Jennie stood at the entrance of the corridor and watched Uncle Chen go away. She stood there alone in the dark for a long time.

She lived for twenty years in her last life. Since she was a child, she didn’t know who her parents were or what their surnames were, because of this even her last name was chosen randomly. The person who treated her best in her last life was the kind aunt who sponsored her to go to high school.

Jennie vowed to succeed so that she could repay her.

But before she had time, she had become the current Jennie. She had cared for Lisa several times because she couldn’t bear to see his circumstances, but the boy had given her too much in return.

Jennie squatted down and buried her face between her knees.

It was said in the book that it was difficult for people with AS to have friendships, and once they do have them, they will become at a loss and wonder how to maintain them, so they would use the simplest ways to treat them well.

However, this was great. Jennie sighed for a long time. In the past twenty years, no one reminded her to wear a thick coat when it snowed, and no one reminded her to bring an umbrella when it snowed. Not to mention sending her home especially.

After squatting on the ground for a few minutes, around ten minutes later, Jennie went upstairs and returned to Kim’s house.

It was past 12 o’clock in the morning, and only Mother Kim was not asleep as she was putting on a mask. When she saw Jennie come in she glanced at her, she whispered, “Don’t you know what time it is. I don’t know where you’ve been all day but keep your voice down. Your brother just fell asleep.”

Seeing Mother Kim returning back to her room, Jennie felt like she had returned to reality once more.

Jennie originally thought that due to her quarrel with Chungha, she might return to the same situation in beginning, where she was alienated from everyone. But she later discovered that that was not the case.

They are all fifteen or sixteen years old. Generally speaking, no one in the class was undeniably stupid.

Maybe it was because Chungha was not Suho, nor Irene. Her weight in the class was not big enough to make everyone else alienate Jennie because of her attitude. So except for the friends who played well with Chungha, no one else changed their attitudes towards Jennie.

Like Mino, the several classmates sitting on the right side of Jennie, still greeted and talked to her as they did in the past. Jennie was very good at English and mathematics, so some students would come to Jennie when class was over.

As for Lisa, most students still tried to stay as far away from him as possible, but a small number of students have slowly changed their attitudes towards him.

Jennie talked to Lisa every day, but Lisa didn’t hit her suddenly like Chungha said. He didn’t even speak loudly. He wasn’t crazy, he didn’t look stupid, and he didn’t talk to Jennie in a scary way.

But Lisa didn’t care about anything.

The only thing he cared about now was Jennie.

Jennie was now playing with Mino, who was at the same table, and a few classmates in front of him.

They forgot who started it but the girl sitting in front of Jennie would ask some questions and then judge the answers of Jennie, Mino, and another boy.

The question is very simple. The girl who wrote the question would read a total of fifteen numbers, and whoever wrote the correct roman numerals among the three would win. The bet was simple, two lollipops.

Such games are boring in Lisa’s eyes.

He didn’t understand the meaning of this time-wasting game.

But Jennie was playing, so Lisa put down his book in his hand and watched them play.

The girl who asked the question wrote down fifteen numbers at random, and then coughed twice while clutching the note, “Listen well, I won’t say it again, 2, 4, 5, 0…2.8..”

When she finished, she then started the countdown for them to write, “Hurry up and write, I’ll give you 25 seconds.”

Jennie pulled out a pen and quickly wrote down three numbers. Mino who was next to her suddenly short-circuited, “Eh eh eh, what’s the fifth one”, He then and subconsciously looked at Jennie paper.

Jennie pushed the person away, and turned around, before putting her notebook on Lisa’s table.

She quickly wrote eight numbers, and when she reached the ninth, she suddenly couldn’t remember whether it was 7 or 8.

The girl who asked the question glanced at what another guy had written, and couldn’t smile, “You are too wrong, the countdown…”

Jennie really couldn’t remember, and she was about to guess a random number when she heard Lisa whisper in a voice that only she could hear, “846728.”

Jennie didn’t even think about it, and wrote down everything directly as Lisa said.

Lisa was dumbfounded, wasn’t she afraid that his memory was wrong.

The countdown for the girl in front was over, and she quickly took the notebooks from the hands of the three competitors. As she read the notebooks she laughed, “How did you get the third number wrong? Mino you got three wrong numbers. As for Jennie… eh? Jennie you got a full score! I said before that a girl’s memory was not worse than a boy!”

“You can’t compare our memory to Jennie … ” Mino said.

Jennie smiled at the scene before turning around, and sighing at Lisa the smile still on her face, “Why are you so amazing?”

The girl in front of his eyes was very bright. Looking at him, she sighed from the heart. He was used to people saying that he was crazy and stupid. He had become used to not feeling anything a long time ago, but when he heard Jennie’s words, he felt heartfelt joy.

Maybe it was because of the sentence itself, or maybe it was because of the person who said it.

Lisa clearly remembered how much torment he had to endure in school every day before meeting Jennie, but now it seemed like life at school had become less difficult.

This was his most comfortable state outside of being alone.

— —————

On the weekend, Lisa didn’t go to the western restaurant. He had found a very good book, and spent two days reading it.

On Sunday night, between his busy schedule Father Manoban came to see Lisa.

Lisa did not live with Manoban’s father.

Lisa’s parents were divorced before he could even remember. After he was seven years old, his mother finally discovered the difference between him and other children, and took him to the United States for treatment.

After that they stayed there for another 7 years.

As for his father, Lisa had no memory or feelings for the man. After entering Father Manoban’s custody, he couldn’t bear the noise of his father’s newly formed family. He found Father Manoban and told him without a trace of emotion that he didn’t want to live with them.

So he lived with Uncle Chen, who had always taken care of him and his mother.

After he moved out Father Manoban would come to see him occasionally.

Father Manoban thought of Lisa’s sudden reluctance to go to school last week. He wanted to talk to Lisa, but realized that it was a one-man show. Lisa barely spoke and when he spoke it was the most useless nonsense.

Father Manoban could only ask his assistant to hire a psychiatrist. After asking the doctor about his son’s attitude, he came to find Lisa again.

He once felt that Lisa was autistic and xenophobic, so he made him go to school, in order to come in contact with his peers, and to socialize with other people. But after communicating with the doctor, the doctor advised him not to do this, and so Father Manoban hurriedly came over to Lisa.

Father Manoban thought of the psychiatrist’s words, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

He looked at Lisa’s cold face and asked him how he had been this week.

Lisa raised his head and glanced at him, and said from the bottom of his heart, “Very good.”

Father Manoban was a little suspicious, because Lisa had no expression on his face, and there was nothing in his voice that one would associate with being good.

He didn’t know that his son’s “illness” was called Asperger’s Syndrome. He didn’t know that he had difficulty receiving feelings and expressing emotions. He only regarded Lisa’s situation as a common autism, and recalled what the doctor said.

Children with autism sometimes lie in order to avoid trouble because they resist outsiders and trouble.

Father Manoban looked at Lisa for a long time, and sighed after a while, “I didn’t think about it clearly at the beginning and forced you to go to school. Dad now understands and knows that you don’t like going to school. If you don’t want to go then don’t go.”

Lisa gave Father Manoban a somewhat inexplicable look. He clearly said that his week was good, why did Father Manoban not hear it.

So he repeated it again, “I said I’m fine, I want to go to school.”

Rather than sitting here with Father Manoban and saying these things, he prefered to go to school and watch the girl sitting in front of him, and watch how she would talk to him with a bright smile on his face.

Not wanting to say anything else to Father Manoban, Lisa pushed his wheelchair back to his room.

Today was Sunday, and he will see Jennie again tomorrow.

The next day, he came to the school as before, and pushed his wheelchair into the classroom. But when he saw Jennie who was supposed to be sitting in front of him replaced by another girl, he was stunned.

His seat is still there, but the person sitting in front is no longer there.

The seat was rotated once a week, and Jennie was in front of him a week ago, but after a week, Jennie had also changed to another position.

She sat in the penultimate row of the second group, not too far from Lisa’s position, but at this moment, Lisa was panicking endlessly.

The newcomer sitting in front of him opened the window to its maximum, and the cold wind poured in from the window, and Lisa’s uncomfortable face became paler.

In front of him was a book that he thought was very interesting yesterday, but now he couldn’t read a word.

He couldn’t help but look in Jennie’s direction over and over again. He could see that she was listening to the class and writing on her notebook, but he couldn’t see her hair clearly. He couldn’t see her turning around and leaning on her chair as she talked to him. The area around him seemed infinitely darker.

It turns out that Jennie didn’t always sit in front of him. Next week and the week after that, she would sit further away from him.

A moment ago, he still felt very good about campus life, but now it was restored to its original feeling in an instant. Or perhaps it was even more unbearable for him than before.

He turned his head stiffly, and looked over again, seeing Mino talking to Jennie while she was writing with a pen.

Maybe it was about physics.

When he sat behind Jennie, Jennie would ask Mino physics questions from time to time.

In fact, he could also answer those questions. He would not think for a long time in order to get the answer like Mino. He would tell Jennie the correct answer in a very short amount of time.

But now, he couldn’t even hear what topic they were talking about.

Lisa once hated Mino, because Mino could see Jennie’s profile as soon as he turned his head, and he could touch her arm with any small movement, but no matter what happened before, there had never been a moment that had been so unbearable as right now.

Because not only could Mino talk to her casually, but now he could also follow her to another position.

And he would only be further and further away from her.

He stared at Mino’s back, and for the first time he gave birth to a strong, directional idea.

He wants to sit in that position.