Chapter 1541
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Chapter 1541 I Want to Wait and Go with You
Li Yifei remained silent for a long time, finally forcing a smile. “Sorry… I still don’t remember clearly.”
White Shadow lowered her head, seemingly disappointed.
“How about you tell me about your relationship? Maybe I’ll remember something?”
White Shadow thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and wrote in the notebook:
—We met at the auditorium of Beijing University.
—At that time, just like yesterday, you sat in the center of the stage holding your guitar. Your silhouette became everyone’s focus under the spotlight, your singing made countless girls fall for you… including me.
—We got to know each other through student union work and quickly fell in love. We spent three years together here, privately pledging ourselves to each other under the stars.
When Li Yifei read this, his mouth fell open uncontrollably. Without realizing it, the other curious White Shadows had gathered around the table, eagerly reading the words written in the notebook, occasionally giving Li Yifei strange looks.
—Those three years together were truly happy. We attended classes together, studied together, composed music together. You taught me to sing in the music classroom after class, and I helped you review until dawn before exams.
—Until that day…
The White Shadow holding the pen paused briefly, then continued writing:
—It was the night before the graduation party. As Beijing University’s best singer at the time, you were scheduled to perform the finale. You said you would give me a surprise…
—But that night, you disappeared.
—We searched the entire university but couldn’t find you. Later, the police searched for three days around the university and finally found your bloodstained clothes on a small path behind the school, along with a diamond ring wrapped in a gift bag.
—They all said you were dead, but I didn’t believe it. I searched for you tirelessly throughout Beijing for ten days, looking everywhere, but still couldn’t find any trace of you…
—I don’t remember how I got back to school. I didn’t attend the graduation ceremony or take graduation photos… I just walked through every place in Beijing University where we had been together, finally arriving at this teaching building that held most of our memories.
—When I was standing on the rooftop, in a daze, I seemed to hear your guitar. The sound was coming from below… By the time I came to my senses, I had already jumped.
White Shadow slowly put down the pen. A deathly silence fell around them. The other White Shadows quietly stepped back, turning to look at Li Yifei.
Li Yifei stood there like a statue, opening and closing his mouth, momentarily unable to speak.
He wasn’t Changhong. He was just a Nanda snake demon wearing Changhong’s flesh, walking in this world… He himself was the culprit behind all this.
After a long silence, Li Yifei looked into White Shadow’s eyes and spoke hoarsely:
“I’m sorry… but I still can’t remember.”
For a moment, Li Yifei had considered acknowledging everything in “Changhong’s” name, but the timeline made no sense. This White Shadow’s suicide happened decades ago. After so much time, how could she still maintain her original appearance?
Besides, if he really acknowledged it, then what?
Let her know that Changhong didn’t actually die? Then what was her suicide for?
Li Yifei couldn’t possibly accompany this girl forever under the name of “Changhong.” After he left, this girl’s lingering soul would remain alone in this classroom, wouldn’t that be even more torturous?
After much consideration, Li Yifei thought it best to dispel her notion.
“I understand your story now, but I’m really not him,” Li Yifei said sincerely. “Perhaps I might be his reincarnation or something, which is why we look so similar, but I’m just Li Yifei, not the ‘Changhong’ you knew…
If reincarnation truly exists, then my standing here might mean that ‘Changhong’ did indeed meet with misfortune back then. Since everything has become the past, and ‘Changhong’ has moved on to his next life, you… should also let go.”
As Li Yifei’s words fell, White Shadow pressed her lips together, staring at him for a long time before lowering her head in disappointment.
Several White Shadows walked out from the back of the classroom and patted her shoulder, seemingly offering comfort.
After a moment, she gathered her courage and wrote in the notebook again:
—I’m sorry, I mistook you for someone else. I’ve troubled you.
“It’s fine, really, no trouble at all,” Li Yifei waved his hands repeatedly. Seeing White Shadow silently weeping, he felt immense guilt.
Although it was the Nanda snake demon who killed Changhong, not his Li Yifei personality, ultimately everything stemmed from him, making him feel like a truly unforgivable beast.
“Um, do you have any other wishes? Is there anything I can help you with?” Li Yifei asked tentatively.
White Shadow thought for a moment, consulted with the other White Shadows, then continued writing:
—We do have a small wish… According to classmates who just returned from outside, today is Beijing University’s welcome party? If possible, we’d like to see it… We’ve been here for decades and haven’t heard anyone sing or dance for a very long time. It should be quite lively, right?
The other White Shadows nodded in agreement, looking at Li Yifei with hopeful expressions.
“Go see the welcome party…” Li Yifei scratched his head. “If I open the door for you, can you go out?”
—No, Teacher Jiang’s barrier is invisible. Opening the door won’t help unless someone breaks it with special methods like that boy did earlier… but then Teacher Jiang would get angry again, wouldn’t she?
“Teacher Jiang? Where is she? I’ll go beg her to let you out for one night!” Li Yifei immediately said.
—Teacher Jiang usually only comes late at night. We don’t know where she is now.
Li Yifei looked up at the time. There was still over an hour before the welcome party started. Gritting his teeth, he said:
“Wait here. I’ll go find her! Wait for me!”
Li Yifei turned and rushed out of the classroom like a bolt of lightning, quickly sprinting toward the exit of the teaching building.
…
“Not here either…”
Cao Yuan walked out of the gymnasium, looked at the gradually darkening sky, and sighed helplessly.
He had been searching this area for almost two hours with no results. Besides the places he had already checked, the only place left seemed to be…
Cao Yuan turned his head in a certain direction. Under the night sky, the kendo club’s training ground was still brightly lit.
He wondered if she would be there at this hour…
After a moment’s hesitation, he stepped inside.
“Junior Cao Yuan?!”
In the empty training ground, Lu Menglei, who was practicing with a bamboo sword, saw Cao Yuan and her eyes immediately lit up!
“Why are you here alone?” Cao Yuan asked.
“The welcome party is about to start. Everyone else went to the venue.”
“What about you? Aren’t you going?”
“I, I…” Lu Menglei pressed her lips together, hiding the bamboo sword behind her back, her cheeks slightly flushed as she spoke, “I wanted to wait and go with you…”
