Chapter 101: If I Leave, It Will Be Better

  "What's wrong? Have you lost confidence in the universities of Baoyun City?" Su Yixin couldn't help but tease, seeing Su Yi's gloomy face.

  As soon as she heard this, Su Yisu's competitive spirit was ignited, and she immediately glared at him: "Don't joke around, there are so many universities in Yin City, I don't believe I won't be able to get into one. If you provoke me again, I'll become your junior sister and follow you around every day, see how you flirt with girls then."

  Su Yixin was speechless for a moment, "Alright, I'll wait and see."

  "Oh no!" At this time, Su Yisu suddenly patted her forehead heavily, "I forgot something important! Mom, tell Dad about my grades, I'll call Jiang Qian and Lin Lu!" She then rushed upstairs in a hurry.

  "Sloppy sloppy." Su Yixin curled her lips in disdain.

  Shen Xiulan smiled and said, "Since you know she's careless, then pay more attention to help her apply for a better school that suits her."

  "Got it, mom."

  Su ran back into the house, picked up her phone and called Jiang Zuo, "Zuo, have you checked your grades? How many points?"

  "595, how about you?"

  "My goodness! Jiang Zuo Ling! How can you be so much higher than me!" As soon as she heard this score, Su Yi Su couldn't help but let out a sharp cry, to the point where Jiang Zuo Ling on the other end of the phone had to rub his ears in discomfort.

  "How much?"

  "558..." Su Yi answered with a dejected tone, her previous pride and complacency completely gone. Indeed, in front of this learned person, she was just a tiny existence.

  "Wow, not bad! You can get such a high score even with such a messy approach."

  Upon hearing this, Su Yisu's expression turned unpleasant, and she pouted: "Hey, Jiang Zuo, are you kidding me? Do you still consider me a friend?"

  "If you had done a bit worse... hmm. Maybe I could have comforted you a bit more. But with your performance being so beyond expectations, what can I say to you? Praise you? It seems like I just did."

  "Alright..." Su Yisu also had no choice but to admit defeat, after all, she was facing the sharp-tongued and soft-hearted Jiang Zhanlin. "Did you call Ran? How much did she score?"

  "A bit better than you."

  "Jiang Zuo, must you be so direct? I'm crying now."

  "You're actually crying. I've never seen you cry before in all these years."

  "Hmm." Su Yisu let out a cold hum and continued, "How many points did Lin Wan score in the end?"

  “564。”

  "Hmm, no worries about the future. That's great."

  "Next, it's going to be a hassle to fill out the volunteer application, what a pain. Have you thought about where you want to go?"

  "My family all call me Baoyun City's, I still don't know which one to report to, let me take another look. Anyway, it's not urgent yet. But you seem to be in a hurry."

  On the other end of the phone, Jiang Ya suddenly sighed, "Chen Jierui said he's going to the north, I don't know where yet, can't bear to part with you guys."

  When she heard this, Su Yisu couldn't help but fall silent. She had originally thought that the biggest hurdle of the college entrance exam was already over. The following days would be a bright and cloudless future, but it turned out that the cruelest part of the college entrance exam was not how much pain it made the test-takers endure, but rather after the exam, those people who had relied on each other for survival, cried and laughed together, one by one left her side, reluctant to leave, unable to stay.

  After a long time, she finally sighed and said: "Go, go with Chen Jie Rui to the north. It's rare that your feelings haven't ended with graduation. No matter how far apart friends are, their feelings won't fade. But lovers who are too far apart will have crises. I don't want you to miss a perfect match because of temporary friendship."

  Jiang Zuo also fell silent, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "What if Wan follows him to the north and sees more beautiful girls, then turns around and dumps me? Wouldn't I be called heaven not responding and earth not being spiritual?"

  "Cut it out," Su Yisu couldn't help but snort in derision. "With your Jiang Zuo's skills, you can't even catch a Chen Jierui? Forget it, don't stick to me, I still have flowers to appreciate under the moonlight. If you follow me around like a lamp post, I'll be embarrassed."

  "Hmph, showing your true colors now? I knew you weren't so kind-hearted after all, you've clearly been looking down on me for a long time!"

  "Right, right, so you'd better hurry up and hold on tight to Chen Jierui this protective tree."

  "I'm so depressed, I hate the college entrance exam. Let's just repeat a year! That way we can have another year of fun!"

  "No way," Su Yisu hastily refused. "I'm not going crazy with you, one year is already enough to torment me, if I don't get in next year, you're responsible!"

  "I won't let you down! I'm not going to tell you, but I've received many calls."

  "Haha, it's your turn now? The wheel of fortune is turning, just enjoy the process slowly, bye~" Su Yisu hung up the phone with a smile, staring at the darkening screen and suddenly feeling a pang of sadness. No matter how reluctant they were to part, they would eventually go their separate ways. In the future, wanting to see each other again would be very difficult, wouldn't it? Why didn't they cherish those youthful years more back then?

  Suddenly, her phone rang with a new QQ message prompt. She quickly opened the QQ page and saw Tan Ziyao's message: "Hey ~ Su Niang, have you checked your grades?"

  "It's barely passable."

  "Hmm, you remember that university in Baoying City, who knows, maybe we bumped into each other in the vast crowd."

  "Are you also staying in Yincheng?"

  "Uh, if nothing unexpected happens, I plan to apply to Yunnan Normal University. This is something that I had already decided on before the college entrance exam."

  "Ahh... it's on a level I can't even reach."

  "Anyway... no matter what, Su, you have to come to Yin City. I really want to see you."

  Su Yi couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia, as if everyone in Yin City was waiting for her. The last time she hastily passed through Yin City, she didn't even notice the scenery. Perhaps it was also worth lingering over, just like Jiang City, warm and cozy.

  But... she couldn't help but furrow her brow.

  The phone rang again at this time, and Su Yisu saw Lin Wan's name displayed on the screen. She quickly pressed the answer button, "Wan ~ Congratulations on high school!"

  "Uh..." Lin Wan was somewhat unaccustomed to this Su Yisou, and for a moment he was stunned. "Sister Su, you're very well-informed."

  "I just got off the phone with Zhang, and I was thinking of calling you."

  "Ah, Su. I've come to bid you farewell."

  "Huh?" Su Yisuo was initially somewhat puzzled, but when she understood, a strong sense of sadness surged up in her heart. "You're going to move back to Ancheng?"

  "Uh... I'll also be attending university there..."

  "So... we'll be going our separate ways from now on..."

  "We're still young, aren't we? At most, we'll just get married in the same place later on, haha." Lin Xiao pretended to joke casually.

  Su Yisu was unexpectedly struck by her cold joke and instead said seriously: "I remember this sentence! Don't allow yourself to break your promise from now on!"

  "Alright! I've remembered it too!" Lin Lu also nodded very seriously on the other end.

  Years later, whenever Jiang Zuo gave his all to tie the red thread for Lin Wan, Lin Wan would always smile and bring up this matter. She said that if she couldn't find a place, she wouldn't marry him, so Su Yi Su regretted and cried with a sad face, staring at Lin Wan and saying that she was young and didn't understand things back then, asking her not to mind. However, Lin Wan insisted on this promise. At that time, they still couldn't understand how much bitterness and hardship they would have to go through in order to be as carefree as they were now.

  Su Yixin appeared outside her door, cautiously poking her head in and seeing nothing out of the ordinary, before speaking up: "Su Yisu. Mom wants to discuss the matter of reporting volunteer work with you."

  "Oh..." Su Yisu responded with a sulky tone and threw down her phone, obediently following Su Yixin downstairs.

  Shen Xiulan was already waiting for them in the living room, holding a college entrance examination guide and carefully flipping through it page by page. Seeing them come down, she hastily handed the book to Su Yixin and said: "Yixin, come and help her choose."

  Su Yisu pouted unwillingly, "I'm the one involved in this matter..."

  Su Yixin glared at her, "I've been through this before! With you being so muddle-headed, heaven knows what kind of terrible school you'll end up choosing."

  Su Yisuo weakly let out a cold hum, under the double pressure of Shen Xiulan and Su Yixin, she had no choice but to obediently listen and let Su Yixin choose for her.

  Su Yixin flipped through page after page for a long time before saying: "Forget about it, Master Yin. Why don't we just apply to Huazhi University?"

  "Hua Zi University?" Su Yisu repeated the name in a low voice, as if Jiang Fengchen was indeed at Hua Zi University... Thinking of this, she couldn't help but recall the photo Tan Ziyao sent her, and that elegant An Yiran. If the three of them were to get together, who would be the extra person? Jiang Fengchen, what if I end up unable to extricate myself in the end, only to discover that I'm the extra one? What should I do?

  Jiang Fengchen, if it's like this, I'd rather hold on to the last illusion, hide in a place where I can't see you, and quietly guard our love.

  "What's wrong with Huabei University?"

  Su Yixin's voice suddenly echoed in her ear, Su Yisu came back to herself and looked at Su Yixin: "No, it's fine, I was just afraid of being eliminated."

  "With me taking care of it for you, are you still worried about making mistakes? Don't worry, your score is more than enough, now go ahead and choose a major yourself."

  "Uh... I don't know what to read..."

  At this time, Shen Xiulan, who had been silent all along, interjected: "Su Su, aren't you quite fond of Chinese? Why don't you major in Chinese Language and Literature?"

  "What's Chinese Language and Literature?" Su Yisu repeated in a daze, "Seems pretty good, I guess that's it then. Anyway, I don't know what I'm studying either..."

  "Whatever." Su Yixin couldn't help but roll her eyes, yet still agreed with Shen Xiulan's suggestion. For someone as muddle-headed as Su Yisou, the language and literature major was indeed the most suitable for her.

  So the matter of school and major was settled, just waiting for the arrival of the second batch of volunteer filling time.

  July 1st is approaching. Su Yi Xin sat in front of the computer early, flipping through the volunteer manual to check the school and major codes, personally typing out each volunteer for Su Yi Su. No way, he was too afraid she would fill it out wrong. Such a serious matter, he really couldn't put his heart at ease.

  Just as Su Yi Xin was typing the last character, his phone rang. He hastily released the mouse and reminded Su Yi Su not to move before rushing out to answer the call.

  Su Yisu gazed at Su Yixin's back until he disappeared from view, then turned her head to stare at the computer. Looking at the first choice column filled with Huazhi University, she couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in her heart. She hesitated for a moment, quietly changed her first choice, and quickly pressed confirm to submit, not giving herself any chance to regret it.