082 Retribution is Swift
After an afternoon of fruitless searching, as night fell, Pei Ningle couldn’t help but start to wonder if the scene she had seen earlier was a hallucination.
The phone she used was not a smartphone, so she couldn’t browse the web. The information about Han Yixuan she had found on Renren was all written down in a notebook. In her backpack were this notebook and the binoculars.
She hadn’t brought the piece of paper left by the hamster. The handwriting in the notebook was all her own. There was no evidence around her to prove the authenticity of the previous scene.
Walking on the campus of the University of Finance and Economics, Pei Ningle couldn’t help but have doubts—the hamster, Han Yixuan, and all that, could it all be her own hallucination?
“Thinking about it carefully, how could a hamster possibly understand human nature? It’s too absurd!”
The girl sat on a bench by the roadside, looking at the dormitory building not far away, and muttered to herself.
The result of this afternoon’s efforts was to narrow the search area down to this one dormitory building. By constantly asking passersby, she had confirmed that the dormitory for the first-year female students of the finance department should be in this building.
But were these efforts useful?
Could it be that the rapid collapse of her first love had fried her brain and caused hallucinations?
No matter how she thought about it, the brain producing hallucinations was more reasonable than a hamster understanding human nature, right…
Just as Pei Ningle was beginning to wonder if she should see a psychologist, suddenly, her gaze fell on the face of a girl who had just walked out of the dormitory building.
That face, she had stared at several different photos of it for half an hour. She absolutely wouldn’t be mistaken.
“Han Yixuan…”
Pei Ningle whispered the other person’s name, subconsciously lowered her head, took out her phone, and tried her best not to let the other person notice her. And her gaze, stubbornly piercing through the gaps in her bangs, was fixed on that girl.
Han Yixuan was walking side by side with another girl, out of the dormitory building, heading in an unknown direction.
Waiting for the other person to pass by not far from her, Pei Ningle suddenly stood up, continued to pretend to be looking at her phone, and quietly followed behind.
In this close-range tracking state, Pei Ningle soon heard a lot of useful information. This also made her secretly lament that today’s trip was really not in vain.
As for that hamster, it definitely wasn’t just simply understanding human nature. It was probably possessed by a god, right?
**
With Han Yixuan’s personality and emotional intelligence, in the short month since school started, she had already become the most popular person in her dormitory.
Just like many female dormitories, the one she was in also had undercurrents beneath the surface of harmony.
It was the same tonight. The roommate beside her was constantly complaining about another roommate’s untidiness, and Han Yixuan would nod in agreement and exclaim from time to time, but she didn’t take the initiative to spread any gossip about others.
However, the topics of conversation among young girls always jumped around like a deer. In the blink of an eye, the complaints about a roommate’s living habits turned to complaints about her choice of partners, and then jumped to the question of “why don’t you date.”
Han Yixuan said with a smile, “Because I already have someone I like.”
“Ooh…” Her roommate was instantly excited. “You’ve never told us about this before. Who is it? That third-year senior from the business administration department?”
Han Yixuan shook her head.
Her roommate guessed again, “Then, is it the vice president of the student union? After the party last time, he even offered to walk you back to the dorm…”
Han Yixuan smiled. “And I rejected him.”
“I see, so it’s not him. So which lucky boy is it?”
“There’s no need to know…”
“Come on, I’m super curious!” Her roommate grabbed her hand, leaving no room for her to evade. “Tell me, which handsome guy is it!”
Han Yixuan couldn’t resist, and feeling that revealing a little truth here was no big deal, she said, “He’s my high school classmate.”
She didn’t notice that not far behind her, someone was staring at her, holding their breath, unwilling to miss a single word.
Her roommate was still curious. “Is he the super handsome type?”
“He’s a little handsome, but not to the extent of ‘super handsome’…” Han Yixuan recalled the guy’s appearance. “But he feels very gentle and kind. I had an impression of him since my first year of high school. His grades were better than mine, and he explained problems to me many times. He even voluntarily helped me take out the trash during the big clean-up.”
“Eh? Our beautiful Han is so easily won over by small favors?”
Han Yixuan shook her head. “It’s not small favors. I could feel it, I could feel it since my second year of high school… during our occasional chats, when our hands touched while borrowing stationery, and other brief moments together, I could feel that he liked me too. And it was a very reassuring, slow and steady kind of like, not the rash feeling from other boys.”
“Since you like him and he likes you, why aren’t you together?”
Han Yixuan shook her head again, but this time, it was with much more melancholy.
The girl said wistfully, “For some reason, he… in short, we didn’t get together.”
Perhaps influenced by her emotions, her roommate also became quiet.
The two girls walked in silence towards the campus supermarket. The reason they had come out of the dorm tonight was to buy some daily necessities like laundry detergent together.
But after less than ten seconds, her roommate still couldn’t help but stop and ask, “So you still like that high school classmate?”
Han Yixuan nodded. “I like him even more.”
Her roommate was completely baffled. “Why? Logically, feelings in a long-distance relationship should fade, and you two were never even together. Could it be that what you can’t have is the best?”
“‘What you can’t have is the best’?” Han Yixuan gave a self-deprecating smile. “Perhaps. But we’re not really in a long-distance relationship. The school he goes to is also in Rongdu. I can get there by subway.”
Her roommate was taken aback. “So you’re still planning to chase after him?”
“Hehehe, why not?” The smile on Han Yixuan’s lips became more obvious.
“It’s not like you don’t have anyone chasing you…”
“But I don’t like the ones who are chasing me.”
“But girls…”
Han Yixuan held up her index finger, shook it slowly, and said seriously, “I don’t think girls should just stand there and wait for others to chase them. That’s too passive. We’re all human, we all have our own likes and thoughts. Why should we be a stationary target? If you say that being pursued by others is a matter of face, then I’m sorry, I think sticking to what you truly like is more important than boring face.”
“I can’t believe it. Our beautiful Han is really quite individualistic…” her roommate lamented. “Then, your sweetheart, what’s his name?”
Han Yixuan chuckled lightly. “His surname is Wang, the Wang from ‘Old Wang next door’.”
