Chapter Eleven: The Distant Land of Eternal Love

  "I'm leaving here" On the last physical education class of the third year of high school, a girl who suddenly appeared called down Shao Qi on the court and said quietly to him.

  "Leave?" Wiping away the sweat that had accumulated on his forehead from exercise, he paused for a moment, and Shao Qi seemed to be looking at her in confusion.

  "Haha, yes, I was so solemnly saying that in the future, I want to stand at the same height as you and pursue you..."

  The girl's smile was like those famous people who drank a cup of bitter coffee in a formal setting, even though they still smiled on the surface, but their hearts and eyes couldn't hide the bitterness.

  "What a joke."

  "What's going on?" Shao Qi asked seriously.

  "I can't keep studying here anymore." The girl's tone was rather nonchalant.

  "Speak clearly, Yan!" Shao Qi frowned, his tone slightly twisted.

  This girl, no longer the first time she appeared in the classroom like a gentle breeze, nor the second time they met on a moonlit night as calm and clear as water. Now, Shao Qi only felt that he seemed to be getting closer to danger.

  She seemed to be shrouded in an aura of impending collapse, a helpless sorrow.

  "I found that I paid too much attention to you, just like the first time I gave you the key. You know? The key was originally taken by me on purpose during lunchtime when your classroom was empty. Because only in this way, I seemed to have an excuse to get in touch with you openly."

  "......" Shao Qi looked at her without speaking, he couldn't express his feelings about the girl's somewhat deliberate behavior, he just felt a bit sour and cool.

  "I'm not a good girl, so fate won't give me another chance." She looked at him, forcing out a faint smile that was rather awkward and unattractive.

  "Because I was too focused on you, I even forgot about the people and things around me... I didn't even notice that my dad had someone outside..." He looked at him, yet seemed to not look at him, his eyes a vacant expanse.

  "He had a woman, it turned out that he and my mom had been quarreling for a long time wanting to divorce... I didn't know anything about it!" The girl seemed to be smiling, with a hint of moisture flickering in her eyes.

  "The night before last, my dad got drunk and they had another fight......" She seemed to think of something terrifying and was a bit annoyed, clutching her hair.

  "What happened?"

  His voice was slightly urgent, yet as gentle as possible, like a warm breeze in spring, which stopped her from hurting herself and at the same time suddenly reached out to catch her when she fell off the cliff.

  The result of extreme imagination unwilling to accept the fact is a tragic explosion in the brain, and towards Yan's eyes, it was almost a white vast expanse. She seemed like a newborn baby, carefully looking at him with weak and evasive eyes.

  "Should I tell you? No, I'm really crazy, what's the point of talking to me?" Thinking that it was just a one-sided secret crush, but in reality, the other person only treated her as a stranger. Yan Xiang suddenly smiled, with some self-mockery, and turned around.

  "I'm your friend! I'm willing to listen, you also need someone to talk to, you can tell me the truth about things!" His voice was exceptionally firm, like a rock that kept supporting her almost collapsing spirit.

  "Really?... No, you're just pitying me!" The white inside seemed to have suddenly and slowly changed color, and her pale face rippled with fine wrinkles.

  "Even if you are pitying me, I am willing, for I have lost that kind of self-respect and confidence."

  Suddenly, she stared wide-eyed again, her eyelids seeming to be forcibly propped open, staring at him motionlessly.

  "My dad killed my mom, he killed her!" Yan's voice and expression were in stark contrast, suddenly becoming weak, with a beast-like red glow in his black eyes.

  The tears that had been buried for so long, the ones that had witnessed the entire room filled with crimson without ever falling, the ones that had seen the ruthless abandonment of love after a night of drinking, now flowed out like a burst dam, flooding the boy's face.

  Shao Qi didn't speak, his eyes were dark with an illusion that seemed to pull people in, as if he had seen something, yet also seemed to be thinking of something.

  "Cry, cry......" Looking at the girl's tear-stained face, he eventually gave her a deep and gentle hug.

  "Do you know? There's a huge hole, so much blood, it's the most exaggerated and terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life... it just kept flowing from my mom's chest..." Xiang Yan tightly grabbed his arm, closing her eyes in pain.

  "I tried hard, I exerted myself to block that hole, but the blood just wouldn't stop flowing, gushing out in waves, staining my hands red, staining the entire room..."

  "To Yan..."

  "My dad just lay there, and he actually fell asleep. He killed my mom, he killed his wife, how can he still sleep?"

  "Calm down..."

  "I was staring at that sharp object lying on the ground, you know? I actually thought of stabbing it into my dad's chest at that moment, I wanted to see if he really had a heart..."

  Shao Qi tightly grasped her shoulders, as if holding onto a kite that had broken free and was about to disappear.

  "But I didn't," the girl said with a bright smile, looking at him as calmly as if they had just met. "You don't have to look at me like that, I know it's against the law to kill someone, so I've been guarding that place until he woke up, watching him be terrified and regretful..."

  "But he's not that bad, right?" Xiang Yan suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm, as if a dying person desperately needed some comfort, her face full of expectant emotions.

  "He himself called the police, and then he told me a lot... a lot..." Her tears flowed again, she took a deep breath and looked at him: "But I, didn't hear anything... I only saw blood, so much blood, my ears seemed to be filled with blood too..."

  "I really can't hear!" She suddenly hugged him, burying her head in his chest: "I watched as he was taken away by the police, crying to me nonstop... Actually, if killing people wasn't against the law, I wouldn't be able to do it either..."

  "I knew it..." He stiffened his arms for a moment before finally lifting his hand to pat the person in front of him on the head.

  "Isn't it good to have a stable family, isn't it good to have a gentle and considerate wife? Why do you men always have affairs?" Xiang Yan's voice was soft, slowly moving away from his chest, looking at him with an expressionless face.

  Shao Qi's face was slightly awkward and he didn't say a word.

  "When I was young, my mom had a lot of conflicts with him at home. She paid too much, too much... finally..."

  She took a deep breath and gazed at him quietly, continuing: "For the sake of her love, she had once been reckless; now, she finally died in her love too."