Translator- Tojoillust
Editor- Fishhhh
Chapter 38
Su Jingyan hurried to the classroom only three minutes after the bell.
By then, the teachers had already turned on the computers in the multimedia classroom, opened the books, and were ready to start teaching.
What was surprising was that, despite the substantial size of the multimedia classroom, the entire classroom was packed with people. This was in great contrast to the other classrooms which had only a few students.
And stranger yet, the students in the audience didn’t seem particularly invested in their studies. Some played with their cell phones, some played games , and not many of them brought books.
Simultaneously, everyone’s eyes in the classroom darted left and right, intentionally or unintentionally, exchanging glances, with a few almost rising from their seats. In short, an air of restlessness pervaded everyone.
Who knew what the hell they were looking for.
As Su Jingyan rushed to the doorway, a sudden change came upon the fidgety classroom like a switch had been turned on.Their eyes lit up one by one and zeroed in on Su Jingyan acutely with unwavering attention. They resembled a pack of wolves and tigers with their eyes fixed on him, their anticipation so palpable, almost as if they wanted to devour him.
Su Jingyan swallowed, his muscles tensed as he faced the classroom with numerous intense gazes on him. He took a deep breath, and rapped the door with his knuckles. His voice was soft, but his words were distinctly audible. “Report.”
The male teacher was clear in his heart. Despite the crowded classroom, only a few were genuinely there to attend the class. As the saying goes, unusual behavior indicates hidden motives, and it was evident that most of them had come just to watch someone!
Well!
Su Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the male teacher’s words. He grabbed his bag with one hand and hesitated for a moment before walking in.
The people in the classroom stared at him unblinking. Their gazes were infatuated, bordering on extremity.
This kind of intense adoring scrutiny not only failed to make one feel enjoyable, but even gave a feeling of discomfort, like one’s underwear were uncovered and are being stared at naked.
In university classes, the seating arrangement was not strictly based on the seating chart.Students could confidently choose their seats freely, provided they were unoccupied. Students who arrive early naturally had more options to choose from.
Su Jingyan surveyed the classroom against the pressure of being watched by a great number of people. He silently chose the last row where there were fewer people, in an effort to reduce his presence.
Seeing the classmates in the classroom all looking backward, some even appearing to have forgotten about the class, the male teacher tapped the desk with the textbook, furrowed his brow, and pretended to cough twice.
Only then could he manage to pull back a fraction of their attention.
The male teacher felt a surge of anger inside him and gave a suggestive glare to the people below the podium.
As Su Jingyan sat down, he felt a bit dizzy and out of breath.
He hadn’t had any breakfast, plus he’d sprinted the entire time on his way to school. As a result, his body appeared notably weak.
Especially the belly…
Su Jingyan frowned his brows and wrapped his arms around his abdomen.
Hunger with a bit of throbbin …
Su Jingyan endured the discomfort, continuously pressing his fingers against his temples with his right hand, in an effort to appear more alert. His other hand was positioned over his stomach, attempting to quell the feeling of hunger.
Sujing Yan couldn’t react in time as a piece of dark chocolate was suddenly pushed off the table, sliding to the side of his elbow and lightly tapping against it.
Su Jingyan’s eyelid twitched as he raised his gaze. He looked in the direction the dark chocolate had come from, perplexed.
Both eyes immediately met the gaze of the other.
“…”
“…”
It was handed to him by the boy sitting to Su Jingyan’s left, still two seats away in the middle.
“…”
Su Jingyin speechlessly stared at the chocolate on the table, his face unperturbed and devoid of any emotional fluctuation. However, in reality, the moment he saw the chocolate, his stomach seemed to have been stimulated by something, and all of a sudden, it protested with a gurgling sound.
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There was a smile in the corner of the boy’s mouth, unapologetically sizing up Su Jingyan from head to toe, his eyes revealing even more unmistakable infatuation and adoration.
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It hit the boy’s head directly, catching him off-guard before he could even recover his composure. The piece of black chocolate that was thrown back at him slowly slid down from his head, and then with a “snap,” it fell to the ground.
It shattered into several pieces.
The voice was very loud.
“…”
“…”
After Su Jingyan had thrown the chocolates in one go, he pulled the textbook out of his bag without changing his face, laid it out on the table, and then proceeded to take out a pen, diligently beginning to take down notes.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he tilted his body slightly away, not looking at the boy’s face at all. He completely portrayed an appearance of sobriety and indifference, as if he couldn’t be bothered in the least.
I’m so sorry, forgive him for being a double standard dog.
Su Jingyan would only show initiative, positivity, and even a blush to those he was interested in. To those he wasn’t interested in, he was basically indifferent.
Though there were so many people who liked him, if he had to respond to each and every one of them, it would be overwhelmingly exhausting.
Why not just be yourself and live freely? Is there anything wrong with that?
The boy’s originally infatuated expression faltered the moment Su Jingyan indifferently turned his head.The smile on his face froze and for a brief moment, his eyes narrowed. The expression on his face started to reveal a bit of fierceness, and a hatred that he couldn’t hide surfaced in the depths of his eyes.
The boy’s shoulders subtly trembled as he clenched his fist, seemingly trying to suppress some emotion. His eyes glazed over,permeated with a sick, possessive look, like a fire burning in his heart.
Why?
Why was that?
The boy’s name was Zhao Hongyang, and he was an obsessive time regressor!
His obsession was so deep he couldn’t remember the first time he had returned to this point in time!
Maybe it was the tenth time, or maybe it was a dozen.
And every time, he would hand over a piece of dark chocolate at this point in time for Su Jingyan, who was late and hadn’t had time to eat breakfast.
It was also from this piece of dark chocolate that the two of their lives followed a slight intersection, and it was only then that he finally struck up a conversation with Su Jingyan.
But the point that drives him crazy is that he regressed so many times, made so many efforts, tried so hard to cater to everything Su Jingyan…
But what was absurd was that despite this, Su Jingyan had never even looked at him straight since the beginning, nor had he ever responded to his love in the slightest.
Strangely enough, he didn’t know how he was able to regress so many times, but based on his experience of repeated regressing, he slowly pieced together some clues and discerned the so-called pattern.
Each point of retracing occurred after Su Jingyan’s unexpected death, and if his calculations were correct, the time span between Su Jingyan’s deaths was only half a month.
He also followed Su Jingyan’s countless deaths, repeatedly tracing back to the same point in time, reliving the same experiences over and over again, saying the same dialogues, and watching Su Jingyan’s identical reactions every single time.
Perhaps it was because he had retraced too many times; initially he simply wanted to save Su Jingyan from dying, but now he had grown to resent why Su Jingyan refused to even spare him a glance.
He even developed a growing paranoia in his heart,believing that it was Su Jingyan’s refusal to love himself that caused Su Jingyan’s repeated deaths in these continuous flashbacks.
What was even more ridiculous was that, at this moment, Zhao Hongyang considered making Su Jingyan fall in love with him as the only way to lift the spell.
Several times, he felt resentful and entertained vicious thoughts.
See, it’s because you didn’t love me that you ended up where you are now!
But,
Today’s Su Jingyan was clearly a little different than any other day ……
Zhao Hongyang’s expression subtly shifted as he pondered upon this, faintly gritting his teeth.
This time Su Jingyan not only lazily ignored him, but even refused his dark chocolate?
How could this happen? Obviously there was no rejection so many times before!
Why?
He couldn’t believe he’d rather starve himself in class than take a bite of his food!
What’s going on?
Absurd? It was actually rather amusing!
Zhao Hongyang strained to lift the corners of his mouth in an attempt to pull out a smile,yet despite his best efforts, he still looked gloomy and grim, and even almost contorted.
Why?
Why so many times!
You just won’t love me!
Regardless of how Zhao Hongyang next to him struggled in his heart, or the silent hisses he concealed, Su Jingyan remained oblivious and disinterested.
At the moment he was suffering from hunger, but trying to concentrate on the teacher’s lesson.
He sighed, not sure what he was thinking, or perhaps a subtle premonition stirred within him.
Su Jingyan paused for a moment, then suddenly reached into the bag that he had stuffed inside the desk, retrieved it, and promptly opened it.
The instant he unzipped it, Su Jingyan’s expression froze for a moment, a fleeting blankness crossing his features.
Originally the bag had but only a modest number of books and several pens: mysteriously, the backpack had somehow been filled with an assortment of snacks, small bread rolls, and even some sweet treats that Su Jingyan loved, at some point by some unknown hand.苏镜
Su Jingyan blinked his eyes, his Adam’s apple moved, and a sense of magical enchantment coursed through his entire being.
What’s going on?
He didn’t even notice when he took out the book that someone had put so many things in his backpack? It was baffling indeed!
Also, when were these put in? Who put them in? How come he didn’t know anything about it?
Just as he was thinking so, Su Jingyan’s eyes sharpened and quickly noticed a not-so-obvious note nestled in the middle of the stack of snacks.
Su Jingyan paused, extended his hand to retrieve the note and spread it on his palm.
Only a few words were written on it.
“Remember to eat breakfast.”
Signed Lu Yichen.
Su Jingyan’s lips parted when he saw those words, and his eyes lit up all of a sudden, with an unconcealable hint of surprise and astonishment.
His ears took on a subtle flush, his lips formed a tight purse, and the corners of his mouth betrayed a rising smirk.
Even his fingers found themselves involuntarily rubbing the word “Lu Yichen” repeatedly; though he didn’t know what was going through his mind, his expression mirrored one reveling in the sweetness of the sea of love.
Perhaps it was the love that clouded Su Jingyan’s mind, as he didn’t even question when Lu Yichen had stuffed the snacks in, or how he knew he hadn’t had breakfast. Despite the fact that the two of them had been together most of the time, when exactly did Lu Yichen sneak those snacks in?
Amidst the numerous incongruities, it was as though Su Jingyan couldn’t sense anything amiss. His heart was filled with joy, devoid of even the faintest inkling of curiosity or suspicion towards Lu Yichen.
But it was also because Su Jingyan’s heart didn’t harbor even a trace of doubt that this seemingly strange thing appeared perfectly reasonable.
Su Jingyan sat in the last row, thinking that he should not attract too much attention sitting in such an inco position, and that stealing some food should not be discovered.
Holding such a whimsical notion, Su Jingyin sneakily pulled out from his schoolbag the cookies specially gifted to him by the man. He then proceeded to open up the wrapping paper, and savored each morsel with the sweetness melting in his taste buds.
Of course, this covert indulgence was entirely Su Jingyan’s unilateral conjecture.
The entire classroom filled with an unknown number of people was closely watching his every move, almost as if they wished to transform into cameras and record everything he did.
Even the teacher on the podium started to scowl as Su Jingyan took his first bite of the cookie, but he stiffly refrained from hurling a single accusatory word at Su Jingyan.
Su Jingyan hadn’t taken a few bites, and only a small portion of the snacks from the bag had been opened, yet he could clearly feel his stomach as if it had been filled. Just a moment ago, he was famished, and now, all of a sudden, after only a few bites, he felt uncomfortably full.
Su Jingyan always had a small stomach.
But Su Jingyan remained ignorant of how much his seemingly inconspicuous snacking shenanigans were beginning to grate on his neighbour, Zhao Hongyang, who had been meticulously observing his every move.
Zhao Hongyang’s eyeballs were about to pop out, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
Zhao Hongyang even wanted to rush straight up, seize him by the collar, and demand, “Why did you bring your own food?” with an intense questioning gaze.
The uneasy feeling in Zhao Hongyang’s heart grew and he clenched his teeth.
What the hell is going on here?
Why is there such a significant deviation in the outcome this time around?
It’s so weird! What the hell is going on?
Zhao Hongyang forced down the not-so-good feeling in his heart, then began to frantically comfort himself.
After all, it was just that Su Jingyan didn’t eat the dark chocolate he prepared, it had no impact on his subsequent plans.
No problem, no problem.
From what he gathered from so many flashbacks, this afternoon, Su Jingyan would have an appointment with a plastic surgeon in the confines of his bachelor apartment.
This plastic surgeon would carry out a series of harassment, even attempting to touch Su Jingyan.
When he first started regressing, he had briefly entertained the notion that maybe this plastic surgeon might be the real culprit behind Su Jingyan’s death, but he soon realized that no matter how many times he regressed, the plastic surgeon would die strangely the following day after harassing Su Jingyan.
Of course, that was not the point.
The point was, today he would make good use of this opportunity: he would immediately rush out when Su Jingyan was being harassed and play the part of the hero that saved the beauty.
He didn’t believe that Su Jingyan would still treat him like nothing.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongyang’s expression once more twisted into manic fervor with a faint excitement.
Unfortunately, he didn’t realize until now that he had failed to prevent Su Jingyan from being killed so many times before, simply because he had been unwilling to confess the so-called truth to Su Jingyan.
Instead, he watched the other party repeatedly plunge into deep water, only to then take the position of the so-called savior to help Su Jingyan, who could have evaded these experiences altogether.
Indifferent, even numb.
In the end, he fancied that everything he did was great and felt that Su Jingyan ought to love himself.
Yet when all was said and done, what truly moved him was just his own essence.
Wishful thinking, self-adulation.
Zhao Hongyang even began to daydream about Su Jingyan’s appearance as he saved the latter from the helpless situation.
Whenever he thought of how Su Jingyan would eventually fall in love with him and be saved by him, and would even regard him as a deity, Zhao Hongyang became faintly excited, an overwhelming sense of satisfaction and excitement surging within him.
Tsk tsk.
Was this kind of love not pitiful?
Su Jingyan stuffed the uneaten food back into his backpack.
He wiped his hands with tissue paper, and then took a pen and began to continue to carefully take notes. In his heart, a subtle, concealed sweetness began to rekindle.
Perhaps it was because SunJingyan’s thoughts were so consumed by Lu Yichen that on multiple occasions while he was taking notes, he would inadvertently write the characters “Lu Yichen” on the notebook.
Su Jingyan blushed and couldn’t cross out the names, so he circled them and isolated them all.
Then he resumed taking notes as if nothing happened.
As it turned out, he wrote it down like this, and after filling a page, the whole page was filled with small circles everywhere, full of “Lu Yichen”.
Thanks for the update
Zhao Hongyang, another delusional man.. 😞
A knight in shining armor is a knight who never fought.
So, naturally, Lu Yichen is now the adored savior. Though I am very curious about the reason behind Su Jingyan changing like so from the “original plot”.
Thank you for the chapter~!
Awww thank you for the chapter!!
It is interesting to see that with each passing world, the protagonist’s reaction to this adoration and fanatical love that people have for him ends up changing from “polite indifference” to “fear, vigilance and almost violent antipathy”, after all in the first arc he was just a student (protected by the ML) who had not yet experienced even half of the harassment and dangerous situations that his university student or adult version had experienced, who furthermore did not have the protection of the ML.