Unexpectedly, in the midst of the evening, she had a nightmare and have become afraid once more.

The cellphone on the bedside rang and rang, the time frozen at 1:05. In her dream, she checked out it with chilly eyes, detached.

The scene shifted again to her childhood.

When she was a small youngster, this man took her away from her mom’s marriage ceremony. He held the steering wheel with one hand and tried to maintain her from opening the door and leaping out with the opposite because the automobile sped by means of a thicket of reeds. Lastly, the automobile crashed into the reeds and he carried her out of the automobile. His eyes have been pink as he requested: ‘I’m your father, don’t you keep in mind me?’

Solely then did she notice that her father was an individual who typically appeared on tv.

He was additionally an individual her mom didn’t need to point out.

His world was glamorous and dazzling, however her mom had solely herself. Even their marriage was for the aim of discovering a “certified father” for her. So when this particular person appeared many times, on the nook of the college gate, within the shadows beneath the residence, and even on the airplane when she went overseas for a contest, her intuition was to refuse and preserve her distance.

All of the sudden she discovered herself in one other scene.

There was a person crawling on the bottom, struggling within the darkness. Behind him, there have been scenes of blood and the cries of crows. He crawled inch by inch, stretching out his hand however by no means in a position to attain it. He opened his mouth, silent however audible, and repeated again and again: ‘Why didn’t you reply? Why didn’t you save me?’

Why did you do that to me? Why did you watch me die?

It was like an accusation, but in addition like a curse, binding her with a thousand layers of remorse and reluctance. It suffocated her and dragged her to hell.

“I’m sorry, I… didn’t know…”

“Ye Zhen, get up, don’t cry, it’s okay. It’s okay Ye Zhen, I’m right here.”

Ye Zhen abruptly opened her eyes, grabbed her chest and gasped for air. Her throat felt sore and painful, as if somebody was strangling her, making it unimaginable for her to even retch.

“Are you feeling unwell? Right here, drink some water.” Somebody helped her to sit down up and handed her a glass of heat water. Ye Zhen instinctively grabbed the particular person’s hand and slowly glanced over, realizing after a second that it was Rongcheng Jue.

“Mint water,” he mentioned thoughtfully, “drink some. It gained’t damage your throat.”

Ye Zhen took the water and drank it in small sips. Rongcheng Jue noticed that she was wonderful and breathed a sigh of aid. He mentioned ruefully, “Did you might have a nightmare due to what occurred in the course of the day? I’m sorry, it’s all my fault for being too smug. I might be extra cautious subsequent time.”

Ye Zhen shook her head, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.

Rongcheng Jue thought that Ye Zhen didn’t need to speak to him anymore. He slumped his shoulders and checked out her for some time. All of the sudden, he requested earnestly, “Do you suppose that I’m a really informal and sticky particular person, identical to these in president novels, for no cause?

Um, can she say that it’s true to some extent?

As if he understood the look in Ye Zhen’s eyes, Rongcheng Jue mentioned indignantly, “I’m not like that in any respect. I’ve mentioned earlier than that I hate these issues, how may I be like that? It’s clearly as a result of—”

Hmm? Ye Zhen raised her eyebrows and checked out him.

“—As a result of Professor Lin entrusted me with taking care of you!”

“…..”

Rongcheng Jue continued significantly, “My father is an effective buddy of your mentor, Professor Lin. So we might be thought of senior brothers and sisters. Because you got here to Rongcheng to check, after all I ought to care for you as a senior.”

Senior and junior siblings? All of the sudden, Ye Zhen understood what Rongcheng Jue was making an attempt to cover.

Rongcheng Jue’s father and Professor Lin are certainly good buddies, and Ye Zhen knew about it six or seven years in the past. The explanation was that Professor Lin was as soon as requested by Rong Chengyu’s father to care for a pupil who was not on the employees and assist him with maths.

It was fairly amusing that Professor Lin, who is without doubt one of the world’s main mathematicians, was requested to assist a pupil with maths. What was much more amusing was that when he realized that the scholar couldn’t sustain together with his stage of instructing, he promptly dumped him on Ye Zhen, who had simply joined the maths division, and requested her to offer him some primary remedial programs on-line.

This pupil was none apart from Rongcheng Jue.

At the moment, Rongcheng Jue had simply returned from learning at a prime college within the UK, however his maths expertise have been at most on the center college stage. Ye Zhen, as a grasp of arithmetic, was additionally overqualified for the job. However luckily, this pupil was very well mannered and all the time referred to as her “jie” (sister) on-line, which made up for Ye Zhen’s discomfort about being a younger pupil – she was solely sixteen or seventeen years previous on the time and, though she was pursuing a grasp’s diploma, nobody at Hua College was prepared to name her jie.

Only for the sake of this jie, Ye Zhen taught him with additional care.

Nonetheless, since she and Rongcheng Jue had by no means met in particular person, she had all the time assumed that Rongcheng Jue didn’t know who she was. She didn’t come to Rongcheng firm for fame or fortune, so after all she didn’t must hug his thigh, so she pretended to not know him.

Unexpectedly, it seems that Rongcheng Jue knew about it.

It appears that he’s nonetheless holding on to this studying expertise.

However she didn’t know if he was displaying such “concern” for her as a result of he was grateful for her steerage, or if he needed to reclaim some advantages she might need taken from him…

With a faint smile on her face, Ye Zhen checked out Rongcheng Jue, making him really feel uneasy. He thought she might need came upon one thing, however he thought it was unimaginable. So he requested tentatively, “What are you laughing at? Do you suppose I’m mendacity to you?”

Ye Zhen was glad to fake to be confused with him, so she shook her head and pointed at her throat, reminding him that she couldn’t communicate.

“Oh,” Rongcheng Jue mentioned, feeling relieved that he hadn’t revealed something. He watched as Ye Zhen completed ingesting her water and lay again down on the mattress. However his gaze all the time remained on the lamp, so he requested, “Don’t you need to flip off the sunshine and fall asleep?”

Ye Zhen hesitated for some time after which nodded at him.

“Don’t be afraid,” Rongcheng Jue mentioned as he clasped his fingers and recited a Buddhist mantra, “‘Eliminating demons and upholding justice’, this senior brother is an expert.”

“Pfft—”

“Actually, once I was ten years previous, I actually went to the Shaolin Temple to study martial arts. I went with actor Ye Yi when he was filming ‘Shaoshi Mountain’”.

Ye Zhen’s smile pale, and he or she lifted her head to take a look at him.

Rongcheng Jue thought she wouldn’t imagine it, so he simply meditated on the spot and mentioned, “The Buddha mentioned that every one mantras can subdue demons and drive out ghosts. All of the heavenly dragons and guardians bow down in reverence, and all of the demons and ghosts submit. Don’t be afraid, junior sister. This senior brother will now recite a passage from the ‘Coronary heart Sutra’* for you. Hear fastidiously.

‘Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, whereas practising profound Prajna Paramita’—”

—Notice that every one 5 skandhas are empty, and transcend all afflictions and sufferings.

She will really recite it too.

The Buddha mentioned, “To talk of all dharma (phenomena), it’s by no means other than the 2 phrases of trigger and situation.”*

[TL/N: Means that everything has a cause and an effect and everything is interconnected.]

Mathematicians say that with over 6 billion folks on the earth and a mean life expectancy of 30,000 days, the chance of two strangers assembly is 0.00487.

If you happen to preserve assembly somebody, there should be a mandatory situation between you that isn’t coincidental, even when you didn’t learn about it earlier than.

Normally, we name it destiny.

TL: The ‘Coronary heart Sutra’ is without doubt one of the most generally recited and studied texts in Mahayana Buddhism.

Translator ramblings^^

ooofff I want I had one thing as dramatic as all these ao3 authors (￣▽￣*)ゞ However, mine is simply me procrastinating my schoolwork and scrambling to complete it to not fail my courses. So, that’s why I needed to put my translating on maintain to focus on that… I didn’t even know replace it to you guys, trigger this was so sudden. Can anyone inform me what I ought to do or make to be able to talk extra simply with yal ( ◡‿◡ *)

Properly what occurred has occurred, however I’ll attempt to be extra constant guys… (i hope so).

Additionally I figured that yall wouldn’t be that occupied with buddhist scriptures, so I didn’t clarify these phrases. However, if you wish to find out about it simply search the ‘Coronary heart Sutra’^^

see u subsequent time, bye<3