Chapter 10 As long as you are alive, it's good 5
Three days after the competition ended, the list of finalists was announced, and unsurprisingly, I was among the 30 people who were eliminated.
Because I lost control of my emotions on the day of the preliminary round, the school asked me to rest at home for half a month on the grounds that I was overly nervous.
During the past half month, I found time to read countless comic books that I never had time to read, slept in every day, and felt so happy that I almost exploded.
Ye Jing is still the same, wandering around me leisurely every day, and occasionally after dinner, he will go out for a walk with me.
It was as calm as if nothing had happened.
However, in the past half month, I would go to the hospital every afternoon, rain or shine, to take care of the "original body", massage his arms and legs, etc., and insist on talking to him for a while every day.
From that day on, I suddenly realized that there was nothing more terrifying than Ye Jing's disappearance... As long as he is alive, everything will be fine. No matter who he likes, it doesn't matter. I just hope he can live well.
I began to think that what Lu Yanye said before was correct. Even if there is only a 10% chance, it is better than dying...
I didn't know how to explain these thoughts and changes of mine to Ye Jing. After all, I knew in my heart that he had decided to give up the chance to survive and just stay with me.
I can only insist on going to the hospital every day to take care of his "real body" and talk to his "real body".
Fortunately, Ye Jing didn't ask anything and said nothing.
The days passed peacefully like this, making people feel a little uneasy.
Half a month passed quickly.
On the day I resumed school, I got up early in the morning, washed, changed clothes, and went to school early.
Unexpectedly, Ye Zixi arrived earlier than me.
"You're finally here! I'm almost freezing standing here."
Seeing me walking over, Ye Zixi handed me the breakfast bag tremblingly.
"Why are you here so early?" I was surprised.
"When you were in the hospital yesterday afternoon, didn't you say you would come to school today?" He rolled his eyes, put his hands in the sleeves of his down jacket, and walked shoulder to shoulder with me into the school with his neck shrunk. "My mom asked me to bring you breakfast and sent me away early in the morning."
I smiled and nodded.
"Have you prepared anything delicious for me? I've been eating crappy meals in the school cafeteria for half a month." Ye Zixi complained.
"Braised spareribs, sweet and sour chicken wings, tomatoes."
"Thank you, Sister Luo."
Ye Zixi immediately smiled at me flatteringly.
After a while, we reached a fork in the road. He waved to me happily and said, "See you at noon!"
"knew!"
Smiling helplessly, I walked towards the high school building on the other side.
Along the way, all the classmates avoided me as if they were avoiding something dirty, and whispered to each other.
I lowered my head slightly, pretending that I didn't see or hear anything, and walked to my classroom.
As expected, the moment I walked into the classroom, everyone immediately fell silent and looked at me with unfriendly faces as I walked to my seat and sat down.
Ye Jing looked at me worriedly, with a complicated expression in his eyes, but he didn't say anything.
"Huh? Since when can people with mental illness come to school?"
"Why can she still come to school? What if she suddenly becomes mentally ill again and hurts us?"
"That's right! I also heard that if a mentally ill person hurts others, he or she doesn't have to bear legal responsibility. Why does she come to school?"
"She actually has the nerve to come to school with Ye Jing's brother. What right does she have? She's just a psychopath. Who does she think she is? Is she really Ye Jing's girlfriend?"
"That's right. Did you see her on the day of the competition? She was actually with Ye Jing's parents and brother! She's a psychopath!"
…
This time, the people in the class stopped talking in secret and started talking loudly, as if they were afraid that I couldn’t hear them.
I remained silent, trying to be patient and pretending I heard nothing.
Suddenly, several girls pushed their chairs aside and came over to my seat. One of them slammed my desk and said, "Luo Huayin! You should drop out of school because you are a psychopath! Why are you sitting in the same classroom with us?"
Seeing that I didn't say anything, another girl simply pushed my shoulder and said, "Psycho, we are talking to you! Do you hear me?"
Then, the girls who came around me pushed me one after another.
One by one, people passed through Ye Jing's translucent body, and no one could feel him.
He watched them pushing me, but there was nothing he could do.
But... this is his choice, isn't it? Not only me, he himself has to bear the consequences of his choice - if he chooses to accompany me like this, he will always have to watch me from the sidelines... "Luo Huayin, get out of school quickly. Our school doesn't welcome you, do you understand?"
Suddenly, I don't know who was the first to take action, but the pencil case on my desk was thrown out of the window, and it fell heavily on the icy platform on the third floor.
Then, as if they had been reminded, they all grabbed my various textbooks and books and threw them out of the window.
Suddenly I saw a pair of hands pick up my unzipped school bag that was hanging on the edge of the table .
My whole body was shocked, and I rushed over with a roar: "Don't touch my schoolbag!"
They were startled and everyone paused.
But I was still a step too late. The hand that picked up my schoolbag had already thrown it out of the window.
In the blink of an eye, almost everything in my bag fell out and fell down in mid-air... "Don't—"
My pupils shrank sharply and I screamed at the top of my lungs.
The next second, I watched my mirror fall out of my schoolbag and land heavily on the third-floor platform, with its back facing upwards, and I couldn’t see the condition of the mirror surface.
In an instant, my body began to tremble violently, and a huge feeling of fear instantly surrounded my whole body.
“Get lost!”
Suddenly, I yelled and pushed away the people around me.
Without thinking, I immediately stepped on the chair and stood on the windowsill.
"ah……"
All the students around me gasped in fear and quickly backed away, not daring to approach me.
“What are you doing? This is the fifth floor…” The girl who was the first to throw things at me said in a trembling voice, as if she had never expected things to turn out like this.
I ignored them and stared at the thin iron pipe on the wall outside the window.
Go down here and you can jump to the platform on the third floor.
I opened the window without hesitation.
"Ah——" Screams immediately broke out in the classroom.
"Luo Huayin! What are you doing?" Ye Jing roared in horror, rushed up stretched out his big hand to grab my arm.
Unfortunately, his hand went straight through my arm and he couldn't grab anything.
I didn't think anything, didn't want to say anything, just stared at the mirror lying on the third floor platform...
My mirror... the mirror that carries Ye Jing's soul... it cannot be broken, it must not be broken...
Without any hesitation, I grabbed the thin water pipe on the wall outside the window with both hands and jumped.
"Luo Huayin——"
"ah--"
Ye Jing's roar and those screams sounded at the same time.
I turned a deaf ear to him, held on to the thin water pipe tightly, slid from the fifth floor to the third floor platform, and fell there.
The next second, Ye Jing also flashed and appeared on the third floor platform. His eyes were red and a little scary: "Luo Huayin! Do you want to die? Are you crazy?"
I didn't look at him and picked up the mirror with trembling hands.
“Ka——”
With a crisp sound, the mirror shattered into pieces and fell onto the platform the moment I picked it up.
I looked on stupidly, tears welling up in my eyes.
"What should I do...what should I do...Ye Jing, the mirror is broken..."
"Silly, why are you crying again?"
Ye Jing sighed softly and squatted down beside me.
I discovered in despair that his originally translucent body was actually beginning to become fainter and fainter.
"Ye Jing... Ye Jing... don't..." I looked at him in panic, tears falling heavily. I couldn't even utter a complete sentence, and my whole body was shaking .
"Luo Huayin, let me tell you a secret too." He suddenly laughed, and a sly look flashed across his big eyes that flashed with mist. "In fact, on the day of the competition, I remembered my wish... Go and have a look at the big tree that I forgot about before, the one you said I often read under."
He stretched out his beautiful hand, trying to wipe away my tears, but he couldn't touch anything.
He looked at me and smiled helplessly, but his tears were already falling.
He just stared at me quietly for a while, until his body became fainter and fainter...fader and fainter...
"Ye Jing! Ye Jing, please, please, don't go, don't go..."
I panicked and waved my hands, crying and trying to grab him.
He was crying, but also smiling, and his beautiful eyes looked at me steadily, as if he wanted to remember me deeply in his heart.
Suddenly, his eyes became firm: "Silly girl, don't cry, I don't want this kind of company anymore... Wait for me, I will return to my body and wake up... Wait for me, from now on, I will really stay by your side and protect you..."
"Ye Jing..."
His body was almost invisible.
Suddenly, his smile became very gentle.
He kissed me gently on the mouth.
"Goodbye, Luo Huayin. Take good care of yourself while I'm away... One day, we will meet again..."
The moment the last syllable fell, Ye Jing's figure completely disappeared into the air.
"don't want--"
I held on to the shattered mirror tightly and screamed.
Everything went dark before my eyes and I completely lost consciousness.
…
If all love has to be expressed out loud to count, what should a mute do?
Even if we will be separated one day, can you... take a little longer and not leave me so soon? Ye Jing, I haven't told you in person that I like you...
