Chapter 20

On the way back, the red and white lights stretched the figures of the people very long.

Gradually one of the three shadows with similar frequencies fell behind.

Xiang Yuzhi stood there stamping her feet in frustration. The two people walking side by side in front of her were chatting very enthusiastically, but she couldn't get a word in for a long time.

"I said these two people were not innocent, and sure enough--!"

After muttering angrily, she turned around to look for her lone ally, but unexpectedly she bumped into Zhao Lin as soon as she turned around, and her toe stepped on the boy's foot.

Xiang Yuzhi looked at his handsome face that was completely dark, and felt a chill on his spine and a little bit of fear in his heart.

"Great...Great God, I'm sorry."

She put on a smile and rushed towards He Xi without waiting for the other party to react.

Finally, Xiang Yuzhi experienced the lethality of the Cold-Faced God. Only then did he realize that He Xi's previous complaints about Zhao Lin were not exaggerated at all.

“Xixi…”

He Xi felt a gust of wind behind him, and in the blink of an eye, he saw Xiang Yuzhi rushing into his arms.

She subconsciously glanced at Jiang Yue beside her, and the two couldn't help but smile at each other.

Just now Jiang Yue asked about Yang Jia's transfer to another class. Coincidentally, He Xi also wanted to ask him for help. When the two of them talked about school matters, they forgot about the people around them.

"I was wrong. I apologize."

He Xi grabbed the arm of the person in his arms and shook it gently, feeling sorry for his carelessness just now.

"Well, I'm not mad at you."

The more Xiang Yuzhi thought about it, the more he felt that his quail-like behavior a few seconds ago was really pathetic. He hung his head and spoke weakly.

After walking a few steps, she took two quick glances back for some unknown reason. Her vision was empty. The boy who had been following her just now had disappeared.

He Xi followed the gaze of the person next to him and finally realized something.

"Your great god is always so elusive!"

She took Xiang Yuzhi's arm and joked with a smile. The person who was being held next to her rarely said anything back, but just wrinkled his nose and uttered a light "hum".

Dragging the depressed-looking girl to the doorstep, He Xi was about to say goodbye to Jiang Yue when he felt his arm loosen.

"The light bulb is leaving. I won't disturb you guys saying goodbye late at night."

Before she could react, she saw Xiang Yuzhi slip into the courtyard as if greased.

"Uh... she was just joking, well... don't think too much about it."

He Xi was a little embarrassed by this sudden incident. She waved her hands at the boy hurriedly and started stuttering when she spoke.

With the help of the light from the courtyard gate, Jiang Yue noticed the slightly flushed cheeks of the person in front of him, and the panic that flashed across his eyes.

"Won't."

Jiang Yue's gaze fell on her two clenched fingers again, "As for Zhuang Yufei, I don't think you need to think too much."

? !

He Xi suddenly raised his eyes and was about to say that he was confused, but suddenly he met the boy's slightly raised lips and felt speechless.

There was silence for a few seconds, and the smell of cigarettes gradually spreading in the air and the voices coming closer and closer in the alley broke the delicate atmosphere between the two.

"Go back, see you at school tomorrow."

Jiang Yue didn't linger any longer. He waved his hand to signal He Xi to enter the courtyard and then walked through the alley towards home.

The bright red light dragged the figure around the corner, gradually disappearing. The lingering smell of cigarette smoke grew stronger, but the person who had just spoken to me still did not pass by.

He Xi locked the gate tightly, but he was still a little worried in his heart.

Somehow, she was led to the rooftop, then slowed down her pace and moved carefully to the corner garden.

In the narrow alley downstairs, a faint firelight flickered.

When He Xi realized who it was, his heart, which had just relaxed a little, couldn't help but pause slightly.

He raised his feet again and again, but in the end he couldn't just walk away.

In her childhood imagination, Zhao Lin would grow up to be a handsome, tall, excellent student and school idol.

But the current situation is completely different from what she had imagined.

He Xi turned sideways and looked at the person downstairs cautiously. Compared with the cold and indifferent attitude when they first met, the boy now seemed more gloomy and silent.

The tobacco at his fingertips was about to burn out, but his eyes seemed to be still blank, oblivious to everything around him.

He Xi held his breath and stared intently for a while, and when he saw Zhao Lin reaching out to put out the cigarette butt bit by bit, He Xi unconsciously clenched his fingers.

She had seen him lazily leaning on a lounge chair under the pear tree, teasing stray cats in the moonlight, and washing dishes neatly in the kitchen.

At this moment, for the first time, she wanted to understand him.

In a moment of distraction, He Xi lowered her eyes and realized that she had already fallen into his sight.

Zhao Lin leaned against the blue brick wall in the narrow alley, looking up at her without blinking.

He Xi clenched his fingers and looked embarrassed as if he had been caught. He opened his mouth to explain but didn't know what to say.

The two silent people seemed to be confronting each other at a distance that was neither far nor near.

She realized this belatedly and quickly raised her hand, holding up her cell phone and shaking it at him.

"Sorry, I really didn't mean to spy on you."

She typed a line of words and hit send, and without waiting for the people downstairs to react, she ran towards the room.

Zhao Lin's gaze returned from the rooftop to the corner of the alley. He seemed to hear her cheerful footsteps as she came down the stairs.

"Do you hate me that much?"

He smiled self-deprecatingly, and what remained in his mind was the tender and affectionate scene he had just witnessed at the gate of the He family compound.

*

The swelling on He Xi's head had not completely subsided yet when Yan Runqing and He Xu came back carrying large and small bags.

She had just returned home from school at noon that day, and before she even entered the door, she heard her mother's signature laughter.

There were a group of aunts sitting under the pavilion in the yard who were visiting and chatting. As soon as she asked how she was, Yan Runqing stuffed a bowl of rice into her hand.

"I noticed you didn't eat well these past few days when I wasn't home."

He Xi was a little bit amused and helpless, but there were so many people around her that she couldn't argue.

After dinner, I went straight back to my room, dozed off on the bed for a while, and was woken up by the heat.

When I woke up in a daze, I found that the fan placed beside the bed was gone, but the familiar sound of fighting in the game came from He Xu's room next door.

Tsk. The brat is looking for a beating as soon as he comes back!

He Xi didn't bother to be polite with him and went straight to his ear as soon as he entered the room.

Pull, twist, and tug, all in one go.

He Xu exaggerated the punishment with moderate strength into a tragedy, and screams filled the entire room.

He Xi heard a moment of silence in the headset on the other side, followed by a gloating and teasing voice.

"Do you still have any humanity, buddy? I was thinking about you guys when I came back, but my kindness has all gone to waste!"

"Oh my god - I was so careless, Brother Lin, save me!"

He Xu was cursing while typing on the keyboard loudly.

"Just stop yelling, it's hurting my ears."

He Xi hadn't run into Zhao Lin since that night. Suddenly hearing his voice now made him feel a little upset.

She typed the message in the friend request, but she didn't receive any notification that the friend request was accepted until she fell asleep.

She just felt that he was doing it on purpose, deliberately leaving her out.