The Healing Sunshine (一厘米的阳光)

Chapter 12.3 - The Person in the Past Dream (3)

That night, after the lights went out in the dormitory, as if they had previously arranged it, the eleven people who were rooming with her all began talking about their aspirations for after their college entrance examinations.

Although they still did not know whether the policy would require them to submit their post-secondary education aspirations before the college entrance examinations or after the examination marks were released, this still did not hinder everyone from looking forward to the future. When senior-year high school students see that they are fast approaching the endpoint of an era in life, they will all feel fired up, like their blood is roiling.

"I want to be a journalist in the future." When all of them were stating their standpoints, Jǐ Yi suddenly expressed her own thoughts. Although her only understanding of this profession was through Jì Chengyang, just he alone had already allowed her to understand that type of attitude towards life when one holds extreme ideals.

Only dreams and ideals can give you courage in the face of disaster.

Only dreams and ideals can allow you, in the midst of a colossal flood with even floodwaters at your chest, to still face the camera and describe the serious disaster. Only dreams and ideals can allow you to walk calmly in the face of death itself, where even if in the next second the place you were standing were to become the landing site of an artillery shell, were to become the place where your life came to an end, you would still stride forward undauntedly, for the sole purpose of bringing the most frontline scenes of this world's wars and fighting to everyone...

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The people inside the dormitory room with her were all former classmates from the advanced science stream class, and science-stream students were not very attracted to the journalism profession.

Only Yin Qingqing in the bunk above her was very interested. When everyone had quieted down, she all of a sudden climbed down softly, slipped under Jǐ Yi's quilt, and whispered, "Let me tell you, I especially want to be a program anchor."

Jǐ Yi shifted closer to the wall, making some space for her, and replied in a low voice, "I just met a few program anchors today. They're all really nice and approachable."

"Really?" Yin Qingqing grew excited.

Jǐ Yi gave her a general description in a few sentences, explaining vaguely that a friend had brought her to the television station. Her eyes held a sense of aspiration and pride, and more and more did this rouse Yin Qingqing's interest. Of course, it also roused Yin Qingqing's suggestive speculations. "Jǐ Yi, are you in an underage romance?"

Jǐ Yi was alarmed. Instantly, she could feel her heart pounding like thunder, and hemming and hawing, she did not reply.

"You must be." Seeing that she did not give an answer, Yin Qingqing was even more certain. She moved in close to Jǐ Yi's ear and exhilaratedly told her, "When I went to buy something at the supermarket, I saw you getting out of a car on the opposite side of the overpass. There was a really hot guy inside the car wearing a baseball cap, right? He's especially tall, right? I could tell from him just sitting in the car that he's definitely about the same height as those guys on our school basketball team. You guys, hmm... I'm sure have some sort of underground affair going on, or else why didn't you get off the car at the front of the school instead of walking two streets to get over here?"

Beside her ear was Yin Qingqing's breath, which was being blown out as she spoke, warm and tickly.

To high school students, someone having a boyfriend from outside of the school was already a very shocking piece of gossip, let alone this "rumoured boyfriend" seemed to be someone who was already out in the working world. This was just blood-boilingly exciting!