Chapter 90: I Truly Started To Like You On Light Snow In The Year 2735

The joy of Christmas spread from the city center to the surroundings, and two shadows reflected side by side on the quiet snow.

Ji Xiao didn't call a driver, and she walked slowly out of the police station with Wei Qingyu. They walked in silence toward home.

After walking for a while, they came to the bridge they passed every day after school.

Wei Qingyu looked at the river that had not frozen yet. One side of the neon lights reflected on the water, just like last Christmas.

Only this time, on the way home, there were only her and Ji Xiao.

Wei Qingyu said in thought, “Since school started this year, we haven't walked home like this for a long time.”

Ji Xiao put her hands in her pockets and softly said, “Mm.”

She looked at the small stalls not far away with Christmas lights, and she suddenly realized it had almost been four months.

“But I still feel like going home with you was just yesterday. All of us went back together, and we also walked this road,” Wei Qingyu said again.

Ji Xiao listened, and good but cruel memories of the past were stirred.

She frowned and said, “You know I don't want to think about it.”

Wei Qingyu didn't stay silent. As if she had prepared long ago, she said, “But you have to face some things.”

Ji Xiao knew what Wei Qingyu meant and replied calmly, “I have always been facing it.”

“Really?”

Wei Qingyu raised her head and looked at Ji Xiao. What happened to Qi Qi had a big impact on all of them. Wei Qingyu still didn't know what Ji Xiao went through back then, but there was one thing she was sure of. “Ji Xiao, you are not facing it. You are trapped by the shadow of death.”

Ji Xiao frowned deeper when she heard this.

The cold wind messed up her long hair. She pulled the corner of her lips and looked at Wei Qingyu helplessly. “I'm trapped? Wei Qingyu, you don't know what happened at all.”

“I want to know, but you won't tell me,” Wei Qingyu said calmly, recounting her cruelty like a narration.

The winter wind brushed over the river and wrinkled the neon reflection inside.

The question returned again to the answer Wei Qingyu once wanted to know that day.

Ji Xiao lowered her gaze slightly and met Wei Qingyu’s eyes, as if she was fighting the demon in her heart.

It was as if the world foresaw her restless heart, it pricked her heart as a reminder.

Silence gathered in this small space between them, and the pain in the girl’s chest became clearer.

After a long while, Ji Xiao’s lips moved.

Maybe it was because Wei Qingyu reached out to help her in the alley earlier and touched her numb heart. The Alpha’s natural refusal to submit made her not bow to fate this time. “Fate. Qi Qi’s death made me understand what fate is. Life and death are decided by fate. Everything has its fixed number.”

Maybe it was the cold wind blowing by, but her voice was even lower than it was in the police station.

Ji Xiao’s words sounded unreal and impractical, but Wei Qingyu seemed to have guessed it long ago and calmly believed it.

Since she had ruled out all external human factors that could affect Ji Xiao, the only thing that could make Ji Xiao choose to stay away from her was Ji Xiao herself.

Back then, the more hope Ji Xiao had that Qi Qi could live, the easier she fell into a dead end when facing Qi Qi’s death.

It was just like when her own parents passed away. She also blamed herself and couldn't get out.

Wei Qingyu looked at the river to the side and softly said, “Ji Xiao, if like you said, everything in the world has a fixed number, and we cannot change anything. Cruelty is secondary. Don’t you think this has no hope at all? We struggle our whole life. Is it all useless?”

This question made Ji Xiao’s already aching heartbeat suddenly stop for a moment.

She leaned on the railing in front of her and looked at the calm river. The emotions sunk at the bottom slowly surged up.

Yes. How could it be useless?

“Even if life and death are fixed and we cannot change them, except for life and death, even if your hands and feet are locked by fate, you can still change things. Maybe you think you haven't changed anything, but actually, in many places you didn't notice, you already changed things.”

As she spoke, Wei Qingyu slightly clenched her hand inside her pocket.

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She looked at the girl beside her who was deep in thought and carefully brought up Qi Qi again. “With your help and mine, Qi Qi still had the strength to go to the water park with us at the end, and she even ran faster than those little thugs. She didn't lie on a hospital bed like others with congenital gland disease, twitching and twisted, unable to even pretend. That was already very good. She cared so much about her dignity, and even at the end, she let us help her put on makeup. If we didn't take the initiative to help her, how embarrassed would she have been? How unwilling would she have been to leave? Have you thought about it?”

The night wind blew past and wrinkled the river in Ji Xiao’s sight, and it also made her eyes flicker.

Back then, she only chased the result and was stunned by the blow of failure. She never thought carefully and deeply in Wei Qingyu’s way.

Maybe living long or short, everyone’s ending is death.

Sometimes, the ending is not that important. Life is not only about the ending. The process is actually more important.

The world cruelly set a final date and a rough frame for everyone.

No one can change the speed of the Grim Reaper’s scythe, but they can change the fragile frame that is not yet built.

Ji Xiao looked at the girl beside her who knew nothing about the future she knew. Even in the past few months when she didn't intervene, the relationship line between Jin Nanfeng and Wei Qingyu was still zero. They seemed to have no punishment either.

Did even this world favor the female lead and couldn't bear to punish her at all?

Ji Xiao looked at the shimmering river. Illusion and reality intertwined and pushed her to ask, “Then what about you? If you knew changing these things would cost a price, would you still do it?”

Wei Qingyu heard this and smiled lightly at her.

Maybe because she had already experienced life and death partings, she saw these things very lightly.

“What price could there be? Since I chose to do it, there must be something more precious than the price worth protecting. Then paying some price is acceptable.”

“Even life?” Ji Xiao asked.

Wei Qingyu nodded. “Even life.”

Her tone was cold and firm enough to make people shaken.

Ji Xiao listened and felt the dull pain in her chest slowly fade. She nodded. “I understand.”

On a winter day when the year was about to end, Wei Qingyu pulled her out of the mud of a dead end.

Ji Xiao held the candy in her pocket. Even though her heart was still covered by some inferiority and worry, she wanted to give herself some more time to organize her thoughts.

Then start again.

“Since you answered my question, I will also answer one of yours.”

Wei Qingyu’s voice sounded beside Ji Xiao’s ear and broke her thoughts.

She gently held the candy in her pocket that she had never been willing to eat.

She borrowed some courage Ji Xiao gave her and calmly said, “I liked you when we were young. That was just friendship, cherishing and remembering. But truly liking you, having the kind of Omega to Alpha love for you, happened one year ago.”

“Light Snow of the year 2735.”

Satan taught the girl jealousy.

But Ji Xiao taught her love.

Snow began to fall. Small white flakes landed in the middle of their sight.

Two hearts beating for each other finally beat together again after four months.

Ji Xiao looked at Wei Qingyu’s profile. Even many years later, when she thought of it again, she still felt that night was the most beautiful.

Thousands of stars decorated the dark night sky, and the busy Christmas street became blurred.

Wei Qingyu raised her head and looked at her. Her black long hair was lifted by the wind and lightly brushed her shoulder, leaving a precious mint scent.

Even after controlling herself for so long,

She still felt her heart move for her.

“Students, it is almost midnight. Do you not want to buy apples* for each other?”

*In Chinese, Christmas Eve is called 平安夜(Píng’ān Yè), which literally means “peaceful night.” A traditional symbolic gift on this evening are apples (苹果/píngguǒ) because the word for apple in Chinese sounds similar to the word for peace (平安/Píng’ān). Giving an apple on Christmas Eve is seen as a way of wishing someone safety, harmony, and blessings for the coming year.

At this time, an apple vendor passing by, wearing a military green coat, shouted to the two people who had stood by the bridge for a long time.

Wei Qingyu followed the vendor’s voice and looked over. The clock on the clock tower not far away showed less than one minute to Christmas Eve.

The apples at home wouldn't make it, so she turned to the stall and picked the prettiest one to give to Ji Xiao.

“Merry Christmas, Ji Xiao,” Wei Qingyu said and put the apple into Ji Xiao’s hand.

The deep red apple was stuffed into Ji Xiao’s hand while she was still a bit out of it. She looked at the apple, but all she saw was Wei Qingyu’s cool and light smile.

Frost and snow flew, but Ji Xiao felt the hollow that had collapsed endlessly in her heart was perfectly filled by this apple.

She felt the slight coolness of the apple and the warmth Wei Qingyu left behind. She glanced at the sparse apples on the stall.

The bell at midnight rang in the snowy night. Ji Xiao took one apple from the stall with one hand and handed it to Wei Qingyu.

“Merry Christmas, Wei Qingyu.”

….

Winter mornings were much quieter than other times. Melted snow fell from bent pines and cypresses and scattered white all over the ground.

Aunt Wu stood in the kitchen cleaning up, with smiles in her eyes.

The new little maid beside her looked at Aunt Wu in confusion. “Aunt Wu, why are you in such a good mood lately? Is your son getting married?”

“Go, you little child, stop talking nonsense,” Aunt Wu smiled and pinched the maid’s face, then gestured to the dining area. “I'm happy because of this.”

Dim morning light came through the long floor window and filled the room with warmth under the lights.

Ji Xiao and Wei Qingyu were sitting at the dining table, chatting casually like before.

“The Miss is so strange. Why is she suddenly so nice to Miss Wei?” The little maid came in the second half of the year. She was used to Ji Xiao’s cold face, so this felt abnormal.

Aunt Wu shook her head. “You came late, so you don't know. Our Miss is like this. She keeps many things in her heart. When she figures it out, she becomes fine again. Only Miss Wei has the patience for her. If it were someone else, they wouldn't be able to endure it.”

The little maid nodded in thought. When she saw Ji Xiao and Wei Qingyu walking side by side toward the entrance, she suddenly got excited. “Then are the two of them…!”

"Aiya, you child." Aunt Wu gave the maid, who was splattering dish soap all over the place, a look of disdain. "You're almost there.”

“Achoo!”

At this moment, Ji Xiao standing at the courtyard gate sneezed.

Wei Qingyu, who was getting into the driver’s car, stopped closing the door and reminded her, “Zip it up.”

Ji Xiao rubbed her nose and only tucked in her open down jacket. “It’s fine. I'm okay. The library is opening now.”

Wei Qingyu looked at Ji Xiao again and said nothing more. She softly said, “Mm,” and closed the car door.

The car soon started and left the yard. Ji Xiao stood at the door, holding her jacket, until the black Mercedes disappeared from her sight.

The whole villa area was very quiet. Even the wind was resting on the ground.

Ji Xiao’s eyes stayed on the point where the car disappeared, bright and focused.

Maybe Wei Qingyu was right. Life and death are fixed, but the stories inside can be changed.

At this moment, an indigo blue Lamborghini flashed across Ji Xiao’s sight like lightning.

Ji Qingyun got out of the car with a serious expression. “Xiaoxiao, Dad has something he wants to talk to you about.”