CHAPTER 308: CHAPTER 264

"Is it him?" Mo Junhua found it strange, "Why is he at Jing University? Isn’t he in Shanghai?"

Before the college entrance exams, Mr. Zhang was still in Shanghai; how did he end up at Jing University.

"Who knows!" Lan Tian said indignantly, "My fate with him must be twisted, I run into him wherever I go, I can foresee, my four years of college life will certainly be miserable."

Seeing Lan Tian looking as if life wasn’t worth living, Mo Junhua chuckled, ruffled her hair and said, "He tricked you into going there again." Lan Tian had mentioned to him before, this Mr. Zhang, in order to make the girl study science in his department, would stop at nothing, and she had thought several times about catching him in a sack and dragging him into an alley.

Lan Tian flopped onto Mo Junhua, she needed to hug a handsome guy to comfort her fragile heart.

"Uh-huh, as soon as we met, he talked me into going to his finance department. I hear his reputation at Jing University isn’t so good, those students are kind of afraid of him." Lan Tian looked up at Mo Junhua for a few seconds, then sat upright, her gaze sweeping down from his face, "Why are you dressed like this today? You don’t look like your usual self."

How did they put it in the future, right, contrastive cuteness.

A touch of pink crept up to Mo Junhua’s ears, he was too embarrassed to say, he had read in a book that women, like men, liked looking at handsome men, so he dressed up especially today, the clothes all sponsored by Grandpa.

Wearing a shirt and trousers, even a tie, the clothes felt strangely uncomfortable on him, and although Grandpa said they looked good, Mo Junhua had sneakily looked in the mirror, feeling uncomfortable. Wearing the tie made it feel like he couldn’t breathe, and as soon as he stepped out the door, he took off his coat, untied his tie, and unbuttoned his collar, rolling up his sleeves. It felt like he had come alive again.

"Don’t I look good?" Mo Junhua asked seriously. If the girl thought it didn’t suit him, he wouldn’t wear it again, anyway he wasn’t comfortable in it. It’s strange, but the buttons on his military uniform go all the way up, yet he never felt like he couldn’t breathe.

"Handsome," Lan Tian nodded affirmatively, "too handsome, didn’t you see how the girls at school were looking at you when you got out of the car?"

"I didn’t notice." His eyes were on Lan Tian, how could he notice how other people were looking at him.

"I even ran into someone, guess who it was?" Lan Tian smiled lightly, "Isn’t it amazing how fate works? A passing encounter, and who would have thought we’d meet again after so many years? Beijing is not too big, just a capital, but also not too small, among tens of millions of people, we just happened to meet."

"Who? Someone I know?" Mo Junhua squinted, a chill passing in his gaze, that someone who could make the girl remember after several years was not to be underestimated.

The romantic rivals just kept increasing.

"Do you still remember the first time we took a train to Shanghai?"

How could Mo Junhua forget? It was that time; they had met that woman Zhou Yuwei, a woman who almost disrupted their lives. Mo Junhua sometimes wondered, if they had not taken that train trip and not met Zhou Yuwei, would his and the girl’s life have been different?

"Remember, what about it?"

"The guy who slept on the bunk across from us, dressed in bright and colorful clothes, looking like a Peacock, remember him?"

Mo Junhua thought for a moment, it seemed there was such a guy, always fond of calling girls ’little sister’ again and again.

"I ran into him. I didn’t recognize him, but he recognized me immediately. You know, the Peacock and Shen Jingbing Mr. Zhang are friends. When these two get together, it’s never for anything good." It was an intuition, just like with Shitou and the others; whenever they were up to something and pulled her in, she had this feeling.

"Beijing is full of crazies, too dangerous, maybe I should just go back to Shanghai." Lan Tian did not want to get involved with these two, better to quickly cure Ji Feng’s grandpa and head back swiftly.

Lan Tian glanced at Mo Junhua, then suddenly asked, "Mo Junhua, what exactly do you like about me?"

What he liked about her? Mo Junhua himself didn’t know. As long as she was the girl, he liked everything about her.

"I am willful, unreasonably domineering, and harsh with you, often wanting to kill you. Do you know why I wanted to marry you?"

Mo Junhua glanced at Lan Tian and remained silent. He had guessed before, it had something to do with Grandma Sun, but there must be other reasons he couldn’t think of.

Lan Tian pursed her lips and smiled lightly, "I guess you don’t know either. Do you believe in past lives?"

Unexpectedly, Mo Junhua’s heart skipped a beat, could it be that the girl...

"When I was young, I had a dream, a very real dream, so real it felt like I had lived it," Lan Tian leaned back, relaxed her body, nestled into the seat, as if returning to that isolated and helpless time in a previous life, "The dream started when I wandered to Mo Village and lived there depending on grandma. I went to school, where Taohua and others bullied me behind my back, often leaving me bruised, and later I stopped going to school. Back then, grandma was ill, and we didn’t even have enough food at home. Without school, I worked the fields with grandma to earn work points. Life was hard and tiring but happy because I had a family, I had relatives."

"Until I was fifteen, I married you. You were busy with the military and couldn’t come back to wed me, and the family agreed to have your brother Jun Guo stand in for you at the wedding. Later, Jun Guo refused to come after hearing someone’s wicked words. I don’t know who gave Chunlai’s wife a horrible idea to use a rooster in your place, saying it would ward off bad luck. Our family didn’t know the person officiating turned into a chicken, I was so shocked, and when I came to my senses, I wanted to go home, but grandma asked me to endure; afterward, our family became the village’s laughingstock. Grandma fell ill from the anger, she was already unwell and passed away after struggling for two more years."

Mo Junhua’s lips moved, he wanted to say "I’m sorry", but his throat felt blocked, unable to speak, and his chest ached with heaviness.

"You didn’t know, the village children even composed a song, I’ll sing it for you." Lan Tian’s eyes were deep and tranquil, like an ancient, profound pool, as if she was talking about someone else’s story, not her own, "The rooster crows, it’s time for the wedding, the Sun family girl is getting married, shy, shy, shy, the bridegroom is gone a rooster weds, cluck, cluck, cluck a sound, the rooster becomes the bridegroom. Strange things happen every year, this year especially so, if you ask what it is, the Sun family girl married a rooster, nestling in. Sounds good, doesn’t it?"

Mo Junhua stayed silent, his arms holding the steering wheel tensed with veins bulging.

Lan Tian looked into the distance, "Back then, I was dark and thin, but physically strong. After marrying into your family, I worked like a mule, got up earlier than chickens, slept later than dogs, did more work than a mule, and ate worse than pigs. After two years of hard labor, I was left with just skin. At New Year’s you came home and slept with me, that night I was truly in pain, I cried for you to stop, but you didn’t listen, it was like you were venting, torturing me all night, and you left before dawn the next day. Chunlai’s wife said I wasn’t worthy of you, so you left."

Mo Junhua’s eyes were a bit moist, he recalled the image flashing before his eyes; he just returned from Boundary River, discovering Zhou Yuwei and Chu Yang were together behind his back, drove him to go home for the New Year in anger, he drank in sorrow, then took out his frustration on the girl.