Still Have This Side – Chapter 77

Is this kind of allocation included down there as well?!

With Bai Zhi’s prior announcement, Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue were already mentally prepared and quickly accepted the reality before them.

Qiu Baiyu even started helping Yue Xiao water herself.

            

Because Yue Xiao’s arms were tired from holding them up.

So Qiu Baiyu held the colorful watering can and poured water on her friend’s head, watching as the water droplets were absorbed by her friend’s sunflower headgear. Then her friend, full of energy, turned towards the direction of the sun, basking in the sunlight.

Qiu Baiyu: “…”

            

Dreams are truly wonderful.

But it also fits her real-life identity; Yue Xiao actually runs a flower shop in reality.

She’s loved flowers since childhood, and when she grew up, her family provided funds to support her in opening a flower shop.

            

When Qiu Baiyu and Guo Jiasui went to the shop to find her, she was either packaging flowers or spraying water on them, her heart and eyes full of flowers.

Therefore, it’s somewhat understandable that she turned into a flower after entering the dream.

Yue Xiao had been watered enough and had enough sunlight; her life as a flower became vibrant again.

            

“Alright, stop watering, I’ll drown if you water me too much.”

She took the watering can from Qiu Baiyu’s hands, then hugged Qiu Baiyu, the corners of her mouth turning downward: “Xiaobai, why did it take you so long to come back and see me…”

Hearing her good friend’s voice, Qiu Baiyu’s heart softened helplessly.

            

She patted Yue Xiao’s back and said softly: “It’s not too late to see each other now, it’s good that we can meet again.”

Being able to meet was already very good; what more could she ask for?

Yue Xiao sadly rubbed her eyes.

            

She didn’t know she was dreaming, but she knew how much she missed her.

Such good friends, suddenly gone, who could accept that?

— Damn that driver!

            

“That driver was sick, drinking in broad daylight!

“He’s a psycho!

“It makes me so angry!!”

            

Yue Xiao couldn’t help but curse loudly.

So it was drunk driving…

Qiu Baiyu felt helpless and angry.

            

These people always disregard others’ lives, how absurd and hateful!

This was the first time Yi Wanyue heard about the specific cause of Qiu Baiyu’s death.

For a moment, she felt angry, sympathetic, and sad all at once.

            

Angry at the drunk driver who disregarded others’ lives.

Sympathetic that her Bai Yu, at such a young age, had to suffer such a sudden misfortune and pay with her life.

Although she was very happy to have met Qiu Baiyu, she still felt sad that their meeting was based on this foundation and couldn’t feel fortunate about it.

            

That was a vibrant life…

As Qiu Baiyu was comforting her friend, she noticed the person beside her was very quiet.

She turned to look, and sure enough, Yi Wanyue’s expression wasn’t good.

            

Almost instantly, she realized the reason.

She reached out and held Yi Wanyue’s hand, and when Yi Wanyue looked at her, she said softly: “It’s okay, it’s all in the past.”

Don’t be sad, it’s all in the past.

            

At least her current life wasn’t bad, and it was quite interesting.

This could be considered a blessing in disguise for her.

Yi Wanyue held her hand back and looked at Yue Xiao, who was sadly leaning on Qiu Baiyu’s shoulder.

            

The sunflower headgear on Yue Xiao’s head was very large.

When she leaned her head on Qiu Baiyu’s shoulder, the realistic and soft petals either brushed against Qiu Baiyu’s head or softly rested on top of it, looking wilted, as if the flower was also very sad.

Her friend really cared about her.

            

Yi Wanyue thought.

She also had friends who loved her very much in that world, which was really wonderful.

“It’s okay now, don’t be sad.”

            

Qiu Baiyu patted Yue Xiao’s shoulder again.

“Let’s go find Suisui, she’s here too.”

Logically speaking, Yue Xiao should be curious about how Guo Jiasui could be here upon hearing this.

            

But this was in a dream, and a merged dream at that.

As soon as Yue Xiao heard her words, she said “Oh” with a bright expression: “I know where she is.”

Qiu Baiyu exclaimed happily: “Where?”

            

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yue Xiao suddenly squat down and point at the cloud cluster beneath their feet.

“Below.”

Qiu Baiyu: “?”

            

Yi Wanyue: “?”

The two of them bent down in confusion, looking at where she was pointing.

Without another word, Yue Xiao started digging into the cloud cluster.

            

First, she dug a small hole in the middle of the cloud, then pushed and scooped away the surrounding cloud like sand.

Finally, a large cloud hole appeared before their eyes.

Faint sounds could be heard from below the cloud hole.

            

“Come and see,” Yue Xiao waved at them.

Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue squatted down and peered into the hole.

It was pitch black below, and they hadn’t yet seen clearly what was down there when suddenly a line of things flew towards the hole opening. The two quickly dodged, and upon closer look — it was a line of text, with exaggerated and eye-catching font, along with symbols.

            

Upper cut!

Qiu Baiyu: “?”

Yi Wanyue: “?”

            

Before they could react, several more lines of text flew up from below —

Lower cut!

Right hook!

            

Sweeping kick!

Roundhouse kick!

Stupid boss, die for your lady!!!

            

Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue: “…”

They looked down, and sure enough, there was a beam of light at the source of the lines of text, and the scene in the light looked like an office setting.

In the office, a woman was grabbing a fat, big-eared middle-aged man and practicing punches with a bang.

            

They suddenly understood what was happening.

Qiu Baiyu could relate.

As a “wage slave” (打工人 “dagong ren”, a popular term for overworked employees), who wouldn’t want to give their troublemaking boss a couple of punches?

            

If you can’t do it in reality, at least you can throw a few punches in your dreams!

“The soundproofing of this cloud cluster is pretty good,” she said.

If Yue Xiao hadn’t dug out a hole, they wouldn’t have been able to hear the sounds from below.

            

The materialization effect of the text was also quite impressive, very impactful, very anime-like.

As expected of a dream, everything was magical.

Yue Xiao smiled at her, then called down to Guo Jiasui who was practicing punches below: “Stop fighting for now, Xiaobai has come to see us!”

            

Guo Jiasui, who was grabbing her boss’s collar, immediately stopped her actions upon hearing this and quickly looked up towards the cloud hole.

Sure enough, it was Qiu Baiyu.

“— Xingxing!”

            

The world beneath the cloud hole suddenly brightened up, every corner filled with light.

Guo Jiasui’s features became clear.

Professional attire, shoulder-length short hair, handsome and good-looking.

            

The boss in her hands, beaten to a pulp, was also very clearly miserable.

“Xingxing, you’re back!”

Guo Jiasui casually tossed aside the pig-headed boss and stepped forward — onto an escalator.

            

The escalator was white and looked very soft, like cotton candy.

The escalator connected to the cloud hole, moving upwards in one direction.

Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue didn’t know how this escalator had appeared, but it was just suddenly there.

            

Dreams are just that illogical.

Guo Jiasui was excitedly riding the escalator towards them, still calling out “Xingxing”, “Xingxing”.

Qiu Baiyu explained this nickname to Yi Wanyue: “My name means ‘star’, so Suisui likes to call me this.”

            

Yi Wanyue nodded: “Mm, I understand.”

One calls her Xiaobai, one calls her Xingxing, isn’t that cute?

Guo Jiasui quickly arrived on the cloud cluster.

            

The cotton candy-like escalator also expanded into a cloud cluster, slowly plugging the cloud hole, becoming a place where they could step on again.

Guo Jiasui stepped on it, sat down, stared at Qiu Baiyu without blinking, and suddenly started crying.

“Why did it take you so long to come back and see us…

            

“You left so suddenly, we had even made plans to have dinner together that evening, and we were supposed to go to Xiaoxiao’s house to pet Wangcai on the weekend…”

She cried more and more sadly, her tears becoming increasingly torrential.

No one scrutinized where this place was.

            

No one asked how Qiu Baiyu had come.

At this moment, only the pain of separation lingered.

The separation between them had come too quickly and too abruptly.

            

In an instant, that car accident had erased Qiu Baiyu from their future.

By the time they arrived, Qiu Baiyu’s face was already covered with a white cloth.

It was a very cold image, as if an ice pick had been stabbed into their hearts, the sharp ice pick continuously drilling in, drilling in, painful and bleeding, making their limbs go cold.

            

How could a friend who had been chatting with them on the phone the night before suddenly be gone…

“Damn that driver — damn drunk driving — !!!”

Guo Jiasui cried out loudly, both angry and sad.

            

Her tears became more and more, like a faucet that couldn’t be turned off, unstoppable, crying until it started raining in the sky.

The rain fell down in torrents, sprinkling on the four of them, as if even the sky felt very sad.

This was the first time Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue had seen such a visualized form of sadness.

            

The raindrops pattered on Yue Xiao’s petals, more and more, increasingly torrential.

Yue Xiao looked at her own withering petals and frowned along: “Stop crying, if you cry anymore I’ll drown…”

As she spoke, she looked at Qiu Baiyu, her mouth turned down, and also started to feel sad: “Xiaobai, I miss you so much—!”

            

While they were thinking of her in another world, she was also thinking of them.

Death had never taken them away from each other’s hearts.

Qiu Baiyu’s eyes unconsciously reddened, and she stepped forward to hug them.

            

“I miss you too, very very much…”

The three gradually cried together, the scene both pitiful and funny.

The heavy rain pattered down in the garden, and the originally brilliant and blooming flowers also drooped their heads, gloomy and depressed.

            

At this moment in reality, Yue Xiao and Guo Jiasui’s pillows were already wet with tears.

In the merged dream, Yi Wanyue sat to the side, not speaking.

She silently put up a giant mushroom umbrella to shield them from the rain.

            

Although she couldn’t join them, she could quietly stand guard nearby.

She was already very happy that Qiu Baiyu could meet with them.

Just then, Yue Xiao looked at her while crying and suddenly opened her arms towards her.

            

“What are you standing there for, come cry with us.”

— Such a sad thing, let her cry too!

Yi Wanyue was stunned for a moment.

            

Then, she saw Qiu Baiyu also raise one hand — wordlessly inviting.

She suddenly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but obediently joined them, patting their backs, stroking Qiu Baiyu’s head, becoming the person who gently comforted them.

Her Baiyu was very cute.

            

Baiyu’s friends were also very cute.

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The three cried enough, only stopping after releasing all the bitterness and sorrow in their hearts.

Only then did Yue Xiao and Guo Jiasui notice the person beside Qiu Baiyu.

            

“Who is she?”

Guo Jiasui asked Qiu Baiyu.

If they hadn’t asked, Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue would have thought this dream had also rationalized Yi Wanyue’s existence.

            

Qiu Baiyu smiled and held Yi Wanyue’s hand, frankly introducing her to them: “This is my girlfriend, I brought her to show you.

“Isn’t she very beautiful?”

She didn’t mention a name, as saying too much detail wouldn’t be good.

            

Guo Jiasui was greatly shocked after hearing this.

But not shocked that Qiu Baiyu had a girlfriend.

“You’re dating a girlfriend down there? What, does down there include this kind of allocation as well?!”

            

Qiu Baiyu: “?”

Yi Wanyue: “?”

Guo Jiasui slapped Yue Xiao beside her: “Did you see that, we don’t need to rush to date, they’ll allocate partners for us after we die! And such a beautiful one at that!”

            

Yue Xiao was wringing the water out of her petals.

With both hands applying force, it was like wringing a towel, and the water was squeezed out in an instant.

She glanced at Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue, wringing out water while responding: “Alright, let’s wait until we die to go down there and date.”

            

Qiu Baiyu: “…”

She helplessly held her forehead: “That’s not what I meant…”

Yi Wanyue couldn’t help but chuckle softly.

            

One could imagine how happy her Baiyu must have been when she was with them.

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