# 1545
Chapter 1545: I Want to Wait for You to Go Together
Li Yifei remained silent for a long while before forcing a smile onto his face. "Sorry... I still can't remember clearly."
The white shadow lowered her head, seemingly disappointed.
"Or, why don't you tell me about your story? Maybe I could remember then?"
The white shadow contemplated for a moment, then picked up her pen and wrote in the notebook:
—We met in the lecture hall of Shangjing University.
—Back then, you sat on the center of the stage holding a guitar, as fresh as yesterday. Your figure became the focal point of everyone under the spotlight, and your singing made countless girls fall for you... including me.
—We got to know each other through student council work, and quickly fell in love. We spent three years here together, making promises under the starlight.
Li Yifei couldn't help but gape at this. Unconsciously, the other white shadows watching the spectacle also crowded around the table, hungrily reading the lines written on the notebook. They glanced at Li Yifei with odd expressions from time to time.
—Those three years, we were truly happy together. Going to class together, studying together, composing music together. You taught me to sing in the music classroom after class, and I helped you review until dawn before exams.
—Until that day...
The white shadow holding the pen paused for a moment, then continued writing:
—That was the night before the graduation ceremony. As the best singer at Shangjing University at the time, you were set to perform the finale. You said you would give me a surprise that night...
—But that very night, you disappeared.
—We searched the entire university but couldn't find you. The police searched for three days near the school before finding your bloodstained clothes on a small path behind the campus, along with a diamond ring wrapped in a gift bag.
—Everyone said you were dead, but I didn't believe them. I searched for you sleeplessly in Shangjing City for ten days, combing every single place, but still found no trace of you...
—I don't remember how I made it back to school. I didn't attend the graduation ceremony or take the class photo... I just walked step by step through every place at Shangjing University that we had walked together, finally arriving at this teaching building that held the most of our memories.
—When I stood on the rooftop, in a daze, it seemed like I could hear your guitar playing, the sound came from...
The white shadow slowly set down her pen, and the surroundings fell into dead silence. The other white shadows silently stepped back, turning to look at Li Yifei.
Li Yifei stood there like a sculpture, opening his mouth but momentarily at a loss for words.
He wasn't Chang Hong. He was merely a Nantu Snake Demon wearing Chang Hong's skin, walking through this world... The culprit for all of this was none other than himself.
Li Yifei remained silent for a long while before looking into the white shadow's eyes and speaking hoarsely:
"Sorry... but I still can't remember."
At some point, Li Yifei had also considered acknowledging all of this in the name of "Chang Hong," but the timing simply didn't add up. This white shadow had committed suicide several decades ago. After all this time, how could he possibly still look the same?
Moreover, if he really did acknowledge it, then what? Let her know that Chang Hong hadn't actually died? Then what would her suicide have been for?
Li Yifei couldn't stay by this girl's side forever under the name of "Chang Hong." Once he left, her remaining soul would be left all alone in this classroom—wouldn't that be an even greater torment?
After much deliberation, Li Yifei decided it was better to dispel her hopes first.
"I've more or less understood your story now, but I really am not him." Li Yifei said sincerely. "Perhaps I could be his reincarnation or something, which would explain the resemblance, but I'm just Li Yifei, not the 'Chang Hong' you knew...
If reincarnation truly exists, then my standing here might mean that 'Chang Hong' from back then did indeed meet an unfortunate end. Since everything has become a thing of the past, and 'Chang Hong' has let go of everything and moved on to reincarnation, you... should let go as well."
After Li Yifei finished speaking, the white shadow's lips pressed together slightly. She stared at Li Yifei for a long while before lowering her head in disappointment.
Several white shadows walked out from the back of the classroom, patting her on the shoulder, as if consoling her.
After a moment, she still gathered her courage and wrote again in the notebook:
—Sorry, I mistook you for someone else. I've caused you trouble.
"No worries, no worries at all. This isn't any trouble." Li Yifei waved his hand repeatedly. Looking at the white shadow's silent sobbing appearance, he felt incredibly guilty.
Although it was the Nantu Snake Demon that had killed Chang Hong, not the personality of Li Yifei, all of this traced back to him, making him feel like an utterly irredeemable monster.
"So, do you all have any other wishes? Anything I can help you with?" Li Yifei asked tentatively.
The white shadow contemplated for a moment, consulted with the other white shadows, then picked up her pen and continued writing:
—We do have a small wish... We heard from a classmate who just returned from outside that today is the welcome party for new students at Shangjing University? If possible, we would like to see it too... We've been stuck here for decades and haven't heard anyone sing or dance in a very long time. It must be lively, right?
The other white shadows nodded vigorously, their eyes full of anticipation as they looked at Li Yifei.
"To go watch the welcome party..." Li Yifei scratched his head. "I can open the door for you, but can you get out?"
—No, Teacher Jiang's barrier is invisible. Opening the door won't help. Unless like that boy before, you use some special method to break it... But in that case, Teacher Jiang would get angry again, right?
"Teacher Jiang? Where is she? Let me go beg her and ask her to let you out for one night!" Li Yifei said immediately.
—Teacher Jiang usually only comes late at night. Where she is right now... we don't know either.
Li Yifei looked up at the time. There was still over an hour until the welcome party started. Gritting his teeth, he said:
"Wait here for me. I'll go find her! Wait for me!"
Li Yifei spun around and rushed out of the classroom, moving like lightning as he sprinted out of the teaching building.
...
"Is it not here either..."
Cao Yuan walked out of the Gymnasium, glancing at the gradually darkening sky and sighing helplessly.
He had been searching this area for nearly two hours with no results. Besides the places he had already checked, it seemed like there was only...
Cao Yuan turned to look in a certain direction. Under the night sky, the kendo club's training field was still brightly lit.
He wondered if she would be there at this hour...
After hesitating for a moment, he still stepped inside.
"Junior Cao Yuan?!"
In the empty training hall, Lu Menglei, who was practicing swings with her bamboo sword, saw Cao Yuan and her eyes immediately lit up!
"Why are you here alone?" Cao Yuan asked.
"They've all gone to the venue since the welcome party is about to start."
"And you? Aren't you going?"
"I, I..." Lu Menglei pouted slightly, hiding the bamboo sword behind her back, her cheeks slightly flushed as she said, "I want to wait for you to go watch it together..."