CH 47.1

Chapter 47 Part 1

They walked back from the beach. Zhang Man wanted to stay at Li Wei’s house for one night and go to the final exam at school with him tomorrow. But, Zhang Huifang kept calling to urge her to go home, so she had to say goodbye to him.

She was still a little worried. She accompanied him to the store to buy a new cell phone and put in her contact information. “Boyfriend, you need to send me a message in the evening.”

The youth nodded obediently with a smile on his lips. “En. Man Man, I’ll take you home.”

When they arrived downstairs at her home, Zhang Man just wanted to go upstairs. However, she heard the youth calling her from behind.

“Man Man.”

His voice was rough and she could not hear a lot of emotions in it.

Zhang Man looked back and said, “What’s wrong? Can’t bear to leave me?”

The youth was silent for a long time, and he didn’t speak in the end.

He smiled and waved at her. His eyes were full of emotion. In a winter like this, it seemed to have a different warmth.

Zhang Man’s heart was burning. She went over and kissed him gently on the cheek. Her eyes were bright. “En, I’m going upstairs. Don’t think about those things at home. Just call me if you need anything, okay?”

“En, go upstairs.”

The youth’s voice had a thick sound to it. It was probably from the sea breeze that had been blowing all afternoon.

His smile warmed Zhang Man’s heart to the point that it calmed down a bit.

Things are going to keep going in the right direction, aren’t they?

The slightly warm winter sun was quietly melting the thick snow. The solid ice on the roof’s edge kept dripping.

Drip, drip, drip.

The water dropped down to the light gray cement, forming a darker circle.

Everything was strangely calm.

A lot of the time when people found themselves to be in a peaceful situation, they always felt like something was coming. Later, there might be a storm.

That night, they kept in touch. Zhang Man sent a text message to Li Wei after every couple of minutes, and he replied frequently. Although he didn’t talk much, Zhang Man could feel that he was much calmer than before.

Li Wei even sent her a page of questions to help her study for the physics exam. Zhang Man looked at the countless questions and felt warm.

At this time, he could still remember what he had said before about helping her focus on the exam.

He seemed stronger than she had imagined.

……

On Monday, Zhang Man arrived at school early.

The final exams were arranged in a very intense way. In the morning, she took a literature test for two and a half hours, and in the afternoon, she took a math test. Tomorrow’s exams were divided between liberal arts and sciences. The liberal arts students had politics, history and geography; and the science students had physics, chemistry and biology.

Each grade was divided into different exam rooms that were at the empty school building on the other side of the school.

Zhang Man went to the classroom first. There were not that many people in the classroom.

Li Wei was not there either.

He usually came earlier than Zhang Man. As long as she walked into the classroom in the morning, she could see him sitting and quietly reading.

But he was not here today.

Zhang Man looked at his empty desk and suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart. She asked the boy sleeping on his arms that was one desk ahead, “Jin Ming, have you seen Li Wei?”

Jin Ming had just put his head down to sleep and was woken up with a pull. He rubbed his sleepy eyes with a bit of impatience. “En, I just saw him come and go out with a folder. He should be going directly to the exam rooms, right?”

Today was the final exams. They didn’t have study periods arranged earlier, so many students would go to their exam room to review.

Zhang Man let out a sigh of relief.

She pressed her temples and shook her head helplessly.

She was still too sensitive. He was in the mood to give her practice questions last night, so she should be feeling much better.

As long as it was related to him, her nerves began to tense.

At this time, Chen Feier called to her from the back door of their class, “Man Man, what are you waiting around for? Let’s go to the exam room quickly. There’s still about 20 minutes left. It takes a long time to walk from here.”

Zhang Man nodded. She packed her stationery into her bag and went to the exam room with her.

In order to prevent cheating for huge exams, the school divided the students between liberal arts and sciences, then randomly assigned seats. She and Li Wei were not in the same exam room, but she happened to be in the same room as Chen Feier.

Before Zhang Man entered the exam room, Zhang Man intentionally passed the exam room where Li Wei was and looked through the window.

She saw him with one glance.

The youth was not flipping through his book nervously like other people. He was quietly lying down in his seat, as if he was sleeping.

Zhang Man didn’t bother him. She was relieved and secretly scolded herself for being on edge. It was only then that she pulled Chen Feier through the long hallway and up the stairs to their exam room.

Chen Feier mumbled discontentedly as she walked along. “I wondered why you wanted to go through the second floor and it turns out it’s to see your dear boyfriend. How was it? Was the back of his head pretty?”

Zhang Man was amused.

She thought of Chen Feier’s sad expression when she told her that she was with Li Wei that day.

It has not changed even now.

Chen Feier saw that her strategy of holding a grudge did not work, so she changed it to throwing a tantrum. She took Zhang Man’s arm and shook it back and forth. “I don’t care. If it goes on like this, I think you’ll abandon me. Man Man, friends are just as important!”

Zhang Man looked at her and felt much better. She rubbed her head with a smile and said, “En, I promise you.”

It was only at that moment that Chen Feier felt happy.

“En, when you two get married, I’ll be your bridesmaid.”

Zhang Man suddenly thought of her previous life.

When Chen Feier got married, she was her only bridesmaid.

She still remembered it. Chen Feier was standing on the stage, wearing a delicate veil and a gorgeous wedding dress with a train. She threw the bouquet of flowers in her direction and cried, “No one is allowed to fight with her. Zhang Man, you must be happy!”

Zhang Man felt warm in her heart. Maybe she would get married earlier than Chen Feier in this life.