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Chapter 114: The Game of the Brave
It was getting dark. After returning to Peking University with Melinda, Wei Ming plunged into the darkroom to develop photos. The several rolls of film in his hands were the results of his and Melinda's hard work over the past few days.

The first photo was taken at the Great Wall. Wei Ming, who had been to the Great Wall eight hundred times, climbed it again for Melinda. He also met many foreigners and asked them to take photos with them.

The foreigners thought Wei Ming was a high-quality tour guide and translator, and asked for his contact information.

This photo was taken of her in Jingshan Park, with the entire Forbidden City in the background. And because it snowed two days ago, the Forbidden City was covered in white, more beautiful than usual. The same was true for Melinda, who was wearing a mink coat, which made her skin look even whiter than snow.

This photo was taken of Melinda at the square. She also bought a hat with a red star on it.

Because there were so many people in the square, the Chinese-foreign duo Wei Ming and Melinda attracted a lot of onlookers. They were taking pictures of the scenery, and they also became the scenery in the eyes of others.

This is a photo of the two of them when they were ice skating in Shichahai. Melinda lives in a very cold place, so ice skating is so easy for her.

In Shichahai, if you are with a beautiful girl, it may become a reason for others to cause trouble to you. If you are with a beautiful foreign girl, people can only stay away from you. Even the patrolling public security comrades will keep a close eye on you for fear of causing a diplomatic incident.

What’s interesting is that this photo was taken by Zhen Zidan, who was skating there at the time. He is now an American, and he talked to Melinda very freely, and there was a natural closeness between the British and the Americans. However, when Wei Ming suggested taking a photo for them, he refused to do it.

Dandan: Damn, that foreigner is so much taller than me!

This photo shows Melinda wearing a cheongsam. Wei Ming bought the material himself, measured her body size, and asked Biaozi's mother and her master to help make it. Wei Ming started preparing it a few days ago.

As a result, it made her look a little sexy when she wore it because her figure was too curvy. Wei Ming didn't let her wear it outside because she might be caught if she walked on the street.

He quickly took a photo and then changed it, but he could wear it in private.

Wei Ming developed two copies of each photo. As the departure was approaching, he felt a little reluctant to look at these photos.

Although they had only known each other for more than two months and had been dating for more than a month, it was their first time after all. Looking at the red-haired girl in the photo, Wei Ming felt somewhat sad. They would be separated from each other in the future and he didn't know if he would have the chance to see her again.

While Wei Ming was processing these photos, Yang Hao, who was in charge of photography for the school magazine, also arrived.

He glanced at the photos taken by Wei Ming and clicked his tongue a few times. Tom was so lucky. Although this blessing was about to end, he had it after all.

"What photos are you developing?" Wei Ming asked casually before leaving.

Yang Hao: "Oh, Professor Yang Zhenning came to Peking University to give a report and speech today. There were so many people, and there were people outside the classroom. Many people from Tsinghua University's Department of Physics came."

He let Wei Ming take a look at the photos he had taken on the scene, as well as recent photos of Yang Zhenning, who was less than 60 years old and in good health.

Wei Ming thought it was a pity that he didn’t get to take a photo with Lao Yang and missed out on connecting with people in the scientific circle!
The next day was also the day before Melinda left.

She began to distribute the wealth she had accumulated during her two years at Peking University.

Some books that could not be taken away were given to Xiao Cha, and those Playboy books that could not be passed on to others were given to the female students.

At the end of the day, all she had left in the dormitory were two boxes and a backpack, a small box containing her important items, and a large box containing various Chinese paintings.

However, we bought too many paintings at the time and they couldn’t fit in one box, so we asked Wei Ming to pick out a few as souvenirs.

She also gave her tape recorder to Wei Ming and asked him to pick out a few tapes of Queen and Carpenters.

Even Zhao Debiao and Mei Wenhua received two Hollywood film magazines. Although not as revealing as Playboy, they contained many photos of female stars in sexy clothes. If they were made public, they would be morally condemned, but not to the extent that anything serious would happen.

Before the girls' dormitory was locked, Melinda was busy saying goodbye to her friends. The boys' and girls' dormitories visited each other and gave each other messages and contact information.

There will be many international students leaving in this batch. They come from different countries and this farewell may be forever, but everyone is looking forward to the opportunity to meet again.

Even if there were countries that had feuds in the past, on this day everyone put aside their prejudices and said goodbye with the greatest goodwill.

Wei Ming locked the door two hours later today to give the graduating international students more time to say goodbye. Some of them had not returned after midnight, which meant they had to spend the night in the boys' building opposite.

This is human nature. Melinda plans to spend the night at Wei Ming's place and not go back to the room upstairs. After all, everyone knows about their relationship.

Wei Ming waited for a long time with a manuscript in his hand, and then went to bed.

As soon as he closed his eyes, someone came. To Wei Ming's surprise, she was wearing that cheongsam.

Wei Ming's hands went around her waist, the fabric sticking close to her skin.

Wei Ming's first words were: "Aren't you cold?"

Wei Ming noticed that she was not wearing anything underneath.

Melinda held Wei Ming's head against her chest: "If you move, you won't feel cold anymore."

Wei Ming dragged him to bed: "I took a lot of sleep during the day, so I don't plan to sleep tonight."

Melinda: “That’s exactly what I was thinking.”

There were fewer and fewer TTs in the box, and only one was left out of the six-pack, and then the two of them stopped completely.

It sounded intermittently, and now the rooster was about to crow.

Melinda played with the last Durex pack left.

The supplies her mother prepared for her before she went abroad had long been used up because they were used up too quickly, so Melinda later went to the Friendship Store to restock them.

Because Wei Ming said he was not used to the domestic ones. She smiled and said, "Then I'll leave this one for you. I'll mail you a few boxes when I return to China."

Wei Ming: "That's not necessary. Who would I rely on if you leave?"

Melinda understood it as: If you leave, I will seal my heart and love you and never look for you again.

"Silly girl," Melinda suddenly became emotional, "why don't you marry me? I can take you to England."

Wei Ming smiled and said, "I'm only 19 years old. It's not legal."

Of course, this is just an excuse. Wei Ming just can't get used to living in a foreign country.

Melinda laughed and said, "I almost forgot that you are still a little brother."

Wei Ming: "Please call me big brother."

Humph, he’s so arrogant when he’s only three years older than you. How much more arrogant would he be if he were eight or nine years older than you!
Seeing that Wei Ming was completely unable to start, Melinda breathed a sigh of relief. Later on, she couldn't do it anymore and even felt some pain. She was supported only by her passion.

She first folded her cheongsam and put it away, then changed into pajamas and lay down with Wei Ming waiting for dawn.

I was so busy talking that I forgot to give the last gift to Melinda, but it doesn't matter if I give it to her when I get to the airport.

Before Wei Ming opened the dormitory door, Melinda went upstairs to make final preparations.

After handing over the shift to Aunt Wang, Wei Ming went to the school bus team.

Because many international students are going to the airport today, the school has specially arranged a school bus to take them there.

Wei Ming relied on his relationship with Lao Liu from the school bus team to ask if there were any empty seats for him.

As a result, when Lao Liu heard that Wei Ming was going to send international students, he arranged for him to do it himself.

"Lao Zhao, I'll run this trip for you. Give me the key."

Lao Liu has been following the gossip about Wei Ming and Melinda for a long time, and of course he wants to see the finale with his own eyes.

In addition, he told Wei Ming that there was still no news about the motorcycle.

Wei Ming was not in a hurry: "If you ask me to buy it now, the winter vacation will be coming soon. I need to go home for several days. I am worried about leaving the car here."

When the time came, Lao Liu brought Wei Ming and a female teacher from the International Students' Office with him.

When the teacher saw Wei Ming was there, he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Before, she had been worried that something might happen between Wei Ming and Melinda, such as Wei Ming insisting on going to live in England with Melinda.

He is now a new and influential writer, and his name can often be seen in heavyweight newspapers and magazines. If something like this really happened, it would be international news.

Now I can finally land safely, so I'll just give it a ride as long as I can.

The car then stopped at the entrance to Shaoyuan. The international students leaving today were basically European and American students who were transiting in Hong Kong, about a dozen of them, and there were dozens of people seeing them off.

Wei Ming and Melinda sat together, and Lao Liu specially reserved seats for them in the front so that he could watch the show up close.

As soon as they got on the bus, Melinda sat directly next to Wei Ming and held his hand. The other classmates smiled as if they were used to it.

After the car started, Wei Ming took out the gift he had been working on for a while from his bag.

"This is?"

Wei Ming: "It's a children's adventure novel. It's not long, and the protagonist is a foreigner. Do you think it's difficult for you to translate it?"

"This is what you've been writing recently. I thought you were writing a script." Melinda took it unexpectedly.

She opened the first page and saw the title in large letters: "The Game of the Brave".

Because of the line in "The Duck Prophet" that "the brave ones enjoy the world first", Wei Ming is privately called the bravest person in Chinese literary circles. Even if international students have not read this novel, they have basically heard this sentence and they agree with it very much.

In Melinda's eyes, he is also a brave man. How could a coward dare to sleep with her? So is this his own story?
But after she started reading formally, Melinda found that it didn't seem to be the case. The protagonists of the story were a sister and brother. The sister was simply named Melinda and the brother was named Mayo. Chinese readers would think this was a story set in China.

When seeing the flying chess game "Jumanji" in the story, Melinda was surprised and asked, "Did you get the inspiration from the game we played?"

Wei Ming: “Yes, so thank you very much.”

Melinda continued to watch and was more and more surprised. This board game was magical. Once the game started, it could not be stopped unless you reached the end.

When the player jumps to a square with a bat on it, a bat will really appear in the house. When he jumps to a lion, a lion will actually jump out in reality!
There is also a flood later, and the last player trapped in the game appears.

"Wow, what an interesting setting!"

(It’s the last day, please give me a monthly ticket!)

(End of this chapter)