Chapter 14 Part 1

Maybe it was the short chat with Chi Yao before bed that did its job.

Lin Zhexia did not dream that night and slept soundly until the next morning.

Lin He made sandwiches for her. She took a few bites, found a bag, and packed the remaining. She hurried out with her things and said, “Mom, I’m going to Chi Yao’s house to deliver him breakfast. You know, since he’s sick, I’m going to show him some care.”

When she got to Chi Yao’s house, he was still packing his things.

Chi Yao had a band-aid on his hand, and the collar of his school uniform was half open.

Lin Zhexia respectfully handed over the bag of food and said, “Here’s my filial respect to you.”

Chi Yao glanced at him and said, “Your father’s not eating it for the time being, put it on the side.”

Lin Zhexia, “Okie.”

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Lin Zhexia, “…”

She had already apologized and didn’t know what else to say that could make Chi Yao lift his anger.

After thinking for a long time, she said, “I swear, this is the last time. Whatever I encounter in the future, I will tell you right away.”

After saying that, she noticed that Chi Yao had a bit of a reaction to what she said.

She thought for a moment and continued to add, “I won’t hide anything from you. If you don’t believe me, we can pinky promise.”

Lin Zhexia pulled up her pinky.

Chi Yao didn’t stretch out his hand. He merely passed her and said, “So childish.”

The tone of this “So childish” was different from his previous tone, the ending was lighter. Other people may not have recognized it, but Lin Zhexia immediately knew that his anger had left.

When they got to the bus stop, He Yang had already been waiting there ahead of schedule.

Three people tapped their cards and got on the bus.

Chi Yao often catches up on sleep during the ride. Lin Zhexia robbed one of his earphones as usual, leeching off his music. While listening to music, she finished off her bottled milk. Then she looked around to see if there was anywhere she could throw away the garbage.

There were gradually more and more people on the bus.

Lin Zhexia looked up and found no trash can. Instead, she found several students wearing No. 2 High School’s uniform on the bus.

And these people seemed to be looking in their direction whether intentionally or unintentionally.

To be more accurate, they were looking in Chi Yao’s direction.

The music in the earphones ended, and there was a gap between the songs.

In this gap, Lin Zhexia also followed their gaze and took a glance at her side.

Chi Yao sat by the window, and the light outside the window just happened to shine upon him, which was very similar to the picture widely circulated on the forum at the beginning of school.

Under these gazes, Lin Zhexia suddenly felt a little awkward.

She didn’t want to become the object of attention indirectly like this. As a result, she took off the earphone, took her bag and the empty milk bottle, and shifted to the seat in the front row with He Yang.

He Yang was still copying his homework. He asked, feeling that this was inexplicable, “Why did you come here?”

Lin Zhexia, “…Here to take a look at you, how’s your homework copying?”

He Yang, “Almost done math, then I just have English left.”

“But it’s better if you write your homework yourself next time,” Lin Zhexia said. “You look very miserable copying your homework on the bus.”

After saying that, Lin Zhexia could not help mentioning, “Those people up front, they seem to be from our school.”

He Yang’s hands didn’t pause, he looked up quickly, and then said, “You mean those who keep staring at my Yao-ge?”

Lin Zhexia let out an “Mn”.

Before He Yang said it, she thought she might’ve seen it wrong.

However He Yang wasn’t the least surprised, “What’s the big deal? When I went to school with Yao-ge before, it was even more exaggerated than this. There were even people who took this bus home after school for a whole semester even though this wasn’t their way home.”

Lin Zhexia, “Ah?”

He Yang turned his head and glanced back. He found that Chi Yao was dozing off and didn’t notice what he said. He then continued, “Our class was at the end of the corridor, where the water fountain was, there was always a long line for water, they were all there to peek at him from outside. There are times when I couldn’t even refill my water, I really wanted to unscrew his head and kick him out of the class.”

“Am I too cruel for saying this?”

Lin Zhexia imagined the scene, “It’s not cruel. I can fully understand your thoughts.”

She paused, then wanted to say something else, “But—”

But, Chi Yao has always been that eye-catching.

It’s just that she didn’t notice it until last night.

He Yang, “But what?”

Lin Zhexia didn’t continue, “It’s nothing. You’re almost at the station, so hurry up and pack up.”

–

When Lin Zhexia arrived at school, she found her desk was full of snacks.

Filled to the brim, there was everything.

“What should I do?” At this time, Chen Lin just entered the class, she said a little confused, “It seems like I got confessed to. Who bought me so much food?”

Chen Lin with a complicated expression, “Sorry, I bought it.”

Lin Zhexia, “…”

Chen Lin, “I just want to thank you guys, but I’m too scared to give them to Chi Yao. How about you take it to him?”

There’s no way Lin Zhexia would share it with Chi Yao if she had the chance to have them to herself, “He doesn’t need snacks. It’s better for boys to eat fewer snacks.”

Talking about yesterday, Chen Lin added, “I went to see the teacher this morning. The teacher said they will communicate with Experimental High School. After reporting to the school, she probably wouldn’t dare to find more people to come over.”

Lin Zhexia felt that this was the proper way to deal with it.

After all, if things get too big, they can find the student from Experimental High School through the Red Hair. Especially since the two seem to have a strong connection. Yesterday, Red Hair mentioned about “his sister”, they might be siblings.

What she did not know was that there was a small follow-up to this event where she couldn’t see.

In Class One, Year One.

Chi Yao sat in the last row. The teacher was solving questions on the blackboard.

He spinned his pen with one hand and had his other hand inside his desk. He lowered his eyes to look at the new messages popping up on his phone.

He Yang: I found out.

He Yang: She’s a girl in year two. She met several “geges” outside the school. One of them’s quite famous and has red hair.

He Yang: She even showed off to others that she knew people outside the school. It’s probably her.

He Yang: The school informed everyone but they didn’t find out who it was. I took some kids with me to give her a warning during the break. She didn’t expect to be discovered and was quite flustered, saying she realizes her mistake.

He Yang: As long as she’s still in Experimental High, don’t even think about bullying our Xia-ge.

Chi Yao may be the only one who openly goes on his phone in such an academic class.

Even his deskmate was inevitably shocked by his wanton behavior.

The hand with the bandage tapped on the screen and responded with a punctuation mark to show that he got it: .

Lin Zhexia pondered and pondered, but still decided to share some snacks with Chi Yao during lunch break.

Chen Lin, “Didn’t you say that boys didn’t need to eat snacks?”

Lin Zhexia said frankly, “It’s mainly because it takes up too much space, there’s almost no space for my textbooks.”

Chen Lin, “…”

Class One is downstairs.

During the lunch break, the corridor was very busy. There were many people gathered at the door of each class except for one class, which was very deserted.

Except for the people originally from Class One, very few people from other classes came close.

Lin Zhexia also came to Class One several times before, but didn’t realize there were so few people at the door back then.

She stopped at the back window with her hands full.

Chi Yao sat by the window and was napping on his desk. He stole Xu Ting’s coat and put it on his body to block the sun. The black hood covered his whole head. From her perspective, she could only see the young man’s hands on the edge of the desk.

She knocked twice on the window and called him, “Chi Yao!”

The voice had just fallen.

That hand moved reluctantly, it lifted itself and covered the ear.

Lin Zhexia, “…”

She took a deep breath and shouted even more loudly, “—Chi Yao Chi Yao Chi Yao.”

Chi Yao was awakened from his afternoon nap and was not in a very good mood, “What do you want?”

“I’m here to send you care,” Lin Zhexia handed him a bag of food through the window. “You’re welcome, and don’t be too moved.”

Chi Yao took a glance and didn’t take it, “Thank you. You especially brought me a bunch of snacks you don’t like to eat, I’m very touched.”

The bag.

Was indeed so.

She especially picked out things that she didn’t like to eat.

Lin Zhexia let go and put the food on his desk, “You don’t like to eat what I like to eat anyways, and what matters is not the gift itself, but the thoughts.”

Then she asked, “Why is there no one outside your class today?”

Chi Yao, “Aren’t you one?”

Lin Zhexia, “I mean apart from me. Anyways, I feel that they are all walking around your class… do you not notice sitting by the window?”

The jacket slipped down Chi Yao’s back. He raised his hand and ruffled his hair. He put it mildly, “I’m too lazy to care.”

Fine.

That does fit this man’s style.