Bai Qing and Chi Jia howled in the private room for almost three hours until their throats were hoarse. Then, they let go of the microphone and collapsed on the sofa.
Chi Jia drank a mouthful of fruit juice and looked at the ceiling above her head. She sighed in satisfaction. “It feels like… It’s been a long time since I’ve been this crazy.”
“Haven’t you always been this crazy?”
“It’s not the same. At that time, I had you accompanying me to go crazy,”Chi Jia said. “I wonder if those guys who like you will still write love letters to you when they see you stealing meat from me in private.”
“It doesn’t matter. I wasn’t interested in those things at first.”Bai Qing shook his head.
“Is it because you’re still thinking about him?”Chi Jia hesitated for a moment, but she still asked this question.
Bai Qing smiled and didn’t answer. He just picked up the mineral water bottle in front of him, twisted it open, and took a sip.
The prelude of the next song, “Suddenly thinking of you,”was played. Bai Qing put down the glass of water. “About two weeks ago, I had a dream.”
“What Dream?”Chi Jia was intrigued.
“At that time, I was studying in the library, and a little boy appeared in front of me. He asked me if I could help him get a book, because he was… not tall enough to reach the sixth shelf.”
“You promised him?”
“It was a piece of cake. I couldn’t find a reason to refuse. Then, I accompanied him to the bookshelf of the book. When I looked up, I saw the book he asked me to help him get — Alice in Wonderland.”
“Ah, that fairy tale.”
“That’s right. It’s the fairy tale about the little girl, Alice, chasing after a talking rabbit with a pocket watch. She went into the rabbit hole and started a wonderful adventure. I stood on Tiptoe and was about to help him get the book when he suddenly asked me, “Do you want to see him again?”?
“I was stunned for a moment. I asked him who he was. In the end, he asked me who the person you wanted to see the most was. I told him it was my mother. He was silent for a moment and then asked me who the second person I wanted to see was.”
Chi Jia frowned when she heard this. “This brat, where did he hear about what happened at your house? Did he come here to play a prank?”
“At first, I thought so too. But later, he asked me about how that person helped me solve my family’s problems and saved my life more than once. Now that he’s also in trouble, am I willing to lend him a hand?”? “Of course, I agreed without any hesitation. So, the little boy told me that it was good and asked me to go to the borrowing desk to check out this book, Alice in Wonderland.”
“You… did you believe his words so easily?”Chi Jia’s eyes widened.
“I didn’t, but it wasn’t difficult for me to check out this book, just like how I helped the child with the book. It was just a convenient thing. So, I went to the borrowing desk to check out the book and took it home. I put it by my pillow and read half of it before I went to bed.
“Then, you dreamed of him when you slept at night?”Chi Jia looked at Bai Qing with a strong motherly love in her eyes. She wanted nothing more than to immediately hold this poor child in her arms.
“I’ve never had such a realistic dream before. Everything was no different from reality. I sat in a horse carriage and came to a strange manor. I saw him again there. He asked me to help him finish writing a novel. No, to be exact, it was only a part of the novel, a part related to me. I was very happy because I could finally help him. After that, I stayed there and spent more than a month with him.”
Bai Qing tried to recall, “By the way, there are some other guests at the manor. Most of them are famous writers. They used to live in different eras, but now they’re all living there together. I even met JK Rowling and asked her for an autograph. She’s a nice person, not as serious as she looks on the surface. Of course, it could also be for Zhang Heng’s sake…”
Chi Jia felt that her tears were about to fall. She held Bai Qing’s hand and said, “Qing Qing, you… you still have so many things hidden in your heart. Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“Because it wasn’t something very important,”Bai Qing said with a smile, “In my dream, I asked him if we would meet again. He said yes. He would come back to look for me after he dealt with the matters outside. I feel that he wasn’t just brushing me off.”
“This… how can the promise in the dream be taken seriously?”Chi Jia shook her head repeatedly when she heard this. “It seems that singing karaoke is unable to soothe the trauma in your heart. Then, I can only use my ultimate move.”
“What Ultimate Move?”
Bai Qing looked at Chi Jia, who had a serious expression.
“Follow me to chase after a Star!”! In this world, only chasing after a star can bring true happiness. Acknowledge a star, let him become your light and heat, become your one and only, help him grow into an emperor superstar step by step. Then, you can also obtain an incomparable sense of satisfaction!”
“No,”Bai Qing simply refused. “It sounds silly to forcefully entrust your feelings to another person.”
“But aren’t you like this?”Chi Jia asked back.
“I’m not. I’ve always put my studies first. Can’t you see that I’m studying hard now?”
“How dare you, witch!”Chi Jia shouted loudly and rode on Bai Qing’s body.
Bai Qing didn’t want to be outdone. He immediately grabbed Chi Jia’s chest with both hands. Then, the two women started to fight, and Chi Jia threw all the words she wanted to say to the back of her mind.
This was the best thing about being young. No matter what troubles and grievances you had, they would be washed away by time. Even if you were the person you loved deeply, it would be difficult for you to remember his original appearance after so many years.
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Because Bai Qing and Chi Jia lived quite far away from each other, they said goodbye to each other after leaving the KTV and went to take their respective buses home.
Bai Qing had already put on her knitted hat again and followed the crowd to swipe her card to get on the bus. It was almost time to get off work, and there were quite a number of passengers on the bus, bai Qing tried her best to get back while the driver shouted, “Stand back and let the people behind get on the bus.”.
Finally, she found a place to stand near the middle of the bus. Bai Qing grabbed the handrail, and as the bus started again, her body swayed backward, she gently rubbed her shoulder with a young man wearing a mask and a delivery suit.
Then, a voice came into Bai Qing’s ears, “After three stops, get off the bus at Jiefang Road and go to Jiayi Gaming City.”