Chapter 10 The Weight of Her Words
I started regretting that I stopped to talk to her that day.
Tu Xuan's words seemed to carry some kind of spell. They burned themselves into my heart and left deep marks.
She wanted me to live well in Mu Weiyi's place, but we were never close sisters. Her words gave me no strength—only more pressure.
During that time, nightmares came almost every night. I dreamed of the train station square where I lost her. I dreamed she met something terrible. I dreamed she stood covered in blood, accusing me of my crime.
I barely slept. During the day I felt drained. My monthly exam scores dropped sharply.
The homeroom teacher talked to me and said that if it kept going, she would call my parents. Only then did I wake up and force myself to pick up my exercise books again.
I couldn't bear to disappoint them—not because I loved them.
But because they held the one thing that mattered most to me.
I pushed through, chasing the pace. When I had no energy, I drank coffee like crazy. I ignored the side effects my body suffered. At least by the final exam, I climbed back to the top of the class.
My parents were relieved. When they saw my dark circles, they only sighed that the pressure at City No.1 High was too heavy.
Then they signed me up for another cram school.