meow if you are happy

Chapter 86 Late Apology

Fortunately, time and years have given Chi Yan enough courage, and he can face the past head-on: "It's all in the past, and I have let go. So, please forget the past and live a good life."

Cheng Fei apologized repeatedly and left. Although Xiao Xiu was confused, she roughly understood some things. She held Chi Yan's arm tightly and said, "I will protect you from now on!"

Chi Yan looked at the serious look on the girl in front of him and finally smiled. He nodded: "Yes, I know."

"Don't come here again." Xiao Xiu leaned into Chi Yan's arms, "I don't like it here!"

——There are memories here that make Chi Yan unhappy.

Chi Yan didn't say anything more, but took Xiao Xiu out of the school gate.

As soon as the two of them walked out of the school gate, they saw Qin Mingming standing outside. She was wearing a police uniform and seemed to be on duty.

"Chi Yan." Chi Yan was still thinking about whether going over to say hello so rashly would interfere with Qin Mingming's work, but who knew that she was the first to say hello to him.

"Sister Mingming, why are you here?" Xiaoxiu didn't expect to see Qin Mingming in this place.

This was the first time Qin Mingming saw Chi Yan and Xiao Xiu after Valentine's Day. Her eyes swept over the two people, and her tone was no different from before: "Recently, a video of campus bullying on the Internet has attracted widespread attention. Schools will have relevant safety lectures, and my alma mater just invited me to come."

"That's it." Chi Yan looked back at the school behind him thoughtfully.

"That person just now must be Cheng Fei." Qin Mingming always likes to throw straight balls, "I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, I just happened to come over and heard what you were talking about."

"It's him." Chi Yan nodded.

"Chi Yan." Qin Mingming looked at Chi Yan in front of him, and finally plucked up the courage to say what he wanted to say, "Actually, I have always wanted to apologize to you, but seeing that you have not investigated the past at all, I am afraid that you will take the initiative to apologize. I want to annoy you. Things have happened, and I can’t pretend that what I did didn’t exist. So no matter whether you hate me or not, even if you don’t want to see me again... I have to apologize to you today."

Chi Yan was stunned and quickly understood what she meant: "You don't need to apologize. You were not the one who bullied me at that time."

"I also want to apologize. As a bystander in this kind of thing, I know that what they did is wrong, but I don't have the courage to stand up. In that case, silence is becoming an accomplice. So, I'm sorry, Chi Yan. Back then I don’t have the courage to stand up, and now I have the audacity to say that I am your friend, I..."

"It's not your responsibility to apologize for this." Chi Yan interrupted Qin Mingming.

——How could it be your turn to apologize?
After that incident happened, Chi Yan went to see the director of the Education Department.He thought someone would listen to his appeal, but who knew that the head of the teaching office, who always regarded himself as fair, looked at him with suspicion: "Chi Yan, was it really not you who did that?"

Chi Yan remembers very clearly that that day, the director of the teaching office wore a pearl necklace, which was very elegant.He kept staring at the necklace, his heart sinking.The dean's pearl necklace and her plain voice were always etched in his mind.

"Shouldn't the adults really be responsible for this matter?" Chi Yan's tone was no longer as calm as before, "Neither the school nor the teachers intend to help me, the truth is for them It doesn't matter how much a stigmatized student can lose, what matters is the grades of other people and the admission rate of the whole school. Bullying? In their eyes, it is just adolescence. And my mother I left me to my grandpa a long time ago, and I didn’t fulfill my duties as a parent. Grandpa is getting old, and I don’t want him to worry. Even if that person apologized to me later, so what, his light words can destroy his past. What have you done?"

Chi Yan seemed to realize that he was out of control. He took a deep breath to calm down completely: "You are different from them. You have already shouldered the anger that does not belong to you for me, so you don't need to apologize to me anymore, and In that situation back then, if you really stood up, you would only be bullied. You have helped me a lot, including Zhang Yi last time. I also want to thank you."

——He returned to the cold and distant self, as if the brief mood swing just now did not exist at all.

Qin Mingming still felt sorry: "Zhang Yi's matter, that's my responsibility."

Chi Yan shook his head: "No. It was you who made me understand that when I need help, I have to shout out. Sometimes, asking for help and support from others is also a kind of courage."

Qin Mingming knew that Chi Yan had really let go of the past when he said this, and she finally let go of the burden in her heart and smiled.

Just when Qin Mingming's colleague came to find her, she followed her colleague back to the police station. Chi Yan took Xiao Xiu back to his grandfather's house to get the packed books. Xiao Xiu was surprisingly quiet along the way.

When she returned to her grandfather's house, Xiao Xiu suddenly stretched out her hands and hugged Chi Yan tightly. Not only that, she suddenly stretched out her tongue and licked Chi Yan's face again and again.

Chi Yan blushed: "Xiaoxiu! What are you doing!"

Xiao Xiu finished licking his face, then hugged Chi Yan hard, and patted Chi Yan's back gently with both hands: "It's passed, it's passed, Chi Yan, don't be afraid, Chi Yan is good, don't be sad, Xiao Xiu is here ."

"I will protect you." After saying this, Xiao Xiu stuck out his tongue and licked Chi Yan's face.

Chi Yan blushed like a ripe tomato, "This... is not good."

Xiao Xiu let go of Chi Yan's hand and looked innocent: "What's wrong? I just want to comfort you."

Only then did Chi Yan realize that Xiao Xiu was worried about him because of what he heard before.

"This is what my mother did to me when I was unhappy in Cat Country. Hold me tight and lick my face, and I will be super happy!" After Xiao Xiu finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Chi Yan with his big eyes blinking, "Then I lick Chi Yan's face, is Chi Yan also happy?"

……

How would Chi Yan answer this question?

After returning from their hometown, Chi Yan and Xiao Xiu's life returned to how it was before.I get up early every day, have breakfast and go to Pond Bookstore.In the bookstore, Chi Yan was reading and Xiao Xiu was guarding the counter waiting for customers to arrive.Occasionally, the editor of the publishing house would come to the bookstore with a lot of delicious food to chat with Chi Yan.

It is said to be a chat, but it is actually a unilateral request from the editor of the publishing house.

"Author! When are you going to start this trap?"

"Author, the new year, the new KPIs, we need you!"

Occasionally, Xiao Xiu would help and say a few words: "Chi Yan~ Don't you like writing novels very much? You think she is so good, why don't you help her write one?"

Whenever this happens, Chi Yan will take out his pocket money and stuff it into Xiao Xiu's hand: "Would you like to buy some bread that you like?"

As soon as Xiao Xiu heard that he could eat his favorite bread, he immediately went outside, leaving the publishing editor alone looking at Chi Yan pitifully: "My dear, I will come again tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)