"I lie awake at night...
See things in black and white...
I've only got you inside my mind...
You know you have made me blind..."
(I lay awake late at night, looking at the black-and-white world before me. Only you lingered in my mind. Did you know how deeply you had drawn me in...)
After dinner.
Li Xia took Kagome by the hand and went for a walk in the courtyard.
Perhaps something had stirred within him, for he could not help singing a lovely English song from his previous life.
"I lie awake and pray...
that you will look my way...
I have all this longing in my heart...
I knew it right from the start..."
Although Li Xia sang without accompaniment, there was no hiding the beautiful melody.
As it happened, someone had been helping Kagome cram for both English and mathematics all along.
Li Xia himself was not confident with overly complicated, obscure words, much less the girl. But most of this song's vocabulary was fairly common, with only a handful of words unfamiliar to a ninth grader.
Thus, the girl could understand it perfectly.
Her hand unconsciously tightened around his, and her lips trembled slightly as she bit them.
"Oh my pretty pretty girl I love you...
Like I, never ever loved no one before you...
Pretty pretty girl of mine...
Just tell me you love me too..."
This song had come out in 2000 in his previous life.
For it to have made a name for itself in that era, it certainly had quality.
Li Xia conveyed his feelings through his unaccompanied singing, and indeed brought a shy, cherry-red blush to the girl beside him, greatly strengthening the bond between the two young lovers.
Kagome opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to ask where the song