Extra 4
The third year students are also on vacation today, and the entire teaching building is almost pitch black.
Jiang Yumo noticed the air conditioning units hanging on the exterior wall of the teaching building, and she couldn’t decide whether she was envious or jealous. It reminded her of herself from the past, and she couldn’t help but mutter, “Hmph, I heard a long time ago that our school started installing air conditioning the year after we graduated. What’s the meaning of that?! We suffered through three hot years in high school, and as soon as we left, they installed air conditioning. It’s not fair.”
“What’s the big deal?” Guo Shichao said, “Every time I took the bus, the bus I wanted to take just left. During school, when I skipped class, the teacher never called my name, but occasionally, when I did attend, the teacher would always call my name. It’s the same with hotpot. Wherever I sat, the steam would be directed at me. Sometimes I wondered if I had some sort of special power.”
“Do you want to go up?” Sun Mengting asked.
“Of course, how else can we help Zhou Keyun find his memories,” Zhao Zheng said with a grin.
This earned him a beating from Zhou Ji.
The eight of them seemed to have returned to their naïve and youthful high school days, excited about the adventures to come.
As they entered the teaching building, Duan Ye deliberately walked at the back of the group with Jiang Yumo. Nobody noticed this little detail; everyone was busy taking pictures with their phones, and there was a faint glow in the corridor.
“It feels different, yet it also feels like nothing’s changed, so strange,” Yan Qing said.
“Maybe it’s because our mindset and status have changed,” Ning Zhiyu replied. “We used to be students, and now we’ve all graduated. Everything looks familiar, but it also feels like everything has changed.”
Duan Ye and Jiang Yumo lagged behind a few steps.
Both of them almost simultaneously thought of those memories.
He once brought grapefruit for her here.
She also bought milk tea for him.
At that time, everyone tacitly understood their relationship, which made it a bit awkward for her to directly go to his classroom, and he rarely came to her class. They would always meet in the hallway. This time, they said it was to help Zhou Ji find memories, but in reality, they were excited to see their past selves.
In the darkness, Duan Ye put his phone back in his pocket.
Jiang Yumo’s heart raced.
…What’s going on? They’ve been together for several years, but right now, she feels as nervous as that night when they confirmed their relationship.
Taking advantage of the fact that those few people in front hadn’t noticed that they had already left the group.
Duan Ye held her hand, preparing to kiss her, but couldn’t help but chuckle. He buried his face in her neck and whispered, “Why does it feel inappropriate?”
Jiang Yumo hugged his waist. “Because this is a place for studying, it really isn’t suitable.”
Both of them laughed.
“Alright, Teacher Xiao Jiang,” Duan Ye lightly kissed her earlobe.
Jiang Yumo shivered.
She was really annoyed.
This was even more of a foul than a kiss. How could he kiss her there? She didn’t hold back and reached out to pinch his waist, saying, “You’re not allowed to ruin my memories.”
High school days should be simple and pure.
Duan Ye responded with an “Okay.”
Upstairs, Yan Qing noticed that Duan Ye and Jiang Yumao hadn’t come up yet and shouted, “Yumao, Brother Duan, what are you two doing? Hurry up!”
Jiang Yumo quickly pushed Duan Ye away.
Duan Ye still held her hand, and the two of them went upstairs, catching up with the rest of the group’s pace.
They first arrived at Class 10. The desks inside were no longer familiar to them, and the classroom door was closed. They could only stand outside the window and look in.
“Hey, I used to sit there,” Zhao Zheng said. “Military Advisor and Brother Duan used to sit in the last row of the third column.”
Zhou Ji also became interested. “I sat there. Who was my deskmate back then?”
“It was Sun Kaifeng, I think.”
“What is he doing now?”
Guo Shichao replied, “I saw him not long ago. He’s selling phones and opened a shop in partnership with his relatives. He’s doing quite well.”
“I suddenly remembered,” Yan Qing said, “Zhou Ji and I didn’t meet for the first time at some unknown time, but our first meeting with Zhou Ji was right here, on the first day of school. But that day, we only saw the back of his head, acting all cool. Yumo, Mengting, do you guys remember?”
Jiang Yumo looked at Duan Ye somewhat guiltily.
Of course, she remembered.
She had heard that the male lead had arrived, so she came over with Yan Qing and other students to check out the handsome guy.
Duan Ye smiled slightly and squeezed her hand a little harder.
Sun Mengting added, “I remember, really, at that time, we all said Zhou Ji was so cool and handsome.”
Zhou Ji chuckled.
Sun Mengting changed the topic, “We thought he was the cool guy, but we didn’t expect…”
Well, she decided not to say the rest. Let’s save some face for Zhou Ji.
“Back then, Zhiyu was still in Class 2,” Yan Qing said. “Zhiyu definitely wouldn’t have come to see Zhou Ji.”
Ning Zhiyu nodded, “I was busy at the time, and the competition was fierce.”
Why would she have time to notice there was a handsome guy in another class? Even if a celebrity had come, only a few people from Class 1 and Class 2 would have gone out of their way to see.
After taking a stroll around the teaching building, everyone reminisced about the past.
Zhao Zheng recalled Yan Qing chasing him and hitting him just because he said the male celebrity she liked wasn’t handsome.
Sun Mengting remembered a time when she was caught playing with her phone by the head teacher and was made to stand as punishment.
Ning Zhiyu arrived outside the classroom of Class 2 and thought of… Jiang Yumo.
She looked at Jiang Yumo with gentle eyes. “Yumo, do you remember how we used to chat here all the time back then?”
“I remember!” Jiang Yumo smiled. “I’d buy bubble tea for you, and you’d bring me drinks. I thought you were so considerate… well, you remember even the things I might not.”
Ning Zhiyu discreetly glanced at Zhou Ji, who was lost in thought, and whispered, “You were also very kind to me. I remember I fell and scraped my hand back then, and you went out of your way to buy me a flashlight. I still have that flashlight.”
Jiang Yumo waved her hand dismissively. “It’s nothing.”
After leaving the classroom building, they went to the cafeteria.
During their third year, even their physical education classes were replaced with other subjects, so their options for places to go were limited.
Today was a holiday, and the cafeteria doors were closed, so they could only stand outside and peer in.
“I heard that the chefs at our cafeteria somehow learned the recipe for sauce chicken from somewhere. It tastes even better than First High’s!” Jiang Yumo sighed. “We’re really unlucky.”
“I remember the eight of us used to gather around a table to eat together,” Sun Mengting sighed. “I don’t know if it’s just a psychological thing, but when I went to college, I made friends, but it wasn’t the same as it was in high school.”
“So, the few of us, when we get married and have children, we should still meet up. No need to say we should meet several times a year; that might not be realistic. But at least once a year, right?” Ning Zhiyu said softly.
Yan Qing laughed. “Don’t we still have a ten-year promise? There aren’t many years left; we can’t break it.”
Jiang Yumo added, “Speaking of which, I remembered something. Back then, Zhou Ji wasn’t hanging out with us yet. There was a girl who confessed to him in the cafeteria, and he told her to scram. I thought this guy wasn’t very sociable.”
Zhou Ji : “??”
He was still lost in thought, but now the conversation had somehow turned to him?
Moreover, he had completely forgotten about this matter, and he decisively said, “Sister, can’t you just let it go because I jokingly said you eat a lot that day? Don’t spread rumors, it’s absolutely not true.”
Yan Qing sighed softly, “I can testify, it happened.”
Sun Mengting also raised her hand, “I can testify too, it’s true. There was even a post on the school forum that tallied it back then, who confessed to you and who got rejected by you.”
Zhou Ji’s scalp tingled, and he still had some disbelief, “It can’t be.”
At Jiang Yumo’s urging, Duan Ye reluctantly said, “It happened.”
Zhou Ji : “…”
“Was I really that rude back then?’ Zhou Ji pondered for a moment, ‘Was I that out of line?”
It turned out that the saying was true, that when you recall the things you did during your early teens in your twenties, you might get the feeling of ‘I couldn’t have been that foolish.’
Everyone nodded solemnly, “Yes.”
Zhao Zheng clicked his tongue, “It’s a shame there were no videos at the time, or else we could have blackmailed you with those.”
Actually, even now, Zhou Ji and Duan Ye encounter some situations when they socialize outside.
Duan Ye is fine, he looks fierce and doesn’t talk much. The ring on his ring finger is enough to deter people.
But Zhou Ji is different.
The fact that he’s the only son of the Zhou family couldn’t be hidden from those shrewd businessmen. Over the past few years, he has received confessions and temptations from people.
The fact that he wears a ring and has a girlfriend is often overlooked by those who are interested.
However, perhaps influenced by these friends, except for some really outrageous cases, he usually doesn’t go too far.
Looking back now, he was only in his third year of high school, and it might not have been appropriate to treat a girl who had feelings for him so ruthlessly.
Guo Shichao asked Zhou Ji, “Should we continue searching?”
Just by the way Zhou Ji had just arrived here, he knew that his initial encounter with Ning Zhiyu was not very pleasant.
Zhou Ji glanced at Ning Zhiyu.
She was still calm and quiet.
Zhou Ji gritted his teeth, “Let’s search!”
He was determined to see this through, no matter if their first meeting had been good or bad. He couldn’t forget it while she remembered it, right?
After leaving the cafeteria and spending some time on the court, memories of Zhou Ji and Duan Ye sweating it out here came flooding back.
Their friendship had also started because of basketball, or to be more precise, if it weren’t for Zhou Ji getting to know Duan Ye, he wouldn’t have become a part of their group.
“I still find it strange,” Zhao Zheng said with his hands on his hips. “That day was really strange. Brother Duan suddenly got on the court to play basketball with Zhou Ji, and I was left dumbfounded. Brother Duan, why did you get on the court that day?”
Guo Shichao, who had already guessed the truth at that time, just smiled and didn’t say anything.
Zhou Ji said arrogantly, “Lao Duan must have been impressed by my basketball skills, so he couldn’t resist the urge to come and spar with me.”
Guo Shichao thought to himself that being impressed might be true, but it probably wasn’t the only reason.
Duan Ye nodded in agreement, essentially confirming Zhou Ji’s statement.
Jiang Yumo, however, looked suspiciously at Duan Ye. Back then, when Duan Ye had said he wanted to play basketball too, she had believed him without a doubt. But now, with Guo Shichao’s enigmatic expression and the way he was looking at her, it seemed like there was some hidden story she wasn’t aware of.
Duan Ye gently squeezed her hand to reassure her.
“Let’s talk about it later.”
Jiang Yumo : … That sounded strange.
Could it be related to her?
But she never said a word to Zhou Ji back then, so how did it have anything to do with her?
It’s over; not only do they have to recover Zhou Ji’s memories, but she also has to recover hers!
She feels a bit uneasy in her heart. Since ending the long-distance relationship and starting to live together, she has discovered that there are many sides to Duan Ye that she has never seen before. He’s like some other men, once the relationship stabilizes, he doesn’t want to pretend anymore.
He gets jealous.
He used to be such a generous person, back when Ye Wenxu gave her a crystal ball, he wasn’t angry!
But now, a colleague from the dance troupe, who came in the same batch as her, suddenly called her early in the morning, saying he would pick her up on his way to work. She was bewildered. After he found out, the person who should be catching up on sleep after going on a business trip, only slept for two hours and got up. He held her hand and waited at the community gate. He even warmly thanked the colleague and invited him over for dinner as a token of gratitude.
Who would’ve thought that the word ‘warmly’ would be used to describe Duan Ye?
Jealous Duan Ye…
He’s really quite fierce.
Of course, not in a literal sense.
“What are you thinking about?” Duan Ye asked.
Jiang Yumo suddenly realized that they had already walked to the playground. She appeared flattering and replied, “I’m thinking about what Yan Qing said. She thought Zhou Ji was handsome and cool back then, but I never thought Zhou Ji was handsome.”
Duan Ye chuckled, “Let’s talk about it later.”
Jiang Yumo : “…”
Why is it this phrase again?
“Yumo,” Yan Qing suddenly turned around, “didn’t you say you didn’t know where to take your wedding photos? I have a suggestion for you; you can take them at Fifth High School, or you can go to our old junior high school, and by the way, you can also go to the embankment.”
Jiang Yumo snapped out of her thoughts, captivated by this topic.
That’s right!
Both she and Duan Ye are quite busy with work, but they’re getting married next year. They need to schedule their wedding photos for this year. Going abroad to shoot them is a bit troublesome, and she has no idea where to go in other cities.
Yan Qing’s idea is really good.
She looked at Duan Ye, “What do you think?”
Duan Ye nodded, “It’s a good idea.”
Zhao Zheng spoke eagerly, “How about we pick a day when we’re all free? By then, we can also appear in the photos! After all, we’re all witnesses.”
“Great!!”
Jiang Yumo readily agreed.
If friends also appear in the wedding photos, it should be quite interesting, right?
After spending over an hour at Fifth High School, Zhou Ji still hadn’t remembered anything. The group had no choice but to leave the campus. Since Fifth High had a holiday today and there were no buses or taxis at the school gate, and fortunately they had free time, so taking a walk back home was a good option.
While walking along the main road and engaged in lively conversation, suddenly they heard a series of urgent ringing sounds from behind. Turning around, they saw a student riding a bicycle rapidly approaching. The student was impatiently ringing the bell and nearly collided with Zhao Zheng, who was walking on the outermost edge.
The student didn’t stop and rode away directly.
Zhao Zheng grumbled, “D*mn it! Students nowadays are way too arrogant! He almost crashed into me and didn’t even apologize?? Is it too much to ask for a simple apology? What kind of attitude is this?”
A hazy scene appeared in Zhou Ji’s mind.
He abruptly stopped and stared fixedly at Ning Zhiyu.
He had seen this face countless times; it was etched in his memory.
His expression turned as if he had seen a ghost.
Could it be…?
Ning Zhiyu curled his lips, “It seems like you’ve already figured out the correct answer, haven’t you?”
Initially, Zhou Ji was somewhat uncertain, but upon hearing this, his face turned pale.
“Lao Zhao, Military Advisor, hurry and support me. Lao Duan, my leg, my leg is getting weak!”
This wasn’t the easy question he had hoped for.
This was a question of life and death.
Lolol, Boss Zhao must be having regrets 😂 Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the update.