Zhang Yang
The next day, when Jiang Zhizhi woke up, it was still dark and Pu Yu was still sleeping beside her. She picked up the phone on the bedside table and wanted to check the time, but as soon as she unlocked it, she saw two messages from Shen Li.
Something doesn't feel right.
Jiang Zhizhi didn't understand the meaning of this sentence and clicked on the next message.
[Xu Jiaojiao seems to have fallen in love with me...]
Shen Li returned to Nanshi a few days ago. Xu Jiaojiao happened to be admitted to the fourth high school, so he seemed to have gone to see her.
After a moment of silence, she got out of bed, went to the terrace downstairs in her slippers, and called Shen Li.
The other end of the line rang twice before the call was connected. Shen Li's voice was sleepy and anxious, "Did you see the message I sent you?"
"Well, what exactly happened?"
Shen Li told Jiang Zhizhi what happened yesterday.
After the experimental project came to an end, he returned to Nanshi to rest for a while. When Xu Jiaojiao found out, she started to act like a spoiled child and wanted to see him. It just so happened that Shen Li also wanted to see how Xu Jiaojiao was doing after entering high school, so he bought her some new clothes and snacks as gifts, and took her out for dinner.
Everything was normal, but Xu Jiaojiao suddenly became concerned about his love life and shyly kissed him on the cheek before leaving.
Shen Li felt something was wrong at the time, and after he came back, Xu Jiaojiao called again and asked if she could come to his house on the weekend.
Even if he was slow to react, Shen Li guessed what Xu Jiaojiao meant...
"I can't afford to mess with a little girl like this. Please think of a way for me." Shen Li was helpless. Not to mention that he had no interest in dating and getting married, even if he did, he couldn't possibly find a minor who was seventeen or eighteen years younger than him.
He is a human being, not an animal.
"Just pretend you don't know." Jiang Zhizhi said lightly.
"?"
"She's just that kind of person whose emotions easily overflow. You saved her and changed her fate. You're also good-looking and have a good income. It's normal for a young girl to fall in love with a man like this."
"..." Shen Li was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to recover his breath, "Are you praising me?"
"But don't worry, as long as you pretend not to know and reduce the number of times you meet her, she will naturally fall in love with someone else over time."
Jiang Zhizhi knew Xu Jiaojiao quite well. In her previous life, she changed boyfriends very frequently, sometimes every two or three months, sometimes every half a year, and the longest time was no more than a year.
Of course, she is not the type who is fickle, but she gives her all to everyone.
She likes whoever treats her well.
Now that Shen Li treats her well, she will like Shen Li.
If other boys treat her well in the future, she will fall in love with others.
Her love is like the wind, without roots or direction, just drifting around in the present moment.
When he hung up the phone, Shen Li suddenly felt dazed.
When she was on the phone just now, Jiang Zhizhi's reaction was too calm, as if she had expected this to happen.
Could it be that... the reason she made that deal with him was because she took his "male beauty" into account?
Did she know that Xu Jiaojiao would be attracted to him, and then use him to comfort her to study hard?
When this ridiculous thought came to his mind, Shen Li laughed awkwardly twice.
No way, he must be overthinking it...
*
The regular classes and secondary key classes of the first year of high school have also started classes, and the school has become lively and crowded.
At the opening ceremony, Jiang Zhizhi spoke as a representative of the freshmen, which caused a sensation in the whole school.
However, it was not only Jiang Zhizhi who caused a sensation in the school, but also Lu Xiye. He somehow joined the basketball team of a high school and had a lot of fun playing on the basketball court after class every day.
Lu Xiye himself is sunny and handsome, with beautiful eyes that look even more outstanding on his face with outstanding bone structure. His height of nearly 1.8 meters and healthy wheat-colored skin have attracted countless fans on the court.
Anyway, every time Li Rongrong came back from the playground, she would mention that a few girls from class X had gone to the playground to watch Lu Xiye play basketball...
"Zhizhi, why don't you care about him? He slept all morning today and didn't listen to a word the teacher said." On the way home, Li Rongrong couldn't help complaining to Jiang Zhizhi.
Jiang Zhizhi said calmly, "Why should I care what he does? If he likes playing basketball, let him play."
"Aren't you his tutor?"
"I just tutor him. If he doesn't understand something during tutoring, I just explain it to him. The rest is none of my business."
"What if his grades drop? What if he doesn't get into a good university?"
Seeing Li Rongrong's worried look, Jiang Zhizhi couldn't help but smile, "Then he can't get into a good university. Given his family's situation, even if he goes to an ordinary university, he can still live a good life."
She was only responsible for tutoring Lu Xiye, and was not responsible for taking him to the Peking University entrance exam.
"Okay, I thought you cared about his grades." After all, Jiang Zhizhi has been tutoring him in the past few years.
Jiang Zhizhi smiled and said, "It's good to enjoy campus life, as long as you don't go too far."
Back at the residence, the three girls finished both papers together before Lu Xiye finally arrived. The moment he entered from the entrance, he was breathless, his face flushed, his hair wet, with water stains seeping down his hair onto his beautiful collarbone, like a handsome boy straight out of a comic book.
Li Rongrong saw him stunned for a moment, then a look of disgust appeared on her face. "Did you just come back from playing basketball? Don't come over here, you'll definitely smell of sweat."
"Go to hell, I came here after taking a shower at home." He rolled his eyes, took off his shoes, walked to the carpet in the living room, sat down in his previous seat, and swiftly took out the test paper from his schoolbag.
After doing it for a while, he started scratching his head.
He has been playing basketball every day recently and hasn't paid much attention in class. The pace of high school is very fast, and he couldn't understand the questions on today's test paper.
Lu Xiye raised his head with a guilty conscience and glanced at Jiang Zhizhi, who was standing next to him. She had already finished her homework and was now reading a novel called "The Tower of Babel." He didn't know what the novel was about, but she was reading it intently.
"Jiang Zhizhi..." He hesitated for a moment, but still moved closer.
Jiang Zhizhi smelled the gardenia-scented shower gel on Lu Xiye's body, looked up at him, and said lightly: "Finish what you can do first, and then I will explain it to you."
He had no choice but to put the physics and math papers aside and do his English history papers while flipping through the book.
After finishing all the homework, Jiang Zhizhi began to teach him, and Li Rongrong also came over and took the opportunity to review.
Pu Yu took Jiang Zhizhi's book "Tower of Babel" and began to read it with relish.
It was not until after eleven o'clock in the evening that Jiang Zhizhi finished tutoring Lu Xiye.
The evening breeze was a bit chilly, and Pu Yu shivered. He put the book aside and was about to pour a cup of hot water when he suddenly noticed something unusual about Jiang Zhizhi across from him. "Zhizhi, your face is so red, what's wrong?"
She bent down and put her hand on Jiang Zhizhi's forehead. "It's so hot, you have a fever! Did I grab your quilt last night and make you catch a cold?"
"No, it might be the flu caused by the change of seasons. I'll just take some antipyretics." Jiang Zhizhi stood up and took out the medicine box from the cabinet next to the sofa.
Pu Yu quickly poured a cup of hot water and helped her take the antipyretic medicine.
Li Rongrong glared at Lu Xiye in anger, "It's all your fault. You just play ball every day and don't listen in class. That's why Zhizhi has to tutor you until so late, and you can't get a good rest."
"I... I didn't mean it..." He knew he was in the wrong and didn't have the confidence to speak.
"Forget it, it's so late, you should go home and get some rest. I'll take Zhizhi upstairs to rest. Rongrong, please help clean up the living room."
Pu Yu said this, pulling Jiang Zhizhi upstairs and back to the room.
Late at night, Jiang Zhizhi felt hot all over and couldn't sleep, so she simply got up and took a hot bath.
I went back to bed and found a new message on my phone.
It’s Lu Xiye’s.
Is your fever gone now?
【Yeah, I'm fine.】
In fact, she didn't take her temperature, she just felt better than before.
[Are you angry that I've been playing basketball recently? ]
[No, it's good to have a sport you enjoy, but you have to be moderate and not let it interfere with your studies.]
I'll stop playing basketball in a few days, I promise. Next weekend, Yi High School and Jinhai High School are playing basketball in the gym. Do you want to come? I won't play basketball after this game, seriously.
Looking at the words on the phone screen, Jiang Zhizhi was silent for a while and replied with one word.
【good. 】
Perhaps it was because she took a hot bath and put down her phone, Jiang Zhizhi fell asleep quickly.
When I woke up the next morning, I was sweating all over and the fever seemed to have subsided.
*
Dongxin Gymnasium.
Knowing that Lu Xiye was going to play a game here, Li Rongrong and Pu Yu also came to join in the fun.
"By the way, are Lu Xiye and the others' opponents from Jinhai High School? Didn't Qingyu go to Jinhai High School? I wonder if she will come..." After entering the indoor basketball court in the gymnasium, Li Rongrong couldn't help looking around, as if she wanted to find Lin Qingyu.
However, after looking around, they didn't see any familiar faces, so they had to sit down on the steps outside the stadium.
"This should be the audience seats for our No. 1 High School." Li Rongrong saw a few familiar girls nearby. They usually watched the game together by the playground railings. She leaned over to Jiang Zhizhi's ear and whispered gossip, "Zhizhi, look at that girl in the white dress over there. She runs to the playground every day to cheer for Lu Xiye and brings him water and towels. One time, Lu Xiye stood in front of her and stared at her for a long time."
Jiang Zhizhi followed her gaze and saw the girl in the white dress. She was tall, about 1.7 meters, with short hair and a pink headband. She was quite pretty.
After the game started, she was so excited that she jumped and danced with her cheering stick and cheered for Lu Xiye with her two sisters.
Lu Xiye was wearing a black headband and a red jersey like all the other players in No. 1 High School. It was obviously the same clothes, but he looked so eye-catching.
Maybe, it’s because he suits the bold red color so well.
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