Li Caiyi woke up feeling sore. Considering how she had slept for a full day yesterday, she guessed this was unavoidable. In fact, she was still very reluctant to leave her bed.
If it weren't for the fact that she needed to prepare for school, she would love to sleep for another day.
"Ugh, I want to skip school, but everyone will worry if I do." Li Caiyi groaned lazily as she dragged her body out of bed and took a quick shower.
After cleaning herself, she grabbed a turtleneck shirt and wore it under her uniform to cover the bandage on her neck. She didn't want anyone to ask her about it later.
Looking at the ti, she still had so ti, so she whipped so food together and ate her breakfast. While doing so, she checked the recent news regarding the incident that night.
"There was still no news regarding those mysterious people. According to one of the witnesses, they suddenly retreated and left the premises before the police arrived ...."
A day had passed, but it seed the police investigation was stuck. Or perhaps they did; the dia was just not inford about it. Li Caiyi found no new discovery regarding the issue, so she turned off the news screen and opened her inbox instead.
Aside from Dai Zhiqiang, who nagged him to eat and rest well, there were also so from Li Chunhua and Shao Jingfei asking about her conditions. Li Caiyi smiled while reading their ssages.
As she scrolled down her inbox, her eyes fell on ng Renshu's old ssage for her. The mories of that night when he fought hard to protect her resurfaced in her mind.
"I wonder if he is alright now? He was beaten pretty badly."
She could bluff in front of ng Shuchun all she wanted, but Li Caiyi was actually terrified.
ng Renshu had transford into soone completely different after he began to regain his past life mories. He once said he was in love with Li Caiyi, too, although she took it with a grain of salt.
After all this ti, Li Caiyi felt no need to revisit past mories. As long as they lived separately from now on, she wouldn't mind putting everything behind. But ng Renshu didn't seem to think so, despite saying he would respect her wish.
Undoubtedly, their outco would be different this ti since Li Jirong, who played a significant role in their misfortune, was out of the picture now. Not only her, but Li Chunhua and ng Renshu could avoid their future suffering and probably lead happier life.
That was what Li Caiyi firmly believed until she saw the desperation in ng Renshu's eyes that night. It was like he couldn't bear the idea of soone taking her away again.
He had the sa desperation when she visited him at his house last ti. The day when he revealed that he actually rembered his past life.
Li Caiyi had a bad feeling about this. She could feel her mind swayed by the remnant of her past, which terrified her.
If she t ng Renshu, she couldn't tell how deep she would fall into this rabbit hole again.
"I'm grateful for what he did, but I'm not ready to face him yet. Once again, I try to run away from everything again. What a coward." Li Caiyi let out a self-deprecating laugh before dumping her plate in the sink.
She wasn't in the mood for cleaning, so she left her house just like that.
***
"Good morning, Caiyi! You ca pretty late today."
Zhou Ya approached her with a big smile once she entered the classroom. Li Caiyi raised her head to smile back, but Zhou Ya gasped in shock once she saw her face.
"What happened to your face? You looked exhausted! And that is a big eye bag you got there."
"Oh, maybe because I stayed up late last night," Li Caiyi laughed dryly.
"Are you sure? You even wear a turtleneck shirt under your uniform, even though the weather is still pretty humid."
Li Caiyi said she would attend an important party when they t and hung out together last ti, but she didn't give any details regarding the party as she didn't want them to make a fuss about it. None of her friends should have known what had happened to her.
If answering Zhou Ya's question was already tricky, she couldn't imagine what Feng Nian would say once she saw her like this. Chen Ruolan was pretty simple to fool, though.
Zhou Ya didn't miss the troubled look on her face like she wanted to say sothing but couldn't. Her brain worked fast, and then an idea struck her.
"Oh! I know what happened to you. There is only one reason why you can look this distraught."
Li Caiyi gulped, waiting for her to continue. Zhou Ya gazed sympathetically at her before patting her shoulder. "Did you have a fight with Dai Zhiqiang? Did he go MIA on you again? That's why you were feeling down and couldn't sleep last night?"
Zhou Ya's conclusion couldn't be more off-mark, yet she looked excited about it. Li Caiyi was relieved Zhou Ya was a sucker for romance stories. She provided her with a good reason.
'Let's go along with her for now. And it wasn't like what she said was completely baseless. After all, I hung out with them the other day because I felt lonely. Sorry, Zhi.'
Li Caiyi heaved a long sigh, feigning a lonely look before replying, "Well, he is still answering my calls and ssages from ti to ti, but it feels like we are growing further apart."
"Aww, don't think it like that. Anyone can see Dai Zhiqiang only has eyes for you. No one had ever seen him talk to other girls besides you, or to be precise, he didn't talk to anyone but you!"
"Eh, maybe you are right. But Zhou Ya, could you lower your voice a bit? Everyone is staring…." Li Caiyi said dryly.
"Ignore them. Co, let's have a THOROUGH talk about this!" Zhou Ya exclaid with sparkly eyes.
In the end, she would still have to answer many questions. Li Caiyi sort of regretted using Dai Zhiqiang as her excuse now.
***
"Xiaoyi, are you sure you don't want to tell Mom about this?" Li Chunhua asked again for the nth ti that day.
"How many tis do you want to ask that? In the end, nothing terrible happened to . Telling Mother about it will only cause her to worry unnecessarily."
"But still…" Li Chunhua kicked the pebble beside her feet while pouting. "At least tell Big Brother Jie about this. Even though you live separately from us now, aren't we still a family? You act so distantly from us, and it hurts our feelings."
"I seriously doubt Big Brother Jie will think the sa as you. He even probably forgot that she had another sister all along."
"No way, he surely…." Li Chunhua was about to say sothing but later found it plausible for Li Junjie to think like that, "Nevermind."
Li Caiyi glanced at Li Chunhua. She didn't know if her sister had forgotten about their last fight, but this might be for the best. Li Chunhua never ntioned the matter of Hu Jian anymore after she lashed out at her the other day.
"But still, that Dai Zhiqiang is really a heartless guy! How can he skip school and miss the chance to see you today? Did he not care about you at all?"
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