Chapter 19 Go tell my girlfriend...
They haven't been in touch for more than a month since the QQ number incident.
The liberal arts class and the science class were not on the same floor, so they rarely had the chance to meet. Li Huan would only go upstairs to use the restroom with her when he was free. But in the past month, Tao Siyun had seen Xu Ji every day.
After asking Li Huan, I found out that Xu Ji is now the physics class representative of their class and has to go up and down the stairs to the teacher's office several times every day.
Sometimes she would go to the office with her English homework, and when they met in the corridor, he would just look at her silently, whistle, and walk away.
His behavior made Tao Siyun feel extremely conflicted. She wanted to take the initiative to say hello several times, but she felt that Xu Ji was still angry with her because of what happened last time.
The two spoke again because she was almost bullied by some thugs after school.
It was raining that day, and Tao Siyun waited for a long time for a taxi but couldn't get one, so he decided to walk home. Suddenly, he was stopped by five or six people dressed like gangsters.
"Hey, your name is 'Tao Siyun', right?" Several girls looked at her unfriendlyly.
"I'm talking to you, are you mute?"
Tao Siyun glanced at the school uniforms worn by this group of people and had no idea which school they were from.
She took off her headphones. Although she was scared, she pretended to be calm and said, "I don't know you."
The leading woman, wearing a school uniform jacket and extremely narrow school pants, slowly approached, revealing the exaggerated tattoo on her arm. She arrogantly blew a puff of cigarette smoke in her face. "It's okay if you don't know her. I just came here today to tell you that Yan Zhiru is my boyfriend's new godsister. I'm her 'sister-in-law'. You should be polite to her from now on. Don't let me know you're bullying her again. Remember?"
Tao Siyun frowned at the smell of smoke, clutched the strap of his schoolbag tightly, looked at her without saying a word.
The big sister was getting impatient. She poked her shoulder with the finger holding the cigarette, leaned close to her face, and warned: "Did you hear that? Do you need me to repeat it to you?"
"No need to repeat, get out of the way." After saying this, Tao Siyun raised his foot and was about to leave.
"Damn, you're so arrogant!" The big sister bit the cigarette in her mouth, grabbed her arm, and winked at the others: "I have to teach you a lesson today, right? Come here--"
"Let her go!"
Suddenly, a cold and indifferent voice came from behind. Tao Siyun was stunned for a moment. Several people stopped their actions almost at the same time and looked in the direction of the voice.
The young man walked over quickly and protected her behind him. Tao Siyun was extremely surprised. She looked up and stared blankly at the back of his head. Her heart was beating fast with nervousness. Now she was not only scared, but also worried.
"Who are you? Stop meddling in other people's business and get out of here!"
Xu Ji took off his schoolbag and stuffed it into Tao Siyun's arms. He put his hands on her shoulders and turned her around, saying in a deep voice, "Stand behind her, stay away."
"Hey, don't..."
"fine."
Xu Ji turned his head and glanced at the school uniform on the big sister. With a cold look in his eyes, he said the first sentence to her: "Are you from vocational high school?"
The eldest sister crossed her arms, met his gaze, and said with disdain: "What, you want to be a hero and save the damsel in distress? I advise you not to mess with us."
Xu Ji sneered, put his hands in his pockets, took a few steps forward, pushed the person to the corner, and stood in front of her condescendingly.
His hat was pulled down low, and the upper half of his face was almost hidden in shadow. His expression was unrecognizable. He only said nonchalantly, "Classmate, who were you trying to teach a lesson to? Say it again. I didn't hear you clearly."
The oppressive feeling he gave off was so strong that the little girls, realizing he was not someone to be trifled with, couldn't help but hide behind him.
The big sister was already panicking after being cornered by Xu Ji. "Fuck! What the hell are you doing! What the hell is it to you if I teach someone a lesson?"
Seeing this, someone had already taken out his cell phone, looking ready to call someone over at any time.
Xu Ji raised an eyebrow and calmly took off the school badge pinned on her uniform. She glanced at it and slowly said a name, "Do you know him? He used to be quite famous in your school."
The eldest sister shuddered, and her arrogance disappeared instantly. She seemed to be frightened and stammered, "You, what are you talking about? I——"
"I remember your name," Xu Ji threw the school badge at her and took two steps back. "Don't bother my girlfriend again, or I guarantee that you'll end up like him and won't be able to survive a single day in vocational high school. Otherwise, just try it."
After saying that, he made way and looked at Tao Siyun who was standing ten meters away and said, "Go and apologize to her."
The night wind blew by, and the words "I'm sorry" seemed particularly fragile in the quiet alley, and were soon trembling in the wind.
Tao Siyun held his schoolbag, looked over the people in front of him, and looked at Xu Ji somewhat at a loss, his heart beating faster and faster.
***
On the way back, Xu Ji glanced at her from time to time.
When he reached the brightly lit area, he stopped and couldn't help but say, "Are you scared? Will you take the shortcut next time?"
“…”
"Tao Siyun, I've noticed you're quite courageous. You dare to walk around alone in the dark. Would it be difficult for you to find someone to go home with you after class?"
"Speak," seeing that she didn't move, Xu Ji stretched out his hand in front of her and shook it: "Are you really scared?"
Tao Siyun was silent for a while, biting her lip, staring at him with her dark eyes, and finally spoke slowly: "Are you still angry with me?"
The sudden question made Xu Ji's face become unnatural for a moment, and he asked knowingly: "Why should I be angry with you?"
After saying that, he turned around and continued walking forward, but his pace was deliberately slowed down.
Tao Siyun trotted over and apologized like a child who had done something wrong: "I'm sorry, my classmate asked you a math question, so I..."
Xu Ji glanced at her sideways and said calmly, "I'm not a teacher. Why would she ask me questions for no reason?"
"Aren't you the genius in the science class? She wants to discuss study methods with you..." Tao Siyun repeated exactly what the student sitting in front of her said to her.
"Tsk," Xu Ji licked his lips, almost laughing out of anger. He looked at her with a half-smile and said helplessly, "Did you really not understand what your classmate meant?"
If she can't see this, she will have grown up in vain.
Tao Siyun's face showed a trace of embarrassment, and he felt visibly guilty: "I didn't know before, but now I know..."
The atmosphere suddenly became subtle, but no one said anything explicitly.
Xu Ji folded his arms, sighed imperceptibly, and asked calmly, "So?"
Tao Siyun lowered his head and said nothing. After a few seconds of silence, he swore to him, "I will never give your QQ number to anyone else again. Really, even if they misunderstand me—"
"Eh? Didn't you go buy me some water? Where's my water?"
When Jiang Zhen and Cao Wenzhen came out of the store after finishing their midnight snack, they saw Xu Ji and Tao Siyun standing side by side and talking, without a bottle of water in their hands.
He and Li Huan, who had just finished buying milk tea next door, looked at each other and said in unison, "Why are you two walking together?"
“…”
Li Huan's face had been completely drained of color from the long hours of abuse he'd endured in the science class. He exuded a sense of near-death weakness. He walked over, listlessly resting his hand on Tao Siyun's shoulder, and asked wearily, "Baby, why haven't you come home yet?"
Xu Ji raised his chin: "Ask her."
Li Huan: "Hmm?"
"..." Tao Siyun pursed his lips and said pitifully, "I missed the bus."
"Oh, it's okay. We called a Didi and will be here soon. We'll drop you off on the way home later. You don't have classes tomorrow anyway."
Seeing that she was avoiding the important issues, Xu Ji told her what had just happened.
"Oh my god, you're so brave! Fortunately, you didn't encounter any knife-wielding robbery." Jiang Zhen gave her a thumbs up without hesitation.
Tao Siyun was a little scared when he thought about it now, and explained: "The navigation on my phone showed that road as the closest. I didn't know it was so remote."
Li Huan exclaimed, goosebumps forming all over his body. He slapped her hard and said, "How dare you walk down the small road alone at night? How dare you do that?" Suddenly, he thought of something and said suspiciously, "No, you're a good girl. You don't even interact with people from other classes. Why would those freelancers from vocational high school stop you?"
Xu Ji forgot to ask just now, and the four people looked at her in unison.
This matter concerned Yan Zhiru. Tao Siyun didn't know where to begin, nor did he feel there was really any need to tell them. So he shook his head and played dumb, saying, "I don't know. I don't know them either."
Cao Wenzheng asked curiously, "Hey, Lao Xu, how did you get those vocational high school students to apologize? One man taking on six women? That's not a fair victory."
Xu Ji snorted: "Intimidation and threats."
"Will they find someone to retaliate against us later?" Li Huan asked worriedly.
"Won't."
"Fuck, how can you be so sure? What did you say?"
Tao Siyun was also a little curious. At that time, she vaguely heard Xu Ji speaking Shanghai dialect. She was far away and could not understand it very well. She had no idea what they were saying.
"I say," Xu Ji raised his eyebrows and looked at Cao Wenzheng, "the boss of the vocational high school is my childhood friend."
Li Huan: “…”
Jiang Zhen: “…”
Cao Wenzheng: "Pfft! Hahahaha... You're really good at making up stories."
Jiang Zhen suppressed his laughter, pretending to be sympathetic, and deliberately scared him: "Fatty, the boss of the vocational high school has the same name as yours, but different characters. He has a very bad reputation. He was once famous in more than a dozen high schools in the city because of fights with other schools. Countless people come to him every day to seek revenge. You'd better be careful..."
Cao Wenzheng's smile froze on his face: "Fuck your uncle Xu Ji! Are you an idiot?!"
Tao Siyun: "..."
***
Bian Chengzi listened with great interest: "And then?"
"I was also afraid of retaliation from them, so I asked him about it on QQ when I got home."
Tao Siyun: [You deliberately lied to Cao Wenzheng, didn't you?]
Xu Ji: [Yeah]
Tao Siyun: [What did you say to them? ]
Xu Ji: [I said, 'If you dare to mess with my girlfriend again, you're dead.']
“…”
Soon after, the story of "the top student in the science class has a crush on his former deskmate, and on the way to escort the school beauty home, he domineeringly teaches the vocational high school girl a lesson for standing up for his girlfriend" began to spread among the grade.
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