Two Years Ago! Jumbled Memories

"After that, I came to this city on my own."

"I bought this big house with the money my parents left me. It was too far from school, so I hired a driver."

"Then I went to school alone, ate alone, practiced piano alone, or traveled alone..."

"All right, your turn, Su Yang."

Ren Yexue picked up the cola on the table and drank it in one go. She had just talked nonstop for half an hour, and her throat was about to start smoking.

They had been so bored that Su Yang and Ren Yexue had started sharing stories about the first half of their lives.

Ren Yexue had spoken earnestly, recounting everything from when she fell ill as a child to when she came to this city, down to the smallest detail.

After gulping down a big mouthful, Ren Yexue let out a burp and tossed the empty cola can into the trash can on the terrace.

The empty can struck the side of the trash can with a crisp clang.

"Me? I don't have much worth telling." Su Yang's eyes were full of emotion.

The things most worth talking about were probably the Soul-Reaping Bureau and those magical Sequence Abilities.

Though he had only been with the Soul-Reaping Bureau for a short time, it had been exciting enough to talk about for a whole night.

"My life's been simple. I've always studied hard at school."

"Then, five years ago, my parents disappeared, and life got difficult. Grandma and I had only each other to depend on..."

"Sometimes I even sold scrap to help cover our living expenses."

Su Yang had simply recounted his daily life before he joined the Soul-Reaping Bureau.

He hadn't told Ren Yexue about the Soul-Reaping Bureau, and he couldn't tell her about it.

Ren Yexue rested her cheek on her hand and listened intently to Su Yang's experiences.

When she heard Su Yang say that her parents had disappeared and life had become difficult, she pursed her lips and said,

"Actually, I could give you some money. My parents left me quite a lot."

Su Yang quickly waved his hands.

What was she saying? Was he, Su Yang, the kind of man who lived off a woman?

Even at his lowest, he had lived off the fruits of his own labor and never thought of getting something for nothing.

Besides, Su Yang wasn't short of money now...

Seeing that Ren Yexue was about to press the matter, Su Yang quickly changed the subject.

"Aren't you curious how I smashed your door lock open with one punch?"

Ren Yexue tilted her head and blinked, as though she had only just remembered.

"Oh, right. How did you do that?"

"Could it be that you know martial arts?"

"Martial arts?" Su Yang laughed. "I'm much stronger than those martial artists."

"Would you believe me if I told you I jumped straight down from the eighth floor when I came looking for you, then ran here from Teacher Zhao's house in half an hour?"

With that, Su Yang rolled up his sleeve, struck a pose, and showed off his bulging muscle.

"Wow, you really do have muscles!"

Stars shone in Ren Yexue's eyes as she got up, walked over to Su Yang, and poked his firm muscle.

"I believe you could smash my door lock open, but Su Yang, the rest of what you said is way too ridiculous!"

Ren Yexue pouted, seemingly chiding Su Yang for teasing her.

"If you could really jump down from the eighth floor, you'd be even more amazing than Superman."

Seeing that Ren Yexue didn't believe him, Su Yang gave a soft snort.

He really wasn't as powerful as Superman yet.

But after a while, that might be another story.

Zhao Shengshen had once told him that a sixth-rank Demigod could make a city disappear and rebuild it with a snap of their fingers.

That kind of power filled Su Yang with longing!

"Besides, if you're going to make something up, at least make it someone I know. Who's Teacher Zhao?"

Su Yang looked up sharply. "Who's Teacher Zhao? How could you say that?"

"Our homeroom teacher after we were assigned to new classes! Our homeroom teacher!"

A trace of confusion appeared in Ren Yexue's eyes.

She reached out and touched Su Yang's forehead.

"You don't have a fever! How could you not even remember who our homeroom teacher is?"

"And when were we ever assigned to new classes?"

Ren Yexue's words struck a raw nerve. Su Yang shot to his feet!

"What did you say?!"

Su Yang's sudden agitation left Ren Yexue at a loss, and there was confusion in her eyes.

She thought back carefully, certain she hadn't remembered wrong, and opened her mouth.

"Hasn't our homeroom teacher always been Teacher Zhang? Abbess Miejue!"

"Impossible!"

Su Yang pulled his phone out from inside his clothes. As he searched for the class group chat, he asked Ren Yexue,

"How could this be? You don't remember Teacher Zhao?!"

Ren Yexue sounded increasingly astonished as well. She looked at Su Yang in disbelief.

"I... I've always remembered it being Teacher Zhang, the Teacher Zhang who taught us for two years."

At last, Su Yang found the class group chat.

The group owner was none other than the middle-aged woman who had substituted for Teacher Zhao today!!

Goosebumps broke out all over Su Yang's back. He looked at Ren Yexue, his eyes full of fear.

"How could this be?!"

Su Yang sat back down in his chair, his eyes full of confusion as he stared blankly at the cola on the glass table.

His behavior filled Ren Yexue with worry. She walked over and took his hand.

"Su Yang, are you sick? Should we go see a doctor?"

In Ren Yexue's eyes, Su Yang had indeed been acting strangely today.

First he had smashed her door lock, then he had flipped her bed over, all to pull out two dead mice...

After that he had said something about jumping down from the eighth floor, and now he couldn't even remember who their homeroom teacher was.

No matter how she looked at it, those were things only a mentally ill person would do...

But Su Yang kept his head lowered. He didn't answer Ren Yexue, instead murmuring to himself so quietly that only he could hear.

Taught us for two years?

But we were only assigned to new classes last month...

What on earth is going on?

The next moment, Su Yang took a deep breath and raised his head.

"Ren Yexue, how many years have we known each other?"

"Two years? What's wrong? We've been deskmates for two years."

Two years...

Sure enough, even that memory has been altered.

Everything felt unreal to Su Yang. Had Ren Yexue known him for two years?

But he and Ren Yexue had only known each other for a month!

Where had things gone wrong?

If what Ren Yexue said was true and they had known each other for two years,

then Ren Yexue had started buying vegetables from his grandmother a year ago and confessed to him a month ago...

It all made sense!

But it completely contradicted his memories!!

"Ren Yexue, stay here and don't move. I'm going to the bathroom."

"Oh, okay..."

Leaving Ren Yexue on the terrace, Su Yang headed straight for the bathroom.

He had to ask Zhao Shengshen!

He had to see whether Zhao Shengshen's memories had become jumbled too!

If even Zhao Shengshen's memories had become jumbled, that would be terrifying...