FSC [QT] Chapter 65.2

“Baobei, come with me to the rooftop.”

Qiu Wu pulled Jiang Baobei away who was still talking.

“Look, she just feels guilty. Otherwise, why didn’t she refute it? You don’t know, Qiu Wu’s mother is bad. When her father got into trouble, she took her and ran away without even caring about the elderly in the family…”

As if she felt that she had won, Dong Leilei’s shouting became louder and louder, until Qiu Wu pulled Jiang Baobei up the stairs and her voice could be vaguely heard.

“Why don’t you let me speak for you?”

After arriving at the rooftop, Jiang Baobei asked with pursed lips.

“As for me, I have never had any good friends since I was a child.”

Ah Wu did not answer Jiang Baobei’s question, but she talked about herself.

“Because my family was very poor when I was a child, I had to help my mother with a lot of housework in the little free time I had. I didn’t have time to make friends.”

“In fact, I also wanted to play with them, but in the end, I could only comfort myself that having my mother was enough.”

Ah Wu’s words reminded Jiang Baobei of her childhood memories.

It was said that children were innocent, but sometimes, children were also very snobbish. They liked friends who wore beautiful clothes, brand new shoes, and always had snacks in their pockets.

At that time, Qiu Wu wore cheap clothes bought from roadside stalls, shoes that were already pointed up to her toes, no pocket money, and no snacks.

She simply did not meet the standards of making friends at all.

The few who were willing to make friends with her because she was beautiful would eventually leave because she had no money to go to the canteen with them to buy snacks, no money to buy clothes and stickers for the dolls, and other reasons.

At that time, Qiu Wu comforted herself that she did not need friends and that she just wanted her mother.

But in fact, she had always longed for a friend in her heart.

“Baobei, you are my first friend, and you are also the only friend who never asks me to give anything, but just shows your heart and soul to me.”

“To be honest, after the surprise, I felt a little defensive because I couldn’t bear it. I can’t help but wonder, why are you so nice to me? What is there about me that deserves you to be nice to me?”

“You deserve it. You have good grades, you are beautiful, you are kind-hearted…”

Jiang Baobei listed Qiu Wu’s advantages. She knew herself better than anyone else.

“But there are many people who are better than me. Why don’t you like others?”

Ah Wu sat on the poured concrete steps and smiled frankly: “At that time, I thought that there must be some reason that made us so compatible with each other that we became best friends.”

“We have the same living habits and the same hobbies. At that time, I even doubted whether we were the same person.”

Ah Wu’s eyes were gentle and affectionate as if she saw through something, which instantly calmed the panic that Jiang Baobei had caused because of her words.

“Maybe you don’t know, but you actually have a lot of small flaws. For example, when you were doing homework, the last math question was very difficult. You chose the correct answer, but in the end, you erased the correct option and chose another answer. I saw this scene. If it was Jiang Baobei, you wouldn’t be able to figure out that answer, right?”

“Really? I don’t remember. Maybe I just guessed it. You know, my grades are not good. I randomly choose the answers to the questions I don’t know. Maybe I chose the right answer that time, but later changed it to the wrong one.”

Jiang Baobei responded calmly. She was also guessing how much Qiu Wu had thought of.

“Last night, Uncle Jiang and I talked a lot. It turns out that Jiang Baobei can’t eat spicy food, but that day, Baobei and I had a very happy meal at the spicy restaurant. It turns out that Baobei can eat the peppers that she dislikes the most for me so happily?”

‘Qiu Wu’ would cover up in front of Jiang Fugui but would not hide it in front of her sixteen-year-old self, which had become one of the flaws.

“And the way you looked into my mother’s eyes when you came to my house that day. When you found those things that day, your eyes were red. But why were you sad? Do you know the stories behind those things?”

Ah Wu said straightforwardly, “There are so many coincidences that make me think of my previous suspicions.”

“Baobei, are you really just Baobei? Or, are you another me from a parallel space, just like my ridiculous guess?”

Ah Wu looked at Jiang Baobei very seriously, with burning eyes, not allowing her to hide anything.

“It turns out that I was so smart and intuitive at the age of sixteen.”

Jiang Baobei was silent for a long time. She had never thought that one day her identity would be exposed by her sixteen-year-old self.

But the moment she confessed, she did feel a lot more relieved, as if the heavy burden that had been weighing on her was suddenly shared in half.

“There were many times when I wanted to stand on this balcony and jump off.”

Jiang Baobei walked to the edge of the balcony. The school’s rooftop fence was built very high. Jiang Baobei was 165 cm tall, and the height of the fence was at her neck, which had long exceeded the safety standard. It was not easy to climb up the fence.

“Every time I climbed up, I sobered up. Why was I the one who died? I didn’t do anything wrong. I studied so hard and lived so positively. Why should I die for those ignorant people?”

When Jiang Baobei turned around, she was already in tears.

“You know, in the other world, no one likes me.”

Jiang Baobei told the stories of Lin Lei and Dong Leilei.

These were all things Ah Wu had seen from her memory, but when she heard Jiang Baobei tell them in a steady tone, she felt more distressed than when she saw those memories at the beginning.

Perhaps it was because she cared more about ‘Qiu Wu’, so she felt more empathy for everything she had experienced.

“It’s not that no one likes you.”

Ah Wu stepped forward and hugged Jiang Baobei, refuting what she had just said.

“It’s just that you are too good, so those people don’t deserve to like you.”

She hugged ‘Qiu Wu’ tightly like an adult coaxing a child, and one hand kept stroking back and forth along her spine.

When she came into this Jiang Baobei’s body, she was already forty years old. She felt that she was past the age of being a spoiled child, and she was strong enough not to be sad about what happened in the past.

But today, she was healed by her sixteen-year-old self.

It turned out that it was not that she was not good enough. It was just that those people were not worthy of her!

Even if it was just a word of comfort, she would be content.

 

 

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