SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 1

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The mobile phone in his pocket had been vibrating for a while, and after the fifth time in only three minutes, Jiang Cheng finally decided to open his eyes.

The coach bus had been on the road for nearly three hours now, and the sky beyond the window rested stilly—decidedly burdened with gloominess. Meanwhile, the young girl beside him was sound asleep with her forehead stitched incommodiously on his right-side shoulder as if it was a free-for-all travel pillow, rendering it downright paralyzed.

He shrugged his shoulder, somewhat irritated. When the girl made a slight turn of her head, he pushed it away with his finger. But within a few seconds, it dropped anchor on his shoulder once more.

With that kind of motion repeating several times, he believed that this girl was not asleep but rather in a coma.

How irritating.

He did not know how much longer it would take until he reached the station since he did not check the time when he had first received the ticket in his hands. What he knew was that he was going on a journey to a small town that he had never even heard of before.

Life was quite wonderful.

When his mobile phone vibrated for the sixth time, Jiang Cheng exhaled and took it out.

– What happened?

– How come you never mentioned that you were leaving?

– Why did you leave so suddenly?

– Why didn't you tell me?

How come? How come? How come? Why? Why? Why? BLABLABLABLA...

The messages were sent from Yu Xin, and they were most likely sent while she was making up a missed class, evident in the fact that she did not call directly. With a glance, Jiang Cheng could clearly see that they all ended with a question mark.

Just as he was about to put the phone away, the seventh message came.

– If you don't reply, I will take it as we have broken up!

Finally, it was not a question mark. He let out a sigh of relief, turned the phone off and put it back in his pocket.

For him, breaking up held no significant, since a relationship that went on for simply two months in high school was nothing more than having something else to talk about compared to the other students; it was in the sense that someone brought him breakfast, and there was always a dedicated cheerleading squad during a ballgame... it was not as if there was an opportunity for any further development.

As he looked at the scenery outside that constantly changed, yet also somehow appeared the same the entire time, the broadcaster finally announced Jiang Cheng's destination. The girl beside him moved her head, looking as though she was about to wake up. He quickly took out a red pen from his school bag, pulled off the cap, and held it in his hand—turning it around and around.

When the girl eventually woke up and picked up her face, there was a large imprint on her forehead as if she had practiced a fatal position of qigong.[1]

After her gaze met with his, the girl wiped the corner of her mouth and blasély took out her mobile phone. Then, as she lowered her head and played on her phone, she nonchalantly said: "Sorry."

To his surprise, why was it that he could not hear anything remotely close to an apology? Jiang Cheng smiled at her meaningfully. That look gave her a rude awakening before her line of sight fell on the pen rotating in his hand.