Chapter 58: The Reborn Kiss

“Huh… Wait?!”

What exactly was happening right now?

Bai YuYang’s mind completely short-circuited. As his thoughts slowly began to re-focus, he saw Mo Sishi, who had just tiptoed to kiss him, now taking two steps back.

She took a deep breath, seemingly trying to compose herself. She then placed the glasses and empty lunchbox she had been holding onto a small side table.

Next, she extended her index finger to lightly touch her lips, a gentle smile gracing her face as if savoring a memory.

This Mo Sishi was a completely different person from just moments ago!

Even in his daze, Bai YuYang finally understood!

“Si-Sishi?! You… you…”

“Mhm, that’s right, YuYang. I’m your Sishi, just as always.”

‘Just as always’—those words were incredibly direct. She had clearly been reborn!

Skipping the emotional reunion of crossing time and space, and omitting any casual greetings or inquiries.

All that remained was Bai YuYang’s incredulous retort: “Sishi, are you messing with my feelings, you know that?! I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to make you more confident. If you had your memories, you should have said so sooner!”

After all, that sudden kiss had already conveyed more than any warm greetings ever could!

Good heavens, he had spent an entire day pondering how to get Sishi to take off her glasses, only for this to happen? This… this didn’t seem like a loss at all.

And this way, the problem was fundamentally solved.

Once Bai YuYang had accepted this reality, Mo Sishi chuckled. “You’re scolding me! But you didn’t tell me either, did you? How did it feel, YuYang, constantly teasing me these past two days? Was it incredibly satisfying?”

Mo Sishi had completely reverted to her former confident, vibrant self.

She leaned close to Bai YuYang like a mischievous imp, brushing aside her bangs with her hand and gazing at him with her stunning crimson eyes.

“Ahem, it felt pretty good,” Bai YuYang admitted honestly. “But now you understand, don’t you? The feeling of being teased.”

“You can’t say that. I’ve always understood. If YuYang wants to tease me, I welcome it anytime, whether it was before or now~”

See? Just as Bai YuYang finished speaking, she started again.

This time, however, felt different.

She lowered the hand that had lifted her bangs, relaxed all the tension in her body, and leaned completely against Bai YuYang’s shoulder.

There was no hint of jest in her tone.

“Mmm… you can tease me however you want from now on, but there’s one thing, YuYang—you can’t suddenly disappear again… When I suddenly returned here from seven years in the future yesterday, I was so scared… I was so afraid of what I would do if you didn’t remember me…”

The tremor in her voice made Bai YuYang’s heart ache.

For Mo Sishi, the fear of time reversal and the unknown paled in comparison to the fear of her beloved forgetting her.

Feeling Sishi’s entire shoulder tremble, Bai YuYang gently put an arm around her side, then slowly tilted his body to the right, allowing her to lean more fully against his shoulder.

After a long moment, Bai YuYang answered her unspoken question.

“I’ve thought about that too, Sishi. But I can tell you very clearly that if you didn’t remember me, I would start from scratch and make you fall for me again, just like what I was doing before I knew you had your old memories.”

“Me too.”

Mo Sishi immediately hugged Bai YuYang’s right arm as if afraid he would run away.

“If you didn’t remember me, I would do the same thing. I just didn’t expect that while I was still trying to test if you had your past memories, you had already come looking for me. Hehe, YuYang, you’re so impatient.”

“I think it’s alright. After all, I never like to wait until the next day for what I want to do. But it’s good that we both remember each other; it saved us several years of effort, isn’t that great?”

“Mhm! It really is great! But I have to say… just now, when I was eating and packing my lunchbox, your sudden shout really startled me, you know that?!”

Watching Mo Sishi pout in annoyance, Bai YuYang found it inexplicably amusing.

“Uh… my apologies, my apologies. But at most, that makes us even. You kissing me without a word earlier almost gave me a heart attack!”

“That counts?! That’s what you owe me!”

“How can that be owed? How did I ever owe you a sudden kiss?!”

Recalling this, Mo Sishi felt aggrieved. She released Bai YuYang’s arm, walked two steps forward, and began her animated monologue.

She dramatically raised her arm towards the sun, her hair fluttering to reveal her eyes, her expression utterly serious.

“Think about it! I struggled against them for nearly seven years! Seven years! Is that a level of mental pressure a person can endure?! Finally, after all that, YuYang, you chose me! Logically, the next day we should have become an official couple, right? Right?! But what happened?”

“Instead, we went back seven years,” Bai YuYang finished for her.

“Exactly!” She was filled with utter indignation. “If we hadn’t been reborn, what couldn’t we have done the next day? More than just a kiss! Good heavens, now after all this, everything’s gone! YuYang, don’t you think you owe me a kiss? No, you owe me much more than that!”

“You’re shifting the goalposts… If you have to blame someone, it should be this inexplicable time reversal. I’m a victim too, you know.”

“Doo-doo-doo, what lovely weather today.”

Having her flawed logic exposed, Mo Sishi started whistling and gazing at the blue sky and white clouds, lost in her own world.

You truly are a scoundrel!

Despite their banter, Bai YuYang checked his phone. There was still some time before afternoon classes.

He was actually quite curious about one particular question.

“I say… why did you suddenly reveal everything just now? Did I say something? I don’t remember saying anything about being reborn.”

“Hehe, you didn’t say it, but I can guess, can’t I? After all, I’m very smart.”

“Who brags about being smart themselves… though it’s true.”

Well, Bai YuYang often called himself smart, and also handsome, so no issues there.

Mo Sishi briefly explained her thoughts from earlier.

“I’ve been watching you closely since yesterday, not daring to relax for a moment. I had to figure out what pose I should use to kiss you if I confirmed you were reborn!”

“Tell me properly!”

Bai YuYang gently tapped her head. Mo Sishi stuck out her tongue playfully, then quickly rephrased her explanation.

“Then, you see, I remembered the circumstances of our first meeting very clearly, didn’t I? So I went back to the place I visited that day. I believed that whether you were reborn or not, you would definitely come looking for me.”

“There were mainly three opportunities for confirmation… The first was when you complimented my handwriting right after school started.

I remember that before, before we met, you never approached me like that. The second was by the bookshelf, where you steadied it beforehand, as if you knew it would fall.

Of course, the result was still getting hit on the head by books, for which I express my deepest condemnation!”

“Then you should condemn the bookshelf.”

“?”

Oh no, Bai YuYang was learning bad habits from her too.

Mo Sishi shook her head helplessly and continued, “And then there was just now, when I asked for your opinion on whether I should run for campus belle. Your answer made it clear to me that you absolutely have your old memories.”

“Oh? Really? It was because of what I just said?”

Bai YuYang didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he had said, though.

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