Chapter 34 Reconciliation
In just a moment, Ji Mian forced himself to calm down.
He took a few deep breaths to free his mind and thought about other things, such as math problems, jujube paste cakes, taro balls, and Fu Chenyu's annoying nature. His eyes fell on the back of his hand, trying his best not to look at Li Jue.
He felt that the oppression from the world in the book had reappeared. He thought he should not be that afraid of Li Jue, but his body was reflexively panicking and terrified, as if it were the sequelae left by the original Ji Mian.
His heartbeat was almost beyond his control, pounding wildly.
Ji Mian slowly analyzed it for himself in his mind.
Li Jue's appearance was so sudden that he was completely unprepared. Logically, in the original novel, Li Jue should have come into contact with Su Luoyu during his summer vacation during his senior year of high school when he visited Tongcheng.
But now, Li Jue is wearing the Tongwai team uniform and has become the No. 5 player in the Tongwai basketball team.
There is no doubt that he was studying in Tongcheng, and had been studying there for some time before he was able to join the basketball team.
However, he reassured himself not to worry too much.
Perhaps it was because he traveled through the book and changed Ji Mian's original fate, which produced a butterfly effect and caused Li Jue's fate to change.
With Lin Minzhi and Fu Chenyu in front, Ji Mian felt more certain about his guess.
In this case, I should face Li Jue with a normal mind.
After all, they are just strangers now, and they study in two different schools. If she shows too much fear towards Li Jue, it will attract Li Jue's attention.
Li Jue is a perverted person. The more people are afraid of him, the more he wants to succeed.
Ji Mian held down his uncontrollably trembling legs and gave up the idea of turning around and running.
Moreover, Fu Chenyu is still here. In the original novel, he and Li Jue are at war with each other and they both want to kill each other desperately.
If he runs away without loyalty, who will protect Fu Chenyu?
Ji Mian quietly clenched his fists, thinking, all those years of Sanda training weren't in vain! Wasn't it just for this moment?
He is no longer that poor guy with no background, no money, and no intelligence.
Now that Lin Minzhi's business is growing bigger and bigger, she has a very good relationship with the wives of officials in Tongcheng. If Li Jue wants to resort to robbery again in this life, he must also consider Lin Minzhi's identity.
Because of his family background, Ji Mian has enough courage to face the challenge.
He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the intense game on the basketball court. Boys of sixteen or seventeen couldn't control their strength once they started playing seriously.
Tongwai and Zhennan became enemies last year, and this year they showed no mercy in the fight. The fight became more and more heated. Basketballs flew out from between the two teams and hit the audience directly!
Ji Mian was the unlucky guy who was hit.
He originally wanted to avoid it, but then he remembered that there were cheerleaders behind him, so he dodged it and the ball hit the girls in the face. Just as he hesitated, Ji Mian felt his vision go dark. The basketball carried a huge force and hit him dizzy, and he covered his face instantly.
There was a burning pain in the temples and eyeballs.
Fu Chenyu's pupils suddenly tightened, and he stopped playing the game and went straight to the audience seats.
The audience dispersed and looked at Fu Chenyu with different expressions. He didn't care about the eyes of the people around him. He squatted in front of Ji Mian with his knees on the ground.
After so many days, he finally spoke his first words, his voice urgent: "Jimian, open your eyes."
Ji Mian covered his face with his hands and refused to let go, as if his eyeballs would fall out if he did.
He suspected that his eyeballs were smashed. When he heard Fu Chenyu's voice, his nose felt sore and he wanted to cry for no reason.
Fu Chenyu had asked him to open his eyes before.
That was when Ji Mian was in the third grade. He was allergic to osmanthus flowers. His classmates said he had conjunctivitis and were afraid of him.
Only Fu Chenyu was not afraid of him. He stayed in the classroom and coldly ordered him to open his eyes.
Ji Mian thought of Fu Chenyu's kindness and suddenly realized that they had known each other for such a long time.
They have such deep feelings, but they had such a quarrel and no one paid any attention to each other. Are they going to be in a cold war forever?
How uncomfortable.
Fu Chenyu's heartbeat almost stopped due to nervousness. He didn't dare to force him, so he lowered his voice and coaxed him: "Ji Mian, take your hand down, let me take a look."
Ji Mian was still angry with him and couldn't forget this: "You haven't apologized to me yet, I won't forgive you."
Fu Chenyu said, "Okay. I'm sorry, I'll make the down payment first, and then I'll write you an 800-word apology letter, okay?"
There are only three words for down payment, Ji Mian curled his lips.
But it hurt so much that he let go of his hand, and Fu Chenyu's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Ji Mian has fair skin and is very delicate. Any bumps or collisions he gets would leave large bruises that wouldn't go away for a month or so.
The basketball hit him right on the forehead, causing a red and swollen area. His left eye was also injured, and he was struggling to keep it half-open, with his eyelashes trembling violently. Fu Chenyu was heartbroken watching this.
It took him a full five seconds to stop himself from turning around and knocking the boy from Tongcheng who had made a mistake to the ground.
The violent desire in Fu Chenyu's eyes was almost becoming reality.
Ji Mian was a little frightened when he saw Fu Chenyu's scary expression, and wondered if he had overacted.
Well, he was deliberately exaggerating to act pitiful, and he had a strange idea of punishing Fu Chenyu by hurting himself.
Whoever made him betray him, find a girlfriend first.
Who made him alienate him and ignore him? Wasn't he going to apologize to himself when he died?
Ji Mian felt guilty and changed the subject, worriedly asking, "Is he having different eye angles..."
He felt that he couldn't open one eye.
Fu Chenyu took a deep breath and calmed himself: "No. It looks good too. Does it hurt?"
Ji Mian nodded obediently: "It hurts. Do you have any ice? Apply it to me."
Fu Chenyu said: "Yes. I'll take you to the hospital."
"What the hell?!" The boy from Tongwai who slipped his hand stretched his head to look: "Did he hit a boy or a girl?"
"It looks like a man." someone answered.
The one who hit the guy said: "Why did the guy stay there for so long? I thought he hit a girl."
"It's not our school, so it doesn't matter."
He hit someone and vented his anger.
They had just lost a lot of points under Zhennan's attack and were feeling very angry.
Li Jue ignored him and kicked his teammate: "Hey, go to Zhennan and ask him if he wants to fight or not?"
It doesn’t matter who he hits, it’s none of his business anyway, he just wants to play basketball.
The teammates ran over, then ran back, saying, "Fight, but Fu Chenyu won't fight anymore."
Li Jue raised his eyebrows. The person he wanted to beat was Fu Chenyu. What was the point if he didn't beat Fu Chenyu?
A teammate said, "The basketball looked like it hit his friend. When Zhennan saw him, he immediately flipped over to the stands, completely panicked. I've never seen that icy-faced guy lose his composure before. Damn, I thought it was his girlfriend, but it turned out to be a guy."
Li Jue snorted.
A teammate said, "I felt a bit guilty about hitting someone, but now I don't feel that at all. Fu Chenyu has done us a disservice enough, he deserves it for hitting his friend!"
"I feel guilty—" the one who hit him said with a grin, "I feel guilty that I didn't hit him harder just now!"
“Hahahahahaha!”
The captain of Tongwai's basketball team frowned. He was a direct graduate from Tongwai's junior high school and had been on the same basketball team with Fu Chenyu.
As long as Fu Chenyu hasn't left, it won't be his turn to be the captain of the basketball team.
It’s okay that a few other junior high schools admitted to Tongwai, but it’s also annoying that those junior high schools that were on the same basketball team with him laughed along.
Didn't Fu Chenyu train with them before? He didn't care about the friendship between them.
And when we were training together in junior high school, Ji Mian would bring water every time he came. Have they never drunk it?
"That's enough." The captain said coldly, "Ren Jie, you didn't drink the water Ji Mian brought you in junior high school, right?"
The boy who was called was embarrassed for a moment.
The captain said coldly, "You're quite happy to hit him. Don't say I know you in the future, it's embarrassing."
Ren Jie touched his nose: "It wasn't me who smashed it..."
At the same time, the smile on Li Jue's face disappeared completely.
He muttered, "Who are you talking about? Who did the basketball hit?"
The one who hit him said, "Jimian, you don't know him, he used to go to the same junior high school as us. I've never drunk his water..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Jue grabbed his collar and punched him hard in the face.
The man who hit him bleeds violently from his nose and falls heavily to the ground. He covers his face in shock and says, "Are you sick?!"
Li Jue's eyes instantly turned red, and he kicked him fiercely: "Who the hell did you hit?!"
There was a fight among the Tongwai basketball team, and the situation became a mess.
Fu Chenyu didn't care about Zhennan, so he held Ji Mian and took him out of the gymnasium to the hospital.
Ji Mian was half-hugged by him, feeling a little embarrassed: "I can see with my right eye."
Fu Chenyu held her tightly, afraid that if he let go, Ji Mian would fall to the ground and shatter like a piece of glass.
The boy’s chest was broad and hot. Ji Mian rested his head on it and could hear his violently beating heart.
In the gymnasium, after beating up his teammates, Li Jue ran towards the audience stands in Zhennan without saying a word.
His mind was buzzing. He wondered how Fu Chenyu knew Ji Mian. Then he wondered how they came to study together.
But none of these could compare to the joy of knowing that Ji Mian was studying in Zhennan. He was so excited that he lost himself in excitement and came over aggressively. When the members of the Zhennan basketball team saw his expression, they thought that Li Jue was fierce and like a wolf, and they were afraid that he was here to cause trouble.
So I stopped him spontaneously.
"Hey, this is Zhennan's lounge—"
Li Determination surged: "I know, I know." He found an excuse: "I came to see the classmate who was hit just now. Our school was wrong in this matter, so we sent me as a representative to apologize to the classmate."
He spoke quickly and sincerely, smiling sweetly, showing his little fangs, but he looked fierce.
The Zhennan basketball team was confused and didn't dare to believe him: "No need, we are our own classmates, we can take care of ourselves."
Li Jue pushed his way out, his expression already beginning to get impatient: "Then let me apologize, I'll just apologize, okay?"
Zhennan's teammates looked at each other, and didn't dare to let Li Jue go.
Li Jue was blocked by so many people and couldn't run away for a while. He was so anxious that his mouth was covered with bubbles and his heart ached.
Ji Mian didn't even turn his back to him. Li Jue tried hard to recall the boy in the audience, but found that he paid very little attention to the students from Zhennan. He couldn't remember what Ji Mian was wearing today or where he was sitting.
His little idiot, does it hurt? Is he crying?
In his previous life, he was very afraid of pain and would blow on a small wound for a long time.
Li Jue was lying on the sofa playing games and teasing him. Ji Mian's face turned red. He didn't know whether to blow or not. His fingers were caught by the man, and in the end even his ears were red.
When asked if it still hurt, he said no.
Li Jue dodged the students who were in the way and chased after them, but he couldn't even see their shadow.
He didn't give up and followed the map to several nearby hospitals, but still couldn't find anyone.
Later, I was exhausted from running. My legs felt heavy, and I took a step forward and nearly fell to my knees. I hadn't had a sip of water all afternoon, and my throat was terribly dry, with a bloody smell in it.
He finally gave up torturing himself and sat down dejectedly on the bench.
It's fine……
Li Jue comforted himself.
For decades after Ji Mian left, he kept saying to himself, "It's okay. I'm going to die too. When I die, I'll go to the underworld to find him. I'll find him there."
Now I comfort myself that it’s okay, I already know that Ji Mian is a student of Zhennan Middle School.
It's such a big high school, there's no way he can run away. He goes there to look for people every day, so he's bound to run into him once in a while.
In this life, he couldn't just go up and stop people. The little idiot was timid. He was so scared when he first met him in the previous life that he lost almost ten pounds. He felt sad just thinking about it.
Now, Li Jue will never make the same mistake again.
When people calm down, their brains start analyzing other things.
A glint of cruelty flashed in Li Jue's eyes. He remembered what his teammates had said: Fu Chenyu and Ji Mian were actually friends? He even sent the little idiot to the hospital? It was like a weasel paying a New Year's greeting to a chicken. He had no good intentions.
In his memory, Fu Chenyu was not a helpful person, and in his previous life, he was the one who killed Ji Mian with his own hands.
Li Jue's face darkened. What did he want to do to Ji Mian?
Ji Mian took anti-inflammatory medicine and had a bandage on his forehead.
The left eye is clearly in my hand, but my right eye is twitching violently. A twitching right eye is not a good sign.
Thinking of seeing Li Jue in the gym today, Ji Mian sighed. Isn’t his biggest disaster in life happening?
While I was daydreaming, Fu Chenyu came back after paying the fees.
It’s already very late. If I don’t go back now, the school will be closed after evening self-study.
Ji Mian stood up, and Fu Chenyu naturally hugged him and helped him walk slowly.
"My foot is not injured..." Ji Mian muttered.
Fu Chenyu's hand tightened on his shoulder. Ji Mian lowered his head to look at the tip of his shoes and asked as he walked, "Fu Chenyu, don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
"Yes." Fu Chenyu said sullenly, "I'm sorry for making you angry."
Ji Mian: "Why don't you tell me how you made me angry?"
Fu Chenyu asked: "Is there a reference range?"
Ji Mian: "You think this is a test! Think about it yourself."
Fu Chenyu remained silent: "I'm afraid of revealing other things."
Ji Mian was stunned for a moment and couldn't help laughing.
I thought to myself, this boss is quite cunning!
When he saw this smile, he knew that he had softened his heart and had forgiven Fu Chenyu in his heart.
In other words, when Fu Chenyu crossed the crowd and gave up the competition for him, he forgave Fu Chenyu.
He knew that she was still very important in his heart, which made Ji Mian's frightened heart fall back into his stomach.
He was really scared. After seeing Li Jue, he was afraid that all his efforts were in vain and that he had not escaped the ending of the original novel at all.
Ji Mian said seriously: "Fu Chenyu, if you have something on your mind in the future, can you tell me? We are best friends, you know, you can tell me anything."
Fu Chenyu looked into the boy's eyes, the stars in them almost burned his sight.
He felt bitter in his mouth and didn't know how to treat Ji Mian's sincere heart. He regarded him as his best friend, but he had an unspeakable desire for him.
Ji Mian said, "If you have a girlfriend, you can tell me directly. There's no need to give me the cold shoulder. I won't interfere with your relationship."
Fu Chenyu was stunned by what he said. It took him three full seconds to react: "Who has a girlfriend?" He asked again: "Who told you I have a girlfriend?"
Ji Mian looked away: "No one needs to tell me. I saw it myself. A girl with blue eyes, from Tongwai."
Fu Chenyu grabbed his shoulders tightly, not even realizing he was exerting any strength, and his heart felt like fireworks were going off.
He thought, is Ji Mian upset with me because of this matter?
Ji Mian talked incessantly, showing his magnanimity: "I can accept her. We can play together as a group of three. If you think I'm in the way, I won't be a light bulb. Wait until I find a girlfriend, and then the four of us can play together. That way, no one will be left alone."
The fireworks in Fu Chenyu's heart suddenly stopped. They shone brightly for a moment, and then only cold ashes remained on the ground.
Sure enough, he overthought it.
How could Ji Mian be jealous of his so-called "girlfriend"? It was ridiculous that for a second he really thought he had a glimmer of hope.
Fu Chenyu still explained that the school beauty of Tongwai was the daughter of Lin Jianyi's cousin's best friend, and because she came to study in China, she was taken care of by Lin Xi.
The girl somehow fell in love with Fu Chenyu. After boldly expressing her love, she was rejected. However, she was not discouraged and continued to move forward bravely. She stopped Fu Chenyu several times, and was caught by Ji Mian one time.
Fu Chenyu spoke coldly to her and almost never had a good look on his face.
I don't know how the stupid rabbit knew that they were in that kind of relationship.
Ji Mian realized that he had misunderstood and blushed with embarrassment. He fanned himself with his hands and looked up at Fu Chenyu: "Then let's make peace, Fu Chenyu."
Fu Chenyu hummed, and Ji Mian said with an extremely serious expression, "Promise me that you won't keep things to yourself or distance yourself from me, or I'll still be angry with you. Next time, I won't be so easy to coax, and I'll be very angry."
"No more." Fu Chenyu assured him: "I will tell you everything." Except loving you.
After reconciling with Fu Chenyu and hearing Fu Chenyu's long explanation, Ji Mian's bad mood was swept away, and even what happened to Li Jue today didn't seem so bad.
He stepped on his own shadow, his cat eyes curved into crescents, "Fu Chenyu, I'm very happy."
It turned out that the boss was not in a relationship. Ji Mian didn't know why he was secretly happy.
He thought that he was still the best friend in the world in Fu Chenyu's heart.
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