My One And Only Love/ Exclusive Memory (Somewhere Only We Know) — 独家记忆 Chapter 3 Part 1

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    And so, did she call him or not...?

Chapter 3 Part 1: Bright Moon VS Ditch 
Translated by Fei斐 & Proofread by Iping

    I pondered for a long time and couldn't make up my mind. I looked at Bai Lin, and then at the police uncles with serious faces. I stared at the number on the screen, with my thumb on the calling button. I couldn't make up my mind.

    In the previous military theory class, the teacher said that there were many strange countries and regimes on this earth. When they developed themselves, they liked to regard a powerful neighboring country as their imaginary enemy. Since the end of the last semester, I had always regarded Mu Chenghe as an enemy, but this enemy was not only my imagination, and the things he did were also moving in this direction.

    But, besides him, who else could I call?

    It was impossible for my cousin to ​​​​come and pretended to be a university teacher, in case my mom knew and might ask me to take a few layers of my skin off. It wasn't possible to count on a bunch of Zhao Xiaotang's netizens too; one was weirder and awkward than another. If you really pulled them out and said it, the most serious thing (to happen) was to completely insult our alma mater and schoolmasters' image.

    I massaged my forehead.

    What if Mu Chenghe simply ignored me? What if he reported it to the school?

    At this time, the police uncle asked again, "Did you find the number?"

    I simpered, "I'm trying hard to remember."

    In the end, I gritted my teeth, closed my eyes, and gripped my heart, dialing Mu Chenghe's phone number. The ringtone rang more than a dozen times, and when I was desperate, he answered the phone, "Wei——*"

(*T/N: Wei= Hey/Hello? [When answering someone's phone call])

    The originally infuriating voice in class, with a little sleepiness at the moment, suddenly sounded like a nature's sound* to me.

(*T/N: what XT wants to say is that, MCH voice sounds like a great blessing and pardon for her at this moment)

    "Teacher Mu." I yelled tremblingly, "I am Xue Tong."

    I couldn't guarantee that he would remember this name, because every time he calls me, it's either "classmate (Tóng Xué😂)" or "class representative classmate", who suffered thousands of stabs each time. So I hurriedly added and explained, "I am from your* English department, 3rd year junior, second foreign (language), the representative of Russian class, Xue Tong.” I used five attributives in front of my name to recall his half-dream and half-awake consciousness.

(*T/N: Xue Tong used 您Nìn— a polite form of you/your — to call MCH.)

    Mu Chenghe asked, "What's the matter?" 

    His voice came from the receiver, gradually became smaller and then louder. He seemed to be sitting up from the bed, taking the phone away from his mouth, and changing his hand holding the phone.

    The simple three words actually made me feel the warmth of my loved ones in this cold night.

    "Teacher—" I almost burst into tears when I spoke on the phone.

    "What's the matter?" he asked again.

    Teacher, you are a good person, the best person in the world!

    I was moved and said, "Teacher, we made a mistake. Please come and pick us up."

    After only half an hour, Mu Chenghe drove up in a hurry, with his ID card, work permit, and even the teacher qualification certificate.

    One of the policemen suddenly changed his face when he saw his ID and said, "Oh, you are Mu Chenghe. I saw you in the newspaper." He looked honored.

    So he got everything done smoothly, picked up Bai Lin and placed it in the back of the car, leading us out like two stray dogs.

    I consciously sat down on the co-pilot and fastened my seat belt. Before he could speak, I frowned my eyebrows and took the initiative to plead guilty, "Teacher, we were wrong, and we won’t dare to do it again. No, abide by the school rules and class rules. I swear, really!" I sincerely regretted before he scolded me, hoping to evoke his benevolence, and not reporting me and Bai Lin.

    Mu Chenghe turned his head and watched with relish when I was talking to myself, silent for a long time.

    I dared not look into his eyes, wringing my fingers with a guilty conscience, "Teacher, we are really wrong, you can scold me." As long as you don't hand me over to the college to scold me to death.

    He suddenly smiled, "I said it before, I never lose my temper with children."

    I looked up at him, and suddenly felt that the smile on this man's face was somewhat gloomy and very fake. Although it was quite unethical to use these words on Mu Chenghe, who was like our lifesaver.

    "How did you slip out?"

    "Climbed over the wall." I confessed honestly.

    "How much did you drink?"

    "She drank three or four bottles, and I drank six or seven bottles."

    "Heh—you're a good drinker." He raised his eyebrows.

    I became proud, "That's for sure, my mother has focused on nurturing me since she was a child. She said that girls cannot be easily taken advantage of over a thousand of cups (alcoholic drinks)."

    "Really?" he asked back.

    Seeing his smirking eyes, my triumphant face instantly darkened. I'm a sinner now and couldn't boast.

    Thus, this topic ended here.

    "What do you do next? Take you back to the dormitory?" He asked as he started the car.

    "No! The school will know." If he sent us back, he would definitely not let us climb the wall anymore, but knock on the door of the girls' dormitory and let us walk in under the scorching eyes of the security.

    "Then what to do?"

    "Uh—" This really stumped me. Just as the car passed by the south gate of University A's, I quickly said, "You can let us down here. We will wait for the morning to come."

    "Where are you going to put your classmate?" Mu Chenghe gestured to me in the rearview mirror to the drunk Bai Lin behind us. 

    I bit my lip and thought for a while, "There is an internet cafe near the university gate. (We will just) Go to the internet cafe and sit down."

    Mu Chenghe shook his head, obviously disagreeing with my bad idea.

    After a while, he said, "I'm not rest assured to throw you two out of the car in the middle of the night. Forget it, go to my house."

    "Where do you live?"

    "Eastern Second Ring Road*."

(T/N: it's 东二环 Dōng èr huán in Chinese. I searched it up, it is said to be an area near Eastern Beijing's gate.)

    "It's pretty far." I was still reluctant.

    "When you asked me to pick you up just now, why didn't you think I live that far." He was helpless.

    "But, we will have intensive reading session tomorrow morning." I hesitated.

    "I'll send you back, okay?" he asked patiently.

    "OK!"

    Now, I have no worries.

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    The chapter's title "Bright Moon VS Ditch"一 I think the ditch here supposed to be like this :)

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