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Yu Rui was stunned for a few seconds before he understood the meaning of Xie Li’s “I’m chasing you”.
When he met the person’s meaningful gaze, Yu Rui unconsciously tried to avert it, but heard someone beside him ask in confusion, “Huh? What are you chasing after?”
“!!”
Yu Rui was startled and suddenly looked back.
Qiao Shengyu touched the back of his neck with a puzzled expression as he stopped by the table, looking at the two of them in confusion, “Brother Rui, what are you and Brother Li talking about?”
Yu Rui was silent for a few seconds and smiled softly, “We’re talking about our exam results.”
Xie Li smiled lazily and looked at him, making Yu Rui’s heart skip a beat for fear that he would say something outrageous again, but fortunately, Xie Li said nothing, leaning back and resting his arm on Yu Rui’s desk.
“What the Class President says.”
“Oh.” Qiao Shengyu gave them a thumbs up and flattered them on cue, “Indeed, it is a world of academic and scholarly gods.”
Yu Rui looked up and changed the subject, “What did you want to see me for?”
Qiao Shengyu, “Ah, yes, on the way out of the classroom, a student asked about the person in charge of the literary and art committee of our class. I told her I was not there and she asked me to pass it on to the Class President. She told me that the Arts Department had announced that there would be a school celebration next week and that all the classes have to prepare something. By next Wednesday, they have to have it delivered to the Arts Department for review.”
Yu Rui nodded thoughtfully, “I understand, thank you.”
“Ah, it’s nothing, you guys keep talking, go on.” Qiao Shengyu waved his hand and walked away.
Only after making sure that Qiao Shengyu did not show anything different even after returning to his seat, did Yu Rui sigh in relief and withdrew his gaze.
He looked at Xie Li with a slight frown.
“Are you not afraid of anything so you dare to say anything?”
“I’m afraid of some things too.”
“So there are things you are afraid of?” Yu Rui slightly curved the corners of his mouth, and there was a rare hint of mockery in his eyes.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Xie Li deliberated for a few seconds, and once he looked up, the smile faded, and his eyes showed a bit of seriousness…
“I’m afraid of scaring you, so I have to restrain myself as much as possible.”
Yu Rui froze.
This time he took a while to come to his senses, he hardly said anything, just looked down to pick up the notes on his desk, “The exam is about to start.”
Xie Li’s long swaying legs stopped, and his feet stepped on the floor to get up from the table, and before returning to his seat he turned sideways, “Do you have lunch here?”
“Yes.”
“Shall we go together?”
“You can go on your own.”
“I’ve never been to the canteen, it’s too crowded. If I get lost, I’ll miss the afternoon exam.”
“….”
“Class President, if you don’t speak, I’ll take that as a yes.”
“….”
The corner of Xie Li’s mouth curved, returning to his seat in a good mood.
The English test was supervised by the English teacher of Class 10. It was a coincidence that she was also the English teacher in the previous Class 10, so she knew Xie Li’s temperament very well.
When she walked in and realized that Xie Li was present, she was already a little surprised; last year, Xie Li sat for two of the ten monthly exams, but he did not always pose for the first monthly exam.
The exams were distributed.
As the time progressed to the last half hour, the English teacher’s glances at the back row became more frequent.
She had taught Xie Li English for a year in her first year and knew precisely how gifted he was on the subject, with no need to mention such basic things as words and phrases or grammar. She still remembered how she had once gotten angry with Xie Li for falling asleep in class and ordered him to read a text with vocabulary not required by the standards; Xie Li’s fluent and pure British pronunciation that day had made her never bother with his English performance again.
And of the only two times this person had sat for the monthly exams, each had taken less than a third of the time to finish the reading and writing sections.
Often, Xie Li would turn in the test more than half an hour before the end of the exam, and leave the classroom with his eyelids half-closed, as if he were asleep.
Today was different.
With half an hour left, the English teacher waited, and waited, until the bell rang signaling the remaining 15 minutes, and then, after frowning and reminding the students, she looked toward the back row.
Someone who had left the pen long ago was still lying on his desk, sleeping peacefully.
Is this…. a change of heart?
She was puzzled.
When the exam papers were finally collected, the English teacher deliberately asked the students to collect them from the front row to the back. She went to the last table and stopped at Xie Li.
Xie Li, who had just raised his head to hand in his exam, stopped with an expressionless look.
The English teacher and the sleepy-faced boy looked at each other for a few seconds, then, coughed lightly, “Awake?”
“….”
The English teacher was young, not too old, and good-natured. She didn’t mind Xie Li’s attitude, but she asked her with concern, “Why didn’t you hand in your exam earlier today?”
Xie Li raised his left hand and rested it on his cheekbone, his gaze seemed to fall involuntarily and casually on the back of the white-shirted teenager in front of him. Then he lowered his eyes and smiled, “…. waiting for someone.”
The English teacher showed a surprised expression, “Waiting for someone? Do you have a partner?”
“!!”
It just so happened that the one who collected the exams of this row was at Yu Rui’s table, opposite Xie Li’s. As soon as they heard the question, the one collecting the exams and the one who was handing them out stiffened at the same time.
It is not known what kind of mentality Yu Rui had, but the student next to him was terrified, watching Xie Li with frightened eyes and finally looking at the English teacher.
The expression translated as; are you crazy, Professor, can someone like Xie Li have a partner?
Xie Li lifted his eyelids and kept silent before chuckling softly, “Not yet.”
“My exam.”
In the end, it was Yu Rui who paused in midair for a few seconds before handing over his exam, catching the attention of the student who was picking it up.
“Ah, sorry Class President, first is the one in the back row.”
“…. okay.”
Yu Rui sounded calm and steady, seeming unaffected by Xie Li’s words.
A smile shone in Xie Li’s eyes, he picked up his exam and stood up.
Due to his height and long legs, he did not move from his seat, but stood directly behind the table, bowed, rested a hand on the edge of Yu Rui’s desk, and then handed the exam to the student.
“My exam.”
Xie Li said this as his breath brushed the hair around the ear of the teenager who was sitting upright. Perhaps it was the slight warmth of the breath that caused the figure he had blocked from the blind spot of the English teacher’s vision to flinch slightly.
Xie Li noticed and stifled the low, choked laugh in his chest.
Unable to help himself as he stood up, he let out another low chuckle as he passed by the teenager.
“…. mine.
THE AUTHOR HAS SOMETHING TO SAY:
The main reason I updated late today is that when I was writing the last scene, I tried to act on Li Ge’s height of 6’6″ based on my height of 5’6″, “leaning” against the desk, unable to correctly get the positions between Li-ge and Rui-ge right…
In the end, I chose to do whatever I wanted (salted fish paralysis.jpg)
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Thanks for the chapter!!!
Thank you so much for this multiple updates! You’ve worked hard. 🤍💛
Not yet, indeed! It was almost cute that he included frightening his prey as one of his fears. But I don’t think it makes the prey feel any less hunted lol.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Dang, I’ve been crying over this one out of excitement. I really liked this novel. Even though it’s supposed to be scary for others, I’m not scared. I love them both. Can’t wait for the next chapter! <3
Thank you for the update! I wasn’t able to resist and read it until I caught up. 😭 I’m gonna try and stack chapters again. I love this story so far and looking forward for more!! Thank you!!!