Chapter 28: Space is Too Unnatural!
Nie Qiu was enjoying the beautiful scenery of the immortal realm, her eyes wide with wonder, when she suddenly noticed the white mist begin to churn and move towards her. No matter how beautiful something is, when it rushes at you aggressively, it’s bound to make you feel scared.
Of course, Nie Qiu was an ordinary person, even though she had lived her life again. So, when the white mist churned and chased after her, Nie Qiu was so scared that she leaped up and bolted.
She ran until she was drenched in sweat, but the white mist still followed her. After a long time, Nie Qiu was too exhausted to run any further and had to stop, supporting herself with her hands on her knees. Seeing that the white mist had also stopped, she couldn’t help but sit down, panting, “Hoo, hoo, hoo, I really can’t run anymore.”
The white mist churned and twisted, then slowly began to shrink. It gradually reformed into a solid shape, a process so strange and dreamlike that Nie Qiu was dumbfounded. She didn’t consider herself a maiden in love or a naive child, but… this dream, no matter how she looked at it, didn’t seem like a dream she should be having.
They say you dream of what you think about during the day. She had never had a dream with such a strange, dreamlike quality. Her dreams were always about standing on a lectern, speaking eloquently. Although she felt this wasn’t her dream and was very confused, Nie Qiu had no desire to wake up. Perhaps the place was too beautiful, and the dream too fantastical.
With a ‘poof,’ the white mist finally solidified into a small entity. Nie Qiu walked forward, crouched down, and looked closely. It was a small, snow-white rabbit, but… this little rabbit was only as big as her palm.
Its fluffy appearance was incredibly cute. Seeing Nie Qiu, its eyes lit up, and it leaped three feet high, running towards Nie Qiu with a ‘jiji gugu’ sound, rubbing against Nie Qiu’s feet.
Nie Qiu smiled and crouched down, affectionately stroking the little rabbit’s small, fluffy head. It was so cute! A rabbit… a rabbit? Wait! A rabbit! “Are you that rabbit? The rabbit inside my necklace?”
The little rabbit looked at Nie Qiu with a confused expression, chirping a few ‘jiji gugu’ sounds at her.
Nie Qiu sighed helplessly, unable to understand the little rabbit’s ‘jiji gugu.’ She had no choice but to hold the little rabbit and lie down on the grassland. Looking at the blue sky, she murmured to the little rabbit how happy she was to have lived again, how happy she was to be able to study again, how happy she was to have met Nie Aifang, and how happy she was to have received a gift.
The sound of the alarm clock made Nie Qiu wonder. She stood up, wanting to wake herself up, but after trying several times, closing her eyes and opening them, then closing them again, she still saw the beautiful scenery, the gentle breeze, and the flowing stream.
Nie Qiu was stunned. She was clearly awake, yet the surrounding scenery hadn’t changed at all. Could it be… could it be… that she was going to live here forever?
Nie Qiu looked down at the little rabbit sleeping soundly in her arms and sighed helplessly. Perhaps, if she found the place where she entered, she could find a way out.
Nie Qiu followed her memory and quickly walked towards the place where she had arrived last night. As she walked, she could still hear the alarm clock ringing, making Nie Qiu even more anxious.
“Qiu Qiu, hurry up and get up. I’ve made breakfast and kept it warm in the pot. Eat it when you get up! After eating, hurry to school, or you’ll be late. I’m going to the factory to deliver plastic flowers.”
Nie Qiu opened her mouth, wanting to reply, “Okay,” but she found that the sound she made echoed endlessly here.
Nie Qiu was on the verge of tears. Being late, whether as a student or even as a teacher, she had never been late. How could she get out of here? How could she get out? How to get out!
Only now did she believe that she had truly entered this place.
“Nie Qiu, think about the necklace.”
Suddenly, a tender, childish voice rang out. Nie Qiu was about to turn her head when she suddenly appeared on the cabinet in her room. Her hands seemed to be holding something, alternating as if carrying it, yet her arms were clearly empty.
Nie Qiu smiled helplessly, climbed down from the cabinet, picked up the necklace from the ground, “This is truly magical!”
Nie Qiu knew she had encountered something magical. When she was in that beautiful place, she clearly heard someone say, “Think about the necklace.” She thought that perhaps that sentence was what brought her back. Everyone has a reflex arc in their brain, just like when someone calls your name, your first reaction is that they are calling you. The sentence that person said, with the keyword “necklace,” was transmitted to Nie Qiu’s brain simultaneously. At that moment, she was thinking about the necklace, and she wanted to come back so badly that she appeared here.
Nie Qiu took off the clothes she was wearing, found a new outfit from the wardrobe, and changed with a smile, carefully placing the necklace in her pocket purse. Then she walked out of the room. Nie Aifang had indeed already left. Nie Qiu went to the kitchen, got water to wash her face and brush her teeth, then took a bowl and drank a bowl of hot water. Drinking a glass of hot water every morning after waking up was a habit Nie Qiu had always maintained. After drinking the water, Nie Qiu would pick up her schoolbag and head to school, eating breakfast as she walked.
There was nothing wrong with the repetitive daily life. What surprised Nie Qiu was that they had returned home very late last night, around one in the morning. She had barely slept all night, yet she felt energetic, with a hint of excitement compared to her grogginess yesterday.
It was almost time for class when Nie Qiu stepped through the school gate and arrived at their third-grade teaching building. She saw a bustling crowd at the notice board below the building. Nie Qiu was a bit confused. It wasn’t Monday, and there was no flag-raising ceremony or morning assembly. It was almost time for class, so why were so many people still outside?
“Is Chen Li’s family really on the verge of bankruptcy?”
“Isn’t it? I heard Chen Li’s elder sister’s husband divorced her and took most of the clients with him.”
“I heard my mom say yesterday that our family is no longer cooperating with the Chen family. I thought Dad had found a better business partner, but I didn’t expect the Chen family to be on the verge of bankruptcy.”
“Let’s see how much longer she can be arrogant. Every time I see her strutting around, I grit my teeth in hatred!”
Nie Qiu finished the last bite of her steamed bun, took out a tissue to wipe her mouth. She hadn’t expected Chen Li to actually agree to a bet with her! That girl really speaks without thinking. More than seventy percent of the students in this school are wealthy, not extremely rich, but at least a hundred times better off than Nie Qiu’s current family. Besides doing business, there’s no other quick way to make money.
This means that most people here are children of business people. Once the news of bankruptcy comes out, it might affect more than just business.
