Chapter 16 Chapter 16 This world is a huge makeshift team...

The footsteps that stopped beside the two of them were deliberately getting heavier.

Nguyen Chao and Tran Phong raised their heads and looked forward at the same time.

It was Gu Xingyan who came back to fetch water.

The boy's face remained expressionless as always, as if he had heard their conversation, but also seemed not to have heard it. His long bangs fell down, covering his eyes.

He put the cup of water on the table and pushed it to Nguyen Chao.

"The water you asked for."

Ruan Chao tested the temperature of the water cup and started to find fault, "I want cold water."

Gu Xingyan readily picked up the water cup without any complaints, "Then I'll go change it for you."

Ruan Chao pursed his lips and then remembered that he and Gu Xingyan were still in a cold war and he shouldn't talk to him.

Gu Xingyan took the cup of water and left again.

Chen Feng stared at Gu Xingyan's back and whistled exaggeratedly, "When did he become so obedient to you?"

“It’s just classmates helping each other.”

"Help each other..." Chen Feng repeated in a strange voice, "You and I are classmates, why don't you help me get some water?"

Ruan Chao: "Because I'm lazy." He said it very confidently.

Chen Feng: “…Okay.”

Chen Feng still felt something was wrong, so he put himself in Ruan Chao's shoes and thought that if Ruan Chao asked him to help fetch water, he would go and fetch it.

But if Ruan Chao disliked the cold water or hot water and asked him to change it back and forth in a coquettish manner... he couldn't do what Gu Xingyan did and change it for him obediently without any complaints.

Wait, why does Gu Xingyan listen to Nguyen Dynasty so much? He does whatever Nguyen Dynasty tells him to do. Could it be that he... has some plans against Nguyen Dynasty?

Thinking of this possibility, Chen Feng felt that the sugar in his mouth was no longer sweet.

"Nguyen Dynasty..."

"Um……?"

He said seriously, "Please think carefully about what I just suggested."

Ruan Chao thought about what Chen Feng had said before and repeated it softly.

"Separated from him?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a shadow suddenly appeared beside him.

It was Gu Xingyan who came back to fetch water again.

He forcefully inserted himself between the two of them, blocking their gazes from each other, and deliberately pushed Chen Feng into the corner.

He handed the cup to Ruan Chao, "The cool water you asked for."

It is indeed quite cool.

There are ice cubes in it, which must have been taken out from the water dispenser in the lobby on the first floor.

Nguyen Dynasty did not find fault this time.

He held the water cup in his hand and said nothing.

Gu Xingyan asked again: "Don't you want to drink?"

Ruan Chao glanced at him and felt that it was not easy for him to run up and down, so he took a sip out of courtesy.

Chen Feng, who was strictly blocked by Gu Xingyan, poked his head out from behind him and saw this scene.

His eyebrows suddenly wrinkled.

I feel like something is not going well.

It would be fine if only Gu Xingyan listened to Ruan Chao, but why did Ruan Chao listen to Gu Xingyan? He drank water when he was asked to drink it?

"I think we should stop thinking about it and change seats now." Chen Feng bent down and began to pack up his things very actively, stuffing all the scattered books, papers and pens into Ruan Chao's schoolbag. "It just so happens that there is no one next to me, you can sit with me first."

Ruan Chao was stunned when his schoolbag was snatched away unexpectedly.

"Eh? Wait, put my bag down first. I haven't given your consent yet."

When Gu Xingyan heard this, he immediately snatched Ruan Chao's schoolbag back.

"Didn't you hear him? He said he didn't agree."

Chen Feng snatched it back again and retorted rudely.

"This is between him and me, it has nothing to do with you."

Gu Xingyan rushed over.

"Even if you are his friend, you can't make decisions for him."

Chen Feng snatched it back.

"I told you it's none of your business, why are you an outsider interfering?"

…

Ruan Chao's schoolbag went from Gu Xingyan's hand to Chen Feng's hand, and then from Chen Feng's hand to Gu Xingyan's hand, but it never returned to his hands.

Nguyen Chao was dazzled and overwhelmed by what he saw.

He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and he felt that something bad was going to happen.

"Don't..." Don't grab it.

As soon as I said the word to stop it, my premonition became reality.

He watched helplessly as the strap of his schoolbag broke into two pieces during the struggle between the two men.

The things in the schoolbag fell to the ground with a clatter.

silence.

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

No one expected that Nguyen Chao's school bag straps would be so fragile. They broke just by pulling them twice.

Chen Feng shook his head, his eyes wandering: "I...I didn't mean it."

Gu Xingyan whispered "I'm sorry".

Then he squatted down and started picking up things that fell on the ground.

Chen Feng, who just stood there and did nothing, was made to look useless.

…

Chen Feng returned to his seat, getting angrier the more he thought about it.

I felt that I didn't perform well and let Gu Xingyan take advantage of me.

He kicked the table and swore.

You're the only one who knows how to deal with things, you're the only one who knows how to pick up things, and you're the only one who knows how to act innocent.

After cursing twice, Chen Feng calmed down a little.

Suddenly he remembered that he had not looked for Ruan Chaoben to ask him to change seats, but because he had something to tell him.

He took out his cell phone and sent him a message.

I sent two apology emojis first.

The Nguyen Dynasty has read it and cannot return.

[I really didn't mean it. I apologize to you.]

【？ Who are you? 】

Chen Feng is flexible: [Okay, okay, you are my brother. ]

[Brother, how about this? After school, I'll go to the mall and buy you an identical one. Then you won't be mad at me anymore.]

Nguyen Dynasty: [.]

【No.】

After a while, he sent another message.

【Not angry.】

Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

[Will you come to Xiang Chen's birthday party this weekend? ]

Ruan Chao: [...Xiang Chen? ]

[From the class next door, we used to play games together. ]

Seeing that Ruan Chao still didn't remember, Chen Feng explained it in more detail.

[The one who played Xiao Qiao 0-10, and you still thought he was a bad player, so you just logged off and stopped playing. ]

Ruan Chao: [Hmm…]

During this period, Chen Feng did ask him to play games every day, but he didn't pay attention to who was on the team, let alone how they played.

As for why he suddenly stopped playing, it was probably because their game time overlapped with Gu Xingyan's storytelling time.

Chen Feng: [Xiang Chen said it would be lively with more people. The class next to ours has invited a lot of people. You should come too. Let's have a good gathering.]

Nguyen Chao didn't really want to join in the fun.

He was about to type a refusal when he heard the system beep in his mind.

[Chaochao, Chaochao, I remember who this Xiang Chen is! ]

[I just looked up the information, this Xiang Chen has a distant cousin, you will never guess who it is! ]

The system deliberately kept it a secret.

Ruan Chao followed its words and asked who it was with pretended curiosity.

[That fake young master who swapped identities with Gu Xingyan, his name is Xiang Zhijian! ]

Fake Master? It was actually him?

Ruan Chao paused for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to glance at Master Zhen.

Probably because he worked until three in the morning last night and didn’t sleep well the whole night, Gu Xingyan was lying on the table, sleeping soundly.

His whole face was buried in his arms, with only the dark top of his head exposed.

System: [Xiang Zhijian will most likely attend Xiang Chen's birthday party... So, Chao Chao, are you going? ]

Ruan Chao was indeed somewhat curious about the fake young master.

[I have nothing to do, so I might as well go and take a look. 】

He replied to Chen Feng's message.

[What time on weekend nights? I'll go too.]

Chen Feng was very happy: [I will come to find you at six o'clock, and we will go together.]

…

Time quickly came to Sunday

Ruan Chao and Chen Feng went to Xiang Chen's birthday party together. The party was held in a VIP room in a bar.

There were a lot of people and it was very noisy.

After giving the gift to Xiang Chen, in order to avoid socializing, Ruan Chao deliberately sat in a corner where no one noticed him.

His eyes hurt from the dazzling lights and his ears hurt from the noisy sounds. He regretted it before he had even stayed there for long.

But I haven’t seen the person I want to see yet, so I can’t leave.

To kill time, Nguyen Chao began to look around.

I saw the bar was filled with alcohol and drinks, with lemon slices and mint leaves in them, and the different colors were clearly layered.

Seeing that Ruan Chao's attention was all attracted by those beautiful drinks, the system kindly reminded: [The one on the far right is orange juice soda, which does not contain any alcohol, so you can drink it without worry! ]

Ruan Chao obediently raised the orange juice, thought about it, and put it down again.

He finally came to the bar, so how could he not drink? It was as if he was the kind of good kid who listened to adults.

He specifically picked out a glass of ice-blue liquid that was bubbling.

The system scanned its ingredients and confirmed that the alcohol content was not high, and didn't say much, just to please Nguyen Dynasty.

Nguyen Chao first took a small sip tentatively.

The taste is icy, a little sweet and a little astringent.

The door suddenly opened and someone came in.

The noisy atmosphere was quiet for a moment, and everyone's eyes turned to the person who came.

System: [Xiang Zhijian, it’s Xiang Zhijian, he actually came! ]

That fake young master?

Ruan Chao raised his eyes and looked at him.

He looks okay, with his facial features all in the right places, his nose being his nose, his eyes being his eyes. The only thing worth noting is his skin color, which is very white.

The white and delicate complexion is the result of years of pampering and not having to experience any wind and rain.

Gu Xingyan's skin was also white, but it was the paleness of an anemic person. His palms also had many rough spots on them, the result of years of doing manual labor.

But in comparison, this guy is much worse looking than Gu Xingyan. Even when Gu Xingyan is wearing a bloodstained old school uniform, he looks a hundred times better than him.

Ruan Chao withdrew his gaze with lack of interest.

I don't know why, but I'm still a little angry.

There were many people in the box, surrounding Xiang Zhijian like stars surrounding the moon, greeting him and making friends with him, as if he was the real protagonist of the party.

Xiang Chen was even more attentive to Xiang Zhijian, taking his coat for him, serving him wine, introducing him to his classmates and friends. He was very attentive... It was as if he was not facing his distant cousin, but a superior who could decide his fate with a snap of his fingers.

That's true.

Considering the Xiang family's background, even a little bit of wealth that leaks out from the gaps between their fingers would be a huge help to a family or a business.

So, why did the Xiang family, which was so powerful, allow a nanny to casually switch the children of two families?

This world is really a huge makeshift team.

…

Ruan Chao sat in an empty corner and drank most of the glass of ice-blue wine.

While everyone's attention was on Xiang Zhijian, he planned to slip away quietly.

I reached the door smoothly.

Slowly open the door handle.

The person outside was about to knock on the door, but when he saw this, he put down his hand and picked up the wine tray on the cart.

“Hello, this is what you ordered…”

The two people's eyes met and they widened at the same time.

"...Gu Xingyan?"