"Unable to help but smile, the feeling of returning home is unavoidable..."

As the evening approached and the sun hung low, Jiang Che bought a bottle of soda, drank most of it, and hummed a tune as he rode his electric bike towards home.

In his previous life, Jiang Che often had the driver take him for aimless rides around the second ring road, the wind whistling past his ears, somewhat similar to now. But the feeling now was something even the most expensive Rolls-Royce couldn't bring.

Su Rongyin had fallen.

She was already exhausted.

Carrying a backpack while riding a bicycle, her slender waist was almost bent under the weight. As she reached a small uphill, her legs gave out, and she fell by the roadside.

Her elbows, knees, and especially her ankle hurt terribly.

She wanted to stand up, but the intense pain made it impossible. She could only hug her legs and curl up by the roadside, tears streaming down her face.

She could endure the pain without crying.

But being all alone.

That helplessness filled her heart with grievance, and she couldn't hold back even a bit.

It had been so long since she was alone.

Before, Jiang Che was always with her, helping her solve everything, so she didn't have to worry about anything.

If Jiang Che were here, she wouldn't have fallen at all...

Why!

Why did he treat her like this just because she rejected his confession?

Didn't she have the right to refuse?

Resting her small face on her knees, Su Rongyin's eyes grew more blurred with tears the more she thought about it.

"I still find it hard to escape from the vast world..."

She vaguely heard singing and the sound of a bike behind her.

Instinctively, Su Rongyin turned her head and saw Jiang Che riding his electric bike over. She was instantly delighted but then pouted her lips high.

"Annoying Jiang Che, I knew it!"

"This cat-and-mouse game is so childish!"

"Coming now is useless! I absolutely won't pay attention to you, absolutely not!"

Su Rongyin turned her head the other way, extremely proud.

Not looking in Jiang Che's direction, but hearing the sound of the electric bike not slowing down, Su Rongyin couldn't help but glance back.

Jiang Che, with a face full of enjoyment, whizzed past her without any intention of stopping, not even sparing her a glance.

Su Rongyin panicked and hurriedly shouted, "Jiang Che... Jiang Che!"

Hmm?

Hearing someone call him, Jiang Che squeezed the brake to slow down, turned his head, and finally noticed Su Rongyin, who had fallen by the roadside. He raised an eyebrow, turned around, and rode back.

He really hadn't seen her just now.

"How did you fall?" Jiang Che asked Su Rongyin, stopping not far from her.

"The backpack is too heavy, I didn't have the strength to go uphill..."

Su Rongyin completely forgot her earlier resolve to ignore Jiang Che and whimpered.

Seeing she was alone, Jiang Che asked, "Where's Gao Yun? Doesn't she also ride an electric bike? Why didn't you ask her to help carry your backpack?"

"Yunyun's grades are too poor, her teacher kept her for extra lessons."

Jiang Che knew this. Gao Yun had a decent character but her studies were notoriously bad, and in the previous life, she only managed to get into a mediocre college.

Of course.

Her character was decent from Su Rongyin's perspective.

Su Rongyin extended a hand, wanting Jiang Che to help her up.

A chance for physical contact!

If it were the Jiang Che of the past, no matter how angry, he wouldn't have been able to resist.

But Jiang Che had no intention of getting off the electric bike.

He took out his phone, glanced at it, and said, "It's been a while since school ended, Gao Yun has probably finished her lessons, she might come over soon. If she doesn't show up, give her a call... My mom is urging me to go home for dinner, so I'm leaving, goodbye!"

With a stylish tail flick, Jiang Che turned his bike around and left without a moment's hesitation.

Playing hard to get?

In the blink of an eye, even the taillights were out of sight, what game?

Su Rongyin was so anxious she cried out loud again.

And as she watched Jiang Che disappear completely, for some reason, she felt her heart constrict suddenly, a strong sense of panic arising.

As if something important had been pulled out from her heart...

"Jiang Che, you bastard..."

Exhausted in body and mind, the pain from the fall, her helplessness here, Jiang Che's indifference, and this inexplicable panic... Su Rongyin's eyes were red to the extreme, and she curled up again, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Stop crying!"

Suddenly.

A familiar voice sounded in her ear.

She looked up.

Jiang Che had somehow returned and was standing in front of her.

"Wow!"

The grievance in her heart could no longer be suppressed, and she burst into tears, wailing loudly.

After crying for a few moments, she felt embarrassed and forced herself to stop.

Jiang Che squatted in front of her and asked, "Where does it hurt?"

"Everywhere..."

Su Rongyin couldn't control her sobbing as she answered.

She pouted her lips, trying hard to suppress her urge to cry, her beautiful eyes filled with tears like broken strings, falling continuously.

Jiang Che didn't even look at her tear-streaked face, which evoked sympathy. He lifted her pant leg to check her injuries.

He hadn't wanted to get involved with her anymore, wanted to pretend he hadn't seen her.

But there were few people on this road.

A girl, injured, if something happened...

Even if she were just an ordinary classmate, his conscience wouldn't allow it, so he returned.

The early summer weather was already hot, but fortunately, Su Rongyin was still wearing her school uniform top, and with the long pants covering her, there were no open wounds, though bruises were inevitable. Her ankle under the white sock was visibly more swollen than the other, and her palm had some scrapes.

After pulling down her loose school uniform pants to cover her pale calf, Jiang Che said, "Your leg is fine, it will heal in a few days. But your left foot is sprained, it needs to be set right, or it will cause problems later."

Saying this.

He began to untie Su Rongyin's shoelaces.

When he was about to take off her shoe.

Su Rongyin's foot flinched.

Jiang Che looked up at her.

Su Rongyin weakly explained, "It hurts..."

Since being reborn, this was the first time Jiang Che had looked so closely at this face, one of the most familiar in his life.

In the previous life, he had never seen this face in such a state.

Tear-streaked, it evoked a protective instinct.

Even the current Jiang Che wasn't immune.

Falling for someone.

Is uncontrollable.

The Jiang Che of the previous life fell for her.

Theft is never good, try looking at bit.ly/3iBfjkV.

Even living again, it would still be the same.

But this feeling, he quickly suppressed.

As if a stone had fallen into the water.

After the ripples, it quickly returned to calm.

Repeating the same mistakes.

Is the most foolish thing!

Jiang Che gently took off Su Rongyin's white shoe.

Her delicate white-socked foot appeared under the setting sun.