Chapter 297: Searching for Meaning
The answer was unexpected. Li Yan was ready to feel disappointed and embarrassed, but then there was this twist?

This made him not know what to ask.

"That's good. When we reach puberty, everyone will be more or less confused..."

"I'm not confused." Wei Yunzhi interrupted Li Yan.

Okay, now I really don’t know what to say.

"I don't think everything I do has to be meaningful." Wei Yunzhi moved closer to where Li Yan was leaning. "You can do something meaningful, or you can do something meaningless."

"Then you look for ..."

"Searching doesn't mean you have to find it." Wei Yunzhi laughed again, "If you have to give meaning to everything, then searching itself has meaning."

Li Yan also smiled.

"You don't have to find shells when you go to the beach." Wei Yunzhi moved closer to Li Yan, his arms almost touching hers.

"Because I have gained a lot in the process, the smell of the sea breeze, the touch of the waves, listening to the sound of the sea and watching the sea view, these may be more precious than the shell itself." Li Yan said.

Wei Yunzhi did not comment.

Li Yan then added, "Even if you are unlucky and don't encounter anything, but the sea breeze is fishy, ​​the waves are big, and the environment is bad and you can't go to the beach, it becomes a pity. But it can also be regarded as an experience in life and it is meaningful."

"So I said, you have always been chasing after meaning. You can be angry about regrets, and you can dislike the sea breeze and waves. I am just here to pick up shells. I just want to do this. If I find something, I will go home happily. If I don't find anything, I will be sad and act like a spoiled child."

Li Yan frowned.

"Wanting to do something doesn't mean it's meaningful, and there's no need to force yourself to think it's meaningful. If a person has to convince himself that taking a break to play a game is called 'combining work and rest', it's really tiring."

Li Yan's brows relaxed again.

"I'm actually very willful." Wei Yunzhi lowered her head, put her hands behind her back and pinched her fingers, "I don't like others telling me whether doing something is useful or not. There are some things I must do and some things I want to do. I will do what I must do and what I want to do."

"That's the same end result." Li Yan smiled. "It sounds like our ideas are very different, but in the end, they turn out to be quite similar."

"It's just that you have a goal, and I don't." The little beauty sighed, "I can waste my time, but you can't, right?"

"I don't like wasting time."

Wei Yunzhi raised an eyebrow, "If you don't like it, don't do it."

"But if I'm tired, I might as well waste a bit."

"Just do it."

"That's what I mean." Li Yan felt inexplicably relieved.

Suddenly, Wei Yunzhi reached out and pinched his shoulder.

“I’ve always wondered what it feels like to pinch it.”

So you did it?
The girl stopped pinching immediately and said, "It's just like I imagined, it's bouncy, it's definitely different."

"No...different?"

“I said it’s different from myself.”

Fortunately... No, fortunately what?
But this world is really like this: a little girl pinches the shoulder of an underage handsome guy and he just laughs and forgets it.

If he said at this time "Let me pinch you", he would be accused of something and sent to the eighteenth level of hell!

This is not an exaggeration, brothers.

When they parted in the afternoon, Wei Yunzhi suddenly asked, "Do you understand me better?"

"I guess so." Li Yan answered sincerely but confusedly.

"But I don't know you well enough. You are... a very wonderful person."

Yeah, I find it weird too, who the hell can be reborn with a cheat.

If you want to know about this part, you'd better forget it, girl. No one is qualified to do so.

"It's nice to meet you." Damn, it's hard to dodge a straight ball.

"I feel so too."

I'll give you a straight ball too.

Then Wei Yunzhi happily accepted it and was still waving and saying goodbye when they reached the intersection.

Li Yan watched the girl disappear around the corner before walking back to school.

"Are you out with a girl?"

The security guard at the door said so.

No, it was impossible for him to see the difference between Li Yan and Wei Yun.

"……No."

"Don't lie to me, idiot. Any guy your age with a smile like that on his face is most likely meeting a girl he likes!"

I just can't help laughing when I think of that loud bang.

"You said don't lie to idiots, so if I lied to you, you are... and if you are not, then it means I didn't lie to you."

The security guard slapped his head repeatedly.

Li Yan smiled, took a few big steps over the flowers beside the statue at the entrance, and stood on the playground.

Let’s feel this brand new body today!
Try how stable the lower limit is, test how high the upper limit is, and by the way, consume some excess energy.

After running, Li Yan returned to the dormitory to take a shower and subconsciously turned on the computer, but the mouse stayed on the word icon without double-clicking.

Maybe... just waste some time?
Go out for a walk, find a restaurant you like or have never been to, have a meal, chat with everyone, and then go to some attractions in New Taipei City tomorrow to experience the crowds.

This is called experiencing life, called collecting materials...

No need to call for anything, just do it if you want to.

The dormitory group was always worried that Li Yan was practicing martial arts silently, and they all asked him anxiously to tell them what he had done that day.

"I went to the bookstore with Wei Yunzhi to chat in the morning, had lunch together at noon, went to the mall to chat in the afternoon, came back to run and exercise in the evening, went out to eat some stew, and now I'm chatting with you and getting ready to go to bed."

Lin Heng concluded: Fall in love.

Li Yan smiled and typed a line of words: This is called playing with good friends.

Chen Fan: Yan Shen, the line of words you just wrote broke my computer screen.

Li Yan was stunned: What do you mean?
Everyone else: Too hard.

Zhu Qinglun suddenly popped up: Why does Mr. Yan sound so weak today? After going out and chatting, he came back to exercise and drink stewed soup?
The topic became distorted, but everyone just made fun of it and didn't dare to focus on Li Yan.

They knew that Li Yan was rather sensitive about this kind of joke, so it turned into one of the most favorite topics for teenage boys and any writing about it would be censored.

On the other side, the core group for changing the world has been renamed "Four Kings with One" - naturally it was changed by Chen Fan. Today, when Li Yan and Wei Yunzhi were having a great time, Chen Fan had an in-depth discussion with the other three in the group about a technical issue.

As a result, as the person who raised the question, Chen Fan was hit hard by Lai Yining's brilliant ideas, Deng Yudi's multiple solutions, and He Zixiang's additional questions. His self-confidence was at its lowest.

They have basically worked out the basic structure of the "Geek Community" website and are discussing the name of the website.

He also tagged Li Yan frantically and asked him to provide the final opinion.

Li Yan opened the website, closed it in just one second, and provided valuable advice as requested:
"too ugly."

This touched everyone's heart, and they complained about the difficulty of finding materials.

Then they saw what Li Yan said:

Whatever materials you need, I’ll get them.

(End of this chapter)