Chapter 33 Bored and Irritable

He Xi told him the news.

They said that Fu Chenyu was in love with the campus beauty of Tongwai. The campus beauty was a mixed-race girl whose mother was Dutch. She had blue eyes and a beautiful smile.

Ji Mian was stunned by the news, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, making him feel depressed and irritated.

He quickly figured it out, probably because he was the last person to know that Fu Chenyu was in a relationship.

They were obviously best friends, but Fu Chenyu kept her relationship a secret from him.

Now, the reason why he never answered his calls or replied to his messages during the Chinese New Year period became clear: it turned out that he was talking to a girl on the phone.

Ji Mian was really angry this time. Fu Chenyu could tell him if he was in a relationship. He wouldn't mind him finding a girlfriend, or even the three of them playing together.

But Fu Chenyu couldn't hide it from him.

He was angry and wanted to go into a cold war with Fu Chenyu, or at least wait for Fu Chenyu to apologize to him.

Otherwise he wouldn't say a word to him.

The first week of school in Zhennan, new class, new classmates.

A group of people left the experimental class and another group joined. When Ji Mian appeared at the door, no one was surprised.

The scores had already been announced on the red list. Ji Mian ranked tenth in the school in the final exam, shocking all the top students in the experimental class.

The classmates looked at Fu Chenyu who was sitting by the window, then glanced at Ji Mian who was at the door, and silently moved their stools away, leaving the seat next to Fu Chenyu for Ji Mian.

They found out last semester that Fu Chenyu and Ji Mian knew each other and were close friends.

Ji Mian glanced at Fu Chenyu coldly, but found a seat farthest away from him and sat down.

The classmates' mouths opened into "O" shapes, a little doubting whether the news they heard was true. Who said Ji Mian took the test for the experimental class specifically for Fu Chenyu? It made the two top students look like gays!

The girl next to Ji Mian was delighted for a moment. Her deskmate was a handsome guy, and her ears turned red!

Fu Chenyu turned his head and looked at Ji Mian, who had already taken out his book and started reviewing with an expressionless face.

His silly rabbit, when unhappy, becomes less gentle and more beautiful like Ling Yan.

Ji Mian was angry with him. He had expected this result when he distanced himself from Ji Mian.

But Ji Yao had already warned him like that, so how could he still have the nerve to bother his own brother.

What will Ji Mian choose?

On one hand, he is my brother, on the other hand, he is my friend.

Fu Chenyu lost miserably from the starting line.

He didn't want to be too distant from Ji Mian, but he couldn't be as close to him as before.

The better Ji Mian treated him, the more thoughts he had in his mind. Rather than letting himself and Ji Mian end up in an irreversible situation, it would be better to keep a distance as friends from the beginning.

Just like now.

But when I was auditing classes last semester, the news of Fu Chenyu and Ji Mian's relationship spread far and wide, and even the homeroom teacher knew that they were close.

During the first week of school, the two were assigned to a group to clean the classroom. Ji Mian was responsible for changing the water and wiping the blackboard, while Fu Chenyu was responsible for sweeping the floor and arranging the tables and chairs.

Ji Mian was still in the cold war with him. After school in the afternoon, everyone in the class had left, and only she and Fu Chenyu were left.

He persisted for a week without speaking to him or making eye contact with him, and walked downstairs with a cold face to change the water.

The mineral water at Zhennan Middle School is placed next to the Academic Affairs Office, four floors away from the experimental class.

The students in the class drink a bucket and a half of water a day, and Ji Mian has to move it twice.

He learned Sanda, so of course he was strong enough. However, carrying things back and forth to the fourth floor was not easy, as there was a long corridor in between.

Other boys would roll the buckets on the ground and kick them to the classroom.

Ji Mian thought that since this was the water for everyone to drink, he couldn't kick it, so he carried the water and walked step by step.

It was almost April, and he was wearing his autumn school uniform, with tiny beads of sweat forming on the tip of his nose.

After moving one bucket and placing it in the classroom, he went downstairs silently to move the second bucket.

The boy was already out of breath, and while carrying the second bucket of water, he sat on the steps to rest for a while.

As soon as he sat down, the bucket of water next to him was taken away. Ji Mian looked back and saw Fu Chenyu carrying water for him and turned to go upstairs.

His shoulders have already taken on the outline of a man, and he is growing up seriously.

Ji Mian pursed his lips and wanted to ask Fu Chenyu to put down the water. He was not a girl and did not need his help.

If you really want to help, then go to Tongwai and help your girlfriend move!

However, he remembered that he had said that he would not speak to Fu Chenyu until he apologized to him, so he swallowed all the words in his mouth.

Fu Chenyu moved quickly and moved the mineral water to the classroom in no time.

When Ji Mian arrived at the classroom, he found that Fu Chenyu had helped him wipe the blackboard.

The stern young man remained silent, standing there, cautiously offering a way out, begging for reconciliation, his figure looking a little more helpless.

Ji Mian gritted his teeth and still ignored him.

Fu Chenyu finished all the cleaning by himself and was late for dinner.

Ji Mian was restless during the evening self-study class. He had to use more force when writing with the pen, otherwise it would just stay in one place without moving, and the pen would produce a small black dot.

Fu Chenyu didn't have dinner...

So annoying...

The girl sitting at the same table asked him two questions, and Ji Mian patiently solved them.

After the second period of evening self-study, he walked to a small fast food restaurant in the south of the town in a hesitant manner, bought a box of beef rice for 25 yuan, and carried it back to the classroom.

He stopped when passing the school gate.

Under the dim light, Fu Chenyu and a tall girl wearing Tongwai school uniform stood together, seemingly talking.

The girl's blue eyes were dreamy under the incandescent light, her face was delicate and beautiful, with a blush on it, and she lowered her head shyly.

In her hands, she was holding a midnight snack that she had made herself, which was delicious and fragrant.

Ji Mian stood there for a while, then glanced at his beef rice and thought: I’ll eat it myself.

I've already bought it, so I can't waste it.

As he walked, he thought about it - it was almost impossible to forget the scene of Fu Chenyu and the girl from Tongwai standing together, which kept replaying in his mind.

Blue eyes, wearing Tongwai school uniform, she must be the mixed-race girlfriend of Fu Chenyu, right?

She is very good-looking and looks good together with Fu Chenyu.

She looked virtuous and she came from home at almost nine o'clock to bring Fu Chenyu a midnight snack, which she made herself.

Ji Mian felt that he should be happy.

Fu Chenyu no longer likes Su Luoyu. He is free from his fate as a villain and has a girlfriend who loves him.

It would be great if there was one more person who loved him.

However, I didn’t eat the beef rice myself.

It was placed in Ji Mian's desk, waiting for the end of slowly getting colder.

After the third period of evening self-study, Ji Mian saw Luo Lu lying on the table crying. The girl was crying sadly, her shoulders shaking.

Her best friend comforted her:

"It's okay, Lulu. There are plenty of beautiful women out there. Why should you be so obsessed with just one?"

"And it was just a meal delivery. Others say Fu Chenyu is dating her, how could you not know?"

"Fu Chenyu didn't accept it either..."

It’s probably because of Fu Chenyu.

He was far away and couldn't hear clearly what the girls were thinking.

Ji Mian remembered that Luo Lu had liked Fu Chenyu for a whole semester.

Now Fu Chenyu has a girlfriend, but it’s not her, so he feels heartbroken.

Before Ji Mian returned to the dormitory, he took out the beef rice from the drawer.

He wasn't hungry after dinner, he was full, and it would be a pity to throw it away. Forget it, it should be fine to leave it overnight and eat it at noon tomorrow.

As a result, at noon the next day, his beef rice disappeared!

When Ji Mian found the rice with toppings, it had already become a cold "corpse" in a trash can.

He gnashed his teeth in anger, thinking, who is so wicked! Stealing the rice he bought!

Fu Chenyu, who was sitting by the window, sneezed and looked into the distance.

When Li Jue was finally released from home by his father, Tongwai School had already started.

Last year, Li Jue came to Tongcheng to study alone despite his father's opposition. His father initially thought he was angry and let him do what he wanted. As a result, he did not come back during the Chinese New Year, so Li's father came to Tongcheng in person to arrest him.

Li Jue was imprisoned in Jianjing for several months.

He was so anxious that he gritted his teeth. He finally saw Ji Mian, but he was caught by his father!

Li Jue threw tantrums at home, smashing things, going on a hunger strike, and attempting suicide. He did anything he could, even worse than a shrew. His mother was so scared that she thought he was possessed.

The beautiful woman didn’t understand what kind of vixen there was in Tongcheng that made her son care about her so much.

Later, Li's father and Li Jue each took a step back. Li Jue could go to Tongcheng to study, but he had to bring his mother with him and keep a good eye on him.

Li Jue didn't care and agreed immediately. Even if his father asked to break his legs before letting him go to Tongcheng, he would agree!

Even if my leg is broken, I will crawl to see Ji Mian.

In this life, as long as he still has breath, he will shamelessly cling to Ji Mian and never let go.

The first thing he did when he came back was not to ask Su Luoyu about Ji Mian.

To be honest, Li Jue's feelings for Su Luoyu are very subtle. It's probably like looking at his ex with a sense of déjà vu. He loved her, but he regrets it and hopes to part ways and have nothing to do with each other.

That night, I met Ji Mian and lost my mind. I called Su Luoyu in the early morning.

Afterwards, Su Luoyu looked at him with a strange look, and Li Jue also felt awkward. He talked even less with Su Luoyu, and they got along worse than classmates.

Li Jue could only rely on himself to find Ji Mian. He had a good memory and remembered Ji Mian's school uniform that night.

Although he was surprised that Ji Mian might be in high school, he himself was reborn. Thinking about it carefully, perhaps the butterfly effect changed something.

But he couldn't help but worry. If Ji Mian's intelligence didn't recover and he just forced himself to go to high school, then because of his soft personality, he would probably be bullied in class...

The more Li Jue thought about it, the more heartbroken he felt. He wished he could fly to Ji Mian right now.

He spent two days looking through the school uniforms of 80 regular high schools and 25 vocational high schools in Tongcheng, and finally locked on three high schools: Zhennan Middle School, No. 12 Middle School, and Yucai Vocational High School.

Their geographical locations are relatively scattered, and one is even in the suburbs. Li Jue plans to visit each school one by one during the weekends.

In April, Tongcheng’s once-a-semester high school basketball friendly match began.

Last fall's champion was Zhennan Middle School. In this year's spring competition, many schools are eager to try and win the championship in one fell swoop.

Ji Mian's birthday is coming soon. He was born on April 10th, and Lin Minzhi attaches great importance to his birthday.

Lin Minzhi asked Ji Mian to talk to the teacher after the afternoon class and ask for permission to come out and have dinner with her.

As his birthday approaches, Ji Mian still hasn't reconciled with Fu Chenyu.

In fact, he had already calmed down, but he had sworn an oath in his heart before, and no one gave him a way out, so he just confronted Fu Chenyu.

He knew that Fu Chenyu was secretly observing him, secretly following him after school, helping him clean up and bringing him water, but he just never came up to say a good word.

The two people strangely started an awkward cold war.

It seems like whoever speaks to whom first loses.

But Ji Mian didn't know that the reason Fu Chenyu didn't talk to him was because he didn't dare.

Every time he was about to speak, he would think of Ji Yao's cold, emotionless words. His feelings for Ji Mian were obvious, even her brother could see it, so how could he dare to use his status as a friend to get close to her.

On this day, after the daily training of the Zhennan school team's basketball game, Fu Chenyu was holding an invitation ticket in a daze.

The friendly match is open to students and costs 15 yuan per ticket, and the tickets are limited, after all, there are only a few seats in the gymnasium.

However, because of Fu Chenyu, the school hunk of Zhennan, the student union had no worries about selling tickets. Sometimes the tickets would even be bid up by students. For several shows with Fu Chenyu, the tickets were sold for two hundred yuan.

Last year, a transfer student from Jianjing came to Tongwai named Li Jue. In just one semester, he became very successful and became the school idol of Tongwai. His fame was comparable to that of Su Luoyu. One was a gentle and handsome academic master, and the other was a arrogant and handsome school bully.

Tickets for the basketball games between Li Jue and Fu Chenyu could be sold for up to five hundred yuan.

"I haven't given it to you yet, school hunk." The captain squeezed the mineral water bottle and said, "Give it to my secret crush. Is it so difficult to give it to him?"

It’s not wrong to say that this ticket is a gift for the person you secretly love.

Fu Chenyu wanted to give it to Ji Mian. Since joining the basketball team in junior high school, Ji Mian would come to watch every game unless he was sick or had an accident.

But Ji Mian was angry with him now and ignored him, and he didn't know whether he could give away his tickets.

It was crumpled in my pocket.

Like a young man's sore heart.

On the day the basketball game started, the first game was between last year's champion team and the runner-up team, Fu Chenyu versus Li Jue, and the tickets were sold out in the forum.

Ji Mian overheard Luo Lu and her bestie discussing ticket purchases up front. Luo Lu was a member of the school's girls' union, and it was student leaders who intervened, saying she had connections that could secure tickets. Ji Mian, who was absorbed in studying sage books, found it difficult to buy tickets. He couldn't snatch them from the girls waiting in line, and he had no connections to buy tickets.

In previous years...it was Fu Chenyu who gave him the tickets.

Yes, this year is different from previous years. Fu Chenyu didn’t have a girlfriend before, so of course the ticket fell to him.

Now that I’m in a relationship, I always put my girlfriend first in everything.

Ji Mian felt empty and a little lost.

Then when he thought about how they were still in a cold war, Ji Mian's disappointment turned into irritation.

He thought to himself, I must be tougher and not be soft-hearted every time, otherwise how can I negotiate with Fu Chenyu in the future!

He must cure Fu Chenyu's bad habit of keeping everything in his heart and not telling him.

In the end, Ji Mian gritted his teeth and spent five hundred to buy a ticket.

He didn't feel bad about spending money on Fu Chenyu, and he still had a New Year's red envelope of 10,000 yuan.

After buying the ticket, he also bought some water.

When I walked out of the gymnasium, I realized that I had lost my mind and was still in a cold war. However, I had prepared everything for him.

Ji Mian was in a bad mood. He carried a box of water to the rest area of ​​the Zhennan school team and said angrily, "Brother Bai, this is for you to drink."

Fu Chenyu came to see him, but he turned his head and ignored him.

The young man pursed his lips tightly, feeling mixed emotions.

Ji Mian came after all, but this time he delivered water to so many people.

In the past, he always gave himself a separate copy.

Fu Chenyu was in a bad mood after Ji Mian's things were taken away, and even his face fell.

There is a sense of reluctance and grievance. Even if he is hurt, can he be so hard-hearted and stand by and watch?

Ji Mian put down the water and stole a glance at Fu Chenyu. He was wearing a number 7 basketball jersey. He was already 1.85 meters tall, but he looked like he could still grow taller. He had a headband on his forehead and wrist guards on his hands. His handsome face was pale, but his lips were red. Just standing there, he radiated, attracting the attention of countless girls.

As expected of a big boss, he really attracts bees and butterflies...

Ji Mian complained silently in his heart, and thought: So many girls like him, won’t Fu Chenyu’s girlfriend be jealous?

He looked around quietly, his eyes drifting towards Tongwai. Sure enough, there was a tall girl sitting in the front row of the audience. She was wearing a cheerleading uniform, with sparkling blue eyes, looking at Fu Chenyu with admiring eyes.

Their Zhennan cheerleading team was also pretty good, and Luo Lu was among them. Before the show started, she cheered for Fu Chenyu and danced with great vigor, not at all inferior to Tongwai.

After the dance, he rolled his eyes at Fu Chenyu's "girlfriend", which made the girl opposite him angry.

After the scene, Luo Lu said, "I thought she was really with Fu Chenyu. She was just relying on her relationship with Fu Chenyu's family to flatter herself."

My best friend said, "That's right, Lulu, stop imagining it. Fu Chenyu definitely doesn't like her."

Ji Mian's attention was all on Fu Chenyu, and he didn't hear the girls' discussion.

The game started soon, and the Tongwai basketball team entered the court. Ji Mian also met a few acquaintances who had studied together at Tongcheng Foreign Language Junior High School.

There were also some boys I didn’t know, they were tall and strong, one of them was mixed in with the team and stood out.

She has healthy wheat-colored skin, a high nose bridge, and unruly hair. The hair is messy, each with its own unique style. Although it is messy, it has a wild beauty.

The more Ji Mian looked at him, the more familiar he looked. He couldn't help but tilt his head to look at him, wondering if he had seen him somewhere before. Later he found out that he had not seen him there, but that this face had appeared in his memory.

He seemed to recall something, but for a split second, his mind went blank—a face that was more mature and aggressive than the current one emerged from the fused memories, and he couldn't help but feel a desperate fear.

Black eyes, countless lies interwoven into doting, the man's broad shoulders, and heartless back, outlined a complete name in his mind: Li Jue.

The protagonist in "Tenderness in a Stranger's Road" is the man whom Ji Mian loved madly in his previous life and even died for!

A non-existent thunder exploded above his head, and Ji Mian's body instantly stiffened like stone, and even his breathing stopped.

The clock above the gymnasium rang "dong dong dong", like the death knell of fate for him!