Moonlight falls into my arms

High school class one.

After making inquiries, Ruan Li circled around several teaching buildings before finally finding the floor of Class 1, Grade 12.

But when I walked into the office and saw the homeroom teacher of Class 1, Grade 12, I couldn't hide the disappointment in my heart.

The young, unfamiliar face in front of her was clearly not her homeroom teacher from ten years ago.

"Hello? Is there anything I can help you with?" The young female teacher looked at her, her voice relatively gentle.

"Excuse me, where is Professor Li Yangfei?"

"Li Yangfei?" The young teacher quickly remembered, "You mean Teacher Li who used to teach the top-performing class?"

Ruan Li nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it's him!"

Are you...his student?

"Yes, I am his student, my name is Ruan Li."

“He passed away from stomach cancer a year ago. Many of his former graduates attended his funeral. You’re too late.”

The young teacher mistakenly thought that Ruan Li was a former student who had been admitted to university and had come back to visit her teacher.

He... passed away.

Ruan Li hadn't expected this answer, and her gaze lingered blankly for a moment.

Then another teacher's name was mentioned.

One after another, some were transferred, some retired, and some resigned.

Ruan Li even included the name of her physical education teacher.

Watching the female teacher click the mouse to view the school's teachers, only to find the search results were empty, she and Ruan Li shook their heads in disappointment.

She was also a little puzzled. Ruan Li looked so young, she should be a graduate from a previous year, but none of the teachers she checked were still there.

"Excuse me, have you come to the wrong school?"

She was somewhat dazed, as if her ears were blocked and she couldn't hear anything.

Ten years, that's a really long time.

Ruan Li pursed her lips, afraid that she would burst into tears in front of this stranger, and said thank you in a very soft voice, "Maybe."

She left the office.

Backtrack.

While walking unconsciously down the street, Ruan Li was suddenly bumped into.

"Excuse me, classmate."

"It's nothing." Ruan Li looked up, then stopped in her tracks. "Auntie!"

The auntie in front of me, whose face no longer looks energetic, is the dormitory supervisor Ruan Li worked for ten years ago. She is carrying a large, square black bag in her hand.

Ruan Li immediately recognized it as a bag of fruit and snacks for the students in the dormitory who couldn't leave campus and had a sweet tooth.

"you......"

Clearly, the person in front of her no longer remembered her.

Ruan Li wiped her eyes, which were chilled by the cold wind. "Auntie, can I ask you something? Do you remember a student from before, Ruan Li?"

"Um, who are you? I don't remember." She was in a hurry and didn't want to talk to Ruan Li any longer.

"I made you bring lots of snacks every day! Don't you remember at all?"

Ruan Li watched as the person in front of her frowned and pondered deeply, "I can't remember."

The dormitory supervisor, however, didn't rush off. She asked Ruan Li, "What's wrong? What happened to that female student?"

Ruan Li noticed her curious gaze; it seemed she hadn't shaken her habit of always being a gossip.

Bagua...

Ruan Li tentatively asked, "Ten years ago, wasn't there a girl in Class 1 who died? She was the one who asked you to bring her food every day. In winter, when you couldn't buy ice cream at the school store, she begged you for a long time, offering to pay you three times the usual fee to bring it to her."

"Ah, yes, I have a very deep impression of her. I've never seen such a greedy girl in my life. The errand fees I earn from her alone are equivalent to the income of an entire class! She asked me to bring her ice cream in the dead of winter. She was so hungry!"

"You're so hungry, you're dying of hunger?" Ruan Li's eyes widened.

No, that can't be.

"Ah, no." The aunt raised her hand. "Back then, several of us dorm supervisors gossiped about this. We heard that her boyfriend dumped her, and she was so heartbroken that she jumped off a building and committed suicide."

Ruan Li: "......"

Although she didn't know exactly how she died, it was definitely not because of love that she jumped off a building.

She didn't even have a boyfriend, and then she jumped off a building.

"Are there any other versions?" Ruan Li asked again.

"Well, some say she was under a lot of academic pressure and committed suicide by cutting her wrists at home. Others say she was pregnant and died giving birth too young. Still others say her parents divorced and abandoned her, which is why she committed suicide."

Ruan Li's system crashed for a moment.

She gleaned the word "parents" from a mountain of misinformation: "She's dead, so what about her parents?"

"I don't know about that." The dormitory aunt looked Ruan Li up and down: "Who are you? Why are you suddenly asking about things from ten years ago, and why do you know so much about her?"

Ruan Li exclaimed "Ah!" and casually made up a story: "I am..."

“Her daughter! Yes, she didn’t die, but she abandoned me. I couldn’t find her, nor could I find my grandparents, so I came here to inquire.”

"You," the dorm supervisor exclaimed, her eyes wide, "she's really pregnant? Oh my god."

Ruan Li nodded hurriedly, "Thank you, Auntie, I'm leaving now."

The dormitory supervisor shook her head as she watched her retreating figure: "Such a greedy girl doesn't seem like the type to do something like having an early relationship and getting pregnant."

Ruan Li left the school feeling very bad.

We received no information whatsoever.

Ruan Li covered her face with a scarf as she went out. The security guard recognized her as someone brought by Jiang Yuci, so he didn't stop her and opened the automatic door to let her out.

A mother and a female classmate about the same age as Ruan Li were standing at the door, each carrying a bag of medicine.

"I told you to rest for another day, but you insisted on going back to school."

The mother rubbed her hands together and touched the girl's forehead with the back of her hand. "If you feel unwell, be sure to call home and I'll come pick you up. You can't participate in PE class, and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Your health is the most important thing."

"Oh, I know, you've said it eight hundred times. If I don't go back to school, I'll be faced with endless homework and tests."

"Here, take this. I simmered this bone broth for four hours. Remember to eat it at lunchtime. Bring it back after you're done, and I'll wash it. Don't let it touch cold water..."

Before her mother could finish her instructions, she was impatiently interrupted. The girl raised her hand, casually taking the insulated food container, and said, "Alright, alright, I know. I'm not a child anymore..."

The girl, wearing a new school uniform that Ruan Li was unfamiliar with, brushed past her as she entered the school carrying a thermos.

The gust of wind it created brushed against half of Ruan Li's face.

She didn't know how long she had been standing there. Her hands and feet were a little stiff from the cold. She sniffed her red nose and then pulled her scarf over her eyes.

-

When Ruan Li called Jiang Yuci.

He handed the cat to the vet and was about to pay the bill when he handed the bill to him.

His phone vibrated a few times in his pocket. He switched to carrying the cat bag in his other hand, took out the phone from the bag with one hand, unlocked it, and answered the call.

Normally, it should be the little girl chattering away.

This time, the other side remained silent and did not speak first.

Jiang Yuci glanced at her phone screen to make sure the call was still on.

"Hello?" Jiang Yuci spoke.

A very soft "hmm" came from the other end. "Is it done on your end?"

"what happened?"

"...I'm at the school gate."

The phone call contained only a simple sentence, and Jiang Yuci stopped in her tracks on her way to the payment counter.

Normally, Ruan Li would say at this time, "Hurry up, I'm waiting for you at the school gate. Come pick me up, it's very cold."

"Well, here we come."

Jiang Yuci turned around, went downstairs, and left the hospital. He didn't even realize that he was walking faster than usual and not thinking rationally. He should have paid the fees, waited for the cat to get vaccinated, picked up Ruan Li, and then gone home.

But almost without thinking, he drove to the school gate to pick someone up.

When I arrived at the school gate and caught sight of Ruan Li, she was a small, dark figure crouching next to a tall haystack.

He held a withered leaf he'd picked up somewhere, gently swaying it on the ground, his gaze drifting aimlessly into the distance.

Her eyes were a little red and swollen, as if she had just been crying.

"Ruan Li".

Jiang Yuci's calm voice came from above.

It brought a touch of warmth to Ruan Li's frozen body.

She looked up, her gaze sweeping over Jiang Yuci's long legs, before meeting his lowered eyes.

It felt like I was back in that cold, lonely night.

In her moment of utter despair, he called out her name.