newbobooks Chapter 1 Mei: How could I have been such a coward back then!
Chapter 1 Mei: How could I have been such a coward back then!
2014 years.
There is still more than a month until the third Honkai outbreak.
Chen Feng calculated the time and sighed helplessly.
At this point in time, Kiana hasn't even transferred to Chiba Academy yet. Isn't it a bit too early for you to send me through time?
I almost think of myself as a student at this college.
He opened his hand, looking at the pale golden light emanating from it, and then clenched his fist.
Fortunately, I have a cheat code.
It's just a little bit time-consuming.
But since I've already been to Honkai Impact 3rd, I might as well spend my life on it.
Listening to the commotion around him, Chen Feng propped his chin up and turned to look at Raiden Mei, who was currently being fawned over by everyone. His eyes flickered.
He had gone to great lengths to get close to Raiden Mei, and all he could get was for her to call him by name and say a few words with a smile.
However, this situation will soon be over.
Tomorrow, ME will go bankrupt, and Raiden Ryoma will be imprisoned because of Cocolia's framing.
Raiden Mei will soon be isolated.
That will be the time when I should really make my move.
Thinking of this, Chen Feng slowly stood up, then passed by Raiden Mei and smiled slightly at her.
Seeing this, Raiden Mei responded with a polite smile, then turned back to continue chatting with everyone.
After all, in her eyes, Chen Feng was just an ordinary classmate.
The next day arrived as promised.
On this day, Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned for a financial case, and ME Company went bankrupt. The news spread like wildfire throughout Changkong City.
Everyone is talking about this.
When Raiden Mei saw that those so-called friends who used to surround her were now avoiding her like the plague, her heart clenched.
She walked silently into her classroom all by herself.
The moment Raiden Mei entered, the entire class fell silent, and everyone's eyes were on her as she walked from the doorway to her seat.
"She's so-and-so's daughter."
"No wonder ME Corporation has grown so big; it's hard for a company with a boss like that not to grow big."
"What good could the daughter of someone like that be? We'd better stay away from her."
Countless harsh words pierced her heart, and she silently lowered her head.
It turns out that what they valued before wasn't me, but the capital behind me.
Raiden Mei chuckled self-deprecatingly and took her textbook out of her bag.
Raiden Mei, who was surrounded by admirers the day before, suddenly became the object of ostracism overnight.
Chen Feng did not act immediately.
He simply greeted her normally every day, attended classes normally, and nodded as he passed by her seat normally.
She sat alone in the corner, like a precious, abandoned object.
Chen Feng glanced at her once as he passed by, but she had her head down and his expression was not visible.
Later, people started deliberately knocking her textbooks to the ground, and no one helped her pick them up.
She squatted down and picked up the books one by one without looking up the whole time.
Gradually, writing began to appear on her desk; the writing was extremely crude.
She wiped her hands with her sleeve throughout the entire break, until the back of her hand turned red.
After wiping, she lay on the table, her shoulders trembling slightly.
Raiden Mei was late that day.
Everyone was looking at her when she walked into the classroom.
Her school uniform was wet in one spot, and her hair was a mess.
Someone chuckled softly, watching with amusement as she walked back to her seat with her head down.
Chen Feng watched all this and took a deep breath.
I can't take it anymore, I can't hold back.
God knows how much willpower he used to persevere until now, without ruining the very beginning of the storyline where Raiden Mei could see everyone's faces clearly.
He's starting to get bullied, and he can't wait any longer.
When the first class ended, Raiden Mei was sitting in her seat.
The textbook was laid out in front of her, but she didn't turn a single page during that time.
She wasn't reading; she was just spacing out.
Chen Feng took a deep breath, holding a steamed bun in his hand, and walked to Raiden Mei's table.
"promise."
He placed the steamed buns on her table.
"I bought too much this morning, it won't taste good if we eat it at noon, you eat it."
This was the first time in the past few days that he had said anything to her other than a normal greeting.
Raiden Mei's shoulders trembled violently.
It's like the trembling feeling you get when someone suddenly calls out to you when you think the whole world has forgotten you exist.
She slowly raised her head and looked at Chen Feng with those eyes.
Her pupils contracted slightly when she looked at Chen Feng.
Because he was the only one who, even when he was down on his luck, still insisted on greeting him every day.
Her eyes are now gray.
Her eyes were devoid of light and emotion.
It was as if her heart had died.
But she kept watching.
She was looking into Chen Feng's eyes.
She was looking for something—mockery, charity, sympathy, or something else.
But she found nothing.
Chen Feng's eyes were the same as always, just like the way he always looked at me.
"...Why?"
Her voice trembled slightly.
Chen Feng looked at her.
"I won't have the energy to go to class if I don't eat breakfast, and I really did buy a few extra steamed buns."
He pushed the steamed bun forward a bit, then turned around and went back to his seat.
Raiden Mei stared blankly at the steamed bun in the plastic bag on the table for a long time.
Her hands were trembling. She picked up the bun but hadn't even taken a bite when tears started falling.
She didn't make a sound, but just kept her head down, clutching the bun in her hand, and ate it bite by bite.
Her tears mingled with the steamed bun, but she seemed completely oblivious.
As she ate her steamed bun, an unseen ripple rippled around her.
A pair of eyes were watching her as she lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly, and she was still biting into a steamed bun.
Mei gently bit her lip.
She had waited too long for this day.
Her gaze swept past her former self and landed on Chen Feng, who sat by the window looking at the sunlight outside. A deep sense of nostalgia welled up in her eyes.
Chen Feng...
Really...
Long time no see...
Mei took a deep breath, turned her gaze away from Chen Feng, and focused it back on her younger self who was silently shedding tears.
"Go ahead and cry."
Her voice was very soft, as if she were only talking to herself.
"But you'll find out later that this person... is someone you'll spend your whole life trying to repay."
But then, before she could even finish her reflections, she looked at herself, who had already finished the buns and was curled up in a ball, and couldn't help but put one hand to her forehead.
"……that's all?"
The future Mei looked at her past self, who hadn't even dared to say "thank you," and the gentleness on her face crumbled little by little.
"that's all???"
"Someone gave you steamed buns, and you didn't even say thank you???"
"You, you, you..."
She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and forced herself to calm down.
"no."
"My personality was indeed a bit strange during that period, and this was the person I used to be, so I can't get angry, I can't get angry."
"Sigh, why can I only watch and not talk to my past self?"
"Looking back on my memories now, isn't this torture for me?"
Looking at the scene before her, Raiden Mei from the future couldn't help but smile bitterly.
That's really how I was back then. He gave me the only warmth, but it wasn't until the Herrscher within me erupted that I truly became his friend.
Why was I so slow to warm up back then?
"If only I could talk to my past self, at least I could teach him how to pursue him instead of ending up being snatched away by Kiana."
"How could I have been such a coward back then..."
Just as she finished speaking, Raiden Mei, who was lying on the table, suddenly raised her head and looked around cautiously.
Who is speaking?