress her.
Once, a suitor ran several kilometers in the rain to bring her an umbrella at the entrance of the teaching building, and he himself got soaked in the rain.
Someone even ran several blocks early in the morning just to buy her freshly baked tofu pudding and delivered it to her dormitory door.
But Xu Yingxi did not accept them for this reason.
These people say: I do this willingly and don't ask for anything in return.
But it is clearly written in his eyes: Look how much I love you and how much I have given for you, so be moved and be with me soon.
Xu Yingxi has seen too much of this kind of "like" since she was a child, and it is difficult for her to be moved by it.
Xu Xingluo is different.
Xu Yingxi did not see any intention in his eyes. The moment their eyes met, she only saw a look of relief on his face.
After that, I gradually felt more embarrassed and regretful.
It was as if he felt that he had caused her trouble and was worried that she would be angry.
And what he experienced along the way seemed like an insignificant story to him.
Xu Yingxi was a little confused.
Xu Xingluo didn't know what Xu Yingxi was thinking.
"I'm glad you're okay," he said.
Xu Xingluo looked at the other people in the private room and saw a few umbrellas in the corner.
She had someone to accompany her, she was not alone, and she also had an umbrella.
"Well... after you finish singing, be careful when you go back." He said, "I'll... go back first."
It’s over. These three words were all in Xu Xingluo’s mind.
Fortunately, Xu Yingxi was fine. He was just making a big fuss and imagining things.
But after tonight, his mother must be even more convinced that there is something wrong with his brain, and might even think that he is a pervert, a control freak, and a stalker.
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over…
The boy's mind replayed these words in a loop as he turned around dejectedly.
A female voice came from behind: "Wait a moment."
Xu Xingluo's body froze and slowly turned back like a stop-motion animation.
"You didn't bring an umbrella." Xu Yingxi said, "I'll take you back to school."
【Author’s words】
80 small red envelopes [cat heads]
Update tomorrow at 12 noon~
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