Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 439 I Will Win Next Time

For some reason, Han Zhou once again remembered what he heard when he was fortune-telling in the coffee shop that day.

At that time, he didn't want to ask questions related to love, so he decided to just pick a question at random. However, as he feared, the question he picked happened to be about love.

To be precise, what is relevant to love is not the problem itself, but the answer to the problem.

The conversation that day resurfaced in his mind.

"The crystal ball tells me that your future will be smooth sailing and all your wishes will come true, but there is a problem."

"what is the problem?"

"Although all your wishes can come true, in contrast, their wishes may not be realized."

"They? You mean the people around me?"

"To be precise, it's the girls around you who have had significant interactions with you."

"Are you serious?"

"This is a piece of advice. If you still get too close to everyone, you may hear all of them crying in the future."

"Can I understand that you mean that if they continue to stay with me, it will not end well?"

"Please don't get excited. This is the fate revealed by the crystal ball. The future has countless branches, and I am only describing one of the possibilities."

"To be honest, I never believed in fate, but if the future really has branches, then I will definitely take the path that satisfies everyone."

"You are not the first person to say that you don't believe in fate, but since you are here, please respect it as much as possible."

"Okay, I respect that... so what do you suggest?"

“Many troubles in this world come from the excessive pursuit of perfection. If you are willing to make some sacrifices, then perhaps everything will develop in a satisfactory direction.”

"You sound like a charlatan in both tone and wording... You want me to stop being so greedy, right? Did Wang Runxue say something to you?"

"Her words can only help me understand you better. Please believe me, my divination is not too selfish."

"Really? Then I think you're wrong."

"Ok?"

"I respect fate now, so I will believe what you said. However, since you said that all my wishes will come true in the future, then they will definitely not have any wishes that cannot be fulfilled--"

"To fulfill all of their wishes... this is my greatest wish from now on and into the future."

"…even though things are likely to get messy?"

“Even if things get messy.”

"I see your determination. Divination is a guide for those who are lost, and you really don't seem to need it. Do you mind letting me do the divination again?"

"Okay, what did the divination reveal this time?"

"Uh, it's the same divination result..."

"..."

"I swear, I will never come to your place again. Besides coffee, I also start to hate divination now."

……

From that day on, Han Zhou suddenly understood why Mo Yixia preferred to go to the temple to draw divinations.

Because you can keep asking for lots in the temple until you get one that satisfies you.

Of course, he didn't believe in fate, and fortune-telling was just for the sake of good luck. So when he learned that the result of his fortune-telling was not a good omen, he immediately decided to conceal the matter and slap the face of the president of the fortune-telling club one day in the future.

He will fulfill all their wishes.

It's not entirely to express his determination not to believe in fate. In fact, the girls around him all have some problems to varying degrees, and resolving their knots is what he has determined to do. In the process, he will inevitably hear some of the wishes hidden deep in their hearts.

Of course, he is not an omnipotent dream maker, but the status bar is. There are some wishes that he cannot realize, but I think the status bar is capable of completing them.

In fact, in a sense, the tasks posted in the status bar may reflect everyone's wishes to a certain extent...

No, no, no, that's not right. Wasn't there a mission to capture Sister Yin a few days ago? So if you think like this, doesn't Sister Yin's wish mean that she wants to be captured by me?
Han Zhou quickly gave up this terrible idea.

Although his thoughts were in a tizzy, he kept most of his attention on Guzheng. "Unique" seemed to have a special meaning to the girl, so much so that she thought for a long time before speaking again.

"Yes, unique. I have always wanted to be such a person."

Gu Zheng fell silent after saying this. She really wanted to hear Han Zhou’s answer, “Aren’t you a unique person now?” But she was disappointed because Han Zhou did not say that.

"Is this because this is what your grandmother expects of you?" Han Zhou asked curiously.

"No."

Gu Zheng shook her head. "Although my grandmother always told me that the happiest moment for a person is when he or she discovers something unique about himself or herself one day in the future, she never asked me to be a unique person."

After a pause, she continued, "From childhood to adulthood, my grandmother has hardly made any demands on me except for asking me to correct my mistakes after I made them. Parents of other children would not let them run around or go out at night, but my grandmother was different. She never stopped me from doing these things, even if she often had to come out in the dark to find me."

Han Zhou smiled and said, "It seems that your grandma really likes you."

Through Guzheng's narration, a kind and gentle image has already appeared in his mind.

"Do you think so too?" Gu Zheng curled her eyes. "Many people say that grandma doesn't really care about me, but they don't understand anything. Love doesn't just mean tying each other together."

Han Zhou took a breath and said, "How can you say such a thing?"

"Why make such a fuss? I often think about the philosophy of life, okay?"

Gu Zheng glared at him, then her momentum gradually weakened, her face slightly reddened, and she said, "But this sentence was indeed not said by me, but by grandma. She said that the reason why mom and dad often don't come home is not because they don't love me, and asked me not to blame them."

As a left-behind child, Guzheng actually had very limited time to spend with her parents since childhood. The reason why she still has a sunny and cheerful personality and maintains a good relationship with her parents today is inseparable from the education her grandmother gave her since childhood.

Of course, Guzheng’s parents really love Guzheng, and I believe many people on the playground just now can testify to this.

"What your grandma said makes sense. Love does not mean being inseparable, and the occasional separation does not mean not loving."

Without making a sound, Han Zhou prepared for his future showdown. He returned to the subject and asked in confusion, "Since this is not what your grandmother expected, why do you want to be a unique person?"

Gu Zheng was silent for a moment: "Perhaps it is because grandma never made any requests to me, and she didn't even leave me a good will. She didn't even want to leave me any pressure. So after grandma passed away, I would seriously think about what she would expect of me."

In fact, her grandmother had made some requests to her. On the night before she died, she was asked to complete her school homework well, but she broke the promise.

Is it because there is no pressure at all but an inexplicable sense of burden?

Han Zhou could understand Guzheng's feelings. It was like being the last in a class and if the head teacher always ordered you to study hard and improve your grades, you might not take it seriously and might even develop a rebellious mentality and do even worse.

But if your head teacher not only does not require you to study hard, but instead cares about you every day and treats you like his own son, then when you see the ugly report card, it will be difficult not to feel guilty and thus want to study hard.

The hardest thing to accept is unconditional love, and the hardest thing to repay is unconditional love.

Unless one is truly cold-blooded and heartless, it would be hard for anyone not to think, "I should do something to respond to the other party" when faced with a similar situation.

"Actually, when my grandma passed away... she said a lot to me before she passed away, but I couldn't remember it the next day. I often wondered if it wasn't that my grandma didn't leave any last wishes, but that I didn't remember them."

Gu Zheng clenched her fists, obviously feeling upset about forgetting the words her grandmother left before she passed away. It took a long time before she spoke again.

"My grandmother always liked to mention the word 'unique' when she was alive, so I think if she really left a will, she must have hoped that I could become a unique person in the future." "...But until today, I have not become such a person."

The sun gradually set, and the originally golden sunlight completely turned into a light red.

The wind started to blow in the woods again, but this time there were no large pieces of dead leaves flying around, they just lazily moved around on the ground.

Han Zhou sat in a wheelchair, stirring the fallen leaves on the ground with his feet. After a while, he suddenly said, "Gu Zheng, have you ever thought that maybe in your grandmother's eyes, you have already been a unique person?"

Guzheng was stunned.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because that's what I thought."

Han Zhou smiled and said, "Look, when you were little, your grandma said you were a little stove. Now that you've grown up, I think you're like the sun. Don't you think your grandma and I have similar ideas?"

He was still stirring the fallen leaves with his feet, so he didn't notice the expression on the girl's face behind him, or her slightly trembling voice.

"You mean... you've long felt that I'm unique?"

"Yes, the sun is unique."

A gust of wind suddenly blew through the woods, and the girl's hair on her forehead blocked her view. She lowered her head subconsciously, and then she noticed that Han Zhou had been writing something on the pile of dead leaves with his feet.

But the wind came too suddenly. Before she could see clearly, the words disappeared with the wind and turned into dead leaves all over the sky.

Guzheng really wanted to ask Han Zhou what he had just written, but when the words came to her lips, they turned into another sentence.

"So, then what do you think makes me unique?"

She asked in her best nonchalant tone, but she couldn't hide her nervousness.

"Where?"

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Isn't it unique enough for you to stand here?"

Gu Zheng blushed slightly. Although she was very pleased with what he said, this was not the answer she wanted: "That's not what I'm talking about. I'm asking you what's unique about me?"

"point?"

Han Zhou looked back at the girl behind him for a while, and when he saw that her expression was getting worse and worse, he smiled and said seriously, "There is no specific point, and there is no need for you to dwell on it. There are billions of people in this world. If each person needs to be described with a unique word, I'm afraid even if I flip through the dictionary, it won't be enough."

Gu Zheng's bright eyes dimmed a little: "That means there is nothing unique about me."

"Aren't you just being too picky?" Han Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "It's just like permutations and combinations. Many similarities make something completely different. When different personalities are combined in different people, everyone is different. For example, can you tell me what's unique about me?"

Gu Zheng really couldn't put it into words, but she still tried to think about it and said hesitantly: "You are particularly shameless..."

Han Zhou didn't refute: "There are many shameless people. I'm not the only one, am I?"

"But you are more shameless than anyone else..."

"...Well, this is indeed unique."

Han Zhou's mouth twitched. He was about to ask the other party to produce evidence when he suddenly figured something out. He asked in surprise, "As long as you surpass everyone else, you can be considered unique... So this is why you always wanted to be number one?"

He looked up at the girl's face and for the first time understood her true motivation for pursuing number one.

"Ah."

Gu Zheng did not deny it. She turned her head away uneasily. After a long while, she said, "Do you think I am deceiving myself and very... very weird?"

The reason why she never told anyone about this was because she was not even sure whether her persistence was meaningful. She was afraid that the other party would deny everything she had done in the past and tell her that it had nothing to do with being unique.

...Especially Han Zhou.

Han Zhou always said that she was his sun, but how could there be a sun that didn’t even know the meaning of its rising in the east and setting in the west every day?

Noticing Gu Zheng's slightly red cheeks and her slightly uneasy gaze towards the sky, Han Zhou was thoughtful and decided to imitate the mind-reading master Mo Yixia, and asked tentatively: "Are you trying to say that a girl's blush is better than anything else, and even the sunset in the evening can only hide in the clouds, so I should give a negative answer?"

"?"

A question mark popped up in Gu Zheng's head. She wanted to ask what nonsense this guy was talking about, but she finally nodded and said hesitantly: "I guess so...but, but I didn't force you."

She really wanted to hear Han Zhou give a negative answer, saying that her idea was not self-deception at all and was not at all incomprehensible.

But Han Zhou disappointed her again.

"Although I really want to say this, your reason for pursuing the first place does seem a little strange to me. After all, in my opinion, you are already unique enough, so I can't completely agree with your idea."

Gu Zheng looked away somewhat awkwardly, not entirely out of disappointment, but because every time this guy said in a matter-of-fact tone that she was unique, she felt her heart beating faster.

Han Zhou didn't know what Gu Zheng was thinking, and continued, "But I still understand you. Perhaps the 'uniqueness' you want is different from what I understand as uniqueness. If you still want everyone to know that you are a unique person, then continue to insist on being number one."

Gu Zheng was stunned: "It's that simple?"

She didn't think there was anything wrong with Han Zhou's attitude, she just thought that he would try to persuade her not to dwell on this inexplicable wish.

"if not?"

Han Zhou gave her a strange look and said, "Didn't I tell you? Just keep doing what you think is right. I will always support you."

"It's really not inexplicable..."

"So what if it's inexplicable? We are not normal people anyway."

Han Zhou smiled and looked up at the sun in the sky. "No one will care even if I act a little weird occasionally."

Covered by layers of red clouds, most of the sun was obscured, leaving only a crooked slit, like a red-hot "one".

Gu Zheng followed his line of sight and couldn't help but curl her eyes. Suddenly she realized, "You are the one who is abnormal. Don't include me in this!"

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the girl's cheeks flushed.

Han Zhou shrugged and didn't respond.

After a long while, until the clouds covering the sun dispersed, he smiled and asked, "So, can you answer my original question?"

"How do you feel about losing this time?"

The air suddenly became silent, and no one responded for a long time.

There seemed to be liquid dripping on his shoulder, but he pretended not to notice and did not look back. He just looked into the distance quietly with a calm expression.

Now that he understood the true meaning of first place to Guzheng, he naturally understood the blow that this failure had brought to the latter.

Gu Zheng was not as indifferent as she seemed. On the contrary, she kept all her emotions inside.

...Just think of it as a rain that couldn't get any lighter.

After a long time, the rain stopped.

I could vaguely hear the sound of sleeves rubbing against cheeks behind me, and after a while, the girl's firm voice sounded.

"Next time, I will definitely win."

(End of this chapter)