That afternoon, Second-year students in the Teaching Class were unable to escape from their self-study sessions.
The teachers of each class of the course had a meeting to attend, so they weren’t in the classroom and the order of the study sessions was maintained by the Class President of each class.
Unlike the two noisy classes next door, Teaching Class 10 was exceptionally quiet due to Yu Rui’s appeasement.
Yu Rui moved a chair and sat behind the lectern, facing the podium as requested by the teacher, concentrating on a brand new activity book.
No movement could be heard in the classroom. Only a few girls occasionally raised their heads and pretended to involuntarily glance at the podium for a few moments.
Xie Li had entered the classroom at a time like this.
There was a little “accident” at his part-time job today, which delayed his arrival to class, so he was a little late. When he entered the classroom, the third period of self-study had already passed for more than half an hour.
Xie Li entered through the back door of the classroom. His footsteps were so soft that only a few students looking around had noticed the movement, but they all lowered their heads as soon as they saw it was him.
Xie Li walked to his seat, and pulled out his chair, but paused.
He lifted his eyelids.
The table in front of him was empty. The backpack was still there, but the person wasn´t.
Xie Li withdrew his intention to sit down and turned to look up. His eyes swept across the classroom before finally settling on the podium.
The person he was looking for was sitting quietly behind the lectern, his eyes lowered. There was little expression on that handsome face, the light and dark intervals on either side of his nose were topped by faint shadows, and his delicate features were drawn over which was different from his usual coldness.
The biggest difference was the additional pair of thin, rimless glasses on the bridge of his straight nose. The pale, slightly pursed lips were marked by a sense of coldness, of ascetic adolescence.
Xie Li remained in the same place for half a minute, then suddenly smiled with dark and deep pupils.
He threw his uniform jacket on the desk and walked lazily with his long legs to the front of the classroom. Even though his steps remained as light as ever, in the silent classroom, the students on either side of the aisle Xie Li walked down, inevitably all looked up.
A few more seconds of silence commenced before small murmurs flooded the class.
By the time Yu Rui realized something was wrong, there was already an extra figure standing directly in front of him…
Yu Rui looked up and, after two seconds of silence, smiled gently, “Is there something wrong, Student Xie?”
The students in the classroom sharpened their ears to listen.
“Nothing.” Xie Li leaned on the edge of the table, bowing down slightly with his suppressive height, yet the provocative look aimed at Yu Rui didn’t abate at all, “Why didn’t you wear glasses in the afternoon?”
Yu Rui originally didn’t want to talk to the sick bastard, but there were countless pairs of eyes still looking at them at the moment, so he could only continue to smile, “I only wear them when I’m reading. It’s self-study right now, so if Student Xie has nothing else to ask, then we can talk after class.”
Xie Li nodded his head and turned around as if about to leave.
Yu Rui couldn’t figure out this man’s brain circuits and wasn’t about to waste time on him. Except just when he was about to look away he suddenly felt a shadow return—
“Don’t wear it anymore.” The silent chuckle went straight to his ears, “It’s for your good, Class President.”
“….”
Yu Rui watched the man walk to his seat and lay down on his desk whilst smiling. But no one noticed that the pen in his hand was gripped tightly, almost as if he was going to break it at any moment.
The classes for the day ended with the last study period in the afternoon, and students who were “trapped” in school all day couldn’t wait to leave. Just as Yu Rui announced the end of class, there was already a person running to the exit.
The first person to leave was stopped just outside the classroom door.
“Hey, buddy, did Yu Rui get assigned to your class?”
Inside the silent classroom, the female voice from the hallway came in clearly.
There was silence in the classroom. Then the students’ eyes shifted to the podium.
Yu Rui stopped picking up his books and raised his eyes to look at the door.
“Ah, yes…” The student who was stopped turned back, “Class President, someone is looking for you.”
Yu Rui stepped down from the podium.
A few meters away from the main door of the classroom, he could already see the entrance. In the hallway in front of the door, there was a group of girls, about four or five of them. They were all wearing the D High School’s uniform, but each had her own “special flair.”
He didn’t know how but the knee-length skirts of the girls’ uniform had been rolled up above the knee, revealing a straight, slender calf, plus two of the girls had had their hair permed and dyed…
When Yu Rui stopped, he received a sympathetic and concerned look from the other student who was stopped at the door.
“Hello, I’m Yu Rui, are you looking for me?”
The girl in front looked at Yu Rui and her eyes lit up, she turned her head to look at the sisters beside her with a smile, “Sigh, no need to be so serious, it’s nothing, I just wanted to make friends.”
Yu Rui smiled blandly, “It’s fine to make friends, but don’t block the doorway of our classroom, it will delay the others.”
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“Sorry, I have to finish some homework tonight. I can’t go.”
The girl’s smile faltered, “Tomorrow then?”.
“Classes officially start tomorrow, review and revision will take longer.”
“….You just don’t want to come with us, do you?”
Yu Rui thought for a moment, “I go to the high school study hall on weekends when there are no regular study sessions, do you want to join me?”
“…”
The girl choked.
The students who were watching beside her couldn’t contain their laughter and let out a chuckle.
This made the girls instantly annoyed.
“Are you deceiving our Sister Ye for fun?”
“You’re handsome and smart so what? And you’re even bragging to us that you also study on weekends?”
“Sister Ye, ignore him, we’re giving him face and he doesn’t even want it!”
While some of the girls were shouting, the classroom also became visibly agitated.
Most of the students had slipped out through the back door of the classroom, while others, curious or worried, stayed in the classroom to observe what was happening over there.
After being egged on by several girls, Ye Mu Mu’s expression sank, “Just one question, are you going out with us tonight? Think well before you answer, don’t wait until tomorrow to regret it.”
Yu Rui’s smile on his face did not change as his heart calculated the level of trouble and best solutions for each variable.
Just as he was about to answer, a voice suddenly sounded from beside him, its tone distinctly low, grumpy, and impatient.
“You’re blocking the way. Move.”
Yu Rui turned around.
It was incredible to say that it had only taken less than a day for the owner of the voice to reach a level that was all too familiar to him. So much so that as soon as he heard the voice, he instinctively wanted to frown, and the man’s unpleasant smile with eyes full of emotions that made him completely uncomfortable would appear in his eyes.
This time, however, wasn’t the same; the smile had disappeared from that man’s face, especially from the lazy but stern eyes under that sleepy mess of disheveled hair.
“…W-who are you?”
Startled by Xie Li’s eyes and the height of 185+, Sister Ye was no longer intimidating when she spoke again.
Xie Li frowned, “You don’t need to know who I am, just get lost.”
“You— who are you to tell me to get lost? Do you know who my brother is? He’s not someone a student like you can mess with!”
Xie Li’s gaze went up and down, sweeping the girl up and down, and when he determined the grabbing point, reached out, and grabbed the strap of the girl’s backpack, grabbing the person and pulling her forward.
Xie Li lowered his eyes coldly, “I’m not patient, and I don’t mind hitting women. I’m telling you for the last time, get lost or not?”
It was probably the first time she had seen someone in high school who dared to make a move against her so directly and unscrupulously, the girl’s face turned white with fear.
After a few seconds, she came back to her senses and shouted, “You’ll be sorry”, in a loud voice, she grabbed her backpack, and ran out.
The classroom fell silent for a few more seconds before the remaining students finally reacted.
“Holy shit, Xie Li is so cool.”
“Really, in the first year he seems so lazy and slept all day, and didn’t attend PE class or participate in any group activities, and didn’t seem interested in any of it… I didn’t expect him to be so buff.”
“But this Ye Mu Mu’s brother, he seemed to have some connections, that’s why she dares to be so arrogant. Xie Li offended her, nothing will happen, right?”
“I don’t know…”
Hearing the vague conversations, Yu Rui’s mood was probably the most complicated one.
He stood in place for a few seconds in silence, “Thank you. But you didn’t need to do that. Threats and violence won’t solve the problem, they only aggravate it.”
Xie Li returned to that lazy look and yawned, “Isn’t it fine if it isn’t your problem?”
“In this situation, your problem is my problem. If anything happens, come to me and I will intervene for you.” Yu Rui paused for a few seconds, “I don’t like owing favors.”
Xie Li put his hands in his pocket and stared at Yu Rui, suddenly revealing a smile, “What a coincidence, I like you owing me favors.”
“……” Yu Rui raised his eyes and stared at Xie Li with an expressionless face.
Combined with Xie Li’s performance today, he now seriously suspected that this person has a split personality or was an elitist.
“Give me your number, Class President.”
“?”
“Didn’t you say to contact you if something happens, how can I contact you if I don’t even have your number?”
Yu Rui thought for a moment before nodding, “Do you need paper and a pen?”
Xie Li snorted, “You can’t even memorize 11 numbers, how could you get the best grades while I was gone, Class President?”
Yu Rui, “…”
A second later, with a smile on his face, he reported a string of numbers without pause at the fastest speed possible.
“188xxxx4546.” After that, Yu Rui turned around and walked away.
“Wait.”
“?”
“It’s too fast, I didn’t remember it.”
“……” The corners of Yu Rui’s mouth curved up before quickly fading again as he slowed down his pace and repeated the number, “Done?”
“Mhm.”
“Then I’ll go now.”
“Don’t be so impatient, I have one more question.”
“??”
“Is this the first time a girl confessed to you, Class President?”
“That’s a confession?”
“A different question then, how many times have you been confessed by a girl?”
“…Why should I tell you?”
“Because you still owe me a favor?”
“…I don’t remember.”
“Tsk.” Xie Li’s smile sank, “That’s so strange.”
Yu Rui heard the change in the man’s tone and couldn’t help but turn to look at the other party, “What’s stran—”
He instinctively held his breath as the face suddenly approached him
The words froze between his slightly parted lips.
In the time that it took Yu Rui to return to his senses, Xie Li’s gaze swept deeply across his pale lips, and his memory went back to the dark, cold and reddened eyes in front of the mirror that he first saw.
After a pause, Xie Li suddenly smeared on an unpleasant smile, “Of course, it’s strange, Class President. How can any girl like you with those looks?”
A clear look of mockery.
Yu Rui froze. And he suppressed his expression of extreme irritation, lowering his eyes to conceal his gloomy mood.
After a silence, Xie Li once again let out a “tsk” and turned around to leave.
When he came to his senses, even Yu Rui, who had excellent patience, could barely keep his composure…
What do you mean by “those looks”?
In his sixteen years of life, this was the first time he heard someone mock his appearance.
Looking at that gradually disappearing silhouette, Yu Rui gritted his teeth: “…Sick in the head.”
In the evening, at the Hip Hop Internet Cafe.
“Catch!”
“….” Xie Li lazily raised his eyes and saw a can flying towards him.
He reached up and grasped it firmly, pressing it gently against the marble bar in front of him, and pulled the metal ring to open it with one hand.
Taking a sip, Xie Li frowned and looked at the can in his hand, “Sprite?”
“What’s wrong, you still don’t like it?”
The bearded middle-aged guy sat down on the round stool next to Xie Li, took a sip of the beer in his hand, lifted it, and shook it with a smile, “You want to drink this? That won’t work, even now, I’m not sure if that identity card of yours was stolen by one of your brothers for you.”
The corners of Xie Li’s mouth twitched, too lazy to speak.
“What the hell’s wrong with you today, Little Brother Xie? You’ve been looking long-faced all night, who bothered you? Several women from our cyber cafe have come to ask me if I’m underpaying you.”
“Nothing.”
“Really? Don’t look down on this uncle—”
Xie Li looked at him with narrowed eyes.
The middle-aged uncle coughed awkwardly, “Don’t just think this uncle is only handsome and lazing around all day, I’m very experienced. So you can come to me if you have any questions about youth and whatnot— there’s no such store better than this one.”
Xie Li lazily turned around.
The middle-aged guy tensed for a few seconds, but he couldn’t keep it in, “Little Brother Xie, for the sake of your paycheck, will you satisfy my curiosity?”
Xie Li still didn’t say anything.
The middle-aged uncle gave up and sighed as he straightened up.
Xie Li played with the can and, after a long silence, suddenly smiled, his eyes grim, “It’s nothing much. It’s just that the person I like was confessed to.”
The man froze and turned his head.
“And from what he said, it wasn’t just once.”
The man froze for a few seconds before finding his voice, “Oh, cough, cough, so that’s what happened. It’s not that bad, it just means the person you like is attractive or charismatic.”
Xie Li paused with the can in his hand.
Thinking of the pale, reddened corners of that person’s eyes in the mirror the day he met him, his eyes curved up, “…Mhm, very beautiful indeed.”
“Then what are you afraid of? Is there any other boy in your high school who is better-looking or smarter than you? None of those contenders could beat you.”
“….” Xie Li frowned and rested the can in his hand on the bar with a soft thump, “How can I compare when all the contenders are girls?”
Uncle, “??”
The man was confused for a moment, laughing dryly, “Hey, then the little girl you like must be really– charismatic.”
“Who said the person I like is a girl?”
“??”
The man’s nostrils flared in shock, and when he came to his senses he took several deep breaths before examining Xie Li up and down once again in shock, “Y-you y-you didn’t say you were gay back when you applied for the job earlier this year!”
“I wasn’t back then.”
“??”
“And I’m not interested in either sex. It’s just that the one that interests me is of the same sex”.
“‘Just’ my ass!”
The middle-aged guy raged for several minutes before finally calming down.
Then, he approached him, full of determination, “Look at yourself, Little Brother Xie. Surely you’ve never fallen in love before, how do you know that you’re in love with that boy? Maybe it’s infatuation.”
“Infatuation?” Xie Li snorted.
He remembered the reddened corners of those eyes in the mirror when he’d first seen them, the wrist he’d squeezed during the day, and the pale lips that had been so close before school ended.
Xie Li rubbed his fingers together unconsciously, his smile deepening, “Of course not.”
“And you’re just so sure?”
“Because I want to make him cry.”
Xie Li laughed softly, “And he’d better cry under me.”
“… Fuck! You shut up, laozi wants to stay straight!”
The chapter title is in capslock and it gave me the mental image of Xie Li howling into the sky ”I WANT TO MAKE HIM CRY” hahaha
Thank your for translation!
omg omg crazy
yr better run
also yr’s face when xl shits on his appearance 🗿🗿🗿
HELP HE IS SO HOT IM CRYING- XIE LI I LOVE U HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
THANK U FOR THE CHAPTER!!!
OMG OMG OMG XIE LI >///<
thanks for the chapter!!
I can’t tell if Xie Li is giving me the creeps, or making me feel butterflies in my stomach. 🤣 Yu Rui better run for his life.
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
“Because I want to make him cry” “And he better cry under me”
AHHHHHHHHHH I’m squealing. Xie Li be giving me butterflies. Get yourself a guy that wants to make you cry like Xie Li does to Yu Rui.
Yu Rui should really run for his life
Thanks for the chapter
Omg XL is crazy I love him 😂😂🥰
Shit that is soo hot …
Thanks for the chapter 🥰🥰 love it
Make him cry!~
so was it those red eyes that made him fall in love? He has thought of those atleast 3 times in the whole chapter.
Thanks for the chapter
HeHe!!! ‘I want to make him cry ‘ this line make me goosebumps!!! XD
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Someone is drinking vinger~
Such a coincidence, I bet he wants to make you cry too, by punching you
Thank you for the chapter💕
Hes actually so fine…
Xie Li is right, she doesn’t need to know who he is, just get out of the way! And is Uncle afraid that something he heard will turn him gay 😆it was admittedly provocative lol.
This young man is hungry better say starving for Yu Rui, a complete beast but I kinda like it
The title turned to be exactly what I thought lol
But yk, it’s still annoying to hear this phrase, “I am not XXX, it’s just that my crush turned out to be ### sex”. This still does mean you liked ### and ### gender is included in your sexuality!
Or it means you care more about the person than the gender. (Ie. Your sexuality has little to nothing to do with gender.)
Liking XL a lot! Respect! Thanks for the chapter.
I’m not cut out for this lol, little creep is scary
He’s so straight forward i love him already 😭💀