Chapter 2: A Sister’s Harrowing Shoah with Her Childhood Friend

Early the next morning, Cheng Ming took a shower, simply cleaned up his face, and with thick dark circles under his eyes met with Lin Jingyi at a cafe near his home, where Cheng Li, who had been disguised, was sitting in the chair next to him.

Dressed in strappy jeans, a pair of comically large sunglasses, and with his hair all tucked into a ducktail hat, Cheng Li looked like a tomboy, more than a suspicious character.

Lin Jingyi, on the other hand, was wearing a tender yellow dress, loose round neckline revealing delicate collarbone, waist tied palm width brown cowhide belt, set off the slender and slim figure, mature and gorgeous face slightly haggard, slightly converged eyes hiding a faint sadness.

Cheng Ming really found it hard to equate this dignified woman in front of him, who was somewhere between a young woman and a young girl, with the little slugs that he had played with in the mud during his childhood, and he nodded his head in a formal greeting, “Hello.”

“I’m not good.”

“Uh ……”

Cheng Ming was immediately speechless, can this still be a good chat ah!

Cheng Ming turned the menu and set it in front of Lin Jingyi and asked, “What would you like to drink?”

Lin Jingyi rested her hands on her cheeks and narrowed her eyes as she asked, “Xiao Ming, do you remember what I like to drink?”

“Hot water.”

“You haven’t been single this long for no reason.”

“Just a little joke, do you still like Coke? I think we remember having a fight over Pepsi and Coca-Cola back then.”

“Yeah, you ended up handing me a glass of Pepsi laced with Coca-Cola and excitedly said it was sweet and airy and that’s what Coke should be, and after we made up, I bought Pepsi and you bought Coca-Cola and always blended it.”

“We’ll have a Coke then, waiter, a Pepsi and a Coca-Cola please.”

Cheng Ming waved his hand and called the waiter, and finished ordering under the waiter’s puzzled look.

“Waiter, please bring another slightly larger cup.”

Lin Jingyi added meaninglessly.

“Maybe we shouldn’t have come to a coffee shop, instead we should have gone to a McDonald’s or something like that.” Cheng Ming said with a bitter smile.

Lin Jingyi said reminiscently, “I really miss those times, if only we could go back in time.”

“Can’t go back la, I don’t want to go through the college entrance exam again.” Cheng Ming said as he waved his hand in disgust, he even wanted to kill that childish, rebellious and stupid self.

“Yeah …… I don’t want to go through another earthly purgatory either.” Lin Jingyi lowered her head glumly.

Talking about the past, both of them had a hard time in their hearts, and the atmosphere was a bit gloomy.

“Let bygones be bygones.” Lin Jingyi lifted her head, patted her cheeks, and really did it again.

“That’s right, one can’t just live in the past.”

Lin Jingyi stood up, bent over and leaned down, her elbows resting on the table, her body leaning forward, her clothes sagging, and the snow-white furrow in front of her chest was visible, and she could also see the pink bow bra, which was very girlish.

You look mature on the outside, but inside you’re still a little girl who hasn’t grown up much.

“Do I have nice boobs?”

Lin Jingyi pulled down her collar slightly, revealing another small piece of jade-like skin.

Cheng Li at the side table clenched her small fists, Cheng Ming could clearly feel a murderous intent, and hurriedly pulled up Lin Jingyi’s collar, put his hands on her shoulders, and pressed her back into her seat, saying:

“Really …… you cover up a little ah! Don’t do this kind of thing in front of a big public.”

“You can do this kind of thing in private?” Lin Jingyi asked rhetorically.

“Don’t bite your tongue, the old you clearly wasn’t like this.” Cheng Ming said as he rubbed his temples with a headache, it was too hard to deal with.

“The old you wasn’t like this either, Ming, you don’t look good in glasses, obviously the best part of your body is your eyes.”

Lin Jingyi’s luxuriant fingers removed Cheng Ming’s black-framed glasses, and Cheng Ming’s vision instantly became blurry. It was the same as a mosaic, squinting his eyes, he could barely make out Lin Jingyi’s face.

Lin Jingyi lifted up the bangs in front of his forehead and said, “It’s just that your hairline seems to be a bit worrisome, and the child you give birth to won’t be a bit bald as well, right? It’s fine if it’s a boy, but a girl with a big forehead doesn’t look good.”

Cheng Ming back to the glasses back on the bridge of the nose, spread his hands, a helpless face, said: “No way, programmers, stay up late and work overtime more than the head bald, this industry ate is also a youth meal.”

Lin Jingyi raised her eyebrows and asked, “Little Ming, are you still a virgin?”

“Of course not.”

Really, sister or not, Lin Jingyi is also, why always hold on to this issue, fortunately Cheng Ming really is not.

“I can’t believe it’s not? I thought programmers were all virgins.”

“You need to stop persecuting programmers, so let me ask a very rude question, are you a virgin? Shouldn’t be waiting to let me, the unlucky programmer, take over, right?”

Although Cheng Ming knew in his heart what kind of person Lin Jingyi was, Cheng Ming still wanted to get a little back.

Lin Jingyi pinched Cheng Ming’s cheeks, stretched the flesh of her face, and asked kindly, “What do you think? You should know that I love cleanliness, right? Know that, right?”

Lin Jingyi added accents to the last few words and increased the strength of her hand by a few points.

Luckily, the waiter brought two Cokes and an empty glass in time.

Only then did Lin Jingyi let go of Cheng Ming’s face, sat back in her seat, poured Pepsi Coca-Cola into the empty cup respectively, rolled the two straws together before putting them into the cup, clapped her hands and said, “Finished, drink.”

“How can I drink this?” Cheng Ming looked at the coke that had been transformed into a couple’s cup by Lin Jingyi, and there was no way to put his mouth on it.

“Sucking and drinking, of course? Or do you want me to feed you.”

Lin Jingyi’s sandalwood mouth held the straw and made a zippy sound.

“We’ll just sit over here all morning, then after lunch we’ll go our separate ways and say we know each other too well to get off ……”

“Xiaoming, did you bring your account pu?”

“Why are you asking this all of a sudden, who has nothing to do with a blind date with an account book.”

“So do you have your ID and driver’s license with you?”

“These two brought it backwards.”

“Really, cheer me up, let’s go straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau, we should be at work by now.”

“Clam?”

Cheng Ming’s brain instantly went down, somewhat unresponsive.

“Clam what, nerd, let’s go!”

Lin Jingyi slapped Cheng Ming’s head, tugged his hand up, and walked towards the outside of the store.

“You guys wait a minute.”

Cheng Li opened his arms to stop the two in their path.

Cheng Li directly stopped pretending, excitedly tapped the table and said, “You are blind date ah, blind date know? First together to drink tea, and then only together to eat, and then see a movie shopping, and finally meet the parents, how suddenly have to get married, this is also too fast!”

“Blind dates are supposed to be for the purpose of marriage, right? We’ve gotten to know each other so well, there’s no need to follow the program, just go straight to one step.”

“You all haven’t been in touch for so many years, surely it’s only fair to bond first.”

“There’s no need, we can take our time bonding in bed when we get married.”

“Brother, I now feel that this woman is completely unsuitable for you, let’s go home.”

Cheng Li held Cheng Ming’s right arm and pulled it in her direction.

“We’re going to the Civil Affairs Bureau.”

Lin Jingyi held Cheng Ming’s left arm and dragged it in the direction of the store entrance.

“Ri, call me sister-in-law first.”

“Don’t even think about it.”

“Can I make a comment?” Cheng Ming asked weakly.

“Can’t!”

Cheng Li and Lin Jingyi said in unison, unexpectedly unified at a time like this.

The soft touch of being squeezed by the chest came from his arm, and Cheng Ming, who was pulled left and right, was quite familiar with this kind of cultivated feeling even though he hadn’t reached the point where he was going to crack open.

It was like going back twenty years when the three still lived in the same silo playing house.

Cheng Li and Lin Jingyi have a big fight over who will be Cheng Ming’s wife and who will be his daughter.

“Xiao Li is relatively small, so it’s definitely you as a daughter.” Lin Jingyi said as such.

“I don’t want it, I want to be my brother’s wife.”

“Idiot, a brother and sister can’t get married.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know why, anyway, no means no.” At that time, the young Lin Jingyi couldn’t say why, but she heard her elders all say the same thing.

“I favor it! I just want to marry brother.” Cheng Li, who was holding the rabbit ragdoll, said childishly and stubbornly.

Cheng Ming smiled heartily when he thought of this matter.

Past events came flooding back like a tidal wave, replaying in Cheng Ming’s mind like a walking lantern.

Whether it is something that has been forgotten or something that is engraved in his heart, Cheng Ming suddenly felt that his body was in a strange state, everything in front of him was like turning down the resolution, gradually becoming blurred, leaving only black and white, were the glasses taken off again by Lin Jingyi?

The body was sinking as if drowning, out of control.

Suddenly so sleepy, is it because I didn’t sleep well last night?

Cheng Ming nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice and closed his eyes as Cheng Li and Lin Jingyi assisted him.

“Brother, brother, what’s wrong with you?”

“Ming, Ming, are you okay?”

Cheng Ming gradually lost hearing Cheng Li and Lin Jingyi’s calls.

Cheng Ming seemed to have had a good night’s sleep after a long time, his body was warm, which was the feeling of the sunlight shining on his body.

The five senses and six senses that had been away from home returned to Cheng Ming’s body, and he seemed to have fallen asleep on the table, his forehead pressed against the back of his hand.

Is this an all-night code session?

No, isn’t he on a blind date with Lin Jingyi?

There was a very loud noise ringing in his ears, harsh, but not offensive.

From far to near, the playful sounds of a group of people running up the stairs and the snap of a basketball being played.

The sound of desks and chairs shifting and crashing, the creaking of fingers across the blackboard, gave one goosebumps and made one want to break the evil hand.

As well as all sorts of chatting and farting, is this the sister watching some kind of movie around?

“Ming, Ming, wake up, it’s time for class.”

This seemed to be Lin Jingyi’s voice, which still sounded a bit childish.

Really, are thirty years old people how to still pretend to be fifteen or sixteen young girls ah, but also classes, we are here how many years after graduation from college.

Cheng Ming opened his eyes and lifted his head, a melon face similar to Lin Jingyi’s came into view, wearing a white short-sleeve, with the words ‘Nanming Fifth Middle School’ and the school logo printed on his chest.

A head of beautiful hair was pulled behind her head with a hair band and tied into a simple single ponytail, the early morning sunlight shot through the window into the classroom, hitting the young girl’s white cheeks with a slight glow, blinking her eyes, her long eyelashes fluttering, her hands grasping the pink shoulder strap of her school bag.

It’s not as if, this is Lin Jingyi, but it’s the Lin Jingyi LILY version, or the youthful and loli version.

“Waaaaaahhh ……”

In shock, Cheng Ming raised his arms and instinctively stepped back, sitting on the end of the bench, which lost its balance and buckled directly.

Cheng Ming sat heavily on the floor with his buttocks, falling to the point that his buttocks were raw and painful, so clear and real that the pain seemed like he wasn’t dreaming.

The bench also almost hit the back of Lin Jingyi’s feet, but luckily she dodged quickly.

“What’s the matter, is it so scary to sit with me? It’s like seeing a ghost.” Lin Jingyi glared at Cheng Ming grudgingly and said without any good humor.

“I wouldn’t want to sit with you if my table hadn’t been smashed by your tablemate, huh?”

Lin Jingyi took off her book bag and placed it on her desk, inclining her head and said.

Such a big commotion naturally attracted the attention of other students.

“You guys, look at Cheng Ming that brat sitting with a girl, he actually fell down in fear, it’s really enviable.”

“That’s nice, I want to sit with the girls too, why don’t we have co-ed tables in my class.”

Boys in their teenage years will always have these borderline fantasies.

“How much longer do you want to sit on the floor? It’s embarrassing.”

Lin Jingyi picked up the stool before reaching down and pulling Cheng Ming up from the floor.

Lin Jingyi’s small hands were soft and slippery, and even a bit cool.

Cheng Ming didn’t let go of Lin Jingyi’s hand, and she didn’t take the initiative to break free and draw her hand to escape, letting Cheng Ming hold it.

A faint blush floated on Lin Jingyi’s cheeks, her heart pounding, unable to calm down for a long time.

This is the age of innocence when a finger touching the palm of your hand will make you blush all day long.