NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: She never thought she would see him again in this way
T/N: Extra update because we got a coffee! Thank you ^^
8. She never thought she would see him again in this way
Gu Ningyou wasn’t sure if the plot heard her thoughts but she walked very smoothly in the next part of the road, and the almost suffocating feeling before disappeared without a trace.
The road next to the library was full of colored tents- music club, hip-hop club, literature club… All kinds of clubs recruitment signs, and almost every tent was full of people.
Fu Yifei said it would be good to come and have a look, but after she came, she immediately fell in love with the dance club, leaving Gu Ningyou alone and ran to the queue to sign up.
Gu Ningyou didn’t care. She came here with a different mind, and didn’t really want to join any club.
It was just that with so many people here, where could she find “that person”?
Gu Ningyou shuttled through the crowd, seemingly inadvertently walking past each new tent, but she looked at everyone carefully from the corner of her eye, for fear that she would miss “that person”.
However, no, nothing, there were naturally many handsome guys and beautiful girls in the school community, but when Gu Ningyou saw them, she didn’t feel any special feeling in her heart. The more Gu Ningyou moved forward, the more confused she was. When she came to the last tent, her heart thumped – what was wrong?
She really didn’t see anyone!
Before she did feel a force stopping her, but it did not take long to disappear again …… could it be an illusion?
No, no, she seemed to understand.
The plot knew that it couldn’t stop her, so it transferred “that person” away.
Gu Ningyou felt a burst of disappointment and irritability. Her efforts to endure physical discomfort were easily rewritten by the plot. Could it be that no matter how hard she tried, nothing could change in the end?
The boy who was welcoming the freshmen’s saw Gu Ningyou standing in front of the tent, neither saying anything nor meaning to leave, so he took the initiative to greet her: “Classmate, do you want to join our broadcasting club? Although we are ready to close, but if you want to come, I can introduce you!”
Only then did Gu Ningyou come back to her senses. She suppressed the soreness in her heart and politely asked back, “Are you guys leaving? It’s still very early.”
“Yeah.” The boy smiled shyly, “The president just said that he had to leave first, so we’re not recruiting anymore for today.”
“Well… I won’t bother you. I have no plans to join the club for the time being.”
Gu Ningyou refused and walked back.
It seemed that she was doomed to meet no one today. Her first battle with the plot ended in her failure.
“Brother Xie! Didn’t you leave? Why did you come back?”
After walking a few steps, Gu Ningyou heard the voice of the boy just now coming from behind.
“I said, it’s not the right time even if you want to study. How long has it been since university started?”
Gu Ningyou didn’t listen any more. After all, it had nothing to do with her.
Just when she was about to go forward, she heard the president reply: “I left in a hurry. I forgot my cell phone.”
This voice…
Gu Ningyou’s breath stalled, and her feet felt like they were rooted in place.
The surrounding people came and went noisily, but the sound of their conversation still fell into her ears without a hitch, especially that person’s voice ……
“Haha, it’s rare for you to be so distracted! If only you had been here, you might have pulled that girl in, I’m not as good at talking as you are.”
“Which girl?”
“She looks like a little sister, eh! She’s over there and hasn’t gone far! Brother Xie, why don’t you talk to her again? She’s pretty, if…”
“Why don’t you go by yourself? I’ll leave now.”
“Eh wait, I’ll go with you.”
He’s leaving… it would be too late to find him again!
Gu Ningyou didn’t hesitate any more. On the way back, she almost ran for a few short steps.
When she got to the tent, she only saw the backs of the two boys leaving. She looked at one of the boys in khaki, and whispered, “Xie Yingzhou?”
The man stopped and turned his head to look in her direction. A familiar and unfamiliar face appeared in Gu Ningyou’s line of sight. The moment she saw his face, Gu Ningyou only heard a “boom” in her head, and suddenly became blank.
Xie Yingzhou!
It was really him!
It turned out that the person who the plot tried to stop her from seeing was him?!
Even though she had some certainty when she heard his voice just now, she still felt a bit overwhelmed when she actually saw him.
Yes, she did recognize him, yes, but…
She never thought that she would see him again in this way.
Xie Yingzhou walked up to her side, took a look at her, and frowned, “You know me?”
Gu Ningyou quickly denied: “No, I don’t know… This should be a misunderstanding…”
It’s over, something big happened.
She knew Xie Yingzhou, but the “she” at this time didn’t know him yet. The first time she and Xie Yingzhou met in her previous life was probably five years later…
Because of her persistence, she met him five years earlier this time!
Run…
This was the only thought in Gu Ningyou’s heart, not only because she has revealed herself, but also because…
She didn’t want to see him at all, and she has no idea how to face him again.
“What are you running for? Make it clear before you leave.” Seeing that Gu Ningyou wanted to run, Xie Yingzhou grabbed her by the collar, “Misunderstanding? I’m afraid it’s not that simple. Just now, I clearly heard you shout out my name.”
She couldn’t leave now…
Gu Ningyou had no choice but to give up her thoughts of running away, and when she talked to him, she didn’t dare to look up at him, “Well… actually… it’s like this, in fact, I’ve heard of you before. People say your voice is very nice…”
“Heard of it before?” Xie Yingzhou threw out another rhetorical question, “But I just ran for the president of the broadcasting club this semester, where did you hear about it?”
“Uh I…”
Gu Ningyou couldn’t answer, but he pressed the question step by step: “Consider that you really heard about it, listening to other people’s descriptions, and you can recognize me by my back?”
Gu Ningyou: “…”
It’s over.
It’s over.
It’s over.
She shouldn’t try to explain, it’s simply covering a lie with another lie.
She and Xie Yingzhou had known each other in their previous lives, but as she said, it was five years later.
Xie Yingzhou, summed up in one sentence, was-
He was once someone who wanted to kill her.
If Pei Siyuan in the previous life was the one who pushed her into the abyss, there was no doubt that Xie Yingzhou was the one who fanned the flames and gloated from the sidelines.
Not only that, he would also lend a hand to help Pei Siyuan.
He left the country after graduation and returned five years later as Pei Siyuan’s friend and personal lawyer. At that time, he was already a well-known and respected gold medal lawyer. It was with the help of Xie Yingzhou that Pei Siyuan was able to deal with her family without any scruples and kept himself clean.
Like Pei Siyuan, he loves Jiang Yao to the death and hates her very much –
But Xie Yingzhou’s hatred for her was different from Pei Siyuan’s, afterall she has no direct conflict with him. The reason why he helped Pei Siyuan, could probably be attributed to the distress of the woman he loves?
Later, in order to avoid Pei Siyuan’s revenge, she left City A and went to City J, which was in the south (City A was in the north). It was also in the Jiangnan Water Town, a place so warm that she almost forgot all her sins, that she met Xie Yingzhou again.
At that time, she was no longer the bright and beautiful rich young lady. It could be said that she met Xie Yingzhou again when she was at her most wretched.
At first, he was still sneering at her, but later maybe he himself felt that it was meaningless to make trouble with such a useless woman, so he didn’t try to make things difficult for her and trouble her again.
Later on——
She had more and more contact with him. He always seemed to have a case to do in City J, and compared with City A where powerful people and celebrities gathered, City J was really not a big place. On the street, in the shopping mall, or even sometimes when going to the breakfast store for breakfast, she would run into him…
The frequency of their encounter was so high that she suspected that he had settled in City J, but he has his own law firm in City A, and how could he be willing to stay in City J, a small place?
During that period of time, the relationship between her and him could be described as – burying the hatchet?
After getting along for more than a year, she could be regarded as half a friend of Xie Yingzhou in his heart. Xie Yingzhou’s personality was much easier to get along with than Pei Siyuan. Sometimes, she would think that he was a little… cute.
Although using this word to describe a big man was not quite appropriate.
If they had been getting along, she and Xie Yingzhou might have become close friends, but unfortunately she ended up having to meddle in the matter between Jiang Yao and Pei Siyuan, and this led to the break between her and Xie Yingzhou.
At that time, maybe he was really angry to the extreme, he said that he would never see her again in his life.
“Gu Ningyou, do you have to do this? Well, I can agree to this matter, but I will make it clear to you today. This is the last time I will help you. In the future, no matter what happens, don’t come back to look for me, and don’t appear in front of me again. And I will never see you again.”
“I’ll ask you one last time, even so, you still have to stick to your ideas?”
What did she say then?
At that time, she said…
“Xie Yingzhou, I’m sorry.”
“Good, good, good! Gu Ningyou, you are really good!” After that, he left her with a determinedly departing back.
The last time she remembered seeing him was on that day, he fulfilled his promise and never appeared in front of her again.
So today, when he appeared in front of her again, she called out his name almost out of control, even though he was no longer the person from the previous life, she was still in a mess.
But when she really saw his face, she wanted to run away again. The last words he said in the previous life were already imprinted in her heart, and her heart ached when she saw him.
She was afraid of Pei Siyuan, but she was not afraid of Xie Yingzhou.
She just…
Has no face to see him.