Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 434 It’s not too late to remember now

"Before I answer your question, I also want to ask you a question."

Mo Yixia looked at the sun in the distance with calm eyes, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"what is the problem?"

After a pause, He Ling guessed, "You want to know what kind of person Gu Zheng is?"

After all, he is a love rival, so it is normal to want to know more about him.

Mo Yixia looked at her strangely: "Maybe I know the answer to this question better than you do. Is it necessary to ask you?"

He Ling was choked. This guy was really annoying. Although Gu Zheng was also annoying, in comparison, she actually hoped that Gu Zheng could win the final victory.

"So what do you want to ask?" she asked patiently.

"What is like?"

"what?"

"I want to ask you what love is." Mo Yixia said slowly, "That's the question I want to ask."

The sun outside the window gradually got lower, and the white clouds took on a hint of crimson. The girl held her chin with one hand, and the sunlight fell on her almost perfect profile. The teardrop mole at the corner of her eye seemed to brighten as well.

Even though she was wearing a mask, He Ling could be sure that this must be a beauty who was as beautiful as Gu Zheng.

I don't know what kind of man can make these two girls become rivals in love...

She was curious and asked, "You already have someone you like, don't you know what 'like' means?"

Mo Yixia disagreed: "Haven't you ever figured out what obsession is?"

"You... forget it, why are you asking me? Haven't you asked this question to anyone else?"

"You're the only one among the people I've met so far who has a boyfriend, which is why I chose to ask you."

Mo Yixia was very frank and said bluntly, "Besides, I am also very curious about how someone who can clearly produce the emotion of 'hate' would define 'love'."

He Ling was silent for a few seconds, then hesitated and said, "Do I really look like I hate Guzheng..."

In fact, before communicating with this girl, she always felt that she hated Guzheng, but for some reason, after hearing what the other party just said, she suddenly didn't know how to describe her feelings.

Is it really hatred, or is it an obsession that comes from jealousy and unwillingness?
"Now it's your turn to answer my question." Mo Yixia interrupted her thoughts.

This girl is smart, but also really annoying. She never seems to care about other people's feelings. In comparison, Guzheng...

He Ling was silent for a while, then said, "You suddenly asked me what love is, and I don't know how to answer for a moment, but love has always been the antonym of hate. Perhaps I can answer your question with my understanding of hate."

"it is good."

He Ling fell silent again, staring at Gu Zheng who was lowering her head and enduring the abuse on the playground for a long time: "In my opinion... hatred should be a despicable feeling of wanting to destroy the other person's desire."

Mo Yixia thought thoughtfully: "So love is a noble feeling of wanting to help the other person realize their wishes?"

She completely extracted the antonym of "hate" from the other person's mouth.

"I think it can be understood this way. In addition to blushing and being moved, liking someone is probably a feeling of wanting to give everything for the other person."

It seemed like it was the first time someone discussed the topic of "liking" with him. He Ling thought about it very seriously and added, "If I see the other person's wish come to nothing, I will also be disappointed."

Mo Yixia didn't comment. She raised her index finger on her left hand and tapped her smooth forehead lightly: "What if my wish conflicts with the other person's wish?"

He Ling was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Shouldn't this be the question you should answer for me?"

"Yes."

Mo Yixia stopped tapping, picked up the water bottle from the table, unscrewed the cap, slightly pulled the mask down, and took a sip of water.

What a nice view……

Under He Ling's dull gaze, the girl put on her mask again, her tone lazy and unpredictable, like the erratic white clouds in the sky.

"But I'm sorry, how to satisfy everyone without imposing expectations on each other is also the subject I am studying for the time being."

"I can understand."

He Ling quickly came back to her senses from her brief absence. It was precisely because there was no perfect solution to this problem that she and Gu Zheng became enemies. She took a deep breath and asked, "So, as to who was right and who was wrong between me and Gu Zheng in that incident, can you tell me your answer?"

Mo Yixia glanced at her and said with interest: "You should have asked similar questions to many people over the years, and you must have received satisfactory answers, otherwise you would not have carried out your revenge plan. Why do you still ask me?"

He Ling didn't think about it for too long: "Because you look at the problem from a different perspective than they do."

"Don't you know the answer?"

Mo Yixia said in a light tone, with a hint of meaning, "Right and wrong often depend on one's position. Even I can't be completely fair."

"But I still hope you can answer." He Ling insisted.

Mo Yixia is a person who keeps her promises. Since the other party has already answered the questions she wanted to know and has repeatedly expressed that he wants to get a different answer from the past, she will not continue to be euphemistic.

"I can only answer you one thing—"

"When talking about your former best friend, that girl didn't say a bad word about you. On the contrary, she described you as a very good person."

He Ling suddenly looked at the guzheng outside the window, stunned.

In fact, Mo Yixia had never heard Gu Zheng mention He Ling. The above words were all her guesses. The reason why she said so was just because she knew what kind of person that guy was.

Silly, but kind.

...Otherwise, he would not have given a helping hand to a love rival who was eyeing him covetously.

The scene after sinking to the bottom of the lake that day emerged in the girl's mind. She remembered the look in the eyes of a certain guy when he tried his best to crawl towards her.

That was clearly a look that said he would send her love rival to shore even if he had to stay at the bottom of the lake. Thinking of this, Mo Yixia confirmed one thing again -

That guy is really stupid.

Of course, although he was stupid, he could still be considered half her savior. Therefore, apart from not giving up Han Zhou, she was still willing to give that guy a little bit of profit - such as saying a few good words for him.

That's why she just said, "Even I can't be completely fair."

He Ling looked out the window, and for a long time she didn't come back to her senses from Mo Yixia's words.

Although it was a completely irrelevant answer, when she thought about her introduction to the guzheng not long ago, she seemed to suddenly understand who was right and who was wrong.

Or...

"It seems you don't really hate that guy."

Mo Yixia's voice rang in her ears, "If you really hate her to the core, then no matter how much I say, it will be useless. Since you are touched, it means that you actually remember what kind of person that guy is, right?"

"Yes." He Ling said.

She did remember it all.

Guzheng didn't always think about herself. That guy obviously loved eating the most, but he always shared half of his delicious food with her. The reason why she thought that the other party didn't know how to share was because she forgot that the girl neither bought toys nor liked to run around. She was always wholeheartedly studying and couldn't give much to share.

But now think about it, every time it rained and the two of them only had a small umbrella, Guzheng would always rush into the rain with a big laugh, saying that she had never caught a cold since she was a child, and no matter how much I chased her, she would refuse to come back, and in this way she kept the umbrella in her hands.

But she did not see Guzheng catch a cold the next day, and she gradually forgot about it.

It’s not that Guzheng is unwilling to share her study methods, it’s just that all the methods the other party mentioned were very stupid. She refused to believe that Guzheng could get the first place in the grade using these methods, and she forgot how hard the other party worked every day.

Mingming Guzheng had invited her to study at her home many times, but she refused for various reasons. She refused to admit it at that time, but now it seems that she just didn't want to go because she was jealous of Guzheng's progress.

Guzheng did have a bad temper and would fight with boys at every turn. She was not like a lady at all and was criticized many times in the grade reports. But except for the only time when she was rumored to be the descendant of savages and had chest hair, all the fights Guzheng fought were actually to protect herself.

At that time, there were always some lazy and lazy students in the school who liked to bully girls who studied well. They didn't dare to mess with people like Guzheng, so they always targeted her. After Guzheng knew about it, she fought with them several times. Because they were worried that she would be implicated, they took the blame on themselves and said that they fought because they didn't like those boys.

Obviously Gu Zheng would not lie, but she was always very stubborn and would not confess no matter who asked her. Perhaps because she had said too many things, she gradually forgot that Gu Zheng fought to protect herself and thought that she was really a girl who liked to stir up trouble.

He Ling's eyes were a little red.

She did not doubt Mo Yixia's words, because Gu Zheng was not a person who liked to say bad things about others behind their backs. Even those boys who spread rumors that she had chest hair, she had never scolded them.

Time is like a file, turning good memories into better ones and bad memories into worse ones.

Perhaps it was because everyone around her was saying "You are not wrong, she is the one who is wrong" that she gradually established an image of Gu Zheng as a hateful villain in her heart.

But isn’t there anyone around Guzheng who can tell her, “You are not wrong, it is that guy who is actually wrong”?

Of course there will be.

But Guzheng still didn't regard her as an enemy.

He Ling stood in front of the window blankly, not saying anything for a long time.

She suddenly felt somewhat fortunate, fortunate that she had heard the news about Guzheng and thought of a plan for revenge, and also fortunate that she had chosen the girl in the baseball cap next to her as the person to "confide" in.

If it weren’t for what the girl just said, she might never have remembered what kind of person Gu Zheng was?

As if she had noticed her thoughts, Mo Yixia suddenly asked, "Do you regret figuring this out?"

"A little……"

He Ling tried to answer, only to then realize that her voice was a little choked and her cheeks were wet without her knowing when.

She wiped her eyes, not caring if it would smudge her makeup, and tried to force a smile, "But if I don't figure it out, I will probably regret it even more in the future."

"Yeah."

Mo Yixia's tone was rarely gentler, and she didn't say much, as if giving her time to digest her emotions.

The branches outside the window swayed in the wind, as if they were stretching lazily.

"I have one last question for you." After a long silence, He Ling spoke again.

"Go ahead."

He Ling looked at the playground. Gu Zheng had already finished her 400-meter run and was putting on her coat while chatting with another girl: "Why do you think Gu Zheng stayed at the starting line just now?"

"Of course, it's because I want to respond to the persistence of the 'injured' senior. Also, I heard from someone that this guy never gives up."

Mo Yixia chuckled. This was the first time He Ling heard her laugh. She didn't know whether she was laughing at herself or at the love rival on the playground.

"Why, do you think that guy is smart enough to see through the intention of that senior sister, so he wants to take revenge on her by watching her finish the race?"

"Ah."

He Ling nodded and admitted that this was indeed what she had thought just now - perhaps just as the other party said, her heart was actually very dark, otherwise she would not have become what she is today.

The sunlight outside the window shines directly into the gymnasium, appearing somewhat dazzling.

She squinted her eyes, and suddenly thought of the bright smile on Guzheng's face when she took over the baton not long ago. It looked exactly the same as when she was in junior high school. She wanted to try to learn it, but she couldn't do it like that.

She took a deep breath and forced a complicated smile.

"You're right. I really had forgotten what kind of person Gu Zheng was."

"It's not too late to remember it now." Mo Yixia tucked up the hair that was scattered around her ears.

The air was quiet for a long time.

"Thank you."

(End of this chapter)