Chapter 5 Dangerous Distance "Fuck, you are really sick."...

Jiang Ci replied calmly, "No."

Yu Xiang: “…” If you can’t, then what are you talking about?

It wasted half a minute of his time. He could have recited something in that half a minute... well, he probably couldn't have recited anything.

Yu Xiang sighed in disappointment.

"Since we can carry each other on our backs, it would be the same if we find someone else to carry us on our backs, right?" He thought about it again in disappointment, muttering to himself.

"You can only come to me." Jiang Ci glanced at him, "That's what the class representative said."

"When did she say that?"

"A few minutes before you were late."

Yu Xiang was choked and turned his head away in anger, thinking, "Out of sight, out of mind." "Just shut up and don't delay me from memorizing my lessons."

"If you can guarantee that you can recite it before today, I can make an exception and provide you with a fake certificate."

Yu Xiang turned back immediately and said with his last bit of stubbornness, "It can be done before noon."

"Okay, it's a deal."

The alarm was temporarily lifted.

But the goal has been set. If I don’t memorize it before school is over at noon, it will be very embarrassing.

Although he has always been thick-skinned and not afraid of embarrassment, he is not very willing to embarrass himself in front of Jiang Ci, and even has an inexplicable desire to win.

The first class after morning reading was English class. Under normal circumstances, he would have been so sleepy that he couldn't get out of bed, but this time he forced himself to stay awake and secretly memorized the lessons.

The teacher was still enthusiastically calling out names of students who had already memorized the words, but Yu Xiang didn't listen to a single word and was racing against time to cram those words into his head.

"Brother Yu, you actually finished memorizing...?" Zhang Miao in the front row and Fang Chengyu in the next group heard Yu Xiang's name on the commendation list. They looked back in surprise at the same time. When they saw Yu Xiang frowning slightly and looking as if he was facing a great enemy, they were confused.

What is this doing?

Before they had time to figure it out, Jiang Ci glanced over.

As soon as they met Jiang Ci's gaze, they immediately turned their heads away as if they were suddenly scalded by boiling water, pretending nothing had happened.

Jiang Ci: "..." These two people are probably sick.

After Yu Xiang's unremitting efforts throughout the entire English class, he finally memorized most of it during the break.

Their school implemented a segmented running system, with each grade running for two days: 14 for Grade 1, 25 for Grade 2, and 36 for Grade 3. Today was not the Grade 2's turn, and Yu Xiang felt so sleepy after finishing an English and a Math class that he fell asleep on the table.

The break was very long, and most of the boys in the class took this opportunity to go downstairs to the playground to play ball. The rest either ran to the canteen or waited in line for the toilet. The only people left in the classroom were those sleeping and studying, and it suddenly became much quieter.

"Jiang Ci, can you teach me this question?"

"Let me see."

Although Yu Xiang was very sleepy, he couldn't help but prick up his ears and listen whenever he heard any movement nearby.

"You have to seek guidance first. You made a mistake in the first step." Jiang Ci's low and magnetic voice was very close to him.

Perhaps it was because Jiang Ci spoke as calmly as everyone else, so it didn't seem noisy at all.

"I'll try it, thanks."

"Um."

The footsteps gradually faded away, and the only sound left was the light sound of Jiang Ci's pen writing on the paper.

Yu Xiang calmed down, emptied his mind and prepared to fall asleep again.

"Jiang Ci, would you like some mango?"

Yu Xiang recognized the voice. It should be a girl sitting in the group next to them, named Ning Anyan. She was quite pretty, spoke softly and had good grades. Many people had a crush on her and often went to the school confession wall every few days.

But nothing came of it - from Yu Xiang's point of view, she was half focused on studying and the other half on Jiang Ci.

Although it was none of his business, he just felt inexplicably unhappy.

"He's allergic to mangoes and can't eat them." Yu Xiang slowly opened his eyes, his tone lazy, "He might end up in the hospital."

Ning Anyan tightened her fingers holding the fruit box and subconsciously bit her lips.

"How did you know?" She hesitated for a moment, then thought that Yu Xiang might be deliberately making trouble, so she remained skeptical.

"Because he ate the mango mille-feuille full of mangoes with an expressionless face, I was the one who sent him to the hospital." Yu Xiang raised his eyelids, a little dissatisfied with her distrustful look.

How could I lie to you?

Although there is indeed a little bit of deliberateness in it.

"I spent a huge sum of 20 yuan on a taxi." Yu Xiang added.

Jiang Cibi continued writing: "Didn't I reimburse you later?"

Yu Xiang retorted confidently: "You only reimbursed the car fare but didn't reimburse me for my mental damages."

Jiang Ci: "?"

"I was playing a game at the time and I just left the game without saying hello. Not only did my teammates scold me, but they also deducted more than ten points from my reputation."

Jiang Ci was silent for a moment, then he put down his pen and glanced at Yu Xiang: "How much do you want? I'll give you the rest."

"Ahem." Ning Anyan saw that the two men were gradually forgetting her existence, so she spoke out at the right time to show her presence.

"Thank you. But I am indeed allergic to mangoes." Jiang Ci turned his head halfway and said to her politely, "But he is not allergic, you can share it with him."

Yu Xiang: “?!” What a good way to shift the blame!

"Oh yes, Yu Xiang, do you want to eat mango?" Ning Anyan realized belatedly that her action of asking Jiang Ci alone whether he wanted to eat mango was too obvious, and a trace of embarrassment flashed across her face.

The classmates have been together for more than a semester since the classes were divided in the second year of high school. After getting to know each other, they often share snacks or fruits with each other. Unless they dislike each other, everyone will have a share.

She had only asked Jiang Ci, ignoring Yu Xiang, who was either woken up or not asleep at all.

"I don't need it either. I got mango allergy from him." Yu Xiang quietly glared at the culprit and replied calmly.

Ning Anyan frowned slightly, obviously not quite believing this statement: "I've never heard that this is contagious."

Yu Xiang continued to ramble seriously, "Mentally. Maybe it was because seeing him break out in a rash and scratch his head when he had an allergic reaction was so scary, that now I feel like I itch all over when I see mangoes."

"Ah..." Ning Anyan looked at Jiang Ci's face with a complicated expression, as if she was trying hard to imagine what Yu Xiang's description would look like on him.

The rash might be somewhat convincing, but the action of scratching one's ears and cheeks combined with Jiang Ci is so OOC that it's unimaginable.

And the fact is indeed so - Jiang Ci didn't scratch at all at that time, but gritted his teeth and endured it with perseverance. The action of scratching his ears and cheeks never existed from beginning to end.

"An Yan, Teacher Wang wants you to go to the office!" Someone shouted at the door.

"Oh, okay!" Ning Anyan suddenly came to her senses, turned around, put down the mango in her hand and walked out of the classroom.

After watching Ning Anyan leave, Jiang Ci picked up his pen again to write his question: "Why did you lie to her?"

Yu Xiang closed his eyes: "You said it as if you had a better reason to reject her." It's good that I didn't hold you accountable for diverting the blame.

Jiang Ci didn't say anything else.

Yu Xiang didn't want to waste the little time he had left to sleep, so this time he really planned to take a nap.

I slept right through to class.

But he did not wake up and spent the third class in a daze. As soon as the get out of class was over, he was about to lie down again, but as soon as he lowered his head, someone grabbed his collar from behind and stopped him.

He opened his eyes immediately, wondering who was so bold. Then he turned around and met Jiang Ci's calm gaze: "...What are you doing?"

Jiang Ci glanced at him and calmly uttered two words: "Endorsement."

"But I'm so sleepy now that I can't recite it." The previous class was Lei Wanquan's biology class. He was so sleepy but couldn't sleep, which made him feel like he was living a life worse than death.

And he wasn't the only one. Most of the students in the class were listless, and only a few were as energetic as Jiang Ci.

"Don't worry, I will carry it for you. I can run away, but I can't run away from the temple..." Yu Xiang said lightly and yawned sleepily.

He thought Jiang Ci would not insist after hearing this, but the latter came closer without warning and stared at him without blinking.

Yu Xiang was stunned for a moment, only to see Jiang Ci's fair and handsome face suddenly enlarged in front of him, and the other's warm breath sprayed on his face.

Last night's dream resurfaced in his mind, and Yu Xiang's breathing unconsciously became heavier.

This went on for five seconds before Yu Xiang jumped up as if he had been electrocuted. He quickly distanced himself from Jiang Ci, afraid to alarm the students around him but not too loudly: "Are you, are you sick?"

Jiang Ci still looked calm and composed: "Are you still sleepy now?"

Yu Xiang: “?”

So this person did this on purpose to wake him up?

nerve!

bad!

"Fuck, you are really sick." Yu Xiang cursed in frustration.

"Yes. I'm allergic to mangoes." Jiang Ci replied very calmly.

Yu Xiang: “…” Sometimes I really want to call the police.

"Can we start reciting now?" Jiang Ci was still adding fuel to the fire.

"Memorize, memorize, memorize now." Yu Xiang snorted coldly in anger, brewed for a moment in his heart, opened his mouth... and then closed it again.

Jiang Ci's brows raised slightly, and a hint of doubt flashed across his expression.

However, his doubts were soon answered: Yu Xiang, with a stern face, took out a square of paper from the bottom of a book. From the color and printed words, it could be seen that it was made of an English weekly.

According to Yu Xiang's train of thought, it is most likely to make it easier for him to memorize the subject in class without being discovered by the teacher.

"Let me review first." Yu Xiang took the English weekly that was folded into a mini version and read through the content to be memorized as quickly as possible. He wished he could pick those words off the paper and weld them into his brain.

Jiang Ci didn't rush him, but waited quietly for him to get ready.

About two minutes later, Yu Xiang put down the weekly report with a fearless attitude and sat back in his chair. He looked straight into Jiang Ci's face with clear eyes and said, "We can begin now."

Five minutes later.

"Not very proficient. There are many mispronunciations of words, a lot of omissions, and five word order errors." Jiang Ci summarized slowly.

Yu Xiang listened to Jiang Ci's long speech, not a single word of which expressed approval, and couldn't help but feel a little anxious and uneasy: "So?"

"Theoretically, you need to memorize it again," Jiang Ci said to him calmly, "but I don't think it will be very useful for you. So let it be."

"You're absolutely right. I forget what I memorize immediately." It was rare for Yu Xiang to agree with Jiang Ci's opinion.

Judging from the way their English teacher works, he might assign a new memorization task today. Given Yu Xiang's memorization efficiency, he has no time to review the previous ones, and it would be difficult for memorization to be of any substantial use.

It would be more useful to memorize some universal sentences before the exam.

"But if that's the case, why didn't you just turn a blind eye from the beginning? Why did you insist on making me recite it again?"

"It's not very useful, but it's not completely useless either. The process of memorizing it over and over again can help you develop your sense of language." Jiang Ci explained, then calmly said, "Your sense of language is truly terrible."

Yu Xiang's face darkened: "I know. You don't have to say it again."

"It's good that you know. Let's go home together at noon."

"Oh." Yu Xiang responded hastily, and only then realized something was wrong.

"Wait, are the first and second half of your sentence related?!"

"No. But you already promised."

"I'm going to sue you!" Yu Xiang suddenly felt like he had accidentally gotten on a pirate ship and couldn't get off.

"Oh." Jiang Ci responded to Yu Xiang with the same words he had just said.

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