Rebirth: Back to before my girlfriend dropped out of school

Guan Zilan, who was cooking in the room, turned her head and looked over when she heard the sound. "Oh, Xiaotong is here, Xiaomian, quickly show your classmates around the room. The food will be ready soon."

"Ok."

Xia Zhuomian's voice rose. In his previous life, when he met Sui Sui, his home had been completely destroyed, so he didn't take Sui Sui to visit his room carefully. Now that it has returned to its original state, he feels extremely happy.

Look, we haven't gone down the same old path.

"Come." Xia Zhuomian went upstairs and opened his room. His room was fully equipped and warm, with a light blue carpet, a huge bookshelf, and a desk in front of the window with his action figures on it. There were several posters on the left wall, which seemed to be of several singers, and a guitar in the corner. There were a lot of things in the room but it didn't feel messy.

Tong Yusui couldn't help but move closer when he saw the photos on the bedside table. Most of them were of him, and there was even a photo of himself.

When was this? How did he have a photo of her? She leaned closer. It was a scene of her reading a book. The gentle light shone on her, and she seemed to become gentler too. So this is what she looked like in his lens! She couldn't help but touch herself in the photo.

"I don't remember when you took this photo."

It's been so long since he posted this photo that he'd forgotten about it. Now, seeing Sui Sui approaching him somewhat embarrassedly, she leaned forward to try to block it, "I just saw it that day and took the photo."

Tong Yusui couldn't help laughing and whispered, "Fool."

Xia Zhuomian was afraid she would ask him to take it off, so he quickly pulled her to the bookshelf. He squatted down and took out something from the bottom drawer. "Look, we bought it at the amusement park before. Here's one for you."

He held out the orange ball of fur.

Tong Yusui did not refuse. She held it gently in her hand. The soft and smooth little ball of fur felt as good as ever.

"Want to know why?"

"Do you want to say something?" Xia Zhuomian looked at her and asked seriously.

Tong Yusui smiled and said, "I didn't think about it before, but now I do."

"it is good."

Xia Zhuomian pulled her to sit beside the bed.

"That happened when I was in the second year of junior high school. One day, my father came home with a kitten. He said a poker friend had lost it to him and it was a branded kitten, so he'd give it away if he didn't want it. So he took the kitten home. It was tiny, a pure orange, with big eyes, and was soft to the touch. It was incredibly well-behaved. That was my first time touching a small animal."

She paused for a second. "But I knew my mother didn't like animals, so I didn't dare get too close to it. That night, I was woken up by the kitten's cry. The kitten, which was so well-behaved during the day, kept screaming at night. I was woken up and hesitated for a long time before going out to check. I saw it huddled in the corner of the sofa, crying helplessly. I softened my heart and took it back to my room."

"It lay obediently on the floor next to my bed and slept with me. When I woke up and saw it like this, my heart softened uncontrollably. The next night, it seemed to know that I would accept it, so it ran to my room early and lay next to my bed without making a sound. But when my mother saw it coming out of my room, she frowned and objected to cats entering my room, saying that cats have bugs and will crawl everywhere. I bought it insecticide and gave it a bath, but my mother clearly said she would keep it..."

"But when I went to class, the cat disappeared when I got home. I pestered Ying Chunmei to ask her where the cat was, but she said it was lost, that it was too dirty and shedding hair, and so on. When she got tired of answering, she told me to get out. Later, I went to beg my father, but he was unwilling to give it away because the cat was worth 500 yuan to him. If he gave it to someone else, wouldn't that be giving money away for nothing? Half a month later, my father found the cat. It had grown a little bigger and become thinner. Its hair seemed to have dried up. It kept hiccuping and lay there without the energy to call. My father said the cat was greedy and had eaten too much meat and had made itself sick. I believed him and wanted to cure it."

Tong Yusui clenched her fists. "There is only one pet hospital in our county. I went there, but I had no money to treat it. I could only feed it the medicine we take, hoping it would get better. In the afternoon, the cat suddenly became energetic, ate the food I fed it, and even stretched out its little tongue to lick me. I thought it was getting better, I thought it was getting better..." She looked into the distance with unfocused eyes.

"So when my mother sternly warned me not to bring the kitten into the house at night because it would infect the family, I said nothing. I didn't even think about sneaking it into the house."

She suddenly stopped, and Xia Zhuomian's heart skipped a beat. He held those slightly cold hands tightly, trying to give her strength.

Tong Yusui calmed down and continued, "...In the middle of the night, it cried again, but I was so sleepy. I was half asleep when I heard it cry. I stayed in bed for a while before getting up. When I went out, the kitten was no longer in its original position. It had crawled out of the box I had prepared and was crawling towards my room. Halfway up..." Her voice choked with sobs, and she recalled the scene that day. She knew the kitten was a coward, so why did she stay in bed? Why didn't she bring the kitten back to her bed?

Will it still be wondering why its master doesn't want it when it dies? It's afraid...

"When I got there, it was still warm, but it felt like it had no bones and was limp. I couldn't even hold it. I cried and called out to it, but it wouldn't wake up."

"I stood at their bedside holding the cat. In the darkness, I could still hear them sleeping soundly. I said, 'Mom, the cat is dead.' They seemed to be woken by my noise. I heard her calmly reply, 'It's dead,' and the next morning she told me to throw the cat away, saying it wouldn't stay there in the summer and would stink."

Tong Yusui closed her eyes. In the end, she obediently discarded the body and found a beautiful place far away from her home. "It's not that I don't like orange. I feel guilty and afraid. I didn't protect it well. I didn't even dare to resist. I hate myself for being so cowardly back then. So I stay away from anything related to it. I, I don't know how to face it..."

She took a picture of the kitten and wanted to name it. She hesitated for a long time after thinking of many names, such as Wangwang, Xiaoju, Xiaohuang, and Fuxing, but she still couldn't decide on a name...

Xia Zhuomian suddenly hugged her and said, "It's not your fault. You didn't have a choice. It's not your fault."

His eyes were slightly hot. He felt sorry for the kitten, and even more sorry for Suisui, who was now not angry.

Tong Yusui hugged him back gently, and the warmth from his body slowly spread to her heart, slowly warming it up.

"I know my mother. She should have found a way to send the kitten away earlier. She wouldn't allow animals in the house. If the kitten had been sent away earlier, would everything have been fine?"

Xia Zhuomian couldn't say that it wasn't her fault, because that wouldn't make her feel good. "Then when we have money in the future, let's help those stray animals. Maybe kittens will be born again. Let's get one!"