Chu Yang looked at the young man in front of her. He was indeed very handsome, and she heard that he attended B University next to her A University, and was even a campus heartthrob. Chu Yang felt that she was not someone who would get to know such a person. A campus heartthrob—was that someone an ordinary girl like her could befriend?
Moreover, judging by this young man's appearance, his family must be quite wealthy. She knew that in the novel, Chu Yang's family situation wasn't good. With such a vast difference between them, how could they possibly meet and date?
Lastly, wasn't the Chu Yang in the book in love with Gu Xiao? Wasn't she constantly waiting by Li Qinglu's side, trying to sabotage their relationship and take her place?
Chi Yan also kept glancing at Chu Yang from time to time. He himself felt it was unlikely, but after hearing from everyone else, he started to believe it a little.
"Would you... like some water?" Chi Yan said hesitantly.
Chu Yang's mouth was indeed dry, so she nodded.
Chi Yan quickly poured her a glass of warm water. After drinking the water, Chu Yang thought for a moment. Her body was still quite weak at the moment, and although her few roommates had told her a lot of information, she hadn't fully digested it all. Regardless, she decided to wait until she felt better before figuring things out.
Chu Yang recuperated in the hospital for a week, and her health finally improved significantly. Although she was still a bit weak, she could be discharged. During this time, her three roommates told her a lot of information, starting from her freshman year up until the present, mainly about how she and Chi Yan met, as well as things involving Li Qinglu and Gu Xiao, such as her fallout with Li Qinglu and Gu Xiao, how Gu Xiao had previously spread rumors about her, and then how she met Chi Yan. Apparently, they all often ate together, and everyone even knew about her predictions.
They also mentioned her microblog.
Chu Yang logged into her own microblog to check, and indeed, everything was true. Not only that, the chat history and moments on her phone showed that she and Chi Yan were in a romantic relationship.
It seemed that she must have transmigrated into this novel long ago, drifted away from the original male and female leads, and met new friends.
But the problem was, when she saw that Chi Yan boy, she didn't feel any sense of affection for him. She also didn't know what qualities he possessed that could make her, as a witch, trust him wholeheartedly.
Moreover, that boy named Chi Yan had actually forgotten her as well. According to the information she received, they went on a spring outing to Lingqiu Mountain with members of the literary society, and then something happened that caused them both to lose their memories. Chi Yan forgot about her, while she forgot everyone. Not only that, she was severely injured, while Chi Yan only suffered minor injuries.
After being discharged from the hospital, Chu Yang returned to the university. Students from the neighboring dorm, including Liang Huan and others who were quite close with her, came to visit her. "Yang Yang, how are you doing? We heard you were sick before?"
"Didn't you guys go on a spring outing? How did you suddenly get sick?"
"Everyone says it's because of Lingqiu Mountain, that place has heavy yin energy."
"Psh, but many people went there."
Chu Yang didn't expect to be so popular. "I'm fine, thank you all for your concern."
"That's good, the professor was asking about you a couple days ago."
After returning to the university, Chu Yang was warmly visited by everyone throughout the day, with people from her dorm room constantly coming and going. She didn't recognize any of them, but she could tell they had good intentions, so she didn't act like she didn't know them.
Aside from her roommates, no one else knew about her memory loss.
Afterwards, Jin Yang and the others kept introducing people to her, showing her photos if they had any, and explaining all the big and small things to her, like her exam scores, previous competitions she participated in, and even the swimming events she took part in during the sports meet.
"Oh right, you also signed up for the driving test. Check if your instructor has contacted you," Jin Yang said.
Chu Yang opened her WeChat and indeed found the instructor's contact. He had already sent her many messages asking why she hadn't come for practice.
Chu Yang quickly replied, explaining that she had been hospitalized due to illness. Soon after, the instructor messaged back and scheduled a practice time with her.
In the following days, Chu Yang practiced driving, attended classes, and studied. As for Chi Yan, she seemed to have forgotten about him. Once when she was eating in the cafeteria, she accidentally bumped into a girl and said sorry.
That girl glared at her, intending to scold her, but then seemed to think better of it and just snorted before walking away.
That glare made it clear she knew Chu Yang, but Chu Yang didn't remember her. Chu Yang just shrugged—she didn't care. If she remembered, she would have known that girl was Lin Shushu.
On Chi Yan's side, it was more or less the same. He attended classes, played sports, went to the library, and so on. He hadn't gone to the neighboring A University, nor had he mentioned Chu Yang again, which made Wei Feng and the others feel uncomfortable.
"Yan-ge, you..."
Chi Yan looked up. "What?"
Wei Feng: "Aren't you going to A University to find that girl? I mean Chu Yang, your girlfriend."
Chi Yan paused. Based on all the information, she was indeed his girlfriend, but now they had both forgotten each other. Plus, she didn't seem to have contacted him either. Everyone was busy, so they hadn't met.
Wei Feng: "Have you guys chatted?"
Chi Yan shook his head.
Wei Feng was shocked and held his head. "Oh my god! You guys... no way! You need to go find her quickly, your relationship can't have problems! You used to be such a shameless braggart, and now we're not used to seeing you like this."
Chi Yan: ...Is he a romance maniac?
In the end, Chi Yan still sent Chu Yang a message: "Hello, would you like to meet?"
After a long time, Chu Yang didn't reply.
Chi Yan tossed his phone aside, lay on the bed, covered himself with the blanket, and closed his eyes to rest.
Meanwhile, Chu Yang was learning the second subject while enduring her instructor's scolding. Although the instructor's words were unpleasant, Chu Yang's emotions remained unaffected. She even impassively retorted: "Instructor, your voice is too loud, it scared my feet."
"If I knew how to drive, why would I need you, right?"
"I paid you, I'm the money daddy, Instructor, you should respect the money daddy."
The instructor: ...This was the first time he met someone so blunt.
After finishing the driving practice, Chu Yang finally saw Chi Yan's message and replied: "Okay. At the milk tea shop by the A University gate."
Soon after, Chi Yan replied: "Got it, I'll be right there."
...
The two of them sat across from each other in the milk tea shop. Each ordered a cup of milk tea. The staff at the milk tea shop seemed to recognize them and directly asked, "The usual sunburn and west peach, half sugar, no ice, two cups?"
Chu Yang paused for a moment, then nodded, "Yes."
After the milk tea was served, they still didn't speak.
Chi Yan glanced at the girl across from him, then lowered his head again. Chu Yang didn't say anything either. After they had both drunk about half of their milk tea, Chu Yang sighed and said, "Since we don't remember each other anymore, how about we break up? There's no real feeling between us anyway, so let's just break up."
Upon hearing this, Chi Yan felt a sudden pang in his heart, but he quickly recovered. Looking at the expressionless and calm girl in front of him, her eyes showed no affection or love towards him whatsoever, as if he were a stranger.
Chu Yang looked at Chi Yan: "What do you think? Let's break up?"
