In My Youth

At that moment, a trace of panic and shyness flashed through Jiang Ruolin's eyes. Then she lifted her head as well and looked at the plaque with him.

"Liu, I think it wouldn't be bad if you were in my youth too."

Liu Shang turned around and looked Jiang Ruolin straight in the eyes.

The sunny, natural air around him suddenly shifted into a deep sorrow tinged with the weariness of life.

"Ruolin, there's something I've never told you."

Liu Shang gently pointed to his heart. "This part of me has never been very well."

"If one day, I'm no longer in your youth, I hope you'll forget me and go on living happily forever."

Liu Shang had not said those words without reason.

Now that he had returned to this era and, fortunately, met Jiang Ruolin again,

he did not know when the god of fate might mercilessly take away the good fortune that had never belonged to him.

If that day truly came, if he was gone, how helpless and pitiful would the girl before him be?

Looking at the hand Liu Shang held over his heart and the searing sorrow in his expression, Jiang Ruolin suddenly felt utterly flustered and heartbroken for reasons she could not understand.

Tears instantly filled her eyes, swirling at the rims.

"Liu Shang, is there something wrong with your heart?"

"Don't be so pessimistic. Medicine is so advanced now. Even congenital heart disease has a good chance of being cured."

"If I had the say, I wouldn't want my youth to be without you."

By the time she finished, Jiang Ruolin's tears had still fallen despite her best efforts.

Liu Shang gently wiped away her tears as he slowly shook his head.

"You know, at 9:23:45 on the day we met two months ago, the sorrowful heart of mine that had traveled through time and space was picked up by you."

"So from that moment on, this place hasn't been well."

"Whenever I'm far from you or haven't seen you for too long, it feels very uncomfortable here. Well... it misses you very much."

Only then did Jiang Ruolin realize that she had been fooled yet again by this big liar, this big scoundrel!

She had actually been so sad just now, and had even cried for him.

In her embarrassment and anger, Jiang Ruolin punched his chest hard several times. "Liu Shang! You're the worst!"

Liu Shang gently caught her hand, then pulled her into his arms.

"Ruolin, from the moment I met you, my life and soul were forever fixed in place."

"I can't promise you a hundred years or a thousand, but in this limited life of mine, I'll give everything I have to cherish and protect you. I won't let you suffer even the slightest sadness or grievance."

"Will you be my girlfriend? I truly love you!"

The next moment, Jiang Ruolin seemed to let out a soft breath. Then she raised her arms and wrapped them around Liu Shang as well.

"You big scoundrel, I really regret picking you up outside the school gates that day. You even tricked me into falling for you."

"But Liu Shang, promise me that no matter what happens, you won't let my youth be without you, okay?"

On a university campus, wherever a beautiful girl appeared, she would always draw plenty of attention.

Someone as popular as Jiang Ruolin drew even more eyes, needless to say.

Only two months into their freshman year, while everyone was still asking around and gathering information, Jiang Ruolin had already announced her fall!

And in such a way, too—right at the school gates, before their very eyes, the two had blatantly flaunted their affection and mercilessly stuffed everyone full of dog food.

It truly was a heartbreaking story.

"Bro, am I seeing things? Isn't that girl Jiang Ruolin, the freshman student council star?"

A bespectacled guy took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes hard, then put them back on.

His friend beside him sighed. "No mistake about it. Just over two months after the freshmen started school, news shocking enough to rock the whole campus—and devastate countless horny wolves—has arrived."

"Jiang Ruolin, one of this year's freshman beauties, has been silently and inexplicably plucked away..."

"And who the hell is that guy? What major is he in? What year is he? He's practically a nobody!"

If anyone in the crowd knew Liu Shang's identity, there really was one.

It was Chen Qiang, who was in a different major from Liu Shang but lived on the same floor of the dormitory building, and who had copied Liu Shang's method at the school gates back then.

At that moment, Chen Qiang held two cups of milk tea, while Fang Jiajia beside him was eating a meat-filled flatbread.

Two weeks ago, under Fang Jiajia's fierce pursuit, the two had officially become a couple.

As the saying went, when a woman pursued a man, it was only separated by a thin veil. It was fairly easy.

Watching Liu Shang and Jiang Ruolin's envy-inducing embrace across the road, Chen Qiang's heart was filled with endless emotion.

The facts had proven that Liu Shang's tactic of lying on the lawn outside the school gates and waiting for a rabbit to run into him was incredibly efficient and useful.

Now, both Liu Shang and he had successfully caught the rabbits they had waited for.

It was just that... his luck was fucking a little worse...

Liu Shang had caught the delicate Chang'e Jade Rabbit, while he had caught the Sea-Patrolling Yaksha with an off-the-charts combat rating...

Because of that, he had nearly been laughed to death by the guys.

Compared to Liu Shang, what was he? Copying a cat while drawing a tiger? A poor imitation?

"Qiangqiang, how about I take you to practice shot put this afternoon?"

"You're way too skinny. You need more exercise!"

Fang Jiajia's words interrupted Chen Qiang's thoughts. He revealed a bitter smile. "Mm, sure. I'll listen to you..."

There were also quite a few girls in the crowd whose attention had settled on Liu Shang.

To win Jiang Ruolin over amid such fierce competition, what was so special about this boy?

Besides them, two students lingering around the edge of the upper circle also witnessed the scene.

After their brief shock, they immediately sent out the news, which was enough to turn their entire circle upside down.

While everyone around them was reeling in shock, Jiang Ruolin also came to her senses. At that very moment, the two of them were standing across from the side gate, where the school had the densest foot traffic.

Who knew how many people had seen what just happened, or what kind of impact it would have?

In that instant, Jiang Ruolin felt as though her whole face was about to burn red.

"This is going to be terrible..."

"Why aren't you taking me away from here already?!!!"