Chapter 14 Part 2

On the way back from Class One, Lin Zhexia noticed that many people were looking at her. She was a little puzzled and felt awkward. When she returned to Class Seven, several girls she wasn’t familiar with in the class asked her, “Have you just gone to Class One?”

Lin Zhexia thought that they had come to ask her for Chi Yao’s contact information again.

And wanted to say, how about you go to Tang Shuxuan instead.

But after looking around, she found that Tang Shuxuan wasn’t in the class right now so she had to deal with it herself.

“Ah,” She said, “but he…” he doesn’t like to add strangers.

Before Lin Zhexia finished speaking, the girls said, “So is that thing true? After school, he likes to fight on the street behind the school. Yesterday, he 1V3’d three thugs?”

She doesn’t know where the rumor came from.

But it doesn’t seem strange that it can spread.

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By a curious coincidence, she logged into the school forum and clicked on the discussion post about Chi Yao.

Recent comments are all the same: [He, is, so, hot, but I don’t even dare to look at him now.]

[Upstairs, you are not alone.]

[It’s not really good to say this, but I really want to see hot guys fight…]

[Disperse guys, disperse. Just look from afar.]

…

Lin Zhexia registered an alternate account, and left an anonymous comment in the building: Actually, he acted on righteousness, it’s not what you guys think.

However, this comment was completely ignored and quickly sank into the sea.

–

As summer passed, the weather gradually became cooler.

After a certain point, the sound of cicadas disappeared completely, the leaves turned yellow, and the temperature continued to plummet.

Soon, people in school were wearing thicker and thicker clothes. They changed into the heavy winter uniforms of No. 2 High School. The winter uniforms only had a red thickened coat. For the pants, they could wear their own.

Lin Zhexia wrapped herself up tightly, but Chi Yao seemed as if he wasn’t afraid of the cold. He only wore a thin sweater under his coat, and he still looked thin. As for his lower body, he wore a pair of jeans, showing his long and thin legs.

“Aren’t you cold?” On the way to school, Lin Zhexia couldn’t help but ask.

“Is this intentional?” She accused, “Wearing so little for the sake of looking cool while everyone else looks so fat.”

Chi Yao glanced at her.

Because the girl in front of him was afraid of the cold, most of her face was buried in the beige scarf, only showing a pair of clear eyes.

“Am I crazy?”

“…I’m not sure. You might actually be crazy.”

The more Lin Zhexia thought about it, the more she thought she was right, “In fact, you’re freezing to death, right? But to save face, you’re enduring the cold and pretending to be cool.”

What responded to her was a sneer from Chi Yao, “In this weather, you’d better worry about whether your brain will get frozen.”

Lin Zhexia wanted to personally verify it, “Put your hand out.”

Chi Yao thought she was silly, but still held out his hand to her.

Lin Zhexia touched the back of his hand and found that it really wasn’t cold.

She touched it again in disbelief.

This time, she lingered a little longer.

Enough for her to notice the shallow scar left on Chi Yao’s hand, as well as the warmth on the back of the youth’s hand.

This inexplicable warmth reminded her of fragments of when she applied medicine for Chi Yao.

“…” Lin Zhexia retracted his hand. When she spoke, the breath she exhaled hit her cashmere scarf, setting off a burst of heat that ran all the way to her ears, “Um, oh, the bus is here.”

Time before the final exams passed very quickly.

Studying the textbook and reviewing the knowledge points, interspersed with a monthly exam, soon led to the final exam.

The weather was too cold. With a cold and several sneezes, Lin Zhexia wrote three days of exams.

She got her homework for the winter vacation after the exam and went home to sleep feeling heavy-headed.

She slept hazily, and heard Lin He enter her room and say, “Xiaxia, Uncle Wei, and I have to go to the neighboring city tomorrow.”

She sort of recalled such a thing.

Wei Ping was going to the neighboring city on business for a few days. Lin He also asked for leave to go with him. The two of them are going on a rare “vacation”.

“You stay at home by yourself. I made dumplings for you, just cook it to eat. There are also noodles and stuff, everything’s in the refrigerator.”

“Pay attention to safety, close the doors and windows properly, and remember to bring the keys when you go out, or else there’ll be nobody to open the door for you— make sure you remember all this.”

Lin He kept going on about precautions.

Lin Zhexia responded in agreement.

When she woke up again, she was alone at home.

She opened the refrigerator, looked at the rows of dumplings, and pondered for a long time. Then she took out her phone to send a message to Chi Yao.

-Beep beep beep.

-Have you had dinner yet?

-If not, shall we eat together?? (^??^*)

10 minutes later.

Lin Zhexia sat at Chi Yao’s kitchen table, holding chopsticks and looking at the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Chi Yao, who was wearing only a sweater, was putting dumplings in the steamy pot. The hand that beat up three people was currently picking up dumplings and putting them in the pot.

In fact, he has a not-so-homely face. He doesn’t look like someone that will enter the kitchen. He looked more like someone who is served by others——

When Lin Zhexia was thinking of this, she heard the owner of the face ask:

“Vinegar or soy sauce.”

“Vinegar!”

“Do you want chili oil?”

Lin Zhexia nodded, “Yeah.”

“Yeah my ass.” Chi Yao said, “You haven’t had a long enough cold and haven’t coughed hard enough?”

Then why did you ask.

In the middle of the meal, Lin Zhexia said, “Why don’t I wash the dishes later?”

Chi Yao didn’t show any objections.

Lin Zhexia reminded, “I’m just showing my manners, you have to refuse.”

Chi Yao, “Why do I have to refuse?”

Lin Zhexia said slowly, “Because I came to your house as a guest. Since I’m the guest, you can’t actually let me do the dishes.”

“I’m sorry,” Chi Yao said, “we don’t have that many rules in our family, we don’t stop guests from washing dishes.”

Lin Zhexia closed her mouth and didn’t want to continue talking with him anymore.

She ate slowly. When she finished eating, she lifted her head and looked at the time, it was nearly 8:30.

When the two dined, the weather forecast was being broadcasted on the living room TV, but the sound was lowered so that it blended with the background, “… In some of the above areas, there may be short-term heavy rainfall at night, with the possibility of severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and strong winds in the local areas. I hope that citizens can pay more attention to safety when going outside.”

At half past one that night.

Lin Zhexia was awakened by thunder.

“Boom—”

The thunder was like a sharp blade, splitting the thick ink–like sky.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared.

She wrapped herself in the blanket, vaguely remembering that she had a nightmare just now. She opened her eyes and the moment she heard the thunder, she shuddered uncontrollably for a second.

But it wasn’t because of the nightmare.

It was because of the thunder.

Lin Zhexia thought to herself, it was fine during the day, but it actually started thundering at night.

Then, she thought, she was currently the only one at home.

…

She rarely has anything to fear, with the sole exception of thunder.

“Boom—”

The thunder went on and on, showing no sign of stopping.

There seemed to be thunder strikes playing in a loop next to her ears, splitting down along with the thunder deep in her memories.

There was also a thunderstorm that day.

The young voice of a four-year-old child cried:

“Daddy.”

“… Daddy, don’t go, Daddy.”

The trivial voice in the memory then shifted to Lin He’s voice, which pretended to be determined.

“You can leave if you want. In the future, you have nothing to do with us. You don’t need to contact us and don’t show up again.”

“—Take your things and get lost!”

Her head felt heavy. When she came to her senses, she realized that she was trembling in the blanket.

Lin Zhexia reached for the switch on the bedside and tried to turn on the light, but she couldn’t find it.

Finally, she dropped her hand and pressed her palm against the phone beside her pillow.

She grabbed her phone, borrowing the bright light from the green, and she clicked on the familiar kitty cat profile. Lin Zhexia curled up in the blanket, and slowly typed, “Are you asleep? If not, can I…”

Can I come over to find you.

Before she finished typing this sentence, she got a call.

[’Chi Dog’ invites you to a voice call…]

“I’m at the door,” When the phone was connected, the youth’s familiar voice reached her ears, covering the thunder outside the window, “open the door.”