In truth, at the very beginning, Feng Chuyue had never imagined her situation would become this bad.
At least when her father called, she looked up at the sky. It wasn’t exactly clear and sunny, but at least there weren’t so many rolling dark clouds yet.
The air still held a trace of stifling heat and humidity, nothing like the knife-sharp edge it had now.
She had rejected her father’s decision to send the driver to pick her up early, planning instead to take the subway back by herself because she needed to buy something on the way.
If the driver took her home, he definitely wouldn’t let her get off midway.
She wanted to go to the supermarket to buy groceries. She wanted to know how to personally cook the meals that person liked.
It wasn’t that she had never taken cooking classes before, but she was afraid of knives, afraid of fire, so she naturally showed no talent for cooking.
Her mother had comforted her, saying, ‘Our Chuyue was born not needing to learn such things. Her hands are for brewing tea, for playing the piano, for playing chess, not for the kitchen.’
Even though her mother had already passed away, she still remembered those words.
She loved her mother very much, but she didn’t agree with that statement.
If… if one day in the future, there was a person who would enter her heart, and when that person lived with her, would she be looked down upon if she couldn’t cook?
These past few days, Feng Chuyue had already felt it.
That person’s smile… it seemed like it rarely bloomed for her.
At first, Feng Chuyue thought that person was just naturally someone who liked to smile. But later, after secretly observing her several times, she discovered that person would also wear an inexplicably sad expression in private.
It was as if she was reminiscing about something, her eyes always carrying an indescribable look.
Later, after Su Kui brought the lunchbox, Feng Chuyue saw for the first time that person could also smile brilliantly, so genuinely from the heart.
Her mother had said, excellent people are always likable. Her father also affirmed this point. That meant, Su Kui could cook, so that person liked her.
Then, what could she do?
In PE class, she was partnered with her, so she would properly showcase her own specialty.
But that one ball she hit, a level that could have made a certain arch-rival happy enough to stay awake all night, in that person’s eyes, it turned into sadness.
It was only then that Feng Chuyue realized she had done something wrong.
That person had reached out to encourage her when she was nervous about the exam. Although the method was strange, her nervousness had indeed been scattered quite a bit.
On the day she forgot her lunchbox, that person would use the excuse of having bought an extra box and place it on the desk.
Feng Chuyue knew. That clumsy excuse, she had seen it on many of the boys who pursued her, which was why she chose an all-girls school for high school.
Later, that person gradually got close to her, yet it didn’t trigger that inner vigilance and aversion.
Perhaps it was because they were both girls, or perhaps, because that person was really very cute, very beautiful, even more beautiful than herself.
Actually, there was one thing Feng Chuyue had always been very resistant to, and that was being called the Moon God.
Feng Chuyue didn’t feel smug about it. Instead, she felt that once called the Moon God, it was as if she was isolated from the entire class.
She really wanted to be friends with everyone. Although she was a bit socially anxious, her requirements weren’t high: two or three good friends, chatting together during breaks, passing notes to each other in class, eating lunch together, preferably joining a club together, and still being able to chat in a group at night.
Feng Chuyue had thought, if she had friends, she would invite them all to her seaside home during the holidays, to swim together, watch their favorite anime together, together…
These things, in that person’s hands, were gradually becoming reality.
Feng Chuyue didn’t want to give up. She felt she should take the initiative to build a good relationship with that person, but why had things become so bad again?
Why… had she caused trouble again…
“Feng Chuyue!”
Who?
“Feng Chuyue! Where are you?!”
“Feng—Chu—yue!”
“If you don’t come out, I’m going back!”
“Feng, Chu, Yue!”
What did that feeling resemble?
It was like holding a firefly in the palm of your hand in the dark night.
Instantly illuminating the small world within her heart.
“I… I…”
Having not spoken for too long, and with the wind and rain so heavy, Feng Chuyue couldn’t make a sound for a moment.
That person’s voice went from far to near, then from near to far.
“Lin… I… am here…”
Why… couldn’t she just say it out loud?
Why… was she so timid and afraid of trouble?
This is what she deserved, Feng Chuyue thought.
But she still didn’t give up.
“Lin Yi, I… am, here.”
Even as the wind and rain grew stronger, the gale whooshing away the little sound she had managed to produce, she did not give up again.
“Lin Yi…”
“Calling out so softly, who can hear you?”
Feng Chuyue slowly turned her head and saw Lin Yi, drenched, standing there shielding herself from the rain with her hand.
She just stood there, not particularly tall, not particularly handsome, but that small figure was enough to illuminate everything.
Lin Yi looked around. “You really know how to hide. I never thought there was a lawn under the overpass to take shelter from the rain.”
“Lin Yi…” Feng Chuyue stood up and threw herself towards Lin Yi. “Lin Yi!”
“Whoa, ahhh, don’t suddenly pounce over without a word! I’m going to fall, fall!”
Even so, Lin Yi didn’t fall. Instead, she wrapped her arms around Feng Chuyue. “Alright, alright, it’s okay now. I’m here.”
“Wah…”
“Listen to me, now.”
“Mhm.”
Lin Yi crouched down, arms reaching back. “Get on. I’ll carry you on my back.”
Feng Chuyue nodded and leaned her whole body over.
The wind was strong, and the rain hitting her body hurt a bit, like hail, but Feng Chuyue felt she wasn’t afraid anymore.
Lin Yi’s body was so cold, wet all over.
Her frame was also very thin, the arms visible under her clothes were pale and slender.
Would the wind sweep both her and herself away?
But for some reason, it was this seemingly weak body that, at this very moment, was actually carrying Feng Chuyue and sprinting down the street.
So many mysteries, but Feng Chuyue didn’t care. She only knew that something in her chest seemed about to overflow.
“Close your eyes, okay? Soon, we’ll be back at school soon.”
“Mhm…”
The streets were already empty of pedestrians.
Lin Yi had mentally prepared herself before coming out, but she still hadn’t expected the wind and rain to come this fast, this violently.
She had seen many disaster movies before. The scene before her now wasn’t much inferior to those in the movies.
Dark clouds pressed down on the city, wind and rain swayed wildly, the roadside trees rustled noisily. Even a flowerpot had crashed down where Lin Yi had just run past.
If she had been a few seconds slower, perhaps she wouldn’t have saved anyone, and both she and Feng Chuyue on her back would have been reincarnated together.
It was truly life-threatening.
But thankfully, she had managed to get to her.
Reaching the school wall, Lin Yi and Feng Chuyue definitely didn’t dare to go through the main gate. Going through the main gate now would be no different from turning themselves in.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, Lin Yi first jumped onto the wall, then lay on top of it and stretched out her arm.
Feng Chuyue jumped up and grabbed Lin Yi’s hand. Before she could even regain her senses, Lin Yi whooshed her up, and her whole body flew half a circle in the air.
“Wah…”
The world spun for a second. When Feng Chuyue opened her eyes again, she found herself being held princess-style by Lin Yi.
Lin Yi looked down at Feng Chuyue. She