It had all been nothing more than a dream of yellow millet.
Hua Xin clutched the blanket tightly in her hands as tears silently slid down her cheeks.
The dreams before that had all been false.
But the last one alone had been so real.
Niu Niu's dream message had made the girl recognize a fact she was unwilling to admit.
The last sliver of hope that she could turn back had also vanished without a trace.
Hua Xin suppressed the sorrow that had arisen from the scene of life-and-death parting in the dream within her dream, alone in her dream.
But when she remembered how the bond that had accompanied her for eighteen whole years had simply flown away, the tears she had just wiped away filled her eyes once more, and the sob in her voice could no longer contain her deep reluctance to part.
"Waaaaah,...??,(hic) then...(sob) then I wish you...all the best too (tears)."
Turning her head, Hua Xin extended her small hand, its bones clearly outlined, intending to pick up the cup and take a sip of water. Unexpectedly, she saw the layer on the floor produced by blowing her nose??—a wonton.
The girl froze, and memories of the past surged into her mind like a tide.
Every little moment between them.
Their memories.
(Shall we do it again today?)
The dim ↓streetlights?? could not ↑light up↓ this street???
(This is so hot, I can't hold back.)
No matter how hard I tried, I could never reach your heart????
(The domestic section updated again today.)
The torrential rain fell all night?????????
(Hang in there a little longer, it's almost done.)
We were so close?? yet you couldn't see my tears??
(Don't worry, I have wet wipes.)
I knew I could be replaced at any moment??
(Sorry for making things difficult for you this morning.)
Yet I still couldn't accept this kind of disparity???
(Four times today...)
Our love was like a falling meteor????...
"Plip, plip."
Tears struck the back of her hand.
What a cruel heart.
You were so cruel.
Although Huhu was better than Niu Niu in some ways, she had still been with Hua Xin for eighteen whole years.
Did anyone know how she had gotten through those eighteen years?
How was she supposed to face the years ahead all by herself?
If people found out that a supernatural phenomenon had occurred to her, would they drag her away and dissect her???
She imagined herself strapped to an operating table, blindfolded and bound tightly with pure-black restraints, unable to move, while outside stood a group of mad scientists treating her like a lab rat and discussing which part of her body they should cut first with their scalpels...
No!!!!??
Hua Xin could no longer pretend to be strong. She buried her head pitifully?? in the pillow and wailed loudly:
"??Come back, my Niu Niu???? My proudest faith??"
"??Those battles, vivid before my eyes???? Tears inexplicably flow??"
"??I vaguely remember the slaps and the buzz???? And those powerful four times??"
"??All the toilet paper went to Yongmei??? Fighting together against Han and Ou Mei?"
A few minutes later, the girl recovered from her sorrow.
What was there to fear?? As long as she did not leave this room, she would never be exposed.??
"Hic."
After crying for a while, Hua Xin hiccupped, picked up the large tea mug, and gulped down water to replenish her fluids.
The water soon reached the bottom.
The fever, sweating, and a bout of intense crying had left her body's water reserves dangerously low.
"What time is it?"
The pitch-black surroundings of the little room meant she could only check the time with her phone or computer.
She touched her forehead. It was not as hot anymore, and her stuffy nose had improved considerably.
Sure enough, when you were sick, you had to take medicine.
She felt around beside the bed, left and right, but could not find her phone anywhere. The dim light made it difficult to see, so she narrowed her eyes slightly.
Should she get a pair of glasses? But would glasses bought online actually fit...
Wait, she still had not touched that square object.
Where was her phone?
Where was her phone???
(Crawl...crawl...)
Hua Xin silently picked up her phone from the computer desk. Why was the screen black??? She double-tapped it to light it up??.
1:11.
The girl suppressed the urge to type "1" to exchange for Hellfire.
Because beneath the time were a full twenty-four missed calls?? along with friend-request information.
Hua Xin's already soaked white short-sleeved shirt instantly became drenched in sweat once more. The shock of the messages seemed even more effective than fever medicine.
Today...today.
What date was it again?
Hua Xin carefully shifted her gaze to the date.
8/25??...
When did school start again?
8/27.
Before she could think about it again, the answer had already surfaced in her mind on its own.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not???!!!!"
"School has started???"
Then who had been calling her...
Hua Xin unlocked her phone and opened the missed-calls page.
159811xxxxx, an unfamiliar number she had never seen before.
IP address: Magic City.
Hua Xin: "??????"
Her mind exploded with a boom. The girl suddenly remembered! She remembered everything!??
"It is..., it is, it is, it is...(trembling voice) it is..."
Her fingers trembling, the girl opened WeChat. An avatar bearing a pink lotus and green lotus leaves appeared before her.
Flower Blooms in Wealth and Honor: "I am the 2024 counselor from the School of Management at Magic City University. Please reply as soon as possible, Hua Xin."
"It's the counselor aaaaaaaaah!!????????"
Hua Xin flung the phone onto the bed as though she had encountered some terrifying flood beast. Her eyes were full of fear, and her little face, which had regained a hint of color, instantly turned deathly pale.
The girl placed her little hand over her chest, separated by a layer of slime. Unable to breathe, she braced herself with one hand against the computer desk. The unfinished Bad Things potato chips spilled miserably onto the floor from the violent movement, as though crying out to Hua Xin: If you don't love me, please don't hurt me.
"School...school..."
Those two words undeniably occupied roughly 99.1% of the darkness in Hua Xin's heart.
Going out alone for two days to take the college entrance exam a while ago had nearly cost her 2.5 lives. How could she possibly go out into the world again...
"Wuh?!????"
Hua Xin suddenly released the hand she had placed over her left chest as though electrocuted. Her pale little face instantly turned pink, as though she had suddenly learned to change expressions.
She had subconsciously still thought of herself as the boy she had been before losing Niu Niu. Out of habit, she grabbed herself as though she had been shot**.
The underwear delivered earlier by the errand boy could not possibly withstand the girl's size. After failing to reach an agreement with the merchant, she could only tearfully use the pure-white bra as a rag.
In other words, right now...
It was real??...ahem.
How could clever Hua Xin repeat the same mistake? To prevent another friction incident, she had a flash of inspiration and thought of an idea????.
Wouldn't using two ?? solve it?
She was a genius!
There were still plenty of ?? left in the medicine box. Applying one could last until the next morning.
Silently crawling back onto the bed, Hua Xin picked up her phone without hesitation and accepted Flower Blooms in Wealth and Honor's friend request.
She skillfully opened an album containing all kinds of medical diagnostic reports.
These were from when she had been in her third year of high school and had gone out during the New Year, specifically to update her medical records while there were fewer people around, so she could continue staying at home.
Silently deleting that unbearable past, Hua Xin sent all the pictures over in one batch.
"Autism, moderate corn syndrome, anxiety disorder, cognitive impairment, psychiatric diagnosis..."
The girl copied and pasted a passage of text from somewhere, then silently edited and revised it before sending it over.
Hua Xin: "Dear counselor, the above describes my medical conditions. I cannot live in the dormitory. I own a house in Magic City. If you force me to attend classes or live in the dormitory, I think the wind on the rooftop will be very refreshing."
The girl happily flopped back onto the bed.
Solved it!!??
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