Pampered by My Ex's Cousin

Chapter 418 - 412: We Are All Adults, Why Can’t We Take It? (Part 1)

"Yes..." Jin Yuanyuan nodded, her eyes revealing a touch of sadness, "That was the name my biological mother gave me. After she passed away, no one ever called me that again. How did you know?"

"Then I can be sure that Yao Yiyang knew you," Ji Anning said as she stood up and walked towards her desk, "Wait a moment."

She opened a drawer, took out an old envelope, and handed it to Jin Yuanyuan.

"What is this?" Jin Yuanyuan asked curiously as she took the envelope and opened it on the spot, pulling out an X-ray and a postcard.

The postcard read: I will slim down to 220 pounds and apply to T University with you.

Seeing these words, Jin Yuanyuan seemed to recall something faintly. She quickly looked at the photo again. In the photo, a slim and tall young girl with neat student-style hair, dressed in a school uniform skirt, stood under a large sycamore tree, smiling sweetly at the camera.

"This... this was when I was in elementary school," Jin Yuanyuan said, looking up in surprise at Ji Anning, "If I’m not wrong, this was taken on the day of our sixth-grade graduation photo."

That meant they really did know each other.

Ji Anning couldn’t help but wonder, "Then how come you don’t recognize him anymore?"

"Yao Yiyang, Yao Yiyang..." Jin Yuanyuan repeated the name several times, trying hard to recall, but finally shook her head, "I can’t remember who it is."

"He said he would slim down to 220 pounds; did you have any very overweight male classmates at that time?" Ji Anning asked, providing clues to Jin Yuanyuan based on the content of the postcard.

"No..." Jin Yuanyuan first shook her head, then thought of something and nodded, "There was one, but he was not in our class, he was in the honors class."

Ji Anning frowned, "You don’t know his name?"

Jin Yuanyuan replied, "Our school was very large at that time, and I only attended that school for one semester, so how would I know his name? I just remember there was a very fat boy in the honors class who never played with other classmates."

"Forget it, he’s gone now." Ji Anning’s gaze unintentionally glanced again at the postcard in Jin Yuanyuan’s hand, feeling an indescribable sense of regret in her heart.

Not knowing for whom.

At the same time, she had a premonition that Jin Yuanyuan and Yao Yiyang would meet again.

I will slim down to 220 pounds, and apply to T University with you.

As it turned out, they both did enter T University, and he had indeed slimmed down.

True to one’s initial aspiration, how many people can achieve it in this world, yet they had brutally betrayed it.

Ji Anning thought, her fingertips tingling, reminding her of unwanted thoughts.

On her way back to school after evening self-study, Ji Anning’s phone vibrated in her pocket. She took it out and, seeing the caller ID, initially did not want to answer, but she did anyway, "Grandpa."

"Anning, come home for dinner tomorrow night. I’ll have Mr. Chen pick you up," the old man said in a negotiating tone.

Ji Anning promptly refused, "I don’t want to go."

Not wanting to go, not that she didn’t want to return. In her heart, she never considered that place her home, and now even less so.

The old man said, "Your second uncle and aunt from Capital City and their family have come over because of your marriage discussion with Jingfeng. They will be spending the New Year here. Come home and have a meal with them, say hello."

Upon hearing this, Ji Anning hesitated for a moment before reluctantly nodding, "Okay."

They couldn’t avoid each other forever; they were bound to meet one day. What was meant to happen would eventually come, and what they had to face couldn’t be avoided forever.