Chasing Summer

Chapter 11 Part 1

Sprained… foot?

Just a sprained foot?

Lin Zhexia was stunned in place.

“I ran six laps,” Chi Yao said, “How else would I get hurt?”

After Lin Zhexia recovered from being stunned, she realized that she overreacted.

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At this time, the doctor pushed open the door and came in. He advised again, “It’s not a big problem. You’re fine after a rest. Feel it yourself, if you don’t feel anything when you walk, you can return to the team.”

After Lin Zhexia heard the doctor say this, her heart finally fell back in place.

The doctor had other things to do, such as keeping an eye on the training ground in case anything happens.

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Nkd Hblmky pyv sd vbl pkel qsa y obkzl yde oyp ycswv vs ts cynj, “Fkdnl usw’al sjyu, R okzz ts qkapv.”

Ubk Zys, “Ebs pyke R oyp sjyu?”

Ekvb vbyv, bl vbalo bla y rklnl sq ryrla yde y rld vbyv oyp sd vbl elpj.

Nkd Hblmky blze vbl rld yde ryrla, dsv wdelapvydekdt obyv bl xlydv.

Ubk Zys, “Slqzlnvksd.”

Nkd Hblmky sdzu dso alxlxclale vbyv vbl nbklq kdpvawnvsa xyel bkx oakvl y alqzlnvksd zlvvla kd yeekvksd vs xyjkdt bkx awd 20 zyrp.

Fbl oyp xspv yqayke sq oakvkdt ryaytayrbp yde oswze ayvbla awd zyrp, ps pbl wple Ubk Zys’p osaep ytykdpv bkx, “Rv’p dsv vbyv R esd’v oydv vs blzr usw oakvl kv, cwv vbyv R’x lxcyaaypple vs wpl xu qykzkdt zlhlz sq zydtwytl pjkzzp vs rszzwvl uswa ryrla.”

Ubk Zys pdllale, “Zsw ynvwyzzu byhl vbl osae&dcpr;lxcyaaypple&dcpr;kd uswa hsnycwzyau?”

Lin Zhexia, “I just learned it today.”

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“Forget it,” Chi Yao reached out and motioned for her to return the pen and paper to him. “I shouldn’t have expected anything from the illiterate.”

At that, Lin Zhexia tightened her grip on the paper and said, “You’re the illiterate one. I also scored a good 58 points when I performed well.”

Although she hates writing, but, the provocation was really effective.

And she did in fact eat the food Chi Yao bought, so it seems pretty reasonable to help him write the reflection.

The schedule for the training in the afternoon was planned quite freely. She had half an hour to write the reflection in the infirmary.

Lin Zhexia wrote down the three words “Letter of Reflection”.

Chi Yao, “Don’t write so ugly.”

The pen in Lin Zhexia’s hand halted, “In order to deceive the instructor, I deliberately scribbled like this. This is a tactic, shut up if you’re not the one doing the work.”

Chi Yao quieted down for a while.

However, a few minutes later, he read out the contents of the paper, “…To be honest with you instructors, I have been living a very depressed life.”

Chi Yao asked slowly, “I’m living a depressed life?”

“Can you not affect my creativity?” Lin Zhexia raised her head.

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Lin Zhexia also said, “You said it yourself that you went out to take a breather, I at least have to connect it together right? Why did you want to go out for a breather… well, because you’re depressed.”

“Oh.” Chi Yao, “So why am I depressed?”

Lin Zhexia, “This hasn’t been decided yet.”

After thinking for two minutes, Lin Zhexia continued to write:

The reason why I’m depressed is that I yearn for freedom. I, Chi Yao, am exactly this unruly of a person.

Freedom! This topic has been explored since the existence of human beings. Since young, I have been thinking, what exactly is freedom?

Last night, I tried to find the answer to this from the other side of the wall.

The word “wall” was still missing an “l”, before Lin Zhexia finished writing, the paper in her hand was seized by Chi Yao.

“The door is on the side,” Chi Yao said, “get out by yourself.”

It’s merely the first step that’s troublesome. Lin Zhexia was a little bit reluctant to give up after she already started, “I just entered my creative state…”

Chi Yao, “Get out.”

Fine.

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She didn’t want to stay in the first place.

As soon as she got up, the man on the bed let out a soft cough.

She was about to say, “If you have anything else to say, hurry it up”, but unexpectedly, Chi Yao said something in a different tone.

Most of the time, this person’s tone was full of laxity, which carried a little bit of some not-very-obvious cynicism. However, when he said this, he put that cynicism away and lowered his voice. It suddenly had an illusion of tenderness to it.

“I’m fine,” Chi Yao said, “Next time, don’t cry.”

The military training soon entered its last day. At the time of departure, some sort of weird chemical reaction occurred between the students and instructors.

Originally, they thought they wanted to escape quickly as soon as possible, but now, they actually feel reluctant to leave.

Facing the instructor who they secretly cussed at 10000 times in their mind, they actually found him not so hateful now.

“You bunch of brats who can’t even march well,” The instructor said with a smile on the last day, “When you go back to school, remember to study hard.”

It was break time at this moment. After the closing ceremony in the afternoon, they’ll be taking the bus back to school.

The entire class sat in a circle together and chatted with their instructor for a while.

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Tang Shuxuan took the initiative to ask, “Instructor, out of all the groups you’ve led, do we count as one of the better-performing ones?”

Instructor, “Sorry, but, you are the worst group I have ever led.”

The whole class laughed.

Lin Zhexia was sitting under the shade of a tree. Class 7 and Class 1 were facing each other. With one look up, she can see Class 1 across her.

In the crowd, Chi Yao sat in the last row.

The boy had taken off his military jacket and was sleeping in the back row.

The sun shone through the gaps between the trees and landed on him.

The classmate beside him, the one that was pretty close to him, nudged him and said something. Chi Yao opened his eyes, and from the look of it, he said two words back.

Lin Zhexia guessed that, most likely, it was “Don’t fuss”.

Chen Lin approached her and said, “Did you know, Chi Yao is even more famous now.”

Lin Zhexia didn’t react in time, “Huh?”

Chen Lin, “Weren’t there a lot of posts about him at the beginning of school? This time, as a result of the military training punishment, it started again.”

Lin Zhexia couldn’t understand, “…Although 20 laps are indeed quite a lot, it’s not necessary to flatter him that much, no?”

Chen Lin, “Is 20 laps the main point? It’s climbing over the wall.”

As a school in the district of focus, the management of Cheng’an No. 2 High isn’t as strict as that of No. 1 High, but there was almost no record of any violation in the past. Among a group of well-behaved students, the words “climbing over the wall” is more or less a little beyond imagination.

Chi Yao changed from a good-looking guy from Class 1 to a good-looking guy from Class 1 who also knows how to climb over walls in the middle of the night.

To sum things up, he carried a bit of the color of danger.

Lin Zhexia had never been very comfortable with this kind of forum gossip, so she simply said a few words before switching the topic.

Just as she and Chen Lin started talking about a new manhua series, someone gently poked her on the shoulder from behind.

Lin Zhexia turned back and found that it was her classmate.

The girl had short hair and looked very shy.

They were not familiar with each other, so she looked more restrained. After holding it for a long time, she finally asked, “Lin Zhexia, are you acquainted with Chi Yao?”

Lin Zhexia, “…”

She could feel what Chen Lin just said about “even more popular” now.

The girl continued to squeeze out, “I…”

“I want to…”

“Ask for his contact…”

Lin Zhexia still didn’t know how to respond to this. Both giving to her and rejecting her seems like a bad idea.

She was trying to figure out a solution.

Before the girl could finish saying “contact information”, Tang Shuxuan, who was sitting in the front row, suddenly stood up.

Tang Shuxuan asked her, “You want Chi Yao’s contact information?”

The girl answered in a daze, “Ya.”

Tang Shuxuan suddenly burst out, “Bestie, don’t ask for it.”

“Want what contact information? That Chi Yao, what part of him is so good? Isn’t he just a tiny bit good looking—”

She talked like a victim, regardless of the shocked eyes of the other party, and said with painstaking care, “I sincerely advise you. Even dogs don’t want Chi Yao’s contact information.”

Three hours later, on the way back to school.

Chen Lin sat with Lin Zhexia. When she thought of the scene at noon, she still couldn’t help but laugh, “Forget her, even I was stunned in spot when I heard it on the side. The victim talks from her own personal experience.”

Lin Zhexia said after the calamity, “I was struggling at that moment, and she suddenly came out.”

Chen Lin, “If you come across anyone else who wants his contact information from you in the future, you can make them go directly to Shuxuan.”

When Lin Zhexia heard this, she thought it was a good idea.

After they chatted for a while, she took out her phone to check the time.

Then she saw two messages from Lin He.

Lin He: Around what time are you getting home?
Lin He: I’m making food, bring Chi Yao over and let’s eat together.

So Lin Zhexia tickled Chi Yao.

After tickling, she guessed that he would respond to her with a question mark.

Sure enough.

In the next second, a short and concise question mark appears in the chat box.

-?

Lin Zhexia replied by typing: Come to my house for dinner later.

-Kay

Afraid that Chi Yao might overthink it, she went on to explain: It’s not me who invited you, it’s my mom.

Chi Yao replied: Got it.

Lin Zhexia was about to close the chat box after this.

However, her fingers paused as she thought of the scene at noon, and finally typed: “In my opinion, in the future, it’s better to act with decency”.

At this time, the bus had bypassed the wall and was driving toward the school. Soon, the military training base became distant and blurry.


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