
That night became the night I hated the most, the night in the rain that hit my hometown again, the place that I always longed to be the place that I hated the most right now, not knowing where to go and not knowing what to do, I just sat on the park bench alone, lifting both feet up on the long chair, bowing my head and hiding my face behind my knees, letting the rain fall on my body until my whole body was completely wet with rainwater.
I deliberately did not take shelter, because only in this way would my tears not be seen, because the rain also hit my face.
Until I suddenly felt no more rain falling on my body, replaced by a warm jacket that I felt began to envelop my body, until I turned my head and looked beside Jingmi, she stood before me holding a black statue and giving her jacket to my body at that moment.
"Jingmi, why are you here?" I asked with a surprised face.
He immediately pulled my hand and took me away from there as soon as possible, without any other trite ado at the time.
"Let's go, you can't be sick." Just say it.
I did not dare to talk and just kept quiet, until I got in front of a house and he brought me into the house, it looked quite large and very clean, there was no one in the house, Jingmi told me to sit on the sofa there and she gave me warm water and a towel.
"Drink the water first and then take a quick shower, before you get a fever." Said to me.
I nodded and obeyed her words, after I had finished my bath I had seen my suitcase brought into a room by Jingmi, I followed her and she found out I was standing behind her at that moment.
"Why stay there, let's go in this room of yours I'll help you carry a suitcase." Jingmi said to me.
I really don't know what to say to her, the atmosphere between us feels so awkward at the moment, I want to thank her but don't know how to express that, she said, until when she turned around because I did not answer her words she immediately hugged me tightly rubbing my head gently and continued to give me strength.
"Don't be sad anymore Zhan Tao, there I am here I will protect you, love you and continue to be with you, I won't leave you like them." Jingmi said to me with her gentle words.
I was really touched by his words, the way he took care of me and was always there when I needed him, he was like an angel who could appear anywhere and protect me under any circumstances.
But I hated myself for not being able to fall in love with her, immediately I pushed her body slowly and reasserted her that I really couldn't with her, I don't want to give her false hope I don't want to hurt an amazingly good person like this one.
"Jingmi don't love me, I'm not a woman who deserves you, you're too good for me." I said to him with a fixed look.
"But I love you so much Zhan Tao, only you I have loved all this time, I can't like any woman other than you, please forget professor Ling, he's really a jerk, he's a real jerk, I'm not gonna shut up after what he did to you." Jingmi's words made me feel surprised.
"Why are you talking like that?" I suspected something and felt something strange at the time.
Jingmi instantly pulled out her phone and she showed me a short video that I had seen before, I was shocked to see she had that video.
"Huh? Where did you get that video?" I asked with wide eyes and was very surprised.
"You who sent it into the griff, even all your roommates have seen this video, they came running over Professor Ling to his house and I immediately rushed here to look for you, didn't you cry in the rain because of this?" Said Jingmi who turned out to have misunderstood me.
Immediately I smiled a little at him and immediately explained all the truth that happened.
"Geez Jingmi, you guys misunderstood I didn't even send the video to you guys, and I cried in the rain not because of professor Ling." My reply made Jingmi so shocked.
Out of curiosity I wanted to prove it to him, checked my phone and it was indeed me who sent it accidentally into the grouf.
"Gosh, you're right I sent it, but the video I got from an unknown number, this number maybe I accidentally pressed the button on my phone when I was about to get off the previous bus so sent to the top of the gruf, aahh I'm sorry Jingmi, yes, I've made you all worry about me." I immediately apologized to him.
"If it wasn't for professor Ling, then why would you cry in the rain like that?" Ask him again.
I exhaled lethargicly and chose not to explain it to Jingmi, I think this is all my family's matter and it is not appropriate for others to know the disgrace, luckily Jingmi understood my position and she was willing to understand even though I decided not to share the story with her.
Even so I was also very worried about professor Ling, especially after hearing that three of my roommates went to go to professor Ling and give him a lesson.
I tried to contact Xinxin, Xiuying and Yimin, but it was very difficult for them to take a call from me, there was nothing I could contact, it made me even more anxious that night.
While on the other hand Xinxin, Xiuying and Yimin had already broken through the door of professor Ling's house, they were filled with anger that was so wrathful, directly facing professor Ling, they were, managed to seal him roughly to make professor Ling unable to wart at all, with his body tied with a chair.
"Hey... Let go of what you're doing, how dare you revolt against me, don't you know who I am?" Professor Ling's snapping was extremely tight and his face was already flushed red filled with emotion as he continued to rebel to break free endlessly.
Xinxin who was standing at the front of him immediately showed the video on his phone and told professor Ling to explain the intent of what he said in the video recording.
"Look at this, we clearly know who you really are professor Ling, how dare you do this evil with our best friend, I won't let you get away with it!" Xinxin snapped very tight.
"What's? Why did you get that video, where did you get it? Does Zhan Tao know about this?" Professor Ling asked with his eyes wide open.
"Of course he knows, Zhan Tao himself gave us this video, which means he wants us to teach a lesson to an uneducated professor like you!" Yimin replied to him.
They just gave Ling professor a valuable lesson right away, by tickling him to limp and ruffling his house to make professor Ling very stressed to see his house was so messy and there was a lot of garbage scattered everywhere by Yimin at that time.
His house was completely made out of shape and resembled a garbage disposal, after finishing making a mess there Xinxin immediately recorded all the artwork he had made together with Xiuying and Yimin and sent it to the griff with writing. "MISSION'S OVER."
I who saw all of that was really very shocked and it felt like I could no longer wait for a long time, I had to immediately go to professor Ling and release him, he said, previously my three friends would actually get professor Ling to the hospital due to stress and hangers later.
"God.... What are they doing, aaahhh Jingmi is there still a train or bus to go to the city at this current hour?" I asked him with a face full of anxiety.
Jingmi didn't want to tell me because she didn't want me to go save Professor Ling, but over time as I kept pushing her, Jingmi finally told me, he went to take me to the subway in the city at the last hour, I arrived at exactly three o'clock in front of Professor Ling's house because it took me an hour or so on the way.
Immediately I met him and went back wide-eyed when I saw that professor Ling's house was really very dirty and smelly, there was a lot of trash everywhere and it was much worse than seeing from the video footage sent by Xinxin earlier.
And I saw professor Ling still tied to a chair in the middle of his house.
"God... Professor Ling, aaahh they're really fucked." My move as I immediately approached professor Ling and immediately released him from the bondage.
I quickly took him out of his house and gave professor Ling a breath of fresh air outside.
I kept holding onto him because he really looked quite central back then.
"Professor Ling are you okay, professor Ling.ayo talk to me don't make me more anxious." Saying to him.
He nodded and at least I was able to calm down.
Until half a moment passed he had improved and I had also contacted the janitor to clean professor Ling's house right then and there, but because everything was quite chaotic, it was likely that tomorrow morning it would be as clean as ever, so I took professor Ling to a nearby hotel, I told him to stay at the hotel for tonight, just for tonight, in order for him to win himself over, after such a ridiculous incident happened, I also apologized to him and felt very guilty at that moment.
But when I was about to leave, he pulled my hand and held my shoulders so tightly.
"Zhan Tao, I'm not who you think I am, I did say all that, but that was before, after I got to know you more I started to get interested in you, I thought of you when I was alone and I worried about you when you left the lab, I already knew it wasn't you who was wrong I knew it was Sisi's doing, I beg Zhan Tao, please forgive me, please forgive me, let's start all over again, I won't waste you anymore" Ling said, leaving me feeling astonished and confused.
A year has passed since the incident, aunts and fathers did not get divorced because they were gifted a baby in the belly of an aunt, a dream that they had hoped would come true as well, I got better with my family, because they changed because I got a scholarship abroad with my own money, even your stepbrother never had any problems with me again, but there was one thing that stuck with me, I have not received a statement from professor Ling and have already rejected Jingmi the same night one knew ago.
I've been living abroad studying my S2 with the money I earned and the scholarships I got before, I live with Xinxin and with her family there, I think one year is enough for me to forget the figure of professor Ling, in fact no, I was wrong, every day always thinking about him, he said, I was secretly always finding out about her checking all her social media endlessly and just kept hoping she came to see me.
Until one time I found out that professor Ling would accept the offer to become a scientist and dedicate himself entirely to finding new discoveries along with other geniuses who chose to leave their families and living alone with science for the rest of his life.
I couldn't accept all of this, so without a second thought I decided to pursue my love again, I won't let professor Ling leave just like that, that same day I took the fastest flight back to my hometown, I looked for it and it turned out I was late, when I got to his house there was no one there, the house has been sold for a long time.
I didn't know where to look anymore and I felt that everything was completely finished by then, I turned around in a doldrums and kept bowing, until suddenly someone called my name out loud, and that's professor Ling.
He ran up to me, hugging me tightly.
"Zhan Tao, I know you're coming back, I'm sorry, I love you so much Zhan Tao, I regret everything and I'm wrong for everything that has happened, please don't leave again. For me and for our love." Ling told me.
I was very happy and immediately returned his embrace just a strong nod that I could reply to him, as a form of how happy I was, for successfully embracing and embracing my love again.
"Didn't you accept the offer, why did you come back?" Ask him.
"I knew from Xinxin that you came to see me, so I had replaced him I canceled all that, replaced with my best friend, he was also very great, more than me." Said to me.
"Who?" I asked with both eyebrows that I wrinkled at that time.
"Senior Sisi, he's gone in my place." Professor Ling's reply made me wide-eyed.
We have been together ever since, and promised each other to understand each other and start all our love stories from the very beginning.