Still, Wait For Me

Chapter 2: The First Meeting, Once More

Chapter 2: The First Meeting, Once More

A 19 year old Xu Tingsheng sat on the long distance bus to Yanzhou City.

In the year 2011, the bus journey from Jiannan City to Yanzhou City would have taken three hours. Now, in the year 2003, checking with the driver, Xu Tingsheng had heard that it would take 5 hours.

Earlier, Xu Tingsheng had spent a day and a night before finally accepting his fate of having been reborn. This was the year 2003, currently being early March. After the initial stages of panic, perhaps because he had left with too many regrets in his previous life, he became a little excited, as well as emotional.

Three things were laid out before him:

One was his father's accidental death, which would happen sometime more than a month later, on 15th April.

Second was Xiang Ning. Currently, she should only be 14 years old, in seventh grade. From what Xu Tingsheng had witnessed to date, this flap of a butterfly's wings had not changed anything, but he still desperately couldn't resist the urge to personally confirm Xiang Ning's existence; or rather, he just wanted to see her.

The third was the university entrance examinations, which would take place in less than three months' time.

Xu Tingsheng had once gone to Xiang Ning's senior high, the second best of Yanzhou City, accompanying her, in the fourth year of university at that time, as she reminisced on her youth. However, what was bad was that he didn't know what junior high Xiang Ning had been in.

Long distance buses weren't too comfortable in the year 2003, and the condition on the roads were also rather bad. A middle-aged woman sitting beside Xu Tingsheng, wearing silver-rimmed spectacles, vomited non-stop due to the shaking of the bus.

Xu Tingsheng handed her a plastic bag and a paper towel, also opening a bottle of mineral water for her.

"Thanks, sorry for the trouble."

Raising her head and breathing in deeply, the middle-aged woman then turned over slightly, thanking Xu Tingsheng somewhat awkwardly.

"It's fine, my mother and little sister get carsick as well."

Xu Tingsheng smiled genially, his 31-year-old mental age causing him to appear more mature than others of the same age.

"Going to Yanzhou City to play? Are you still a student?"The woman asked, covering her mouth.

"Yes, in twelfth grade, going to handle some matters...I have family members over there," An inexplicable feeling of guilt caused Xu Tingsheng to cover things up a bit.

"Oh, twelfth grade is very taxing. I am a teacher, but I teach in junior high."

"A junior high school of Yanzhou City? Or Jiannan City?" Xu Tingsheng's mind wavered for a moment as he asked.

"Yes, Yanzhou City. A few days earlier, I participated in a course over here...do you want some plums?" The female teacher asked.

"Alright, thanks...I've loved eating sour food since young."

"Me too."

Xu Tingsheng took a plum and placed it inside his mouth, the two seemingly having grown closer because of this. Xu Tingsheng hesitated for a moment. If he asked: Teacher, do you know a seventh grader named Xiang Ning, it would almost definitely lead to the other's wariness.

Thinking for a bit, Xu Tingsheng purposefully said in a relaxed manner, "My cousin is currently studying in seventh grade at Yanzhou City; she might even be your student, haha."