Chapter 13 Part 2

She thought for a while before ringing the doorbell. With Chi Yao’s personality, he may not open the door for her since he is still angry.

So she opened the door with her own key. Before pushing the door open, she said, “Ahem, so, um, I’m coming in.”

There was no one in the room, and no sound coming from the bathroom.

She looked around at the entrance for a while. Then she saw Chi Yao, who had just taken a bath, come out of the bedroom.

After changing out of his school uniform, he was closer to the image of “fighting after school”, much like those contradicting characters who didn’t study hard and were still arrogant in school.

“What do you want?”

“I’m here to see if you’re injured,” Lin Zhexia said, holding the medicine box. “Put out your hand, let me see.”

Chi Yao’s hair was half dry. He leaned against the door and asked, “You think I would get hurt? I wouldn’t get hurt even if they had three more guys.”

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Chi Yao, “What, can I beat you to divert my attention?”

Lin Zhexia, “No, just bear with it.”

It was the first time that she stared at Chi Yao’s hand so attentively.

It might’ve been the nervousness.

She just couldn’t help but hold her breath carefully.

Her fingertips would occasionally rub against him. It seems that the temperature of a boy is naturally higher than that of a girl. She could feel the temperature of Chi Yao’s hand transfer onto her’s.

The atmosphere was a little weird.

As Lin Zhexia applied the medicine for him, she was also thinking, isn’t it a little too quiet in here?

She was about to say something, but before she could clear her throat, the door of Chi Yao’s house was pushed open.

“Oh shit,” He Yang exclaimed at the door in shock. “I swear I wanted to knock, but the door wasn’t closed. It opened by itself as soon as I knocked.”

He had a loud voice, and after he said this, the three pairs of eyes met.

He saw his Yao-ge sitting on the sofa, and his Xia-ge squatting, with the tip of her nose almost touching the former’s hand. The two were very close together.

“…What are you guys doing?”

Lin Zhexia suddenly stood up with the cotton swab in her hand. She said with a guilty conscience that even she could not understand, “Applying medicine, he injured his hand.”

“Oh,” He Yang didn’t think much about it. He also sat down on the sofa, crowded with Chi Yao, “I’m here to take refuge. I received my grades for the midterm exams and my mom’s chasing me around to beat me up.”

“I said that although I got 23rd place, there were still a dozen or so people below me. Then she asked me why I always keep comparing myself with the inferior.”

“If I don’t compare with the inferior, where can I get the confidence to continue learning?”

Lin Zhexia tidied up the medicine box and nodded, “That does makes some sense.”

He Yang, “Right?”

He turned to see Chi Yao, hoping to get his approval.

“I never fell below the top 3,” said Chi Yao. “I’m not too sure.”

He Yang, “…”

He Yang decided to change the topic, “This injury, how did you get it? Such a big wound.”

Chi Yao only said, “Something came up.”

He Yang was shocked, “You f$%king, did you fight?”

“It was a 1V3,” Lin Zhexia added. “I bumped into some thugs after school, don’t go spreading it around.”

There are many things that cannot be said to parents, yet are unreserved to people of their age group.

He Yang naturally understood, “Don’t worry, I won’t say it. But my Yao-ge jumps straight to 1V3s as soon as he fights, too awesome.”

Lin Zhexia had no time to continue chatting with them, she still had to go home to do her homework.

After Lin Zhexia left, He Yang casually played with the game console on Chi Yao’s coffee table.

After he played for a bit, he said to Chi Yao, “You really 1V3’d?”

Chi Yao, “No.”

He Yang, “Since you said that, then it must be true.”

He Yang played some games for a bit. Chi Yao went to the refrigerator for water, asking him in passing, “You want?”

“Yeah.”

He reached out to take the water bottle and caught a glimpse of the thin T-shirt on Chi Yao. Thinking of the fight just mentioned, he suddenly remembered an old memory that he didn’t remember before.

The word “fight” was like a thread, linking up that incident he could never remember before.

He remembered what had happened when he bumped into Chi Yao exercising in the past.

They were probably about 11 to 12 years old back then.

Somehow, a group of vocational high school students appeared around the community, wandering about.

One night, they went to the concession stand together to buy snacks. As soon as they left the community, they were blocked in the corner by several big and tall vocational high school students.

“Hey kiddos,” They had a heavy cigarette smell coming from them, one of them knocked on He Yang’s head and said, “share some pocket money with gege?”

To them back then, these people looked like giants. One punch could blow them across the street.

Fortunately, Lin Zhexia was quick-witted and shouted to a stranger, “Mom!”

Then they managed to escape while those people were still stupefied.

It was also thanks to the large number of people around the community, or it would’ve been useless no matter how many times they shouted “Mom”.

Although He Yang had no basis, he somehow felt that these two events seemed to be related.

–

When Lin Zhexia got home, she began to catch up with her homework. As she was doing it, she realized something.

When Chi Yao got angry, which “last time” in his “You could run away last time” was he talking about?

She tried to recall, but because there were so many things that happened between Chi Yao and her, she couldn’t really remember.

Forget it.

She soon gave up recalling.

Maybe there really was such a time.

During her homework session, Lin Zhexia received several messages from Chen Lin.

Chen Lin: Sorry QAQ!
Chen Lin: I’m really sorry that you and Chi Yao were involved.
Chen Lin: Sorry sorry sorry!
Chen Lin: I deleted my forum account. From today on, I will study hard and start afresh.

Lin Zhexia responded with a patting head emote.

Then she put her phone aside to focus on her questions. However, she still couldn’t help remembering the scene of Chi Yao’s fight.

But it was not the “fight” itself that made the scene linger in her mind.

Many words came and went next to her ears.

These words begin with the sentence “You know Chi Yao?”.

“He is very popular.”

“I was still wondering who caused such a sensation. Oh, it’s Chi Yao, never mind then.”

“He was already very famous in junior high school.”

Time seemed to flicker back and forth in front of her.

There were many from years ago when they were still kids.

“He’s also quite frail, always having to take a trip to the hospital every few days…”

“He can’t hold up the ball.”

“He’s always sick and can’t play with us”

Then, the sickie in her memory who had been protected by her gradually overlapped with the Chi Yao who was protecting her today.

Lin Zhexia’s thoughts wandered, she put down the pen, and rested her head and arms on the table. When her chin touched her sleeve, she felt that the clean scent of laundry detergent she had smelled in a panic earlier seemed to linger on the tip of her nose and wouldn’t dissipate.

Only now did she suddenly realize that the Chi Yao seen in the eyes of others was somewhat different from the Chi Yao she had always known.

The difference came from the fact that she was too familiar with him, so she hadn’t been able to find his changes.

Which is why she found the description in those forum posts confusing.

Which is why she couldn’t feel the same.

It’s because, the Chi Yao she knew when she was young is very different from the Chi Yao now.

…

Which is why she only found out now that Chi Yao had long since parted from the “sickie” she used to see.

It was today that she got to know him again.

An unfamiliar, yet familiar, new Chi Yao.

Before going to bed at night, she couldn’t help tapping the kitty cat profile.

[You tickled ‘Chi Dog’]

Lin Zhexia actually wanted to ask “Are you still angry?”.

However, Chi Yao obviously misunderstood the meaning of this tickle.

Chi Dog: Can’t sleep?

Lin Zhexia hesitantly replied: …Mn.

After a while, a message came from the opposite side.

-Even if you dream of six thugs, I will still win.

Lin Zhexia realized that he must’ve thought that she couldn’t sleep because she was scared of what happened during the day and was afraid of getting nightmares.

She flipped around on her bed, holding her cell phone.

She typed to reply: What if I dream of 60?

This time, it took some time before the opposite side replied.

-Then you should just take the chance to experience
-How it feel to get beaten to death