Chapter 50 The innocent will clear themselves

Lu Yanhe's phone rang.

It was a message from Chen Siqi: See you in the lab building after school.

The laboratory building is where first- and second-year high school students conduct biology experiments. Compared to the teaching building, the laboratory building is practically deserted after school, so even if they meet there, they won't be seen by anyone.

After school, Lu Yanhe went to the laboratory building.

Chen Siqi was waiting for him in an empty laboratory on the top floor.

"Is your leg better?" Lu Yanhe asked as soon as he entered the laboratory.

Chen Siqi nodded: "It's all better, but the scar hasn't faded yet, and I don't know if it will ever go away."

"It's okay, it's on my leg anyway, it'll be covered."

"I'm not like you boys who wear pants from the beginning to the end of the year. I wear skirts too, okay?" Chen Siqi glanced at Lu Yanhe speechlessly. "Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you about this. I heard you got into trouble again at noon and your parents were called in?"

“My parents are gone, how can I call out to them? They’re not my parents.” Lu Yanhe pulled up a chair in the first row and sat down, several rows away from Chen Siqi.

The orange sunset slanted in through the window, dividing the room into two distinct realms like a cutting line: one a realm of light gently enveloped by the sunset, and the other a realm of darkness swallowed by shadows.

Lu Yanhe sat at the boundary, with only the corner of his chin being cut into his territory by the setting sun.

Chen Siqi scrutinized Lu Yanhe. "Tell me, I've dragged you into this mess. How do you want me to make it up to you?"

"Forget it, you're a victim too. It's not like you asked your stepmother to come." Lu Yanhe smiled, a smile that was somewhat silent. "Actually, today was quite interesting. I met three different adults, and they were all completely different. Compared to them, your stepmother wasn't as annoying to me."

Chen Siqi looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Who did you see that could be more annoying than her?"

"You don't know her? She's Luo Zicheng's mother, a classmate of mine."

“Who says I don’t know them? I’ve met them before. Once they came to my house to see my dad and asked him to do something for them,” Chen Siqi said. “That time they brought Luo Zicheng with them, and my dad even asked me to entertain him. He had no skills but kept talking big and boasting about himself, which annoyed me to no end. I have a very deep impression of him.”

Lu Yanhe was taken aback.

Chen Siqi looked at him and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't expect that I also dislike that Luo Zicheng?"

“I really didn’t expect that you would know him,” Lu Yanhe asked. “Then why didn’t you invite him to the birthday party? He would have been happy to have invited him.”

"Forget it, if he goes, especially as my friend, I'll really lose all face," Chen Siqi said. "I called you over to save face, not to make me lose all face."

"Aside from his rude way of speaking, he's alright, isn't he? Does he speak so offensively in front of you?"

“Then you must not have heard him talk about his life story.” Chen Siqi suddenly changed her tone, as if imitating Luo Zicheng, and said, “Chen Siqi, don’t let my thin appearance fool you, I’ve been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I even participated in the National Children’s Martial Arts Competition and made it to the semi-finals!”

After imitating, Chen Siqi immediately switched back to her signature disdainful tone: "The National Children's Martial Arts Competition, he has the nerve to bring it up? Even a gold medal would be embarrassing, and it was only a semi-final. Is he a child now? He has a face full of acne and he still talks about his childhood. I'm really impressed."

"Haha." Lu Yanhe laughed out loud.

"Did his mother give you a hard time today?"

“No, it was my classmate who was making things difficult for me,” Lu Yanhe asked. “You’ve heard that my parents were called in, don’t you know what happened?”

“I’ve heard that your parents were called in, which shows how many times the news has passed through my mouth, and I don’t even know which parts are true.”

Lu Yanhe briefly recounted the events.

"That Luo Zicheng, how can he have such a foul mouth! Your classmate beat him up so well, if I were here, I would have slapped him too." Chen Siqi looked like she was about to slam her hand on the table and hit someone. "His mother still has the nerve to cause trouble for your classmate? That's so unreasonable."

"I can understand that."

"Understand my foot! You're even taking their side."

“Which mother doesn’t unconditionally protect her child?” Lu Yanhe said.

He said this while thinking of his mother.

He didn't know if he still existed in the original timeline. If he didn't, were his parents looking for him?

Lu Yanhe dared not think too much about it, fearing he would lose his composure.

Lu Yanhe looked up and saw that Chen Siqi suddenly burst into tears.

He was stunned.

"Why are you suddenly crying?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yanhe realized what was going on.

Dumb goose!

Chen Siqi's biological mother left her early on, and her current predicament stems entirely from her stepmother. At this time, you're still bringing up the idea that "which mother doesn't unconditionally protect her child"? Aren't you just deliberately provoking Chen Siqi?

"It's nothing." Chen Siqi raised the back of her hand, wiped her eyes, and stopped her tears. "Don't worry about me. I just couldn't control myself. It's nothing. You and I are in the same boat anyway, so let's not comfort each other."

Chen Siqi's words made Lu Yanhe smile wryly.

Too.

Chen Siqi stood up: "Since you don't want my compensation, let's go back."

Lu Yanhe nodded and left the laboratory building with Chen Siqi.

After the scandal broke, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi did not avoid each other after leaving the laboratory building, and still walked together towards the school gate.

Although there were fewer students on campus than when school had just ended, there were still quite a few. When they saw the protagonists of today's campus forum scandal suddenly appear and walk side by side, they all took out their phones to secretly take pictures and upload them to the campus forum. However, they soon discovered that their posts were deleted in less than a minute.

“Everyone suspects that we’re dating, but the teachers don’t seem to suspect anything at all,” Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yanhe: "Because of Luo Zicheng's matter, my homeroom teacher is now very clear about how this rumor spread and has no doubt about it."

"Lu Yanhe, are you going to avoid me at school from now on and pretend you don't know me?"

"Pretending not to know them after rumors spread, isn't that just protesting too much?" Lu Yanhe said. "At first, I was a little uncomfortable because of their pointing fingers, but after Li Pengfei punched Luo Zicheng, I suddenly felt indifferent. Let them say whatever they want. Once a rumor is born, it is destined to be impossible to take it back. There is some truth to the saying 'the innocent will clear themselves' when dealing with rumors."

"The idea that 'the innocent will clear themselves' will only fuel the rumors." Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yanhe with surprise. "You don't actually like me, do you?"

Lu Yanhe: "..."

He looked at Chen Siqi seriously and said, "The innocent will remain innocent."

After saying that, he turned around and walked forward.

(End of this chapter)