DJPWNK Extra six

College Memories 

On Saturday, in a classroom at A Medical University.

The free souls trapped in the classroom longed for the outside world while being forced to listen to the teacher on the stage explain mundane medical knowledge.

Perhaps there was nothing more frustrating than taking classes on weekends, especially when it was an elective course, the number of students who attentively listen to lectures was reduced by half.

During the class, some students reviewed and prepared for their major exams, while some tried to sneakily play with their phones, leaving only one ear to listen for any crucial exam information.

But today was slightly different – a small portion of the students were admiring the teacher giving the lecture, who looked exceptionally good on the podium.

A young man wearing a light grey trendy trench coat held up his phone and took a picture of the lecturer on the stage. The student sitting beside him, who had one earphone in his ear, thought he was taking a picture of the exam tips and nudged him with his elbow, saying, “Hey, did the teacher just give some tips for— ”

However, before he could finish his sentence, he froze after seeing his classmate’s face. The young man had a terrified expression as he trembled and stuttered, “Prof… Professor Shen?”

“Hush.” Shen Fangyu made a gesture, calmly locked the student’s phone screen and said, “Pay attention to the lecture.”

The student playing games in class was shocked.

He had just started working on a college innovation project in the lab this year, and his mentor was Shen Fangyu. Now he was caught red-handed by his own teacher, and he was almost going crazy.

Shen Fangyu did not expect to have an unexpected gain while coming to listen to Jiang Xu’s lecture. After the bell rang at the end of class, he casually said, “Come to my office tomorrow and explain the situation to me,” and then left the despairing student, leisurely walking to the lectern.

“Teacher Jiang, “ he handed Jiang Xu the textbook with two amusement park tickets clipped to it, “I have a question to ask you.”

The teacher on the lectern was dignified, the student was humble, so no one noticed the question that Shen Fangyu asked Jiang Xu:

“Teacher Jiang, can you spare some time to go with me to celebrate my wedding anniversary?”

Jiang Xu was packing up his things with his head down and smiled slightly when he heard this.

He glanced at the book in Shen Fangyu’s hand, “It’s quite professional.”

“This is not my book,” Shen Fangyu said, “it belongs to one of my students. He doesn’t read it anyway, so I just picked it up and flipped through it.”

As he spoke, he flipped through the book in front of Jiang Xu, “I’ve never seen such a clean book before,” he looked at Jiang Xu’s heavily annotated textbook and said to him, “Your prep book is more beautiful.”

Jiang Xu handed him his book, “Then you take it and read it.”

Shen Fangyu stood below the lectern, took the book and glanced at it, then looked up at Jiang Xu, “Hey Jiang Xu, don’t you think this classroom looks familiar?”

Jiang Xu thought for a while and shook his head.

Shen Fangyu said, “It seems like this is the classroom where you returned my clothes.”

Jiang Xu asked, “Clothes?”

Although Jiang Xu couldn’t remember whether this was the classroom or not, Shen Fangyu’s words did remind him of something.

It seemed to be winter at that time. The examination schedule arranged by the academic affairs office was a bit unreasonable. There were two exams scheduled too close together, and there was very little time left in between.

As usual, Jiang Xu and Shen Fangyu were the last to leave the classroom. As the night grew darker and the time to the morning exam grew shorter, Jiang Xu’s mind became increasingly dazed. He had washed his face with cold water countless times but it didn’t help.

He actually wanted to go back to sleep, but every time he turned his head, he could see Shen Fangyu still holding a pen and scribbling in his book, looking very alert.

So Jiang Xu, who was competitive, forcibly stopped himself from going back to the dormitory and remained in the classroom.

As a result, Shen Fangyu chuckled from behind him and said nonchalantly, “If you want to go back to sleep, then sleep. It’s okay, I won’t look down on you.”

Jiang Xu was so angry that he immediately tore a piece of scrap paper and wrote “Shen Fangyu is an idiot” on it. However, before he finished writing the words, Jiang Xusi was unable to resist the invasion of drowsiness and fell asleep completely.

Shen Fangyu watched as the person in front of him nodded off, and finally collapsed and fell asleep. He felt gratified as he put away his book, then he walked to Jiang Xu, observing his sleeping face and the messy scrap of paper with writing on it.

He lazily folded the paper, put it back and chuckled, “How silly.”

He said, “I drank three cups of coffee just to beat you.”

However, Jiang Xu was fast asleep and didn’t hear a word.

With a triumphant smile, Shen Fangyu picked up his bag and headed back. However, when he reached the door, he suddenly stopped and walked back to Jiang Xu. He took off his coat and threw it on him before leaving again.

Four hours later, at the exam hall for “Medical Statistics” at A Medical University, Jiang Xu walked in with his bag and a cloak in his hands. Instead of hurrying to find his seat, he looked around the exam hall.

At that time, Shen Fangyu was sitting at his own seat, twirling his pen. When he saw the cloak that Jiang Xu was holding, a smile appeared in his eyes.

“Who is he looking at?” Huo Chengchun, who was sitting next to Shen Fangyu, suppressed the chaos in his heart and said calmly, “Why do I feel like he’s looking at me?”

“He shouldn’t be,” analyzed Li Yalei behind him, “from this angle, it should be me.”

At that time, Shen Fangyu was unaware of the betrayal of his two roommates and thought they were just chatting. So he followed along and said, “I bet he’s looking at me.”

But before he could make a bet, Jiang Xu walked straight to Shen Fangyu and threw the cloak at him.

“Couldn’t you atleast wash it for me?’ Shen Fangyu lazily leaned against his seat and tried to provoke him.

Jiang Xu looked down at him, took out his campus card and slapped it on Shen Fangyu’s table. “Take it to the laundry room and wash it yourself.”

Shen Fangyu’s gaze moved from Jiang Xu’s face to the card. Jiang Xu’s photo on the card was cold and expressionless, just like the person in front of him.

He picked up the card and absent-mindedly tapped it on the table. “If I don’t give it back to you, how are you going to eat?”

Jiang Xu ignored him and went to his exam seat. Shen Fangyu glanced at his back, picked up the cloak and casually put them on, but as soon as he picked up his pen, he smelled the distinct scent of laundry detergent.

Such winter coaks didn’t dry easily, and Jiang Xu most likely washed and dried it.

‘I should have never covered him,’ Shen Fangyu thought. The clean and dry coat meant Jiang Xu slept for less than two hours that night.

Shen Fangyu guessed correctly; Jiang Xu hardly slept that night, so he relied solely on his perseverance to finish the exam. Therefore, he couldn’t remember which exam hall he was in that day.

Thinking about this, Jiang Xu became a little angry. “You dare to mention that day.”

“Why wouldn’t I mention it? I had good intentions.” They chatted as they drove towards the amusement park, and Jiang Xu pointed to the towering bungee jumping platform in the distance. “Is this also your good intentions?”

Although doing something that gets the heart racing was novel, other people’s wedding anniversaries were not as thrilling.

It never occurred to Jiang Xu that the surprise Shen Fangyu had been repeatedly mentioning for the past few days was an invitation to go bungee jumping.

“Jiang Xu, your memory is really bad.”

Shen Fangyu reminded: “Do you remember what we said on New Year’s Day in our freshman year?”

Jiang Xu’s expression suddenly became subtle.

Medical students rarely have the opportunity to celebrate New Year’s Day because endless exams follow after the holiday.

But anyway, New Year’s Day was still a holiday, so the classmates who were reviewing in the class that day left earlier than usual.

By the time Jiang Xu noticed, he was the only one left in the classroom. He looked at his watch, it was 11:50 pm, ten minutes away from the new year.

He suddenly felt a little tired, so he temporarily put down the book in his hand, rubbed his temples, but then heard a sentence in his ear, “Aren’t you leaving yet?”

Shen Fangyu walked in with freshly brewed hot water and asked him while drinking, “It’s New Year’s Eve, don’t tell me you’re still studying?”

“I was about to leave.”

Jiang Xu glanced at him, and the meaning was obvious.

“Okay,” Shen Fangyu put down his cup, picked up his pen, and directly challenged him, “Then let’s stay here and study till we drop dead.”

For some reason, when Jiang Xu saw Shen Fangyu sitting down to review, his slightly restless heart due to New Year’s Eve suddenly calmed down.

The sound of the pen scratching the paper was constant, and Jiang Xu was about to concentrate on reading when Shen Fangyu suddenly said, “Jiang Xu, go to the corridor!”

Jiang Xu was surprised to see Shen Fangyu running very fast, and thinking that something had happened, he followed. But when he ran out, he found that Shen Fangyu was leaning on the railing of the corridor and looking at him with a smile, “You really came?”

Jiang Xu turned around to leave, but Shen Fangyu stopped him. He knocked on his watch which just pointed to twelve o’clock, and turned his head to shout towards the empty playground outside the corridor, “Jiang Xu, happy new year!”

There were very few people on the playground, and the cold winter wind quickly swallowed up Shen Fangyu’s voice. But his eyes were still full of smiles, “Can you shout as well?”

“What are you doing?” Jiang Xu asked.

“Let’s both relax,” Shen Fangyu said, “In the first ten minutes of the new year, I don’t want to study, I want to be peaceful.”

“Okay,” Jiang Xu said, putting his hand in his pocket and said, “Happy New Year.”

“Can you tell me your New Year’s wish?”

Jiang Xu said casually, “If I score higher than you, I’ll go bungee jumping.”

Shen Fangyu laughed, “Then you will never be able to bungee jump in your lifetime.”

Later, Jiang Xu did not go bungee jumping, because he accidentally tied with Shen Fangyu. Later, he had also forgotten about what had happened on the night before New Year’s Day.

———-

The valley was quiet, and the wind was fierce.

Tightly bound by elastic ropes and embracing each other, Shen Fangyu and Jiang Xu fell from a high altitude. The whistling wind passed by Jiang Xu’s ears, making it almost impossible for him to hear any other sound.

Extreme sports are always the best catalyst for adrenaline. The pounding heartbeat made the embrace even more intimate. Nineteen-year-old Jiang Xu probably never thought that the first time he bungee jumped would be with the person who said he would never be able to do it in his lifetime.

The surface of the water reflected a shadow where two merged into one.

The wind was cool on the body, but inside was hot and lively due to the hormonal fluctuations. The spirit was full of energy, and it was incredibly comfortable and easy to say many things at this moment.

Shen Fangyu sat in the recieving boat and leaned on Jiang Xu’s shoulder, saying, “Actually, I have been thinking recently. We had so many chances to fall in love, how did it take us so long to be together?”

Moreover, they had a child shortly after getting together, and they barely had any time alone together. Every day with Jiang Xu made him wish they could make it last longer.

Jiang Xu looked at the small black thermal underwear peeking out of Shen Fangyu’s rolled up pants and whispered jokingly, “Maybe it’s because you wear thermal underwear.”

Shen Fangyu laughed and the small boat swayed like ripples on their hearts.

“Jiang Xu, let’s do it again. If we could do it again….” He earnestly asked his lover, “Can we be together since we were eighteen?”