C9

Hearing my words, Zhuo Yue abruptly raised her head, her eyes filled with vigilance. After a while, he turned his head again and casually said, "You're thinking too much."

I threw myself forward, trying to get him to look me in the eye, but when I touched him, he flung me away.

His strength was too great. With just that one strike, I fell off the bed and hit my head on the ground. It was so painful! This familiar picture made a lot of things rush into my head.

I felt a kind of sadness in my heart, and my nose was a little sore, but I suppressed it. "Zhuo Yue, after all these years, you still hate me so much!"

The tone of my voice was calm, but underneath it was a hint of helplessness and sadness. "You must have already forgotten. This kind of humiliation and pain that has been left behind time and time again is something only I, the victim, can remember."

You were like this more than ten years ago. After that, I was completely disappointed and never came looking for you again. I clearly wanted to leave, but every time, I would go to the same school as you.

God is so kind to me...

"An Ran." Zhuo Yue came over and squatted in front of me. Her face looked a little haggard. Then, he lowered his eyelids and continued, "I don't hate you, but I don't care about your affairs. It's not because I like you. I hope you don't …"

"Don't think too highly of yourself, right?" I leaned back and let go of his hand. "I understand."

Zhuo Yue saw that I took the initiative to avoid him and stood up as well.

I struggled to get into bed and wrapped myself in the covers, feeling foolish for what I had just done.

If I had kept it a secret, he might not have thought of those things. I could have continued playing dumb and ended up in this situation, simply asking for trouble.

My head hurt, but Zhuo Yue stayed in the ward and refused to leave.

After a long time, when I was about to speak, I heard him ask me if I was hungry at the head of the bed.

I nodded my head quickly, but he said he would go home, and he took me through the formalities without waiting for me to refuse.

I'm actually fine, just a little concussion. My classmates found me in the elevator. I was the only one who fainted in the elevator, so my classmates took me to the school hospital.

We went out of the hospital and picked a shop near the school to eat something. When Zhuo Yue went to settle the bill, a little boy suddenly ran over and handed me a slip of paper. "Big sister, big brother gave this to you."

The note was as simple as ever, but the words were bone-chilling: "An Ran, you're still so naughty."

"Did you see how big brother looked just now?" I asked the boy, crouching down.

"No, because Dou Dou can't be seen." The boy looked up and met my eyes. He was blind. He had no eyes. His eyelids were rolled up and his eyes were white.

I was so frightened by his sudden action that I took a step back and bumped into a passerby. That person even scolded me, telling me to be careful. I quickly turned around and apologized, saying I was sorry.

When I turned my head back again, the corners of the little boy's mouth were raised slightly. He gave me a weird smile before turning around and running away.

I felt cold all over. How could a blind person know where I was? How could I run so fast …

"An Ran, what's wrong?" Just as I was about to faint again, Zhuo Yue, who had just returned from settling the bill, quickly reached out her hand to help me up.

After we left the restaurant, I handed him the note and told him that this afternoon was definitely not a nightmare. The guy said that tongue stitching was the first punishment, and then I got another warning.

Next, there would definitely be a second and a third …

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. I couldn't help but scream and cry. Zhuo Yue lightly shook my body and said, "An Ran, there are no ghosts in this world!"

"Then how do you explain all this?" I shouted hysterically at Zhuo Yue.

He knows a lot, but he's still hiding it from me. Why is he hiding it from me?

I stared straight at Zhuo Yue, and he coldly stared back at me, but didn't say a word. In the end, I completely lost my patience. With a bitter smile, I turned around and left.

But Zhuo Yue grabbed my hand, and I shook him off and told him that since it wasn't a ghost, I could still report it.

He did not let go.

"Listen to me. After this period of time, everything will be fine." Zhuo Yue's distant eyes were finally tainted with a layer of anger. "I won't let anyone hurt you. An Ran, believe me!"

He sounded so determined, as if he expected me to agree.

You're right, my idiotic showdown this afternoon definitely made him think that I had no reason to refuse. Furthermore, we have been in the same school for more than ten years, so he must have thought that I was deliberately chasing after him.

However, no matter how much I tried to remind myself to be rational, to learn to refuse, to be unyielding, I still couldn't help but nod my head.

The person I once cared about with all my heart, even looking at him would make my heart beat incessantly. How could I still have the chance to refuse …

It was late when I got back to the bar, and Zhuo Yue kept telling me that as long as I didn't open the window at night, I wouldn't have nightmares anymore.

My mind was in a mess. I used to think that the most suspicious person was that rotten Zhu Xiaofei, but now I found out that there was another person, but who could he be? Who could actually make ghosts obediently listen to him.

Most of all, why did he threaten me, and what did he mean by punishment?

I lay awake in bed, unable to sleep, and feeling a little uneasy alone in the big room.

Since I can't sleep, I might as well go downstairs and join in the fun.

I came down and saw that the bar was packed and, without exception, women were moving around the man in the center like sunflowers.

As for Zhuo Yue, she seemed to have changed her appearance. A gentle smile hung on the corner of her lips. Everything seemed to be in perfect shape.

Zhuo Yue had always appeared in my mind in a aloof manner, so I thought that only I had seen his gentle and pure smile.

But now, I finally understood that what I desperately tried to obtain was actually so easily obtainable by someone else.

My heart instantly started to hurt, as if someone was squeezing it hard in their hands. It was very painful, very painful, and even breathing became difficult.

I don't know how I got to my seat until a man's voice interrupted me and asked me what I wanted.

"Whatever." I took a deep breath and quickly adjusted my condition. Then, I looked up and casually said a few words. Unexpectedly, that person suddenly shouted, "An Ran!"

In front of him was a big boy with a smile on his face. He was very pretty and wore the clothes of a waiter.

I sniffed, trying to sound normal. "You know me?"

"How can I not know? That post of yours was even deleted by Brother Yue." The older boy laughed and opened his mouth, "Senior Sister, you're so beautiful, even more beautiful than the pictures."

"Liuhai, you brat, you're not doing your job anymore, and you took advantage of the work to pick up girls." A woman in a professional dress sat down hurriedly and waved to the older boy. "Same old, you know."

Liu Hai looked at me again, and I knew he was asking me what I wanted to drink. But I had never been to a bar and I didn't know what to ask for, so I held it in for a long time before I managed to say, "The stronger cocktail is done."

Liu Hai smiled and nodded before leaving, while I continued to look at the bar with my cheek in my hand.

"You like Ah Yue that much?" The woman interrupted my reverie.

"Huh?" I quickly withdrew my gaze and kept saying no to the woman.

"Little girl, you should look in the mirror." The woman skillfully lit a cigarette, and after taking a drag, she said, "You stared at A'Yue for a long time, your eyes didn't even blink, your eyeballs were about to fall out, hehe."

She made me feel a little uncomfortable, so I smiled awkwardly.

But she told me that it didn't matter if she admitted it. The women who came here were more or less interested in Zhuo Yue, but he never showed any sign of being particularly nice to anyone, so in theory everyone still had a chance.

"Can I have a cigarette?" I asked after taking a deep breath.