But there is one problem. If he really thinks it through, will he...

No, I'm not worried about her. I'm just worried about myself! Juxi told himself in his heart.

If he allows himself to be trapped by the past again, then he is needlessly seeking pain.

Even fools wouldn't do something like this, let alone someone intelligent.

Pain, whether it be for a ruffian or a saint, no one would consider it a desirable position.

"Forget it... Can I do it?"

Juxi swung his arms twice. Perhaps a very long time ago, he once had freedom, but when he truly understood the true meaning of freedom, he turned back and realized he had already been in a nearly unimaginable distant present.

Perhaps he had once been afraid for his life, but now, from this perspective, those so-called life and death were nothing more than an unawakening dream.

Juxi idled in the room, his stomach growling. The woman had given him some fresh food, which surprised him.

It seemed that there were crops being grown on the spaceship, they weren't solely relying on stored food.

If they only stored some simple food, it would be impossible to sustain for ten thousand years, not to mention that the captain also needed to eat.

"It seems like the food on the spaceship is abundant." Although Juxi didn't know how the woman managed to sustain herself until now, it was really amazing.

Almost everyone on the spaceship didn't need food, and if the lower level was used to cultivate grains and miscellaneous crops, it might have been enough for a person to sustain themselves.

Juxi stopped thinking about it and paced back and forth in the room. He was incredibly bored now, but the room was too monotonous!

Here, there was no one to chat with him, and nothing to relieve his boredom.

Although there were others in the room, Juxi was the only conscious and awake person. There was no one around him to speak with.

Juxi remained silent, feeling incredibly bored. He didn't know what to do.

In the cramped room, he was the only person there, with no one else in sight. Juxi unknowingly walked to the side of Yu Nai's container and saw Yu Nai lying quietly inside.

It was only at this moment that he felt a little bit more at ease.

After all, they had been childhood friends, which made Juxi's mood much calmer, even giving him a feeling of comfort.

Looking at Yu Nai in the container, although he couldn't see her face under the helmet, Juxi could still sense an indescribable sense of peace, making him feel very comfortable.

He didn't know how long he had been staring, but Juxi ended up lying on the container in a daze, and then slowly fell asleep.

This time, Juxi didn't have any dreams. Instead, he finally slept peacefully until the moment the spaceship landed, completely unaware of anything happening.

As the spaceship touched down, the cabin doors all opened, ready to wake up all the sleeping humans.

Juxi still hadn't woken up at this point. Exhausted, he had only slept for about two hours, so naturally he hadn't heard the sound of the cabin's activation.

He still looked a bit dazed at this moment: "Hmm... something happened on the spaceship?"

Finally feeling that something was off, Juxi sat up abruptly, wanting to know where the shaking was coming from.

Puchi~!

Before Juxi could understand what was happening, the lid underneath him suddenly pulled away, giving him a big scare.

"Ah...!"

Juxi fell down in panic, thinking that he might have hit his head and hurt himself.

But to his surprise, Juxi didn't feel any pain at all. Instead, he felt something soft under his body.

"Hey... Juxi, get off me right now!!!"

Yu Nai covered her slightly painful head, still clueless about what was happening.

In that instant, when she heard her voice, Juxi suddenly understood everything and his mind became clearer than ever.

It was a Christmas night...

"Huhahaha..."

A boy with short black hair was running desperately in the snow, even his cheeks had turned red due to prolonged exertion. And the reason why he was suffering like this was because he had missed the agreed-upon time with a girl.

The boy patted off the scattered snow on his body and lowered his yellow-brown down jacket to reveal a watch. "Huhuhuhu, is it already eight o'clock?"

On such an important holiday as Christmas, where couples roamed the streets, this single boy, Tsubaki Juxi, felt out of place.

After a frantic run, the boy finally stumbled into the harbor park where they had originally planned to meet.

"Sorry, I..."

"You're so slow, how could you make this young lady wait for over ten minutes?!"

A girl with a golden ponytail, standing at a height of one meter seventy, was wearing a white down jacket and black warm leather pants. She seemed to have been waiting for me at the entrance for a long time. Her fair face was pale from the cold, but she still had that distant icy demeanor of an ice queen.

Seeing Juxi arriving late, the girl stomped her foot intentionally and crossed her hands on her waist, muttering to herself.

"Well, I thought you weren't coming... You really scared me!!!"

"I'm sorry, Senior! And... Yu Nai, can you forgive me this time?"

"Hmph, if you know you've done wrong, you better not do it again!"

Yu Nai wasn't really angry yet, and Juxi was doing his best to bow and apologize to her. If he really made her angry, this Christmas would turn into a Singles' Day for him.

"Hehe, I thought I would be spending another year alone."

"Hehe, then shall I fulfill your wish?"

"Absolutely not..."

"Why not?"

Is it that fun to tease me like this? Yu Nai made a funny face at Juxi, pretending to turn around and run away.

"If you can't keep up with me, I'll ditch you!"

"Oh, how could you do that?"

Juxi made a funny face and quickened his pace to catch up. Just like that, the two of them, a boy and a girl, chased and played in the park, laughing and frolicking like two kids.

"I caught you, I'm going to tickle you!"

"Hahaha... Let go of me quickly, I was just playing with you!"

After she begged for mercy, Juxi finally stopped and laid down in the snowy lawn, physically and mentally exhausted.

"Get up, I need you to run an errand for me."

She kicked Juxi when he least expected it, and after the kick, she raised her eyelashes to a perfect arc, and then gave Juxi a knowing look, ordering him to go buy her a can of hot coffee.

"So, what should I start with? Right, could you please give me a cup of hot coffee, Juxi? Thank you!"

"......"

According to reliable sources, Yu Nai, who looked dissatisfied, was sitting leisurely on a bench by the gravel road, waiting for Juxi's triumphant return with a smiling face.

"Girls will be girls, once they let their emotions take over, it can be really terrifying."

Juxi helplessly shook his head and sighed, but suddenly heard someone calling him from behind.

"Hey, buddy!"

"Who is calling me from behind? I don't remember knowing someone so well." Juxi pretended to be clueless.

"Hey, over here!" The person who spoke seemed to be impatiently shouting, "Don't ignore my existence, Juxi!"

Juxi saw someone sitting alone on a bicycle on the stairs next to the flower bed, waving at him. That guy with the spiked hairstyle looked familiar, but where had he seen him before?

"Huh?!"

"Hmph, who are you?"

"It saddens me, buddy. It's been only two years and you don't recognize me? Is our friendship so cheap?" His face suddenly turned pale, and he deliberately chuckled at Juxi with a hint of contempt.

"Well..." After closing my eyes and thinking for a moment, I suddenly opened my eyes and exclaimed, "I knew he looked familiar!"

"Aren't you Sakai Yuanhui from Class D4?" Juxi recalled the middle school life full of endless pain, and how Yuanhui would always give him some strange things whenever he was sad.

"Haha, you remember now?"

"Of course, I remember, hehe!" Juxi nonchalantly passed it off with a smile, "Well, I have urgent matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave now."

He quickly found an excuse to brush off Yuanhui, all for the sake of delivering the bubble tea to Yu Nai as soon as possible.

"Huh?" Yuanhui pulled out the game and photobook he had prepared and waved them at Juxi.

"Wait, don't you want to have them..."

"No time, keep them as a memento for yourself!"

"A memento...hey, what do you mean?" Juxi's actions caught him off guard, and Yuanhui scratched his head anxiously, "What could make him so stubborn to miss the epic treasure appraisal event?"

If Juxi had told him normally, he would have been ecstatic and followed Yuanhui obediently.

"Oh dear! That's true, people do change...and he must have changed too, right?"

After a deep sigh and wiping his reddened nose, Yuanhui regained his carefree state with a smirk on his face.

"Fine, then I'll just enjoy them on my own!" He hummed a tune and rode his bicycle back home alone.

"Why were you so slow, Xi? What were you doing just now?"

"Ah...nothing, I just ran into a classmate." Juxi handed the bought coffee to Yu Nai, and she smiled gratefully.

"Well...you must have something to ask me if you invited me out today, right?"

Looking at her teasing expression, Juxi felt that it wasn't appropriate to say it now.

"Give you five seconds, if you can't say it, I'll just go back!" Yu Nai smirked and extended her five slender and flawless fingers towards Juxi, then slowly began to close them.

"Five..."

Yu Nai mercilessly started counting, while Juxi hesitated in place, unsure if he should tell her.

"Three... Two... If you don't say it now, you won't have a chance!"

"I'll say it! I, I like you!!!"

Juxi mustered up the courage and shouted on the road, tearing off his mask, while Yu Nai paused for a moment and then resumed her usual expression.

"I'm sorry, but I refuse. I still prefer boys who are stronger than me!"

"..."

"Well, that's the end of our date today. Bye-bye, baby!"

After saying that, Yu Nai patted Juxi's head as if it were a comforting award, then turned around and left, leaving him in a grand manner.

Juxi hasn't forgotten those moments from back then, it seemed really funny now.