Chapter 2843 Birthday and Memorial Day

After He Yue finished reading the text message, she looked up at the sky outside. At this moment, the sky was ominously gloomy and the wind had started to howl. The branches outside the window were making creaking sounds as they swayed in the gale. Finally, with a crack, they split open from the trunk.

Day seemed to have turned into night, and this rare sight caused an uproar among the classmates.

One by one, they put down their pens and gazed out the window.

Exclamations echoed in the hallway, while a door left ajar produced a deafening crash, followed by another wave of surprised cries.

"This scene is terrifying, isn’t it? Just like the prelude to an earthquake," someone murmured.

He Yue forced a bitter smile; the emotions she had held at bay turned tumultuous at this moment.

Earthquake—this was not the scene she wanted to recall.

Amidst the uproar in the classroom, there was one person who remained silent, and that was Chi Yan.

He lay his head down on the desk, oblivious to the noise around him, as if he hadn’t heard a thing.

"Hey Xiangzi, do you think Ayan is asleep? Even if he is, the commotion outside is too loud for him to not hear, right?" Zhang Mingming started to make a fuss, feeling bored, and went to the front to look at Chi Yan.

Despite calling for quite some time, Chi Yan still seemed as if he hadn’t heard a thing.

"You can never wake someone who pretends to be asleep. Mingming, stop calling him. Today is Chi Yan’s birthday, and also..." He couldn’t bring himself to finish the sentence, but Zhang Ming understood.

He almost forgot that today was also the anniversary of Xiu Yanran’s death.

"What can we do? It’s been two years already, do you think Ayan can’t move on?" Zhang Mingming fretted.

"Two years may feel like an instant for some people. But for someone like Ayan, it is anything but easy. Leave him be, give him some time," said Du Xiang, who was more mature than Zhang Ming despite being the same age.

"It’s been two years and he still can’t move on. How much longer will it take?"

"You think everyone is like you? Like a pig, forget everything as soon as there’s food!" Du Xiang couldn’t help but curse.

If you were to call Zhang Ming a useless teammate, it wouldn’t be wrong at all.

"You’re the useless teammate." Zhang Ming defiantly refused the label. He noticed He Yue sitting in the front row, thinking that Chi Yan liked her, didn’t he? Whether she was a substitute or not, saying something might help, right?

So, he poked He Yue in the back: "Hey, help us out!"

He Yue was crying from sadness. She turned her head, saw Zhang Ming, quickly wiped her tears away, and glared at him with her reddened eyes: "What do you want?"

"Cheer up Ayan."

"I have no obligation to do that."

"You really are heartless. Ayan likes you so much, and... Are you crying?" Zhang Ming was about to continue rambling on when he suddenly noticed He Yue’s increasingly reddened eyes, which startled him. "Come on, I didn’t say anything to make you cry. People who don’t know might think I’m bullying you."

Chi Yan heard this and finally had a reaction.

He slowly lifted his head, his eyes, red from crying, gazed at He Yue.

"You... what’s wrong?" Seeing Chi Yan like this, He Yue felt a jolt in her heart. Having known him for so many days, she was used to his reckless, indolent demeanor. His current appearance was truly surprising.