Chapter 1: New World 01
When I received Li Wei's call, I was hanging out at the entrance of the university. With the scorching sun above my head and a large suitcase in my hand, I looked up like a fool, staring blankly at the magnificent building in front of me.
The four golden characters "Shengshi University" were particularly dazzling in the sunlight, and I felt like my eyes were going to be poked out. After wiping the sweat off my face, I yelled at the phone, "Li Wei, looking at these four titanium characters in front of me, and the red lanterns hanging all over the street like the ancient local rich man marrying a wife, why do I feel like thunder is rolling! I really want to slap myself. Tell me how I did in the college entrance examination? How did I fall into such a school when I always ranked in the top ten in the mock exams?"
"Come on! With your character, you can go to a first-rate university and study a second-rate major, be a third-rate student, and then find a fourth-rate job!" Li Wei, who was enjoying the air conditioning at home, biting potato chips and yelled back.
I looked at the bustling crowd on the stone path leading to the campus with a bitter face, and my nose a little sore.
"Li Wei, what do you think about me going back to repeat my senior year of high school?"
"Bah!" Before I could finish my sentence, I heard Li Wei's complaint on the other end of the phone, and my temple felt sore.
"Your brain was burned by the high temperature, right? Repeating a grade? Why don't you go back to your mother's belly and be reborn! If you change your ways and stop writing imaginative novels all day long, maybe you won't be in a daze during the college entrance examination."
I was about to cry, sniffing into the phone: "Li Wei, others can go back to school, but I can't! Where do you want me to go to find my biological father? If I can't find him, I can't go back to school!"
"Just keep saying it! No matter how optimistic he is, he's not as good as you. How dare your dad talk about you when there are people outside? It's fine if he and your mom are divorced, but why make so much trouble! Forget it, I won't waste my time talking to you. Hurry up and report to school. It's so hot and you're dragging so many things under the sun by yourself. He's no joke. I'm not saying anything bad about your mom. No matter how much you blame your dad, he can't let you go alone when school starts! By the way, you can't tell the direction. You have a complete lack of direction. Does your school have volunteers to serve the new students? If you can't find the way, go find Little Red Riding Hood!" After Li Wei finished chattering about my parents, she started to criticize me.
I looked around and saw a lot of volunteers wearing Little Red Riding Hoods, but I didn't know which one to find.
From afar I saw a few people standing in a corner of the street, holding a sign that said "Foreign Languages Department". My eyes, which were blurred by the sun, suddenly lit up.
"Li Wei, I saw the sign of our Foreign Languages Department! I'll go there first and hang up!"
"Foreign Languages Department! Ai Ye, you are such a moron! How can you, a science major whose English is terrible, have the nerve to study in the Foreign Languages Department?"
Li Wei's endless scolding came from the phone . My fingers trembled and I hung up the phone. I raised my head and tears were about to fall again. In the sunshine, I was bright and sad.
Who wants to choose the foreign language department? I failed the college entrance examination, my parents were getting divorced, and there was a lot of noise at home every day. I almost wanted to fall off the sixth floor . Who would have the energy to fill in the application? When I went to school to fill in the application, someone shouted to me halfway that my mother was threatening to hang herself. Sometimes I think my mother is really courageous. I only thought about death, but she decisively did it. While hanging a rope on the door frame, she smiled miserably at me as I ran back, saying, "It's all your fault, you bastard!"
My mind went blank and I stared with wide eyes at the woman who was about to put her neck into the noose.
For days in a row, I was called a "bastard" by the people who were once closest to me. But who was the "bastard" that gave rise to me? Don't they know it themselves? Why do they blame me when they clearly made the mistake?
Li Wei said "re-educate", sometimes I really want to go back, but I don't want to be re-educate. Because it's too bad! When filling in the application form, I absentmindedly checked a few at random, but I didn't expect that the first major I checked was that damn "foreign language". Fate plays tricks on people like this. I have been a joke since the first second I was born. I have been playing and being played. Choosing a major in college is really too minor a thing that fate plays on me.
What Li Wei said was right. I was the same person no matter where I went. It didn't matter if I was in the Foreign Languages Department, as long as I could avoid my family and survive on my own, it was good enough.
