Cough cough cough

It still feels incredible.

There are too many questions -

When did it start?

Why do you like him?

Xie Shiming... How could I like him?!

How could he fall in love with him...

Besides, aren't they brothers?

He has called me "brother" so many times that he can't even count them.

Shen Chu's mind was a little confused, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became...

Ahhhh!

"What's wrong?" Xie Shiming asked softly, with some confusion in his eyes.

"No, nothing..."

Shen Chu's eyes wandered, not daring to look at the person in front of him. He coughed lightly and then spoke again: "Let's go down quickly, and we need to contact Shen's."

Having said that, Chen Chu hurried out with his head down.

Xie Shiming couldn't help but frown behind him.

However, there were indeed a lot of things to come, so he didn't have time to think about it.

After Li Keran's emotions stabilized, he still didn't want to answer the phone.

Qi Yuansi helped her downstairs, and after asking for her opinion, he took the phone from Li Keran's tightly held hand. After hearing bursts of "sharp noises" coming from the other side, he took a deep breath, spoke bluntly, and successfully made the other side sound like a dud.

But even so, even though Li Keran had just come down from the rooftop, even though Qi Yuansi had said everything on Li Keran's behalf, when the other party realized what was happening, his first reaction in front of Qi Yuansi was still to blame. However, Qi Yuansi acted decisively and hung up the phone immediately.

After hanging up, he remembered something and looked at Li Keran awkwardly.

For some reason, Li Keran actually had an urge to laugh.

It seemed that after experiencing this once, she had let herself go a little.

I don't want to force anything more.

After all, there aren't many happy endings in this world.

After a while, Chen Chu and Xie Shiming also came down one after another.

Qi Yuansi took a look and thought about how the two of them hugged each other just now, and couldn't help but sigh: "You two have such a good relationship."

"My relationship with my brother now is not like yours."

"The two of us hugged each other when we were kids. Now... forget it. I can't even imagine that scene..."

Qi Yuansi sucked his teeth and shook his shoulders.

The speaker may not mean anything, but the listener may take it seriously...

Shen Chu couldn't help but pause, his body stiffened——

Thinking carefully about how he and Xie Shiming got along before...it seemed to be different from how Qi Yuansi got along with his brother?!

He and Xie Shiming...

The relationship between Shen Shuo, Shen Yi and Shen Shuo is also different?

Then why didn't he feel anything was wrong before?

But now is not the time for him to think about these things carefully.

Next, I had to contact Shen's company, contact the police, and repeatedly give Li Keran some instructions. After all the busy work, the whole day was almost over...

The mock exam lasts for two days.

The three of them missed the first day of the exam.

Missed three subjects.

Although Shen Chu took part in the mock exam on the second day, the overall score would definitely not be much better.

Not to mention comparing scores and rankings with Xie Junze...

"What did Teacher Xiaohua say? Can't I take a make-up exam?"

After the exams, it was holiday, and now they were gathered in the small rental house again.

Jian Yan had a sullen face and stared at the three of them.

Qi Yuansi didn't dare to look away.

Cough cough cough.

"We are still discussing it with the school. After all, the results of the senior high school mock exams are released very quickly, and it would be a waste of manpower and resources to only give us three additional exams."

"It's okay for the two of us not to take the exam, but Shen Chu..."

"Oh."

Qi Yuansi: “…”

Jian Yan crossed his arms and said, "If we let him take the make-up exam alone, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult for Nan Hong to handle it, right?"

"And this time it involves a joint ranking with Yubei. There are clear regulations on the grading and ranking time. They will be released on Monday morning. How can we give you guys a make-up exam this weekend?"

Jian Yan continued to sneer: "I don't think you have any hope, unless you guys use your power to suppress others."

"But using power to pressure others for this kind of thing is a little funny."

"After all, there's no need for Nan Hong to pay for the bet between you and Xie Junze."

The last sentence was directed at Shen Chu.

Qi Yuansi sighed: "Can't you say something nice?"

"Won't."

The two words "so straightforward" choked Qi Yuansi.

After a while——

"So what do you think we should do?"

"We can't just sit there and watch Xie Junze take advantage of us, right?!"

Jian Yan snorted coldly: "Before, we said that we were going to compare grades and rankings. He missed three exams. What else is there to compare? Isn't it enough to just say that the bet is invalid?"

"Ah? Is it possible? This is not..."

Qi Yuansi scratched his face. If he used this reason to explain it, wouldn’t it be a bit too much?

A bit shameless?

"So what do you say we should do?"

Jian Yan responded with Qi Yuansi's previous question: "Or just admit defeat——"

"That won't work!"

Qi Yuansi immediately shook his head, not to mention Shen Chu, even he was unwilling!

"Then...just say it like that? Are you going now?"

Anyway, since the bet is not established, there is no need to wait for the results to come out...

After Qi Yuansi finished speaking, he looked at Shen Chu and Xie Shiming.

Xie Shiming frowned: "Don't worry, wait for the news from Teacher Xiaohua."

Although he also knew what the approximate result would be.

but......

It's better than doing nothing.

Jian Yan and Xie Shiming looked at each other and said nothing. Then they asked, "What's the situation with Sister Ke Ran and her family now?"

"Sister Ke Ran and her family..."

Qi Yuansi stretched out his voice and wanted to curl his lips when he mentioned this.

Now it has gone from one extreme to another.

From the time Li Keran had a mental breakdown until now, the phone calls stopped urging him when something like that happened, but it seemed as if they were in a "cold war" and began to exert pressure in other ways.

It also seemed like Li Keran was using this behavior to threaten them with punishment.

Perhaps in their opinion, what happened to Li Keran that day was an irrational behavior under impulse.

In the end, nothing happened, didn't it? They stopped urging me, okay? If that's the case, I won't say anything.

It is also equivalent to another form of "coercion".

but......

"Sister Ke Ran doesn't seem to care much. Anyway, I think she seems to have figured something out and is not dwelling on it anymore."

Qi Yuansi gave a thumbs up: "You don't know that we Chuchu can also be spiritual mentors."

Shen Chu: “…”

Go to your spiritual mentor!

Shen Chu couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

It was all because of what he said that day. I felt that Xie Shiming had been acting strange these past two days, as if he had really suffered a lot of injustice without him knowing...

Although it happened when he was unaware, that is all in the past now.

And he didn't suffer much injustice.

As a result, now——

I wish I could do everything for him!

That’s too much!

Are you afraid that he will forget that Xie Shiming likes him? !

Don't want to hide it at all?!

This made Shen Chu feel awkward.

He didn't have much time to think about whether he could take the make-up exam.

Ouch, annoying.

Chen Chu was a little distracted again, scratching his palm, remembering what Xie Shiming had told him before about "finding a boyfriend".

He also said it was a reward for him.

Ugh.

Quite thoughtful.

Shen Chu coughed lightly and turned around to get a glass of water.

As soon as he turned around, a glass of water was handed to him in time, as if knowing what he was thinking.

"What's wrong? Aren't you thirsty?"

Shen Chu took it silently, held it in both hands, and drank the water in gulps.

"Ah? Chuchu is thirsty?"

Qi Yuansi's carefree voice sounded: "Then why didn't I hear him ask for water?"

"Old Xie, you and your Chen Chu are really in sync. How did you know that he wanted to drink water——"

“Cough cough cough!”

Shen Chu turned his head and coughed violently, almost spraying water.

"Your family", "We are in tune with each other"...

Why did he sound like there was no problem at all before?

Xie Shiming looked at Shen Chu and frowned, feeling that something was strange...

But he didn't have time to think about it, he reached out to pat Shen Chu's back, but as soon as his hand touched, he felt Shen Chu's body seemed to stiffen.

Xie Shiming's hand suddenly paused.

"Well, let's get to work."

"The previously saved videos still need to be sorted out—"

Having said that, Shen Chu stood up and told Qi Yuansi to get to work quickly.

"Hey, alright, alright, really, it's only been a short break, you idiot!"

"Go, be careful or I'll beat you up."

“Hehehe.”

Shen Chu and Qi Yuansi were playing and fighting, while Xie Shiming sat and frowned.

After a while, he took a deep breath, stood up and went to help.

Jian Yan looked here, then looked there, and couldn't help but reached out to touch his chin and snorted.

He still didn’t tell Xie Junze about it over the weekend. Jian Yan said that he would tell Xie Junze after school starts.

So the matter was settled.

When school started on Monday and the mock exam results came out, Teacher Xiaohua also brought news that the school believed that missing the mock exam was not a big deal and suggested that there was no need to retake it.

After all, there will always be next time if not this time.

It was called a "suggestion", but in fact it was a euphemism for rejection.

Now they couldn't say anything else.

When the results came out, Shen Chu's ranking was naturally not high because he missed three subjects.

However, the scores of the next three exams were very high, almost on par with Xie Shiming.

Qi Yuansi's grades were also good, and for this reason, the school felt that it was not a big deal for the three of them to miss the mock exam.

Just looking at these three subjects, it’s already pretty good. If you want to test your ability, just wait until next time.

At the same time, Jian Yan also sent a message saying that he had told Xie Junze about this matter, but Xie Junze did not say much.

It seems that this is probably the case.

But the next day, Shen Chu and Xie Shiming arrived at school and found that something was wrong.

——It seemed as if many people were secretly looking at them and saying something.

To be more precise, he was sizing him up.

For this reason, Xie Shiming frowned.

But before they could ask about the situation, Shu Tongtong called them over first.

"What's going on? Shen Chu, did you really make a bet with Xie Junze?"

"Didn't you fail to reach an agreement at Brother Xinyu's house that day?"

Chen Chu frowned: "It was later..."

"But how did you know that?"

Shu Tongtong glanced at him, took out her phone and gave it to him: "It's here."

"But the most heated discussion right now is the reason why you missed the exam..."