"You even knew about that junior?" Bringing this up really drove Li Shu crazy. "He was this big, tall guy with a buzz cut and a really fierce face. When he came to my classroom looking for me, I thought the student council had caught me littering. I was so scared I nearly dropped to my knees in front of him."
"Also, I didn't litter. Cheng Zhen threw all that stuff."
Li Shu cleared his name, chattering away in the car. When he got thirsty, he picked up the bottle of mineral water Pei Song'an had set beside him and gulped the whole thing down in one go. He even showed off to Pei Song'an. "Look, impressive or what?"
Pei Song'an said nothing, but his peripheral vision stayed on Li Shu.
The jacket and pajamas Li Shu had arrived in were in a bag. Now he wore a pale blue sweatshirt that made his handsome face look even clearer and fairer. His lips had just been moistened by the water, and his full Cupid's bow caught the light.
Today, Pei Song'an had laid bare Li Shu's true identity. After receiving confirmation, that inexplicable fear had deepened.
Li Shu was not the original Li Shu. If he were going to stay here forever, he would not think saying "I like you" required enormous courage.
In other words, Li Shu would leave.
Putting this together with Li Shu's earlier unusual behavior and the absurd theories about this world, Pei Song'an reached a firm conclusion.
When the story of him, the male lead, reached its ending, Li Shu would leave this place because his "mission" was complete.
That they would be separated was merely the most optimistic possibility.
An irresistible force might erase all his memories of Li Shu, or bring the original