After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 85

Lu Yaoyi and a few of her classmates were walking further away with the flow of people heading to the teaching building.

Jiang Youli followed them silently.

She wasn’t afraid that Capital High School was someone else’s territory; she was only afraid that she would make Lu Yaoyi angrier and unhappier, so she didn’t dare to rashly go forward and bother her again.

A breeze blew.

Jiang Youli slowly stopped and stood still, watching Lu Yaoyi walk into the teaching building.

Lu Yaoyi didn’t turn to look at her once, even when she disappeared from view.

She lowered her eyes in disappointment and sighed.

Regret was useless now; she knew it was all her own fault.

That damned pride was nothing in front of the person she liked.

Sigh…

Time passed by, second by second.

Jiang Youli sat in the garden, waiting from bright sunshine until sunset.

Lu Yaoyi never came out of the teaching building again.

When school let out,

Jiang Youli stood by the garden path, waiting for Lu Yaoyi to come out.

A little while later,

Lu Yaoyi and a few of her Omega classmates appeared in Jiang Youli’s sight.

This time, Jiang Youli didn’t rush toward her.

Instead, she stood silently by the garden path, watching Lu Yaoyi walk past her without even giving her a glance, and then followed far behind her.

“…”

Jiang Youli had thought Lu Yaoyi would go home after school.

She didn’t expect her to go to the cafeteria.

She followed Lu Yaoyi into the cafeteria and found an empty seat far away from her. The air was filled with the scents of various delicious foods.

Her stomach rumbled in protest from hunger.

By the way…

She hadn’t eaten anything all day.

The cafeteria was crowded.

Jiang Youli was too lazy to wait in line, so she didn’t go to the counter to buy food.

Soon,

Lu Yaoyi finished her meal and left the cafeteria with her Omega classmates.

Jiang Youli quickly followed them out.

She watched Lu Yaoyi and her classmates go to the field for a walk, and then watched Lu Yaoyi go back to the teaching building. It was then that she realized Lu Yaoyi must be attending evening self-study.

Evening self-study at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School was only for boarding students.

However, day students could also attend if they wanted to.

Lu Yaoyi had never attended evening self-study when she was at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School. Could it be that Lu Yaoyi was a boarding student at Capital High School? With this question in mind, Jiang Youli sat in the garden until evening self-study started. Later, she was so hungry that she ran to the store.

Jiang Youli bought a bowl of instant noodles at the store and charged her phone.

Then she went back to the garden to wait for Lu Yaoyi to finish evening self-study.

The evening breeze was gentle, and the stars were bright.

Jiang Youli looked at the bright moon hanging in the night sky and called Li Henian.

She told Li Henian that she might not be returning to Jiangcheng for the next few days. Li Henian agreed and told her to be careful. In the end, he transferred some money to her, telling her not to go through a hard time by herself. She talked with Li Henian for a while before hanging up.

Time flew, and it was soon 9 p.m.

Evening self-study at Capital High School ended.

Jiang Youli watched Lu Yaoyi walk toward the female Omega dorm building in the hazy moonlight.

So Lu Yaoyi really was a boarding student at Capital High School.

Seeing Lu Yaoyi and a few of her Omega classmates about to enter the dorm building gate,

Jiang Youli finally couldn’t help but call out, “Lu Yaoyi!”

The students around them, including Lu Yaoyi’s classmates, all looked at Jiang Youli with curiosity. However, Lu Yaoyi walked into the dorm building gate as if she hadn’t heard anything.

Jiang Youli looked at Lu Yaoyi’s resolute back and was immediately consumed by disappointment.

She sighed.

She walked with heavy steps to a bench next to the dorm building and sat down.

Since Lu Yaoyi wouldn’t talk to her,

She would wait until Lu Yaoyi was willing to.

The temperature was very low at night.

The cold wind whistled past, instantly chilling her already not-so-warm body.

Jiang Youli shivered and pulled her thin jacket tighter around her.

As long as she was in the same place as Lu Yaoyi, she was willing to sit there alone all night.

She had to let Lu Yaoyi see her sincerity.

Maybe…

Lu Yaoyi would stop being angry and be willing to talk to her.

After an unknown amount of time,

Jiang Youli yawned on the bench and was so tired that she decided to just sleep on the bench for the night. She hugged her arms and curled up on the bench, slowly closing her eyes. In such a cold and difficult environment, she was so tired that she fell asleep.

The next day, the sky was bright.

Jiang Youli was suddenly awakened from her sleep by the loud morning broadcast.

Beautiful melodies echoed throughout Capital High School.

Jiang Youli opened her eyes sleepily. The night before, she had slept with an aching back and a cold body, waking up and falling back asleep, but at least she got some rest.

She slowly sat up from the bench and rubbed her sore shoulders.

Then she looked toward the dorm building.

She saw Omegas continuously coming out of the dorm building and walking toward the teaching building.

A little while later,

Lu Yaoyi walked out of the dorm building with a few of her Omega classmates.

Jiang Youli still followed far behind, watching Lu Yaoyi walk into the teaching building.

The class bell rang, and morning self-study began.

Jiang Youli ran to the store and bought a set of toiletries, charged her phone that was running low on battery, and then went to the female Alpha bathroom in the teaching building to wash up.

After tidying herself up, she returned to the garden next to the teaching building and continued to wait.

If she had to wait for a day, then she would wait for two.

She would wait until Lu Yaoyi was willing to talk to her.

In the afternoon,

Jiang Youli saw Lu Yaoyi’s whole class having a physical education class on the field.

She sat on the bleachers, looking at Lu Yaoyi under the sun.

A beautiful smile was on her face.

There were several classes having PE on the field, and some students were also sitting on the bleachers. Among the many people, Jiang Youli’s gaze was fixed on Lu Yaoyi.

Since she was a child, Lu Yaoyi had always been the most beautiful person in her heart.

She just never admitted it out loud.

A little while later,

Two female Alphas suddenly sat down not far from Jiang Youli.

Jiang Youli didn’t want to eavesdrop on their conversation.

But when she heard Lu Yaoyi’s name, she couldn’t help but perk up her ears.

“Hey… Lu Yaoyi is really beautiful, worthy of being an S-class Omega…”

“I can’t believe she actually transferred to our school.”

“A lot of Alphas in our school want to go after her now.”

“I want to go after her, too.”

“Forget about it, you’re not worthy of her.”

“I wonder what kind of Alpha she likes. I feel like no Alpha in our school is worthy of her, not even that S-class Alpha senior.”

“Lu Yaoyi is so excellent, the Alpha who can stand beside her must not be bad.”

“Definitely.”

“The Alpha that an Omega like her likes must be excellent.”

“I’m so jealous of the Alpha she’ll like…”

…

Jiang Youli took their words to heart.

She lowered her eyes slightly, lost in thought.

That’s right, the Alpha who can stand beside Lu Yaoyi must not be bad.

How could a troublemaker Alpha like her be worthy of Lu Yaoyi? She used to bully Lu Yaoyi so much and was so mean and harsh toward her. What right did she have to like Lu Yaoyi now?

She looked up at Lu Yaoyi, who was bathed in sunlight.

Lu Yaoyi…

Lu Yaoyi was like a ray of light, illuminating her obscure world that was covered in a heavy fog.

She just floated through every day at school, and she often hung out with her useless friends all over Jiangcheng. She was idle every day, had no goals, and didn’t know what she wanted to do in the future. Someone like her was simply not worthy of such an excellent and amazing person like Lu Yaoyi.

Even if she and Lu Yaoyi had a 99% pheromone match and were a perfect match,

She was still not worthy of Lu Yaoyi.

Someone like her didn’t even deserve to say she liked Lu Yaoyi.

Suddenly,

She seemed to understand something.

The most important thing she should do now was to make herself better and more excellent. She had to become as good as Lu Yaoyi. She had to make Lu Yaoyi her goal and work toward her, instead of wasting her time and youth every day.

She used to think that every day was just another day, and it was meaningless.

But now that she had a direction, everything seemed to become meaningful.

She had to work hard to become an Alpha worthy of Lu Yaoyi.

Only then would she have the confidence to stand by Lu Yaoyi’s side.

And walk alongside Lu Yaoyi.

Lu Yaoyi was sitting alone on a bench next to the field, resting.

Just then, someone suddenly ran up to her.

“Student Lu, someone named Dingding asked me to give you this note.”

The person handed the note to Lu Yaoyi and left.

Lu Yaoyi thought about it and then opened the note.

The familiar handwriting came into view.

—Lu Yaoyi, I’m going back.

—Before I go back, there are some things I want to tell you.

—Could you please come and meet me by the Sycamore Avenue?

—I’m begging you.

—Please, for my dad’s sake?

Please…

This was the first time Jiang Youli had ever humbled herself and begged her.

Actually…

The moment Jiang Youli appeared in front of her,

Her heart softened.

Jiang Youli waited for a long time on Sycamore Avenue at Capital High School, but Lu Yaoyi never came to see her. She had thought that Lu Yaoyi wouldn’t come today.

But she never expected…

That she would finally get to see the person she wanted to see.

Lu Yaoyi walked through the long Sycamore Avenue and stopped in front of Jiang Youli.

The two looked at each other.

Jiang Youli’s face was filled with visible joy, and the corners of her lips couldn’t help but turn up slightly. “Lu Yaoyi… you finally came to see me.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Why are you looking for me?”

Jiang Youli: “I’m sorry.”

Lu Yaoyi was slightly stunned.

“I’m formally apologizing to you for everything I did to you in the past,” Jiang Youli said and bowed deeply. “I shouldn’t have bullied you so much, and I was always so mean to you. I don’t expect you to forgive me, I just came to apologize to you.”

Lu Yaoyi stared at the sincere look on Jiang Youli’s face and didn’t say anything.

Jiang Youli: “There’s one more thing I want to clear up.”

She swallowed and continued, “I don’t like Pei Jingning, and I wasn’t really going to mark her. The truth is, the confession was a dare I lost to Huaian and the others. Huaian had been trying to set me up with Pei Jingning for a while, so they made me confess to Pei Jingning in front of the whole school.”

“In the end, I still owe Pei Jingning a formal apology.”

“Huaian and the others also owe Pei Jingning a formal apology.”

She could have stopped it.

But for the sake of keeping her promise, she put an innocent person like Pei Jingning in the spotlight.

In the end, it was all her fault for being too selfish.

If it weren’t for the dare, Lu Yaoyi wouldn’t have misunderstood her, and things between her and Lu Yaoyi wouldn’t have turned out like this. Pei Jingning also wouldn’t have become the topic of conversation for the entire school because of her. She didn’t care about what others thought, but she ignored whether Pei Jingning did.

She had to take all the responsibility and give an explanation to the whole school.

And also an explanation to Pei Jingning.

She was wrong.

She had to atone for her sins.

“Yaoyao!”

Just then, a girl’s voice suddenly came from not far away.

Lu Yaoyi looked back.

Jiang Youli heard the voice and looked up into the distance.

She heard the girl call out, “The PE teacher told us to go back and gather!”

Lu Yaoyi nodded.

Then she looked back at Jiang Youli. “I know.”

Jiang Youli: “I…”

Lu Yaoyi: “Is there anything else you want to say?”

The words I like you were on the tip of her tongue, but she forced them back down.

Jiang Youli’s eyes felt hot. “You have to take good care of yourself here.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli: “Goodbye.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Goodbye.”

With that, she turned and left.

Jiang Youli watched Lu Yaoyi’s retreating figure, and her eyes gradually became moist. All she wanted to do now was to remember Lu Yaoyi’s back and engrave the person she liked in her heart forever.

Her nose felt sour, and she called out, “Lu Yaoyi!”

Lu Yaoyi slowly stopped but didn’t turn back.

Jiang Youli: “I will definitely work hard to get into a university in the capital!”

Lu Yaoyi’s heart warmed.

She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to bear leaving Jiang Youli, so she kept walking forward.

Jiang Youli watched Lu Yaoyi walk away until she completely disappeared before turning to leave.

The two of them walked away in different directions.

Jiang Youli smiled with tears in her eyes, looking at the bright sun in the distance.

Goodbye didn’t mean they would never see each other again.

It meant they would meet again.

She would definitely become a better person and come to the capital to find Lu Yaoyi.

For sure.