Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

"..." Xu Su paused for a moment, then spoke softly, "But these prayer beads seem to be useless now. You put them on me in that other world too, and I still made it here..."

Zhou Mochen froze, staring at her for a few seconds before suddenly pulling out his phone and making a call. Xu Su, who was listening nearby, waited until he hung up before asking curiously, "Are you going to hire a charlatan again to try and keep me here?"

Her expression was so relaxed, as if she couldn't see that he was on the verge of collapse. Zhou Mochen's lips trembled, and he reached out to press her into his arms. "...Don't treat me like this, Su Su. You said you loved me."

Xu Su had no time to pay attention to the other two men standing by the bed. She wanted to sigh; it seemed that the little crybaby had started crying again.

He was the one who shot her and sent her back, but now he's the one holding her and sobbing.

She wasn't moved by Shen Chen's crying, but Zhou Mochen was different.

...She softened when he cried.

Xu Su patted his back resignedly, "This is not my choice, but I have a feeling I'll probably go back."

I'll probably go back...

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the three men in the room changed drastically.

Shen Chen, his eyes red and swollen, stared intently at the couple embracing on the bed. As if he couldn't take it anymore, he grabbed Xu Su's hand and shouted in despair, "Why go back! Isn't that man treating you badly? Isn't he miserable? Make him even more miserable! Why go back!"

Xu Su was in excruciating pain from his pulling. By the time Zhou Mochen and Xi Zirong freed her wrist, it was already covered in red welts. She glanced at it and was furious: "What's wrong with you? I told you I had no choice. I had no control over what happened!"

"And who said he's bad to me? No matter how bad he is, he's still my person. Who gives you the right to criticize him? Can you please stop standing here? Don't you know you're really annoying me?"

"I don't like you, do you understand?" Annoyed by this man's persistent pestering, Xu Su clenched her fist, turned her face away from him, and said coldly, "Whether I can go back or not, I don't like you, I won't want you, and I never want anything to do with you in this lifetime, understand?"

In fact, she had said even harsher things before. Shen Chen was in pain, but he could still barely maintain his dignity and hide away to heal himself. But this time was different.

For more than two months at her bedside, he was surrounded by panic, guilt, and remorse, and was extremely vulnerable both physically and mentally.

Upon hearing these hurtful words, Shen Chen froze on the spot.

He stood there, stunned, his face gradually turning pale.

Zhou Mochen glanced at him, afraid that he would suddenly go crazy again, so he held Xu Su in his arms and said, "Go back, don't come again, and you don't need to care about her anymore."

Shen Chen opened his mouth, and after a long while, he finally found his voice: "Could I have a few words with you alone?"

He forced a smile: "Don't hate me, I never meant to hurt you."

He looked really bad. Xu Su only glanced at him before quickly turning her face away. She originally wanted to refuse him directly, but then felt that she should make things clear to him.

Although she hated his subsequent harassment and coercion, he was genuinely good to her at the beginning, and she truly considered him a good friend.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Su asked, "After we finish talking, can you disappear from my sight and never bother me again for the rest of your life?"

Shen Chen looked at her quietly and said "okay" in a hoarse voice.

"..." Xu Su grabbed Zhou Mochen's arm and pushed him away, "You guys go out first, I want to talk to him."

Zhou Mochen was the first to experience her ruthlessness firsthand. Seeing how she treated Shen Chen this time, he actually felt that she had been quite good to him.

Without comparison, Zhou Mochen was unaware of the preferential treatment he was receiving. In a great mood, he considerately tucked her in and then strolled out of the ward.

Xi Zirong didn't say a word the whole time. He glanced at Shen Chen, feeling a dull ache of sorrow, and silently closed the door and left.

Only the two of them remained inside.

Xu Su cleared her throat. "Speak your mind."

Shen Chen remained silent for a moment, then sat down again and asked, "...Can you tell me about me in that world?"

These days, he keeps recalling every little detail of how he met her, and he always remembers how she clearly disliked him when they first met.

Unexpectedly, he asked this question. Xu Su was slightly taken aback before saying, "When I first met you in that world, I had already graduated from high school. I only got to know you after I came to Beijing with Zhou Mochen."

"The women you were surrounded by back then were clearly no good."

She recalled the events carefully, her disgust growing more and more obvious: "It's fine if you're a womanizer, it doesn't affect me anyway, but then you hit on my roommate, and then dumped her a few months later. I was already under Zhou Mochen's tight control, and I didn't have many friends. This was the only sister I was somewhat familiar with, and you messed her up. I..."

Xu Su, who had originally intended to say something sarcastic, paused when she looked up and saw his expression, and cautiously asked, "...What's wrong with you?"

"And then?" Shen Chen smiled, asking instead of answering, "After what happened with your roommate, did you become more familiar with him, and were you no longer indifferent to him as you were at the beginning?"

Xu Su understood what he meant. She looked down at the water glass in her hand, speechless: "I don't like you. I don't like either of you from either world."

"If you don't like it, you don't like it, but I think he probably didn't do anything to your roommate." Shen Chen took the empty cup from her hand and asked seriously, "How old were you in that world?"

"...Thirty years old."

“Then I’m thirty-four,” Shen Chen nodded and said with a smile, “Is he married? Have any other women appeared in his life since then? Has he done anything improper to you?”

“…Nothing.” Xu Su was somewhat bewildered by his barrage of questions, as if she were some terrible woman who had ruined his life twice.

“I see,” Shen Chen took a deep breath, then suddenly smiled and leaned closer, saying, “Indeed, no matter when we met, I will always love you.”

He fell in love with her at first sight when she was seventeen.

At nineteen, she was still infatuated with him in that other world.

They were even playing the game of unrequited love.

Just as he initially planned, we would not disturb each other and would remain friends.

He leaned too close, causing Xu Su to instinctively lean back. Not wanting to say anything hurtful, she hesitated for a moment before saying, "Shen Chen, find someone else to like. Don't waste your time with me."

Shen Chen didn't answer her. He sat up straight again, moved a little further away from her, and asked, "There's another world, right? How old was the me who told you about the scar on my waist?"

I never expected that they would dig up all my secrets. Xu Su paused for a moment and then explained to him, "17 years old."

“…17.” As if he had thought of something, Shen Chen paused slightly and stopped speaking.