Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl-Chapter 744 - 743: Mr. Zhen Passes Away

Zhen Yu’s response was not only heard by Zhen Yan, but also by her roommates.

So as soon as she took the phone away from her ear, Shi Mei was the first to ask, "What happened, Zhen Yu?"

"Yeah! Who was calling?" You Qing immediately followed up with the question!

Although Sun Shuhan did not speak, she looked at Zhen Yu with worried eyes.

Zhen Yu was just about to tell the truth when her phone suddenly rang again!

She hurriedly glanced at the screen and found that this time it was from Han Mingyue.

She then apologized to You Qing, who was leaning next to her bed, and said, "Wait a moment! I need to take another call."

"Go ahead and pick it up! We can talk afterwards!" You Qing quickly nodded understandingly and sat back down.

Zhen Yu then pressed the answer button and, while glancing at Shi Mei and Sun Shuhan, she spoke in a low voice, "Hello?"

"Xiao Yu! Did, did your brother just call you?"

Han Mingyue’s voice was a bit anxious, clearly not as gentle as usual.

Zhen Yu silently nodded, then realizing the other party couldn’t see, she quickly hummed an affirmation.

"My dad also called me..."

Han Mingyue’s words broke off halfway, but Zhen Yu understood what he meant—he also knew about Mr. Zhen’s passing!

"I’m okay, my brother and I are planning to catch an early flight back tomorrow!"

Zhen Yu solemnly shared her and her brother’s plans, but Han Mingyue immediately interjected, "I’ll go back with you!"

Zhen Yu subconsciously shook her head! Then she quickly refused, "No need!"

Han Mingyue urgently interrupted, "I,"

"Zhen Yan is there! Don’t worry, I really am fine!"

"...Then I’ll send you!"

Just as Zhen Yu was about to say "no need for that either," Han Mingyue said, "What time tomorrow morning? I’ll wait for you downstairs!"

"...Four o’clock!" His tone was too determined, and after hesitating for a moment, Zhen Yu relented.

—

After hanging up Han Mingyue’s call, the three roommates suddenly gathered around Zhen Yu’s bunk.

"You need to catch a flight tomorrow morning? Something happened at home?" You Qing was the first to speak, voicing everyone’s questions.

"Yeah! My dad passed away." As Zhen Yu spoke, she placed her phone next to the pillow, then nodded to her three roommates.

You Qing opened her mouth wide in surprise! "Ah! This,"

"Ah... Zhen Yu! That, don’t be too sad..." Shi Mei also suddenly didn’t know what comforting words to say.

Instead, it was Sun Shuhan! Usually quiet, she watched closely and seemed to have a sharp insight into people’s hearts.

"Xiao Yu, your... relationship with your father?"

"Not very good." For the first time, Zhen Yu publicly acknowledged this! Moreover, she not only directly disclosed the fact about her parents’ divorce, but also self-analyzed, "Maybe it’s because the feelings faded more and more! So when I heard this news, I wasn’t very sad, just a bit surprised! And a little, caught off-guard..."

After saying this, Zhen Yu suddenly laughed a bit self-deprecatingly! Her smiling face carried an unclear mix of emotions, even she herself could not distinguish.

However, after the brief smile, her eyes slowly filled with tears...

As they watched Zhen Yu’s tears finally silently fall, all three roommates stayed silent.

Yet, they all realized more clearly in their hearts that Zhen Yu was actually someone with a tough exterior but a soft heart...

—

Zhen Yu quickly raised her hand to wipe her face! Just as she was about to say something in the silent room, the lights suddenly went out!

So, after licking the salty tear stains at the corner of her mouth with her tongue, she took back the words she was about to say.

And changed them to — "Everyone go to sleep early! I’m going to wash my face again."

As she spoke, Zhen Yu got out of bed and went to the bathroom with a towel.

As soon as she left, whispering voices started in the dormitory.

"It looks like Zhen Yu is still very upset, after all, life and death are major matters!"

"That’s right! No matter what, he was her biological father! Tomorrow morning..."

"Four o’clock is too early! The cafeteria and the supermarket aren’t even open yet! Does anyone have any stockpile of food?"

"I do! I still have two packets of biscuits!"

"I have a bag of milk! It’d be perfect for her breakfast! We were supposed to go send our works together tomorrow! Looks like it’s up to you two to go with me now! And send her share as well!"

"No problem! Think again, is there anything else?"

"Ask for leave! Help her ask for leave! In a moment, I’ll ask her how many days she needs!"

"At the very least, it should be three days I guess, it shouldn’t take a week!"

Creak—

The room suddenly fell silent again; Zhen Yu was back.

"Why aren’t you guys sleeping yet?" Knowing well that the three must have been discussing something behind her back, Zhen Yu asked knowingly nonetheless.

"Ah..." Shi Mei immediately said, "Um, how many days of leave do you need us to ask for?"

Zhen Yu hesitated for a bit, then finally chose a middle number.

"Five days!"

"Alright, no problem!"

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Very quickly, the dormitory returned to silence again.

The steady breathing of the other three roommates reached her ears, but in the darkness, Zhen Yu’s eyes were wide open.

She couldn’t sleep.

Although she had long suspected that her father, Mr. Zhen, had a high likelihood of not escaping the fate of his previous life!

She, however, did not expect that the accident would come so suddenly! So — unexpectedly!

Just like Grandpa Zhen’s sudden death! Mr. Zhen’s time of death in his past life wasn’t actually earlier than it is today!

But all of this still happened...

"It’s really like, having a dream!" Zhen Yu muttered silently to herself: "Just don’t know if he died because of that, sigh! Why did he have to go so suddenly..."

Zhen Yu took a deep breath, suddenly feeling that she was quite melodramatic!

While her father was alive, she didn’t want to see him, and she even extremely disliked him! She didn’t even want to hear Zhen Yan say anything related to him! But, the moment she heard that her father was gone, she suddenly began to miss him!

Of course! Zhen Yu wasn’t exactly missing the Mr. Zhen of today. What she missed, or rather what she reminisced about! Was actually the old man of her childhood, buried deepest in her mind, combining memories from two lifetimes.

Once upon a time, she and her brother sat one in front of the other on their father’s 28-bar bicycle, laughing carefree children they were!

Once upon a time, Mr. Zhen was also a devoted father who loved and cared for his children wholeheartedly!

Alas, the world is unpredictable, and people change.

Ultimately... Zhen Yu slowly closed her eyes in the darkness.

Two streams of tears fell, but quickly slipped into the pillowcase along her temples, vanishing in an instant.