807: 602 plum blossoms fall and fill the southern mountain 807: 602 plum blossoms fall and fill the southern mountain “What are you thinking about?
Am I that fragile?”
“Don’t be so paranoid!”
Wei Chuyin held on tightly to her without letting go.
Ai Qian gave a wry smile.
“We’ve known each other for so long, you don’t think I’m that weak, do you?
If I wanted to commit suicide, I would have jumped already, and not waited for you to co.”
Upon hearing this, Wei Chuyin also realized she had let her concern get the better of her and felt slightly relieved, inadvertently loosening her grip.
“Lying in the hospital for two days, I just wanted to co up here and catch so breeze.”
From her high vantage point, Ai Qian looked down at the campus where she had lived for four years.
The maple leaves were like fire.
They filled the autumn campus with a romantic and warm aura.
“It’s not ti to get off work yet, is it?”
“I’ve taken a long leave from the company.”
“I’ve told you, there’s no need.
I can manage on my own.”
Ai Qian of course understood why the other had taken the leave.
They say female friendships are fickle.
But Wei Chuyin’s feelings for her were genuine and sincere.
“What can you manage?
You don’t have many friends in East Sea.
I must take care of you.”
Wei Chuyin declared unequivocally.
Spouses are like birds in the forest.
They fly separately when disaster strikes.
Let alone so-called friends.
In such circumstances, to not have run away was truly moving.
“What a pity I’m not a boy; otherwise, I really would have given myself to you.”
Ai Qian sighed.
Wei Chuyin laughed at this, but with a heavy sorrow pressing on her heart.
“No need for that.
If you’re really grateful to , just focus on getting better.
Co back to the hospital with later.
Did you hear ?”
Ai Qian smiled, noncommittally, her face looking even paler in the breeze on the rooftop, “Don’t you think the school is really beautiful?”
Wei Chuyin stood beside her, her emotions in turmoil, unable to find words.
“I never took the ti to really appreciate the school when I was here.”
Ai Qian quietly admired the campus, as if reminiscing about the past days from dawn to dusk.
People always seem to be like that.
It’s only after losing, missing, and leaving that one suddenly realizes what is precious.
“Chu Yin, did you really say that parallel universes exist?”
Wei Chuyin bit her lip.
“What do you think we’re doing right now in another parallel universe?”
Wei Chuyin fought back the bitterness and forced a smile, “Maybe we’ve both beco rich ladies, traveling around the world.”
Ai Qian turned her head, laughing, “Isn’t that a bit exaggerated?
How did we beco rich ladies?”
“Didn’t you buy lottery tickets for a while before?
Who knows, maybe in another parallel universe, we won.”
Ai Qian laughed, “That makes sense.”
Wei Chuyin turned her head away, unable to bear to look at her.
It was like discussing this very topic with great enthusiasm when they watched a sci-fi movie in the dorms not so long ago.
The whole universe is like a garden with intersecting paths, where different choices at every crossroad lead to different lives.
“So,” Ai Qian looked into the distance and heaved a sigh, “according to the theory of parallel universes, there should always be a version of us who made the right choices and another version who are forever happy.”
Wei Chuyin clenched her hands tightly, overwheld with waves of bitterness that made it hard to breathe.
“Let’s go down.”
After spending half an hour in the rooftop garden, Ai Qian was the first to turn around.
Nearby, couples, as always, were out dating.
Glancing at them, Ai Qian’s eyes held a faint blessing.
As they descended on the escalator, a girl ca from the opposite direction, holding two books, encountering them unexpectedly.
Wei Chuyin wanted to avoid her, but their eyes had already t and there was no avoiding it.
Their footsteps both paused.
“Li Xue i.”
Ai Qian spoke up in greeting.
The unexpected presence of Li Shuru, the belle of the arts faculty, was quite natural; after pausing, she continued toward them.
“Ai Qian, what a coincidence.”
“It is quite a coincidence.”
Ai Qian glanced at the two books the girl was holding about economics and managent, “Here to borrow books?”
Li Shuru nodded, “Not many classes in senior year, just reading so books to pass the ti.”
Ai Qian smiled.
If she really were a man, she probably would have liked a girl like that.
The three of them rode the escalator down together.
Ai Qian and Li Shuru were relaxed and natural, but Wei Chuyin was quite tense and remained silent.
The three of them left the old library and walked together for a while.
“Ai Qian, I should get going.”
Ai Qian nodded.
Their eting was unremarkable, as was their parting, nothing like that of rivals in love or, to be precise, they weren’t rivals at all.
“I always had prejudices against her, it seems I was narrow-minded.”
Ai Qian watched the retreating figure.
“You needn’t talk so harshly about yourself.
If you were still with Jiang Chen, you would definitely do better than her!”
Wei Chuyin blurted out unintentionally, and then realized her slip, but the words couldn’t be taken back.
And she didn’t want to take them back.
“Soone else planted the trees, and soone else enjoys the shade.
She is just one who’s enjoying the shade.”
Ai Qian shook her head, “I forgot just now, I actually owe her an apology.”
“Apologize?” Wei Chuyin said imdiately, “Why should you apologize?”
“I pestered her before, but she was magnanimous and didn’t hold it against .
On this point alone, I am inferior to her.”
“But what good is she if compared?” Wei Chuyin said emphatically, “I can guarantee Jiang Chen definitely doesn’t like her as much.
At least, certainly not as genuinely as when he was with you!”
Ai Qian looked at her, “I’ve already let go, why do you still care?”
“This isn’t about caring, this is the truth!”
Wei Chuyin declared with conviction, “Ai Qian, you’re not inferior to anyone!”
At tis like this, indeed, a friend is needed to provide such encouragent.
“Co on, I’ll treat you to so ice cream.”
Ai Qian walked ahead to the right.
The ice cream shop in the West District was still there.
Ai Qian treated her, buying two chocolate-flavored cones.
Before they knew it, it was four in the afternoon.
The cafeteria had already started serving dinner.
“I wish I had a al card; I really want to try the chicken leg rice from the third cafeteria again.”
Wei Chuyin imdiately said, “I can borrow one.”
“No need.”
Ai Qian refused with a smile, “I’m just saying.”
They sat down on the lawn.
After much struggle, Wei Chuyin still couldn’t hold back, “Do you really have no intention of seeing Jiang Chen again?”
“Why should I see him?”
Wei Chuyin fell silent.
Ai Qian took a bite of her cone, “Chu Yin, I know you an well for .
In fact, I have not been resigned to it either.
But I’ve co to understand.
His love for was flawless, but what about mine for him?
At first, it was the novelty, or possibly because I was touched, but I am, after all, a pragmatic person.
He indeed gave everything unreservedly, but in the end, he was just a poor boy.”
Hearing this, guilt and self-reproach welled up in her once more, and Wei Chuyin said in a low voice, “If it hadn’t been for …”
“It has nothing to do with you.”
Ai Qian said with a smile, “If I weren’t so materialistic, nothing anyone said would have mattered.
I left him when he was poor, and if I were to go back to him now, I would despise myself.”
Hardship is always a catalyst for growth.
Those who have had it easy and never faced difficulties can hardly achieve enlightennt.
Growing up.
It seems like a lengthy term.
But it can often happen in an instant.
Like Jiang Chen.
He too was once a delinquent, goofing around with people like Fu Zili.
But after his mother’s death, he changed.
“Ai Qian, why are you so hard on yourself?
I know you don’t care now whether Jiang Chen has money or not, even if he has nothing…”
Ai Qian interrupted her, saying softly, “You’re his classmate, don’t curse him like that.”
Wei Chuyin fell silent.
As sisters, Wei Chuyin knew very well what kind of person Ai Qian was.
Nobody is perfect.
Plus, with other people brainwashing you, it’s easy to lose your way.
She believed that the current Ai Qian really did not care about material wealth, but her belief was now aningless.
“I really want to see the plum blossoms covering South Mountain again.”
Ai Qian looked southward.
Dong University lay along the mountain and water.
Where her gaze fell, there was a small but exquisite mountain range.
Every winter, it would present a quite beautiful scene.
“When winter cos, let’s co here again.”
For so reason, when Wei Chuyin said this, her heart felt as if it were weighed down by a heavy stone, heavy and aching.
Ai Qian wore a smile, free of regrets.
Indeed.
As of today.
She no longer had regrets.
If ti could turn back, with her mindset at that ti, she would probably make the sa choice.
But not regretting doesn’t an there’s no regret.
“It’s okay.”
She whispered softly.
Whenever she recalled the most regrettable thing in her life, the plum blossoms covered South Mountain.
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