Chapter 30: A Rainy Night
Taking advantage of the summer vacation to take Wang Yina on a trip, the money owed has not yet begun to "snowball", so Zhou Minggao told his parents about it. Still unsurprisingly, after being scolded severely, they helped him pay back. Then he mentioned learning the guitar again, and his parents scolded him for thinking about making a new moth as soon as he subsided, and both of them objected. But he was sincere and said that he didn't need them to give him money, he could deduct it from his living expenses, and they didn't stop him any more, just said, "You can do it yourself." I hung up the video.
In addition to working hard to do things that can change Shen Yuanyuan's fate, what Zhou Minggao also has to do is to make himself better. Repeating a grade must not happen again, and he wants to try to get a scholarship, participate in more important experiments and competitions, and get some awards. There's no particular reason for doing this, it's just that they want to take a break from their parents, who have been worrying about him and his sisterβat least about him. Since this time he traveled back to such an early time, it means that everything has a great chance.
But as it is said in the movie "The Former Destination": "If you play with time, you will also be played with by time." Enjoying the convenience brought by "from the future", Zhou Minggao inevitably felt a lot of inconvenience. For example, many things in the present are different from his memory, and he often can't figure out what has happened and what will happen in the future, and even occasionally he can't distinguish between reality and dreams. The span of the last time he crossed was only a few months, and he was quite comfortable with those changes, but this time, he traveled back to three years ago, and it really couldn't be the same.
Of course, the inconvenience of life will have a great impact, but in fact, what makes Zhou Minggao even more sad is the scene of working with him in the voyage education and the happy fragments such as the trip to the "desert island", which have now become memories that no longer exist. And, this time, he won't let them repeat again. They will no longer meet those lovely children who have been taught by the voyage, and there will be no more chaotic and cute werewolf killings, and there will be no more pictures of riding an electric car on a desert island and singing "Love when you die". Zhou Minggao didn't know if this meant that the fate between him and Shen Yuanyuan would probably not be repeated, and he couldn't predict it until he reached that future.
The last time he crossed over, he felt more of a sense of control over the overall situation, and this time, he felt that he was being left behind in the gap of time. He felt that he was the one who was in control.
Zhou Minggao has been a very confident person since he was a child, he has always believed that "my life is up to me", even after the first crossing, he knew that there were some mysterious powers in this world that he did not understand, he did not feel afraid, and even believed that those powers would be controlled by him after all. But at this time, he gradually realized that he was just a speck of dust to this world, and it was very difficult for him to change his fate.
The only consolation is probably that you can see the piano playing quietly in the piano room on the weekend.
Even if he could feel that he didn't like to take care of him at this time, he felt relieved to see her stay there well.
It's a sad day, but it's still going to be lived. Zhou Minggao began to devote more energy to academics, he is a person who has traveled back, and the new knowledge learned by others is a review for him, and his grades are of course very good. Because he has more advanced ideas than the people around him, he has expressed novel opinions in some competitions, and he has gradually become famous in school.
But these brought him more than satisfaction, but shame - even if the purpose of his crossing back was not to fight with the people around him through the identity of the traverser, but he also accidentally obtained what he shouldn't have obtained. He stood in 2016 as a 2019 person, which was inherently unfair to those around him. In order to reduce his sense of presence in school and his guilt towards his classmates, Zhou Minggao began to save the time he spent participating in school activities, and then went to contact more things outside of textbooks that he really hadn't been exposed to. He now prefers to learn something new on his own rather than with people. Day after day, it seems that he has found some kind of life mode suitable for him as a "time-traveling person".
When the National Day holiday came, Zhou Minggao's class rented a party venue and held a quite formal party. Because this was the first party in college, no one didn't attend, and Zhou Minggao didn't want to be special, so he went together. Unexpectedly, his current image in everyone's hearts is very special - the girls think he is a mysterious and low-key male god, and the boys feel that they have been robbed of the limelight, saying "but that's it", while hating him so much. At this gathering, he naturally became the "target of everyone".
When playing the game, as long as it is his turn, the girls will ask a lot of questions, trying to get to know him more through the details, so as to satisfy their curiosity about the great god. When drinking, the boys would take the opportunity to drink him, as if they wanted to get drunk to prove that he was nothing more than a so-called great god.
In short, whether it is playing games or drinking and eating, Zhou Minggao feels that he is always hanging at that center point, very suffocated.
So, halfway through the party, he secretly set an alarm on his phone for five minutes, and then pretended to answer the phone, excused himself to leave first.
It was raining outside at this time, and he didn't bring an umbrella, but fortunately, his roommate planned to stay here all night, so he gave him an umbrella that he didn't need. He opened his umbrella and walked outside, and there was nothing to do next, so he didn't rush to take a taxi back to school.
It's already cold in early October in province A, and this is probably the last autumn rain of the year. There is Zhou Minggao's birthday in October, but Zhou Minggao thought, didn't he just celebrate his birthday? He just had his birthday in 2019 and then ran back to 2016 to have it again? He smiled self-deprecatingly - it didn't matter, no one would accompany him on this birthday anyway, and it didn't make any difference between having it and not having it.
As he walked on, a car sped along the road, splashing him with mud. He didn't get angry, but remembered that rainy day in 2019 - Shen Yuanyuan, who had just met him for two days, offered to take him to the station with an umbrella. He originally refused this plot when it first happened, but after a loss, when he traveled back to 2019 and faced this plot again, he didn't give up this opportunity to stay with Shen Yuan for a while, so he let her give it to him.
She was much shorter than him, and she was already struggling to hold the umbrella, and she kept turning it in his direction. Even though he knew in his heart that Shen Yuanyuan was just polite at that time, he still felt very soft-hearted, and then found an excuse to take the umbrella over, and tried his best to deviate in her direction, so that she would not get into the rain again.
Will the current Shen Yuanyuan still be willing to let him hold an umbrella?
Eighteen or nineteen-year-old Shen Yuanyuan likes him, but now sixteen-year-old Shen Yuanyuan obviously has no interest in him, only opinions.
And it's no wonder. After all, according to the normal trajectory, they should not have met at this time, so this series of negative effects is also very normal, and no one is to blame.
After staying outside for a while, Zhou Minggao still got into a taxi. Probably because he had been thinking about Shen Yuanyuan in his heart, when the driver asked him where he was going, he subconsciously said the name of the community where Shen Yuanyuan was located. He didn't feel anything wrong when he said it, and he didn't react until he reached his destination and got out of the car. I wanted to take another taxi to leave, but he saw a girl squatting on the ground crying next to the tree at the main entrance of the community.
He suddenly remembered that Shen Yuanyu seemed to have talked about the time when he learned that Shen Yifeng was sick, as if it was not long after she started her sophomore year of high school. He walked over quickly with an umbrella, and saw that the girl squatting on the ground was indeed Shen Yuan. Because someone suddenly held an umbrella, she wiped her tears and stood up, as if to say thank you. As a result, before the "thank you" could be spoken, she recognized that the person holding the umbrella in front of her was Zhou Minggao.
Then she frowned and cried again. Because of her extreme emotional breakdown, she cried like a child, crying and saying, "Why, why am I already so miserable, God still arranges for a guy to follow me, why ......"
Zhou Minggao: "......"
Great, misunderstood again. This time it seems to be more serious, and he has jumped directly from killing Matt to a perverted stalker.
Zhou Minggao wanted to try to defend himself, but Shen Yuanyuan kept crying, and he really couldn't interject. She cried and said to herself, "I've tried so hard to cherish what is left, why should even the last bit be taken away?" My dad is a very nice person, why did he get that kind of disease? Why is it so unfair? β
Before Zhou Minggao arrived, he didn't know how long she had been frozen in the rain alone, and Zhou Minggao could see that she was already shivering. Finally, after she sneezed twice in succession, Zhou Minggao couldn't bear it anymore, he first stuffed the umbrella into Shen Yuanyuan's hand, and then took off his coat and wrapped it around her. Shen Yuanxuan seemed to be stunned by his series of actions, and forgot to continue crying, just staring at him blankly.
"When something bad happens, think about what to do and what I can do, not why and why."
"......" Shen Xuanxuan still looked at him blankly.
"Where's your dad now?" Seeing that she finally calmed down, Zhou Minggao asked.
"I'm in the hospital." Shen Yuanyuan didn't know why he answered him, "Today, my aunt will take care of me, and I will go home." β
"Letting you go home is what makes you cry outside in the rain? Are you filming an idol drama? β
"I ......," Shen Yuan said.
Zhou Minggao didn't want to give her a chance to explain, and before she could think about it for a while, he said again, "Your aunt will take care of it today, will you be replaced tomorrow?" What if you catch a cold in the rain here, do you know that the patient's body is very weak, you are fine with a cold, but your father will be infected by you, you know? β
Shen Yuanyuan was stunned by Zhou Minggao's phone call, and subconsciously apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I'm just too sad for a while." β
Wait until Zhou Minggao said in a relieved tone, "Well, it's good to know that it's wrong, go home and rest." After that, Shen Yuan came back to his senses.
She glared at Zhou Minggao angrily, "Wait, why was I counted down by you, a Matt stalker, I'm really crazy." Hit where you go, or I'm going to call the police." As she spoke, she returned her coat and umbrella to Zhou Minggao in a way that was close to "losing". Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she was startled when she saw Zhou Minggao make a move - she thought that Zhou Minggao was angry and about to beat someone.
As a result, Zhou Minggao just stuffed the umbrella back into her hand and said, "Hurry up and go home and take a hot bath and sleep well." He left before her.