I Just Want to Freeload on Your Luck - Chapter 39

While the atmosphere of the International Class had become really weird because of Zhao Mingxi and Fu Yangxi, the atmosphere of the Evergreen Class and Gold Medal Class were not much better either.

For the last fight for the seat in the Tournament, the entire Evergreen Class was defeated in public. So far, whenever they met people from the International Class on the road, they could not hold their heads up. The group of Fu Yangxi’s followers in the International Class were also unkind with their words. Whenever they saw them, they would mock and ridicule them. They wanted to fight but they had no reason to do so, hence they were frustrated to death.

In addition, Miss Ye Bing, their homeroom teacher, was criticized face-to-face for offending Professor Gao. Recently, the air pressure in their class has also been extremely low. As soon as she entered the classroom, she would pull a long face, effectively strangling all the fun in the room. This caused the entire Evergreen Class to be in dire straits and miserable.

In such a situation, the entire class could easily start fights with each other.

At the beginning, when the title of School Beauty was given to Zhao Mingxi, the people in the Evergreen Class didn’t think it mattered. Anyway, Zhao Mingxi was several times more beautiful than Zhao Yuan. This was a fact before their eyes. Afterwards, when Zhao Mingxi was about to become the host of the Annual School Celebration, most of the people in the Evergreen Class were still indifferent. After all, why did it matter who became the host…?

But after experiencing the last incident, the dignity of the entire Evergreen Class was trampled to the ground. They couldn’t sit still anymore! They started to think of Zhao Mingxi as a member of the International Class and began to quarrel with the enemy!

So when the lineup of events for the Annual School Celebration was released and the Literature Department announced that this year’s host was still Zhao Yuan, the entire Evergreen Class let out sighs of relief and cheered.

After all, the class of the host would have the right to perform at the finale.

Zhao Yuan also let out a mental sigh of relief. She was finally able to win something back after the recent series of incidents.

…

What Zhao Yuan and the Evergreen Class didn’t know was that just after she had contacted the teacher of the Literature Department that day, that teacher still offered the position to Zhao Mingxi again.

But Mingxi flatly refused her.

Thus, this opportunity went round and round before it finally fell into Zhao Yuan’s hands.

Mingxi’s thoughts were very simple. She couldn’t be bothered to fight with Zhao Yuan for what she has.

It was more sensible for her to have more time to study.

If this happened in the past, Mingxi might want to perform something for the show because the Zhao family would be watching during school celebrations. She would want to show off her face for the family to see.

After all, she was also a child who was full of expectations and wanted to be praised.

But now Mingxi didn’t care about these at all.

Even without their love, she could live well by herself.

Except for those who participated in the Tournament, the Evergreen Class was celebrating.

They enthusiastically began to prepare for the finale of this year’s school celebration.

Only two people were not so happy.

Li Haiyang thought this year’s host would be Zhao Mingxi so he quietly looked forward to it for a long time, but now he was told that it was going to be Zhao Yuan?

What’s the difference between this and a fan who waited for a long time for his idol’s concert, but was suddenly told that a passerby would be on the stage?

He didn’t like Zhao Yuan, so naturally she was just a passerby to him.

“Don’t you guys find it boring?” Li Haiyang grabbed the gift from the table and couldn’t help but murmur, “It was Zhao Yuan for the first two years. Don’t the school teachers feel bored?”

“What are you talking about?!” Lu Ye, who happened to walk by, heard him and immediately came back and grabbed him by the collar. He almost fought him. “What’s wrong with Zhao Yuan? Zhao Yuan is good-looking. If you’re not convinced, just shut up!”

Looking at the wound on Lu Ye’s face, Li Haiyang felt that Lu Ye was a little stupid. “You stole your father’s bidding documents for Zhao Yuan and threatened your dad with your life! Does Zhao Yuan know that you did this? And even if you succeeded in helping Zhao Yuan, will Zhao Yuan remember you in the end?”

The two were friends, so Li Haiyang found it necessary to remind Lu Ye.

However, he was interrupted by Lu Ye before he could finish his sentence.

“What do you know? Zhao Yuan promised to go to the movies with me next weekend.” Lu Ye glanced at Zhao Yuan’s beautiful figure in the front row with a happy smile on his face. “At least I finally have a chance.”

He ridiculed Li Haiyang again, “What about you? It’s been so many days, yet you still haven’t been able to give her a gift.”

Li Haiyangyu was rendered speechless.

Another person who was not so happy was E Xiaoxia.

Her popularity in the Evergreen Class had declined to the point that only Miao Ran, who was her childhood friend, would still talk to her.

However, she couldn’t figure out why everyone hated her yet not Zhao Yuan.

Can’t anyone see that Zhao Yuan is not as kind as she seems?

E Xiaoxia glanced at Zhao Yuan who was smiling and talking to Lu Ye. Then, she lowered her head to open her stationery box and glanced at two palm-sized transparent sealed bags.

The first one contained a few hairs that she took from Zhao Yuning’s sweater while he was playing basketball in school two days ago.

E Xiaoxia wasn’t sure if it was Zhao Yuning’s. To be on the safe side, she paid out several thousand yuan and asked Miao Ran to pretend to have a crush on Zhao Yuning’s junior so that she could hand the money to one of Zhao Yuning’s basketball teammates. That guy pulled a few pieces of hair from his head and put them in another sealed bag.

All that was needed next was a piece of Zhao Yuan’s hair.

E Xiaoxia was thoughtful. For the past few days, she had been thinking of ways to get Zhao Yuan’s hair. However, Zhao Yuan was being very defensive towards her now. No matter how cautious she was, as soon as she got close to Zhao Yuan, she would be pushed away by Pu Shuang.

So it was very difficult.

But E Xiaoxia did not give up. She always felt that her intuition wasn’t wrong.

And even if there was a mistake in her intuition and the DNA test shows that Zhao Yuning and Zhao Yuan are siblings, there was not much for her to lose.

At noon that day, when she saw that Zhao Yuan did not go to dinner with Pu Shuang and the others but left the school alone, she hurriedly followed.

Zhao Yuan seemed to have an appointment and was waiting at a Japanese restaurant.

E Xiaoxia pulled out the chair at another table and sat behind the green plants, only to find that the person who rushed to meet Zhao Yuan was a nanny.

E Xiaoxia took a closer look and found that she recognized her. She was the Nanny Zhang in Zhao Yuan’s family— the one who treated Zhao Yuan the best.

Previously, whenever E Xiaoxia went to Zhao Yuan’s house, she observed that Nanny Zhang was always very enthusiastic, but she was only enthusiastic to Zhao Yuan’s friends. In comparison, her attitude towards Zhao Mingxi was really bad.

Now Nanny Zhang seems to have left the Zhao family.

E Xiaoxia saw Zhao Yuan giving Nanny Zhang some money, saying that it was for her daily expenses.

E Xiaoxia’s eyes wandered around. She called a waiter, gave him tens of thousands of yuan and whispered a few words to him.

Although the waiter couldn’t figure out why the customer would want him to take the hair of those from the table over there, he was certainly willing to do such a simple thing for tens of thousands of yuan.

However, after walking over and serving the hot pot, the waiter became a little nervous and for a moment forgot whether “that woman” which E Xiaoxia mentioned was the young one or the older one.

As he did not have so much time to think, he quietly took the sample from the both of them.

Before Zhao Yuan could find out about her, E Xiaoxia got a few strands of her hair. Then, without eating any of her food, she hurried away.

After meeting Nanny Zhang, Zhao Yuan went back to school and bumped into Pu Shuang who was buying snacks in the supermarket near the entrance of the school.

The two walked back together.

“You gave your nanny money?” Pu Shuang was surprised when Zhao Yuan mentioned it. “Wasn’t she fired because she said bad things about Zhao Mingxi? An employee who couldn’t control her mouth, dismissal is worthy of the crime, right? I’m sure you can find a new nanny who is efficient at work-”

Before Pu Shuang finished speaking, she glanced at Zhao Yuan’s face and quickly said, “Of course, I mean, it wasn’t necessary to dismiss her. It’s just a sentence from Zhao Mingxi and she didn’t commit any big mistakes. It’s too pitiful for her to be fired just like this.”

Zhao Yuan said, “That’s why I gave her 50,000 yuan. After all, it’s not easy to find a job at the end of the year. She used to be very good to me. When I’m down with a cold, she will cook chicken soup for me and take care of me all night.”

“You are too kind.” Pu Shuang sighed. “50,000 yuan. That’s enough for her to not work for half a year. You can give it to her this one time, but there shouldn’t be a next time, or else she might just cheat you out of your money.”

Zhao Yuan’s expression relaxed. She said, “Yeah, I know.”

When the two walked across the basketball court, Pu Shuang asked again, “What about your eldest brother?”

Zhao Yuan smiled lightly. “It’s done.”

Zhao Zhanhuai naturally didn’t know how she managed it. He only thought that she invited her classmate to dinner and then that classmate begged his dad. That’s why the Lu family showed signs of letting go.

Zhao Zhanhuai felt that she had helped a lot, so he took the initiative to call her last night.

This was practically the first time Zhao Zhanhuai had taken the initiative to call her this month.

Zhao Zhanhuai’s company must now acquire that piece of land in order to make a new layout, otherwise the operating benefits of the entire year will collapse.

Even if the Lu family refused to lower the price, in the end Zhao Zhanhuai would still buy that piece of land for a big price.

Now, Zhao Yuan has helped him pry Mr. Lu’s mouth open and the purchase price had a possibility of lowering. This could save Zhao Zhanhuai’s company a large amount of working capital.

Of course Zhao Zhanhuai felt relieved.

Zhao Yuan won again and again, so she was in a good mood today. She just felt that everything could be restored by herself to the way it was when there was no Zhao Mingxi.

Next, it was time to prepare for the School Celebration and the Tournament.

“Lu Ye looks like he got beat up when he came to school today. I wonder if he was beaten by his father.” Pu Shuang looked at Zhao Yuan. She hesitated. “Did you really agree to date him?”

“We’re only watching a movie,” Zhao Yuan glanced at Pu Shuang and said. “I’ve never promised to date anyone before.”

Pu Shuang: “…”

Pu Shuang stopped, suddenly feeling strange towards Zhao Yuan. At that moment, she didn’t know what to say.

But Zhao Yuan was already way ahead of her.

Pu Shuang stared at Zhao Yuan’s back for a while, then followed after her.

*

The fact that Lu Ye helped Zhao Yuan quickly reached Ke Chengwen’s ears. It wasn’t that Ke Chengwen wanted to inquire about it deliberately, but the basketball court was only so big.

Lu Ye was so excited to be able to watch a movie with the goddess. He was so loud when he was proclaiming it everywhere.

In the afternoon, during the physical education class, Ke Chengwen went over with a basketball and immediately told Fu Yangxi and Jiang Xiuqiu about it.

Jiang Xiuqiu was wearing a down jacket as he curled up in the corner and shook his hands. His neck was tucked into his collar. He couldn’t figure out the situation. “So? What does this have to do with us?”

After he said this, he smiled and accepted the love letters handed over by the two blushing girls.

“You don’t understand,” Ke Chengwen said anxiously. “You don’t know the troubles in Zhao Mingxi’s house! What is Zhao Yuan doing now? She is winning favor! The reason why she asked Lu Ye to do that is because she wants the Zhao family to turn to her side!”

Jiang Xiuqiu stuffed the love letter into his pocket and returned to his expressionless appearance. “But Zhao Mingxi has severed ties with her family, right? She doesn’t care who the Zhao family will favor in the future. The emperor is not in a hurry, so why are you, the eunuch, so anxious?”

“Xi ge, what do you say?” Ke Chengwen could not communicate with Jiang Xiuqiu, so he looked directly to Fu Yangxi.

Fu Yangxi’s arrogant red hair froze in the cold wind. His handsome eyes were filled with depression because of his loss of love.

He stared sullenly at Shen Liyao, who was playing basketball over there, and unconsciously pressed his fingers on the can of Coke until the liquid popped out and the can was squeezed into a twisted ball.

He didn’t seem to be listening to what Ke Chengwen said.

But after Ke Chengwen finished speaking, he let out a cold sigh.

“Give me your phone.”

Ke Chengwen quickly searched in his pocket and took out his phone for him.

Fu Yangxi picked up the phone, got up, walked a few steps away from them, and dialed a number.

Jiang Xiuqiu was so cold that he couldn’t move his neck. He turned his whole body over to look at Fu Yangxi. He wondered, “He is-”

Ke Chengwen said in understanding, “Ruining Zhao Yuan’s plans.”

Jiang Xiuqiu: “…”

When Fu Yangxi came back, Jiang Xiuqiu sighed and said, “Zhao Mingxi doesn’t like you at all. You’ve fallen out of love, yet you still care about her.”

Fu Yangxi said angrily, “I’m not caring about her. I simply can’t understand the Zhao family and don’t want them to get better. This is my personal business, understood?”

Jiang Xiuqiu said, “Didn’t I say this earlier? Ever since we were little, I have never seen anyone pursuing us because of our personality. You still don’t believe in that. Look, it’s true—”

Fu Yangxi’s mentality instantly collapsed, and his sanity immediately exploded into burning fireworks.

His blood rushed up to his head. He stood up with a loud noise, dropped the coke can, and grabbed Jiang Xiuqiu’s collar: “Do you want to f*cking fight?”

Jiang Xiuqiu’s collar was deformed, but he was like an old, calm monk. He wasn’t angry, instead, he sighed in mourning.

Fu Yangxi: “…”

Fu Yangxi let go of Jiang Xiuqiu’s collar and sat down beside him in frustration.

The warmth on Zhao Mingxi’s body was real. She once created a wonderful dream for him, and it made his limbs warm every night when he fell asleep.

Zhao Mingxi once gave him one more reason to dream, which made him a bit less afraid of the nightmares of the past.

But now, the dream is broken, and the light is gone.

Zhao Mingxi was still warm, and the candy she gave him was still very sweet.

But Fu Yangxi’s fingertips remained cold.

Seeing the depressing atmosphere looming above the two of them, Ke Chengwen couldn’t help but to be affected as well. He sat down next to them. After thinking about it in distress, Ke Chengwen said, “Maybe-”

The two heads next to him turned to look at him.

Ke Chengwen was under a lot of pressure, but he could only bite the bullet and express his thoughts, “There’s nothing too difficult in this world for the rich. Maybe we can think of a way to throw money at the Shen family to drive Shen Liyao away and make him transfer to another school?! If Zhao Mingxi can’t see Shen Liyao, she will gradually forget about him!”

Jiang Xiuqiu shook his head. “Not necessarily. Have you never heard that long-distance relationships can stimulate people’s hormones? By doing this, you won’t know whether you are helping the two of them or breaking them apart.”

Jiang Xiuqiu continued to analyze, “Moreover, if Shen Liyao transfers to another school so abruptly, Zhao Mingxi will definitely feel that something is wrong. Fu Yangxi could be like the villain in a TV series. Have you ever seen a villain getting together with the main female protagonist?”

“……”

“…”

The three of them couldn’t think of any other methods.

Fu Yangxi continued to glare at Shen Liyao from a distance.

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Shen Liyao has also been upset recently.

The number of errors in his experiments had increased and he was absent-minded when playing basketball.

After that day when Zhao Mingxi declared that she no longer liked him in front of his teammates in the hallway, she never came to look for him again.

More than that, she was avoiding him deliberately.

The person he met every day just disappeared from his world.

At first, Shen Liyao still held some secret expectation with a cold face, thinking that this was another chance for her to act mischievous, and that she was perhaps not sincere.

However, as time passed day by day, Shen Liyao gradually realized that Zhao Mingxi, amidst the daily confusion and anxiety, really walked there and then stopped.

She will not approach his world anymore.

Shen Liyao was not used to this.

How could he get used to this?

She was no longer on the sidelines when he played basketball.

When he pushed the door of the broadcasting room, he subconsciously thought she would be inside and was ready to say hello, but it was other girls who greeted him.

They no longer encountered each other in the library. He used to stay in the computer science area because he thought Zhao Mingxi would still be there, pretending to be searching for him inadvertently— but no.

She never appeared anymore.

Although everything was out of his control, Shen Liyao was still desperately enduring the anxiety caused by these unusual occurrences.

If he made a mistake in an experiment, then he would punish himself by doing it again.

When he was distracted while reading literature, he would force himself to calm down.

He felt that he didn’t like Zhao Mingxi. All the abnormal psychology that appeared now was just some of the consequences of the word ‘unaccustomed’.

Once he gets used to the absence of Zhao Mingxi, everything will be back on track.

—That was what Shen Liyao thought.

But what was strange was that during Madam Zhao’s birthday party, he could not help but pick the style that Zhao Mingxi said was the most suitable for him before, and pretended to scan the crowd casually to see whether Zhao Mingxi was coming.

Of course Zhao Mingxi didn’t come that day. Later he heard that Zhao Mingxi had severed all ties with her family.

When Zhao Mingxi no longer appeared in his world, his speed of obtaining information seriously lagged behind. He could only latch on to some gossip between her and Fu Yangxi from others.

Shen Liyao began to realize that other emotions were breeding in his heart. It was not just an unaccustomed feeling, but also— the irritability of seeing gold medals fall into the hands of others when he was a child.

After all, the classrooms of the two classes were on the same floor, so there would be occasions when they would pass each other by in the corridor.

Shen Liyao pretended not to see her everytime. But through the corner of his eyes he caught a glimpse of Zhao Mingxi and noticed that she, too, was not paying any attention to him.

Shen Liyao was unhappy. He thought that Zhao Mingxi was actually holding it back. After the two passed each other by, Zhao Mingxi should look back. But when he couldn’t help it and looked back.

He realized.

The only one turning back was him.

…

If he was just not accustomed to it, then in more than a month, he should have been accustomed to not having Zhao Mingxi in his life.

But why was he still so unhappy?

Could there be something else?

To prove this point, Shen Liyao accepted an invitation from Kong Jiaze a few days ago and accompanied her to the zoo. Kong Jiaze was excited. She even put on a skirt with her bare legs out in the cold wind of more than ten degrees. However, after finishing all the dating projects, Shen Liyao only felt disappointed. He even went back to the school laboratory in advance that night.

Kong Jiaze can’t do it, others can’t seem to do it either.

Shen Liyao gradually developed a terrible speculation in his heart.

Do I actually care about Zhao Mingxi—?

After a few days of solemn contemplation, Shen Liyao asked Ye Bai coldly in the laboratory, “If I go chasing after Zhao Mingxi now, what do you think?”

Ye Bai was shocked to the core. Although he discovered Shen Liyao’s abnormality recently, he wondered whether Shen Liyao actually liked Zhao Mingxi. However, he never expected that Shen Liyao would have the idea of chasing people back! How determined was he?! At least Zhao Mingxi and a gold medal must be regarded as equally important.

“Are you serious?” Ye Bai’s pupils were shaking. After he recovered, he thought about it and said, “I think, God Yao, if you are really uncomfortable, then you can chase her back. If it’s you, surely Zhao Mingxi will come back as soon as you start. She used to like you so much.”

As Shen Liyao received an affirmative answer, he was relieved and feeling a lot more relaxed.

He had a rare good night’s sleep this night.

Shen Liyao has always acted quickly. On the second day, he began to formulate a series of schedules.

It was impossible for someone like Shen Liyao to confess rashly. He intended to take this step by step.

Let’s be friends first.

So this Friday, after playing basketball, he returned to the classroom to take the school stipend and time schedule for training and walked towards the International Class.

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On Mingxi’s side, she stared at Fu Yangxi during the first class in the afternoon. After being lectured by Mr. Lu, she dared not continue to stare at him.

The second class was physical education. She played volleyball with the girls in the International Class for a while, then went to the school gate to pick up a dessert delivered by the employees of He Yang’s shop. She returned to the classroom before the class started.

Mingxi wiped the sweat from her forehead. When she saw that Fu Yangxi hadn’t returned, she placed the dessert she was going to give him on his table.

Although she didn’t make it by herself, she spent her own money on it, so some tender seedlings could grow.

But before she sat down, someone outside called her, saying that someone in the Gold Medal Class was looking for her to arrange the matters of the training camp.

A 10-day training camp will begin next weekend.

Mingxi was afraid that she might have missed something, so she hurried out.

She didn’t expect that it was Shen Liyao who came to communicate with her.

Shen Liyao stood in the corridor, handed her the form, and pointed to the signature below, “The training camp’s address is on the top. After school next Friday, all 20 of us will set off from the school gate. The school will be responsible for the transport. You don’t have to worry about the accommodation nor the expenses. You only need to bring some workbooks, and if you are not used to the hotel, you can bring some daily necessities. After you’ve read it clearly, you can sign here.”

After a pause, Shen Liyao said again, “Also, it will get cold next week, so bring more warm clothes.”

Mingxi quickly signed the form and glanced at him strangely, “Why are you doing this? Isn’t your team’s Yue Teng in charge of this?”

Shen Liyao couldn’t explain himself, so he just kept his face cold and didn’t say a word.

…

When Fu Yangxi and his friends came up, they saw Zhao Mingxi and Shen Liyao standing in the corridor talking.

They were just talking about how to separate the two of them, but in the next second they saw them so close together.

Fu Yangxi’s face turned green immediately!

It was tolerable but unbearable!

The string in his mind broke and the veins at his temples twitched suddenly. He was about to rush over but was stopped by Ke Chengwen and Jiang Xiuqiu. The two of them pulled him back to the classroom.

“Have you lost your mind?!”

“Xi ge, don’t be so reckless! It’s too childish of you to break them up just because they’re talking! You will only lose points on Zhao Mingxi’s side!”

Fu Yangxi was anxious and frustrated. “Then what should I do? Watch them get back together?”

“It’s just a conversation—”

Fu Yangxi said angrily, “No, she is not allowed to talk to that damn skinny boy!”

After a while, Mingxi and Shen Liyao who were outside the corridor felt that the guys from the International Class were all trying to get out. When the two said one word, one person would squeeze between the two and walk over to fetch water, “excuse me”, then after saying another word, someone else would squeeze between the two and walk back to the class from between them after going to the toilet.

Shen Liyao said, “This is a group training for—”

“Excuse me.”

“20 people’s—”

“Sorry, excuse me.”

“Group—”

“It’s me again. I can’t hold it in anymore. Please excuse me.”

Shen Liyao’s face became more and more upset, it was almost cold. Like a talk show, he quickly finished the rest of his sentence, “Zhao Mingxi, add yourself to the group. All the activities will be notified in the group, remember to read the group announcement—”

“Excuse me.”

Shen Liyao couldn’t bear it anymore. “Did the entire International Class hold in their piss so that they can go to the toilet at the same time? And why must all of you squeeze in between us when the road is so wide?”

When Zhao Mingxi saw Fu Yangxi’s group from the corner of her eyes, she started appearing contemptuous. She didn’t want to talk nonsense with Shen Liyao. She hurriedly scanned the code, added herself into the group and said, “Thank you, we’ll talk again when there’s other matters.”

After that, she quickly slipped back to the classroom.

Shen Liyao: “…”

Fu Yangxi was about to explode in anger. Why did she scan the code just now? They even exchanged contact information??? Do they think I’m dead???

Mingxi returned to her seat with the watch, and found that the air pressure around Fu Yangxi’s body was more gloomy than in the morning. He stared outside as he sharpened a sharpener without saying a word. His face was dark, and a few broken pencils were thrown beside him.

Mingxi: “…”

“What’s wrong with him?” Mingxi turned to look at Ke Chengwen. When Mingxi didn’t receive an answer, she took out the dessert from the drawer of her table and handed it to Fu Yangxi. “Here you go.”

Fu Yangxi continued to sharpen the blade. “I’m not eating it.”

Mingxi asked, “Why? Although I didn’t make this, He Yang’s family specializes in desserts. The desserts from her family’s shop are delicious. Why don’t you like it?”

Fu Yangxi said coldly, “I’m on a diet.”

Mingxi: “…”

The followers in class: “…”

The last class was a self-study class. Fu Yangxi sharpened the knife for one class, and when he looked sideways, he felt depressed and absent-minded.

Mingxi looked at him for a while. Then, she couldn’t help but to take out her mobile phone and text He Yang.

“Why do I feel that Fu Yangxi is angry with me? Is it my misperception? Did Ke Chengwen tell you anything?”

The reply came quickly: “I’m in a normal class, so why would Ke Chengwen tell me what happened to you guys? But in general, trust your instincts. If you think so, the reason for his anger must be you.”

…

Mingxi glanced at Fu Yangxi again. Fu Yangxi looked upset when she looked over.

“…”

Mingxi was 99% certain that the cause of his bad mood for the past few days was really related to her.

“I’m confused??” Mingxi typed quickly: “I even went to his house to give him medicine after he caught a cold. Why is he mad at me? Is it because I was angry that I went to his home without asking and violated his privacy?”

He Yang: “It shouldn’t be that. Although I don’t know much about Fu Yangxi, he doesn’t seem to be that kind of person. He cares a lot about you. Would you like to ask him?”

Mingxi: “If he would tell me when I asked, I wouldn’t be taking the risk of getting caught by the head teacher and sending you a text message right now.”

…

For some reason, He Yang felt as if she was giving advice to a bad boyfriend who was confused as to the reason why his girlfriend was angry.

She shook her head and quickly tossed off the weird thought.

He Yang said: “Then it should be something that hurt his self-esteem, hence why he couldn’t tell you. If you care about this friendship, just hold on and carefully find out what the reason is.”

Of course Mingxi cared. There was no second person in the world who would get her a private jet just because she missed her grandma.

When Mingxi turned off her cell phone, the school bell rang.

Fu Yangxi was quiet. With a face of ‘I’m dead, leave me alone’, he stood up and started packing up his school bag. In fact, he didn’t have any books in his school bag. He just threw his earphones and the bottles and cans in casually.

Mingxi glanced at it and wondered a little about what vitamins he was eating, but she couldn’t understand the French words. She planned to take a photo of it and check it online.

This school week is over and it’s finally the weekend. Then, it’ll be two more days before I can see Fu Yangxi again.

But the misunderstanding hasn’t been solved yet.

In the past, Mingxi naturally didn’t care so much. But now, not only did she care, there were also some other indistinguishable emotions in her heart.

“Are you leaving now?” Mingxi asked.

Fu Yangxi raised his eyelids. “What else? Should I stay and observe how thin a person can be?”

“…”

What in the world is he talking about? Mingxi couldn’t understand him at all.

“Who said you’re fat?” Mingxi stopped him and racked her brains to find adjectives. She was good in science, but so-so in liberal arts. After thinking about it for a long time, she tried to comfort him, “You are 1.88 meters in height, everything looks nice on you, there’s some meat in your bones and you’re not fat at all.”

These comforting words were totally unconvincing.

Fu Yangxi took away his hand, replied with an “Oh” and continued to walk away.

Mingxi blurted out, “You can’t go!”

It may be that she was speaking too eagerly, but Ke Chengwen and a group of people in the classroom were looking over at them. Fu Yangxi’s throat moved, and he looked over as well

Fu Yangxi’s gaze fell on her pale face. He found the clear emotion showing that she cared in the expression on her face. The little bird in Fu Yangxi’s heart kicked its legs again, and there appeared such a resurgence of sparks. His expression eased up slowly and he pulled the corner of his mouth downward: “Why? What else do you want?”

Mingxi choked.The gears in her mind began spinning. She turned through the question booklet without thinking much about it and pointed to a question. “I don’t know how to answer this question.”

“…”

Fu Yangxi was so angry! The Little Mask asked him to stay so that he could help solve the problem! Is he just a tool who will go where he is directed?!

All the sparks turned into a cold wind of merciless pain in an instant.

Fu Yangxi angrily threw his school bag on Ke Chengwen’s desk and asked Ke Chengwen to go first. Then, he hooked the chairs with his feet, sat down dramatically, took Mingxi’s paper and pen, and started writing.

In the process of solving the problem, Mingxi was surprised to find that his train of thought was very fast, not at all like the speed of a person who usually sleeps every day.

Mingxi couldn’t help but ask, “Why don’t you participate in the Tournament if you have this ability?”

Fu Yangxi did not even bother to look at her. “Is a hundred gold medals worth even one millionth of my wealth?”

Mingxi: “…”

Sorry for bothering you.

A few minutes later, the classroom was empty, and there were only two people left. Fu Yangxi handed the solved question in front of Mingxi, and one again, with a look of ‘I’m dead, leave me alone’, he picked up his school bag and walked out.

Mingxi couldn’t be bothered to even take a look at the question. She hurriedly picked up her school bag and ran after him. “There is another thing. Aunt Li sent me a local product. One of them is for you. You should come with me to get it.”

“Is there no one else?” Fu Yangxi glanced at her and asked coolly, “For example, those friends from your training camp.”

His accent was placed on the words ‘those friends’ as he spoke through gritted teeth.

Mingxi replied, “No, it’s only for you and Jiang Xiuqiu— Ke Chengwen, uh, she said that Ke Chengwen might not appreciate it, so there’s none for him.”

“…”

Fu Yangxi followed Mingxi to the ground floor of the dormitory. Because Mingxi herself was there, the lady in charge of the dorms was more lenient and asked Fu Yangxi to follow Mingxi up.

After he went up to get the local product, Mingxi suddenly said that her light bulb was broken.

Although Fu Yangxi was upset about the fact that Little Mask didn’t like him, it was impossible for him to leave her alone like this. So he took a chair, placed it on the floor and stepped on it to change the light bulb for her.

In the end, the moment he looked up, he noticed something. This wasn’t the case of a broken light bulb. The whole light bulb was practically gone!

Fu Yangxi: “…”

Fu Yangxi said, “You have to buy a light bulb. You can wait here, I’ll go down and—”

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw Mingxi take up a cup full of water and poured it on the lower bunk bed. The blanket was wet in an instant. Mingxi jumped up in a panic. “Oh no, what should I do? The blanket is wet and I can’t sleep with it anymore.”

…

Fu Yangxi suddenly had a guess in his heart. He swallowed and tried his best to pretend to be unaffected by this. He said, “What else can you do? I suppose you can come to my house for the weekend? Besides—”

Fu Yangxi licked his lips, trying to hold down the heat spreading to the tips of his ears. He said nonchalantly, “Besides, there are many rooms in my house.”

As soon as he stopped speaking, he saw Little Mask with her head hung low. She sighed. “I guess that’s the only solution.”

Fu Yangxi: “…”

???

What’s going on?

Why did he feel like Little Mask was trying every possible means to stay with him? Was it his misperception? Or was he being too narcissistic again???