The force on her shoulder was heavy, but it didn't hurt Mu Yiran. She reached behind her and pulled out a small knife hidden in her chest, stabbing wildly behind her back.
"Miss Mu! It's me."
The pressure on her shoulder disappeared, and she turned around to see who had attacked her.
"Shi Si?"
"Why is it you?"
Mu Yiran said thankfully, "Luckily I reacted quickly enough, otherwise you would have been turned into a hornet's nest by me."
Shi Si wasn't wearing a mask this time. He pointed to the knife in Mu Yiran's hand and said, "You're holding the knife upside down."
Mu Yiran: "..."
She looked down and saw the sharp tip of the knife pointing directly at her thigh.
"Heh, the most deadly harm is the invisible kind."
You don't understand.
Mu Yiran demonstrated her spring knife-throwing technique to him.
That was incredibly cool.
This is what she took out from Shi Youxi's toy room after discovering someone was taking pictures of her without her knowledge. She carried it with her for self-defense.
"By the way, what are you doing here? Have you finished class?"
Shi Si countered, "Miss Mu, why are you here? The young master's school building isn't this way."
"Oh!" At this moment, Mu Yiran remembered what she had come for: to help others.
"It just so happens that you, Shisi, were also helping out; a classmate got injured—"
Mu Yiran led Shi Si to the back of the corner, but there was no one there except for a small grove of trees surrounded by a fence.
Where are they...?
The grove was so shady and secluded that no one would notice anything that happened there, let alone...
"Why would I ride a bicycle in this crappy place!"
At that moment, a tingling sensation of relief washed over Mu Yiran at the back of her head. She took a deep breath, realizing that she had almost been scammed and kidnapped.
So her previous suspicions were all correct.
It means someone is secretly filming and monitoring your home.
only...
Why did they choose her as the target of their kidnapping?
The kidnappers did the opposite; instead of kidnapping Shi Youxi, a cash cow, they kidnapped her, a wage earner!
Shi Si also noticed something was wrong. He stood in front of Mu Yiran, carefully scanned the area, and only after confirming that there was no one hiding did he protect Mu Yiran and leave.
"Miss Mu, it would be better to wait for the young master in the car from now on. The students here all have powerful backgrounds, and these people are capable of anything for profit."
Shi Si half-pushed her towards the teaching building, saying, "If something happens to you, the young master will kill me."
Mu Yiran felt that Shi Si's reaction was even stronger than hers. "No way, it's not that exaggerated."
As soon as the school bell rang, Mu Yiran spotted the slender figure appearing in front of the building.
Shi Youxi seems to have grown a bit taller recently.
"By the way, don't tell anyone about this, I'll tell you myself."
Shi Si didn't respond. Before Shi Youxi could look over, he took out a mask and put it on, then subtly distanced himself from Mu Yiran.
"You don't have any allergies, so why are you wearing a mask all the time?" Mu Yiran had wanted to ask him this for a long time.
Shi Si's voice was muffled: "Being too handsome makes me shy because people always stare at me."
Mu Yiran: "?" This is a severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).
"elder sister!"
As her left hand was enveloped in a cool palm, Mu Yiran looked at the boy who could now hold her hand tightly. She suddenly realized that not only his height, but even Shi Youxi's skeletal structure was beginning to straighten out.
As expected, eating well makes you grow fast. In the past, he was malnourished because Bai Shengsheng ate whatever she wanted every day.
Mu Yiran secretly vowed that as long as she was there, she would definitely raise Shi Youxi into a handsome, upright, and healthy son.
She suddenly wanted to speed up time to see if Shi Youxi in his youth was as tall and handsome as she had imagined.
"This is to fill your stomach, eat something first."
Shi Youxi took the food but didn't eat it. He glanced at Shi Si standing to the side and asked in an ambiguous tone, "Why is my sister with Shi Si?"
“I came in looking for you, and we just happened to run into each other.”
Shi Youxi glanced at Shi Si suspiciously with her phoenix eyes, but in the end said nothing. She held Mu Yiran's hand with one hand and drank the milk with the other.
Behind the three of them, a pair of eyes stared darkly at their retreating figures.
Mary spat out a mouthful of phlegm regretfully; she was dressed in an expensive handmade uniform, yet her behavior was vulgar and obscene.
The girl who had just seduced Mu Yiran stood there trembling, not daring to speak. Her lips trembled a few times before she timidly said, "I'm sorry, I didn't notice there was a man there... Ah!"
The girl covered her swollen face and lay on the ground sobbing.
"Useless fellow."
"You're a waste of my young lady's money to send you to such a good school, and you can't even fool a person."
As Mary spoke, she kicked the girl's body. Her thick, heavy legs carried weight, and the girl on the ground was kicked several times until she fell silent.
"I didn't learn anything, so I can only repay Miss in another way."
"It's time for you to pay off your family's debts."
Mary chuckled softly, her laughter sharp and cold. The girl immediately understood what she meant and stumbled over to hug Mary's elephant leg.
"Please give me another chance, Ms. Mary, I beg you, I promise I can do it next time!"
Mary chuckled and made a phone call. Soon after, several black men appeared, grabbed the girl, and tried to take her away.
"Ms. Mary, please, give me another chance!"
Mary pinched her chin, examined her for a few moments, and patted her face: "You brainless idiot, you can only pay with your wanton body."
The girl's screams continued, leaking from behind the dark corner. Students came and went after school, but no one went over.
Heng Qian sat in the car and watched from the window as Shi Youxi and Mu Yiran got into the car and left.
"waste!"
Mary gently tidied her books beside her. "Don't worry, miss, I've already arranged for someone else to follow you."
She leaned closer to Hengqian, and the two of them looked at the Maybach that was passing by. Through the half-lowered car window, they could see the boy comfortably nestled on the woman's lap.
"Bad maid."
"Trust me, miss, I've got a new one. When I get the chance, I'll definitely kill that bitch."
...
A black car drove by, and the light that had been blocked shone back into the back seat of the Maybach. Shi Youxi half-opened his phoenix eyes and absentmindedly scratched at Mu Yiran's fingers.
It looked like a cat lying on Mu Yiran's lap, wagging its tail.
Mu Yiran stopped doodling in the notebook. This notebook contained some designs and she kept it in her car. She would jot down inspirations in it while waiting for Shi Youxi.
All the finished products were naturally given to Shi Youxi.
"Why haven't you been rehearsing lately? The performance is still two weeks away, isn't it?"
"Since there's no need for an ensemble performance, there's no need to rehearse."
"Why? You finally couldn't hold back and yelled at them and drove them away?" This is definitely something this guy would do; he might even threaten them.
The word "ensemble" has nothing to do with Shi Youxi, that little pervert.
"My sister can't frame me. She couldn't act it out, so it's not my fault."
Mu Yiran looked at Shi Youxi's sincere face, as if she believed his nonsense, "Then are you still going to perform? A solo?"
The principal seemed to value Shi Youxi's performance highly and would not cancel it.
"Well, so sister, can you help me think of a solo piece?"
Mu Yiran: "Ah...I want to."
Mu Yiran doesn't know much about cello repertoire. She usually plays Tetris outside during Shi Youxi's music theory class and doesn't know anything about it.
But Shi Youxi kept asking her questions, and Mu Yiran suddenly remembered a video she had liked on a certain popular app before she transmigrated: an episode of Experience played on the cello.
She has always loved this piece of music, ever since a long time ago.
According to the timeline, this piece has not yet been released to the public, but ever since Shi Youxi learned that she could play the piano, he has pestered Mu Yiran to play it many times, claiming that it was to help him practice ensemble performances.
During that time, she played Experience once.
Shi Youxi had never heard of this piece before, and when she asked Mu Yiran, she only received a vague answer: "I heard it by chance when I went to Italy a long time ago, and I only remember this short part."
Shi Youxi: "Why did you choose this?"
Mu Yiran fell silent. She couldn't very well say, "It's because I was playing during class that I didn't know what pieces you usually played, could I?"
Knowing his temperament, after hearing this, he'll probably start playing the violin on her lap from now on, so she'll always remember it.
This is definitely something he would do.
So Mu Yiran acted as if she really liked the piece, saying, "When I heard it, it felt like I was redeemed."
Shi Youxi was taken aback: "What?"
“Every time I listen to this piece of music, I feel full of hope, as if I can be redeemed even if I have experienced the deepest despair.”
Mu Yiran couldn't come up with a solution, so she just laughed it off.
"Hehe, this is your performance, so you should be in charge. I was just saying something casually."
Shi Youxi glanced at her, said nothing, and instead lay back on her lap, lost in thought about what she had just said.
It felt like I'd been redeemed...
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