Chapter 546 - Disappointment

Ge: [I'm going to see grandfather today.]

Ge: [Did I mention that I'm feeling nervous?]

Ge: [Why aren't you replying?]

Ge: [Your brother needs some encouragement here!]

Xiang Wai's lips twitched when she read these back-to-back messages. There was hardly a minute time gap between each message and he was expecting her to even reply that fast? And that showed just how nervous he was feeling. 

Another message came right at that moment.

Ge: [I'm right outside their house. My hands are clammy. What should I do now?]

Xiang Wai smiled at his words. How interesting it was that her brother who never even felt scared of death was actually nervous to face his own grandfather. But she couldn't blame him. They hadn't seen their grandfather in years. They couldn't possibly know what kind of a person he was.

Wai: [Ge, you're already there. Just go in now."

Ge: [That's some encouragement.]

Xiang Wai could tell he was being sarcastic but it didn't matter. That's the only thing she could say for now.

Someone plopped down beside her and Xiang Wai glanced up for a brief moment before looking down at her screen to read Xiang Weimin's new message.

Ge: [Have fun at the wedding.]

"Don't tell me you didn't even recognize me now?"

Xiang Wai didn't even move her eyes away from the screen as she replied, "I wish I could remove you from my memory, Shuyi. But it's a shame that I can't."

Huang Shuyi smirked devilishly making some girls lose their senses around them as he said, "I have never been easy to forget."

Xiang Wai snorted, "I see you're still as much of a jerk as before."

Huang Shuyi rolled his eyes at her and added, "You don't get to comment on me, Wai. You're the dumbest person I've ever met in my life."

Xiang Wai finally turned her attention to him and raised her brow at him, "Oh? And why is that so?"

"You left your dreams to chase after a man's love," said Huang Shuyi. "Doesn't that prove that you have always been the dumb one between us?"

Xiang Wai's face stiffened when she heard it but she sighed out, "You're right. I might be the foolish one. But so what? I made my choices and I don't regret them. Do you really think I regret going to the military academy? I don't!"

Huang Shuyi tilted his head slightly and shook his head, "You're still the same. Never had regrets and never will, eh?"

"My papa used to say that regret isn't in our veins. We come from the line of generals who fought all their lives but never had any regret in their life," said Xiang Wai proudly. "Being a soldier is in my blood. One way or another, I was meant to walk this path."

Huang Shuyi shook his head helplessly, "So, you really became a soldier."

"And you really became a celebrity," she commented. "Are you still as dirty as before?"

"Will you shut up?"

"Why should I" she retorted. "I have so many of your secrets. Do you think I'll become rich if I started selling those secrets?"

Huang Shuyi gave her a look, "Do you mind changing a bit?"

"I do," she replied. She sneered, "Before telling me to change, you should do it too."

Huang Shuyi was putting his head on the table to close his eyes but stopped to look at her and raised his brow at her.

"Just how sleep-deprived you have been since your previous life?" asked Xiang Wai. "Have you still not had enough sleep?"

"What is wrong with sleeping?" he retorted.

"Sleeping beauty," said Xiang Wai. 

She couldn't believe how this guy was still the same as before. Actually, they had been friends since elementary school. It was a bizarre coincidence that they had stayed as deskmates from elementary school to high school. It never changed. Never ever! So, it was not surprising that they both knew certain things about each other that no one else did.

Huang Shuyi had always loved his sleep even when they were in school. He wouldn't mind sleeping in class. But he was still in the top 10 rankings. She was the first person to know when he became an idol trainee in his first year of high school. And this guy really loved to act like a star even back then. Of course, that didn't involve giving up his sleep.

This guy had to be the only one she knew about somewhat even after high school. They only interacted online but at least, he wasn't like others who didn't even know if she was alive or dead.

"How is your mother?" he asked her.

"You had always had a strange interest in my mom," said Xiang Wai. "Why?"

"Why can't I?" retorted Huang Shuyi. "She is amazing."

"Really?"

Huang Shuyi shrugged, "She might have not been an amazing mother but she had always been an amazing person. Even if you don't agree."

"You're blind," said Xiang Wai. 

"No, you just look at her through the eyes of a daughter," was Huang Shuyi's response. "Don't be mad but I always said it. If she was never a good mother, you never tried to be a good daughter to her either. Do you think only you needed her? She needed you as much. But you didn't want to accept it."

Xiang Wai didn't want to answer that. It wasn't the first time he said something like this. His opinions never matched with hers. And that's why they always got into fights. And their fights were not only verbal. They'd turn into brawls. Physical fights would always lead them to the hospitals. But they never stopped.

"You always have something to say about my choices," remarked Xiang Wai. "Either it's my mom or my love. You always have opinions."

"I don't have opinions about your love," he told her. "I always hated the fact that you made a guy your obsession. From someone like you, I always expected something different."

"Sorry to disappoint you, Shuyi," she sighed.. "But I've always been a disappointment."