Chapter 12 Lighthouse Dream

Author: A Clockwork Orange Dream

Chapter 12 Lighthouse Dream

Yan Jingxing watched as the captain and classmate disappeared into the crowd.

"...Chun Zao, she's gone."

He said to the girl who was still holding on to his clothes from behind.

"Can you stop hiding?"

"..."

Ji Chunzao moved his feet and stood side by side with him.

She stared at the crowds of people in front of the shopping mall, her tense little face and lips finally relaxed, and she sighed softly.

Yan Jingxing couldn't help but touch his chin.

From his perspective as an onlooker, the relationship between the two girls seemed a bit strange, not like ordinary roommates.

"Spring algae?"

"Um?"

"Are you going home alone later?"

"Um."

"Then wait a minute. There's still some time, let's talk about it."

"ah?"

The long-haired girl looked at him confused.

"Don't act stupid, of course I'm talking about you and Xie Yuzhi. What happened between you two before?"

To be honest, he felt that there was no reason to hide this kind of thing.

"Well... it happened before, and I didn't know how to face her."

Ji Chunzao has always been frank, or in other words, apart from being embarrassed by the "girly feelings" that occasionally pop up, she doesn't know how to hide herself; it is precisely because of this personality that she attracts the rejection of others.

"We have been roommates since we were in the first grade of junior high school. She seems to be an unkind person, and she doesn't have many friends like me."

"Being like you, that's quite rare." Yan Jingxing nodded, "Wolong and Phoenix chicks are gathered in the same dormitory."

Ji Chunzao decided to pretend not to hear and continued:

"Then, there is a person in the dormitory who always likes to say bad things about people behind their backs. In fact, she said bad things about Xie Yuzhi to us, but she didn't dare to say it in person. But it's different for me. She's not afraid of offending

I."

"During that time, I could hear her being mean to me every day when I went back to the dormitory. It was really annoying." The little girl sighed, "But I couldn't hit her. After all, she didn't make a move. If I hit her first, I would be unreasonable.

"

...So you were planning to hit her?

"One day, she deliberately took away my clothes and said that I always wore the same undershirt every day and refused to change. I only wore my school uniform on weekends..."

"You, you don't want to change your clothes?"

Yan Jingxing's eyes widened.

"No, that person is framing me!" Ji Chunzao explained hurriedly, "I change and wash them frequently every day! The kind of people who buy a lot of clothes but don't wash them are not as clean as me."

"...Just treat it like this."

"It's not 'as if', it's the fact!"

"But your hair is a mess, do you really take care of it?"

"My hair is naturally curly!"

The girl grabbed the hair that fell on her shoulders, and her tone was a little worried. But she quickly reacted and changed the topic back.

"I won't make trouble with you. In short, the person who stood up to teach her a lesson for me at that time was Xie Yuzhi."

"I see. Then she is really nice to you."

"Yes, but on the same day, she and I had a big fight." Ji Chuncao said, "I originally planned to say thank you to her, but she pulled me and said seriously that she wanted me

'Give up the alien thing' and let me 'face the reality with a positive and healthy attitude' and so on..."

"Then you got into an argument with her? It sounds like it was your problem."

"I was just insisting on my opinion and she started getting angry."

"Chun Zao, I don't mean to let you give up."

Yan Jingxing sighed.

"But she is different from me. Since she can't see aliens, she is unlikely to believe what you say. She has always taken care of you. If you want to learn how to maintain this relationship, you have to choose a more tactful way..."

"Of course I know about this kind of thing," she began to mutter again, "but Yuzhi's expression was so serious at that time, which made me become serious too, so the two people's opinions became tit for tat."

"Of course, I regretted it soon and wanted to talk to her to make it clear...but she no longer wanted to talk to me, and she always seemed to be walking around me when I saw her."

"Oh, I don't want to talk to you, I'm disappointed in you." Yan Jingxing nodded, "That's her problem."

"well……"

Ji Chunzao began to sigh.

The two of them had now reached the river flowing through the center of the town. There was a stone bridge on the river. Below the bridge hole was the turbulent river surface and the river bottom covered with pebbles.

Along the hillside, shrubs and grass blades grow and spread in disorder; from time to time, tricycles and motorcycles drive over the bridge, and the crushed stone slabs make a "rattling" sound, and there are live things on both sides of the bridge.

Rusty metal railing.

Ji Chunzao leaned against the railing behind her, her childish face showing a sadness that did not suit her age.

"Now is not the time to argue about 'whose problem' it is, but that we can't understand each other."

"If you don't understand, you don't understand."

Yan Jingxing followed her example and leaned on the railing beside the bridge. He soon discovered that the support behind him was not stable and the railing was swaying, as if it might fall down at any time. So he quickly got up and pulled Ji Chunzao up.

.

"It's her business that she doesn't want to hear from me. I have to convince her!"

The girl clenched her fists, her eyes sparkling, as if she had found a new goal.

"You mean captain?" He frowned slightly, "She doesn't want to be friends with you, how can you force her to do it?"

"This reaction... Yan Jingxing, don't you want me to make new friends?" Ji Chunzao laughed "hehehehe" and said, "Don't be jealous, you are the first, she is the latter."

"...How come you have such a big face?"

Yan Jingxing retorted angrily:

"I have no objection, I just think you can't do it."

"How could it be possible? Don't forget, the 'method' I originally planned to use to make you believe has not been used yet. If you are lucky, maybe she will be able to see alien creatures all of a sudden just like you.

?”

The "method" mentioned by Ji Chunzao is to first point out the victims who were attacked by spiritual leeches, and then let people see their fate, so as to win people's trust.

"But the spiritual leech has disappeared, right? No, it was killed by the 'astronaut' I saw..."

"Just wait until they come again next time."

Ji Chunzao replied nonchalantly.

"Do they come often?"

"No, actually including this time, it's only three times. But it will come in the next two years, right?"

"...It's too long!"

"Before graduation, just let me put this worry aside."

The little girl stretched herself and seemed ready to leave.

"Jing Xing, I haven't been able to overcome the 'summoning' thing yet, so you can wait a little longer, right?"

"Well, it doesn't matter to me."

"That's good. If nothing happens, I'll leave first?"

This guy is so generous...

Yan Jingxing hesitated for a moment, then asked:

"The matter between you and your aunt..."

"Don't worry, I know her character. She's embarrassed today, and she knows that I know other friends and classmates, so she won't do anything to me. How can I put it, my aunt is more face-friendly."

That’s right, it’s because the nest is so crowded, Yan Jingxing thought to himself.
To be continued...