Pursuing Her Best Friend after Confession Failed-Chapter 78 - 76: Lively Class Group Chat and First Love’s Short Essay (Third Update, Please Subscribe)_2
"So who are you talking about?" Wang Shuai typed in the group chat. "@Life Like Summer Flowers, Yuan, say something."
Li Yuan looked at the high school group chat and replied, "What does this have to do with me?"
Seeing Li Yuan speak up, Wang Shuai quickly asked, "Yuan, is Yuchen talking about you? What’s up with you and Bai? Have you two made it official yet?"
Before Li Yuan could respond, Wang Yuchen, as Bai Weixi’s best friend, began to taunt him sarcastically.
"@Life Like Summer Flowers, Li Yuan, Bai gave you her whole heart. Did you really have to play hard to get and break it? I find your behavior despicable."
Xu Zhi quickly interjected, "Yuchen, Li Yuan, what’s going on? Don’t start a fight."
Wang Shuai also asked, "What happened, Yuchen? What’s going on with Li Yuan and Bai?"
When Li Yuan saw Wang Yuchen’s response, he frowned. Who the hell does she think she is? She has no right to talk to me like that.
Wang Yuchen posted in the group again: "Li Yuan, if you’re a man, stand up and explain yourself in front of the whole class. Why would you treat Bai like that?"
Li Yuan snorted. "It’s none of your business."
Suddenly, a familiar ID, "Bai Luweixi," replied, "Li Yuan, what about me?"
Seeing the main characters of the drama finally confront each other, the rest of the classmates in the group chat eagerly grabbed their popcorn, ready to watch things unfold. Everyone in the class knew about the emotional entanglement between Li Yuan and Bai Weixi.
They had all thought their story would have a happy ending. After all, when Li Yuan, in a moment of passion for Bai Weixi, had followed her choice of university during the application process, he had luckily stumbled into a top-ranked school. But now, just as university life was beginning, things were already taking a nosedive?
What exactly was going on?
Every spectator was incredibly curious.
Faced with Bai Weixi’s question, Li Yuan didn’t know how to respond. Before meeting Xia Zhijin, he might have still harbored thoughts of getting revenge on Bai Weixi, wanting to give her a taste of her own medicine by keeping her on the hook like a fish in his pond.
But today, after meeting a gem of a girl like Xia Zhijin, he felt the seal over his heart, once cemented shut, beginning to loosen.
Xia Zhijin is truly the treasure of a girl I’ve always dreamed of.
After thinking for a long time, Li Yuan finally replied in the group with a poem: "If life were only like the first time we met, there would be no autumn wind to sadden the painted fan. How easily a lover’s heart can change, yet they claim it’s old friends who are fickle."
No sooner had he replied than he saw Bai Weixi’s response: "So, love can disappear, right? I understand."
After that, Bai Weixi went silent.
The lively class group chat fell deathly still.
Li Yuan’s expression shifted constantly, until finally, only a sigh remained.
A moment later, a private message arrived from Xu Zhi. "Yuan, Bai Weixi left the group chat. What on earth is going on between you two? I asked Yuchen, but she wouldn’t say anything. She just called you a jerk and a liar and told me to cut ties with you."
Li Yuan had no idea how to explain. If he hadn’t applied to the same university as Bai Weixi, perhaps they would have simply gone their separate ways, slowly forgetting each other with time. But in his attempt to snag a spot at the prestigious Daxia University, he had ended up in the exact same place as her.
Now, it was a stain he could never wash away, even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
Li Yuan replied, "It’s too complicated to explain in a few words. Maybe she and I were just fated to meet but not to be together. Let’s leave it at that. If you’re my brother, don’t ask any more about it."
Xu Zhi wanted to press further, but seeing that Li Yuan didn’t want to talk, he dropped it. "Yuan, I think there might be a serious misunderstanding between you and Bai Weixi," he said. "I can tell she really likes you. Yuchen told me that Bai Weixi cried over you for a very, very long time... Yuan, I hope you two can make it work in the end."
Li Yuan remained silent and didn’t reply.
Could we really make it? How is that even possible? The invisible thorns have always been there; they never went away.
A little while later, Wang Shuai also sent a message containing just one sentence. "Yuan, take a look at Bai Weixi’s Qzone journal. I really think there might be some misunderstanding between you and her. Yuan, I hope you’ll handle this carefully. Clear things up so you don’t spend the rest of your life regretting it."
Li Yuan didn’t answer and hadn’t planned to pay it any mind. But on some strange impulse, he found himself navigating to Bai Weixi’s Qzone profile. It showed that she had just posted an update to her journal.
Li Yuan stared at the screen and was plunged into a deep silence.
The title of the entry was "Missing Out Is More Painful Than Waiting."
[In a life of tangled emotions, I take up my pen to commemorate the years gone by.
In the season of misty rain, flowers are most beautiful when not yet in full bloom.
—Preface
This season in Jiangnan is hazy with misty rain, shrouded in clouds, as ethereal as a dream.
This season in Jiangnan, a hundred flowers bloom in a riot of color, vying for beauty before withering away together.
This season in Jiangnan, the endless raindrops, TAP, TAP, TAP, strike the windowsill and fall upon the heart.
This season in Jiangnan, the melancholy is inexpressible, my pen only able to spill out a past tangled with bitterness and sweetness...
Surely, no one can dislike this lush greenery and profusion of splendid flowers.
It is like the love and hate of life that drives people to crazed infatuation without regret. But what remains after the endless blush of spring is but another scroll of youth, a painting called memory...
No matter how you try to color it or how painstakingly you try to carve it, the image on the scroll only grows blurrier...
Remembering those vibrant, youthful years, the clear melody in my ears bears witness to the vows you once made... beneath Wanfo Pagoda, before the South Hua Gate...
My vow has never scattered; yours has already drifted away like smoke.
Liking someone is a feeling both radiant and sorrowful. Some endings, it seems, were destined from the very beginning...
Lin Huiyin once said: On the stem of memory, who doesn’t have two or three graceful blossoms, unfurling namelessly, cloaked in emotion? When the last crimson petal falls, who knows what kind of loneliness is required to interpret such beauty...
Bai Luomei once said: Sometimes, if you wait for someone too long, you forget what they look like, even their name. Sometimes, if you wait for a lotus to bloom too long, the distinct seasons blur into one another...
If life were only like the first time we met, there would be no autumn wind to sadden the painted fan. Some stories, it seems, have their endings written from the very start.
But my heart refuses to accept it. I once thought I would search for you to the very end, without regret, even if I knew that in the end, there would be nothing...
The leaves fall in a hurry; before I knew it, autumn had arrived. Life passes in a hurry; looking back, love is already distant.
For the young you and me, missing out is a greater regret than never having met.
In every lonely year, every windy season, every restless night, I can’t help but think of you—your smile, your sorrows, your worries, and the kindness you once showed me, which I will forever hold in my heart...
My placid heart, once serene, surged like a stormy sea because of you.
Though the wind is cold and the frost bites, the place you occupied in my heart remains fragrant and lush.
Though the world changes, the years you passed through are eternally breathtaking...
I once imagined first love shining as brilliantly as summer flowers. Only today do I realize it was all just a dream...
Farewell, to the boy I once knew...]
After reading it, Li Yuan was speechless. A thousand different feelings washed over him, and he didn’t know what to think.
The journal entry was exactly 1,207 words long, which happened to be the numbers of his birthday. He didn’t know if it was a coincidence or if she had done it on purpose.
Li Yuan silently read it again, and then again. Each time, the words seemed to question his very soul, asking him how things had ended up this way. He couldn’t help but think of his past life, of a situation so painfully similar to this one, except he had been the one writing the journal entry.
His mood turned exceptionally foul.
Bai Weixi, in our last life, you were the one who owed me. Why are you pretending to be so devoted now? Damn it, why? Why? Why must my emotions still be affected by you! Since you’re the one who said goodbye, there’s no point in dragging this out. I’m not playing this game of emotional tug-of-war with you anymore. This is it.
Li Yuan glanced at Bai Weixi’s Qzone journal one last time. Steeling himself, he returned to her profile page, clicked "Settings," scrolled to the very bottom, and stared at the "Delete Friend" option. With resolve, he clicked it.
After deleting Bai Weixi as a friend, Li Yuan felt a sudden emptiness in his chest, as if he had lost something important. The feeling made him incredibly irritable.
"Bai Weixi," he muttered to the empty room, "from now on, we’ll never see each other again. This is a clean break, once and for all. Let’s just disappear from each other’s lives!"
