Chapter 07
When Xue Ling met Wen Jiuze for the first time, she was frightened by him.
She was 20 years old at the time and a sophomore at Yucheng Normal University.
On her rare days off, she would help out in her cousin's bakery.
It was around ten o'clock that evening and my cousin had left early because of something. She was left alone in the bakery, staring at the cake models on the shelf with nothing to do.
The street where the bakery is located doesn't have much traffic, and there are already very few people at this hour. No one has entered the store for a while.
Xue Ling was daydreaming when suddenly a bell rang and the door was pushed open. A man quickly took a loaf of bread from the shelf and walked towards the cashier.
"Welcome..." Xue Ling stood up and said a little late, but after seeing who was there, his voice suddenly tightened and disappeared.
The customer was very tall, and his head was covered in blood.
The bright red color slid down his cheeks, leaving a large patch on his neck, and flowed into his black T-shirt, wetting his shoulders.
The exposed strong arms were also stained with dried blood.
At this time, seeing a tall man covered in blood, Xue Ling's first reaction was to call the police.
Or call an ambulance. In any case, her men instinctively reached for the cell phone on the counter.
As she touched her cell phone, the man pressed a finger on the screen of her cell phone, stopping her action.
He wiped the blood that was about to drip from his chin and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, don't call the police, this is not real blood, I am just playing cosplay."
Xue Ling smelled the blood: "..."
Am I good looking enough to deceive? Do I look like a fool?
"I'm just here to buy a loaf of bread. Please pay me first." He took out his cell phone from his pocket to pay.
Xue Ling saw him take out his broken cell phone, which was covered in blood and dust. He pressed twice, but the screen went black and he couldn't turn it on.
The man was silent for a moment, sighed, put away his phone, did not take the bread from the counter, said sorry and walked out.
"Hey! Take this bread, it's my treat." Xue Ling called him.
The strange man with blood all over his head took the bread, tore open the package and took a big bite as soon as he walked out the door.
One bite is equivalent to ten bites for Xue Ling. He estimates that he can finish the bread in three bites.
Xue Ling saw the blood from his chin dripping onto the bread, which he swallowed without a care. He looked very hungry, as if he had been hungry for three days.
The man came in like the wind and left like the wind, leaving behind only a faint smell of blood and a bloody fingerprint on the screen of her mobile phone.
For a long time afterwards, Xue Ling thought that he was just some street thug who might have been injured in a fight.
Until I met him the second time.
Xue Ling and her friends from the student union went to the neighboring Yu City University to look for someone, and they ran into a fight in a remote corner.
It can also be said that it was a one-sided violence.
The man who had bought bread with blood all over his head was the one who was beaten.
He was tall, with smooth muscles, and looked like he could fight well, but when another man who was half a head shorter than him hit him with a stick, he did not resist, but only raised his arms to block the other man's stick when it hit his head hard.
He looked nonchalant, even with one hand in his pocket, as if he was not the one being hit, but the scars on his arms and neck were shocking.
Coincidentally, the man who was waving the stick at him with a ferocious look on his face was someone Xue Ling knew.
Wen Xuan, a member of the student union of Yu City University, is a senior one year older than her.
Xue Ling is a member of the External Relations Department of Yu City Normal University. Their director and the president of the Student Union of Yu City University are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. The student unions of the two schools once had a social dinner together, and she got to know Wen Xuan because of this.
At that time, Wen Xuan talked to her intentionally or unintentionally, and their minister even tried to bring them together as a joke.
But Xue Ling felt that they were not familiar with each other, so she did not talk to him and the matter was dropped.
I didn't expect to see this scene. Wen Xuan looked like he was beating someone to death. That kind of ferocity was frightening, and it was very different from the gentle gentleman he had shown before.
Xue Ling was shocked by the scene and hesitated for a moment whether to stop it.
I saw Wen Xuan's stick hit another person's shoulder and broke it directly, but he didn't seem willing to give up.
Xue Ling's eyelids twitched, and she couldn't help but shout, "Wen Xuan, what are you doing?"
Seeing the strange and terrified looks from her and the other two girls beside her, Wen Xuan was stunned, forced a smile, and stammered.
The one who was beaten looked at them, turned his beaten shoulder and left there with an indifferent expression.
The next day, Wen Xuan actually ran to her school to find her and said something incomprehensible to her.
"The one yesterday was my cousin Wen Jiuze. He is an illegitimate child. His mother saw that our family was rich, so she attached him to my uncle..."
"I actually didn't want to hit him, and I usually ignored him, but he was adopted by my grandfather when he was twelve. He had a lot of bad habits when he lived away from home. He liked to fight since he was a child, and he also stole things and bullied others in school. As his cousin, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took action to discipline him..."
Xue Ling, who was taking a public class, listened to him talking and wanted to escape but couldn't.
Why are you telling me this? We have no relationship and we are not familiar with each other, okay?
Her smile must have been very stiff at that time, but Wen Xuan seemed not to notice it. He first complained and scolded his disobedient cousin, stating that it was right for him to beat him, and then began to show off his family background intentionally or unintentionally.
"Families like ours are different from the average family. We have a solid foundation and are very strict at home... My cousins and I have been learning all kinds of things since we were young. You know the six arts of a gentleman in ancient times..."
Xue Ling was forced to listen to these words and her heart almost broke.
Are we living in the same world? What era is this? Why are we still dealing with the old and young masters, legitimate and illegitimate children?
She had heard that Wen Xuan's family was quite wealthy, and seemed to be a well-known family in Anxi City.
It is said that their ancestors made their fortune by robbing graves, and started the cultural relic business hundreds of years ago. Wen Xuan's grandfather was a famous cultural relic expert.
During the social gathering, Wen Xuan not only showed off his expensive watch, but also how respected his grandfather was and what celebrities came to visit him during the Chinese New Year.
At that time, Xue Ling just thought that this person loved present too much and wanted to stay away from him. Now, he feels that he is worthy of being a family scholar, with a smell that has just been dug out of the soil.
Wen Xuan, who thought he had explained the misunderstanding to her and cleared up the negative impression, offered to treat her to lunch. Xue Ling refused with a dry smile and quickly packed up her things and ran away as soon as the class was over.
Students from other schools come to their school's public classes and disrupt classroom discipline. Is there no one to take care of it?
She didn't like Wen Xuan in the first place, and she had been avoiding him since then. However, thanks to Wen Xuan, she knew that the tall cousin who was beaten by him was called Wen Jiuze, and he was also a student at Yu City University.
Wen Jiuze is a freshman majoring in Chinese language and literature. He is only 19 years old, one year younger than her.
Xue Ling: Why is he full of contrasts?
She is so tall, but it turns out she is not a man, but a boy.
Xue Ling often had to go to the neighboring Yu City University for the activities of the External Relations Department, and had met Wen Jiuze several times.
Different from the image of his cousin Wen Xuan, who described him as a rebellious, violent, fighting, and bullying student, every time Xue Ling saw Wen Jiuze, he would stay away from the crowd and stay in a corner alone.
Not to mention bullying his classmates, he simply didn't interact with anyone. He always looked uninterested, as if he had no interest in anything.
In fact, he had a very special temperament and was very good-looking, so many people paid attention to him intentionally or unintentionally. Xue Ling even saw a girl holding a bottle of water and actively approaching him to talk to him.
She was a pretty girl, but he just sat there with his legs stretched out, as if he was deaf, and ignored her, which made the girl so angry that she left with a red face.
Xue Ling stood there and watched for a while without realizing it. She felt that he was sitting there lazily, a bit like a cat lying on the wall basking in the sun, ignoring everyone.
Cats have their own world, which is different from humans.
She and Wen Jiuze are completely different people, and Xue Ling thought there would not be any more intersection between them.
Not long after, someone confessed his love to Xue Ling.
The boy’s surname was Wu. He was also a member of their student union and I had dealt with him several times at work.
Xue Ling had no idea why he came to confess his feelings to her, and made such a big fuss about it.
Wu used hundreds of candles to form a heart shape downstairs of Xue Ling's dormitory, surrounded it with a circle of flowers, and stood in the middle, holding a guitar, sang love songs towards her dormitory, and shouted her name.
Xue Ling had just finished blow-drying her hair in the dormitory when she was informed of this incident. When she saw the increasing number of onlookers downstairs, her vision went dark.
My roommates laughed and joked, "There are so many peach blossoms!"
"Lingling is so adorable, go down and take a look, don't keep people waiting too long!"
"Hurry, hurry, change your clothes and go downstairs! We will accompany you!"
Xue Ling listened to the loud shouts from downstairs, changed out of her pajamas painfully, and was pushed in front of the boy by a group of roommates and onlookers.
The boy, whom she had not had a very deep impression of, showed deep affection and played a fairly smooth pop song of confession.
"Xue Ling! I've thought about it for a long time and I think you're the one I want to marry, so today I'm here to ask you to be my girlfriend and start the first step in our lives!"
"Your gentleness, patience, and understanding make me feel that you are very good. I still remember that when I first joined the student union, I made a mistake in my work and it was you who helped me. I believe that you are also special to me, otherwise you would not always take care of me and pay attention to me..."
The boy talked incessantly, his face flushed with excitement as the people around him cheered on.
Xue Ling felt like she was on a fire, listening to a boy she didn't know very well speaking confidently. She felt like her slippers were about to be pierced by her toes.
She came here to say no, but she didn't have the nerve to interrupt the boy's self-expression and reminiscence. The people around her were still shouting "promise him, promise him" under the guidance of Wu's friends, which only made Xue Ling more embarrassed and headache.
In such a chaotic scene, Xue Ling suddenly saw Wen Jiuze.
He stood in the crowd watching the excitement, his hands in his pockets, as if he was watching a good show. Xue Ling thought his smiling expression was a bit schadenfreude.
Wen Jiuze also noticed her look, and the two of them looked at each other across the crowd.
Xue Ling didn't know whether he saw a cry for help in her eyes.
He seemed to raise his eyebrows, then he took two steps back from the crowd, and with a flying kick, kicked away the half cup of milk tea on the trash can next to him.
That half cup of milk tea passed over the heads of the onlookers and hit Wu's back of the head very accurately, exploding with a bang.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet. The boy who was knocked to the ground by the half-cup of milk tea, holding his hand over the wet and sticky milk tea, got up angrily and turned around to ask shyly: "Who! Who hit me!"
Wen Jiuze was still standing in the crowd with his hands in his pockets, still with that smiling face, not feeling guilty at all.
Xue Ling couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The boy, feeling his self-esteem hurt, walked away in a hurry with his friends with a gloomy face, not even caring about the pile of candles and flowers on the ground.
Xue Ling had no choice but to borrow a broom, deal with the things, and stuff them all into the trash can.
Wen Jiuze did not disperse with the crowd who were watching the excitement. While Xue Ling was packing up, he sat on the railing across the street and looked at her.
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