novelraw Chapter 504 : 1453
Chapter 504 : 1453
Chapter 504: 1453
As the loudspeaker on the playground started, not only did people on the field gather around, but students from nearby dormitory buildings also rushed over to watch the excitement after hearing the news.
By now, the area in front of the main stage was already packed with curious onlookers.
"Su Ruochu? Who's Su Ruochu?"
"Chen Fan? Who's Chen Fan?"
"Are they from our school?"
"Seems like a senior wants to confess before graduation?"
"Damn, that's really creative."
In the crowd, Ma Xiaoshuai, Wu Di, and two others rushed to Su Ruochu's side to prevent her from being squeezed by the crowd.
Han Xu and Sun Hao also slipped out of the crowd. Not just them, but several girls from Su Ruochu's dorm were also invited.
A group of people surrounded Su Ruochu, accompanying her to witness the upcoming surprise.
The big screen on the stage continued to play.
At first, it showed Chen Fan appearing and randomly interviewing passersby, asking them to read out the words on a piece of paper in their local dialect.
Later, the pace began to quicken.
Strangers started appearing on the screen: college students, high school students, elementary school students, white-collar workers, small vendors, cleaning aunties, sanitation workers, taxi drivers...
People from all walks of life.
After receiving Chen Fan's request, they all smiled and called out to the camera with the most sincere eyes:
"Su Ruochu, will you marry Chen Fan?"
Every time a stranger appeared, a number would show up in the top right corner of the screen.
Starting from 0001, then 0002, 0003... 0039, 0040...
From the 40th stranger onwards, the video playback suddenly began to speed up.
More and more people started flashing across the screen.
Their images flashed by quickly, but the sentence they shouted out became faster and more frequent.
So only that sentence shouted in various dialects remained on the screen.
"Su Ruochu, will you marry Chen Fan?"
"Su Ruochu, will you..."
"Su Ruochu..."
"Will you..."
"Marry Chen Fan?"
Swish swish swish...
Finally, the images began to shrink, and two people, three people started appearing on the screen. In the end, the screen was continuously divided, becoming a hundred people, five hundred people...
The onlooking students were dumbfounded.
Wow.
How many people did this guy find?
Like flipping through a calendar, the screen finally showed the last number.
1453.
On the screen were Ma Xiaoshuai, Wu Di, Sun Hao, and Han Xu from dorm 519, along with the five girls from Su Ruochu's dorm 401: Li Qiaoqiao, Liu Xiaoran, Sun Min, Song Xiaolei, and Lin Jingyi.
The group stood together, smiling and shouting in unison:
"Su Ruochu, will you marry Chen Fan?"
Swoosh!
After shouting, they all unfurled a banner that had the same question written on it.
Click!
The video image froze.
Then time began to rewind, and another photo appeared.
The photo showed a boy and a girl standing in front of a patch of blooming roses on campus.
In the photo, the boy's face was beaming with a bright smile, while the girl looked slightly shy. There was about a hand's width of distance between them.
This was the first photo Chen Fan and Su Ruochu took together using Guo Shuai's digital camera after finishing the college entrance exam in their senior year of high school.
Then the scene changed, showing a calendar.
A date was marked on it.
July 5, 2000.
As the calendar pages began to flip one after another.
The dates on the screen started changing rapidly.
At the same time, photos of the two continued to appear in the video.
There were photos of their fresh-faced military training when they first entered university, of them walking around campus, of Chen Fan waiting for Su Ruochu outside the girls' dormitory, of Chen Fan accompanying Su Ruochu to the water room with a thermos after evening self-study...
There were photos of them chatting on the campus "lover slope," of Su Ruochu seriously reading in the library, of them eating together in the cafeteria, and photos of their outings... There was a photo of them standing at Tianya Haijiao...
From spring to summer, from autumn to winter.
Four seasons, bit by bit, photo by photo, compiling their four years of university life.
The originally noisy playground fell silent when the photos started playing.
Everyone quietly watched these photos on the screen, as if seeing their own campus life, reminiscing about their own partners...
Some girls even started wiping tears secretly, sobbing, perhaps reminded of their own ended relationships.
As the photos played, people gradually guessed.
The senior brother and sister in the video had been together since high school, got into the same university, and then had a four-year long relationship, remaining constant and unchanging.
If one wins a person's heart, they'll stay together until old age.
Finally, the photos changed to them wearing graduation gowns for their graduation photos...
At this point, the timer above also finally ended.
All the photos shrunk and shrunk again, converging into a sea of photos.
Click, the image finally froze.
That number appeared again.
1453.
1453 again.
Earlier, there were 1453 strangers, and now there were 1453 photos.
Many students didn't understand what this number meant.
In the entire scene, only one person understood the meaning of this number.
That person was Su Ruochu.
She and Chen Fan had confirmed their relationship on July 5, before the college entrance exam.
She remembered clearly, it rained heavily that night.
That night, she was inexplicably compelled to secretly go see Chen Fan.
Before going, she told herself she was just concerned about a classmate, and if Chen Fan didn't have a raincoat, she would give him hers and come back immediately.
That night, through the window, she saw another side of Chen Fan for the first time.
He was sitting in front of the computer, his fingers flying over the keyboard, his gaze focused and mysterious.
For the first time, Su Ruochu felt that a boy could be so handsome when seriously working.
That night, Chen Fan completed the development of Yuming.com on Zhou Honghai's computer.
That night, facing Chen Fan's confession, her heart was beating wildly, her little face flushed hot, and she wanted nothing more than to find a place to hide.
She wanted to refuse, but looking at Chen Fan's passionate eyes, she couldn't say the words of rejection.
She knew she could no longer deceive her own heart.
"Do I have any other choice?" was how she responded at the time.
"That's great, Ruochu agreed."
"Ruochu agreed to be my girlfriend."
"I want the whole world to hear."
"I, Chen Fan, am the happiest person tonight."
Chen Fan was as happy as a child, picking her up and spinning her around several times.
That night was July 5, 2000.
That night, Su Ruochu gained a new identity, Chen Fan's girlfriend.
And from that night until today, June 27, 2004.
No more, no less.
Exactly 1453 days.