Rebirth in 1986: Unforgettable Regrets novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9 - 9 Changed

"Tang Yue, time to eat."

Tang Jun shouted loudly, but without the previous impatience, he said, "If you don't get up now, the noodles are going to be overcooked."

"Mhm."

Tang Yue responded with a sound and opened her eyes. It took her a while to realize, as she looked at the familiar room, that she had been reborn.

She sat up, tears still wet at the corners of her eyes. The dream from last night was too real, so real that she experienced it all over again.

Tang Yue quickly pulled her hands out from under the covers, looking at those hands that hadn't touched spring water, no longer the rough, skin-and-bones hands they had been.

Mo Siyu.

Tang Yue blankly thought of the time in her dream when she learned Mo Siyu's identity, the sweater she had knitted to thank Mo Siyu, which she had always hidden away, not daring to give it to him.

"Tang Yue, what are you dawdling for?" Tang Jun called out again.

Tang Yue collected her thoughts, freshly washed up, she saw Tang Jun sitting there eating noodles, and on top of her own bowl of noodles was a poached egg.

"Mom said it's to nourish you," Tang Jun said, somewhat avoiding Tang Yue's gaze.

Tang Yue didn't think much of it and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

"I have," Tang Jun mumbled, his head hanging low, unclearly heard.

Only then did Tang Yue sit down to eat her noodles, saying, "There are only a few days left until school starts. When I go to the county for school, if you don't understand something at home, ask your classmates, or wait for me to come back on the weekends and ask me."

"I know," Tang Jun said impatiently, soon finishing his noodles and soup completely before dashing into the room.

Tang Yue ate her noodles leisurely; the taste of the noodles became even better with the poached egg added.

It wasn't until she nearly finished her noodles that Tang Yue noticed there seemed to be an extra poached egg in her bowl: one on top of the noodles and another at the bottom.

She paused, then quickly realized and remembered the odd behavior of Tang Jun today – he must have wanted to save the egg for her to eat but was too embarrassed to say so.

"Tang Jun, I ate the poached egg, but don't expect me to go easy on you when I'm correcting your work," Tang Yue shouted, tasting the egg in her mouth, finding it even more delicious than the first one.

Tang Jun, in this life, I won't let you repeat the same hard path as in the last one.

"Who needs your pity," Tang Jun muttered inside the room, grabbing a book to start memorizing. These were texts from the first year of junior high; Tang Yue kept repeating them by his ear, explaining that memorizing more poetry and reading more literature would be beneficial.

*

"Little Uncle." Tang Yue saw Tang Mingli returning from outside and immediately called out.

"What's up?" Tang Mingli stopped in his tracks and looked at Tang Yue. Her ponytail was tied high, and her bangs were clipped up, revealing her round, lively apricot eyes. The spirited look in her eyes made her entire face come alive. She wore a sweet smile, different from the way she used to be around people.

"Little Uncle, aren't you working in the county? How come you're back?" Tang Yue asked over the bamboo fence that was half a person's height.

"It's a holiday," Tang Mingli casually replied, eyeing Tang Yue curiously, "Tang Yue, you've changed? You never used to talk to me? It would take me forever to get you to even call me Little Uncle. I heard you're calling my second brother 'Dad' now?"

"You didn't used to call him that, did you?" Tang Mingli stared at Tang Yue with curiosity, noticing that the biggest change this time he came back was this niece of his.

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