When exactly had she fallen for Lu Mingfei?
At first, she had only been taking a call as an admissions assistant, intrigued by the boy who had turned the probing back on her. Then, after learning to use Norma to cheat at StarCraft, she had asked him for a match and been turned down, which had really annoyed her. When they first met, his expression practically said, "I have lots of secrets. Don't ask," making her unable to resist profiling him-only to run headfirst into a wall.
He drifted outside this world. When he looked at her, he was looking at someone else; when he spoke to her, he was speaking to the past. Lu Mingfei seemed to have known a red-haired girl long ago. Was that red-haired girl her? Nono didn't know.
Nono had accompanied Lu Mingfei to Hakone. There were no phantoms of his past there, yet in the instant he broke down, Nono had seen the end of the world, and the red-haired girl in his arms.
Was that red-haired girl her? Nono still didn't know.
And so, Nono always carried someone in her heart. Every night, she dreamed of searching for something very important in different places.
Sometimes she was in the Regent Hotel, with Ye Sheng and Aki both there, yet she always felt something was missing. She searched and searched, finally finding it in the restroom. She saw a dejected-looking boy secretly shedding tears, and her heart hurt terribly. Furious, she shouted, "Who bullied you? Tell me! I'll fucking kill him!"
Sometimes she was on a cobblestone path along a river, with darkness all around. She walked and walked until she finally saw light. Up ahead, that boy and Zero were being all lovey-dovey, picking dandelions by the river. She ran over in a