Not friends

The more Shan Yun thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He thought about what happened last night from beginning to end several times. Although he didn't remember much and didn't think he would do anything embarrassing, the look that Zou Weichen gave him this morning, even though it was only for a moment, made him very concerned.

Shan Yun sent a WeChat message to Zou Weichen: Did I do something embarrassing last night?

But when Zou Weichen arrived at school, he spent all his time studying and never looked at his phone.

The missing memory made Shan Yun feel extremely uncomfortable, as if it was itching through his clothes, not comfortable at all.

He thought that he seldom spoke to Zou Weichen at school, but he was the first person of the same age he met since he came here, and they went to the same school and became classmates. They met in the office every now and then, and even escaped from the siege of thugs together.

Their two homes were only one meter apart. Sometimes they would study together on the windowsill after school every day. He even felt that he cared more and more about Zou Weichen. Sometimes when he was sitting at the table reading or doing homework, he would look forward to when Zou Weichen would appear on the terrace. He also brought his classmates to visit his sister's store because he heard about Zou Weichen's family situation.

He is still wearing the other party's school uniform. After going through so much, he has already regarded Zou Weichen as a good friend.

But, this person, not only did he not go to Jiang Zhe's birthday party last night, but he suddenly seemed like a different person this morning, deliberately keeping people in suspense no matter what he asked. The more Shan Yun thought about it, the angrier he became.

Seeing Zou Weichen going out with the cup of water, he immediately followed him.

"What's wrong with you today? Are you in a bad mood?" Shan Yun leaned on the corridor at the toilet door, watching the person in front of him washing cups.

Zou Weichen glanced at him, turned off the tap, and shook off the water stains on the cup. "It's okay."

Zou Weichen's mood is usually very stable. The biggest change Shan Yun has seen in him was the time when he was punching sandbags on the terrace, so he can detect any slight change in Zou Weichen's emotions.

The morning reading bell rang at an inappropriate time.

"No, you are different today than usual." Shan Yun stood in front of Zou Weichen.

Zou Weichen looked at him, and suddenly the corners of his mouth rose slightly. He raised his hand, and Shan Yun subconsciously raised his hands to cover his head.

However, this action made Zou Weichen feel inexplicably better. He put his hand on Shan Yun's shoulder and led him to the classroom.

"Can you tell I'm in a bad mood?"

Shan Yunwei raised his head and said, "No, you are the first friend I met when I came here. We even climbed over the wall together and avoided the gangsters. According to Jiang Zhe, we are a life-long friendship."

After entering the classroom, Zou Weichen let go of Shan Yun's hand and watched him swing his hands and stride back to his seat. He looked down at his hands, his five fingers lightly clenched.

After the morning exercises today, Director Huang stood on the stage as usual, but he did not talk about discipline as usual. Instead, he talked about bullying outside the school.

"Recently, there have been some young people from society wandering around the school, targeting students and threatening their pocket money. Based on clues provided by the students, we worked with the police station to catch them. These young people from society have a long history of bad deeds. I hope that when our students are threatened, they will report to the school immediately and not think about taking action on their own..."

As Shan Yun listened to Director Huang's words, he felt more and more that those thugs were the ones targeting them. The message sent by Jiang Zhe also confirmed his guess.

"I would like to thank this student who did not want to reveal his name. He did not confront the school head-on. He not only reported the incident to the school, but also cooperated with the school to provide information about their movements. I hope that students can learn from him and not only excel in their studies, but also know how to protect themselves and their classmates..."

Shan Yun turned around and glanced at classmate Zou who was concentrating on memorizing words behind him.

Zou Weichen noticed his gaze and looked up. Shan Yun leaned over to his shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Is that you?"

However, Zou Weichen just gently pushed him forward.

It turned out to be disbanded.

Shan Yun chased Zou Weichen in the crowd and asked, but the other party ignored him. Until the other party was about to enter the classroom, Shan Yun directly pulled him into the back door of the study room.

"Yun... Why did Young Master Yun drag Zou Weichen to the study room?" Jiang Zhe came to Shan Yun first, wanting to share the good news together, but he saw this scene.

Jixiang waved his hands and shrugged, and they leaned over the window to watch.

"Tell me, is that you, Director Huang, the person he was talking about?"

Zou Weichen neither admitted nor denied it, but simply asked, "Why do you think it was me? There are so many students."

"What he said couldn't be more obvious, and you're the only one who knows that we're being harassed by gangsters." Shan Yun leaned against the door, seeming to be relieved. "Originally, I was a little upset because I thought you didn't treat us as friends and didn't go on purpose because you didn't come to Jiang Zhe's birthday party."

"I don't want you as a friend!"

The answer was so clear and without any hesitation.

"Huh?" Shan Yunjian simply couldn't believe what he heard. He took two steps forward, leaned against the wall with his hands, and stared at Zou Weichen.

He just sacrificed his weekend and the birthday party to deal with those thugs because Zou Weichen treated them as friends and didn't want his friends to get hurt.

He was also moved by this.

"Not as friends?" Shan Yun asked again in disbelief, but looking at Zou Weichen, it didn't seem like that. "Then why did you help the school deal with those hooligans? Wasn't it because we were threatened?"

Zou Weichen shook his head.

"That's not it." Shan Yun let go of his hand, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "In fact, you treat us as brothers. You will stick up for your brothers, yes, that's for sure. Friends are not as close as brothers."

Shan Yun found a reasonable explanation for himself, and then patted Zou Weichen on the shoulder with great satisfaction, "You are indeed a top student. Not only are you good at studying, but you are also smart. I thought you could perform a combo by kicking a sandbag, and you are so skilled, so I wanted to ask you to help deal with them."

"How do you know that I..."

Shan Yun realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, smiled awkwardly, and interrupted frantically, "No, when you rescued us that day, you fought off so many people by yourself. I saw it a long time ago, hahahaha..."

"Oh, really?" Zou Weichen crossed his arms over his chest and glanced at the person who was still laughing awkwardly in disbelief.

"Yes, yes." Shan Yun took two steps back and sat on the steps, his chin resting on his hands. "But you really have many sides. I was a little scared of you because you were a bit skilled, but after getting to know you, I found that you are actually very shy."

Shan Yun looked at Zou Weichen, "You know what? You're usually so serious and shy. Your ears turn red when you're teased. Unlike this morning, you were so unpredictable."

Zou Weichen was stunned, and the tip of his ear turned red.

"Look, you're easily attracting attention like this."

"Okay, don't tell anyone about how you dealt with the gangster. Let's go, there's still one minute before class starts." Zou Weichen pulled Shan Yun up and put his hand naturally on his shoulder.

"How do you know there's only one minute left?" Shan Yun glanced at the watch on his hand. "Damn, there's really less than a minute left."

"What were you two talking about?" Jiang Zhe asked when he saw them coming back.

Shan Yun waved his hand and said, "Go back to your classroom quickly, class is about to start." Shan Yun walked forward and pushed Jiang Zhe back to his classroom.

Zou Weichen smiled and went back to the classroom first.

The bell for class rang on time.

Before Jiang Zhe left, he whispered to Shan Yun, "Master Yun, I just saw you corner Zou Weichen. Don't be at odds with him anymore. He has helped us. And, you saw that day that you can't beat him."

"Don't get out of here yet." Shan Yun pretended to raise his leg to kick Jiang Zhe.

Jiang Zhe ran away quickly.

*

The first mock exam is finally over.

On the day the exams ended, the senior high school students finally relaxed and came down to the windows to watch the freshmen and sophomores downstairs setting up the scene for their coming-of-age ceremony.

18 years old means the transition from a minor to an adult. Many students turn 18 in high school, so schools will choose to hold a coming-of-age ceremony on the same day to celebrate the students’ coming of age.

The coming-of-age ceremony is an event that all high school students must go through. Going through the door of adulthood means becoming a true adult, enjoying adult rights while also assuming corresponding obligations.

Shan Yun was listening carefully to Jixiang's description of the process of the coming-of-age ceremony when he heard someone calling him, saying that the head teacher wanted him to go to the office.

Shan Yun had just stood up when Zou Weichen was walking out of the classroom with a stack of test papers.

Shan Yun caught up with him, "Are you going to the office too?"

Seeing the other person nod, Shan Yun immediately put his arm around the other person's shoulder and said, "Me too, want to go together?" He was secretly happy in his heart. With someone to accompany him, he wouldn't feel uncomfortable when he entered the office later.

When we arrived at the office, the head teacher was getting some water and asked Shan Yun to wait a moment.

Zou Weichen walked towards the physics teacher's seat and said, "Teacher, everything has been revised."

"So fast? Very efficient." The physics teacher flipped through the test papers, "How many of these have not been corrected yet?"

"I'm sorry, I missed these few. Maybe some classmates came to ask questions and interrupted me, so I missed them." Zou Weichen explained calmly.

"The teacher will revise the rest. Also, Wei Chen, the college entrance examination is getting closer and closer. Although the teacher believes in you, you should spend more time on yourself in the future. When explaining questions to others, you can push them off if you can. Don't let others influence you."

"Teacher, I know my limits. By the way, teacher, there are a few questions I don't quite understand, so I just wanted to ask you." Zou Weichen said as he searched for his test paper.

Shan Yun listened to their conversation, curled his lips, and whispered: "Tsk, if you are afraid of delays, don't let others help you mark the test papers."

"Shan Yun, can your parents come to this coming-of-age ceremony?" The head teacher returned to his seat with a cup of water.

Shan Yun just remembered that his head teacher had asked him to inform his parents a few days ago. After all, this is a big event in life, and the school hopes that parents can also participate.

M High School has always held its Coming of Age Ceremony and Hundred-Day Sprint Oath Rally together, but this year City A’s three key high schools took the oath together, so M High School held the Coming of Age Ceremony later.

On the day of the Hundred Days Oath-taking Ceremony, the place was packed with people, so even if Shan Yun's parents didn't come, the teacher wouldn't have noticed. With so many people around, Shan Yun didn't feel disappointed at all.

But this time, there were only senior high school students from M High School and their parents.

Shan Yun had always wanted his parents to come as well, but Shan Sixiong couldn't come. Shan Yun told Xu Ru about this, and she only promised to come if there was no emergency.

Shan Yun knew that he would definitely not be able to come in the end.

"The teacher has already contacted your mother a few days ago. She told you to come as soon as possible. After all, the coming-of-age ceremony is a big event for you. The teacher hopes that your parents can witness the moment of your growth. Contact your parents after school."

Shan Yun nodded.