Chapter 14: Do You Know What This Is Called?
Qin Xiao’s grandmother lived in a very remote village in City B.
Following the winding mountain road, passing a bumpy path, then a field of flowers, then… what? He thought this was it! Why is it different?
Seeing that the wasteland he remembered had become a small forest, Qin Xiao was completely bewildered.
It seemed the car couldn’t get through; they’d have to take another route.
Qin Xiao turned the car around and drove back.
Since they’d started climbing the mountain road, they hadn’t seen a single zombie, giving the two boys some hope.
But there was still no signal on their phones. They could only look at old photos, take pictures of the scenery along the way, use their phones as flashlights, or check the time.
The car windows were fully lowered.
Ji Nian, in the passenger seat, was lying on the window, his cheek resting on his folded arms, lazily basking in the sun, his eyes half-closed.
His long, feather-like eyelashes drooped slightly like small fans, concealing the coldness in his eyes.
The sunlight was warm, a faint halo outlining half of his face—his straight nose bridge, well-defined chin, full forehead, and a few strands of hair fluttering in the breeze.
Bathed in the sunlight, he looked incredibly gentle.
But the moment his eyes flickered open, the boy’s determination and decisiveness immediately flashed in his narrow eyes, making him appear unapproachable.
Feeling a bit sleepy from the sun, Ji Nian yawned.
The idiot who brought him here was running around like a headless chicken. After taking several wrong turns, he finally found the right path to the village.
In the distance, ancient, rustic houses with blue-tiled roofs appeared in their view.
The houses were generally built high, the streets weren’t paved roads, but made of stones of varying sizes, with lush moss growing in the corners of the walls.
Qin Xiao hadn’t stopped talking the whole way.
Ji Nian occasionally listened, learning that Qin Xiao hadn’t been here for two years and had come back to visit his grandmother.
Qin Xiao said he had originally planned to return for last year’s Spring Festival, but the school suddenly held a ridiculous winter camp, and attendance was mandatory.
His parents, worried about his declining grades, had hired a tutor for him. The tutor was constantly sarcastic, and Qin Xiao, unable to take it, sent him to the hospital on the first day.
Qin Xiao had a terrible year.
Not only did he not get to see his grandmother, but he was also tormented by three sets of extremely difficult exam papers his mother had given him.
He had to answer one paper a day; scores below 100 meant no food.
A joke?
Did she really think he couldn’t score 100?
He just didn’t want to eat!
Qin Xiao told it all with this incredibly boastful tone.
Ji Nian really wanted to applaud him and say, “That’s a great boast.”
Qin Xiao also said that his grandmother and mother didn’t get along well, for no particular reason, just like most mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships.
Therefore, Qin Xiao’s grandmother refused to move in with her son and daughter-in-law.
Qin Xiao’s mother, to avoid unpleasantness every time they met, rarely went back.
She was determined to make her son successful, enrolling Qin Xiao in various cram schools, hoping that he could get into a good university and not have to suffer in the future, taking up a lot of Qin Xiao’s personal time…
Perhaps because he was bored, Ji Nian belatedly realized that he had listened to a lot about Qin Xiao.
He even heard about the time he was kicked by a little kid in the residential area.
“That little kid was so arrogant. I just glanced at him, and he immediately said, ‘Looking at my dad?'”
“Damn it! I was furious,” Qin Xiao said. “He was almost a head shorter than me, yet so arrogant. Wasn’t he just asking for a beating?”
“Guess what happened next?”
Qin Xiao asked.
Ji Nian’s lazy voice was mostly blown away by the wind, but some of it reached Qin Xiao’s ears. “He knocked you down with a kick.”
Qin Xiao: …
He was actually guessed right.
Ji Nian, having had enough sun, leaned back in his seat and continued, “You couldn’t even beat a child, and you still have the nerve to talk about it.”
“I couldn’t beat…”
Qin Xiao suddenly fell silent, something flashing through his mind. Then, his eyes widened as he looked at Ji Nian, his mouth agape.
“No way, Ji Nian! It was YOU who kicked me?!”
Qin Xiao was astonished, looking Ji Nian up and down. “That shorty was you? Wow, wow! It really was you!”
The arrogant little kid’s image in his memory overlapped with Ji Nian’s clean-cut face. That’s right—those eyes, sharp as knives, were exactly the same!
“What did you eat to grow so tall?”
Although he had been kicked, Qin Xiao knew it was Ji Nian, who was particularly excited. “Also, where did you go after that? I was wandering around the residential area every day, waiting to fight you. Do you know I almost got caught by the security guard as a thief? Damn, I never thought we’d be so fated!”
Ji Nian glanced at him. “Still happy about getting kicked?”
“Yeah, have you ever seen such fate?”
Qin Xiao said excitedly, “There are hardly any survivors left, yet we’re both alive, we became partners, and we even had a little ‘kick’ encounter as kids. Do you know what this is called?”
“What’s it called?” Ji Nian asked.
Qin Xiao turned, their eyes met, and Qin Xiao said, “Destined to be together!”
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