Chapter 41 Showdown
Su Luoyu said: "I am 1.82 meters tall."
Ji Mian showed an envious look. To be honest, he had been trying hard to drink milk, but he still had not broken the 1.80 meter mark.
Now when Fu Chenyu plays basketball, he doesn't watch from the audience, but takes the initiative to join in, just to grow taller.
Men always want to look taller.
Su Luoyu felt a little embarrassed by Ji Mian's sincere and burning gaze, "It's not that tall..."
Li Jue gritted his teeth and said, "Indeed, I'm 1.86 meters tall."
Ji Mian didn't look at him with a sincere gaze.
Li Jue: ...
Damn...you are such a double standard!
Fu Chenyu, who was 1.87 meters tall, coughed dryly and turned a page of the book calmly.
Ji Mian finally set his sights on Fu Chenyu, thinking: That guy is really tall...it must be from playing basketball.
Unfortunately, Ji Mian doesn't like playing basketball. He prefers Sanda. Apart from that, he loves firearms and other hot weapons. He can't play them, but he likes playing CS games. He has never played against real people.
With the experience of his previous life, Ji Mian always felt that he could be invincible in the CS arena.
Song Wenqi couldn't bear to listen any longer. He quietly approached Ji Mian and whispered, "I'm only 1.75 meters tall."
Ji Mian finally found someone shorter than himself and looked at Song Wenqi with tears in his eyes.
Song Wenqi encouraged Ji Mian: "We are still young and can still grow taller." After thinking for a moment, he glanced at Ji Mian's lower body and said firmly: "That place will grow too!"
Ji Mian: ...
Thank you.
Ji Mian originally thought that when he sat at the same table with the top protagonist, the bottom protagonist, and the villain, there would be some epic disaster scene or something like that.
But actually, the table was quite quiet. Ji Mian changed his mind and realized that the plot hadn't unfolded yet, so naturally there wouldn't be a life-and-death situation in the future.
And now Li Jue has said that he wants to pursue him, Ji Mian is confused.
Su Luoyu was just sitting there peacefully. Why did she give up her real crush and go look for this pirated one instead?
Whenever he was thinking about something, he would bite the tip of his pen as a conditioned reflex.
Fu Chenyu rubbed his lips with his fingers and moved the pen away.
His movements were skillful and natural, and he didn't even raise his head.
Ji Mian realized that he had made a small mistake again, and looked at Fu Chenyu with a smile: "Thank you."
"Bang!" Li Jue threw the pen down, making a loud noise.
Su Luoyu was close by and heard this arrogant young man with a fierce look on his face, but he muttered in a wronged tone: "You treat me as if I'm dead..."
Su Luoyu suddenly realized something and turned his head to look at Ji Mian. He smiled, but it was a fake smile. "Just a reminder, Li Jue, you used my pen. What's the point of dropping it so hard?"
Li Jue couldn't say that he was jealous. Damn it, was it reasonable to be jealous of a teenage kid?
He said unhappily and gloomily: "I can't do this problem!"
Su Luoyu sarcastically said, "If you can't do it, don't do it. Just leave it blank."
Li Jue heard the thorn in his words and didn't understand what his previous life self saw in Su Luoyu.
Is it because he ignores you, or is it because he argues with you?
Maybe all innocent boys have fallen in love with a few scumbags when they were young, Li Jue thought with a smile.
"What? You said you can answer every question?"
"Just a reminder." Su Luoyu pointed at herself calmly, "I'm ranked third in my freshman year at Tongwai High School, and I'll soon be first in my sophomore year."
He then pointed at Fu Chenyu: "Zhennan is the oldest." And Ji Mian: "Zhennan is the fifth oldest."
Ji Mian ranked fifth in the final exam, which is his best result so far.
Su Luoyu worked as a lawyer in his later life. He won numerous cases at a young age and handled several major cases. He was very famous in the industry.
As he stood in the courtroom with aloofness, he looked like a poisonous snake skilled in disguise.
Beautiful, but also deadly.
Of course, he has a very sharp tongue, but Lord Li Jue is magnanimous and does not engage in a debate with a lawyer.
Li Jue shamelessly skipped over the first two names, pushed the test paper in Ji Mian's direction, and said with a smile: "Student master, I don't know how to do many questions. Can you teach me?"
Fu Chenyu slapped his test paper back and said calmly, "What do you not know? I'll teach you."
Li Jue: ...
Fu Chenyu was quite helpful: "My grades are better than his."
Well, that's quite convincing.
There was no way Li Jue would really let Fu Chenyu teach him, so the two of them had a brief confrontation, but because Ji Mian was present, they did not overturn the table and start fighting.
Li Jue believes that there is still a big difference between the current Fu Chenyu and Fox.
Fu Chenyu is calm and self-possessed, aloof and silent, but Fox is cunning and sly, wearing that disgusting smile all day long, treating people gently and politely, with affectionate eyes, even giving electric shocks to a dog, vicious means, naive and cruel, he is an out-and-out high-IQ pleasure criminal and a social scum!
He didn't expect that Fu Chenyu's personality in his youth was quite different from that in his later life.
There have been quite a lot of changes... Ji Mian has also changed a lot. It seems that the butterfly effect after his rebirth has a great impact.
But to Li Jue, whether it is Fu Chenyu or Fox, both are disgusting.
Ji Mian sensed a different atmosphere at the table and poked the back of Fu Chenyu's hand with a pen.
An ink dot immediately appeared on the back of his hand: "Fu Chenyu, I don't know how to do a question, can you teach me?"
Li Jue quickly asked, "Which question do you not understand?"
Ji Mian was sincere: "The question you don't know."
Li Jue: ...
In the following time, Li Jue studied hard, trying to be the first to answer the question when Ji Mian asked the next one.
After living his life over again, he never thought that he couldn't even beat a high school student!
Damn, why do high school students in China have to do such difficult questions? Is this reasonable?
At noon, Song Wenqi silently raised his hand: "Well, I want to order some cake, anyone want some?"
There is a coffee shop next to the study room. In addition to small cakes, they also have French fries or fried chicken wings. Generally, students who are too lazy to go out for meals will choose to eat some snacks to fill their stomachs, and then go back for dinner in the evening.
Only after Song Wenqi reminded him did Ji Mian realize that he was hungry.
He would easily forget to eat when he was doing his homework, and his stomach was not good, so Fu Chenyu had to keep him fed.
Song Wenqi ordered an Oreo box, Ji Mian ordered a signature mille-feuille, a large order of French fries, and a bucket of chicken wings, enough for five people.
He habitually asked everyone what they wanted to eat and ordered for everyone.
This is very similar to his personality in his previous life. For a moment, Li Jue was a little dazed when looking at him, as if he had returned to the time when he had not lost Ji Mian.
Half an hour later, the table was filled with snacks and the test papers were collected.
Ji Mian's eating manners were very delicate. He took the chicken wings and chewed them slowly, as if he didn't like them very much. He was in a daze while chewing. Fu Chenyu knew at a glance that the chicken wings were probably not tasty.
Ji Mian would not refuse to eat something that did not taste good. Throwing it away would be a waste of food for him.
A stubborn, cute and well-behaved child.
With Fu Chenyu around, Ji Mian felt that being with the protagonists wasn't that uncomfortable.
At least the PTSD attack was not as severe as before. Whenever he began to doubt himself and the world in the book, Ji Mian would subconsciously look for Fu Chenyu.
For him, the only real existences in this world are Lin Minzhi and Fu Chenyu. More than ten years of companionship has made him regard Fu Chenyu as his own family. Fu Chenyu is different from Li Jue and Su Luoyu.
The latter was more like a paper man to him, but Fu Chenyu was a flesh-and-blood person, and he had spent more than ten years accompanying him to grow up.
It is of great significance, so unique and irreplaceable.
The study session was over and it was getting dark.
Ji Mian packed his schoolbag and waited for Fu Chenyu to return the books so they could go together.
Li Jue couldn't help but ask, "Are you two going together?"
Ji Mian hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Yeah."
Li Jue suppressed his displeasure and asked, "He lives with you?"
Ji Mian shook his head: "We don't live together."
Li Jue: "Then I'll take you there."
Ji Mian: "No. I'm not familiar with you." He said: "And I don't need you to send me off. Don't use your tricks to pursue girls on me. I won't be moved."
Li Jue felt soft-hearted after hearing this and thought: The little idiot has become smart now and even knows that he is pursuing him.
"I thought you forgot that I told you that I liked you." Li Jue's tone softened a bit: "Ji Mian, I really like you. I don't need you to agree to me immediately. Can you at least give me a chance and let me pursue you? I will treat you well and accompany you for the rest of my life, and only treat you well."
This was the promise he made in his previous life, but it was not fulfilled until the day Ji Mian died.
Ji Mian said seriously, "No. I don't like men."
Another straightforward rejection, leaving him no room for maneuver.
"Tsk." Li Jue became irritated and suddenly asked out of nowhere, "Then why can Fu Chenyu do this?"
Ji Mian immediately got angry: "Fu Chenyu is different from you."
"Why is it different? He sends you home, goes to school with you, does homework with you? Sleeps with you at night? I can't do that? I'm a man? He's not a man?" Li Jue pressed on.
Ji Mian's eyes turned cold: "He is my friend. He is not as dirty as you!"
Li Jue seemed to have heard a joke and thought Ji Mian was very naive. He put his hands on the table and pressed his body towards Ji Mian.
Ji Mian's defensive awareness instantly reached the highest point. He dared to guarantee that if Li Jue moved forward a little more, he would immediately hit him with his fist.
Li Jue paused, his shadow cast over Ji Mian's alert face. He laughed, "Do you think Fu Chenyu is your friend?"
Ji Mian: "Speak with some respect. Don't think I won't beat you up in the library."
"Ji Mian." Li Jue straightened up. "You're so hostile to me because of Fu Chenyu, right? Because of that time when he and I had a practical fight outside of class?"
That's the reason... Ji Mian admitted that he was a little petty and vindictive about Fu Chenyu, and Fu Chenyu was also injured during the previous game on the basketball court.
But the more important reason is that Li Jue is the protagonist of "Stranger Tenderness", the man whom Ji Mian loved but could not get and was willing to die for in the original novel.
The beginning of his tragic fate.
Li Jue smiled subtly and asked him, "Did Fu Chenyu tell you why we fought?"
Ji Mian: "What do you want to say? Don't confuse people with lies. I won't believe it."
Li Jue: "Whatever you want. Ji Mian, let me remind you, you think of him as a friend, but he doesn't think of you that way."
Ji Mian was baffled. Li Jue packed his schoolbag and softened his attitude: "Don't think I'll give up on you if you're mean to me. I won't."
Ji Mian didn't say it, but Li Jue's words still had some impact on him.
What does it mean that he considers Fu Chenyu as a friend, but Fu Chenyu doesn’t think so of him?
Does their brotherhood seem so plastic to outsiders?
He couldn't hold back on things and was in a bad mood for a while.
Ji Mian secretly observed Fu Chenyu, wanting to see what had happened to him that made him treat him badly? To the point where, from an outsider's perspective, he wasn't even Fu Chenyu's friend?
Originally, Ji Mian didn't care about these little details in life, but after careful observation, he found that his relationship with Fu Chenyu was not bad, but very good, a little too good.
Fu Chenyu's care for him in life can be described as meticulous, even if Lin Minzhi came, she might not be so attentive.
It’s just that Fu Chenyu doesn’t like to talk, so Ji Mian never feels these details.
Once he deliberately said he was hungry, and Fu Chenyu had his favorite snacks in his schoolbag.
He could obviously replace the old bicycle with a seat, but from junior high school to high school, Ji Mian always enjoyed the exclusive seat.
He never hangs up the phone first, is always the last to reply to WeChat messages, takes a half-step before him when crossing the street, and only orders his favorite dishes when dining. He puts on more clothes when it's cold, and has ice cream when it's hot. From spring to summer and fall to winter, no one else in the world understands Ji Mian's physical condition as well as he does.
It's more than good, it's too good.
Ji Mian was subtly happy. After school started in September, he immediately forgot what Li Jue said and went to and from school with Fu Chenyu as usual.
As a result, when the seasons changed, he became allergic to osmanthus again. Fu Chenyu went to the school gate to buy medicine for him, and Ji Mian sat in the classroom waiting for him.
He Xi came to play with Ji Mian after class. Seeing that he was allergic, he teased him: "Do you have pink eye again?"
Ji Mian was wearing a mask and looked weak. He Xi asked, "Did Fu Chenyu go buy you some medicine?"
"Hmm..." Ji Mian lay on the table.
He Xi said: "Fu Chenyu really cares about you. He and I grew up together, so why don't we ever see him being nice to me?"
As he spoke, he realized it belatedly and said, "Hey, Ji Mian. Do you feel that Fu Chenyu has been too nice to you?"
Ji Mian: "You don't have any friends yourself, so you look down on others for living a happy life, right?"
He Xi also felt that he was sick. He also had good friends, but none of them were like Fu Chenyu, who was with Ji Mianchu 24 hours a day.
He just felt that the relationship between Fu Chenyu and Ji Mian was weird.
It would make sense if Ji Mian was a woman, wouldn't that mean they're in love?
"You study in the same class during the day and live in the same dormitory at night, yet you two never get tired of each other." He Xi complained.
"Fu Chenyu is good-looking. Can't I take a few more glances at him?" Ji Mian replied with a smile, not taking He Xi's words to heart.
"You two won't fall in love in the future, will you?" He Xi asked Ji Mian, "You're already a sophomore in high school, and you haven't found anyone you like?"
Ji Mian really didn't. He shook his head: "Studying should focus on academics."
He Xi had three girlfriends in just one year of high school. Seeing Ji Mian still single, he felt a little bad and said, "How about this? Don't say I'm being mean to you. My girlfriend is from an art school, and we're going hiking together this Saturday. She's calling her friends, are you coming?"
"I'm going to play with Fu Chenyu on Saturday..." Ji Mian wanted to say that he had made an appointment with the boss to go out and play.
He Xi urged him, "It's a social gathering, go ahead. It's not a blind date for you, just get to know each other. If you can't bear to leave Fu Chenyu, ask him to go with you! I promise my girlfriend has enough close friends!"
As soon as He Xi left, Fu Chenyu came back with medicine.
He unscrewed the thermos, poured a cup of warm water for Ji Mian, and placed it on his desk.
Ji Mian remembered He Xi's suggestion and was embarrassed to refuse him, so he mentioned it to Fu Chenyu: "He Xi asked us to go hiking on Saturday. We haven't decided where to go yet, so why not go hiking?"
Fu Chenyu said indifferently: "He only asked you to go hiking?"
Ji Mian's pretty face flushed slightly: "I told you not to laugh at me. He Xi said he wanted to introduce me to a girl."
Fu Chenyu's hand under the table stiffened for a moment, and after a long time it slowly bent up.
Like a dying struggle.
Ji Mian quickly waved his hands: "I didn't mean that. I was just embarrassed to reject He Xi. I've stood him up several times before."
Fu Chenyu lowered his eyelashes: "I'm not going."
Ji Mian didn't expect this answer and asked, "Why not go?"
Fu Chenyu: "You know I'm not interested in women. It would be boring if I went."
He turned a page and forced himself to stare at the title on the page, without reading a single word.
Fu Chenyu's heart felt as if it was being twisted by a pair of hands, releasing overwhelming jealousy and sourness.
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