I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 441: The Secret of Rebirth 2

Chapter 441: Chapter 441: The Secret of Rebirth 2

Under normal circumstances, two people might get confusedly drunk and pass out in their dormitory.

If he retained his last bit of sobriety, he would take Su Yunyao back to her dorm, after all, their dormitories were only separated by an open space, being neighboring dorm buildings, and not far apart.

But no one expected that the drunken Su Yunyao, clutching him, would first let out sobs, and it made him feel miserable.

Su Yunyao had always been proud, confident, and radiant at all times.

She rarely cried, and yet, each time she was in such a sorry state, he would witness it. It left a bad taste in his mouth. To be honest, in his younger days, he really liked her, but once he knew that Su Yunyao liked He Xiuyu, he buried his feelings deep in his heart.

But in the end, it was discovered, and he didn’t bother to conceal it. It didn’t affect his friendship with He Xiuyu. He and He Xiuyu were like brothers in arms; even closer than real brothers. He had saved his life.

There would be nothing wrong if the two of them ended up together.

It wouldn’t affect them.

Moreover, he was well aware that even if the two really got together, he didn’t have the power to influence the relationship between He Xiuyu and Su Yunyao.

So he let the matter be, in a muddle.

However, where would one have thought that He Xiuyu had no such intentions at all? He merely saw Su Yunyao as a girl from the compound, not even worthy of sibling affection. It could be said that He Xiuyu was cold by nature, but he really wasn’t like that. However, his attitude towards girls was just such—

Chilly and void of warmth, yet oddly enough, many girls liked that sort of demeanor.

The more He Xiuyu was like that, the more desperately Su Yunyao tried to get close to him, and then she followed him to the base. But who could have expected that He Xiuyu would bring back a country girl from his hometown, Hejia Village?

She was decent-looking, but lacking in every other aspect; yet now, looking back, one couldn’t help but feel sentimental. Time is indeed a sculpting knife; there’s nothing that it can’t change.

And the things that Qiao Qingyu had done were indeed there for all to see; she was truly a good person.

It seemed that Su Yunyao had given up, too. After going through one ordeal after another, and after facing disappointment time and again, I had come to view things with indifference and acceptance.

But to be honest, years of friendship are not so easily changed by one or two incidents. At that moment, my heart softened again, so I didn’t push her away and just held her in my arms, patiently listening to her speak.

However, I hoped more that what I was hearing was just drunken nonsense, lies, sleep talk, something unreal. Yet strangely enough, halfway through listening, I woke from the alcohol shock, sweating coldly.

Su Yunyao said she had already lived a whole lifetime. Su Yunyao said that A-04 wasn’t her own invention. It was something that He Xiuyu and their team had developed in their past lives.

And both she and I were participants.

So she was familiar with everything from start to finish. Yet, unexpectedly, the He Xiuyu of her past life was so cunning, leaving a mistake that almost made her lose face.

Su Yunyao also said that besides being decent in his work, the He Xiuyu of her past life was not happy at all in his personal life. He was in great pain, and that Qiao Qingyu was a foolish, short-sighted, and ignorant country woman...

She said there was no Old Mountain Eagle in that lifetime, nor were there any affairs concerning Sister Yu and Tian Li.

She also said that I, Shen Haoze, would die in an explosion within a year.

She was crying as she held him, saying she would never let him die, that he had to live well.

She also said that a few years after her past life, Qiao Qingyu was kidnapped by spies from the base. Then, He Xiuyu accidentally shot her in the heart, and Qiao Qingyu died on the spot.

He listened, stupefied and rigid, truly lost for words. At first, he thought she was spouting drunken nonsense, but his intuition told him otherwise. The things Su Yunyao was describing weren’t figments of imagination; they seemed to be real experiences she had lived through.

His mind was a blank for a moment, and then impulsively, he pushed Su Yunyao away. He didn’t know why, but at that moment, he urgently wanted to see He Xiuyu and Qiao Qingyu.

If all of this were true, he couldn’t even imagine if He Xiuyu really did shoot Qiao Qingyu by mistake, would he still be able to carry on living?

Then there was an explosion in the laboratory, and on this year’s Lunar New Year’s Eve, a gang of desperate and vicious outlaws ambushed a spot on the railway line flanked by cliffs on both sides and robbed all the materials being transported to another crucial base.

They killed the train driver and the escorting security officers. They also had an assortment of guns and ammunition from who knows where. When they passed a village, they pillaged it, and before leaving, they kidnapped three girls from the village and then set fire to it, burning the entire village down...

This was the first day of the Lunar New Year’s tragedy, and there would be more floods coming in the summer, especially in North City.

There was an unprecedentedly huge flood that submerged vast tracts of farmland. That year, almost every household dwelling by the riverside ended up with nothing to harvest, and the floods also led to an epidemic.

All this news shook Shen Haoze to his core.

Without a second thought, he threw on his clothes and ran out, completely forgetting about Su Yunyao.

Then, as he was running, he realized that Su Yunyao was following him.

Her figure appeared fearful, panicked, and even a bit desolate.

It was the first time he had ever seen such an expression on Su Yunyao’s face.

However, when he saw He Xiuyu and Qiao Qingyu, to tell the truth, even if Su Yunyao hadn’t threatened him, he wouldn’t know how to begin to speak, his mind was in such turmoil.

With this thought, Shen Haoze collapsed dejectedly into a chair.

And Su Yunyao was obviously in distress; she was even paler than him, her hair disheveled, and she had been quite chilled earlier. It had taken some time for her to warm up after entering the room, and she paced back and forth restlessly in the room.

As she walked, she sat down on his bed.

The two faced each other, the room wasn’t large, just separated by a table.

Neither knew how to break the silence.

Shen Haoze’s mind was still in chaos, his gaze heavy as he looked at Su Yunyao, whose hands clasped and head hung low, her facial expression indecipherable.

However, her hands were trembling slightly.

Then Shen Haoze gradually calmed down. He was a man and, even though he was mild-mannered, he had also been through a lot in the base over the years.

Though he was a scientific worker, he knew that in some fields there indeed existed mysteries beyond explanation, and the ultimate questions of science were unknown to all. Some mysterious natural phenomena were not merely the stuff of myths and legends and could even be explained with scientific theory.