Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Are you jealous?

After the first class, Ji Maili knocked on Zhou Luyang's desk mate's stool with his pen.

Zhou Luyang's deskmate was a girl named Wu Yue, who was the monitor of Class 10. She always kept her distance from the people in the back seat, but she turned around and glanced at him.

Ji Maili: "Aren't you going to collect homework?"

Wu Yue's movement of turning his head froze: "What?"

Ji Maili handed over the homework: "This is my homework."

Wu Yue looked at the thing he handed over and didn't react for a long time. Ji Maili was actually doing homework?

Zhou Luyang turned around and had the same reaction as Wu Yue: "You actually handed in your homework?

Ji Maili: "Do you have any objections?"

He had no opinion, but Zhou Luyang was a little curious: "Who wrote this for you?"

Ji Maili said frankly: "Shen Lu."

Zhou Luyang chuckled, "I knew you couldn't have written it yourself."

Wu Yue looked at the homework in her hand and said, how could Ji Maili do homework? He probably didn't even know what homework was.

Seeing Zhou Luyang reaching out to flip through his homework, Ji Maili tugged at his hand with a pen and said, "Stop posting your homework on WeChat Moments in the future."

Zhou Luyang felt a pain in his hand and retracted it: "When did I post my homework on WeChat Moments?"

Ji Maili: "It's no use complaining about too much homework!"

Zhou Luyang looked confused, but he didn't complain.

Just as Zhou Luyang turned around, the stool legs were kicked twice by the person behind him. Zhou Luyang turned back and asked, "What happened?"

Ji Maili: "Let's add each other as friends."

Zhou Luyang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly felt a surge of joy, as if he had finally made it through after enduring so long. "Add me as a friend? With me?"

Ji Maili took out his phone and said, "Write down the homework you have every day and send it to me."

Ji Maili didn't notice that when he said he wanted to add Zhou Luyang as a friend, the girls who were talking nearby suddenly became quiet.

When Liang Xiaohui heard Ji Maili say that he added Zhou Luyang as a friend for homework, she suddenly stood up and said, "I can tell you why you didn't add me."

Ji Maili looked at Liang Xiaohui, who had already walked over with her hands on her hips, shoving her phone towards him. "We're so close now, it would be a shame not to add each other as friends, wouldn't you think?"

Xia Yangyang was just marveling at Liang Xiaohui's courage when she saw Liang Xiaohui pointing her finger at her: "Xia Yangyang should be included as well. She's the Chinese representative of our class."

Xia Yangyang: “?”

Liang Xiaohui dragged people to Ji Maili one by one: "He is the math class representative, this is the English class representative, and she is our class committee member..."

Ji Maili watched as more and more people joined the WeChat account, and finally Liang Xiaohui even said, "He is the class committee member's deskmate."

Ji Maili looked at Liang Xiaohui: "Did I add everyone?"

Liang Xiaohui looked around the class and said, "Well, that's about right. Count, is that thirty-four? Oh no, thirty-three, you don't count."

"......" Ji Maili was speechless: "Isn't there a group? Why do you have to add everyone one by one?"

Liang Xiaohui was editing Ji Maili's notes: "Yes, there is a group, but do you see it?"

Ji Maili: “I don’t want to watch it.”

Liang Xiaohui: "That's it."

When Chen Lu arrived, he saw that the last row, which had always been ignored, was now surrounded by a group of people. He was very pleased to see the lively scene.

A girl had just added Ji Maili as a friend and was about to return to her own location when she saw Shen Lu standing at the door. She called out, "Shen Lu, are you here to look for Ji Maili?"

Ji Maili suddenly raised his head, and the people surrounding his table also understood and immediately dispersed.

He saw Shen Lu, dressed in school uniform and glasses as usual, standing at the door of Class 10, smiling at him.

Ji Maili ran out: "Why are you here?"

Shen Lu looked at the phone he was still holding in his hand: "Making friends?"

Ji Maili was a little embarrassed. He put his phone away and said, "No, it was Liang Xiaohui who insisted that I add this and that."

"Isn't this great?" Shen Lu said with a smile, "Mai Mai has been good at making friends since she was young."

If someone else said this, Ji Maili would find it ironic. He did like making friends when he was a child, but in the end, he only kept Chen Lu. After Chen Lu left, he seemed to have lost the ability to make friends. Even if he tried his best, the only friends he made were those who could abandon him at any time.

Ji Maili didn't want to discuss the topic of making friends with him, "Why are you here?"

Shen Lu said: "Nothing, I came to see you."

"You're so free!" Ji Maili rolled his eyes and pushed him away. "Hurry up and leave. Don't come to our class if you don't have anything to do."

Shen Lu: "When we were in elementary school, you stayed in our class every day, but I never kicked you out."

Ji Maili: "Come on, I was just trying to protect you, what are you doing now, swaggering?"

Chen Lu smiled. He was just showing off on purpose to dispel the rumors about their discord. Ji Maili pushed him and said, "Let's have lunch together at noon."

"Eat, eat, eat." Ji Maili waved him away: "Next time, just send a message for something like this."

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The school cafeteria was crowded at noon. Tao Dacheng had reserved a table in advance. When Zhou Luyang arrived, there were no empty seats. Seeing Ji Maili and the others sitting there, he just took a ready-made seat.

Chen Yu and Liao Qing arrived late. After getting their meal, they wandered around the cafeteria for a long time. When they saw an empty seat next to Zhou Luyang, they came over with their plates. Only then did they realize that the people eating with him were Chen Lu and Ji Maili.

Last semester, Chen Yu and Liao Qing were close friends with Ji Maili, but since the beginning of this semester, they have been avoiding Ji Maili like the plague.

The three of them felt a little awkward when they met suddenly.

Zhou Luyang subconsciously glanced at Chen Lu. Among all of them, apart from him, only Chen Lu knew how Chen Yu slandered Ji Maili behind his back. When Chen Lu bumped into Chen Yu in the corridor, he thought it was an accident. But now thinking about it, it was intentional.

Zhou Luyang didn't want to let Chen Yu and Liao Qing sit here: "How about... you find another seat?"

Liao Qing put down his plate. "It shouldn't say it's for the Student Union only, right? Can't we sit in this empty seat?"

Liao Qing and Chen Yu sat down in the empty seats. Ji Maili looked at them with a frown. In the past, Liao Qing followed him and called him "Brother Mai". Even though they stopped playing with him later, he didn't dislike him at all. But today, for some reason, he started talking about the Student Union as soon as he opened his mouth. It sounded like he was deliberately trying to make things difficult for Chen Lu.

Shen Lu knocked on his plate with the tip of his chopsticks: "Eat."

Liao Qing looked at the two of them and suddenly sneered as if looking for trouble.

Ji Maili slammed his chopsticks on the table and glared at Liao Qing: "If you can eat it, eat it. If you can't, take your meal and get out."

The table was slammed with a "bang". Zhou Luyang had just scooped a spoonful of soup when his hand shook and the spoon became empty.

Liao Qing didn't plan to leave: "What's wrong with me laughing? You and President Shen can have dinner together, so why can't I laugh? Aren't you two on bad terms? How come you can sit together now? Don't tell me you were just pretending to have a bad relationship before?"

Tao Dacheng's biggest hobby was interrupting, so how could he not speak at a time like this? "What are you saying? You two were so close to him last semester, like he was your own grandchildren, but when his family got into trouble, didn't they abandon Grandpa? You can both betray us, but why can't Chen Lu help out in times of need and show his kindness as president?"

Liao Qing looked at Tao Dacheng: "What does it have to do with you if I talk to him?"

Tao Dacheng: "Then what does it have to do with you if they have dinner together?"

Tao Dacheng nonchalantly stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth. "Come to think of it, you guys hid away too quickly when something happened at Ji Maili's house. Someone who didn't know would think your family had some kind of business dealings with him. But as far as I know, you two can't even reach the Ji family's doorstep, right? What are you hiding for?" Tao Dacheng suddenly realized, "Ah, I see. You were friends with him before because his father was the mayor. So when you saw his family in trouble and knew he couldn't bring you any more benefits, you quickly withdrew. Otherwise, those people he had helped you offend would come and implicate you. Do you think I'm right?"

Liao Qing stood up and picked up the plate to throw at Tao Dacheng: "You fucking fart——"

Ji Maili wanted to stand up, but Shen Lu held his arm down. Shen Lu looked at Liao Qing who was holding up the plate and said, "If even a drop of soup spills from your plate today, you will be responsible for the sanitation of the cafeteria for the whole week."

Liao Qing shook the plate in his hand but didn't throw it away. "Why?"

"I have the final say. If you don't agree, you can join the student union." Shen Lu glanced at him, "The premise is that you can get in."

Liao Qing glared at Shen Lu: "The student union is so amazing?"

Shen Lu: "It's really amazing."

Ji Maili didn't want Chen Lu to provoke them, but he had to admit that Chen Lu was really handsome as the president!

Chen Yu looked at Shen Lu's hand on Ji Maili's. "President Shen, I've actually been quite curious. Last year, you kept finding trouble with me and Liao Qing. Even though everyone said you and Ji Maili didn't get along, you never seemed to catch him doing anything wrong, nor did you punish him directly. You were only targeting me and Liao Qing, right?"

Tao Dacheng glanced at Chen Lu and said that he had gone too far and would be discovered.

Looking at Ji Maili and Liao Qing again, wow... Tao Dacheng observed two seconds of silence for Chen Lu, and Ji Maili actually showed the same surprised expression as Liao Qing. It turned out that Chen Lu had worked in vain for more than a year!

Chen Lu dared to admit what he did. He just hated the two of them. In addition to the fact that they used Ji Maili to cause trouble everywhere, he was just like Ji Maili and could not accept that he suddenly made friends other than him.

Shen Lu: "Yeah, it's not nice to see him messing around with everyone."

Chen Yu smiled: "Unhappy? Why would you be unhappy? Are you attracted to him?"

Chen Lu thought that he would be fine as long as he held down Ji Maili, but he forgot that he only held down his right hand and ignored his left hand. Ji Maili's left hand was also very accurate, and the dinner plate hit Chen Yu's face directly as if it was aimed at him.

The flying iron plate hit the feet of the girl at the table behind, and the girl screamed in fear.

Ji Maili jumped up like a mad monkey: "He likes your mother!"

Shen Lu quickly stood up and pulled him: “Stop talking nonsense, I don’t like it.”

Chen Yu's head was filled with vegetable soup. He was stunned for a few seconds before he jumped up, "Fuck - your mother——"

Chen Yu just stood up when he was pushed back by Shen Lu. Ji Maili grabbed Tao Dacheng's plate and was about to throw it at him again. Tao Dacheng quickly protected his food: "I haven't finished eating yet."

Ji Maili was so strong that even Shen Lu had a hard time holding him up. He said to Tao Dacheng, "Get them away."

Tao Dacheng gave his meal to Zhou Luyang for safekeeping, then stood up to chase Liao Qing and Chen Yu away. Chen Yu refused to leave, so Tao Dacheng said, "It's okay if you don't leave. The cafeteria's hygiene is yours!"

Even if they were right, they would not get any benefit from arguing with two members of the student union. Liao Qing pulled Chen Yu and pointed at Shen Lu: "This matter is not over today."

Ji Maili: "Who said they're done? Whoever is fucking done is a dog! If you have the guts, don't leave, fuck - wuwu -"

There were many people in the cafeteria, and if he really jumped up, he might smash everything. Seeing that he couldn't hold him back anymore, Shen Lu covered his mouth directly.

Shen Lu said to Zhou Luyang, "Go get him another meal."

Zhou Luyang nodded quickly and said "Oh" a few times, and picked up the plate on the ground before leaving.

Tao Dacheng borrowed a broom from the cafeteria auntie and came back to sweep up the food that Ji Maili had spilled.

Chen Lu looked at Ji Maili, whose mouth was covered: "Stop yelling, you hear me?"

Ji Maili's eyes turned red with anger.

Shen Lu let go of his hand and pulled him to sit down: "Okay, is it necessary to be so angry?"

Since childhood, Ji Maili couldn't stand hearing people say bad things about Chen Lu: "Didn't you hear what he said about you?"

Chen Lu: "I heard it. He said I like you."

Ji Maili was so angry that he was gasping for breath: "Then why don't you let me beat him!"

Chen Lu: "Let him say whatever he wants. What's wrong with him liking you? You're not ugly. Besides, I did deliberately target them and cause trouble for them before, so he's not wrong."

Hearing Shen Lu say that he was the one who started it, Ji Maili suppressed his anger and asked Shen Lu, "Why did you cause trouble for them?"

Shen Lu knew that this little fool was easy to fool. He could easily make him forget what he said by simply changing the subject: "Because there is a fool who loves to stand up for them for no reason, and I am not happy to see it."

There were no more people queuing for food, so Zhou Luyang went over and got some. When he came back with the food, he heard Ji Maili ask, "Are you jealous?"

The rice plate fell to the ground with a thud. Tao Dacheng, who had just finished sweeping the floor and was about to return the broom, looked up and said, "Zhou—Lu—Yang—"

Zhou Luyang stood there with a numb expression, ignoring the furious Tao Dacheng, his mind full of thoughts:...It's over, I heard something I shouldn't have heard again, and he felt his health bar had decreased by another bar.