There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 1.2

Qin Yan observed Qin Ke’s expression, just about to say something more, when she suddenly saw her younger sister raise her head.

It was still that innocent and pure smile.

“I’ve thought it over. I’m going to the school now to find a teacher to change my preference.”

“…Really?!”

Qin Yan couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, then realized she was a bit too excited. She quickly covered it up, laughing and holding Qin Ke’s hand.

“Sister is so happy for you! But I see it’s getting late. If you want to change your preference, you must do it before eight o’clock tonight.”

“Mm.”

Qin Ke subtly withdrew her hand from Qin Yan, her eyes smiling.

“I’m leaving now. I’ll eat dinner when I come back, don’t worry.”

“Do you need elder sister to accompany you?”

“No need, I can do it myself.”

“Then you should go early and return early.”

“Mm.”

Turning around and leaving the small courtyard in front of the building, the smile on Qin Ke’s face gradually cooled.

In the somewhat darkening sky, the girl took a light breath.

She was too lazy to entangle with Qin Yan, so she simply pretended to go to school for a stroll.

Just to familiarize herself with her alma mater, Qiande High School, which she hadn’t seen in ten years.

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After the last moment to change the preference had passed, Qin Ke aimlessly walked around the campus.

Qiande High School was the most famous private middle school in Qian City. Its reputation was due to its college entrance rate, which was unmatched by other ordinary high schools, and because it was a gathering place for the children of wealthy families.

In the inner and outer circles of Qian City, the richest young masters and young ladies were all sent to Qiande Middle School to “gild” their college entrance rate.

These students were only a small part of the school, but they enjoy far more rights than ordinary students. They skip classes, fight, fall in love, go to bars, and have no discipline.

They look like everything, but not like students.

And among these people, the most unruly and lawless one was Huo Jun.

He was the most crazy, wild, but also the most individualistic one.

He had a handsome and flamboyant appearance, and a carefree laughter and anger; he could play a beautiful piano, and also fight ten people alone; he could get a jaw-dropping full score in comprehensive science, and also sit at the bottom of the whole school in the second round.

He is a madman.

Through and through. Reckless and arbitrary.

Such a person was completely different from Qin Ke’s world, with almost no intersection.

So she still didn’t understand to this day, including in her previous life, who spread the rumor that Huo Jun liked her.

If Qin Ke remembered correctly, the first time she saw Huo Jun was a few days before this point in time.

It was an evening, the sky was dim. On her way home through the long alley behind Qiande High School, Qin Ke heard groans, curses, and pleas mixed together in the wind, coming from the darkness.

Qin Ke instinctively looked over.

In the dimness was a dazzling white shirt, only stained with dust, the collar also smeared with bloodstains, a few spots of diffusion, like red plum blossoms blooming wantonly in the snow.

At that time, the slender young man was holding the hair of a person who was kneeling on the ground with one hand, his fingers spread out, and the veins on the back of his hand slightly raised. He grabbed the person’s head, banged it hard against the wall, then bent over to dodge the serious attack behind his head, and his leg bent up and slammed out fiercely.

Then there were two more people in the cries of pain.

In that one-to-many fight, he was the only one without expression, not even frowning at the sight of blood.

Qin Ke was scared silly at the time. Holding the books in her arms, she stood still in place, until she didn’t know when this brutal fight ended, the indifferent young man walked towards her against the light of the street lamp.

As he was about to pass the alley, he stopped, slowly turned his body and glanced over.

About two or three seconds passed.

Qin Ke saw him tug at the corner of his mouth. That smile was light and thin, and in his dark eyes under the light, there was a chill like ice and snow.

He raised his hand, his index finger pressed against his lips.

His dark eyes looked at her.

“Shush.”

“…Good girl.”

His tone was light and playful, as if hiding deep emotions, and then the man withdrew and left. 

…… 

“Ding——!”

The sudden ringing of the evening bell in the campus abruptly pulled Qin Ke’s consciousness back.

She frowned and came back to her senses.

This was her first meeting with Huo Jun in her memory. Not long after, she changed her application and entered Qian City’s art high school, and had no intersection with that man.

Until later, she was arranged by the school to go to a drama group to do artistic group performances, and as a result, she encountered an explosion of props in the drama group.

——

If it weren’t for Huo Jun’s sudden appearance, she would have died in that guest performance in her previous life.

Unfortunately, when Qin Ke woke up in the hospital later, Huo Jun, who had saved her, had already disappeared.

Until she died in her previous life, she never saw that man again, never said “thank you”.

Qin Ke slowed down with mixed feelings, and turned her head a little confusedly–she always felt that she seemed to have forgotten something.

“Xiao Ke! Why are you in school?”

“……”

A voice suddenly popped up next to Qin Ke’s ear.

She looked up and saw a face that was more unfamiliar than familiar, vaguely remembering that it was a high school classmate, but she couldn’t recall the name.

Fortunately, the girl didn’t notice her confusion and excitedly grabbed Qin Ke’s hand—

“Did you hear? Tonight, there’s a school-wide event at Huo Jun’s bar, Hell. Students from Qiande can enter freely, and all drinks and snacks are on the house. And I heard that Huo Jun will even play the piano on the spot!”

“…Song Lili, let’s go, or we’ll be late!”

“Coming, coming—Xiao Ke, you should come too!”

“…”

Qin Ke was still stunned, and the girl had already been pulled away by her companion.

And in Qin Ke’s memory, she slowly turned over this old story that had been buried for many years.

Hell Bar…

School-wide event…

Qin Ke’s pupils suddenly contracted slightly.

In her memory, she didn’t go in her previous life.

And Huo Jun, that night, drank something that someone had spiked. Late at night in the alley behind the bar, a dozen boys from other schools who had a grudge against him ambushed him, broke three of his ribs, and he was hospitalized for half a year.

Most importantly, that night, ten of his fingers were broken, and he could never play the most beautiful piano sound again.

These were all things that Qin Yan later mentioned with great regret.

Qin Ke’s eyes flickered slightly.

She continued to walk a few steps forward.

Until in front of her eyes, she suddenly saw the fierce and handsome side face of the man from her previous life who had rushed into the makeup room of the drama group shouting her name.

“…..”

Qin Ke’s footsteps suddenly stopped.

Standing in place hesitating for two seconds, the girl turned around.

Following the direction that the girls had just left, Qin Ke quickly followed.