At Xie Li’s words, there was silence before the audience erupted into a frenzy.
Some whistled loudly, some stood up and cheered, and some whispered excitedly to each other in the noise without hearing the sentence, and then slowly tapped the armrests of the chairs and joined in the laughter.
In the first two rows were the teachers and school authorities, all of whom gasped after hearing it.
The teacher in charge of the Student Council was sitting at the very end of the Hall, and when he regained his senses after the explosion of cheers behind him, he jumped up angrily, but Xie Li had already turned sharply and walked down after saying that on stage. He could only turn his head and try to calm the students, but the effect was, as expected, poor.
On the other hand, behind the curtain.
Yu Rui originally did not intend to listen to Xie Li, but after some hesitation, he decided to at least listen to the opening. Then he listened closely to Xie Li’s one-sentence “campaign speech”.
Yu Rui was stunned.
He didn’t come to his senses until the man on the stage turned around and walked down the few steps in front of him. He looked blankly at Xie Li, who was standing one step higher than him.
Xie Li was about to tease Yu Rui, but when he reached him, he noticed that Yu Rui’s reaction was different from usual: he looked surprised and his eyes were dazed.
It was the first time Xie Li had seen such a Yu Rui.
He couldn’t help but curl the corners of his lips, put his hands in the pockets of his school jacket, and bowed slightly, “Did you lose your soul, Class President?”
Yu Rui was already surprised, and his movements and expressions were based on instinctive reactions. When he saw Xie Li suddenly approaching, he unconsciously tried to step back, but he forgot that he was still standing on the steps, and it was too late to regain the center of gravity under his feet.
Xie Li’s expression changed abruptly.
Without even thinking, he reached out and hooked his hand on the back of Yu Rui’s neck, pulling the young man who had almost fallen into the void.
A muffled sound was heard.
… Yu Rui was almost hit directly into Xie Li’s chest.
The two of them snorted in unison.
Yu Rui’s nose hurt from the impact, while Xie Li’s movements were too rough, and his unhealed wound was affected again.
After the pain passed, Yu Rui recovered. He raised his hand to cover the tip of his red nose and walked down the steps, looking at Xie Li on the steps with gloomy eyes.
None of them spoke. The atmosphere was quiet and subtle as the host of the campaign rushed out from backstage.
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The student who was supposed to go on stage did not even dare to look at the two “gods” and walked between them with a nervous, ashen face.
After the meeting of gazes was interrupted by the new candidate on stage, Yu Rui frowned, “You-”
Just as the words left his mouth, an angry voice came from afar.
“What’s wrong with you two!”
Yu Rui turned his head to see that it was his class teacher, Tian Xueqian, who had come from backstage.
He looked furious as he walked toward Yu Rui.
“Where is Xie Li, where did he go, did he run away after getting into trouble, is he deliberately looking for trouble with me?”
Tian Xueqian approached Yu Rui as he spoke, and when he turned his head, he saw Xie Li lazily walking down the steps.
Tian Xueqian was so angry that he opened his mouth to lecture, only to scrupulously look at the stage curtain that could vaguely be glimpsed a little, he restrained himself and lowered his voice, “You two, come with me!”
…
The backstage of the Hall was full of students who were either preparing for their speeches or had not long finished them, so they had heard the commotion in front of them and looked at the two people following Tian Xueqian with remarkably complicated expressions.
To the door, Yu Rui could hear the murmurs sticking in his ears.
“At first I thought that the position of Student Council President would be controversial, but I didn’t expect it.”
“The hand Xie Li played is really… daring.”
“Originally it was said that the two of them had a 50% chance of winning, but this time Xie Li can be considered as a nail towards Yu Rui’s position.”
“I don’t know what he thinks; last week on the basketball court, he was the first to provoke Yu Rui, right? It’s like he’s not afraid of life or death, but this week he’s still giving in…”
“Does it look like he’s giving in?”
“Doesn’t he? He even said so on stage.”
“I think it’s clear that it’s out of annoyance, where do you see him giving in with that attitude?”
The three people walked out from backstage in the Hall, and the murmurs disappeared.
Tian Xueqian went under the shade of a tree, and turned around with a frown, “What was that all about just now?”
Yu Rui was about to speak when the man behind him stopped lazily beside him, “I said before that I was going to withdraw from the election. Fertile water doesn’t flow into the outsider’s camp, so I nudged the Class President.” Xie Li looked toward Tian Xueqian, “I don’t think it’s a problem, is it, Mr. Tian?”
Tian Xueqian was dumbfounded.
He had been teaching Xie Li for over a year, but this was the first time he had heard him call him a teacher in such a serious manner. After a couple of seconds, he snapped back to reality, “Even if you want to push for more votes, you can’t be so…. so blunt and shallow!”
“Shallow?” Xie Li raised his eyebrows and looked at Yu Rui again, with a flirtatious look in his eyes that only Yu Rui could see, “I’m particularly serious and sincere”
Yu Rui, “….”
Tian Xueqian said angrily, “Even if you are sincere, aren’t you afraid that the other students will say that you are not competing fairly and that one person is being given two places to campaign for?”
Xie Li scoffed softly, “What do you mean by unfair competition, who is worthy of being compared to…?”
Before he could finish his sentence, Xie Li received a cold glare from Yu Rui with a smile on his face. Xie Li’s eyes narrowed slightly, but he held back the rest of his words.
Yu Rui silently watched the “obedient” Xie Li and took in the conversation, “Professor Tian, I’m sorry, I didn’t communicate well with Xie Li this time.”
“You don’t have to take the blame.” Tian Xueqian waved his hand, “You don’t think I didn’t see that you wrote the speech Xie Li delivered, do you? He should at least go up and campaign for you if he didn’t even write the speech.”
Tian Xueqian looked at Xie Li angrily, “Xie Li, I’ve heard a lot of rumors in school recently; Yu Rui is good-natured and mild-mannered, don’t bully him just because he ignores you, and force him to write your speech, okay?”
Yu Rui was about to deny it when he heard Xie Li laugh shamelessly beside him, “Well, the Class President is bullied by me, and you have to protect him, Professor Tian.”
“You… are you still proud of yourself after bullying someone?” It was the first time Tian Xueqian had seen Xie Li put on such a show in front of him, and he was so angry that he was about to burst out.
Just as he was about to speak, another Class 10 student came out from backstage and rushed over to Tian Xueqian as soon as he saw him.
“Professor Tian, Principal Sun is looking for you.”
Tian Xueqian’s face twisted, knowing that he was also going to get a lecture, he turned around and glared at Xie Li, “Wait until I come back, you’ll write a 10,000-word reflection!”
When he finished speaking, Tian Xueqian turned and followed the student.
After walking a few steps his mind gradually calmed down, at a certain point Tian Xueqian suddenly stopped his step in confusion and muttered to himself, “When did Xie Li become so close… and so talkative?”
In his first year of high school, he didn’t remember Xie Li talking to him as much as today. Whenever he was disciplined in the past, the boy would always stand around with an apathetic attitude and ignore everything.
And counting, it’s only been a little over two weeks since the beginning of this semester, according to the rumors in the institute, he also seems like a new person.
“Is this a personality change?”
Tian Xueqian was puzzled, but he didn’t have time to think too much before he was led to the principal’s office.
Meanwhile, outside the back door of the Hall.
As soon as Tian Xueqian left, the smile on Yu Rui’s face faded, and he looked at Xie Li, “Can you behave better in school?”
“What?”
“Control your sickness.” Yu Rui’s tone was cold, “Both what you said on stage today and what you just said to the teacher were completely inappropriate. Have you thought about the consequences if someone found out one day?”
The smile under Xie Li’s eyes stopped. After looking deeply at Yu Rui for a few seconds, he laughed: ” Are you afraid that I will drag you down?”
Yu Rui’s eyes were apathetic: “I won’t be dragged down by anyone. I’m also not doing anything that can be criticized.”
“You’re right.”
Xie Li’s sudden statement took Yu Rui by surprise, he had thought that with Xie Li’s “condition”, he would only get angry or refute when he heard this, but he didn’t expect that the person would not only agree, but also smile at him.
“You haven’t done anything that can be criticized, and even if you do in the future, you can pretend that you haven’t.”
Yu Rui was surprised, then slightly annoyed, “I didn’t…”
“Then you don’t need a guilty conscience, Class President.”
Xie Li lowered his gaze, his dark eyes did not look at Yu Rui for an instant. At one point, the emotions in them rippled, making Yu Rui feel that they were filled with seriousness and affection.
It was only for a moment, then it dissolved into a careless smile…
“No matter what happens in the future. If one day they say something, just tell them that I’m the one who’s sick and, the one who’s also bullying you.”
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I hope nothing bad like that happens D:
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I’m a little too hung up on how Xie Li’s shoulder and arm must be hurting after that, but I’m guessing it’s going to be handled. Also, is it really productive to lecture their teacher for letting the number 2 student influence the number 1 student to participate more in class?
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