Chapter 20 Favorability

"I'm Lin Jingchen's older brother, Lin Jingyang. I apologize for my brother's behavior toward you and your classmates. I'm sorry for delaying your studies and that of another classmate. After I bring Lin Jingchen back, I'll strengthen his discipline. I also promise you that something like this won't happen again. I'm so sorry."

The other person's voice was soft and rich, coming from right in front of her body. The tone and volume were just right, as if it could sweep away all the depression in a person.

After he finished speaking, the hand in front of her remained there, as if, like his expression, waiting for her response.

Yan Sui met his gaze, held his gaze for a few seconds, then turned aside to avoid his sight. "It's okay. Compared to me, Yu Shuli was the one who suffered substantial damage."

She didn't shake the other person's hand, and indifferently diverted the topic away from herself.

Yan Sui's words quickly drew everyone's attention to Yu Shuli, and the director followed suit, "Yes, Mr. Lin, I've already explained the details of this matter to you. The trigger was probably Lin Jingyang being caught smoking at school by Yu Shuli and Yan Sui, so he harbored a grudge against them and kept causing trouble for them."

Lin Jingyang saw his hand fall empty, but he didn't look annoyed. He turned to look at the director and said, "Yes, Director, I know what happened. My brother was indeed wrong in this matter, and we will accept any punishment the school gives him."

"Brother..." Lin Jingchen couldn't help but say after hearing this.

Lin Jingyang tilted his head, glanced at him, and said sternly, "Shut up."

His voice suddenly became cold, completely different from the tone he used when he was talking to Yan Sui just now.

Lin Jingchen was frightened by his scolding and immediately lowered his head and continued to act like a coward.

Seeing his brother being honest, Lin Jingyang withdrew his gaze and smiled at everyone, "Sorry, let's continue."

The attitude changed, like two different people.

The director had been working in the education industry for many years and was a shrewd person. After just a few words, he immediately figured out what the other party meant. He put on a smile and began to smooth things over: "Children are in adolescence, and it's normal for them to make mistakes. But Lin Jingchen's situation is indeed a bit bad, and it has also had a bad influence on other students..."

Lin Jingyang paused, understanding the director's meaning, and stated, "My brother did this. On behalf of our entire family, Yan Sui, and Yu Shuli, I apologize. My brother's negligence has caused physical and psychological harm to the two students, and I will cooperate with any subsequent compensation. If you have any other requests, please feel free to raise them."

Lin Jingyang's attitude was sincere, and after he finished speaking, the director beside him nodded repeatedly.

Receiving Lin Jingyang's gaze, Yan Sui paused and shook her head. "I don't need any compensation. As I just said, I haven't suffered any actual harm. If I must say anything, I just hope that Lin Jingchen won't bother me again."

"This is what I should do. I will discipline my brother."

After assuring Yan Sui, Lin Jingyang turned his attention to Yu Shuli: "What does Yu Shuli need us to do?"

Unlike Yan Sui, Yu Shuli felt that the other person's gaze on him had an unspoken meaning, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

He flatly refused: "I don't need it either."

Hard, cold tone.

Yan Sui was standing beside him, and she couldn't help feeling a little surprised when she heard his tone, and her eyebrows twitched slightly.

Yu Shuli's brother and sister-in-law were stunned for a moment by his sudden attitude.

Yu Shuli was always a polite and cheerful boy, both in public and at home, and he never had any generation gaps or arguments with them. Neighbors, teachers, and classmates all had a very good opinion of him.

They had never seen Yu Shuli treat others like this.

His brother Yu Shufeng gently pulled Yu Shuli's arm and whispered a reminder: "Shuli."

Yu Shuli instantly realized what he had just done. Thinking that Yan Sui was still beside him, he suddenly regretted it. His face flushed with shame, but his emotions and rationality kept struggling in his mind.

The boy's shame and struggle placed him high on an unstable scale.

Although I realized that my attitude was bad, I just couldn't say the word "apology".

Lin Jingyang took in his reactions and small movements. His eyes behind the glasses revealed a strange emotion, but a smile played on his lips. "It's okay. Yu Shuli is right to be angry. What are your thoughts on how this matter should be handled?"

He smiled calmly, as if he had nothing hidden in his heart.

Yu Shufeng and his wife Zhu Yue exchanged a glance before the former said, "We respect Shuli's wishes. He only had some minor injuries, which were treated that day. There's nothing to compensate for."

Zhu Yue glanced at Yan Sui and said, "The only request his brother and I have is the same as this little girl's. Shuli is already a sophomore in high school and will soon be a junior. We don't want him to be disturbed by these things in his studies."

"Of course."

Although Yan Sui and Yu Shuli didn't need any compensation, Lin Jingyang still handed over the gifts he had brought to them one by one. Facing their resistance, he simply said, "Although you two students don't need any compensation from me, you still have to accept these things as a token of my apology for this matter."

With the director mediating, Yan Sui and Yu Shuli finally accepted the two bags of gifts.

Lin Jingyang needed to stay in the office to discuss Lin Jingchen's problem with the director, so Yan Sui and the others were taken out of the office by the class teacher first.

Before Yu Shuli could say a word to Yan Sui, he was called away by his brother, sister-in-law and his class teacher.

"Please put the things in my office first. It's not good to carry two such conspicuous gift bags back to the classroom and attract the attention of other students." When they returned to the teaching building where Yan Sui's class was located, the head teacher raised the issue of the gift boxes.

Yan Sui was worried about where to store the gift box, and what the head teacher said just solved her urgent problem.

So I agreed readily.

Yan Sui missed half a class because of this incident, and when she returned to the classroom, the math class was only halfway through. Fortunately, this class was only focusing on the previous weekly test paper, and under Chen Ling's guidance, Yan Sui quickly caught up with the class progress.

After two consecutive math classes, it was already dinner time when the class ended.

As soon as the class ended, Yan Sui's restlessness, which had been temporarily discarded, came back again.

She was feeling a little irritable and had no appetite, so she declined Chen Ling and Wen Qingman's invitation and planned to go to the store later to buy some bread to fill her stomach.

Not long after Chen Ling and Wen Qingman left, only Yan Sui and a few classmates sitting in their seats doing exercises were left in the classroom.

Giving up meals because of studying is a common thing in Class 1.

Yan Sui also took out the test paper that had just been distributed from the middle of the book, picked up the pen that had not yet been closed, and began to look at the questions.

However, the answers to the first three multiple-choice questions usually only take a dozen seconds to determine.

But now it was like a bug was crawling, and the words on the questions kept twisting and turning on the paper. No matter how hard she concentrated, she couldn't focus on a single question.

Yan Sui: “…”

She loosened her grip on the pen with a click, a subtle movement that did not disturb the attention of other students in the class.

The pen rolled back and forth on the table twice due to inertia, and finally stopped just a finger's distance away from the test paper.

She sat motionless in the chair, her eyes fixed on the table in front of her, as if waiting for something.

After a long stalemate, one party finally couldn't help but speak: "Host, why don't you speak?"

Yan Sui drooped her brows and spoke to the system in her mind, "I'm waiting for you to say it. Don't you have something to tell me?"

“…”

Seeing the system was silent, Yan Sui added: "Isn't it true? You keep disrupting my concentration and preventing me from doing the questions. Isn't it because you have something to say to me?"

"Host, smart."

For some reason, Yan Sui seemed to hear a hint of sneer in these two simple words from the cold mechanical voice.

After only half of the sentence was said, the system fell silent again.

Yan Sui knew that it was waiting for her to speak up. Ever since she came back from the office today, the system had been waiting for her to proactively give it feedback on Task 3.

But because she was in class, it was very considerate and did not disturb her.

This system seems to be working fine.

This thought suddenly popped up in Yan Sui's mind.

But the next second, the system's cold mechanical voice rang out in her mind: "Host, don't think about anything else."

Yan Sui: “…”

She sighed softly, "I will still complete the mission. I just have some questions that I haven't figured out yet."

"What's your question, host?"

After hesitating for a while, Yan Sui said, "System, don't you think Lin Jingyang is a little strange?"

"Not really, host."

Yan Sui gritted her teeth and asked all her questions at once: "This is the first time I've met him today, but his attitude makes me feel like this isn't the first time we've met."

"The way he looked at me was really strange, it didn't feel like we were meeting for the first time. I met his eyes several times in the office, and there were emotions hidden in his eyes that I couldn't understand."

"Also, putting aside the fact that I knew he was my capture target in advance and that I got some information about him from you, I'm still meeting him for the first time because of his brother's bullying incident. He's a sophomore in high school, right? Why would he walk towards me, greet me so formally, and even shake my hand?"

After finishing this conversation in her heart, Yan Sui felt that her mood had become much better.

After she finished speaking, she realized that she had actually said so much to the system.

Yan Sui has never been a talkative person, and her reactions to many things are indifferent. Only when her emotions fluctuate greatly will she make some unrestrained actions and say things that she would not normally say.

In her previous life, before her father's infidelity, she was a quiet person and not very good at negotiating relationships. She and Yu Shuli were together because of Tan Shu's matchmaking. In their youthful naiveté, they developed feelings for each other and engaged in something that violated the rules and regulations of their school and family at the time: puppy love.

But after they got together, she and Yu Shuli rarely talked about love.

After experiencing family changes, her personality did not change much, but there was a little more hatred in her heart.

Rather than speaking to people face to face, she often shouts in her heart.

Shout out the words that you wouldn't normally tell others from the depths of your heart.

In this way before, only she knew her cries.

But after she was reborn, the system parasitized her brain and all her cries could be heard by it.

So, the cry was answered.

Yan Sui suddenly realized that she had been talking more.

Many of the things I originally said to myself turned into conversations with the system.

Many times, many of her unexpressed emotions and questions were prompted to come out by the system.

In fact, apart from being parasitic on her body, what is the difference between the system and any other person when talking to her?

But she still told the system many things that she would not have said before.

For example, now...

After hearing her words, the system fell silent.

Yan Sui couldn't help but wonder in her heart, there shouldn't be any problem with the target given by the system?

The next second, the system's answer confirmed her guess.

"Dear host, the progress bar for Task 3 has been detected to begin moving forward."

"Lin Jingyang's current favorability is 30. When the favorability reaches 100, the capture mission is completed."

Yan Sui: “…”