Chapter 12 Part 2

Lin Zhexia guessed correctly, part of the results did come out in the afternoon.

The test papers for language, math, and English were distributed in batches.

For this midterm, Lin Zhexia’s results were very stable. She kept a steady spot near top of the class.

However, Chen Lin’s performance wasn’t so ideal. Her performance in every class scraped through with a narrow pass.

From the afternoon onward, Lin Zhexia noticed something wrong with Chen Lin’s expression.

“You’d better play with your phone less from now on,” Lin Zhexia comforted her, she thought it was because her grades. “These questions aren’t that difficult, you’ll be fine if you just spend some time on them.”

Chen Lin stared at her desk, and responded in a trance.

But even when class started, Chen Lin was still distracted and zoning out.

The following parts of the text will be scrambled to prevent theft from aggregators and unauthorized epub making. Please support our translators by reading on secondlifetranslations (dot) com. If you are currently on the site and and you are seeing this, please clear your cache.

Mbl zypv nzypp oyp xyvb. Ebld vbl xyvb vlynbla oyp zlnvwakdt, bla dyxl oyp nyzzle plhlayz vkxlp, “Ubld Nkd– obyv’p vbl xyvvla okvb usw? Zsw’al pvkzz dsv ryukdt yvvldvksd okvb vbyv pnsal sq uswap?”

“Fvyde wr,” Mbl xyvb vlynbla pyke, “Ebknb iwlpvksd oyp R fwpv vyzjkdt ycswv fwpv dso?”

Ubld Nkd qyzvlale, pbl nswzed’v pyu yduvbkdt.

Nkd Hblmky obkprlale “Lwxcla 3”, cwv kv oyp vss zyvl.

Mbl xyvb vlynbla pyke, “Fvyu pvydekdt qsa vbkp zlnvwal.”

Ubld Nkd pvsse wdvkz nzypp oyp shla.

Ebld vbl pnbssz clzz aydt, Nkd Hblmky qkdkpble nzlydkdt. Fbl rwv sd bla cyt yde oyp ralryakdt vs ts vs Uzypp 1 vs qkde Ubk Zys yde ts bsxl vstlvbla. Ubld Nkd qkdyzzu nswzed’v bsze cynj yde pvsrrle Nkd Hblmky, “Bx… nyd usw ts bsxl okvb xl yqvla pnbssz?”

Nkd Hblmky qswde vbkp pvaydtl, “Jwv R esd’v vbkdj ol’al tskdt kd vbl pyxl ekalnvksd?”

Chen Lin took her hand, her voice shook slightly as she spoke, “Someone might come find me trouble tonight, I’m scared to go alone.”

“Didn’t I quarreled with people from the neighboring school on the forum recently? I don’t know how they did it but they found my personal information…”

Chen Lin said, showing Lin Zhexia her phone screen.

All comments on the forum were anonymous.

In fact, the content of the quarrel was very trivial. Chen Lin’s beloved idol and the other person’s idol are having a conflict, as a result, the fans of both sides are fighting to defend their gege.

It was in the campus section of the forum, and most of the comments are from students of different schools in the city.

Chen Lin’s ID is LittleOrange. There were several terrifying messages laying in her private messages.

-I’m from Experimental High. Where you from? Let’s meet and talk.

A few hours passed.

That person sent two more messages:

-You’re Chen Lin, right? Year One, Class 7.
-Just you wait.

Lin Zhexia felt a little chilly after seeing these messages.

After all, no one would expect that personal information in an anonymous forum would be leaked at such a fast speed.

Lin Zhexia calmed herself down and said, “We’re all students, I don’t think they are likely to find your information by technical means. Besides, we were all busy with the midterm exams lately, who would have the energy? So it’s probably someone who knows your identity on the forum and leaked it.”

She asked again, “Think clearly, who else knows that LittleOrange is Chen Lin?”

Chen Lin already lost her mind and had no time to think about these problems.

Seeing her like this, Lin Zhexia really couldn’t let her go back alone. She sighed and said, “Then I’ll go with you after school. Even if they come to you, they probably wouldn’t dare to do anything. Let me tell Chi Yao first.”

So Lin Zhexia waited for her to tidy up her school bag, and took out her phone to send a message to Chi Yao.

-Don’t wait for me after school.

Chi Yao answered a question mark and one word.

-？
-Reason.

Lin Zhexia didn’t tell him about Chen Lin. It’s not good to disclose such personal matters. She typed back: Because I have other good friends, I’m going with Chen Lin after school today.

The opposite side replied quickly.

-Got it.

Chen Lin’s bus stop was quite far from the school, she needed to cross two streets.

On the way, Chen Lin asked uneasily, “Will they bring a lot of people to beat me up?”

Lin Zhexia said, “No way, isn’t it just a small quarrel on the Internet.”

Chen Lin, “You don’t understand, crazy fans are scary.”

Lin Zhexia asked, “Are you one too?”

Chen Lin, “… After this experience, I have already decided to quit being an idol fan and plan to devote myself to studying in the future.”

Lin Zhexia, “It’s good that you have this awareness.”

The topic revolved around, and Chen Lin brought it back again, “Will they really bring people here?”

Lin Zhexia said tenderly, “I may not look like this, but I can fight quite well.”

“…you?”

“When I was young, I could beat three with one fist.”

In order to reassure Chen Lin, Lin Zhexia took out her achievements as a child, “I beat such a tall chubby guy, he cried so much because of me. He also had a group of underlings who also couldn’t beat me.”

The more she talked, the more she felt of the bravery from back then when she protected her underling.

However, the underling she protected back then, is surnamed Chi.

As she walked, she kept an eye on her surroundings.

The first street was quite noisy and full of people, but when they turned from the fork into the second street, it became a lot more deserted.

This place was still a bit of distance from school, so the business of shops here wasn’t very good. Most had even shut down.

There is a dark alley across the street, which should be a dead end. The alley was poorly lit, and it was piled with sundries.

The reason why she would notice this dark alley was that there seemed to be two to three people standing there. They were dressed in shabby vulgar clothes and had cigarettes between their fingers.

The one in front had red dyed hair, squatting at the entrance of the alley, biting onto the cigarette and looking at passers-by wantonly.

Lin Zhexia slowed down and said, “Although I don’t think it’ll really happen, but… were those people in the opposite alley always there when you usually pass here?”

Chen Lin also looked over, shook her head, and answered with confidence, “No, I walk down this road every day after school, and I’ve never seen anyone hiding there.”

Only now did Lin Zhexia feel the panic.

She originally felt that those people wouldn’t actually come to trouble Chen Lin, because she believed that everybody were still students and wouldn’t want to risk being punished.

But she never thought that, sometimes, if people wanted to make trouble, it might not be necessary for them to come out in person.

Lin Zhexia forced herself to calm down. She pretended that nothing was out of the ordinary and that she didn’t notice anything unusual. Then she took her phone out of her pocket and opened Chi Yao’s chat without thinking.

But some trembling fingertips betrayed her emotions at the moment. When she typed on the keyboard of her phone, she mistyped several words.

-Im att
-Two streets down from sfhool, bus stpp 9
-Theres a gruop of thugs

Lin Zhexia did not dare to be too obvious with her actions. She was going to correct the two typos “school” and “group” in case Chi Yao couldn’t understand them.

However, at this moment, the people in the alley suddenly took action.

The one in front threw his cigarette butt and pointed in their direction. The others understood and came over together.

Lin Zhexia immediately took Chen Lin by the hand and ran back to school, “Run!”

In order to get to them, those thugs needed to cross the road between them, which gave them a little time, but it didn’t take long. They were stopped at the end of the road, a street away from the bustling area.

“What are you running for?” Red Hair spoke with a mouth full of smoke. “Between you two, which one is Chen Lin?”

Lin Zhexia clenched Chen Lin’s hand and said, “Who are you? I don’t know you.”

Red Hair said, “Who I am is none of your business. Hurry up and speak up. Who’s the Chen Lin who quarreled with my sister on the Internet? If you don’t talk, I will beat you both together.”

After he said this, Red Hair’s eyes paused at Lin Zhexia’s face for a few seconds.

“This little girlie is quite pretty,” Red Hair said, “If I accidentally use too much force, it will be such a pity.”

Lin Zhexia wanted to buy more time, so she said, “I don’t know a Chen Lin, you have the wrong person.”

Seeing that the two wouldn’t speak up, Red Hair laughed and spat out his saliva on the ground. Then he was about to raise his hand to grab Lin Zhexia’s hair, wanting to drag her to him— but at that moment, a hand stretched out from his side. Only now did he notice that there was someone standing behind him for some time.

The man was taller than him, slightly hunched over, and was wearing No. 2 High’s uniform.

The man stood behind him, stretched an arm and put it around his shoulder. He pushed back the hand Red Hair had extended half way. He acted like they were good brothers.

From a distance, it looked like they were from the same group.

Lin Zhexia had subconsciously closed her eyes from fear. When she opened them again, this was what she saw.

“Bro,” The man had very light pupils, he turned his head sideways and looked at Red Hair, “You blocking people?”

Red Hair was a little confused by his action, he couldn’t tell if he was friend or foe.

But he thought he was most likely a person of the same path, otherwise, he wouldn’t have put his arm around his shoulder. He asked, “Who are you? Are you here to fight too?”

Chi Yao’s expression did not change, he slightly raised his chin, and he dragged out his words, “Ahh, yup, I’m No. 2 High’s school bully. I often fight on this street.”

Red Hair was about to say, “I never heard of school bullies from Cheng’an”. The next second——

The youth’s hand had already firmly gripped onto the back of his head, he pulled him back with his hair. His movements were crisp and neat, using a great amount of strength. His fingers clenched tightly as he deliver a kick to Red Hair’s calf.

“As for me,” Chi Yao said, “I just like to wander around on this street when I have nothing to do, beating up anyone who I don’t find pleasing to the eye.”