Chapter 103. When You Want to Meet Someone.

When you want to meet someone, you will become determined and stubborn. You are so determined that you will bear all the doubts, accept the loneliness, take all the risks and uncertainties alone, and be so stubborn that you are willing to do your best even if the future is only a slim one percent possibility. It doesn’t matter if the mountains are far away or if the journey is difficult; everything will pass. All the wounds will heal just because you want to see her. Your dreams are full of her; you miss her, so all the processes are ignored, and the only end point is her.

Chen Du’s exams went well. The papers were not difficult or suspenseful for him, and even before the exams, an academician from the University of Science and Technology had agreed with him that he would receive him as a student directly under him when he was accepted.

Blessed with gold medals in various competitions since childhood, his personal resume is so excellent that it can only be looked up to and cannot be copied. A genius who jumped directly from manuscript to university at the age of seventeen, he is shining everywhere, and everyone is vying for it. In exchange, the academician promised to give him all the best resources and contacts so that he could quickly establish himself in that city. And he chose the other side for one reason only: the lab was in Beijing.

It was like a snapshot of the exams. A three-year battle line was shortened to three months, and every day he went through the motions, preparing for the exams and sprinting for them. After the last exam, he walked out of the exam room with the exam bag, and there was no shade along the steps. The sun shone brightly on his body, and the long-lost heat rushed towards him. He stood in the hot sun and froze for a few seconds. It was summer.

It feels like they have been apart since the last summer, but it has only been three months.

There was no parent or driver to pick him up at the school gate, so Chen Du took a taxi back home. He went up to his room on the first floor, pulled out his suitcase, and packed his things, sweating all over in the summer. He stuffed sweaters from his wardrobe into his suitcase. It was hot in the south, but it was still cold in the north at night.

The light in the master bedroom was on, and Wen Yun was sitting on the sofa with her back to the door, not saying anything when she heard him coming upstairs.

They hadn’t seen each other since the last time they had fallen out at school, and even the WeChat correspondence had been suspended, officially breaking the mother-son relationship. But in a way, it was a compromise on Wen Yun’s part – she had given up and stopped interfering with him.

That’s what he thought until the second Chen Du closed the lid of his suitcase.

He pulled up the door handle and turned it to go out, twisting the handle but not moving it, then twisting it again. He went back and forth several times, but the door felt like it had been welded shut. No matter how hard he turned it, it wouldn’t budge. Sweat dripped from the corners of his forehead, and his heart raced as he sensed that the situation was not good.

Wen Yun’s shrill voice exploded outside the door, “You’re not going anywhere but this house! Don’t even think about stepping out of the house!”

Chen Du’s heart sank hard. Hearing the uncharacteristic morbid tone of her voice, his tone was still steady, “I’m going to report to school.”

“What the hell do you want to do? Beijing? Do you still have me as your mother and this family in your heart after leaving the city? You’ve lost your soul to that vixen!” Wen Yun snapped, determined not to let him go.

It turned out that her silence all this time was a paralysing disguise, making Chen Du think that she had stopped fighting, had given up, had acquiesced …… How could that be? She had already lost her husband and could no longer stand by and watch her only son leave her too!

Chen Du negotiated with her through the door all night, his mind still clear, “How long do you plan to keep me?”

“When you are obedient.” That was still her reply.

When was that? Chen Du was powerless for a while. “I have to go to school, right?”

Wen Yun still sneered, “What qualifications does a disobedient child have to go to school?”

“You’re only in year one. What kind of university are you going to? I’ve told you it’s not a good school; don’t go. Go to the third grade, and then go to Tsinghua. I’ll send you to Beijing myself.”

Her tone became gentle, and she said persuasively, “At that time, I will also move the company there. When you go to college, you will still be a day student. You usually live at home, and no one will bother you.”

Crazy. She was completely insane. Chen Du’s hand at his side tightened into a fist, and a slight chill shot up from the bottom of his feet and into his bones. His eyes darkened, and his body chilled.

Wen Yun had obviously learned her lesson from the last time, and this time she had shut all the doors and windows of Chen Du’s room to death. She even changed the locks on the gates of the courtyard outside and cut off all communication signals. She guarded him strictly, so there was no possibility of him getting out.

Wen Yun was going crazy, and so was Chen Du.

“What’s so great about being outside? You’re so young, how can I trust you to go out into society?”

“Stay at home and go to university by the book. What mum said will not be wrong. When have I ever harmed you?”

The more she spoke, the more excited she became and the more unreasonable she got. She asked Chen Du, “Do you know what love is?”

“It must not be like you.” Chen Du said.

What he got in response was the violent slamming of the door.

Wen Yun went completely mad.

Chen Du calmed down instead. He had been locked in his room for three days. Three days could break many people and destroy some things, but they could also make some people whole and make something happen.

It wasn’t difficult to crack glass with sound waves—just enough frequency and sharpness—and it wasn’t difficult to jump from the second floor. Just close your eyes and jump down. His back rested against the cold, broken railing, and he took a long leap from the terrace.

TLN: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! My baby really going through it.