Chapter 19: It was good to be alive
Tang's father and Tang's mother had returned after leaving. They had originally decided to leave Shanghai tomorrow and spend today seeing friends. But when they called Tang Wu from the hotel, no one answered for a long time. They had never expected to run into her here. Life certainly had a way of making hearts race.
Yet the greatest surprise among the five or six people accompanying Tang Wu's parents—apart from Tang's mother and Tang's father, whom Su Can and Tang Wu had already recognized—was a girl in a white Christian Dior dress. At first glance, she merely looked familiar to Su Can. At second glance, he recognized her completely.
Su Can and Tang Wu both froze for a moment.
The girl had been looking around in boredom. Her eyebrows lifted slightly when she saw the two suddenly appear before her, and the disdain on her face instantly turned to delight. "Su Can! Tang Wu!"
In the second year after his rebirth, Su Can had transferred to No. 27 Middle School. Having just weathered the upheavals in his family, he had caught his breath and was waiting for a happy life to begin, only to encounter a girl attempting suicide by jumping off a building. Half bluffing and half persuading, he had managed to save her, catching her at the critical moment and buying precious time for the rescue.
Standing before him was that very girl, Li Ying.
But the Gothic decadence she had possessed at No. 27 Middle School in Rongcheng was gone, as was the gloomy air beneath her white dress. Her long, flaxen hair had been cut into a neck-length jellyfish bob, leaving her a little less cute. At a glance, apart from Tang's mother and Tang's father, it