"Xiao Yu! What’s wrong with you?" Han Mingyue rushed to the front of the small bed as soon as he heard the noise, anxiously asking. The dream was too realistic; Zhen Yu’s eyes were unfocused and her mouth agape, anger stuck in her throat, utterly unable to come back to her senses.
"Xiao Yu! Xiao Yu! ..." Han Mingyue realized that Zhen Yu was caught in a nightmare, afraid that she would suffocate, he quickly grabbed her shoulders and shook her vigorously.
Within Han Mingyue’s calls, Zhen Yu’s eyes rapidly blinked a few times, finally exhaling a breath and looked at him.
Unexpectedly, two lines of clear tears suddenly slid from Zhen Yu’s eyes. Even she didn’t understand, why was she crying? Why cry ...
Han Mingyue watched hopelessly at Zhen Yu who didn’t even blink but kept crying, "Don’t cry! Xiao Yu, what happened to you? Stop crying ..."
Zhen Yu didn’t want to cry at all! But she couldn’t control herself...
The dream wasn’t finished when she woke up; she just still had some fury unvented! In her past life, she had fiercely bumped that crazy person’s head and even delivered a crippling kick...
No matter how calculated, she wasn’t at a loss, there was nothing to feel wronged about! But these tears, these tears ...
"Ah!" Zhen Yu simply fell back onto the bed, closing her eyes. The words "I’ve lost all face!" drifted through her mind.
This move, in Han Mingyue’s eyes, was interpreted as another message—feeling life is unbearable...
So, the just lain down Zhen Yu was anxiously pulled up again by Han Mingyue, "Xiao Yu! Tell me if there’s anything troubling you! Speak out and I’ll help you!"
"Will you really help me?" Zhen Yu sniffled, looking pitiful. But actually, where was there any real trouble! It was completely a subconscious query!
Han Mingyue wished he could swear, "Of course I’ll help! I’m not joking!"
"Oh! Then let me think." Zhen Yu raised her hands to wipe the remaining tears on her face, lay back down then sat up, the tears had stopped.
Zhen Yu was pondering, and Han Mingyue stood waiting for a while, then turned around and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Tomorrow, can you accompany me to go early and leave early? Just to try for a day."
"...Are you trying to avoid Fu Yu?" Han Mingyue turned around.
Zhen Yu spread her hands, "What else? Can’t see him when I look up nor when I look down! I’ve talked and talked, and he just acts like he can’t understand human speech!"
Han Mingyue wasn’t in favor of running away from problems, but on the matter of Fu Yu, he temporarily couldn’t think of any good solution to resolve it.
"Alright. Anything else?"
"Anything else?" Zhen Yu was befuddled, "That’s it!"
Han Mingyue ambiguously said, "Your dream."
"...I dreamed of a lunatic!" Zhen Yu angrily rolled her eyes!
Perhaps it was indeed as people say, what you think during the day, you dream of at night! Zhen Yu had actually dreamed of the person who had troubled her for a long time in her past life.
Indeed! This situation with Fu Yu actually somewhat resembles that incident, like a miniature version.
Both individuals, the same unrequited love, the same impervious to reason!
Han Mingyue curiously repeated, "A lunatic?"
"Mhm!" Zhen Yu’s tone was very disdainful, not wanting to say another word.
"It’s really not, a prophecy?" Han Mingyue firmly and slowly uttered the last two words.
Zhen Yu slowly looked towards Han Mingyue, in his eyes, she saw an unparalleled seriousness!
The two gazed at each other for a long time, everything communicated without words...
Eventually, Zhen Yu earnestly answered his question, "This dream, it’s not!"
Han Mingyue slowly smiled, "That’s good. You must remember,"
"Enough of the gossip."
On the first day Zhen Yu and Han Mingyue arrived early and left early, the two perfectly avoided Fu Yu—a successful trial!
The next day, Zhen Yu, who got up early, was blocked by Fu Yu at the front door. After Han Mingyue arrived just in time, the three of them went to school together.
As a result, Zhen Yu changed her plan to leave early. She asked for leave during the afternoon self-study class but didn’t leave, and only left after attending half of the class, managing to escape successfully!
After careful plotting, on the third day Zhen Yu gave up arriving early. Two days later, the group heading to school returned to its usual form.
During the afternoon self-study class, which only lasted for ten minutes, Zhen Yu called Han Mingyue to dash out. Unexpectedly, Fu Yu blocked them at the school gate, and their trip home turned into a trio.
Thus, the three-day farce came to an end; this method was not feasible!
Even if it were feasible, the plan couldn’t continue anyway because Teacher Jiang refused to give the two any more leave...
Luckily, the fourth day was a Saturday, and Zhen Yu planned to stay home all day!
She specifically informed Bai Xue and Han Mingyue in advance that she had plans on Saturday and wouldn’t entertain guests; if they wanted to see her, they would have to wait until Sunday!
When she said she had plans, she really had plans!
Early on Saturday, after breakfast, Zhen Yu boiled a big pot of hot water! After sending her mother out, she locked the yard and the house.
After lining up the freshly cleaned large iron tub and the big plastic laundry tub side by side on the kitchen floor, Zhen Yu rolled up her sleeves and added warm water to the iron tub.
With mid-March approaching, Mrs. Zhen was busy from morning till night! From the start of school to now, she had never found the time to accompany her daughter to the bathhouse.
Every two or three days, after dinner with her mother, Zhen Yu would just quickly wipe herself down at home.
But Zhen Yu, accustomed to modern showers, always felt that wasn’t clean enough, so she wanted to take advantage of the weekend to soak and scrub well in the big tub.
Entirely sitting with her knees in the iron tub, Zhen Yu closed her eyes and enjoyed a rare moment of relaxation.
After soaking for a while, she began to scrub herself, and after finishing the scrub, she lathered up with soap, rinsed off the suds, and got out of the iron tub wearing slippers.
No sooner had she stepped out of the tub than she quickly transferred all the remaining hot water from the big pot to the plastic tub.
The kitchen was the warmest place in the entire house, around 20 degrees Celsius. But just a moment after leaving the iron tub, Zhen Yu was already shivering from the cold.
She quickly scooped some cold water to adjust the temperature and sat in the plastic tub again.
Just as she sat down, she heard Fu Yu shouting from the yard, "Zhen Yu! Zhen Yu, come out! I know you’re home!"
Zhen Yu scooped water to rinse off the soap suds, pretending she hadn’t heard.
"Zhen Yu, come out! Did you hear me?! Come out!"
Zhen Yu continued to scoop water, pretending she was the Little Deaf Girl.
When Fu Yu suddenly stopped shouting, Zhen Yu didn’t think much of it, thinking he had finally given up shouting!
But as she stood up from the plastic tub to grab a towel to dry off, the house door, which is the kitchen door, was suddenly banged upon fiercely with a loud ’bang bang bang’, along with Fu Yu’s almost earsplitting shouting, "Zhen Yu, open the door!!!"
Damn! Zhen Yu was startled and internally screamed in a frenzy!
I’m not opening this damn door!!! I really want to kill him!!!
Distracted for a moment, Zhen Yu almost slipped. She quickly put on her slippers; not even bothering to dry off, she wanted to rush to pull open the living room door and run back to her bedroom.