strictlysupreme Chapter 139 Returning to Yunxia Xiang
Chapter 139 Returning to Yunxia Xiang
In the second semester of her third year of junior high school, Shen Xi made a request to Hua Lan and her husband.
—Returning to Yunxiaxiang to study.
The young couple was very confused.
Why would someone want to go back to Yunxiaxiang to attend high school?
Is it because life here isn't good enough?
Hua Lan asked Shen Xi the same question in the study.
Shen Xi nervously buttoned up the corner of her clothes and stood in front of Ms. Hua. Even though they had known each other for so many years, she still felt a little uncomfortable being alone with Ms. Hua.
Shen Xi tacitly acknowledges that she has an emotional disorder.
But I still had to answer the question: "I've heard many people talk about Yunxiaxiang's high school since I was little, and I have a strange obsession with that school..."
As she spoke, Shen Xi's voice dropped a notch, and she couldn't even continue making up a story.
She lowered her eyes, lost in thought. She couldn't very well say that she had seen a photograph at Yujing Villa and that she had attended high school at Yunxiaxiang.
Shen Xi did not want to change this choice she had made. She wanted to continue down this path and see if she could find the so-called truth about time and space.
She had also considered whether to stay in Beijing to attend high school, following the arrangements of the Jiang family, and attend a prestigious private high school. She would graduate with a prestigious degree and a sum of money that she had never dared to dream of before, living the life she had always longed for.
But whenever this happens, she always dreams of the friends she had briefly spent time with, and that kind old woman, who hadn't even enjoyed a single day of happiness with her.
Finally, one morning...
Shen Xi made this decision: she would go back and follow the traces of the past to find out the truth.
There was no news of Su Su, and no trace of Bian He either.
She felt guilty because she couldn't help them.
But Shen Xi was determined to stop that fire.
Then again,
After hearing Shen Xi's intermittent explanation, Ms. Hua Lan sighed softly in her heart. She couldn't guess what the girl was thinking, but it was clear that she didn't want to stay in Beijing to study in high school.
She has never liked to force people to do things against their will. She lets her children experience what they like. She believes that the most important thing in life is to live happily and freely.
Hua Lan didn't ask any further questions and agreed to her request.
Just as Shen Xi breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave, Hua Lan suddenly remembered something and called out to the girl who was about to leave.
"Did Xiaoxi tell Jiang Ci what you were thinking?"
Shen Xi was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head in silence. "I didn't tell him."
If she told Jiang Ci, he would probably have already completed the high school procedures himself, and even bought a house nearby.
In Shen Xi's subconscious, Jiang Ci would always be with her; he was like the most vivid stroke in the painting of her life.
Hua Lan nodded, without saying much. Her tone remained gentle as she smiled and spoke.
"Then you should talk to him about it too. If he gets the news from me, he'll probably have another argument with you."
Hua Lan also felt that, given her son's bad temper, if he got the information from her, he would probably overthink it.
She suddenly remembered that there was a box of love letters in her son's bookshelf.
One day, she suddenly realized that it wasn't Jiang Ci's love letter, but rather the love letters that all the boys had given to Shen Xi since childhood.
Unbeknownst to Shen Xi, Jiang Ci silently took the love letters and hid them all away.
When Hua Lan caught him, Jiang Ci didn't seem to think he had done anything wrong. His stubborn gaze sometimes made Hua Lan feel uneasy.
that moment,
She was even afraid... afraid that Shen Xi would leave.
As a mother, she certainly couldn't be completely selfless at that time.
Hua Lan racked her brains, wondering if every generation in the Jiang family produced a romantic.
So why has this kind of romantic spirit mutated in this generation?
After lunch, Shen Xi pulled Jiang Ci aside and led him to the back garden.
There is a so-called pavilion in the back garden, which is said to have been built by Old Master Jiang to please Old Madam Jiang.
This construction was both painstaking and labor-intensive.
This clearly shows Grandpa Jiang's love for Grandma.
Upon reaching the covered walkway, Shen Xi stopped, turned around, blinked, and said, "I have something important to tell you."
These words were filled with guilt.
Whenever Shen Xi does something wrong, she speaks to him in this tone.
Jiang Ci, with one hand in his pocket and squinting, looked down at her, his tone casual, "Oh, sister, tell me, what have you done this time that you want me to cover for you?"
"I'm innocent, little brother! You've absolutely wronged me! I didn't do anything wrong this time, it's just... it's just... I'm planning to go back to Yunxia Xiang!"
Shen Xi hesitated for a moment, then finally just closed her eyes and said it.
For some reason, she subconsciously felt that Jiang Ci would be angry if he heard it, but she still told him the truth.
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Ci's nonchalant expression vanished, a strange glint flashing in his eyes. He lifted his eyelids and said in a casual tone, "Sister, you don't want to stay in the capital anymore."
Shen Xi corrected him earnestly, "It's not that I don't want to stay in the capital anymore, but that I want to go back to Yunxiaxiang for a visit."
I'll also attend high school there.
"Yes, sister can go, but I also want to see how attractive that place is."
It could attract her to want to go back again and again.
Shen Xi had expected this, but looking down at the two overlapping shadows, she still asked, "Are you really not planning to reconsider going abroad?"
After all, given his current status, other scions of wealthy families would have already gone abroad for further studies. But does he really want to return to the beautiful Yunxia Xiang with me?
Jiang Ci spoke calmly, "I don't believe that changing the learning environment can change what I'm learning. For me, learning is the same no matter where I am."
“I have no shortage of learning resources, food, clothing, shelter and transportation. I can get whatever I want delivered to my door with just a phone call. So it’s the same whether it’s abroad or in China.”
The boy spoke these words in a plain and unremarkable manner, yet they were full of arrogance. He was young and spirited, believing that nothing in this world could stop him.
Shen Xi raised an eyebrow, crossed her arms, and looked at him. "So you'll go to Yunxiaxiang High School with me?"
She was not surprised by the result at all.
Jiang Ci replied without any hesitation, "Of course."
Shen Xi leaned against the wall and knocked on it, making a dull thud. She drew out her words, her meaning ambiguous, "Little Jiang, do you like me?"
There was no shyness in the girl's eyes, only a teasing and smiling gaze that burned into his heart like wild grass in the wind.
Jiang Ci's ear tips instantly turned bright red. He pursed his lips, subconsciously swallowed, and slowly said, word by word, "Is it not allowed?"
He spoke with a lack of confidence, glancing at her expression as he spoke.
Shen Xi looked at the young Jiang Ci now and was almost driven crazy by him. She laughed inwardly. The Jiang Ci of more than ten years later would not blush and turn red because of her teasing. At that time, he preferred to kiss her back when she said sweet words.
It's so direct that it makes you feel a lump in your throat.
Shen Xi smiled mischievously as she thought about it, and said wickedly, "You like me, which really puts me in a difficult position..."
As she spoke, she even sighed dramatically, as if she were genuinely troubled by the matter.
Jiang Ci's flushed face instantly faded, gradually turning pale. He clenched his trembling fingertips, his eyes fixed on hers. Even though he saw a mocking smile in her eyes, he still felt timid.
He looked directly into her eyes and asked stubbornly, "What's troubling you?"
Shen Xi raised the corners of her mouth slightly, her fingertips lightly tracing Jiang Ci's shoulder, her smile amiable, "My criteria for choosing a partner has always been older than me, I have no interest in younger men."
When the delicate fingertips brushed against Jiang Ci's skin, an indescribable sensation instantly swept over his entire body, making him feel as if he were floating on clouds.
But the next second, Shen Xi's words instantly plunged him into the deepest hell. The feeling of experiencing both ice and fire in ten seconds made Jiang Ci tremble so much that his tailbone shook.
Their hearts pounded violently in response to their owner's emotions.
Jiang Ci suddenly moved, placing one hand against the wall and trapping the girl, who was a head shorter than him, between his arms. He slowly approached her, their noses touching, and said, "That's really bad, sister. You'll never find an older man again in your life."
He spoke in a drawn-out tone, his voice casual yet carrying a strong sense of danger.
"After all... no one dares to steal my person, don't you think?"
Within that small space, even breathing seemed to become long. The boy's hot breath swept over Shen Xi's cheeks, like a heat wave hitting Shen Xi's heart.
Shen Xi never expected that Jiang Ci would reveal his true colors just because of her words. She originally thought he could hide it for a few more years and then tell her that he liked her.
But now, it seems that just one sentence has broken Jiang Ci's defenses.
Shen Xi met Jiang Ci's ambiguous yet sharp gaze without backing down an inch.
"That's true, but you can only listen to what men say. Who can guarantee that he can truly love someone for a lifetime?"
She actually thought of Sheng Shen and Su Su. Was there really love between them? Yes, otherwise there wouldn't have been so much entanglement and reluctance later on.
She wasn't talking about her own feelings, but about the feelings of countless others who were heartbroken.
Jiang Ci said, "I won't mention other people for now. I will never change course halfway. I will take a path, even if it is a dead end. I will love the person I love until I die."
"There are many people in this world who gradually go their separate ways in relationships, even those who are deeply in love one second and wake up in another woman's bed the next. Such people are despised and looked down upon. All of this is simply because they didn't love enough."
Shen Xi was genuinely puzzled now, "Why is it that the love isn't enough?"
Jiang Ci's delicate features fell on the girl's face in front of him. The cunning fox put away his claws and looked up at him with innocent and cute eyes. At this moment, his eyes were full of him.
That's good.
"If it were me, if worldly conventions controlled me, I would defy them. If the mundane necessities of life trapped me, even if I fell to the ground, I would get up and strive for a carefree future for my beloved girl. Life is unpredictable, and reality is nothing more than not loving enough."
If one day Shen Xi really wants to abandon him, he will crawl to her side, even if it means crawling.
I would rather die than let her go.
Those men don't cherish what they have, but once they possess it, they'll be like a python, constantly holding onto it and guarding it in their territory. No one else can even think of coveting it.
Shen Xi gently rubbed Jiang Ci's face, smiling sincerely. She actually felt that what he said was true, what a load of bullshit reality, it was just not enough love.
Shen Xi couldn't help but think that the two of them were indeed of similar cultivation levels and were surprisingly consistent in a certain aspect.
Shen Xi had witnessed couples who eventually separated due to various realities, and she always felt regret and confusion.
The relationship could have continued if only one party had compromised.
But when her roommate heard her say that, she laughed and said she was really naive. She told her that there are many things that can't be solved in a relationship.
But at this moment, Shen Xi was instantly struck by Jiang Cijian's unconventional words.
Nonsense about reality. If this were Jiang Ci, they would argue a thousand times, but Jiang Ci would never let her leave alone. He would shamelessly follow her around.
Shen Xi likes this kind of love.
Shen Xi was in an unusually good mood. Seeing his fair cheeks flushed pink from her rubbing, she gently patted Jiang Ci's arm.
"Jiang Ci, we have a long future ahead of us."
The moment Jiang Ci was stunned, Shen Xi slipped out of his arm, quickly returned to her room, and closed the door.
Jiang Ci was left alone, his gaze fixed silently on the spot, analyzing Shen Xi's words word by word. He stood there like a stone.
A servant passing by carefully walked past him, afraid of disturbing his thoughts.
Suddenly, the maid heard a pleasant chuckle.
Their young master said, "Yes, there's plenty of time."
……
Second semester of the third year of junior high school
Many students still didn't relax at all, which Shen Xi admired even though she was in this environment.
The students at this prestigious school were not as lazy and unruly as she had imagined, nor did they act arrogantly because of their good family background. On the contrary, in their class, the better the family background, the more diligent and self-disciplined the students were in their studies, and the higher their self-expectations were.
Although Shen Xi often topped the list, she would be overtaken by the students below her if she relaxed her guard occasionally.
It's worth noting that Shen Xi even came with memories from his later life to solve the problem.
These things truly shattered Shen Xi's negative image of wealthy people as lazy. She sometimes lamented that the most frightening thing in the world is someone who is both intelligent and studious; such a person is a powerful threat at any time.
"Hey, Shen Xi, are you also planning to go to the main campus high school?" After finishing memorizing the vocabulary, her deskmate saw Shen Xi staring blankly at the blackboard and poked her with her index finger.
Shen Xi snapped out of her reverie, shook her head, and lazily said, resting her chin on her hand, "No, I'm not planning to go to the main campus high school. We might not see each other again."
My deskmate was stunned. "There's probably no school in the entire capital with better resources than our main campus, right? With your grades, if you don't stay at the main campus, where are you planning to go?"
The deskmate listened as Shen Xi slowly uttered three words.
"Yunxia Xiang"