Guo Jingyu accepted the gift and was in a good mood. He sat with Li Tongzhou and tried on the headphones together.
Li Tongzhou had collected many albums and played them on a CD player, allowing both of them to listen through their new headphones. The selection of songs was quite diverse, and many of them coincided with Guo Jingyu’s preferences.
As Guo Jingyu listened with half-closed eyes, he suddenly noticed a light blue hardcover book on Li Tongzhou’s bookshelf. The color appeared too soft and didn’t quite match the rest of Li Tongzhou’s books.
He pointed to it and asked, “What’s that?”
Li Tongzhou glanced in the direction of his finger and replied, “It’s the classmate record you gave me when we graduated.”
Curious, Guo Jingyu asked for the book and took a look. As expected, on the first page, it read, “To a good friend, Tongzhou,” with his own signature.
He didn’t remember ever giving this to Li Tongzhou. He lightly flipped through the pages and felt a sudden sense of loss. When Li Tongzhou had sent that large box of items, Guo Jingyu had merely skimmed through it but didn’t dare to look further. He kept the box in the basement at home. He had tried searching for any clues in Li Tongzhou’s footsteps and had asked everyone he could, but the information was sparse. The only certain thing was that Li Tongzhou was no longer around.
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Guo Jingyu turned the page and noticed that he hadn’t written anything there. He questioned, “Why did I not write anything there?”
Li Tongzhou explained, “You said it was too much trouble at the time because we were going to different high schools and different classes, so you didn’t want to write anything.”
Guo Jingyu remembered now. He had been trying to be lazy at the time. But he had changed his mind since then.
He asked Li Tongzhou for a pen, contemplating writing a couple of lines. Li Tongzhou leaned in to read, and the next classmate’s dream was “I want to become China’s richest person.” Li Tongzhou asked, “Jingyu, you and your cousin are doing business together, do you also want to be a big entrepreneur?”
Guo Jingyu replied, “No, I just want to make a little money, live a simple life.” It would be best to do this with the person he liked. Like buying a small house, nothing too big. He envisioned most of their time together being filled with happiness, with occasional quarrels, and they’d bicker and make up throughout their lives. Guo Jingyu had a beautiful dream in mind. After a while, he suddenly remembered something, turned around, and asked, “Hey, why don’t you manage my computer business?”
Li Tongzhou was puzzled. “What do you mean?”
“My computer business in the provincial capital.”
“Why should I manage it?” Li Tongzhou said confused. “You’re doing many things quite well aside from your studies.”
“Really?”
“You have good coordination skills when working with your cousin, you’re good at organizing activities in the class, and you’re the one behind all the class bulletin boards. You even won an award for that last time,” Li Tongzhou listed seriously as looked at him. “I think you’re great. Grades aren’t the only standard to evaluate a person. Jingyu, you’re already amazing. You just haven’t found what you truly love yet.”
Guo Jingyu smiled and asked, “Do you really believe in me?”
Li Tongzhou nodded and said, “I believe.”
Guo Jingyu’s hand brushed against his, and as he sat there, he suddenly felt completely relaxed.
In this world, there will never be anyone who indulges him like this again, nor will there be someone who understands him so thoroughly, even more than he knows about himself. As long as this person is here, knowing that he have his back, he can freely dream of a colorful future on the outside. He can turn around and embrace this person, take one step and land on the most solid ground.
He has floated for too long in those glamorous circles, where everyone tells him that without Li Tongzhou, he can reclaim his own life and create his destiny.
He tried, but it didn’t work.
Guo Jingyu and Li Tongzhou spent their junior high and high school years together, starting as naive teenagers chasing their dreams. Guo Jingyu became the person they had promised to be, while Li Tongzhou did not. His time stopped at the age of 19 in that summer, forever youthful.
Back then, they had promised each other they would enter college together, and all the adventures they had planned had become unattainable things—things they could not achieve alone.
Guo Jingyu picked up the classmate’s record book, writing a line of heartfelt blessings. He wrote down all the best wishes, and the last few words were written particularly seriously: “… The bright future awaits and the future is promising.”
He wanted to see that future, the one he had never seen before.
K: This chapter is that short. Short but warm (⸝⸝⸝╸▵╺⸝⸝⸝)
Is this not completed yet?
Don’t scare me! The description says 67 chapters + extras
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