Chapter 11 10. Past and Present

The story of dormitory 714 has come to an end, but Ji Ruxuan's story is not over yet. Adjust your mood and the story will continue. One month after Lin Ying was arrested, Ji Ruxuan and Qiu Suling returned to their normal campus life. Even, in terms of dealing with life, both of them became more optimistic and stronger than before—they accepted an unusual baptism , Know how to cherish life, cherish friendship and love. Qiu Suling is in love, and the other party is a stupid guy who is often bullied by the clever Qiu Suling, but also enjoys her meticulous care.Ji Ruxuan and Jiang Xiaolou's heart is also closer than before, in short, everything seems to be developing in a good direction, until the moment when Zhang Jiaming suddenly called.

"For so many days, I have been hesitating whether to tell you the truth or to let you continue your current life. After all, you are so happy now. However, in order for someone to have a chance to fight for his happiness, I decided to put I'll tell you everything. Are you sure you're ready?" "Yes." Ji Ruxuan took a deep breath and said, "You talk now." "Well, at eight o'clock tonight, I'll wait for you at the gate of the bell tower. You'd better take Jiang Xiaolou with you, that's the best." Why go to the Clock Tower? Although Ji Ruxuan couldn't figure out the problem, she always had to go. She immediately found Jiang Xiaolou, told the whole story, and asked him to go with her.

"Zhang Jiaming said he wants me to go?" Seeing Ji Ruxuan nodding, Jiang Xiaolou was even more puzzled, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Well, I don't feel at ease if you go alone. I want to see what is worth it. She's so mysterious." "Anyway, she won't hurt me." "I hope, but you have to be prepared for bad things to happen." Jiang Xiaolou guessed right.However, he didn't know at the time how "bad" this "bad thing" waiting for Ji Ruxuan would be. If he could have predicted it, I believe he would never let Ji Ruxuan go to this appointment.

Love and hate, love and hatred, separation and reunion, are often only in a person's thought. With nervousness and excitement, Ji Ruxuan spent a restless day.At 7:30 in the evening, half an hour before the agreed time, Ji Ruxuan and Jiang Xiaolou walked into the gate of South University of Technology, and walked straight to the playground. Because there was a light rain in the afternoon, the grass was still wet at this time, and the few couples who would occasionally come to this grass to do bad things on weekdays also changed places today, and Ji Ruxuan and Jiang Xiaolou were probably the only ones in the huge back playground. The two of them, as well as Zhang Jiaming, who had come to the gate of the bell tower early, was waiting for their arrival.

There was still a distance from the bell tower, and the two of them saw Zhang Jiaming standing under the tall arched door of the bell tower. She was dressed in black tonight, and under the shadow of the dim moonlight, she exuded a mysterious aura.She stood there motionless, her face turned towards the direction the two were walking, and she seemed to have spotted them too. At this time, Jiang Xiaolou suddenly stopped and turned around. "What?" Ji Ruxuan asked nervously. "Why do I feel like someone is following us?" Ji Ruxuan was stunned, and scanned the dark grass behind her, but found no suspicious figure, "Could you be mistaken?"

"Almost, never mind, Zhang Jiaming is waiting in front, let's go." Just as the two of them took a step, a small piece of fire suddenly lit up in the opposite clock tower, which was exactly the same as what Ji Ruxuan had seen the previous two times. Ji Ruxuan's heart tightened suddenly, and she hugged her boyfriend's arm. Seeing this situation, Zhang Jiaming quickly walked up to the two of them, looked at Ji Ruxuan and said, "It's a beggar with no place to live lighting a torch inside, don't be afraid." "Beggar?" Ji Ruxuan looked at the "fireball" through the window hole on the first floor, and was even more surprised.

"Yes, this beggar has lived in a few years ago. He goes out to beg from the back door of the school every day, and returns to sleep in the bell tower at night. This place is remote and no one will enter the bell tower, so many people don't know the existence of this beggar. , someone saw a fire in it from a long distance, spread it everywhere, and finally it was spread as a will-o’-the-wisp, and this is almost how the haunted legend of the clock tower was formed.” Ji Ruxuan opened her mouth wide. "Then... why did he light the torch?" "Count the money, count the total amount of money from begging in a day, and there is no light in the clock tower, so I had to light it."

Is the truth so simple?Ji Ruxuan shook her head in disbelief: "How do you know this?" "Don't ask me, anyway, I didn't lie to you." Zhang Jiaming looked at Ji Ruxuan, then at Jiang Xiaolou, "Come on, let's go in." "Really want to go in?" Ji Ruxuan hesitated immediately, "That beggar..." "It's okay, we won't go into his 'room'. Besides, this matter must be discussed in the bell tower." After Zhang Jiaming finished speaking, he led the way into the arched door. Ji Ruxuan looked at her boyfriend in embarrassment.

"Let's go." Jiang Xiaolou smiled, took her hand, and the two walked together. The entrance hall is still so empty and silent, giving people a deep sense of oppression.Fortunately, Jiang Xiaolou was by her side, Ji Ruxuan thought, otherwise, she might not dare to come in, but she glanced at Zhang Jiaming who was walking in front, and felt very strange—won’t Zhang Jiaming be afraid? what? Halfway through the dark corridor, there was an opening without a door on the left, and a dim light came from the room behind the opening, in an invisible corner blocked by the wall.It seems that this is the "room" of the beggar that Zhang Jiaming mentioned.Ji Ruxuan couldn't help speeding up her pace, walked quickly through the door opening without looking sideways, and walked through the aisle in a short while, and stopped in front of the spiral staircase together with Zhang Jiaming.

"Xuanxuan, look at this staircase, think about it, does it look like what you 'imagined'?" Exactly as she said.Ji Ruxuan nodded suspiciously, "But I haven't been here before, why?" "Don't worry, I'll tell you when I go upstairs." Zhang Jiaming stepped up the steps, and the soles of his shoes made an overwhelmed "click, click..." sound on the wooden stairs, as if they would collapse at any time.Ji Ruxuan listened to the only sound in the surrounding area, looked at the spiral staircase in front of her, and suddenly felt a very strange and unprecedented feeling in her heart, not just a familiar feeling.

Ji Ruxuan's body couldn't help shaking. Just like what Ji Ruxuan saw in a dream.As soon as I went up to the second floor, there was a long corridor facing me. On both sides, there were small doors painted with red paint, some of which were open and some of which were closed. These small rooms probably all have windows, and there is faint light coming through some of the open door openings. It should be moonlight, which makes the dark corridors more bright, and can barely distinguish objects. Zhang Jiaming, who was walking in front, turned around and smiled mysteriously at Ji Ruxuan. "Xuanxuan, do you remember anything?" Ji Ruxuan froze for a moment, and looked around at the yellow walls mottled due to age, the blue skirting boards, the doors that were opened or closed like blood, and the monster-like monster in the opposite corridor. A gaping black doorway.Suddenly, she grabbed Jiang Xiaolou's arm and cried out in a trembling voice: "Xiaolou, I have been to this place! I have really been here! There—" She pointed to the entrance of the big room on the opposite side of the aisle , his expression suddenly became extremely nervous, and he asked Zhang Jiaming in a trembling voice, "Where is that place?" "The place where you died once." Zhang Jiaming said calmly, "I asked you to come here to stimulate your memory. Let's go. After entering, maybe you can remember everything!" "Wait!" Jiang Xiaolou opened the hand she extended to pull Ji Ruxuan at once, looked at Zhang Jiaming with questioning eyes, and said coldly, "I still want to ask that question, who are you?" Zhang Jiaming sneered, and at this moment, there was a sound of "dumping" footsteps on the other side of the stairs-someone went upstairs.Ji Ruxuan and Jiang Xiaolou's hearts immediately rose to their throats. Could it be the beggar? Ji Ruxuan immediately had such an idea, but Zhang Jiaming laughed "hehe": "Okay. This is really a good show." A figure quickly rushed up to the second floor and stopped at the stairs, about five meters away from the three of them.He couldn't see his face, but Ji Ruxuan recognized him, and she felt like an electric current passed through her body. She couldn't help but trembled, facing the black figure in front of her, she murmured: "You just... brought me here in your dream. The people here..." "Lu Haoze, I knew you would come." Zhang Jiaming said coldly. Lu Haoze?Ji Ruxuan's heart tightened again, why is this name so familiar? "You can't enter that room." The visitor finally spoke, and the voice was exactly the same as what Ji Ruxuan heard in her dream. "Okay, since you're here, it's the same for me to tell the truth directly. Now is the time—" "No!" The man yelled, and rushed towards where Zhang Jiaming was standing, probably trying to stop her from speaking, but was blocked by a person on the way. It's Jiang Xiaolou.He stared fixedly at the man's face, which was a handsome face he had never seen before. "You're the one who called me. I remember your voice." "Now is not the time to talk about this," the man calmed down a little, turning his face away, trying not to let Ji Ruxuan see his appearance. "If you like Xuanxuan, don't let her know the truth, never." "No, she has the right to know, otherwise she will think about it for the rest of her life." Jiang Xiaolou glanced at his girlfriend, she was still staring blankly at the man's side face, as if she didn't hear what she said, but, She quickly turned her face to Zhang Jiaming, and said quietly: "Now that you've reached this point, you can't hide it anymore. Tell me, no matter what the truth is, I can accept it." Zhang Jiaming sighed, took a step forward, pointed at Jiang Xiaolou and said, "If he hadn't slept with other women behind your back, I might not have the courage to tell the truth. I really hope that you can be happy together. Xuanxuan, as long as you are happy, that is what I am most happy to see." Jiang Xiaolou's face suddenly became extremely ugly, but he knew that he couldn't hide anything anymore, so he turned his face and handed Ji Ruxuan a pale and weak smile. "She's right, I've done something I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry..." "Don't talk about it, I already knew about this." Ji Ruxuan said silently without looking at her, "Do you still remember the night Fangfang was killed, you took me to the hotel to rest? At that time you went out to find Miss Xiaobing and let me stay. Sleeping alone in the room. You didn't bring your mobile phone, but when someone called, I answered it for you. " "who is it?" Jiang Xiaolou forcefully squeezed out these two words from his throat, his expression was extremely ashamed, his face turned pale, he was completely different from his usual self-confident, unrestrained and unrestrained appearance as if he could see everything in the world. "Yu Die, she told me everything." Jiang Xiaolou secretly thought it was over, and murmured: "Then why haven't you said..." "Because, she told me, you still love me, right?" From Ji Ruxuan's gaze staring at him, from her eyes, Jiang Xiaolou understood everything and her feelings for him. He tremblingly held his girlfriend's hands, "I won't say anything, Xuan Xuan, let's get the marriage certificate tomorrow, okay?" At this time, the later man—the man Zhang Jiaming called Lu Haoze said to Zhang Jiaming in a very sour tone: "You see, they are still in love at all, it's none of your business, you Don't say anything, okay?" "No," Zhang Jiaming shook his head slowly, "The matter has come to this point, there is no way to hide it, and you don't want to see Xuanxuan worrying about this thing that doesn't know the truth for the rest of her life? Besides, I believe she knows the truth Everything will be taken care of later, Xuanxuan, right?" Ji Ruxuan looked at her and nodded. "Alas..." Lu Haoze sighed heavily and stopped talking. Zhang Jiaming took a few steps forward, stood in front of Ji Ruxuan, and began to tell the truth in a heavy tone: "Xuanxuan, you died once, in the big room in front. The murderer was me ...Yes, my real name is Zhang Ruyan, and my mother's surname, do you still have an impression of this name? That's right, I am your half-sister..." Ji Ruxuan swayed twice as if a thunderbolt rang in her ears, but fortunately, Jiang Xiaolou caught her in time.She stared at Zhang Jiaming in a daze - no, it should be Zhang Ruyan's face.Is this person in front of her really her sister?He even has a sister? For a moment, tens of thousands of emotions were entangled in her heart, but Ji Ruxuan didn't ask anything, because she didn't want to plan her narration. She knew that the facts that made her even more unbelievable were still behind. "Last time on the rooftop, I told you about my life experience. I didn't want to repeat that painful memory. Later, I went back to my mother and lived with her. Until she died of illness the year before last, I had nothing. Yes. I swore to take revenge, for my mother, for the suffering I suffered in your house when I was a child! I hate your mother, that woman named Liu Ping! And you are her baby, her most important thing Man, so, I chose to start with you. That was two years ago, you were studying at this school, so, I went to a high school as a review student, admitted to this school, and then like this time, Infiltrated the dormitory where you were, and became good sisters with you... Hehe, your boyfriend at that time was the person next to you—Lu Haoze, unfortunately, I fell in love with him during our relationship with you, until now Both are. "After gaining your trust, I will first use the legend of the clock tower to make you fear this place. When the time is right, I will find an opportunity to trick you here, in the big room in front. Don't ask me how I did it , Didn’t I succeed in tricking you guys to come here last time? It’s ridiculous to say that in order to make you lose your mind, my method is to scare you by pretending to be a ghost. It sounds incredible at first, but the few things I arranged In this scene, I believe that anyone can be frightened and go crazy. What's more, I scared you once in that room. You rushed out and ran downstairs, and you just ran into the beggar—you It may be that seeing his unkempt appearance, he also regarded him as a ghost, but you passed out on the spot. "I sent you to the hospital first, and then called your mother as a good friend. Hearing her panic crying on the phone, I felt extremely happy. It was a pleasure that you can't imagine... Later, they sent you Take me back to my hometown, and take me to the hospital where your father is the dean to recuperate. My goal has been achieved—you suffer from neurasthenia and phobias, and cry all day long, like a poor lunatic. "Your father—also my father, he has been a doctor for many years, but there is nothing he can do about you, because your illness is mainly a mental and psychological disorder, and the only way to completely cure it is to make you forget about that period The memory of you being scared like that at that time is almost impossible for ordinary people, but the hospital where your father worked opened hypnotherapy at that time. Hypnosis is really a mysterious science. When a person forgets a memory, he can also use psychological suggestion to fill in or even modify his memory. "You are really lucky. You have a father who is a doctor. You got such a chance to be cured, and you didn't really become a lunatic. I found out later that, in fact, your mind has always been sober, and you know that I designed it. The conspiracy hurts you, and all your abnormal behavior is not due to the stimulation of fear, but because your good sister betrayed you, and you feel extremely sad, and you don't know what my purpose is. "You told me all this when I went to visit the doctor alone, but you didn't tell anyone else, otherwise, I might still be serving time in prison. I didn't expect things to turn out like this, it's ridiculous. Your mother worried about you and was heartbroken all day long, but the pleasure of revenge was gone. I cried and told you the truth. You not only forgave me, but also felt ashamed of what your mother did back then. You Instead of telling her the truth, but carrying this burden on your own and continuing to live a negative, gloomy life, while they mistakenly think that you are still living in the stimulus and shadow of that event-though they don't know you What happened in the clock tower, but I knew you were stimulated by that incident, so, in order to make you better, your father arranged for the hypnotist to implement hypnotherapy for you-during the hypnosis process, the hypnotist knew Everything, I told your parents the truth. After being stunned, they followed the suggestion of the hypnotist. In order to make you no longer sad and hopeless, and no longer hate your mother, the hypnotist revised your memory over the past year—everything became a reality. All the memories since you came to this school have been 'deleted', just like drinking Mengpo soup, and everyone and everything have been forgotten together. This is also impossible, if you still remember I, I still remember everything that happened after I came to Nanjing Polytechnic University, so the hypnosis will be in vain. So, you even 'forgot' Lu Haoze... "Hypnosis is a terrible thing. But when I knew about it, you had already been hypnotized, and you didn't even know it yourself at first, otherwise, you would never have accepted such a 'treatment'. But for your Recovery, your parents only do this, this, I hope you can understand. "After 'deleting' your memories of that year, the hypnotist used psychological suggestion to fill the gap with other 'memories'. He made you 'remember' that you were reviewing in high school this year, studying hard After a year of doing nothing else. After two months of hypnotherapy, you finally feel better again, but those 'deleted' memories don't really disappear, they are just sealed away in an invisible corner of your heart Li - this is what your mother told me. She felt guilty for what she did and forgave me for hurting you. She told me that if you encounter those people and things that were 'deleted' , the memory is likely to recover, which is of course a bad thing, so they claimed that you died of illness - originally wanted to say transfer to another school, but they had no choice but to lie like this because they were afraid that your former classmates would contact you. They sent you to many The Polytechnic University in South County, the two schools hadn’t merged at that time, otherwise if they knew that you would come here again one day, they would definitely not let you into that school. Then, everything started again. "Lu Haoze and I have completely cut off contact with you according to your parents' reminders. However, we have been paying attention to your news, so when I learned that you were going to transfer to this school, I felt a burning feeling in my heart." hope. "In order for you to get back together with Lu Haoze, I hope you can remember everything - because I like him, and I don't want to see him live a life of despair all day because of your 'forgetting', for more than a year , He has never laughed or been happy one day. But he always thinks about you, and he is afraid that you will find it difficult to face reality after you recover your memory. You don't come to this school. "But you still came. So, I sneaked into your dormitory again. Although my purpose is to restore your memory, I know the consequences of telling you all the truth at once, so I thought of a way to lead you Go to the place you used to go to and have a deep impression, and stimulate the sealed memory a little bit. Who would have thought that so many strange things happened one after another in your dormitory, and seeing you sad all day because of the death of your friend, I didn’t I can't go on with my plans anymore - I've said this before, so I waited until today. "Actually, Lu Haoze has been lurking by your side. He didn't dare to appear in front of you. He was afraid that you would remember him subconsciously and recall that sad past, so he secretly used various methods to remind you to stay away from me. Don't believe my words .now you know why you know how to play a nunchuck? You learned it at this school before you lost your memory. Although the memory is gone, when you got it, you must still know how to control it. And at that time Those of your classmates have all graduated—they all thought you were dead, so naturally they would not contact you again. And as you told me, some people who were familiar with you in the cafeteria and other places, some The teachers who taught you before have classmates who have not yet left school. Of course, they dare not recognize a 'dead person', they just think you look alike. The whole thing happened roughly like this, although it is unbelievable, but it is real." Jiang Xiaolou looked at Zhang Ruyan in bewilderment, and then at the rival in love who suddenly appeared, and saw that both of them had tears all over their faces, so this matter could not be fake. "Xuanxuan..." Zhang Ruyan stepped forward, firmly grasped Ji Ruxuan's cold and trembling hands, and said worriedly, "I believe that with your psychological endurance today, you will be able to accept this reality calmly, right, at least It won't be like before, Xiaoxiao and Niu Fang's death gave you a new understanding of life, so I have the courage to tell you this today. Xuanxuan, we all love you." "You shouldn't have told me this..." Ji Ruxuan squatted down in pain, pulling her hair vigorously with both hands. Those memories that had been sealed in her heart for a long time were all revived at this moment, just like a movie, and scenes were unfolding in front of her eyes. Play it out. She remembered Zhang Ruyan, the happy years they spent together, and many classmates at that time, and most importantly, she remembered Lu Haoze, the boy who once held her in the palm of his hand, He took her to go boating in Xianghu Park, but when he went ashore, he accidentally fell into the water, and he jumped down to save himself. Then, to keep warm, two soaked chickens sat on the bench on the leisure island, hugging each other tightly, facing each other laugh. Another time it was her birthday, the two of them went to the city center for a day of crazy fun, and then went to the western restaurant to have a candlelight dinner, both of them drank red wine that night, Ji Ruxuan was drunk enough, Lu Haoze helped her to a hotel, opened I got a double room, hugged her and slept all night, but didn't make the slightest violation... Ji Ruxuan suddenly raised her head and looked at Lu Haoze. Lu Haoze quickly turned his face away, he didn't dare to look at her.Ji Ruxuan understood the reason, because there was still a man standing beside her, the man she loved the most. Everyone present knew in their hearts that the first thing Ji Ruxuan had to face after recovering her memory was to choose.Choose between the lover of yesteryear and the fiancé of today.However, no matter who she chooses, she will hurt another person. Love and hurt, staying together and farewell are always two sides of the same coin. Where should she go? Jiang Xiaolou suddenly took her hand, looked at her with red eyes, and said softly but firmly: "I will not give up on you, as long as you are willing to be with me. However, no matter what choice you make, I will All accepted. I respect your wishes." At this most critical moment, Ji Ruxuan calmed down instead. She looked at Zhang Ruyan, her half-sister, and said quietly, "If you were me, what would you do?" "With all due respect, Jiang Xiaolou is not a person who can be entrusted with for life. If you make a mistake the first time, there will be a second time—" "You're right!" Jiang Xiaolou interrupted her roughly, shifted his gaze to Ji Ruxuan's face, and said excitedly, "I can't guarantee that I will make mistakes again in the future, but I like you, not love , because liking is simpler than love, more direct than love, I just like you, I like you to the core, as long as you can be happy, you don't even need me!" The scene was silent for a long while, and tears welled up in Ji Ruxuan's eyes again, "Then..." Before she finished speaking, a muffled groan suddenly sounded in her ear, followed by the sound of her body falling heavily on the ground. It was Lu Haoze who fell to the ground suddenly. He curled up sideways on the ground like a baby, twitching all over, with his hands folded in front of his chest, where there was an extra gleaming sharp knife that had already pierced into his chest.Dark red blood flowed all over the ground in a blink of an eye. At the last moment of his life, he finally held the hand of his long-lost girlfriend, heard her breathing, and even felt the temperature of her tears falling on his face, everything was so familiar and tender, but it was too late up.Lu Haoze tried to make a smile, held his lover's warm hands, and said the last sentence in his life: "In this way, it will not be difficult for you to choose. Although, I still love you..." Then he closed his eyes with a smile on his face. "Hao Ze!" The two women who loved him so much screamed, hugging his body tightly until the body gradually became cold, just like the warm memories of the past, once they pass, they can't come back. Yes, never coming back.