Genius Playground

Chapter 37 Xiuxiu
Once we can get in touch with Cheng Mengxue, things will be much simpler.

First, synchronize your memories with her.

After that, we'll figure out Qin Feng's situation together.

Jiang Ran has already made plans for the future.

He sat up on the edge of the bed and saw a pencil and a notepad on the bedside table.

So he held the phone between his shoulder and ear, picked up a notepad, and prepared to write Cheng Mengxue's phone number on it later.

In the dim moonlight, he saw a line of small writing above the note...

XXXX Villa Resort Area.

villa?

He looked up and gazed out the window.

The shadows of the lush foliage fall on the window screen, dancing and swaying like shadow puppets.

It seems so.

The room he was in was not a hotel, but a guest room in a vacation villa.

Why...why am I staying in this kind of villa area?
Never mind that, let's contact Cheng Mengxue first.

however.

He waited for more than ten seconds, but Wang Hao on the other end of the phone did not respond at all.

?

Something's strange:
"Wang Hao? Are you asleep?"

Jiang Ran urged:

"Hurry up and give me Xiaoxue's phone number, didn't you hear me?"

……

Still no response.

"Wang Hao!"

"Jiang Ran, you..."

Wang Hao's voice finally came, but he seemed hesitant to speak:

"Are you serious?"

"what happened?"

Jiang Ran couldn't understand why Wang Hao had become so fussy and abnormal after the world line changed.
He put down the note and switched hands to hold his phone.
"What's wrong with you? Stop dawdling. You don't know Qin Feng, but you must know Xiao Xue, right? Give me the phone number already."

"Are you... not sick?"

Wang Hao was very cautious:

"Or...did something trigger it?"

"Are you ever going to stop?!"

Jiang Ran was genuinely annoyed:
"I just want Xiaoxue's phone number! What does that have to do with being sick or stressed? Can't you be normal?!"

Hey……

A sigh came from the other end of the phone.

This sigh made Jiang Ran's scalp tighten and his breathing become heavier.

"Jiang Ran, I don't know what's wrong with you today, and I don't know what you mean by telling me all this so late at night."

"But, but..."

Wang Hao's voice was deep:

"But Xiaoxue... she passed away two years ago."

Teng!
Jiang Ran suddenly stood up from the bedside.

what?
Died?

Cheng Mengxue is dead!?

For a moment, the image of that ponytail and baby-faced smile appeared before my eyes.

From childhood, to adolescence, to the release of college entrance exam results, to the university playground, to diving from a luxury cruise ship, to saying those bold words with slightly flushed cheeks...

"Are you serious?"

Jiang Ran felt a chill run through her body.

He didn't believe it, he dared not believe it, yet amidst all the strange and unusual events, he was forced to believe it:
"How did Xiaoxue die?"

"Two years ago? Two years ago... wasn't that when we graduated from high school, were in our senior year, and were taking the college entrance exam?"

"Yes……"

Wang Hao, completely bewildered, replied blankly, "It was the day after the college entrance exam, Xiaoxue got into a car accident on her way to the exam venue... she died in the car accident."

"Jiang Ran, what's wrong with you today? I don't know how to communicate with you anymore. Your sudden outbursts are scaring me too, okay?"

"Where's Xiuxiu? Where is Xiuxiu? Is she with you?"

【秀秀】.

Then I heard a completely unfamiliar name.

It sounds like a girl's name, but Jiang Ran doesn't recognize it at all.

"Didn't you go to your best friend's birthday party with Xiuxiu today? You even rented a villa to decorate it... Are you two together now?"

Wang Hao continued:

"Hey, let me remind you, if you drink too much and have a hysterical episode, don't bring up sensitive topics in front of Xiuxiu; just don't mention Xiaoxue's matter at all, it's all in the past."

Jiang Ran didn't care at all about whether or not there was any "showing off".

He only cares about Cheng Mengxue.

According to Wang Hao, Cheng Mengxue died two years ago, in a car accident the day after the college entrance examination.

Is that June 8th?
Two years ago, on June 8, 2023.

What exactly happened that day?

"Jiang Ran?"

The person on the other end of the phone, noticing there had been no response for a while, called out:

"Jiang Ran? Are you listening? Where's Xiu Xiu?"

"Stop mentioning Xiuxiu!"

Jiang Ran's brain is overloaded:

"Speaking of Xiaoxue! What exactly happened to Cheng Mengxue?!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh————

Suddenly, the sound of flushing came from the toilet.

There are people inside!

"who!"

Jiang then took a step back; his nerves were now on edge.

"What's the big deal? Why are you making such a fuss?"

A sweet, soft complaint came from the toilet.

squeak...

The glass partition door opened, and two slender, delicate feet stepped out one after the other:

"What's wrong? Don't you even recognize your own girlfriend?"

The girl in the nightgown smiled mischievously as she slowly walked over.

She wiped her forehead, swept her long pink wavy hair behind her head, and stepped closer on the carpet.

call--

Suddenly, a night breeze blew up, lifting the white curtains and placing them in front of Jiang Ran, blocking his view so he couldn't see anything.

"I just heard an interesting name."

The girl's voice was getting closer.

The toes rubbed against the carpet, just as a white veil brushed against the neck.

"Cheng, Meng, Xue, whose name is this?"

The night breeze dissipated, the window screen stopped swaying, and fell before my eyes.

Jiang Ran could see the room again. The girl who had been standing far away was now right in front of him.

Her pink nightgown paired with long pink hair made her look like a flower fairy dancing in the forest; the scent of shampoo, with its unknown floral fragrance, filled her nostrils, causing Jiang Ran to look away.

just.

The digital clock on the desktop ticks, and the LCD screen displays—

【00:42】

"Hey, tell me about it."

The girl lifted Jiang Ran's chin from behind the light gauze, drawing his gaze back.

Her eyes reflected the moonlight, and her smile was as beautiful as a flower.
"Cheng Mengxue, could she be your... ex-girlfriend?"

(End of this chapter)