Shi Hua first met Meng Yue at school. At that time, he still held beautiful aspirations for love. Although he didn’t find the feeling of heartbeat in Meng Yue when they first met, another girl was the one he longed for.
In early autumn of 2007, the lingering heat of late summer seemed to linger. Even in September, it was still hot. An old man sat downstairs, waving his cattail leaf fan all day long.
Shi Hua dragged his suitcase and stood at the school gate. The four characters “Jianghe University” were engraved on the stone, looking quite grand. This was the school he had been admitted to, and he would spend the next three years here. Why did he come back here? Because it was close to home. The contacts and resources he accumulated from studying to graduation could be retained. His parents also said that if he wanted to develop at home, this school was definitely the first choice.
As for his major, he did not choose to pursue further studies in his undergraduate major, but instead, he took a cross-major exam for a major he relatively liked, journalism. He felt that sitting dead in an office was not as free as working outside.
Because he didn’t tell his family in advance that he was taking a cross-major exam, his father nagged him for a long time after he found out. His family only had two attitudes towards work: one was within the system, and the other was other jobs. The two elders were considered highly educated intellectuals, but their thinking had not been further expanded. In their opinion, teachers, doctors, and civil servants were the most stable and best jobs. It wasn’t until Shi Hua said that TV stations and newspapers were also state staff that they calmed down a bit, but they were still not satisfied because they had never seen any of their relatives and friends who were journalists doing well, and only knew some teachers and doctors who could find connections.
“I’ve supported you for so many years of schooling, and you’re going to study this. If you can’t find a job after graduation, see if I don’t beat you,” this was his father’s warning to him.
Shi Hua was in a great mood today, after all, he could finally leave home and escape his parents’ nagging. The wide school was full of people coming and going. For a moment, he didn’t know where to go. Countless parents and students, the noisy voices, plus the broadcasting sound and music sound, another three years…
He didn’t immediately report for duty. He was still waiting for someone, a high school alumnus he had never met before. They had met online, and they were both in their first year of graduate school this year. However, since she was promoted from this school, she was familiar with the place. She took the initiative to offer to take him to report for duty. Shi Hua didn’t refuse either. After all, he had studied in a different province for university, and he was indeed not familiar with this place. It was always good to have someone to lead the way, and besides, the other person was a girl! Maybe she was tall, fair-skinned, and beautiful. Thinking of this, Shi Hua secretly prayed.
Shi Hua squinted and glanced at the hot sun. He moved to a osmanthus tree, lowered his head, and opened his phone. She said she would be there soon. Shi Hua took a picture of the tree in front of him, exposing part of the square. After sending the photo, the other party said: “I have a general idea.”
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He hadn’t had a love affair in elementary school, basically spending it in games. At that time, it was the era of slow development of online games. Four out of six people outside the dormitory liked to spend the night in Internet cafes, and he was one of them. It wasn’t until he was about to graduate that he realized that he hadn’t had a love affair in the best four years of his university life. He had less contact with girls than with a mouse.
Shi Hua lamented that he was too silly and dull in college. Now that he has passed the graduate exam, he has successfully quit games. He wants to try a “legendary” beautiful love affair.
“Hello, are you… Shi Hua?” Just as Shi Hua was loosely clenching his phone and repeatedly checking the information, a female voice sounded behind him. A tall girl with a high ponytail asked with a slightly probing tone, with some curiosity in her eyes.
Shi Hua was startled, staggering and almost fell. He hurriedly stood up, but found that he couldn’t speak clearly. His brain was spinning rapidly. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, “Yes.”
The girl was wearing light blue jeans, a pair of sneakers, and a pure black shirt with letters printed on the chest. She was ugly, whether she was really ugly. She also held an umbrella in her hand, looking quite energetic.
“Hello, I’m Mo Wenli. Let me take you to report for duty,” she said with a light smile, walking to the front of Shi Hua. Shi Hua followed closely beside her. She began to introduce the school. She said that she wasn’t very familiar with it either. Although she had been here for four years, she hadn’t been to every place, but she knew the general buildings and buildings.
The sun was very strong. She held the umbrella close to Shi Hua. Shi Hua smelled a fragrant smell. It was a fragrance unique to girls. People say that it was the smell of shampoo remaining in the girl’s hair. He had smelled it on others before, but at this moment, whether it was shampoo or the girl’s fragrance, it was special, passing through the nose and directly hitting the lungs. Shi Hua almost “got drunk.”
Shi Hua didn’t listen much throughout the whole process. He occasionally lowered his head and looked at her sideways. She didn’t seem to pay much attention, only caring about her own speaking. Shi Hua was 1.8 meters tall, almost half a head taller than her. Shi Hua politely said, “How about I hold the umbrella?”
Mo Wenli seemed to be the kind of more natural personality. From the beginning, she seemed very natural, always giving people a feeling of familiarity. Shi Hua also gradually relaxed.
Soon, Mo Wenli took him to the place to report for duty. He followed the others to the dormitory. When he was about to leave, Mo Wenli said goodbye to him. How he wished the reporting office could be a little further away.
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Mo Wenli walked away. He immediately took out his phone and sent her a text message. Not long after, he received a reply “Okay.” He was secretly delighted after receiving the message. It seemed that it was not impossible. The goddess of victory was waving to him. The love plot seemed to be gradually unfolding.
Before bidding farewell to Shi Hua, Mo Wenli came to report alone. As an old student of this school, she quickly completed the procedures and went to the door of her dormitory. She saw a girl who was not much taller than her, looking quite sweet and beautiful. She secretly compared in her heart, belonging to the same level as her.
“Hello? You?”
“This, it seems to be my dormitory.” The girl not only looked sweet and beautiful, but even spoke a little timidly. She quickly took her luggage into the dormitory, thinking that she was blocking the way.
“Then we are roommates,” Mo Wenli said with a smile.
The two did self-introductions. She knew the girl’s name. She was called Meng Yue, and she seemed to be a talkative girl.
Meng Yue also secretly looked at the girl in front of her. She was beautiful and generous, and her personality seemed relatively outgoing. She should be easy to get along with.
There were two other people in the dormitory besides her. However, Mo Wenli and Meng Yue were the closest, perhaps because they had the earliest contact, so the two had more communication. Moreover, they learned in the chat that their instructors were also the same person. The teacher was very famous in the school and was called the youngest genius associate professor, Chen Xuelin. Why was he called a genius but only an associate professor? Because his age was not much different from that of the students.
For several days in a row, Shi Hua did not receive any news from Mo Wenli. Shi Hua was as uncomfortable as if he had lost his love. He clearly hadn’t even started, could it be that it was over like this? Since the day he reported, Mo Wenli hadn’t given him any news for three days. It felt like three centuries had passed. With a lost heart and trembling hands, he held his phone and hesitated to send an invitation.
However, just as his mood was fluctuating, his phone vibrated slightly. He had a message. Shi Hua opened his eyes wide. It was the girl he had been dreaming of. He jumped up and replied instantly, “bursting out of the door” ten minutes later.
In the evening, the commercial street under the twilight was full of people. Shi Hua came to the place she said. Wherever his eyes could reach, he didn’t see that familiar person.
“Hello, are you Shi Hua?” Someone poked her from behind. Shi Hua turned around, and the girl in front of him was not the person he was looking for. “Yes,” he nodded.
“Mo Wenli’s friend, right?”
Hearing Mo Wenli’s name, Shi Hua’s eyes lit up. He nodded repeatedly. He followed the girl in front of him to a barbecue restaurant. She said that Mo Wenli had just gone to the bathroom, so she needed to wait.
The two sat in silence for a few minutes. During this time, Shi Hua also inadvertently glanced at her a few times. The girl in front of him was also very beautiful. She might be taller than Mo Wenli, and her face was also a standard beauty, but she didn’t have that unique flavor.
Silence was finally broken by that girl, which made the two people sitting there breathe a sigh of relief in unison.
Mo Wenli introduced the two of them. Shi Hua also knew that the slightly shy girl was called Meng Yue, and she was Mo Wenli’s roommate.
“How was school these few days?” Although he had been looking forward to seeing her again, now that they had actually met, Shi Hua didn’t know what to say. After thinking for a long time, he could only ask about her recent situation.
“It’s okay, as boring as I thought,” Mo Wenli pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said.
Someone opened their mouth, and the three of them chatted leisurely, one sentence from you and one sentence from me.
“But our tutor is really handsome and young, you know? Our tutor is only in his twenties, the same age as me!” Mo Wenli said with a look of surprise.
Hearing this, Shi Hua just nodded. He had heard of this person. As a native of Jianghe City, he had always known such a person. His achievements far surpassed those of his peers. He completed the things that others studied for three years in one year. Skipping grades was also a common practice. Then he heard that he had gone abroad before graduation, it seemed.
He didn’t expect to come back to work and become an associate professor here. According to his age, it was indeed very terrifying.
During the meal, Mo Wenli asked for some wine. As the wine entered her throat, she spoke even more. She asked: “Why do you want to go to this school?”
“Come back to develop, I’m a promising young man,” Shi Hua said with a smile.
“Come on, pretending,” Mo Wenli glared at him.
“What about you, what about you? You’re the same as me, you studied here in college, why did you take the exam here again?” Mo Wenli’s small face was a little flushed. She hugged Meng Yue and looked at her curiously.
“Your…your closest person is here, I want to stay and be with her.”
“Family?”
“Yes.”
“What about you?” Shi Hua and Meng Yue looked at her at the same time. Mo Wenli said quietly, “Because I can’t go anywhere.” She smiled helplessly, one hand propping herself up on the nearby wall. After a few seconds, she started to vomit, scaring Shi Hua and Meng Yue.
Finally, under the helpless gaze of the store clerk, the three of them walked out with a smile. Mo Wenli was still a little dizzy. After Meng Yue, who was supporting her, answered a phone call, she looked at Shi Hua and said, “I have something urgent, can I ask you to help me take her back to the dormitory?” Her eyes were a little pleading.
Of course, Shi Hua didn’t refuse. Rather, at the moment of supporting Mo Wenli, she secretly thanked Meng Yue in her heart. They had only met once, but she had given him such a big assist. Watching Meng Yue leave, Shi Hua instantly felt that her back was great, but what was strange was that the direction she left was completely opposite to the school.
At night, Shi Hua stood downstairs in their dormitory building. He asked her to come downstairs quickly, but who knew that Mo Wenli would get angry and say that she didn’t want to go home. Shi Hua explained for a long time. The two sat down below until she was more sober. It could be seen that her family shouldn’t be very good, at least her love for her shouldn’t be enough.
The night wind was a little cool, but at least it was free.
Mo Wenli apologized to Shi Hua. She grabbed the grass on the ground and started talking about her own affairs.
She said that she was the only child in the family. Her parents divorced early and abandoned them. She basically grew up with her mother. Her mother was very controlling. From childhood to adulthood, she basically listened to her mother’s words. What to eat, what to play, what tutoring classes to take, how many points to get, everything was controlled by her mother. As long as she was obedient, she would be rewarded, such as a compliment. If she couldn’t do it, she might be punished. She couldn’t eat if she didn’t finish her homework on time. This was Mo Wenli’s growth path.
In college, Mo Wenli thought she could come outside to see and escape the cage that bound her. As a result, her mother asked her to study at Jianghe University and let her study medicine or become a teacher. Mo Wenli refused. She thought she could use the college entrance examination to escape her hometown. Unexpectedly, her mother secretly changed the application form without her noticing, forcibly keeping her in Jianghe City. It was a pity that she didn’t get her wish completely because the major was not right.
Mo Wenli tried to resist her mother’s control, but she always said, “I raised you so big, I provide you with food and clothing, and you treat me like this?” This made Mo Wenli unable to find words to refute.
There was no doubt that Mo Wenli was a good child, at least in the eyes of others. Others thought she was a good child, but only she knew that her life was terrible.
Since she couldn’t escape, then accept it. Mo Wenli persuaded herself like this. After graduating from university, she continued to take the exam because her mother said that a master’s degree was valuable now, so go take one, and the salary would be higher after graduation. Mo Wenli did so. This time she just nodded, without any complaints.
Shi Hua listened in silence, not knowing what to say. He looked at the person with her head down beside him, feeling quite sympathetic.
The strings on the puppet were too tight. If the movements were too big, they would definitely break one day.
Mo Wenli returned to the dormitory, still wearing Shi Hua’s clothes. It’s just that she didn’t see Meng Yue. She took out her phone and sent a message to Shi Hua, asking him where Meng Yue was, but Shi Hua didn’t know either.
“I thought she went back to the dormitory first. You can give her a call and see,” she was mostly sober at this time. After vomiting a few times, her stomach was almost cleaned out. At this time, she was sitting in the dormitory sending messages to Shi Hua.
Mo Wenli immediately dialed Meng Yue’s phone, and it was connected a few seconds later.
“Hello, Meng Yue, where are you?”
“I’m at home, something happened at home, I went home.”
“Oh… then will you come back tomorrow?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll go back to school tomorrow, it’s very close.”
Meng Yue took an ice pack from the refrigerator and put it in a transparent plastic bag. After wringing out the towel, she applied it to a swollen ankle. She tilted her head and shrugged her shoulders, holding the phone. She was talking and moving at the same time.
On the bed, a slender, sexy woman lay crookedly. She closed her eyes, with a comfortable expression on her face. Her appearance was very similar to Meng Yue, but her clothes were much more mature than Meng Yue, and her temperament and hairstyle were also different. Her hair was longer.
Meng Yue hung up the phone after chatting with Mo Wenli for a few words. “Who, male or female?” The naked woman suddenly sat up straight, looking at Meng Yue with a smirk.
“What are you thinking about?”
“It’s a classmate, a roommate,” Meng Yue held her forehead with two fingers and pressed her down.
The naked woman lying down was her younger sister, named Meng Huan. It was said that she was her younger sister, but in fact, they were the same age. To be more precise, they were twin sisters.