Rebirth Plan to Save Leader

ghtly froze, and suddenly her heart was balanced.

    —His glass had no water in it at all.

    Zhang Man felt like laughing a little.
He looked so calm, but he must have also felt it in his heart, how to say it… Ah! He looks like one of those good little girls in the movies when they’re embarrassed!

    In order to ensure that they would not run into Zhang Huifang on the road, the two waited a while longer before leaving the bar.
Li Wei did not say anything and walked straight to the station, apparently intending to send her home.

    The two stood under the station sign and waited for the bus.
The stations in N City this year only had rudimentary stop signs and seats, unlike later when they were all built to be enclosed and sheltered from the wind and rain.

    It’s almost 9 o’clock and winter, combined with night, is the worst kind of bitter cold.

    Zhang Man rubbed her cold fingers, looked at the side of the youth’s face, and had some doubts in her heart: “Li Wei, what did you say to the bouncer back there, how did he let you in?”

    “I said I came to see my friend.”

    “Huh? I said that before too, but he didn’t let me in.”

    The youth paused and patiently explained, “I’m talking about the owner of that bar.”

    Zhang Man was surprised: “You still have such friends? When did you meet them?”

    She seems to have heard people mention that the bars in this area are opened by the most powerful group of people in N City on the road.
It is surprising that he still knows these people…

    How come she never knew about these things?

    Hearing her question, the youth pursed his pretty lips, and his Adam’s apple moved slightly.

    “Not really a friend, we just met back in the old days at the orphanage.”

    He is just a person who does not hate him or exclude him as much as others, so he could not be considered a friend.

    Zhang Man listened to his lighthearted sentence, but in her heart, it was like she was being scratched by a cat.

    So she did not stop there and continued to ask: “Li Wei, tell me, how did you two meet?”

    The youth was silent for a moment: “…you really want to know?”

    Zhang Man nodded vigorously, she wanted to know all about him.

    The youth said a few words succinctly, generalizing very well, as if summarizing some physical formulas.

    “The owner of that bar is 7 or 8 years older than me, and he was also living in the orphanage at the time.
I did him a favor when I was a kid, so the relationship was okay, and he got out of the orphanage before he was an adult.
 He made some breakthroughs in his career in N City and Z City, and when I was in middle school he also went back to the orphanage to find me once, seeing that I have no friends, he asked me if I wanted to follow him.
I did not agree because our paths are not the same, but I heard that he is doing well now.”

    “So… why did you later get out of the orphanage and live on your own?”

    The youth lowered his eyes, without much expression: “… The orphanage was too busy for my liking.
I applied for several years until my sophomore year in middle school.
When the institution finally agreed that I had the ability to live alone, only then did they give me a certificate.”

    That said, if the orphanage would have approved it earlier, he would have wanted to come out and live alone.

    Zhang Man’s heart gripped tightly, how unhappy was he to prefer to stay alone and escape from that place? He said it lightly, but it was as if there were waves of fear in his heart.

    Who doesn’t like the hustle and bustle? But the hardest part is that all the buzz and revelry around him has nothing to do with him.

    She felt conflicted.

    It was clear that she wanted to know everything about him, but didn’t dare to continue asking, because every time he said something, her heart felt harder.
She suddenly felt that it would be good if she could go back a bit in time when she was reborn.
She wanted to be by his side from the very beginning, to hold the little one in her arms and say to him: “Don’t be afraid, I will always be by your side and would never, ever leave you.