Chapter 51: Choose Him or Me He couldn't catch this person anyway...
He couldn't catch this person in the first place, and now he has lost his only advantage.
She didn't want to pay any attention to him now, and he didn't know what she was thinking.
It was like an open-book exam suddenly turned into a closed-book exam, and the feeling of uncertainty made him feel more panicked than ever before.
For the entire morning, Xie Shi sat quietly in his seat, neither studying nor sleeping, with his head lowered, in a daze.
His state was truly rare, and Zhu Hongfei and Lu Zixin also noticed something was amiss. Zhu Hongfei, a man who couldn't hold back, took advantage of Lin Xicai's break to drink some water and stretch, and poked her, "Brother Xie, what's wrong?"
"Deaf." Lin Xicai said.
"What?" Zhu Hongfei was shocked. "Deaf?"
Before he finished speaking, the 'deaf' man gave him a cold look.
Zhu Hongfei looked embarrassed, a look of resentment as if he had been tricked. "Zhong Fei, look at you... can you just make such a joke?"
Lin Xicai snorted, "Then just ask him. He told you himself."
Zhu Hongfei noticed the strange atmosphere between the two men and realized that this cold war was not only not over but seemed to have escalated into a hot war. In order to avoid being accidentally hurt, he shut his mouth and sat back obediently.
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Lin Xicai went home from school in the evening. After getting off the bus, she walked to the back door and saw a few people gathered at the door. They were all familiar faces, the ones who were gardening in the garden.
Lin Xicai walked over and greeted them openly as she passed by. Seeing them whispering at the back door, she couldn't help but wonder, "Uncle Zhou, what are you doing?"
Uncle Zhou looked over and pointed at the sycamore tree at the back door: "The young master asked that this tree be cut down."
"Cut down trees?" Lin Xicai was surprised.
"I don't know why, the young master said it was an eyesore." Uncle Zhou said.
Lin Xicai stared at the tree, and for some reason she remembered the kiss under the tree. Her lips started to itch. "It's quite an eyesore."
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That day's dinner was eaten with the Fu brothers and sisters. The client sent a lot of seafood, and Fu Changmin asked the mother and daughter to go and eat together.
It was definitely uncomfortable, but Lin Xicai couldn't refuse.
She ate the meal well-behaved. Fu Changmin asked her some questions about her studies and showed concern for her health. Lin Xicai answered respectfully and methodically, behaving very gracefully.
Fu Yanxiu sat opposite her, looking elegant and arrogant. He never looked at her directly, as if he was competing with someone.
Only when she was speaking would he occasionally glance at her inadvertently, his eyes falling on her open lips, then moving away, feeling annoyed.
After finishing her meal, Lin Xicai went to the garden to digest her food. Fu Yanxiu followed her out and blocked her right in the middle of the road with his hands in his pockets.
Lin Xicai was hit hard yesterday, and she took a half step back almost as a conditioned reflex, keeping a safe distance between the two of them.
Fu Yanxiu stared coldly at her as she took half a step back, his eyes heavy.
He closed his eyes and looked over: "What's your relationship with him?"
Lin Xicai suddenly looked up and said, "Don't mess around. This is between me and him."
Fu Yanxiu seemed to smile, but the expression in his eyes was exactly the opposite: "Are you afraid that I will touch him?"
“It’s normal for classmates to have some conflicts…”
"Contradiction?" Fu Yanxiu had a rare outburst. "What kind of contradiction is worth discussing?"
"you......"
His voice was so loud that it made her feel a little guilty. "I know you mean well, but things are not as bad as you think. He is not a bad person."
"Okay, okay," Fu Yanxiu nodded, "The one who forcefully kisses you isn't a bad person, the one who cares about you is a bad person!"
Lin Xicai looked at him, her focus shifted: "Care about me?"
Fu Yanxiu froze for a moment, then said sarcastically, "I'm talking about Aunt Ping. Aunt Ping cares about you so much, does she know about this?"
Lin Xicai frowned and pursed her lips. "It's not a big deal. Don't tell my mom."
Fu Yanxiu didn't say anything, just stared at her calmly.
After a while, he uttered a few words coldly: "You are hopeless."
"If I care about you anymore, my last name is not Fu," he said.
Fu Yanxiu turned and left, his figure stretched extremely long by the moonlight. He took a few steps and kicked an annoying pebble several meters away.
The next afternoon, there was a banquet. Fu Yanxiu, wearing a high-end custom-made suit, found a corner to sit, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, looking a little absent-minded.
Not long after, there was another person beside him, a beautiful woman with bright features sat down next to him.
This girl was a childhood friend of his and they knew each other quite well. The girl was chatting with someone over there for a while and when she saw him sitting here alone to get some peace and quiet, she followed him over.
The girl picked up a small cake and glanced at Fu Yanxiu: "What are you thinking about?"
The girl asked this purely as a greeting. She didn't expect him to say anything else. She lowered her head and started to eat the cake. Unexpectedly, just as she put a spoonful of cake into her mouth, Fu Yanxiu suddenly looked over and asked a question that surprised her: "How would you react if you were kissed forcibly?"
The girl choked on the cake and coughed twice: "It depends on who's on the other side."
Fu Yanxiu pursed his lips: "Someone I know."
"Is he handsome?" asked the childhood friend.
Fu Yanxiu paused, "...not bad."
After answering, he was unhappy and suddenly exploded: "The act of forcing a kiss is despicable in itself. What does it have to do with being handsome? Can we let it go just because he's handsome?"
The girl's childhood friend curled her lips. "Then you have to be more realistic. It definitely feels different. But you're right. No matter how handsome he is, he's still a hooligan. At the very least, I'll give him a slap in the face. At the worst, I'll cripple him."
Fu Yanxiu thought for a moment: "Yes, he slapped me, but why did he defend that scumbag in front of everyone and behind their backs?
The girl laughed: "Aren't you just pretending to be ignorant when you know the truth?"
Fu Yanxiu's voice was heavy: "What do you mean?"
The childhood friend smiled but said nothing.
Fu Yanxiu frowned: "What are you laughing at? What does a little girl know? Can't it be that a little girl is deceived by a scumbag?"
The girl couldn't hold it in anymore and wanted to laugh, "Yes, yes, you are right, you are a little girl with no distractions, it's all the scumbag's fault."
The girl stared at him for a while and said, "You are really interesting."
After the banquet, on the way back, Fu Yanxiu sat in the back seat. Halfway through driving, he suddenly said solemnly, "Turn right ahead and go to Xuling College to see Xue Fan."
The driver was stunned, a little puzzled. Looking at the lady? What's so interesting about the lady reading a book?
Meeting Fu Yanxiu's eyes in the rearview mirror, Fu Yanxiu frowned slightly: "Is there a problem?"
"No, no," the driver smiled, "I'll go right away."
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The last class of the afternoon was physical education. Lin Xicai had some unfinished homework, so she made an excuse not to leave and stayed in the classroom to do her homework. Xie Shi hadn't wanted to move since she wasn't leaving, but she glared at him, practically writing "Why don't you get out?" on his face, so he reluctantly went to physical education to give her some peace and quiet.
Lin Xicai lowered her head to write the questions when her right eyelid suddenly twitched twice.
She closed her eyes, stared blankly in the empty classroom for a while, then picked up her pen again, ready to continue fighting.
Just then, the back door was suddenly pushed open, and Xiang Ling rushed in. The little girl's eyes widened, and her cheeks were slightly red from running too fast. "Zhong... Zhong Fei, get down quickly! A fight has started!"
Lin Xicai's eyelids twitched twice more, and she suddenly stood up from her seat. "What fight? Who's fighting with whom?"
"Xie Shi and your brother!" Xiang Ling shouted, "They're on the playground! Go quickly..."
Before he could finish his words, Lin Xicai had already run out, like an angry deer, rushing towards the scene with a reckless momentum.
Xiang Ling panted for a while in the distance, afraid of missing the show, and followed before her breathing became smooth.
Although it's a bit immoral, who can miss such an exciting show? Just ask who can miss it!
When Lin Xicai ran to the playground, everything went dark before her eyes. The sun was setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun, the fiery clouds and the rosy clouds in the sky were mixed together. Under this beautiful scene, the high school uniform and the haute couture suit were entangled in an extremely undignified manner. The fight was fierce on the plastic track, and the punches hit the flesh, and the face was covered with bruises.
Fu Xuefan had also been notified and arrived earlier than her. The young lady was almost crying in frustration. She wanted to stop the fight but couldn't get close. She just stood there and yelled anxiously, "Let go of that guy! You dare to hit my brother, you're dead! Stop it, stop it!"
Fu Xuefan shouted, and when he saw Lin Xicai, he was immediately furious, "Hurry up and take care of that guy, get him away, he..."
"What are you doing here?"
As soon as Lin Xicai walked over, Xie Shi stopped and was punched hard in the abdomen.
Xie Shi was knocked back half a step by the force and was pushed to Lin Xicai's side.
Lin Xicai looked at the two men, breathless and bruised, and felt a surge of anger and annoyance. Was something evil happening to them lately? Was this the season for madness? Why were they all acting so abnormally?
"What are you doing?"
Lin Xicai's tone was quite irritable. More and more onlookers came to watch the fun, calling their friends. This made Lin Xicai very unhappy. He felt like three monkeys in a zoo standing with them.
"This is a school, what are you doing?"
"I don't know. He started it first." Xie Shi stood next to her. "He hit me three times before I fought back."
As he said this, he naturally grabbed her hanging hand and touched the wound on his chin.
He grabbed Lin Xicai's hand and pressed it against his skin, touching the fine stubble on his chin. Her fingers trembled suddenly as if they had been electrocuted, and she tried to pull them back, but they were pressed even harder against his face.
Xie Shi lowered his eyes to look at her, and said in an intimate tone, "Did you feel it? Is it hurt..."
"Fuck." Fu Yanxiu cursed rarely, threw the suit jacket he had just picked up to Fu Xuefan and was about to come over again, throwing aside the dignity and elegance of an heir. His only thought at the moment was to punch this dissolute boy in the face a few more times.
Fu Xuefan saw that the situation was not right, and hugged her brother's arm tightly before he rushed over.
Amidst the chaos and stalemate, a shrill siren suddenly blared from a distance. The playground fell silent, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
Xie Shi grabbed her hand, rubbed the back of her hand twice with his thumb, and suddenly let her go.
Then, two policemen walked towards them.
Lin Xicai's heart skipped a beat. "Who called the police?"
The two policemen walked up to them in a blink of an eye, with a determined purpose, and stood in front of Xie Shi.
"Please come with us. We have some questions we would like to ask you." One of them said in a calm tone.
Lin Xicai was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "They all know each other, it's just a joke between friends."
After saying this, Lin Xicai looked at Fu Yanxiu and motioned him to speak.
Fu Yanxiu was also a little confused at the moment. He was not going to call the police for such a thing. He couldn't afford to lose face.
Among the three, Xie Shi was the calmest.
He didn't seem surprised at all. Under the setting sun, the police walked in front and he followed behind with his hands in his pockets, with his usual unrestrained, calm and cold demeanor.
He just glanced at Lin Xicai when he passed by her.
Calm, damp, and oddly aggressive.
It was like...forcing her to make a choice.
When their eyes met, Lin Xicai realized that something was wrong.
She was almost certain that the police coming to take people away was not because of this farce.
Why was that? And what did that look in his eyes mean? That uneasy feeling was brewing.
Xie Shi was taken away right under everyone's noses at the busiest time. The news spread throughout the school almost instantly and became a hot topic.
Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. Within a day, the reason why he was taken away was discovered by those who were curious. They said that the police found a bank card used by Li Ci to withdraw money, a hundred yuan. Based on the account information and bank surveillance, they traced it back to Xie Shi.
Li Ci had disappeared without a trace before, leaving no clues, leaving the case practically unsolved. This discovery was the only substantial clue linking Li Ci to the case, so they certainly wouldn't let it go.
For example, why does he have Li Ci’s bank card?
For example, why did he know Li Ci’s bank card password?
——If Li Ci was under his control, it would not be difficult to explain why he knew these things.
Xie Shi became the first suspect in this case.
For a time, rumors spread throughout the school, and Xie Shi, who had just broken through the siege with her beauty not long ago, once again became the target of everyone's fear and attack.
Except for a very small number of people in Class Z, such as Zhu Hongfei and Lu Zixin, who would weakly say a few words such as "It hasn't been investigated clearly yet" and "He is not that kind of person", everyone once again stood against him.
He did it on purpose.
It was not until this moment that Lin Xicai understood the true meaning of his last look——
"Choose him, or choose me."
He designed himself and he designed her.
If she didn't take action, she had no doubt that he would confirm his identity as a suspect.
He was betting on himself, whether she would give up that person for him.
He was forcing her, forcing her to make a choice between him and him.
This madman, this... madman.
Lin Xicai was furious. He was only concerned with his own happiness and feelings. Hadn't he ever considered what would happen if she released that person and he retaliated against her? Could he protect her? What made him think he could? Why should she risk her life for him? Why would he let her risk her life for him? What a selfish bastard!
Since you're so willing to be a suspect, then stay in there! Warm in winter and cool in summer, and you won't starve to death, you're really lucky!
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