After Letting Go, I Ended Up Happily Ever After With My White Moonlight - Chapter 1

Timely snow promises a bumper harvest, but looking at the vast expanse of white outside the window, Jiang Yu could not muster any happiness at all.

The indoor heating was turned up very high, making Jiang Yu feel somewhat listless and lethargic. At this moment, she was burying her chin in her arms and questioning the meaning of life.

“Alas, Little Fish, what is wrong with you? Lately, you are always so dejected. Don’t tell me this is a sequela from the car accident and your body has not fully recovered yet?” The speaker was Jiang Yu’s close best friend, Cheng Yao. “By the way, why haven’t I seen you go look for Qi Yin lately? Have you finally seen the light? If you ask me, aside from looking a bit pretty and having a nice voice, that Qi Yin, ”

“Alright, Yao-yao.” Jiang Yu raised her head expressionlessly to interrupt Cheng Yao, radiating an aura of gloom all over her body.

What entered Cheng Yao’s field of vision were Jiang Yu’s dark circles that were practically drooping down to her cheekbones.

“Goodness! Little Fish, are you planning to cosplay as a giant panda??? Which godforsaken person drained you dry???” Cheng Yao was startled, pointing at her own cheekbones and saying in utter shock.

Ignoring Cheng Yao’s hand pointing at her cheekbones, Jiang Yu buried her head back into her arms and mumbled vaguely, “It’s nothing, Yao-yao. Let me lie down for a while.”

Seeing Jiang Yu like this, Cheng Yao assumed she was in a bad mood and did not dare to nag her anymore, saying, “Fine, fine, fine. Go sleep, go sleep.”

Jiang Yu’s mood was indeed terrible.

She, Jiang Yu, a twenty-three-year-old lesbian, graduated from South University with a major in Animal Behavior. After graduation, she and Cheng Yao, who majored in the same animal science field, opened a small pet home, which, plainly speaking, was a pet boarding house. And right at the prime age of her youth, she suffered a Waterloo twice.

The first time happened with the person Cheng Yao had just mentioned, namely Qi Yin.

Qi Yin was one year older than Jiang Yu, majoring in Law at South University, and an iron-clad, beautiful straight woman.

The very first time she saw Qi Yin on the opening day of freshman year, she swore to Cheng Yao with absolute certainty that her true love had arrived, and told her to just watch!

However, the reality was that right up until graduation, getting rejected by Qi Yin one more time would have pushed her count into the triple digits.

Presently, Cheng Yao had indeed decided to give up, not because the goddess was too difficult to pursue, but because of the second matter.

It was also the car accident Cheng Yao had mentioned a short while ago.

A month ago, while Jiang Yu was riding her old-fashioned bicycle with a piece of bread clamped in her mouth, leisurely making her way toward the shop, she had a minor friction with a speeding car.

Of course, that was what outsiders saw.

The true situation was that Jiang Yu was sent flying a full twenty meters away, blood splashing on the spot.

When Jiang Yu woke up from the hospital bed, she was stunned for a long time, looking somewhat at a loss at the doctor who informed her it was only a minor friction.

Once she snapped back to reality, Jiang Yu bit her handkerchief.

Damn hit-and-run driver, I’m going to call the police and have you arrested!!!

It was also at this time that she bound a system called Animal Rescue.

According to the system’s description, the scene of her instant death in her mind was not a fantasy, and this was actually her original ending.

Because Jiang Yu’s profession was related to pets, she happened to match the person their system needed to find, thereby altering Jiang Yu’s fate. Only by rescuing small animals while simultaneously inspiring people to care for animals to accumulate popularity points could she prevent herself from dying all over again.

“Wait, what does that mean?” Jiang Yu asked.

“It means that your current body does not belong to you anymore. Only by completing the missions can you completely avoid the ending of being run over and killed,” the system stated.

Jiang Yu was momentarily stunned, then burst out laughing.

So she got run over to death, came back to life, but might still get run over to death again, is that it?

“Is there any time limit for this mission of yours?”

Angry as she was, in order to preserve her life, she still had to compromise.

“Tentatively set within three years.”

“Then how can it be completed?” Jiang Yu tried to fish for more information.

“Spreading information and so on,” the system answered very coldly.

Fine, nothing useful was extracted.

It was also at this moment that she decided to give up on her cold senior schoolmate. After all, given that she probably didn’t have many years left to live, she shouldn’t go around messing with other people’s lives.

Because of this entire series of events, Jiang Yu’s head felt ready to explode; it would be a wonder if she could sleep well.

Although Jiang Yu was a lesbian, truthfully speaking, her acceptance capacity was not very strong. Returning to the shop in a daze, when she heard a ragdoll cat yawning and complaining about her, her materialistic worldview vanished into thin air.

“This bipedal beast’s hair is as greasy as a chicken coop, ugh, ”

Jiang Yu: “……?”

That very night, Jiang Yu went home and furiously washed her hair, and the next day she glared fiercely at that ragdoll cat.

Jiang Yu had too many things on her mind without a single clue, and coupled with the pets in the shop chattering nonstop like talkative gossips all day long, the dark circles under her eyes expanded daily.

Take right now, for instance: Jiang Yu desperately wanted to rest, but gossip after gossip drifted past her ears, making it hard not to listen.

“My owner is simply the best!”

“Tch, I don’t believe it at all. If your owner was really that great, would they dump you here?”

“He just has something to deal with temporarily; he’ll come pick me up in a couple of days!”

“Cut the crap, face reality!”

With a splitting headache, Jiang Yu suddenly grabbed her hair and ruffled it wildly, turning her head around irritably to glare at that ragdoll cat telling others to face reality.

Specifically, the one that said her hair was greasy.

“If you keep flapping your damn jaws, I’ll throw you outside!”

True to form, the air went silent for a second, causing Cheng Yao, who was playing a video game, to freeze as well.

“Huh? What? What kind of madness are you having? I didn’t say anything.”

Jiang Yu sighed, holding back her temper as she turned back to explain to Cheng Yao.

Then she heard that cheap-sounding voice of the ragdoll cat ring out again.

“Such a spooky bipedal beast, she’s well-suited to become a Buddhist monk to calm her mind.”

You’re the monk! Your entire family are monks!

Jiang Yu simply gave up on explaining to Cheng Yao, rolled up her sleeves, and marched straight toward the ragdoll cat.

Cheng Yao did not know what Jiang Yu was about to do, but seeing this stance, she didn’t even dare to continue playing the game on her phone, tossing it aside to grab Jiang Yu.

“Oh my god, Little Fish, what are you trying to do? Are you possessed by a demon? Nobody is speaking, there’s nobody here!!!”

“Let go of me, I’m going to throw this damn cat outside today,” Jiang Yu said.

“?” Cheng Yao looked at the ragdoll cat, which also wore a look of utter terror, unsure of what was wrong with Jiang Yu. She simply wrapped all her limbs around Jiang Yu’s body. “You can’t! A customer paid money, we can’t touch it!”

“I don’t care, I’m definitely throwing it out today!”

“You really can’t, we’ll have to pay compensation!”

Cheng Yao cried out at the top of her lungs, hugging Jiang Yu for dear life.

Right as the two of them were locked in a fierce struggle, unable to determine a winner, suddenly a winding, melodious voice rang out, startling them both into freezing in place.

“Welcome～ oooh～”

This damn welcome mat was chosen by that idiot Cheng Yao specifically to add ambiance.

Well, it certainly had plenty of ambiance now…

Jiang Yu had not expected anyone to visit in weather like this. She awkwardly wriggled her body, while Cheng Yao cast two vigilant glances at her and slowly loosened her grip.

Breaking free from Cheng Yao’s embrace, Jiang Yu coughed twice and raised her head to look at the person standing at the doorway.

“Hello, is there anything you need, ”

This person’s boots were still stained with snow, wearing a black trench coat on the outside and a face mask. Because the weather was too bitter, a thin layer of mist had already fogged up her spectacle frames. As for her hair, it was casually tied into a low ponytail.

Oh, and she was holding a shivering Border Collie on a leash.

However, none of these were the main points.

The main point was that this person was Qi Yin herself!!!

Jiang Yu’s barely functioning brain finally crashed at this exact moment.

Seeing that Jiang Yu remained motionless for a long time, Cheng Yao assumed she was having another episode. She poked her head out to look as well, and then she fell silent too.

As if completely unbothered by the layer of cold air congealed inside the shop, Qi Yin sized up the person standing next to Jiang Yu, lowered her gaze to remove the mist-covered mask, and said flatly, “Hello.”

Jiang Yu blankly locked gazes with Qi Yin for a moment…

I am doing well.

My ass I’m doing well.

Sensing that the atmosphere between the two of them was off, the very tactful Cheng Yao patted Jiang Yu on the shoulder. “Uh, well, I suddenly remembered there’s a puppy whose dog food hasn’t been fed yet. I’ll go check on it. You guys chat, you guys chat, haha.”

Watching Cheng Yao’s resolute retreating back, Jiang Yu felt like crying without tears.

What am I supposed to do now that you’ve left?!

Heavens, save me!

The goddess she had finally made up her mind to give up on had suddenly appeared right in front of her at this very moment. Thinking back on her previous high-profile pursuits, Jiang Yu felt unbearable embarrassment looking back on the past for the very first time.

She had been way too flashy back then; things like currying favor, blocking people at classrooms, and crashing public lectures to chase someone, she had done all of it. Yet Qi Yin still couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to her. Back then, her head was so hot she didn’t realize it, foolishly thinking this was just a game of playing hard to get. Now that she had cooled down, she genuinely wanted to slap herself twice.

Recalling the past, Jiang Yu smiled awkwardly.

“Hello, is there anything you need?”

Qi Yin: “Pet boarding.”

Oh, so she was here to board a pet.

Qi Yin spoke very straightforwardly, finally allowing Jiang Yu’s hanging heart to settle back down.

She wasn’t here for her.

Actually, she should have thought of this long ago. Qi Yin had never cared about what she did in the past, nor had she ever revealed anything, so this was simply an unexpected coincidence.

Jiang Yu let out a breath and put on a professional fake smile.

She used to be able to joke around effortlessly in front of Qi Yin, but now she didn’t even quite know how to smile anymore.

“Come inside first.”

Steadying her voice, Jiang Yu led Qi Yin further into the room and asked, “What is the dog’s name?”

Little Fish.

Jiang Yu was stunned, unable to help casting a couple of looks at the Border Collie on Qi Yin’s leash.

For a split second, Jiang Yu felt she could no longer control her own brain.

“Ah… That’s a very good name.”

Right up until Jiang Yu retrieved the form from the counter, the two of them did not speak another word.

Handing the form over, she said, “Please fill in the basic information. If there are any special instructions, you can let me know separately.”

Qi Yin calmly took the form from Jiang Yu’s hand, picked up a pen from the counter, and began filling it out.

The shop had been decorated by Cheng Yao into a cozy theme, with several ambient lights hanging overhead. The light cascaded down along Qi Yin’s soft hair, bringing a touch of warmth to the surroundings.

Jiang Yu was somewhat mesmerized, only snapping back to reality when Qi Yin handed the form back in front of her eyes.

She took the form back and glanced over it.

Nearly three months… That really wasn’t short.

Pulling herself together, Jiang Yu quoted the price to Qi Yin, placed the form down on the table, and pointed at the QR code next to it. “No problem, just scan here.”

Qi Yin didn’t move. After a moment, Qi Yin placed a QR code right in front of Jiang Yu.

“Let’s add each other on WeChat.”

Looking at the friend QR code presented before her, Jiang Yu felt a pang of sadness. Right, even after chasing her for four years, she still hadn’t gotten the goddess’s WeChat.

Adding WeChat was definitely necessary, seeing as there might be subsequent handover work, but having Qi Yin be the one to propose it… felt completely different indeed.

Confused, she looked at Qi Yin, just about to ask a question when she heard Qi Yin’s cool, aloof voice ring out once again.

“I need to know Little Fish’s daily condition,” Qi Yin said.