Chapter 003: Hello, Opponent's Defense
In the afternoon, I first began to recall how the protagonists of the time-traveling dramas I watched dealt with the fact of crossing. From "Looking for Qin" to "Palace" to "Step by Step", I even thought of Du Minjun Oba. But after all, it's a TV series, it's fictional, and the plot can be arranged at will, and I experienced it myself, and there is no comparison.
But as things stand, I have to admit that I may have to stay in 2007 for the time being, because I don't even know where I came to be, and how do I know how to leave. In "Step by Step", the fourth master said to Ruoxi, "If you come, you will be safe", it seems that I can only do this.
Once you think about anything, it's easy to do. So in the following time, I began to do all kinds of psychological construction for myself:
It's good to think of it as a rejuvenation, or to give yourself a vacation and enjoy your youth again. Otherwise, what can be done? And I should be glad that I'm back in my sophomore year, and if I were a freshman, wouldn't I have to train for a month? If I go back to the third year of high school, I still have to take the college entrance examination again? Sophomore, it's good!
But now I'm not the same person I was when I was a sophomore, and I have to reconsider my "personality", am I calmer, or am I as arrogant as in the past? Am I low-key, or am I as arrogant as I used to be? After thinking about it again and again, my new "personality" is tentatively set as: one point is frivolous, two points is calm, three points is low-key, and four points is lively. I hope that my new image will not surprise the other "Three Sages".
The following days went well, except for the electronic products that did not go well, there was not much discomfort. After all, whether it was ten years ago or ten years later, this is the life I have been involved in.
As for my new personality, except for occasionally complaining that I was "not as good as the original sophomore year", my sisters didn't find too much abnormality in me. It's just that once, Xiaoru and Jiang An broke up vigorously, Xiaoru said that they would never get back together, but they were still reluctant, crying like a fountain in the bedroom every day. That day, I couldn't help but say, "There's no need to worry at all, you two will definitely get married in the future anyway." Fortunately, Xiaoru was immersed in her own grief at that time and couldn't extricate herself, and she didn't have time to pay attention to what I said, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to explain where to start.
Life goes on. During the time I returned to my sophomore year, I truly experienced the beauty of youth. When I was young and ignorant, the future direction of my life was not clear, but I always blindly felt that the future must be better than the present, and I always felt that after finishing my studies and participating in the work, my life would be a hundred times more exciting than when I was in school. But when I actually worked, I found that I did come into contact with more people, but 70% of them were wonderful, and there were indeed many possibilities in life, but at least half of them were the possibility of getting worse.
It is also during this time that I am particularly looking forward to the day when human genes will change, and people will be able to live twice after death with the memories of their past lives, even once. We always say that "only after loss do we know how to cherish", and only when people experience life again will they know how to enjoy the beauty of the moment.
It has been more than a month since I unconsciously returned to 07, and I gradually threw away the anxiety and entanglement I had at the beginning, and began to accept my current nineteen-year-old body and twenty-nine-year-old brain little by little. I began to really rededicate myself to the second youth. I'm even a little glad I could.
The ginkgo biloba leaves on campus turn from green to yellow, and the city has finally entered the most beautiful stage - golden autumn. Traditionally, at this time of each semester, the university holds a large-scale debate tournament with teams from various departments. From the group stage to the final finals, it will last for nearly a month, and the debate gods of various departments will take turns to appear, including many talented male gods and goddesses, golden sentences on the field are frequent, and there are countless fans outside the venue.
When posters for the debate tournament were posted in all corners of the campus, I began to feel uneasy.
How could I forget that my first acquaintance with Xu Zhekai and Ji Yang was in the debate competition in my sophomore year.
That day was October 20, 2007, the third group stage of the debate competition, the positive side was the team of the School of Education led by me as the captain, the opposite side was the team of the School of Philosophy led by Ji Yang, and Xu Zhekai was the fourth opponent. The debate topic is "Is Chicken Soup for the Soul Nutritious".
Since my freshman year, I have had no shortage of suitors around me, including some seniors who are both talented and good-looking. But for some reason, I just didn't feel particularly excited. But when I saw Xu Zhekai standing opposite after entering the debate tournament, I clearly felt that my heart was skipping a beat.
Maybe it's because his posture is extraordinarily straight, in short, he is particularly conspicuous in the crowd, at least one meter eight tall, with long legs, thin waist and broad shoulders, particularly upright facial features, a very straight nose, and an angular face, but he has a pair of round deer eyes, and his eyes are clear, and it is these eyes that add a bit of boyishness to his mature and masculine appearance, and he has no old-fashioned pedantic temperament of most boys in the philosophy department.
I'm not a nymphomaniac easily, I basically haven't liked any boy since I was a child, and there are only a handful of idols who have been fans, basically uncles like Chen Daoming and Tony Leung. The younger ones were also fascinated by Su Youpeng in the period of "Old House Happiness" for a while in junior high school. Except for my dad, my attitude towards other men is always light. However, the moment I saw Xu Zhekai, a sentence flashed in my mind-
Mo Shangren is like jade, and the gentleman is unparalleled in the world.
The heart is the heartbeat, and I can still figure out which is more important, the competition and the beauty.
After a fierce confrontation of words and swords, the School of Education won the group stage by a narrow margin, and the crown of "Best Debater" on the spot was won by Ji Yang, the captain of the opposing team. She was also another person who impressed me that day in addition to Xu Zhekai.
In fact, when I first entered the freshman year, I heard Yu Han say that there is a cold beauty named Ji Yang in the Department of Philosophy, whose grades, abilities, and looks are very outstanding, and her eyes are above the top.
I've always wanted to see the true face of this beautiful woman, but because the philosophy department is not in the same dormitory building as us, and the class hours are different, it wasn't until the day of the competition that I saw this famous philosophy department for the first time.
Liu Jia once analyzed the difference between me and Ji Yang: "Judging from the height, figure, and facial features alone, you are both beauties, on par, if you look closely, your facial features are more delicate than hers, and there is more heroism between your eyebrows and eyes, but Ji Yang has an extreme enchantment in his bones, and his cold expression and inadvertently exuded femininity are the root of many handsome guys' relentless pursuit."
Xiaoru's analysis is more concise and incisive: "Shen Yiyi, you are the crazy version of Snow White, and Ji Yang is the stepmother of the Kochi version." ”
Since then, "Kochi stepmother" has become Ji Yang's exclusive code name in our dormitory, and later it was directly referred to as "stepmother". And "Little Poplar Gramophone" is Xu Zhekai's code name, because in addition to his upright posture, he also has a magnetic voice of "opening and kneeling". What a "stunner in the world"!
I remember being interrupted by a phone call from the supervisor, and after a brief conversation, I hung up the phone, a little shaky.
Tian Dao asked me to participate in the school debate tournament as the captain. And I, without refusing.
I knew that as long as I participated in the competition, I would definitely meet Xu Zhekai, and as long as I met him, my future college life would be completely far from peace, but I still agreed to participate without hesitation. I really want to...... See him. Even if I say goodbye, it can only be him from college, and for me, that's enough.
Seven years, we haven't seen each other for seven years since we broke up, and what kind of future will there be after this "first encounter" of time and space? I can't think about it anymore, I can take it one step at a time.
It was still the third game of the group stage, still the opponent's four debates, still standing tall and dazzling, and finally, I met the person who had appeared in my dreams countless times in seven years. Of course, I also met my "Kochi stepmother", who is still cold and beautiful.
After I sat down, a few minutes before the start of the competition, I didn't have time to read the debate, but stared at the person in the fourth debate position across from me, desperately trying to overlap and compare the slightly youthful appearance of the person in front of me with his desperate appearance when we parted a few years later. Xu Zhekai was looking down at the manuscript seriously, not noticing my staring.
"Little poplar, long time no see!" I said softly from the bottom of my heart.
The whole process of the game is no different from the memory, our side won by a narrow margin, the best debater of "stepmother". Only this time, I finally knew why it was so difficult for us to win, and why the best debater was not the significantly better Xu Zhekai.
The problem is on our side. This dead fat man Xiao Fei next to me is not a traitor but a traitor, whenever the "stepmother" argues eloquently, this pig teammate next to me always blinks his star eyes, admires it with great intoxication, and even nods his head in approval from time to time, and almost says directly: "Goddess, what you say is right!" It is conceivable that his combat effectiveness has long been turned into finger twisting by the "stepmother".
Fortunately, we only have one male player, and our three female players can still turn the tide, otherwise our team will not be able to reach the final anyway, and the story of Xu Zhekai and I will end before it begins.
After the game, the audience left the venue while discussing the situation just now, "Ji Yang", "Xu Zhekai" and my name appeared in their discussion from time to time, what was said, I didn't have time to deal with it, at this time I was cleaning up the information on the table, while kicking Xiao Fei with my foot, and scolded in a low voice: "Idiot!" Traitor! No taste! Pig teammates! ”
Before he could finish his kick, a magnetic voice sounded behind him:
"Hello, friend of the other party!"
My shoulders froze instantly.
Retracting my outstretched right leg, standing up straight, and taking a deep breath, I slowly turned around and looked at the speaker with a smile.
"Hello, friend of the other party!"
Even with pretending to be calm, I could still feel a slight tremor in my voice in response.
Xu Zhekai raised the corners of his mouth, and I was once again lost in his smile.