I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 18 Interview Exposure and Letters

As soon as Li Yan stepped out of the school gate after the graduation ceremony, he was stopped by someone from the Huangcheng Newspaper.

"Li, I heard everything you said just now, and I strongly recommend that you accept my interview!" The bespectacled female reporter looked eager.

In her view, Li Yan's case has a lot of potential for exploration and could be quite sensational!
The stark contrast between a "terrible homeroom teacher" and an excellent student!
Just from Li Yan's last sentence, she could already conjure up thousands of words of love, hate, and grudges.

She even had titles in mind, such as "A White Lotus Blooming in a Dark Muddy Swamp" and "The Top Middle School Entrance Exam Scorer Endures Three Years of Hardship and Finally Breaks Free from His Cage."

In short, she believes that Li Yan's story perfectly fits the key points of news even before she has heard about it!

“Okay, I’ll give the interview.” Li Yan nodded and gestured to Jiang Yingzhu beside him.

"She wants to come along."

"No problem at all."

The reporter glanced at Jiang Yingzhu, and her eyes lit up. Keywords like 'redemption' and 'support' fluttered through her mind like snowflakes.

"Let's go to the milk tea shop next door, I'll treat you to milk tea."

Upon hearing this, Li Yan and Jiang Yingzhu glanced at her face and nodded silently.

Inside the bubble tea shop, the reporter couldn't wait to ask: "Why did you publicly criticize the homeroom teacher?"

"Because this isn't a secret among the students of our No. 15 Middle School."

The reporter's eyes lit up again; there was an even bigger scoop!

Fifteen minutes later, the reporter, having been fed her fill, put away her red-glowing recording pen and left the milk tea shop.

She bid farewell to Li Yan and the other person, writing this on the last line of her notebook.

"If an ordinary middle school is like this, I dare not imagine what other, worse or even better middle schools are like. Is the sacred and pure campus really as we imagine it to be?"

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The road outside the school is lined with plane trees, which grow lush and cast deep shade on the ground in the summer.

Li Yan looked up at the lush green tree overhead and suddenly stopped.

"Zhuzhu, how about we take a picture here?"

"What?"

"I feel like I'll be walking this road much less often in the future."

"Hypocritical!"

Jiang Yingzhu complained, but tossed the apple to Gan Tiantian, who was peeking from the shadows.

"Sweetie, take a picture of us. Make sure it looks good!"

"Oh, okay!" Gan Tiantian's face immediately lit up with excitement, and she hurriedly took the phone and came up quickly.

"Um, you guys should stand a little closer together."

"Are you trying to teach me how to do things? You've got some nerve."

Li Yan didn't say anything, but put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her closer to him.

"Listen to me, hurry up."

"Humph!"

Gan Tiantian smiled sweetly, quickly snapped a few photos, and showed them to Master Jiang.

"Well, not bad."

In the photo, the two are wearing the same school uniform. The boy has his arm around the girl's shoulder. Their eyes seem to be looking at the camera, but there is a subtle shift in their gazes.

They clearly have a very good relationship!

The scene of the two taking a photo was seen by other students in the class.

So somehow, some people started taking pictures in pairs.

This then spread to other classes.

The originally somber graduation atmosphere suddenly turned into a group photo frenzy.

The reporter, who caught up later, was deeply moved by what she saw.

"so good."

Then, as if she had thought of something, she quickly jotted it down in her notebook.

"When I left, I saw the ninth graders taking photos on the road outside the school. Their deep affection was admirable. Could this also be related to some unusual atmosphere on campus?"

Li Yan was unaware that a certain reporter had already come up with a wild idea: to kill Wang Fugui.

At this moment, he stood in front of the convenience store downstairs in the residential area, holding a letter in his hand.

"Grandma Lin, when was this delivered?"

He asked the shop owner who was sitting inside.

"I just came here not long ago."

"Oh, thank you, Grandma Lin."

Li Yan put the letter away under Jiang Yingzhu's intense gaze. "Why are you hiding it? I'm not going to read it."

"hehe."

"boom!"

Li Yan rubbed his shoulders and glared at her. "You just wait. I'll get my revenge sooner or later and beat you until you call me daddy."

"Heh, you?" Jiang Yingzhu curled her lip, crossed her arms, and looked disdainful.

Back home, after kicking Jiang Yingzhu out of the room, Li Yan took out the letter, his eyes lingering on the address.

"The address has indeed changed."

At this moment, the address has changed to a residential area on Liutiao Street, Boren Road, Huangcheng.

My pen pal suddenly changed from someone in another city to someone in the same city, just like in my previous life.

"How about we meet up this time?"

Li Yan pondered for a moment, then opened the envelope and took out the letter inside.

He met this pen pal when he was in sixth grade.

At that time, Li Yan Elementary School held a writing competition, and he won first place.

Just then, he saw Jiang Yingzhu reading some story magazine when he got back. Feeling a bit cocky, Li Yan decided to submit his work and show off in front of Jiang Yingzhu.

Then he received a reply.

Xiao Liyan was extremely excited and started showing off to Jiang Yingzhu as soon as he received the envelope.

Then, upon seeing the first sentence of the letter, his world collapsed—

[Dear student, your letter must have been sent to the wrong address, but your essay is quite good; you wrote so much!]

At that moment, Xiao Liyan felt as if thunder had struck him, especially with Jiang Yingzhu's burst of laughter in his ears.

He was already so ashamed and angry that he was about to tear up the letter.

But Jiang Yingzhu snatched it away, stood on the table, and read it aloud.

“Sijiu, I’ve read all that you’ve written. Although Dad said it’s a bit immature, I think it’s pretty good. I don’t have the ability to write this much.”

"Oh dear, where's Sijiu? Other parents saw her, hahaha!"

After Jiang Yingzhu finished reading, she added a sarcastic remark, and then continued reading while shooing Li Yan away from trying to climb onto the table.

I've listed the parts I felt were lacking and written some corrections; I hope you don't mind.

If you still have any questions, we can continue the discussion.

"Tsk tsk tsk, let me see, the famous one is Mu Qing, what is this?"

Li Yan ignored her at the time and didn't think it was bad for others to see the letter.

He eventually managed to get the letter back because Jiang Yingzhu, who was standing on the table, was slapped by Jiang's mother.

Li Yan revised it again and sent it to 'Mu Qing'.

Although the two children revised the article for over a month, it was never published.

But they became believers.

Li Yan's eyes showed recollection. When did it begin?
It was probably a reply after learning that it hadn't been published.

Xiao Li expressed his regret, and the other party replied with words of comfort, while also mentioning his own unhappiness.

Over time, letter writing became a place for two people who didn't know each other's names to share their thoughts or discuss life.

However, after he came to Huangcheng, the two exchanged fewer letters.

Li Yan didn't pay much attention at the time; perhaps the other person was just shy.

After all, she is a girl.

After graduating from high school, the other person came to visit, and the two communicated less and less.

Li Yan had actually suggested meeting up or adding each other as friends, but the other party didn't agree, so he didn't bring it up again.

"Let me see what these teenage girls have written."

Unfolding the letter, Li Yan began to read it again, a letter he had read before.

[Zhan Xin An]

[Seeing the address, were you surprised? I'm coming to stay with you, hehe!]

[Just kidding!]

Li Yan: ? ? ?
This is different from what I remember!
Although he couldn't remember clearly, he still remembered some of the letters he received at those more memorable times.

If we add the original documents, we should be able to recall them.

But now, it's completely unfamiliar!

(End of this chapter)