Chapter 87: Have I Ever Had Amnesia?

"Sure," said Bai Shuruo.

Anyway, she was idle anyway.

The two added each other as friends, then Wang Hu pulled her into a group and shouted in the group: "Our great beauty Bai Shuruo is here! Does everyone still remember her?"

Several people inside applauded, and a few boys started heckling, saying that Bai Shuruo used to always keep to herself and wasn't close to anyone.

But immediately, two girls came out and said: Bai Shuruo had some trouble at home back then; she didn't want to ignore everyone, she was really just in a bad mood, and they even asked how Bai Shuruo was doing now.

Bai Shuruo glanced at the few who spoke; there were name annotations, but she didn't have much of an impression, so she replied with a friendly emoji.

Wang Hu said to Bai Shuruo again: "Right, our middle school classmates are planning to get together at a restaurant on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. You should come see your old classmates if you're free. We haven't been in touch for so many years, it'd be nice to catch up."

Bai Shuruo said politely: "We'll see when the time comes. I'm doing an internship, I might have to work overtime on the fifth day."

"Alright then, you figure it out when the time comes," said Wang Hu.

After Wang Hu walked away, Bai Shuruo took another look at the group list. Some people used real photos as avatars; she clicked on the images, but still felt they were strangers.

Was it because so many years had passed that everyone's appearance had changed? Or had she once suffered from amnesia?

Yet she clearly remembered where her middle school was, remembered which floor her classroom was on, and also remembered which texts she had memorized during middle school.

But she had a vague impression of the people from that period.

Without realizing it, Bai Shuruo walked toward the direction of her middle school.

Her middle school was not far from the old house, and it took 20 minutes to walk there.

Although the buildings along this road had changed significantly over the years, she remembered the route.

Halfway there, she had to pass a large artificial lake. When she used to ride her bicycle home from school, she would space out by the lake for a while, or do some homework before going home.

Near the school, there was a large banyan tree that required 5 children to open their arms to embrace.

There was a snack street in front of the school gate. After school, students would crowd around to buy stinky tofu and fried shrimp cakes.

Before long, the four gold-stamped characters "Hudong Middle School" came into view.

It was a holiday now, and it was New Year's Eve, so the school was deserted; even the security guards were on holiday.

Bai Shuruo walked to the side of the perimeter wall and looked at the playground inside through the fence.

Except for the teaching building having been repainted, nothing else in the campus had changed: the playground, the plastic track, and the basketball court in the distance.

Perhaps because she saw a familiar scene, scenes from that time gradually surfaced in her mind: the basketball court back then was always crowded, and both boys and girls liked to gather here to watch someone play.

The boys liked watching him because his skills were good; the girls watched him because he was handsome.

And this person... tall and thin, handsome, the way he ran on the court looked exactly like Rukawa Kaede from the manga, his jersey... seemed to be number 25.

Bai Shuruo stared at the playground, but could not recall the person's face no matter what.

She walked around the wall for a while and saw the library behind the teaching building. She vaguely remembered that this library didn't exist in her first year of middle school; it was built in her third year. It was completed in half a year, and the students were excited for a long time, thinking that after the library was built, they could read manga and novels inside to their hearts' content. Who knew that third-year students, apart from being able to borrow reference books, were not allowed to borrow any other books at all.

Bai Shuruo looked at the library, and that tall figure surfaced in her mind again.

Only, what was he doing at that time? And what was she doing?

She thought for a while, only feeling a headache, and after that, she couldn't think of any other scenes.

Her father had his accident when she was in middle school. At that time, apart from studying, she was either visiting her father, so until now, she refused to recall anything from that period.

Could it be because of this incident that she didn't remember the people from that time?

She was about to continue walking forward; perhaps she could remember if she looked a bit more.

At this moment, Bai Shunan called: "Ruoruo, where are you?"

"Sister, I'm at Hudong Middle School."

"Why are you at school on New Year's Eve? Hurry back for the reunion dinner; I have good news to tell you."

"Really? What good news?" Bai Shuruo immediately walked back, no longer intending to think about things from middle school.

Bai Shunan said mysteriously: "You'll know when you get back."

"Alright, I'm coming back now."

Bai Shuruo rushed to the old house and saw that Aunt Fen had already served the dishes on the table; it was very sumptuous.

Bai Shuhua was setting the table and pouring drinks.

Bai Shunan had also arrived, and Aunt Fen wouldn't let her work, telling her to crack melon seeds on the side.

Seeing this scene, Bai Shuruo suddenly felt a warmth in her heart, feeling that the years were peaceful.

It seems distance really does make the heart grow fonder.

In previous years on New Year's Eve, before she was married, she always felt that everyone had their own hidden agendas. The reunion dinner felt like a task; Bai Shunan would leave after eating, and she would return to her own room alone, always feeling cold and cheerless.

"Ruoruo, why are you standing at the door in a daze? Hurry and sit over here, we're about to eat," Lin Wanfen called to Bai Shuruo.

Bai Shuruo walked over to help.

Lin Wanfen had also served the rice. After all four were seated, Bai Shunan took the initiative to raise her drink: "Let's clink glasses, everyone. I hope we all have a smooth year next year, and that our lives get better and better."

Bai Shuruo said: "The most important thing is to get rich."

Lin Wanfen said: "Right, get rich!"

Bai Shuhua: "You guys can get rich; I'll just wish for my own academic progress. I hope my grades can be in the top 100 in the grade next year."

Bai Shuruo said: "If you can get into the top 100, you can get into a key high school."

Because of the school district, Hudong Middle School was also a high-quality middle school, and the top 100 were guaranteed to get into a key high school.

After clinking glasses, they started eating.

At first, it was naturally a round of praise for Lin Wanfen's cooking, as it was a table of dishes she had worked hard to make.

After the praise, Bai Shuruo asked Bai Shunan: "Sister, what was the good news you just mentioned?"

Bai Shunan said while gnawing on a chicken leg: "Our Doudou Company secured investment."

Bai Shuruo's first reaction was: "Ah? You can secure investment on New Year's Eve? Don't those investors take a break?"

Bai Shunan smiled and said, "For a person in charge of a company, there is no such thing as a holiday; whether it's investments or orders, they are actually all negotiated during holidays."

"Then who are these sponsors?"

"Gu Group wants to sponsor twenty million, but I didn't agree. For one, I don't want to owe Gu Yunting a favor, and for another, he doesn't believe at all that I can succeed. Besides, there is a company called Sirui Technology that wants to buy into the shares, and I didn't agree to that either; their calculations are too shrewd. If the project loses money, I have to pay, and if it makes money, they want sixty percent of the profit. Of course, it's already quite good that they are willing to buy in, but I have an even better option behind this; an investment company in Beishi actually wants to sponsor us one hundred million."

"One hundred million?" Bai Shuruo widened her eyes: "But, how does this investment company in Beishi know about you?"