Chapter 401 Nothing else (Please subscribe and vote)
This is a misty spring day with drizzle.

Before the Qingming Festival, Zhang Yunqi had just celebrated his 18th birthday.

This incident caused a sensation in the city’s No. 1 Middle School.

That fireworks display became known to everyone.

In fact, Zhang Yunqi has been in the No. 1 Middle School for nearly three years. Although he is still a long way from the goal of becoming an excellent gangster that he set on the first day he came to this school, his reputation has become very famous without him noticing. Even the most indifferent students who only focus on reading sage books will know that such an extraordinary person has emerged in the school. At such a young age, he has already become a big entrepreneur in the city.

This is not something that makes people jealous, as it is too far away. Instead, the anecdotes about him and his love story when he first met the equally famous top student in the senior year are particularly talked about. Both of them are excellent, and when excellent people are together, it's a bit like The Return of the Condor Heroes, which makes others envious, but also keeps away from their world.

In Class 156, the students had a very different feeling. Living under the same roof every day, many of Zhang Yunqi's admirable things were no longer surprising to them, but this did not stop them from joking about their first meeting.

"First time seeing you, your Yunqi is so romantic!"

"Oh my god, I've never seen such beautiful fireworks in my life. I'm so happy to see you for the first time. Haha, I couldn't sleep that night. My head was full of little stars."

I knew at first sight that my cheeks must have been red.

After being with Zhang Yunqi, she has rarely felt lonely and helpless in her life, but there will always be sweet troubles of one kind or another. In this season of spring grass growth, the ignorant beauty of youth is returning, and her girlish heart seems to have been slowly awakened.

The first meeting is sweet.

When she lay in bed, she always fell asleep with a smile on her face.

This peaceful, warm life, yet filled with the worries of a young girl, slowly extends forward in the spring rain.

Until one day, Zhang Yunqi suddenly didn't come to school.

Until one day, Wang Xiaokai ran into the classroom holding a newspaper, pointed at the news in the newspaper and said to Chu Jian: "Chu Jian, where is Boss Zhang? Something big has happened, Chunlan has been kidnapped! The kidnappers want a ransom of millions!"

I don't remember what her reaction was when we first met.

But this is not the only bad news.

The miserable life experiences in the past seemed to keep telling her that when the wind blows, the rainstorm will follow. In the next few days, things about Zhang Yunqi came one after another, and each one made her feel desperate.

But I couldn't do anything when I first saw it.

She hadn't seen Zhang Yunqi for a long time.

She didn't know what to do, she just missed him so much.

During those days, she lay in bed and closed her eyes. Time seemed to stop and the air seemed to have solidified. In the long dark night, the memories of the past came to her mind, as if repeatedly confirming the fate of this girl who had struggled in the quagmire for eighteen years. No matter how hard or devoutly she lived, there would be no lasting happiness in her life.

Pessimism is the basic tone of her life!

One day, the head teacher Wang Mingzhen talked about Xin Qiji’s "Qingyu'an Yuan Xi" in class.

He coughed and said with a sense of loss: "I have searched for him among the crowd for thousands of times, but he has not returned yet, as if he is expecting something. The moment when our eyes met was the condensation and sublimation of human emotions, and an indescribable inscription of gratitude and joy. It turns out that the fireworks and silver flowers and trees in Jiaxuan's palace were all designed just for that one person. Without her, there would be no meaning."

I don’t know why, but my eyes turned red when I first saw her.

Without him, the mundane affairs of life would no longer have any meaning!

Sometimes, Chu Jian would go to the First People's Hospital of the city after school in the afternoon.

Zhang Yunqi's mother is in hospital and her mental state is very poor.

Of course, there were many people accompanying Aunt Zhang, including her mother, Father Zhang, and the eldest daughter-in-law Xiaonan. Occasionally, the eldest brother and sister of the Zhang family, who were already very busy, would rush over. Aunt Zhang had the best accommodation, food, clothes, and other things in the hospital, and she didn't need to do anything. As a student, she couldn't do anything.

One afternoon, Chu Jian came to visit Zhang's mother. Chu Jian's mother, who was taking care of Zhang's mother, went out to heat up the food and soup. Zhang's mother and Chu Jian were the only ones left in the room. After chatting for a few words, Chu Jian was too tired and fell asleep on the bed. She didn't know how long it had been. In a daze, she suddenly felt someone gently rubbing her hair. She knew it was Zhang's mother's hand, so she opened her eyes and said a little embarrassedly: "Auntie, I fell asleep accidentally. Do you want to go to the toilet or eat some fruit? Do you want me to accompany you to walk downstairs?"

Aunt Zhang reached out and touched the marks on her little face from being pressed by her arm, her eyes full of pity: "My daughter, you were not here last night, and my third child came over, but I drove him away before he even entered the house."

Chu Jian pursed his lips.

She wanted to speak, but didn't know what to say.

Aunt Zhang sighed and said, "I'm old now, and I always feel that everyone has his own destiny. Look at this room of people in my family. They all had a miserable life and were satisfied as long as they could eat. My third child is not that kind of person. Not only can he endure hardships, he also has his own ideas. He carries the family and makes everyone in the family rich. But now is not the time for him to take care of the family. Look at the rumors outside, such as the vampires who embezzled state-owned assets and the capitalists who took advantage of others. He is so young, can his spine bear it?"

At this point, Zhang's eyes were red. "But this is what he deserves. He has to accept his fate now that he has come this far. Whether he can bear it or not is a choice. This kid doesn't have the right to choose not to bear it."

At this point, Aunt Zhang pulled Chu Jian's cold hand into the bed, and her dim eyes softened: "My daughter, I already treat you as my daughter-in-law. If it were in our village, you and my third son could get married at this age. I know you are worried about him, but I don't know how to comfort you. This is his fate. Whether he can get through this or not is his own fate. We can't help him. Our family is originally farmers. Money and fame, if they are gone, they are gone. You can't bring them with you when you are born, and you can't take them with you when you die. At worst, you can go back to Yunxi to continue farming and make a living. My daughter, you still have a bright future. You should focus on your studies."

The eyes turned red again when I first met you.

It was hard to describe the feeling in her heart, but she forced herself to smile and said, "I know, Auntie, it's okay, it's okay, just take good care of yourself, and everything will pass."

This will all pass.

Many times this is just a beautiful wish. Not long after, news came from Jiangchuan that Zhang Yunqi had been arrested.

For the Zhang family, it seemed as if the world had collapsed.

For Chu Jian, the world has collapsed.

During those days, Chu Jian had forgotten how she managed to get through it. She simply relied on the experience she had accumulated from her miserable life to keep herself busy. Just as Aunt Zhang said, she focused on studying, even if she couldn't sleep all night, even if her mind was blank when she opened the textbook, even if the dejection deep in her heart was more dejected than ever before!

Until one day.

That is the early morning of the second day after Qingming Festival.

It was a light blue dawn, and the wind had cleared the sky.

A few small silver stars and a scimitar-like moon were nailed obliquely in the sky.

Chu Jian got up early and made some chicken soup, preparing to send her to the hospital before going back to school for class. However, when she went downstairs, she saw Zhang Yunqi parking his car.

The schoolbag in her hand fell to the ground.

Zhang Yunqi, who got off the car, also looked at her. After a while, he smiled and said, "I just came back from the provincial capital, Lijin. I was a bit rushed and didn't have time to buy you a gift. The situation was a bit special. I don't have anything to do. It's all over now."

She pursed her lips when she first saw him.

If longing had a sound, then at this moment, when she saw this young man, it must have been deafening.

But she just pursed her lips tightly and said with a smile: "Are you hungry? I'll make you a bowl of noodles?"

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Pls. I finally finished writing at about 3am. My mind is a mess and I don’t know how it went.

Anyway, I put more effort into writing this chapter than others did into writing five chapters. There is no other way, I have to do some thankless tasks and be criticized by readers for my slow update.

I will try my best to update once a day in the future.

But now it's the Chinese New Year period and everything is busy. I hope you can understand if I occasionally stop updating.

(End of this chapter)