Nonlinear Love

Chapter 1: Nevertheless, he looked quite unrestrained.

The cicadas chirped loudly, crying nonstop on the hazy treetop.

The old air conditioner often let out a disturbance tremor sound, accompanied by a sharp and crisp noise of the chalk against the blackboard, which was annoying.

“Su Lian is sleeping again. Come and solve this problem.

There was a call from a distance, the sound was low and fuzzy.

Su Lian moved his sore wrist, slowly raised his head, squinting his eyes, and looked ahead.

The words on the blackboard were written by half, and the scribbles were even more difficult to recognize than the diagnosis in the medical record.

The teacher stared at his messy hair with an accustomed face. He raised his hand and pushed his glasses. “If you can’t do it, go and stand at the back.”

Su Lian didn’t answer, he lowered his eyes slightly. His fingertips touched the cuff, which was the dark blue acrylic fiber with a little awkwardness.

He was very familiar. The school uniform of No.8 Middle School had never been changed for thousands of years.

In a trance, as if he was in the dream, as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them, Dr.Su, who was wearing a white coat in the first second, had returned to the classroom as a high school student.

F*ck, worthy of the Master, he could really come back.

On stage, Su Lian had always believed in medical skills to change life and death, while off stage, he advocated in the guidance of metaphysics.

Now that he was back in high school, he was even more respectful to God.

Because there was no response to the teacher’s call for a long time, the classroom began to whisper.

“There are school bullies every year, especially this year, I have a foreboding that the bespectacled students will act out violently…”

“What’s wrong with bespectacled students? They just can’t stand people sleeping in the class.”

“Even in the evening self-study, the teacher still asked Lian-ge to answer the problem. This is more persistent than the Tang Monk. What’s the point of doing this?”

“It’s to make the students bravely use the battle of wits in the semester and create glory!”

“What is he still doing in a daze? Just stand.”

The teacher had long been used to this. He slammed on the blackboard and criticized with heartfelt words, “Immediately study more for the exam. How many times do I have to say this? If you don’t work hard, you can only take an exam for the university next door. In this second year of high school, let me see you work harder…”

Su Lian glanced at the extra watch in his hand with the corner of his eyes. On the dark blue watch face, the pointer was moving minute by minute, showing the passage of time.

He got up lazily, moved the chair away unhurriedly, and paced to the blackboard.

The problem was solid geometry, and the cuboid was cut by chalk with different colors, which appeared unpleasant.

Su Lian turned around, pinched a piece of chalk, and read the problem briefly. He then raised his hand and drew an auxiliary line.

The question of the second year of high school, he could do it with his eyes closed.

Within two minutes, the beautiful words were written on a small part of the blackboard. After some calculation in his mind, he simply wrote down the answer: DE= 4.

By the time the writing ended, a group of people let out a sigh of relief. The classroom abruptly exploded afterward, there was an uproar.

The teacher recovered from the trance and pushed the 800-degree lens before checking it carefully from the beginning to the end.

Unlike guessing, every step was clear, and the answer was also correct.

He stared at the chalk on Su Lian’s hand in shock, then moved to the other party’s expressionless face again, convincing himself that just now wasn’t a hallucination.

Su Lian twisted his dusty fingers lightly. He lifted his hand and threw the chalk into the box on the podium accurately.

With a crisp sound, the white chalk pointed crookedly in one o’clock direction.

First quadrant, indicating that today was an auspicious day.

The divination result was good. Su Lian’s mood suddenly improved a bit. He walked straight through the empty aisle between the seats, picked up his school bag, put it on his shoulder, and randomly said, “Stomachache.” Before walking out of the classroom.

The teacher’s complimentary voice came from afar. “The answer is correct. But the process is also important for the student. The most important thing is the solution to solve this type of problem…”

Su Lian went out from the side door, walked out of the No.8 Middle School gate, and wandered aimlessly on the street.

He took out his mobile phone from the trouser pocket. The iPhone 6, which was so old, almost obsolete, displayed time on the screen: September 4th, 2018.

To confirm it again, this was eight years ago, he had returned from the future to his seventeen years.

The heart was beating violently like a great wave of calm water.

Since he could successfully come back, the dead Chi Wang should have lived well. When thinking about this name, his internal organs were mixing together, and his heart hurt.

Chi Wang was in his late-stage of lung cancer. Before he died, the last words that Chi Wang had said to him were still in his ears. “I’m sorry, I broke my promise. Susu, forget me.”

Su Lian’s whole body trembled uncontrollably, and finally, he dropped his last kiss. Thereafter, he looked helplessly at the ECG’s curve line turning into a straight line. He hated himself for being a surgeon, there was nothing he could do.

The unforgettable love was still at the peak of strong feelings, yet death suddenly became the later development.

How the hell could he forget this? He couldn’t forget it at all.

On the large and small operating table, he had faced many patients, who died because of indisposition. Thus, he had long regarded life and death very lightly.

All the affairs after Chi Wang’s death; cremation, burial, and holding the funeral, every matter was in perfect order.

From the outsiders’ point of view, they loved each other for several years, yet Su Lian could still be so restrained, which he seemed to lack regard for Chi Wang.

It was only when the crowd dispersed that Su Lian’s tense nerve finally loosened, leaving only an endless confusion and loneliness.

It was as though he was suddenly left in a place with nowhere to go.

He sat in the cemetery for one day and one night. His limbs were numb, and the torrential rain kept pouring.

Until an old man with messy hair held a black umbrella over his head.

The old man threw a watch, which knew where it came from, into his arms, and said, “Time travel. Find out the reason, maybe you can change the ending, do you want to try?”

Su Lian finally caught a life-saving straw. He immediately responded, “What do I need to do?”

“Set a time that you want to travel to, close your eyes, and you will go back to the past…”

The loud horn passed through his ears, accompanied by the driver’s swearing dialect. “Watch the road, idiot.”

Su Lian instantly woke up, the red light in front of him turned green. Hence, he accelerated his pace to cross the road.

Chi Wang once mentioned that he was in No.3 Middle School, which was not far away from No.8 Middle School.

Su Lian took out the tangled earphone from his trouser pocket, he then wore it and turned on the play button. A sad old song sounded, the lyrics were quite suitable at this time.

At night, the streets become noisier, with the pedestrians passing by in a hurry. And occasionally, mixed with the aroma of spicy noodles drifting from the roadside stores, the smoke was strong.

Su Lian walked slowly to the vicinity of No.3 Middle School, thinking about how to sneak into the school.

His eyes fortuitously swept past a neat figure jumping on the wall and were ready to jump down.

The man was holding a half-burned cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette butt was scarlet, a faint mist leaked out, shrouding his entire face indistinctly, leaving only a vague outline.

Su Lian’s footsteps paused. The noise and the music immediately disappeared, the world became quiet for a moment, only the pounding sound of his heartbeat remained.

When the mist faded away, he finally saw the other party’s face.

The strands of hair on the teenager’s forehead were swept by the wind. He had thin facial features and a clear lower jaw. His thin eyelids drooped down, weakening his sharpness.

The light blue school uniform hung loosely over the shoulder, and the zipper was zipping halfway, revealing the back T-shirt with a wide collar inside. The whole person showed a somewhat sloppy and frivolous appearance.

Coincidentally, today was an auspicious day. The tightened heart slowly relaxed. Su Lian approached hastily, grasping the vertical foothold, and looked at the other party avariciously.

The wall was about one meter high, Su Lian slightly lifted his head. The eyes of the two met; the dark pupils of the opposite side were gloomy. It was bottomless, like a whirlpool, making people couldn’t help wanting to get closer.

Su Lian felt breathless, his chest was rising up and down fiercely. Before he could say “Chi-ge”, his heart started to feel sour.

“What are you looking at?” The teenager’s voice was careless, mixed with a warm breath hitting his face, it was moist, like a mist after the rain.

Su Lian suppressed his emotions and stared straight at the other person. His expression gradually turned confused. They look the same, but they had a different temperature from the boyfriend, who he had been in love with for a few years.

The twenty years old Chi Wang had always been meticulous in formal attire. He spoke mildly, with steady behavior, and he didn’t drink nor smoke.

Sometimes, the other party was like an impeccable and perfect person.

Looking back now, the man didn’t at all match with the smoking ruffian brother, who was squatting in front of him.

Afraid of recognizing the wrong person, Su Lian’s Adam apple rolled, and he asked bluntly, “Classmate, what’s your name?”

The ruffian brother’s cheeks sank slightly, his thin lips sucked the cigarette, making a faint smoke overflowing on his lips. “Chi Wang, Wang the unrestrained.”

Seeing that the person in front of him didn’t move, Chi Wang was too lazy to move as well. Therefore, he reminded out loud, “Classmate, you’re blocking me from jumping off and skipping class.”

No disguise, really unrestrained.

Su Lian laughed angrily at the series of extreme dissimilarities. The emotional reunion in his eyes was instantly blown away by the wind.

He put the earphones around his finger and made it into a ball before putting it back in the pocket. Su Lian retorted, “Coward, if you have the ability, go to the front door.”

Chi Wang glanced sideways at the security guard, who had dozed off at the gate not far away. He pointed to the teaching building in the distance, shaking his feet lightly with a foolish expression.

“You have never studied math? Between the two places, the line segment here is the shortest.”

Su Lian: “…”

You f*ucking dare to show off with your elementary math skills? The seventeen years old Chi Wang didn’t seem to have a good brain.

“Make way, make way. I’m about to jump off.” Chi Wang squatted slightly, stared at Su Lian’s position with his eyes.

“Why are you skipping class?” Su Lian stood unmoved, unwilling to give in.

Chi Wang played with his cigarette and raised his thick eyebrows lightly. “Didn’t you skip class as well? People on the same path, no need to ask about the destination.”

The fists in his pocket hardened. Su Lian resisted the urge to beat the person in front of him. “Speak human words.”

Chi Wang felt it was interesting that this person meddled in his business with such a cold face. Thus, he added, “Evening self-study is boring. Go to Night to make up for sleep.”

Night, was this the name of a nightclub? It’s not decent to listen to.

Su Lian’s expression became colder. “Why did you sleep so early?”

“I’m very tired since I have to work hard to make money in the middle of the night. ” Chi Wang drained all his patience and bit the cigarette with his mouth.

Su Lian frowned. “Receive guests?”

“En, it can be considered like that.” Chi Wang thought about it seriously and gave a slight nod.

Su Lian was completely speechless. Did this seventeen years old guy so poor that he had to leave a secure job?

In the end, why did he have to come back?

The perfect lover filter of Chi Wang in those years was completely shattered within three seconds.

The light wind passed by, and the faint smoke drifted over again, slamming on his face, adding fuel to fire.

Thinking about the late-stage lung cancer notice, Su Lian grabbed the scarlet cigarette violently and poke it against the dirty wall.

He took three steps back, and without warning, Su Lian kicked the person to the side. “Sorry, my feet slipped.”

Perfunctory ruthless without any feeling.

Being kicked down, Chi Wang’s back knocked against the tree trunk beside him. He frowned and made a groaning sound.

He gritted his teeth and stood up. Chi Wang jumped over the wall, he suddenly reached out to grab Su Lian’s collar. With one pull, the other person was pressed against the wall. The distance between the two shortened, and the tips of their noses almost touched.

His vision was limited in the dark. Su Lian couldn’t see the expression of the person in front of him. He could only feel the other party aggravated breathing with a strong sense of oppression.

Su Lian let himself be dragged by Chi Wang. Within this intertwined breath, he raised his eyelids slightly, and asked, “Why, do you want to fight back?”

Just in time, he was upset, so may as well have a good fight

Chi Wang lowered his eyes, yet he didn’t move. In the past years, he had remained modest and had long retired from being a school bully. But this kick was so fierce that it almost sent him to the sky.

At this moment, the cool face in front of him was stubborn. When staring at people, the corner of his eyes was slightly raised, which appeared fickle.

Chi Wang unexpectedly let out a low laugh, slowly released his grasp, and lifted his hands to straighten the other party’s collar.

“Master Wang is not stingy. My brothers’ skills aren’t bad, they are also good at getting along with others. I invite you to a private room tonight and make more friends.”

Su Lian: “…” Invite your uncle1.

Very good. In addition to having bad habits, he also mixed in a dirty society.

Su Lian frowned, regretting his recklessness in returning to such an early time. The current Chi Wang, from his hair to his tone of voice, made him feel grumpy every time.

As the two stared at each other, Su Lian suddenly remembered the Master’s last words. “The price is that once you go back, you will never be able to return to the future.”

These days, 80% of people might have blurred vision, they had misread the very ominous hexagram form.

Su Lian swore in a low voice. His back was slackened against the wall as if he had nothing left to live for. His finger touched the dial on the left hand and unconsciously moved the pointer back until it couldn’t be moved.

The street scenes on both sides flashed by rapidly, his body was abruptly pulled into the time-space tunnel, then he returned to the moment he had just woken up in the class.

Su Lian glanced at his watch in disbelief. His expression cracked a little.

F*ck, went back again?

“Su Lian is sleeping again. Come and solve this problem.”

From the teacher’s mouth, the exact same voice and scene reappeared, like a ghost hitting the wall2.

Without waiting for the students to be talkative, Su Lian walked directly to the podium with his schoolbag. He took the chalk and drew two strokes on the blackboard.

This time, the solving step was omitted, and the answer was written directly at the end of the problem: 4.

The chalk was thrown back to the box, still pointing out to one o’clock direction.

He didn’t misread it, the hexagram was indeed auspicious.

“WTF, Lian-ge didn’t sleep today?”

“What’s even more terrifying is that he may be listening to the lecture. Hence, he can pick out the problem as exactly what the teacher is talking about!”

“He actually guessed the correct answer of the geometric figure on this blackboard? He turned over the new leaf?”

“Wait, the answer seems to be really 4…This problem-solving level…Absolutely…”

Under a group of shocked eyes, Su Lian dropped a word, “Stomachache.” And strode out of the classroom.

Putting the index finger on the pointer, and turning it back, Chi Wang was like a ghost, squatting on the wall, looking at him with a cigarette in his mouth.

Su Lian raised his eyes slightly. His gazes were focused on the other party’s arrogant face again, and immediately understood the meaning of time travel.

Starting from when he began to travel through time, the spent time was the horizontal axis, which he could go back and forth during this timeline at will.

He fixed the pointer to the time when he talked to Chi Wang. This time, Su Lian was too lazy to talk nonsense, he directly extinguished the cigarette, took a few steps back, lifted his foot, and kicked the person off the wall once again.

The pointer moved back and forth three times. Su Lian skillfully and neatly kicked the other person each time, the petulant in his heart finally vented.

It didn’t deceive him that today was auspicious.

Su Lian tiptoed lightly on the ground, moving his ankles a bit, feeling the grumpiness had subsided a lot.

He looked at Chi Wang in front of him. The other party’s posture of pressing people against the wall was still proud and overbearing. His facial features were sharp and arrogant. No matter how he looked, Chi Wang was quite unrestrained.

But how long could a seventeen years old bast*rd last for?

He had plenty of time to slowly guide this man.

Turning the pointer for the fourth time, Chi Wang introduced himself again, “My name is Chi Wang, Wang the unrestrained.”

Su Lian stood on the spot, lifted his chin slightly, and shoved his hands into his pockets. “My name is Su Lian, Lian the restrain.”

T/N: Your uncle, Beijing dialect, extended to Internet language, and became a word to vent dissatisfaction among friends.

T/N: “Ghost Hit Wall” is the literal translation of “鬼打牆”, the Mandarin Chinese expression of getting lost, going in a circle, and not being able to get out.