Free Web NovelChapter 148: Chapter 148: Meeting Again
It was merely a polite gesture, his hand extended out of courtesy, but to Su Li, it was as if she had been given the entire world. She smiled in satisfaction and took Yu Zhengqing’s hand.
Looking at Su Li’s expression, Yu Zhengqing felt something indescribable—a mix of happiness and curiosity.
"Your name, Su Li... is the ’Li’ for ’pear’?"
Hearing Yu Zhengqing’s question, Su Li smiled again. In her last life, Yu Zhengqing had asked the very same thing.
"Yes, the ’li’ for pear."
Su Li gave the same answer she had in her previous life.
"Just as I thought. Su Li... sounds like ’crisp pear.’ It’s a nice name." Yu Zhengqing smiled again. "Crisp pears are my second favorite fruit."
The exact same answer as in her last life. Su Li let out a slow, satisfied breath.
"Junior Su, what’s your major?"
Yu Zhengqing asked curiously.
"Journalism," Su Li answered slowly. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
When she was filling out her college applications, this was the only school and major she wanted.
’I had to get into this school, into this major. Because this isn’t just the place where my dreams come true—it’s also where Yu Zhengqing is.’
She remembered the years he started and would graduate with perfect clarity.
He was also a journalism major, a senior this year. By getting in now, she could just catch the tail end of his time here and become a true junior in his department.
’In this life, our starting point is as junior and senior. This way, I can follow closely in his footsteps.’
’I will definitely become a reporter filled with the same sense of justice and responsibility as him.’
"I’m a journalism major too," Yu Zhengqing said, looking at Su Li with pleasant surprise.
"Really?" Su Li, who already knew, feigned a look of surprise.
"Of course it’s true, why would I lie to you? If you need any help in the future, you can always find me. I’m in..."
Yu Zhengqing told Su Li his class number and enthusiastically introduced her to the journalism faculty, mentioned that he was about to start his internship, and so on.
Su Li nodded continuously, listening with rapt attention.
’This was Yu Zhengqing, always so warm and enthusiastic.’
As Yu Zhengqing talked on, he finally, belatedly, remembered the roommate he’d cast aside. He glanced back, saw his roommate’s expression, and cleared his throat, bringing the conversation to a close.
"Junior Su, my friend is still waiting for me... Are you sure you’re okay?"
He had to take his leave.
Su Li nodded affirmatively. "I’m really fine. A moment ago..."
"It’s just that I was so happy. I’ve always wanted to get into this school, and I got a little emotional coming here... Sorry you had to see me make a fool of myself, Senior."
Su Li found a perfect excuse, and Yu Zhengqing nodded in understanding.
"Ah, so that’s what it was. That makes sense. Of course you’d be happy. When I got my acceptance letter, I almost went crazy with joy too."
After a couple more remarks, Yu Zhengqing said his goodbyes.
"Well, see you around, Junior."
Waving goodbye to Su Li, any trace of drowsiness Yu Zhengqing felt before had long vanished. He left with his friend.
After they had walked a fair distance, Yu Zhengqing felt something and glanced back. He could have sworn he saw Su Li still watching him go.
"Whoa, just met and you’re already attached at the hip. I’m telling you, Da Yu, was that love at first sight?"
his roommate teased from the side.
Yu Zhengqing shot him a look. "Don’t talk nonsense."
"Tsk tsk, ’nonsense’? I know that look on your face," his roommate clucked.
"Your eyes were practically glued to her. You completely forgot I existed. Bros before... well, you know. I had to bite my tongue so I wouldn’t barge in and ruin the moment."
The roommate sighed. "I was clearly the one who saw the pretty junior first, but I sacrificed myself for your sake and didn’t even go up to introduce myself. You owe me a meal for this."
"The junior was crying like that, shouldn’t I show some concern?" Yu Zhengqing said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Now that you mention crying, it reminds me of the look in her eyes when she was crying... I feel like that girl likes you." The roommate couldn’t quite describe it, but he felt that her tears and her gaze were too full of meaning, moving and saddening to watch.
"She was just happy she got into college..." Yu Zhengqing retorted.
"Nah, don’t give me that excuse. I’m not blind..." The roommate stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I get a real ’written in the stars’ vibe. Da Yu, that girl might be your destined lover."
Yu Zhengqing smacked him unceremoniously on the back of the head. "Nonsense again!"
"A girl who bursts into tears the moment she sees you—how is that *not* destiny!" his roommate shot back, smacking him back even harder before taking off.
As he ran, he yelled, "I bet you she’s your destined lover! Or maybe your wife from a past life!"
"You, get back here!" Yu Zhengqing rubbed the back of his head and gave chase, but his steps grew slower and slower until he finally stopped.
He stood there for a moment, then suddenly turned to look back.
The girl who had looked at him with tears streaming down her face was, of course, no longer in sight.
But his roommate’s words kept churning in his mind.
He wanted to dismiss it as utter nonsense, but that strange sense of familiarity he’d felt earlier was impossible to ignore.
’Could it really be true?’
Yu Zhengqing suddenly thought of Bao Yu and Daiyu from *The Story of the Stone*.
They too had felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy and familiarity upon their first meeting.
Daiyu had come to repay a debt of kindness, destined to shed all her tears for Bao Yu...
Yu Zhengqing shook his head hard, trying to dislodge the absurd notion, and muttered to himself.
"Inauspicious, so inauspicious..."
’How could I think of Bao Yu and Daiyu? What a terrible omen.’
Besides, he wasn’t Bao Yu, and his junior, the one whose name sounded like ’crisp pear’, wasn’t Daiyu.
Though his roommate’s words were a joke, they had still gotten to him. Yu Zhengqing chuckled at himself, turned, and went to catch up with his roommate.
After he had run some distance, a figure slowly emerged from the direction he had just been staring at.
It was Su Li.
If he had looked for just a few seconds longer, he would have seen her. But he hadn’t.
Su Li stood for a moment where he had been standing, then followed in his footsteps again.
’I don’t want to be a stalker, but I just can’t help it.’
She just wanted to look at Yu Zhengqing for a little while longer.
Su Li trailed Yu Zhengqing from a distance, only stopping when he disappeared into his dormitory.
Su Li turned around and went back to the lakeside. She sat by the water, a smile gracing her lips as she recalled their re-introduction.
She felt an inexpressible joy, mixed with an equally inexpressible sorrow. The complexity of her emotions was beyond words.
Su Li sat there by the lake in a daze for the entire afternoon.
It wasn’t until the sun began to set that Su Li snapped out of it and left the campus.
Once she was outside the school gates, her shoulders slumped, and she felt a bit listless.
Su Li ambled along the side of the road, walking without any energy.
When she reached an intersection and was waiting to cross, an SUV suddenly screeched to a halt in front of her.
While Su Li was still in a daze, she heard a somewhat familiar voice. free𝑤ebnovel.com
"Su Li?"
Along with the astonished voice, a head poked out of the car window. A face with sharp, distinct features and an air of sublime arrogance was suddenly right in front of her.
It was too close. Su Li took a step back and looked carefully.
Su Li found him a little familiar.
"What? You don’t recognize me now that I’ve washed my face?"
