Chapter 837 - Chapter 837: Am I Waking Up Too Early?_1
Chapter 837: Am I Waking Up Too Early?_1
In the days that followed, Ji Ruo once again returned to being alone.
In the orphanage, the other children were adopted, but he was not.
Ji Ruo was a hardworking student, and she also liked to watch all kinds of cartoons and feature films played in the orphanage.
Sometimes, he would think that if only he could be like the main characters in those cartoons.
That way, perhaps the two kittens would not leave him.
The director of the orphanage was called Li Bindao. He was a slightly chubby middle-aged man who was not very tall and always had a smile on his face.
Ji Ruo had been in the orphanage for a long time. Seeing other children being taken away by their new parents, she couldn’t help but feel a little longing.
However, no one adopted him, so his desire turned into disappointment.
Li Bin could see Ji Ruo’s disappointment and would often chat with Ji Ruo to comfort him.
He would also give Ji Ruo a little more pocket money or secretly give Ji Ruo some sweets.
“Dean Li, why are you so good to me?”
One day, Ji Ruo asked.
“Haha, I am a teacher.” Li Bindao smiled and rubbed Ji Ruo’s head.
Ji Ruo seemed to understand, but at the same time, he felt like he had really forgotten something.
During the New Year, the school would give the children a hundred yuan each.
Although there weren’t many of them, the children were all very happy, and Ji Ruo was no exception.
One hundred yuan could buy a lot of things!
New toys, delicious snacks, all kinds of snacks…
“If only I could have a hundred yuan a day when I grow up!”
Ji Ruo couldn’t help but think.
Time flew by.
Ji Ruo grew up in the orphanage. No one knew why he was adopted when he was young, but later on, because of his age, no one adopted him.
One day, Li Bindao found Ji Ruo and looked at him carefully. He sighed,”I’m sorry, Jiruo, you have to go.”
Ji Ruo was silent.
He was already in his teens. The orphanage could not support him for the rest of his life.
“I understand, Dean.”
“Is there any problem with the school?”
“No, my classmates all took good care of me.”
“That’s good.” Li Bindao was silent for a moment before he sighed and patted Ji Ruo’s shoulder.””Go to school well and try to take the exam… Forget it. I’ll be happier in the future and make more friends.”
” Yes, I’ll remember that, Director.”
Ji Ruo left the orphanage.
At that time, Ji Ruo was only in junior high school.
“What is it? You want to drop out of school?”
Class monitor Liang Shixian widened his eyes. Jiruo, you can’t withdraw from school. You’re still young. Where can you go if you don’t go to school?
You’re so good at your studies, you…”
“I can’t continue school.”Ji Ruo lowered her head and said in a low voice,”I don’t have money to continue my studies.”
Although he had just left the orphanage, and the rent and utility were very low, it had already crushed him.
Liang Shixian was stunned. He wanted to say something, but he didn’t know what to say.
“I’ll go find Teacher. Teacher will definitely have a way!”
He found his homeroom teacher, Gu Xing Zhou.
Gu Xing Zhou wanted to sponsor Ji Ruo, but he was rejected by the mature Ji Ruo.
“Teacher Gu, your family is urging you to find a partner, right? After you find a partner, you have to get married. When you get married, you have to buy a house and a car, and you have to get a betrothal gift…”
“You’re getting on in years. If you don’t find a partner soon, I’m afraid you won’t be able to find one in the future.”
It’s tiring to be a teacher. When you first taught us, you had so much hair. Now, your hair is on the podium, on the lecture table, on the floor, but not on your head…
You have to hurry up. You can’t continue to delay because of me.”
Gu Xing Zhou looked at Ji Ruo with a complicated expression.
This child was so sensible that it made one’s heart ache. At the same time, his words also made one’s liver ache…
Thus, Ji Ruo dropped out of school and started working part-time.
He was young and did not know much. Just living was already giving his all.
The class monitor, Liang Shixian, was very responsible. Even though Ji Ruo had dropped out of school, he still came to Ji Ruo every weekend to tutor him.
“Even if you’re not in school, you can’t forget to study.”Liang Shixian said seriously.
Ji Ruo asked Liang Shixian why he did this, and Liang Shixian said seriously,””Because I’m the class monitor.”
So Ji Ruo did not refuse.
Sometimes, when he set up a stall selling boiled eggs on the street, Liang Shixian would accompany him and read to him.
But later, Liang Shixian went to high school and had heavy academic tasks, so he stopped coming.
Ji Ruo grew up alone and had met many people on the street where he rented.
Aunt Jing Lan, who raised two children alone and liked to watch soap operas; Grandpa Mu, who worked to save money and often sat in a rocking chair and lay at the door to bask in the sun; Brother Jing, who liked to travel and had been to many places in the country; Granny Hua, who left her children and came to rent a house here to earn a small income by embroidery to take care of her demented husband; and her husband, Grandpa Chen Zai.
“My wife was a principal when she was young!”Granny Hua often said this.
Once again, Ji Ruo felt as if he had forgotten something.
“What exactly is it?”
I can’t think of anything.
As he grew older, his days gradually became better.
The feeling of forgetting something grew stronger and stronger.
He was just an ordinary person…Perhaps she was even more of an orphan than others.
He had dropped out of junior high school and grew up in a mediocre way. He was an ordinary person who could not be more ordinary.
Later, he found a job in a factory with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.
“When I was young, I dreamed that I could have a hundred yuan a day. In the end, when I grew up, my monthly salary was three thousand yuan.”Ji Ruo smiled bitterly.
Time continued to pass.
Time had no mercy on him, grinding away his edges and the light in his eyes.
The middle-aged Ji had become an adult who would haggle over every ounce when buying vegetables, just like other adults.
He did not go anywhere to play and had never left Cloud City in his life.
After so many years, he was still alone.
No girl would fall for him like this.
It was ordinary and even a little timid.
“When did I become like this?””What did I forget?” Ji Ruo muttered to himself.”
One day, on the way home from work, Ji Ruoli saw two children quarreling.
” In the middle of the night, something happened in your house. The Opium War. Your mother beat up the dog, your father smashed the lamp, your grandfather sat in the toilet and lit the lamp against the stars. Your grandmother had a pot lid on her head and a belt in her hand. She was known as the Invincible East, but she was actually the second generation of idiots!”
“Rebound!”
“Rebound ineffective!”
Ji Ruo found it funny.
Children quarreling… Wait a minute!
Ji Ruo suddenly stared blankly at the two children who had been ‘rebounding’ all this while.
He seemed to have recalled something.
He turned around and looked at the bustling city that he had lived in for many years.
Ji Ruo pondered.
“This world is very good. Unfortunately, this is not the life I want.”
“Thank you for all these years, but I have to go. There are still friends waiting for me outside.”
Ji Ruo shook his head and laughed. He looked at the tall building and said softly,”Rebound.”
In the next moment, the skyscrapers collapsed and the bustling city turned into ashes!
“You’re finally awake, old man!” Ji Xiaoxiao exclaimed in surprise. Quick, quick, quick, change!”
“Yeah, I woke up-”
The control of the Dark Tiga was given to Ji Ruo, and the Light Giant reappeared.
At the same time, the floating islands flew over and crashed into Ji Ruo.
Looking at the five-star horde leaders that had more than tripled in number, as well as the floating islands that Feng Chanlong had created with his imagination…
Ji Ruo:
Should I not have woken up?