Chapter 29: I Am, You Are, Our Existence Is Meaningful
Hu Yu Ying looked at the meat in her bag, and her lips couldn’t help but curl into a smile.
She turned back to glance at the vegetable market. Although she could no longer see the Dragon Brother’s stall, Hu Yu Ying still wanted to take one more look.
On her way home, Hu Yu Ying’s heart was filled with joy.
So it turns out she could also receive so much goodwill.
Just as she entered her alley.
She heard a loud knocking on the door.
She looked up, and the joy in her eyes was instantly replaced by panic.
Quickly, she hid at someone else’s doorway, peeking out her little head again.
This time, she was not mistaken. Someone was knocking on her door—and that person she knew.
It was Ye Liang Chen—who earlier at the mall was insistent on making her drink his milk tea!
In an instant, her mind was flooded with fear and worry.
She didn’t know how Ye Liang Chen found out where she lived.
And she didn’t understand why he was knocking on her door.
“Yu Ying, it’s me. I’m Liang Chen, Ye Liang Chen! I came out of the bathroom just now, and you disappeared. I was really worried about you! Are you home?”
Ye Liang Chen’s heart was full of concern.
He’d just come out of the bathroom and couldn’t see Hu Yu Ying anymore. He asked the restaurant owner, who said Hu Yu Ying seemed to have something urgent and ended her part-time job early.
Based on what he knew about Hu Yu Ying from his dreams.
Unless it was a real emergency, she wouldn’t leave her post easily.
Ye Liang Chen had no idea what urgent thing had happened to her.
That’s why he was so anxious, daring to come without her permission.
But he’d been knocking on her door for a long time. If she were home, she would have opened it long ago.
She wasn’t at work. Not at home.
Where could she have gone?
In her dreams, Hu Yu Ying often got bullied—she had hardly any friends.
Her life was pretty monotonous.
Either she was at school or at home. Apart from her Saturday part-time job, she didn’t go anywhere else.
Thinking of this, Ye Liang Chen’s urgency grew.
In her dreams, aside from being bullied by Dragon Brother, nothing seemed to happen at home either!
“Being bullied by Dragon Brother?” Ye Liang Chen suddenly remembered this.
A thought gradually appeared in his mind.
Could it be that Dragon Brother discovered Hu Yu Ying’s part-time job at Nanfeng Square and forced her to quit, then went out to bully her?
The more he thought about it, the more it seemed plausible—otherwise, it made no sense.
d*mn it!
Right under his nose, Dragon Brother was just too lawless, too unconcerned with his own reputation!
Hu Yu Ying watched Ye Liang Chen mumbling to himself, pounding on her door, then seemingly annoyed as he rubbed his hair, and even looking inside through the door crack.
She was terrified—completely at a loss about what to do.
She took two steps back.
In her panic and confusion, she thought of Dragon Brother.
Clenching her fists, she turned around and ran off towards the market.
As she ran, she kept looking back to see if that Ye Liang Chen had noticed her.
Finally reaching the market, perhaps due to her luck, she saw Dragon Brother coming out from inside.
It was the dinner hour, and the market was already quiet. Under Old Man’s urging, Dragon Brother was about to head home.
Seeing Dragon Brother, Hu Yu Ying slowed her steps, her tense heart gradually relaxing.
Dragon Brother seemed puzzled, too.
“Didn’t you already go home?” he asked, noticing her gasping for breath, her hair damp with sweat from running.
“Something happened?” he pressed further.
Hu Yu Ying looked at Dragon Brother, her eyes full of the gentleness he had when asking her questions: “Someone’s knocking on my door.”
“Take me to see,” he frowned, thinking she might be a former classmate from the Second High.
In the original story, that bunch of people was supposed to gang up to bully Hu Yu Ying on Friday.
He’d let her stay behind to give him a remedial lesson, cleverly avoiding the trouble.
But they still found her home.
That was simply too much.
He thought they were just some kids—a little patience and he could handle it.
No need to escalate—he knew some boxing and fighting tricks.
If it couldn’t be avoided, then just fight!
There must be a way to settle this.
Hu Yu Ying froze. She didn’t expect her older brother to agree so readily.
Looking at his back, she suddenly felt regret.
She’d been so scared just now.
She’d never told anyone where she lived.
Why could that person find her so easily?
Most likely, she was being followed.
She’d only transferred to First High two days ago.
Meaning, in just these two days, she had been tailed.
Now that she calmed down, she remembered on her first day of school, she didn’t know Ye Liang Chen at all. Yet he insisted on trying to get to know her, acting as if they were close.
Could it be that he had been following her that day?
Her rushing to find Dragon Brother might just have inadvertently brought trouble to him.
For a moment, Hu Yu Ying’s mind was a mess of tangled guilt and regret.
“Staring blankly? Lead the way!” Dragon Brother took a couple of steps forward, noticing she was still standing there stunned, shouting at her.
Upon hearing his call, Hu Yu Ying looked at him conflicted.
The very next second, she felt her hand tighten as Dragon Brother grabbed her hand.
“Are you scared stiff? Little fool. Let me put my big bro armor on to back you up.”
Feeling the warmth of his palm, Hu Yu Ying automatically followed his steps ahead.
By the time she came to her senses, they were nearly near her rented village.
“Where’s your home?”
Hu Yu Ying looked at Dragon Brother blankly.
“Big brother, why are you so nice to me?”
“Except for my family, no one’s ever been this kind to me.”
This question left Dragon Brother speechless.
He knew that crossing worlds was tough for most people to accept.
He couldn’t just tell her that this world was actually a fictional creation.
He was being nice to her because he was the villainous male lead trying to change his tragic ending.
She’d probably think he’s crazy if he said that.
But just looking into Hu Yu Ying’s clear, naive eyes, he coughed lightly and said seriously, “Of course because I’m your big brother. Since you’ve become my little follower, I will definitely protect your safety!”
“And I also need your help, my little teacher. I want to go to university and experience a totally different life.”
“Otherwise, with my current grades, I can already see where my future is headed.”
At this point, Dragon Brother looked earnestly at Hu Yu Ying.
“Everyone alive in this world has its own meaning. You do too. I do too.”
“And for me right now, helping a girl classmate clear her troubles is something truly meaningful.”
Hu Yu Ying’s eyes flickered slightly.
“My existence is also very meaningful.”
