latelenovela Chapter 322 Sun
Chapter 322 Sun
"Host, do you still want to go back... to visit Ji Zhao?"
203 omitted the word "kill". Intellectually, it did not want Zhao Ruoming to recall this incident. After all, it still hoped that Zhao Ruoming could live well. But since it had decided to respect the other party's decision, 203 would not deliberately delay time.
"of course."
Although he had guessed this answer, when Zhao Ruoming said this, 203 couldn't help but ask: "But host, since you have decided to die, why did you come to visit Jiang Huiyi?"
Zhao Ruoming didn't even care about death, so why would he care about Jiang Huiyi and Duan Jizhi, a pair of immortal lovers? Why not just let them live their lives casually?
Zhao Ruoming said as he walked: "I will die, but the identity of Duan Hongji will not disappear. Wanxiang Universe will continue to find taskers to replace me and continue to play the role of Duan Hongji." Not only Duan Hongji, but also "Zhao Ruoming" and Fu Dongshu are like this.
"With such a lame plot and world view, it's safe to assume that the next person to take over will be some 'low-status' unlucky naked ape." Zhao Ruoming spoke calmly, as if he was talking about someone else. "I don't want to leave a mess for the other party. I'll make life easier for that unlucky successor."
The last thing Zhao Ruoming can do is to maintain the final shift of these three characters' personalities so that their successors can continue to move forward by feeling their way across the river.
As Zhao Ruoming walked, he said, "Fu Dongshu is always elusive. Feng Baobao has been busy with the royal family recently and has no time to look for Fu Dongshu. We don't need to worry about her for the time being. Let's go find Du Honggen to continue today's class. Tell her that I may be busy recently and won't be back for a few days, so don't worry. Then go find François and take Ji Zhao with him to France. Let him quickly get things done with Theodore. I'll see it with my own eyes, and then I'll do it."
Zhao Ruoming paused and continued, "It is me that Di Wanshu hates, and he will not be interested in my successor. Once I am done, this troublemaker will also leave obediently. Without him messing around here, there will actually be no obstacles."
Compared to the crazy and furious moment just now, Zhao Ruoming is now much more rational.
However, 203 was not at all relieved by this. On the contrary, it listened silently to Zhao Ruoming's plan, but the system core had an impulse to question the other party.
Ji Zhao is very important, and her determination to die must be respected; François is important, and he must be helped to return home; even the unlucky successor who has never shown up is important. Even at this time, Zhao Ruoming is still thinking about paving the way for the other party and making his life easier.
But what about Zhao Ruoming himself?
203 didn't ask.
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Du Honggen and others were in an empty classroom at Haicheng University.
Duan Ye was wealthy and wanted to rent an apartment to facilitate Zhao Ruoming's one-on-one teaching. Zhao Ruoming declined. As the end of the semester approached, most college students had finished their classes, leaving many classrooms empty, so there was no need for such extravagance.
Zhao Ruoming arrived at the classroom on time.
Du Honggen was looking forward to this class, but she was still a little confused when she saw that there was no one around Zhao Ruoming.
Du Honggen used sign language to ask: [Where is he? ]
Zhao Ruoming was stunned for a moment, then realized that the other party was asking Fyodor.
Zhao Ruoming sat down and smiled: "He has something to do today, so he won't be attending this class for the time being."
Du Honggen breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't like Fyodor at all. The big guy would always poke at her and Zhao Ruoming, scarier than a door god. His gaze was always cold and oppressive. Du Honggen swore to heaven that she had never offended him, but Fyodor's attitude towards Du Honggen was always like a thorn or a nail.
Zhao Ruoming started teaching Du Honggen vocal exercises as usual. In fact, Du Honggen had searched for some courses online these days, but those courses were different from what Zhao Ruoming taught. Du Honggen vaguely felt that what Zhao Ruoming taught seemed to be more advanced and practical than those online courses.
Zhao Ruoming taught very seriously, even more seriously than in any other class. But for some reason, Du Honggen was distracted.
Zhao Ruoming was dressed neatly, with his hair combed meticulously - this was different from usual. Zhao Ruoming's hair was always very unique, stiff, with a few tufts of hair occasionally showing off a refreshing youthfulness and unrestrainedness. Zhao Ruoming usually only wore the Haicheng University uniform on campus, and he would always intentionally or unintentionally show the two intact buttons on his uniform to Du Honggen, as if reminding Du Honggen of something.
Although Zhao Ruoming looked meticulous today, Du Honggen always felt that he seemed, on the contrary, not so "good".
Yes, Zhao Ruoming looks bad.
Du Honggen was shocked by his own thoughts. Today was just an ordinary day. Why did Zhao Ruoming suddenly become unwell?
But Du Honggen believed in her intuition. She was born with this kind of spirituality and could see the deep currents under the still water.
She was distracted for most of the day. When Du Honggen came to her senses, she realized that Zhao Ruoming had asked her a question.
[What?] Du Honggen looked at him, a little embarrassed.
Zhao Ruoming repeated patiently: "I said, why is your name 'Honggen'?"
As a name for a girl in the 21st century, it is too strange.
Du Honggen was stunned. Although he didn't know why Zhao Ruoming suddenly asked this question today, he still took out his mobile phone and started typing on it.
Zhao Ruoming came forward and saw Du Honggen typing:
When my great-grandmother was young, her land and food were taken away by the landlord and she was almost starving to death. At this time, a group of excellent soldiers came to the village, overthrew and tried the landlord, and distributed the land back to the villagers.
My great-grandmother was very happy to get her land back. She said that people who lost their land had lost their roots, and now the army had given her back her roots. My great-grandmother decided that if she gave birth to a son in the future, she would name him "Gen".
But my great-grandmother never gave birth to a son, and neither did my grandmother. When I was born, my father despised me for being a girl and left me without giving me a name. My grandmother was so worried that she suddenly remembered the name my great-grandmother had mentioned, and gave me that name.
The name Dugen for a girl doesn’t sound nice. My grandma remembered the name of the army back then, so she added the word “red” before “root”.
Zhao Ruoming stared at the long paragraph of text in a daze, and suddenly realized a question: "What about your mother?"
Du Honggen said slowly: [She died when she gave birth to me.]
"Ah...sorry."
【It's nothing.】
Zhao Ruoming felt mixed emotions for a moment.
Du Honggen looked at Zhao Ruoming's expression and found it increasingly strange. Why was Zhao Ruoming suddenly interested in her name?
Du Honggen was typing, wanting to ask Zhao Ruoming why he suddenly asked this. At this moment, a message box suddenly popped up - Duan Ye came to check on him on time!
Duan Ye's WeChat popped up: [Xiao Hong? Is get out of class over? How was the class?]
【What did Fei Bear do? 】
[Have you learned to speak? Have you stepped on Fei the bear? ]
【Zhao Xiaoming has disappeared again recently, what happened to him? 】
Perhaps he was too impatient to type, Duan Ye sent another 60-second voice message. Du Honggen was in a panic for a moment, and was about to convert the voice message into text to see what Duan Ye said, when Zhao Ruoming suddenly said, "By the way, Xiaohong. I have something to do recently, so I may not be able to come to teach you recently."
Du Honggen was stunned, a premonition of separation came over him, and he accidentally dropped the phone in his hand!
"Oh!"
The cell phone fell at Zhao Ruoming's feet. Zhao Ruoming quickly bent down and helped Du Honggen pick up the phone.
When picking up the phone, Zhao Ruoming's fingers accidentally touched something, and Duan Ye's voice suddenly rang out!
What's the big deal if she overhears the young couple chatting on WeChat? Zhao Ruoming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly pressed the return button and exited Duan Sanshao's sonic attack.
After exiting the chat with Duan Ye, Du Honggen's phone interface stopped at the main WeChat chat interface. Zhao Ruoming glanced at it inadvertently, and his hands suddenly froze.
Du Honggen quickly took the phone and gestured nervously: [Thank you! ]
Zhao Ruoming's eyes tore off Du Honggen's mobile phone screen and looked at Du Honggen with an indescribable look.
Du Honggen no longer cared about Zhao Ruoming's look, and gestured: [You want to leave? Where are you going? ]
Zhao Ruoming opened his mouth and said dryly, "I'm going to visit a friend's house. I might stay there for a few days."
This reason was almost impeccable, but Du Honggen just felt something was wrong.
Can we teach remotely online?
Zhao Ruoming stared at Du Honggen and shook his head slowly: "I'm afraid not. I want to take a break and don't want to work anymore."
Du Honggen said anxiously: [You don't need to teach me anything. You just need to turn on the video and I will learn from this end of the video and show you. Okay? ]
Zhao Ruoming still shook his head: "It's the end of the semester, don't you want to review other subjects? Language learning can wait until the winter vacation. Then... I, I will continue to teach you."
Du Honggen was so anxious that tears were about to fall, and even reached out to grab Zhao Ruoming's sleeve: [Is it really impossible? ]
With Du Honggen's reserved personality, pulling someone's sleeve was an extremely outgoing act. But she didn't care about that anymore.
She had an inexplicable premonition - if she let Zhao Ruoming leave today, she would never see Zhao Ruoming again!
silence.
Zhao Ruoming did not answer Du Honggen. This silence made Du Honggen even more desperate, and the anxiety in his heart almost burst out of his throat.
Zhao Ruoming stared at Du Honggen's nervous expression. Du Honggen had a delicate face and a scholarly air. Perhaps because he was timid or because of his upbringing, Du Honggen rarely looked up at people. This was the first time Zhao Ruoming looked Du Honggen in the eye. She discovered that Du Honggen's eyes were very bright.
Zhao Ruoming suddenly smiled and said, "Just kidding."
Du Honggen was stunned.
203 was also stunned.
Zhao Ruoming stretched himself, gathered his hair, and said with a smile: "A friend of mine invited me to visit France. That's France - I wanted to go. But then he told me that brothers should be clear about accounts, and asked me to pay for it myself!"
Zhao Ruoming slumped in his chair and said lazily, "So I had to decline. I thought I should just do my job honestly and save enough money before going."
Although he didn't know how Zhao Ruoming suddenly had a French friend, Du Honggen had no time to care about these details. Zhao Ruoming was really too weird today!
Du Honggen gestured anxiously: [Really? Not leaving?]
"I'm not leaving." Zhao Ruoming said with a smile, "Why would I lie to you?"
Du Honggen's face suddenly turned red. Why did she feel like Zhao Ruoming had changed his mind for her? She didn't want to interfere in Zhao Ruoming's life.
Du Honggen gestured intermittently: [I'm sorry... I don't mean to force you... If you want to go, go ahead. ]
Zhao Ruoming's dark eyes stared at Du Honggen's pale fingers, and the smile on his face slowly faded.
"You didn't force me. Instead, you made me realize what I should do."
Du Honggen blinked in confusion.
"Alright, alright." Zhao Ruoming chuckled and handed a bottle of water to Du Honggen. "You must be thirsty after practicing for so long. Have some water."
Du Honggen unscrewed the bottle cap and drank water while blinking at Zhao Ruoming.
"That's all for today's class," Zhao Ruoming announced. "I'll be waiting for you tomorrow at the same time, Xiaohong."
Zhao Ruoming's neat hair was a little messed up by his previous action, and the tuft of hair stood up stubbornly again. Du Honggen looked at Zhao Ruoming at this moment, and suddenly felt keenly that he seemed to be "well" again.
Du Honggen was confused, but she was sincerely happy for Ming.
After Du Honggen left, Zhao Ruoming sat on the chair, still with his head down, without moving.
203 asked cautiously: "Host?"
It has many questions to ask: Has Zhao Ruoming changed his mind? If so, why? What should be done next?
Zhao Ruoming hummed, and suddenly said something that had nothing to do with the current situation: "203, have you seen Du Honggen's phone screen?"
203 shook the ball honestly.
It was so focused on accompanying Zhao Ruoming in seeking death that how could it have the time to pay attention to Du Honggen's phone screen?
Zhao Ruoming covered his eyes with one hand and said slowly: "I saw it."
She saw it.
Du Honggen’s pinned contact on WeChat has no name, only a symbol of a smiling sun.
Zhao Ruoming had only seen it accidentally, but that accidental glance almost made her blood freeze.
Zhao Ruoming was very familiar with the avatar of [Sun] because she was using that avatar herself; Zhao Ruoming also saw clearly the last chat record between [Sun] and Du Honggen, which was a message sent a few days ago when Zhao Ruoming reminded Du Honggen to do vocal cord exercises.
Even though she didn't dare to believe or didn't want to believe a certain fact, Zhao Ruoming realized at that moment that this was a note Du Honggen gave her.
Am I your sun?
Can I, who am so ordinary and even on the verge of destruction, become someone's sun?
Zhao Ruoming was speechless for a long time. He logged into Du Honggen’s WeChat and saw Du Honggen’s pinned WeChat messages and notes. He suddenly fell silent.
Du Honggen's note for Duan Ye was "Boss", for Fyodor it was "Gao Russian", for Pu Lanzhi it was "Pu top student", but the note for Zhao Ruoming was an overly ambiguous "Sun", which he carefully placed on the top contacts - second only to Du Honggen's grandmother who was not very good at using WeChat.
Although 203 has never been in a relationship, there are countless novels in its database. After just one look, 203: "..."
203 was about to say something to comfort Zhao Ruoming, after all, Du Honggen's move was almost a clear sign that another mission had failed. But Zhao Ruoming suddenly said, "I won't run away again."
Huh? 203 immediately shut up.
Zhao Ruoming stood up, his expression firm and his eyes burning: "I thought I killed Ji Zhao and was fearless. But in fact, I was just running away."
Yes, death is an escape.
"If you really want to save her, you should take her out of the sea of suffering instead of letting it drown her." Zhao Ruoming exhaled a breath of turbid air, "I was weak."
Facing Ji Zhao's pain and the powerful enemy Di Wanshu, Zhao Ruoming chose to escape by dying, as if he could overcome the countless injustices in the dark. But it was not. Such a death was worthless, just two insects being crushed into dust, without any meaning.
Zhao Ruoming closed his eyes.
"It's easy to die. Who wouldn't want to die? But defeating Di Wanshu is difficult, and changing the existing order is also difficult. I escaped from the most difficult path, and chose the easiest way to be lazy like an ostrich, but I still thought I was courageous and made a great sacrifice for Ji Zhao - it's ridiculous."
203 silently watched Zhao Ruoming, the Zhao Ruoming who was cruelly analyzing his own heart. This was a Zhao Ruoming it had never seen before. 203 recorded this scene into a high-definition image, which would forever exist in its core.
"If there is no hope for life and freedom," Zhao Ruoming said, "then death is of course the final destination. But I chose death before I even fought for it. This is a cowardly act!"
After Zhao Ruoming finished speaking, he suddenly laughed. "When I read novels in the past, I always sneered at a plot - that is, the hero abused the heroine countless times, and finally fell in love with the heroine, but the heroine was already dead. The hero owned a vast territory but was boundlessly lonely. The death of the heroine was the greatest punishment for the hero, and the hero had to enjoy this punishment by living an unscathed, wealthy, and surrounded by beautiful women!"
"After all the twists and turns, I almost became this kind of Ah Q who wins spiritually! - But I won't do that again. I swear by the sun and my hometown that this is the last time!"