Li Shu felt himself on the ground, and there was a pain coming from his elbows. He blinked, looked around, but everything around him seemed unfamiliar.
His body felt sore all over. He moved slightly, and took a sharp breath. It seemed like his body had suffered quite a serious injury.
He was now sitting on a flower bed by the roadside. People passing by were dressed in cool summer clothes. The buildings around him were far different from those in his memory. This didn’t seem like a place he was familiar with.
Has he entered a new world?
The sun was too strong, making Li Shu dizzy. He held his head and shook it, but instead of easing, the dizziness worsened.
“Hey!”
A pair of Nike sneakers appeared before him. Li Shu followed the legs upward and saw a slightly frivolous face. Standing in front of him was a young man around twenty years old, with silver earrings on his ears. His features were handsome, and his black eyes were pure black, contrasting with the dazzling sunlight.
When he met those eyes, Li Shu was in a trace for a moment. Not long ago, a boy used to look at him with such deep black eyes.
“Are you okay?” The young man handed Li Shu a bottle of ice water. “Have a drink. It’s so hot outside.”
It was indeed hot. It should be the hottest season of the year now. Li Shu didn’t know who this young man in front of him was, but he silently took the ice water from him, unscrewed the cap, and drank most of the bottle in one gulp.
“I mean, why are you so stubborn? It’s obvious that person doesn’t like you and treats you like a fool. You’re a smart person and you even win scholarships every year. Why can’t you see through this one thing?” The young man didn’t mind and sat down beside Li Shu.
It seemed this person knew the original owner. Li Shu couldn’t contact the system now and couldn’t receive the memories of the original owner. He knew nothing about this world. Now that someone had come to him, he naturally wouldn’t let him go.
Quietly steering the conversation to the information he wanted to know, Li Shu roughly learned about the original owner’s situation from this young man.
Like him, the original owner was named Li Shu, a sophomore in the mathematics department at B University. Three years ago, he entered B University as the provincial champion. He was a low-key person at school until a recent incident brought him to the forefront.
It all started with a girl named Ruan Muyan. For some reason, the original owner seemed to have gone crazy about that girl, and used all kinds of means to pursue her. Originally, he was the most outstanding in the mathematics department and was recognized as the cool school grass at B University. Many people paid attention to him, and many liked and pursued him. There was even a beautiful girl from another college with a good family who confessed to him, but she was ruthlessly rejected, which caused a stir among the male students.
Students at B University speculated on who could win the original owner’s heart. To everyone’s surprise, the cold and aloof school grass suddenly fell for an ordinary freshman girl, Ruan Muyan, and started a crazy pursuit. Just as everyone thought there would be another couple at school, an even more shocking event occurred.
Not just the original owner, but almost every notable young man at school fell for Ruan Muyan. They fought fiercely for her, and several enviable couples even broke up because of her.
“I really don’t understand. How did all of you go crazy like this, as if you were bewitched by her?” Lu Yuanqing scratched his head. If he hadn’t noticed that Li Shu’s attitude towards that girl had changed during their conversation, he wouldn’t have asked such a question.
You know, the reason why Li Shu appeared so embarrassed here was all because of that woman. Not only him, but many people at school had their lives messed up because of her.
Just like this time, under normal circumstances, who would have thought that Li Shu, who was favored by the professor in the Department of Mathematics, would fight with a well-known “hooligan” in school because of a woman and make himself so embarrassed? Before Ruan Muyan appeared, these two people could be said to have had no intersection at all.
“Perhaps my mind was clouded for a moment. Now that I’ve cooled down a bit, I seem to be more clear-headed.” Li Shu narrowed his eyes. He didn’t know what the original owner was thinking, but if it were him, he definitely wouldn’t have acted so irrationally for Ruan Muyan.
“Are you okay now? Should I take you to the hospital?” Looking at the injuries on Li Shu’s body, Lu Yuanqing couldn’t help but ask.
Li Shu originally wanted to say no need, but when he moved, he found that his body was in intense pain. He could only say, “Thank you, Student Lu.”
Lu Yuanqing was a good person. He not only took him to the hospital but also went an extra mile and brought him back to the dormitory. Standing at the dormitory door, Li Shu sincerely thanked him. Without his kind help, he might have ended up sleeping on the streets. After all, he couldn’t just stop a fellow student and ask for his dormitory’s specific location.
“No need to thank me. By the way, I think you seem more normal now. Well then, I’ll leave first. Perhaps we’ll meet again.”
The dormitory was a regular four-person room. Besides Li Shu, the other three roommates were present. They seemed to have a good relationship with each other, when they saw that Li Shu was injured, they all stepped forward, some helping him up, others moving chairs, and finally settled Li Shu comfortably onto a chair.
“What happened? How did you get hurt?”
Li Shu’s injuries looked quite severe, with bruises all over, and his face wasn’t spared either. There were even bloodstains on his clothes, making him look quite miserable.
“I got into a fight.” Li Shu didn’t intend to conceal it. He didn’t know how the original owner got along with his roommates, but judging from their attitudes, the original owner should have had a good relationship with them. Perhaps his roommates knew about the incident that the original owner went out for, so there was no need to hide it.
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, someone immediately jumped up, “Is it Yao Yan again? We said that guy has bad intentions. If he invites you out, how could it just be a simple chat?”
“Next time, don’t be so impulsive. Yao Yan and his gang can do anything. Especially this time, it involves Ruan Muyan…” The speaker stopped abruptly here, “Sorry, I didn’t mean anything bad about Ruan Muyan.”
It seemed that Ruan Muyan’s influence on the original owner was even greater than he had imagined, to the extent that his close roommates didn’t dare to even mention her name in front of him.
“You were perfectly fine… Why did this happen? It’s all that Yao Yan’s fault.”
“It’s okay, I’m not angry,” Seeing that they were afraid he might get upset, he quickly explained, “After experiencing this, I suddenly realized that since Ruan Muyan doesn’t like me, I shouldn’t force it. Matters of the heart are about mutual willingness.”
“Really?” The young man supporting Li Shu used his other hand to feel Li Shu’s forehead, asking incredulously, “Is this still Li Shu?”
Li Shu looked at the other two, who also wore expressions of disbelief, as if he wasn’t just determined not to like someone but was giving up something as important as life itself.
He had no memories, so he didn’t know that it had been like this before.
The people in the dormitory were close to Li Shu and knew him quite well. From the moment Ruan Muyan’s name appeared, until now, Li Shu had indeed treated her as an indispensable part of his life. It could be said that anything related to this woman made Li Shu pay extra attention.
As friends, they would have been happy if Li Shu liked someone. Initially, they even supported him in some silly actions, but gradually, they realized something was wrong. It wasn’t about him liking someone, but Li Shu’s state. Whenever something related to Ruan Muyan happened, Li Shu started to behave strangely.
He became a completely different person than usual, like getting into fights for Ruan Muyan, deliberately attending the open classes Ruan Muyan was supposed to attend, and often gave Ruan Muyan expensive gifts. The money for these gifts came from part-time jobs outside of school. That would have been fine, but he even indiscriminately scolded a girl in the same class and made her cry because she had a conflict with Ruan Muyan.
They were all shocked when they learned about this incident because from start to finish, it was Ruan Muyan who did the wrong thing. Through this incident, they felt that when it came to matters related to Ruan Muyan, Li Shu seemed like a completely different person, and his principles of conduct were completely contradictory to his past self.
They had talked to Li Shu about this before, but every time ended in disagreement. Over time, they also knew that Li Shu was not rational when it came to dealing with Ruan Muyan.
So this time, they were surprised by Li Shu’s attitude. They could feel that this time when mentioning Ruan Muyan, Li Shu was genuinely calm, unlike countless times before.
Has Li Shu…really thought it through?
They didn’t dare to make a hasty conclusion, and just kept looking at each other and glancing at Li Shu.
“You mean, you won’t like that person anymore?” After a pause, the young man with a crew cut suddenly exclaimed, grabbing the arm of the person next to him, “Did you hear that? Our god of learning Li is coming back?”
“I heard, I heard, don’t get so excited.” The young man wearing black-framed glasses and a checkered shirt was relatively calm. “Li Shu, have you really figured things out?”
“Yes,” Li Shu nodded, pointing to the injuries on his body, “You don’t need to worry. I got into a fight, and now I’m clear-headed. Just think of me as having been possessed by a demon before.”
“It really was a demon,” seeing that he really didn’t mind, the young man with the crew cut hooked his arm around Li Shu’s neck, “It’s good that you’ve figured it out. Let’s go, I’ll treat you guys to a nice meal to celebrate your farewell to unrequited love!”
“Let’s go, let’s go, it’s a rare opportunity to mooch off the rich guy.” The young man with the crew cut was the wealthiest in the dormitory, a local rich kid from B City. What’s rare was that he didn’t have any bad habits of rich kids and had a good relationship with the people in the dormitory.
The four people in the dormitory came from different places but had similar personalities. Their gathering was a great stroke of luck. When they decided to go out for dinner, Zheng Jiarong, the young man with the crew cut, immediately called to make a reservation.
He booked a table at a well-known private restaurant in B City. It was not far from B University, just a few minutes’ drive away.
At the same time, in a villa area in B City.
The man stubbed out his cigarette and asked in a low voice, “What did you just say, what’s the name of that classmate of yours?”
Being suddenly interrupted, Lu Yuanqing turned back in surprise. His uncle usually didn’t care about anything. Why would he suddenly ask this? Although he was puzzled, he answered honestly, “His name is Li Shu.”