CH 1.1

Before dawn, it was raining in Beijing.

The sound of the rain accompanied by dazzling lightning and roaring thunder disturbed the peace.

Lu Yining has been awake for several hours, from the first lightning strike in the early morning piercing the sky till the time when the rain completely stopped.

She had been tossing and turning for three hours , and when the rain finally stopped, the voices of people walking and talking outside began in quick succession.

Lu Yining rolled over and over again.

The voices outside the dormitory did not stop. She reached for her phone and pressed the screen to light it up.

Saturday, September 18, 6:47 in the morning.

The dark clouds have not yet dispersed, and it is gray and misty outside.

On her mobile phone, there were more than a dozen unread text messages, all from the same unknown number——

[Yi Ning, why din’t you answer my call? 】

【I will come to find you downstairs in your dormitory , can we talk face to face in person? 】

【…Yi Ning, you won’t do anything stupid, right? 】

I don’t want to answer.

There were more than a dozen messages but Lu Yining only read the last three.

After replying to him silently in her mind, she felt that it was a waste of time to type a reply, so she simply put the number on her blacklist without checking.

She is not so bad tempered and impatient to block someone easily without even checking and even the so-and-so confinement center and so-and-so weight loss agency who frequently called her before were not included in her blacklist. But now, the only two numbers lying quietly in the blacklist are from the same lucky person.

This “lucky person” is called Pei Jue, the boyfriend Lu Yining started dating three months ago.

But just yesterday, Pei Jue became her ex-boyfriend.

How did it happen?

Lu Yining rolled over and lay flat on the bed, opening and closing her eyes repeatedly not knowing where to start thinking.

She stared at the ceiling for a moment, until her phone vibrated and a call came .

Caller ID: Jiang Nai.

The dormitory is a four-person room. There are no classes on Saturdays and Sundays so two of the girls went home last night, and another girl had packed up early and went to hang out with her boyfriend. She is the only one left in the dormitory now but Lu Yining is okay with it. She took the call and got up from the bed; “Nana.”

“Have you woken up yet?”

“No.”

”

“No?” Aren’t you supposed to go to class with him?”

She was so sleep deprived that she couldn’t think straight and asked, “Who?”

“Your boyfriend!”

Only then Lu Yining remembered.

Today was actually her three-month anniversary with Pei Jue. It was Jiang Nai’s idea to secretly sneak inside Pei Jue’s classroom and give him a surprise.

As for now—accompany him to class?

She might as well be taking a complete set of photos of a pig at 360 degrees .

“I won’t go,” Lu Yining gritted her teeth gently: “It’s over, we broke up.”

The other end of the phone fell silent for a moment, but after a few seconds, Jiang Nai’s voice rose again ,clearly suppressing a little excitement in her restraint; “When? ”

“Yesterday.”

To be precise, at exactly 5:30 in the afternoon yesterday.

The first-year freshman had just finished military training and classes had not yet started so there was no class on Friday afternoon. After Lu Yining took a nap, he wanted to go to the medical school to see her boyfriend .

The reason why it is said to be unprecedented is because the medical school and the Arts college are really far apart. Lu Yining can’t ride a bicycle so it lies completely on her luck whether she can get on the campus bus. Therefore, it took more than half a month to enter the school, except for the stadium that must be visited during military training. She has never even entered the West Campus, let alone the medical school in the easternmost corner of the East Campus.

She walked around the campus on foot for more than half an hour, and even lost her way once and by the time she reached the medical school’s anatomy building it was already 5pm.

The Anatomy Building is six stories high and on the first floor, there is a high table near the door waiting for you like a cash register in a hotel mall.

Lu Yining was not short, but when she sat inside waiting for him, she was still completely covered by the table.

After waiting for a while, the sound of the elevator door opening beside her was heard, followed by the mixed laughter and footsteps of men and women. Lu Yining raised her head and saw Pei Jue, who was in black clothes among the crowd of white lab coats and the long-haired girl next to him holding his arm.

Although Lu Yining and Pei Jue have only been dating for a while, they have known each other for a long time.

Pei Jue was two years senior of her and since her first year of high school, he has been courting her openly and secretly, answering all her requests and questions.

Girls are really emotional and soft-hearted creatures, especially Lu Yining.

In terms of aesthetics, from head to toe, from inside to outside, Pei is definitely not the type that Lu Yining likes but this warm hearted man is so delicate that he never fails to make her feel warm.

Pei Jue knew that she didn’t like rainy days so on her 18th birthday he gave her a small Pikachu umbrella that cost a few dozen yuan and a bunch of words that said “I hope to protect her from the wind and rain in the future” and love words like “It wil always be sunny”  and it stood out from the crowd of many luxury gifts.

Lu Yining knew it was a bit of a waste but still agreed with him as if she had a hole in her head.

And now, her first boyfriend who gave her an umbrella and wished for a lifetime of sunshine was hugging another girl at the door of the anatomy building in public.

The expression on Lu Yining’s face was not good and the expression on Pei Jue’s face was even worse.

Probably because he thought it was impossible for her to cross most of the campus to come to the medical school to find him, Pei Jue was stunned for a few seconds before he realized that he was wearing a pair of rimless glasses and the smile on his face gradually disappeared and his face turned from white to red and then back to white with a weird expression.

I don’t know if it’s because the medical students are too tired or because of his family heritage, Pei Jue’s hair was obviously less than that of boys of the same age, and his hair was shaky under the afterglow of the setting sun as if it will fly freely like a dandelion when the wind blew.

Lu Yining raised her chin slightly, stared at his hair for a while and pulled out a smile, and then she looked back as if nothing had happened, and turned around and walked out of the anatomy building.

The message from Pei Jue bombed after five minutes: [Yi Ning, listen to my explanation, we are just ordinary classmates! ]

Instead of answering him, Lu Yining picked out a close-up of her eyes from her photo album that she took for a few days ago for an assignment and then asked ; [Does it look good? 】

Pei Jue was puzzled by this sudden question, so after being stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly realized that this might be a great opportunity for him to turn things around, and hurriedly typed two words;【Good-looking! 】