Wasn’t that her high school picture?

Yu Mian still remembered that it was the photo taken when she applied for her school ID in her freshman year of high school.

It went missing at some point so Yu Mian had to apply for a replacement.

However, the photo left a deep impression on her, because when she was applying for her ID the first time, the teacher taking picture said that it look good and it was the most beautiful one she had taken in many years.

Yu Mian took a look at it and found that sure enough, she looked particularly beautiful in the picture.

Everyone loves beauty and Yu Mian was no exception. Looking at the beautiful picture of her every day improved her mood.

After she lost her ID, she searched for it for a long time, but unfortunately never found it. In the end, she had to apply for a new one.

The long-lost picture reappeared before her eyes, but it changed from colored to black and white, looking familiar yet strange.

Yu Mian stood up and approached. Her fingertips gently touched the girl’s still childish face. Her emotions fluctuated and an inexplicable sadness appeared in her heart.

Wen Quyi came out of the kitchen with a cup of tea in his hand and stood behind the dazed girl.

“Doesn’t she look a lot like you?”

The young man’s clear voice sounded in her ears, as clean as a gurgling stream flowing through a quiet valley.

Pulled back from her drifting thoughts, Yu Mian turned her head to look at the young man and gently pursed her lips.

Perhaps her mood was too complicated thus she didn’t know what to say and simply fell silent.

In fact, there was no need for her to answer. Wen Quyi had on a self-depreciating smile. “If I wasn’t sure that she had passed away, I would have thought that she wasn’t dead and is standing right in front of me.”

Yu Mian’s heart skipped a beat and she almost thought he noticed something. She originally wanted to ask him how he got the picture, but now she didn’t dare do so.

She dryly said, “That-, if Yu Mian knew how much you miss her, she would definitely be happy in the other side.”

The young man gave her a fixed look, as if to reconfirm her identity.

It went on for a long time. It wasn’t until Yu Mian became uneasy under his gaze that he looked away and abandon the thought. He handed over the tea cup in his hand while saying, “I just came home. The house is a bit messy and there’s only tea.”

“It’s fine, thank you.” Yu Mian took the disposable cup and shook her head to show that she didn’t mind.

From this action of Wen Quyi, she finally felt a trace of familiarity. This young man, in his bones, was still so gentle and polite.

She looked at his kind eyes and wanted to ask him how he had been in the past two years, but she opened her mouth and swallowed it all back.

Her identity had changed and her former friends had now become strangers. Even if there were still a lot of words in her heart, it wasn’t suitable to talk about them at this moment.

Yu Mian turned her head and noticed that there was a white porcelain jar behind the black and white photo. It wasn’t big, with a round belly and blue cloud patterns. It looked nothing special, but Yu Mian felt that it should contain her ashes.

Seeing her dead self from the perspective of a bystander was like dreaming.

Noticing her looking at the urn, Wen Quyi said, “This is Yu Mian.”

“Mm, I know.” After looking at it for a long time, it felt a bit strange and uncomfortable. Yu Mian turned around and sat back on the sofa. She took a sip of tea before saying, “Um…… Yu Mian told me about you. You seem to be studying abroad so it must be hassle for you. You even came back to help handle her funeral.”

Wen Quyi looked at her in surprise. “She told you about me?”

Yu Mian was taken aback, not expecting that to be his focus. After a pause, she said, “Yes, she said she had a very warmhearted neighbor named Wen Quyi. That’s you…… right?”

“It’s me.” Hearing what she said, Wen Quyi’s eyes dimmed. He lowered his eyes and said, “Since she told you about me, then I won’t introduce myself anymore.”

Yu Mian vaguely felt that his mood dropped lower. Did she say something wrong? But after thinking about it, she didn’t seem to have said anything particular.

But what’s certain was that his mood changed after she finished speaking, or did her arrival disturb him?

Realizing this, Yu Mian suddenly fidgeted. The sofa was very soft, but she felt as if she was sitting on pins and needles.

Before she could dwell on it for too long, there was a sudden knock on the door and Wen Quyi excused himself.

Yu Mian sat opposite him for ten minutes, during which the two didn’t have any communication at all. In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Yu Mian finished drinking the cup of tea in her hand.

The ringing of the doorbell broke the stagnant atmosphere and Yu Mian breathed a sigh of relief. While he was opening the door, she quickly put down the cup and got up to go to the bathroom.

When Yu Mian was done relieving herself and came out of the bathroom, the Wen family’s living room was already full of people, all talking softly.

As she was walking out, someone heard her footsteps and looked over instinctively. When their eyes met, the person suddenly yelled out.

“Ghost!” The scream resounded throughout the house, almost overturning the roof.

Yu Mian had just finished washing her hands so it was stretched out in front of her. Seeing the other party staggering in fright and almost falling to the ground, she couldn’t help but have black lines on her forehead.

She thought she was quite good-looking. Back when she was still in her original body, she would always be praised for her good looks whenever she appeared.

Although the other Yu Mian’s appearance was similar to her old body, upon closer inspection, one could still see the difference. Now her face was much more exquisite than before. If Yu Mian can be called a little beauty, then the other Yu Mian was a great beauty.

A great beauty that could actually scare people to the point of them screaming ‘ghosts’……

Yu Mian froze in place and everyone in the living room was startled by the sound, all turning their heads to look over.

Yu Mian subconsciously scanned the circle of people and found that they were all her former classmates.

They had been in the same class in high school for three years. While some people’s appearance had changed, she could still recognize most of them.

While she was observing the other people, they were also examining her. A young woman grabbed the screaming guy and rolled her eyes. “Wu Xinyang, what ghost are you talking about? Look carefully. She’s not Yu Mian!”

The guy hid and didn’t dare to come out. He pushed his huge body behind the young woman and said in a low muffled voice, “I looked carefully, it’s Yu Mian. Did she come looking for us from the other side?”

The young woman sighed helplessly. Everyone was originally feeling heavy, but this interruption actually dispelled some of the gloominess and the atmosphere became a little lighter.

Yu Mian was clear that she was actually not dead and the earlier sadness had long passed, so she couldn’t help but smile.

“Hello, I’m Yu Mian’s online friend. I know she had an accident, so I wanted to come and see her.” She repeated her previous words to Wen Quyi, then added apologetically, “That-, I just I look a bit like Yu Mian, but I’m a living person.”

Hearing Yu Mian’s voice, Wu Xinyang poke his head out from behind the young woman and looked over tentatively.

“Phew, it’s really not Yu Mian. I thought I saw a ghost.”

Probably astonished by their similar faces, Wu Xinyang came over and circled around Yu Mian. He curiously said, “Beauty, you and Yu Mian are online friends? What’s your name?”

The other person was still as unpredictable as she remembered. Yu Mian looked at everyone and noticed that they seemed to be waiting for her answer.

If their similar appearance was just a coincidence, then it would be really strange if their names were also the same.

Her mind turned and Yu Mian replied after a while, “My name is…… Mu Mian^[1]Red Cotton Tree.”