Chapter 109: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (33)
Cen Yu stretched his arms and legs, then began making his way up the teaching building.
Sure enough, inside one of the classrooms, he spotted a sneaky Fan Jie and Duan Zhou—
“HA!” Cen Yu yelled out, scaring both people inside the classroom half to death.
Both of them shuddered, but upon seeing it was Cen Yu, they couldn’t help complaining, “Don’t scare people like that!”
“What are you two doing in here?” Cen Yu opened the window and vaulted inside, glancing behind Fan Jie to find that the guy had indeed brought freshly slaughtered blood offerings, fruits, and the like.
Paper and pens were set out before the two of them; it seemed the game hadn’t officially started yet.
“…We just wanted to review our lessons,” Fan Jie stammered, looking extremely worried that Cen Yu might discover the bad thing he was planning to do.
Duan Zhou chimed in, nodding frantically in agreement.
“Well, isn’t that a coincidence?” Cen Yu sat down cross-legged right where he was. “Let’s review together then.”
“You guys were planning to work hard in secret over summer break to shock everyone when school starts, right?”
Fan Jie cast a glance at Cen Yu, who was wearing a zip-up jacket and mid-length shorts, unable to understand why he had his hood up. In the end, he didn’t dare admit that he wanted to curse everyone, so he could only mutter meekly, “…Yeah.”
“Then let me study with you guys!”
Fan Jie and Duan Zhou exchanged a look, but ultimately sat down on the classroom floor with Cen Yu, reluctantly picking up the books beside them to start reading.
When Old Cen discovered them later, he even praised the few of them for being good, studious kids, though he added that it was better for them to head back early.
Old Cen looked at Cen Yu with a trace of confusion in his mind, clearly recalling that Cen Yu was supposed to be sleeping…
Cen Yu walked down the stairs alongside Fan Jie. “Don’t do things you’ll regret,” he said, clapping Fan Jie on the shoulder.
Fan Jie stared at Cen Yu’s receding back, dazed for a brief second. He rubbed his cheek in utter bewilderment. “When on earth did Cen Yu dye his hair?”
Cen Yu let out another sigh as he looked at the school in the dead of night.
He really had no idea where Fan Jie would be the second time, but since the guy hadn’t called anyone else along, he was likely in the bathroom… He checked the restrooms one by one, finally finding Fan Jie holding a fruit knife and an apple in the corner men’s room on the senior-year floor.
With a twisted expression, Fan Jie glared viciously at his reflection in the mirror.
He was preparing to start peeling the apple the moment midnight struck…
Cen Yu opened the bathroom door and walked straight inside, eyeing the knife and apple in Fan Jie’s hands. “Eating all by yourself in the bathroom?”
“…I-I…” Fan Jie clearly hadn’t expected anyone else to be in the bathroom at night. He had only been driven by a moment of impulse to do this, and now that he saw another person, he actually calmed down quite a bit.
Just as he was about to ask why Cen Yu was here, it struck him that the guy was the security guard’s son, so his presence here wasn’t strange at all.
Looking at the knife and apple in his hands…
He finally set the knife down and handed the apple over to Cen Yu. “Here, you eat it.”
Cen Yu: “…”
He had just been making a casual remark, not actually intending to eat it.
Still, since Fan Jie had handed it to him, it felt rude to refuse, so he took it into his hand.
“Cen Yu,” Fan Jie leaned against the sink, looking at him. “…Do you still remember Pei Hengyun?”
“I do,” Cen Yu said.
“…I think I saw him the other day,” Fan Jie said hesitantly, seemingly worried the other would take him for a lunatic.
“Mm,” Cen Yu said. “I saw him too.”
“You saw him too?!” Fan Jie grew instantly excited. “…You saw him too…”
His tone slumped as he continued, “I kept telling everyone I saw him, but nobody believed me. They all said I lost my mind from too much academic pressure.”
Thinking of something, his words came to a sudden halt. He threw a glance at Cen Yu. “Sorry, I forgot you two were really close. You must be hurting a lot too, right?”
In truth, Cen Yu didn’t know.
Up until now, his own past had been a complete blank to him.
He knew it was simply because he hadn’t reached that specific narrative trigger point yet. Tossing the apple idly in his hand, he said to Fan Jie, “Then let me tell you a secret too.”
“What secret?” Fan Jie’s interest was instantly piqued.
“I might have liked Pei Hengyun,” Cen Yu said.
This was something he had deduced: in his teenage years, Cen Yu had perhaps liked Pei Hengyun, only for everything to come to an abrupt end before it could even begin.
Fan Jie instantly wore a flabbergasted expression. Cen Yu turned his head to look at him. “What, do you find it weird?”
Fan Jie shook his head frantically.
Cen Yu patted Fan Jie on the shoulder. “Let’s go. Stop eating all by yourself in the bathroom.”
Fan Jie nodded instinctively, slowly leaving the bathroom alongside Cen Yu. For some reason, an inexplicable sense of relief washed over him, as if a terrible mistake had been stopped right before it could happen.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to invite Cen Yu to walk back together…
He realized Cen Yu’s figure had vanished without a trace. A moment later, it suddenly struck him…
Cen Yu was supposed to be in that city outside with He Yongning right now—how could he possibly be in this bathroom?!
Pitch darkness enveloped Cen Yu’s vision, yet he could still feel something tapping his shoulder.
That hand was freezing cold, and a soft voice whispered by his ear—
“Yu Sheng.”
It was in this exact instant that a flood of memories that didn’t belong to him surfaced in his mind.
Only upon returning to that specific moment back in that year did he finally understand, in that empty winter classroom, what wish he had actually made back then.
“I have a wish,” Cen Yu said to the entity tapping his shoulder.
“What wish?”
“I want Pei Hengyun to still be able to hang out with me.”
The Cen Yu of 2012 had played a small trick back then. Having heard that the dead could not return to life, he knew his wish for Pei Hengyun’s resurrection was impossible to fulfill.
So he rephrased his wish: as long as Pei Hengyun could still hang out with him, that would be enough.
Yu Sheng let out a low chuckle. “Deal.”
“However, he will slowly replace your existence.”
“None of your former friends will remember you, and the same goes for everyone you know,” Yu Sheng’s voice echoed right beside his ear. “Are you still okay with that?”
Clearly, Cen Yu’s answer back then had been yes.
He saw no need to change anything about it now, so he gave the exact same answer.
“Hurry, hurry!”
“There’s another one over here!!”
When Cen Yu slowly regained consciousness, he caught sight of rescue workers moving all around him. He wanted to open his mouth to speak, but was immediately stopped.
Next, through his blurred vision, he caught sight of He Yongning and the others, followed by the sight of Jiang Tuan and the rest being dug out by the rescue crew.
Cen Yu turned his head to look at the building behind him.
Only to discover that although they were still within the bounds of Meiman High School, the old teaching building was gone. The new teaching building now occupied the exact spot where the old one used to stand.
So that was how it went, Cen Yu thought to himself, before passing out once again in the very next second.
