You're my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao grabbed Yu Luying's right hand: "It's all in the past, why keep bringing it up? I've forgiven Zhou Qi too. Look how good our relationship is now with Brother Yu Long and Chen Lu. Didn't they used to ignore me along with others? What's past is past..."

“Since I’ve already decided to say goodbye to this version of myself,” Yu Luying said softly, “then, for this version of me, if I can make you look good in front of your classmates, and make those who look down on you shut up and regret it, then that would be the most special occasion and time for me. Do you understand what I’m saying? Hmm, hmm!”

In the vast darkness of the night, the rickshaw stopped at the gate of Dongru County Experimental Middle School. The driver turned around and said, "We've arrived, you—"

Then he turned his head back and muttered to himself, "You guys continue, I'm not in a hurry..."

Chapter 216 Rolling on the Grass

2023-05-31

*This chapter is also known as "Summer Campus".

Sometimes, once you start doing something and taste the benefits, you can't stop.

Xiao Yao couldn't understand how Yu Luying, a good student and obedient girl in everyone's eyes, could be so "demanding".

It was as if a flood that had been building up for 15 years was suddenly released, and the raging waves crashed in, suffocating people.

Xiao Yao was not averse to doing this kind of thing, but the physical feeling of suffocation was still objectively present.

Standing at the corner of the escalator on the third floor of the comprehensive building of Dongru County Experimental Middle School, Xiao Yao couldn't help but push Yu Luying away.

"What's wrong?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"I can't breathe..." Xiao Yao told her, "You need to tilt your head to the side, like this..."

In the darkness, Xiao Yao couldn't see Yu Luying's face clearly.

“Hmm,” the girl said, “you big rabbit are indeed very experienced.”

Xiao Yao: "?"

Yu Luying hooked her arms around Xiao Yao's neck: "Rabbit, you better tell me the truth."

Xiao Yao thought to himself, "Damn it, this can't be good."

"Which feels better, you or her, or me?" Yu Luying asked, as expected.

"With you," Xiao Yao replied without hesitation.

That statement is indeed true.

"Why? What's the reason?" Yu Luying's tone was as if she were saying, "You won't get points if you only write the answer without showing the calculation process."

Xiao Yao knew exactly what women wanted to hear, but he just couldn't bring himself to say "because I love you more."

Even though Shen Jie wasn't there, he didn't want to say anything to her that he was sorry.

However, saying something as blunt as "because of the existence of symbiosis, happiness is doubly amplified" would probably spoil Yu Luying's mood.

Therefore, Xiao Yao decided to shut up Xiao Pingguo's endless stream of questions once again.

As night fell, the campus of Dongru County Experimental Middle School became even more quiet and mysterious. The corner of the escalator on the third floor of the main building was undoubtedly a relatively secluded spot—no lights illuminated the area, and everything was shrouded in darkness. Visibility was extremely poor, with only faint moonlight filtering through sparse clouds, barely outlining some blurry shapes.

In this seemingly endless darkness, Xiao Yao felt as if he were in an unknown realm, strange and unfathomable. His body tensed involuntarily, every sensation becoming acute. There was no sound around him, only the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze and the faint breathing of him and Yu Luying.

The darkness prevented Xiao Yao from clearly seeing Yu Luying's face, but he could feel her presence. The contact with her body, her slightly trembling fingers, silently conveyed some kind of emotion and message. This close contact made Xiao Yao's heart race; he could feel the girl's body temperature, as if a special resonance had formed between them.

All forces are fed back to each other.

He was embracing, and being embraced.

She was touching, and being touched in return.

The surrounding darkness seemed to amplify their connection, making them even more focused on each other. In that moment, their existence became each other's entirety, magnified to its extreme. This close contact, the darkness, and the lack of visual limitations allowed Xiao Yao to concentrate even more intently on sensing the aura emanating from Yu Luying.

“I love you,” Xiao Yao said.

"I love you too—take your hand away." Yu Luying seemed to still have a sliver of reason left.

Xiao Yao suddenly realized that Shen Jie had never said "I love you too"?

The dark corner of the staircase became a private and forbidden space for the two. In the darkness, Xiao Yao felt the girl's presence, her breath, her warmth, and the intertwined emotions between them, as if a faint yet bright flame had ignited in the night, binding them tightly together.

……

"Then, shall we go?" Xiao Yao tugged at Yu Luying's sleeve.

"Ah."

Yu Luying turned on her small flashlight and went up the stairs to the fourth floor with Xiao Yao.

At the corner of the escalator on the fourth floor, the girl turned off her flashlight again and pushed Xiao Yao against the wall.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yao protested. "You come to the second floor once, then the third floor once, and then the fourth floor again. Are you even going to let us have a tour?"

"It's pitch black, what's there to visit..." Yu Luying said in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz, resting her head on Xiao Yao's shoulder and turning left, right, left, right.

“Being coquettish won’t work,” Xiao Yao said sternly. “Take a good look around my junior high school. You can do everything else at home!”

“Who’s going to cook for you when you get home?” Yu Luying muttered.

"what?"

"It's nothing, Rabbit. It's too dark here, and there's nothing to see. Let's go for a walk around the teaching building."

"Okay, sure."

……

"I suddenly thought of a song that fits the mood, let me sing it for you."

"it is good."

"Ahem," Xiao Yao cleared her throat and began to sing: "My dear sister, accompany me on a stroll through this summer campus, tell me about..."

Yu Luying nudged Xiao Yao in the lower back: "That handsome young man, that white-haired gentleman, take advantage of the moment, when there's no one around and no wind."

Xiao Yao: "When I left,"

Yu Luying spontaneously joined in, singing, "Dala dala~"

Xiao Yao: "Just like now, the leaves are falling and the scene is desolate, just like now,"

Yu Luying: "Dala dala~"

Xiao Yao: "There are beautiful girls, white-haired gentlemen, several love poets, and several wandering singers."

Yu Luying interrupted the singing and asked Xiao Yao, "Am I a love poet or a wandering singer?"

“You’re nothing,” Xiao Yao pinched the girl’s cheek. “You’re just a pretty girl at best.”

"Hmph~" Yu Luying said, "Then you are the white-haired gentleman."

"I am a gentleman with black hair, no, a handsome young man."

"I really feel like throwing up."

The two children skipped, sang, and jumped along the open-air corridor, uttering meaningless and nonsensical ramblings that seemed utterly baffling to outsiders but which they themselves thoroughly enjoyed. They walked from the dark main building into the moonlit teaching building.

The teaching building is naturally unlit, but it doesn't seem so "dark" mainly because its corridors are semi-open-air.

Moonlight spilled across the empty playground, casting shadows of the verdant trees. During the summer vacation, the entire campus was unusually quiet; the noisy classrooms were gone, only the gentle breeze and the sound of two footsteps echoed in the air.

The red brick exterior of the teaching building stood out prominently in the moonlight. The six-story building stood quiet and solemn in the night, like a sleeping giant.

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying walked slowly through the student corridor. The semi-open corridor allowed a gentle breeze to pass through, bringing a touch of coolness.

In the stillness of the summer night, they reminisced about their shared junior high school days.

Wait a minute, something seems off—our shared junior high school life?

In reality, when one person accompanies another on a return trip to a familiar place, the person who experienced it is often the one who feels nostalgic. For the other person who did not experience it, it is essentially just an ordinary junior high school student among millions of others across the country, making it difficult to achieve true empathy.

What's heartening is that when Yu Luying accompanied Xiao Yao on a tour of the campus, she truly empathized with him.

What also made her uneasy was that this empathy seemed a little too much.

The girl stopped, curled up slightly forward, and covered her head with her hands.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Xiao Yao quickly supported her shoulders and asked anxiously.

The boy checked himself and didn't seem to feel uncomfortable at all.

“No,” Yu Luying shook her head and said, “It’s…it’s this…feeling, this familiar feeling, it’s really too strong.”

"What?" Xiao Yao was startled.

“It’s so familiar,” Yu Luying said with some pain. “I really feel like I’ve been here before, I really feel like I went to junior high school here.”

"That can't be!" Xiao Yao was a little confused.

"Is it that thing you mentioned... déjà vu... the hippocampus effect? ​​It feels like I've been here before, it's so strong," Yu Luying shook her head vigorously, "I clearly went to junior high school in Shanghai..."

Xiao Yao recalled that when Yu Luying first arrived in Dongru yesterday, she had a similar feeling about the town when she took a rickshaw for the first time.

At the time, I didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, déjà vu is a very common thing.

However, if it's strong enough to cause Yu Luying's current level of memory disorder...

"Come with me!" Yu Luying suddenly grabbed Xiao Yao's hand and started running wildly down the corridor.

“This is your junior high school classroom, right?” Yu Luying stopped outside the door of a classroom.