Chapter 5

It's time to go to school again.

Leyuan sighed and walked to the school as slowly as possible.

At the classroom door, he suddenly heard someone mention his name. He was stunned for a moment, and the classroom suddenly became silent.

Leyuan stopped in his tracks, looking unhappy. If he was asked to go in now, it would be like he had to step into a pit even though he knew he would be humiliated if he went forward.

He was disgusted, frowned, and stood at the door.

“Did you all see that live broadcast?”

Li Xiaomei asked nervously.

"I saw it," Zhang Caixia said nonchalantly, "What's wrong?"

Li Xiaomei frowned and said, "I'm scared."

Zhang Caixia sneered, "What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that you will become a victim of the live broadcast? Are you afraid that you will die?"

Li Xiaomei felt embarrassed when her thoughts were spoken.

Zhang Caixia rolled her eyes. "The current situation simply cannot allow something like that to be brazenly shown to the public. You can rest assured, it's either a special effect or a virus. Changing the phone is also unavoidable. It could be bad luck. It's just to scare people."

Li Xiaomei blinked her eyes: "Really?"

Xuan Yexian glanced at her and said, "Coward."

Li Xiaomei almost jumped up like a grasshopper that had been poked: "No! I'm not!"

She tried to refute: "The most timid person in the class hasn't come yet, has arrived late and left early, has poor grades, is ugly and smelly, has no sense and no manners, paradise!"

Everyone was silent for a while, looking at each other with confused and stunned expressions, which then gradually turned into mocking smiles.

Zhang Zhaoxia laughed out loud: "Thank goodness you thought of him! He is a piece of trash, everyone knows that. It's really interesting to mention him at this time. Do you like him? Otherwise, why would you use him as a shield!"

Li Xiaomei's face turned red. She was angry and anxious, but also found it a little funny. In her heart, she didn't think Leyuan was worthy of being compared with her. To be honest, it was impossible for her to like him. She simply would not like someone who had no power, no influence, no money and was not good-looking. What's more, Leyuan's situation in school was worse than hers. Even if she liked Ma Zai'an, she would not like Leyuan.

Ma Zai'an is Li Xiaomei's desk mate. He is tall and thin, with muscles but no brains. He does well in physical education but not so well in academic subjects. However, he usually doesn't cause trouble and hangs out with the rich and powerful Zhang siblings, Zhang Zhaoxia and Zhang Caixia. The teacher looks at them and knows that they know their future well, so he turns a blind eye and doesn't care too much.

He glanced at Li Xiaomei beside him and said to Zhang Zhaoxia, "She definitely won't like that kind of junk in the amusement park."

Zhang Zhaoxia smiled and said, "Oh, you know a lot."

Zhang Caixia laughed and said, "They are deskmates and hang out together all the time. How could they not know what each other is thinking? Maybe they even know where each other plans to live after graduation! Hahaha!"

The people around them hardly dared to make a sound and could only wait for them to finish laughing.

Zhang Caixia wiped away the tears from her eyes, looked around at the silent classmates and asked, "Why aren't you laughing? Isn't it funny?"

Her face gradually became gloomy, as if she was about to get angry.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then quickly started laughing and echoed, "How funny, how funny, hahahaha!"

Someone rushed to say: "No one likes the garbage in the park. We all know that whoever gets close to him will be in trouble. Unless you want to die, you won't get close to him. Even if you are ignorant, you know it."

Zhang Caixia snorted: "You guys are quite sensible."

Zhang Zhaoxia said in an ambiguous tone: "Maybe that's the case."

Xuan Yesian was sitting on the side, listening to their conversation. She packed up her pencil case and suddenly found it funny. She hummed twice in her throat, which sounded quite sarcastic. No one dared to laugh anymore, fearing that they would quarrel and get into trouble. The atmosphere in the classroom became stagnant.

Zhang Caixia looked at Xuan Yexian and asked, "Do you have any opinion?"

Xuan Yexian lifted up the stool and smiled as usual: "I dare not."

This statement is also somewhat thorny.

Zhang Caixia's face didn't look good. She stared at Xuan Yesian and snorted.

Xuan Yexian twirled the pen in his hand and suddenly laughed, "Why bother to target him? He's not even here, who are you laughing at?"

Everyone knows that the smile is for the Zhang brothers and sisters to see.

But others cannot say this. If they do, they will get beaten. Life in Paradise is worse than that in Paradise. They have all seen how miserable life in Paradise is. Naturally, they would not think that they would be the next one.

There will always be many people who play it safe.

No one answered.

Zhang Zhaoxia gave him face and asked, "What do you mean?"

Xuan Yexian didn't mind their silence and retreat, and smiled maliciously: "I have a good idea."

When Li Xiaomei heard that there was a solution, her eyes lit up and she quickly asked, "What's the idea?"

Xuan Yexian held down the spinning pen and said calmly, "Whether live broadcasting is dangerous or not, no one knows, but we don't know it now. Regardless of whether he watched the live broadcast or not, we let him watch it, how could he not watch it? As long as he watched it, there would definitely be signs when something happened. If he died in front, we could live a little longer, so at least he was of some use."

Zhang Zhaoxia laughed sarcastically: "It turns out that we were wrong. He is not a waste."

Xuan Yexian smiled and said, "I didn't say that. Isn't that what waste recycling is all about? This is just right. We need it, and so does he. He has lived to this day, and it's time for him to live long enough. He keeps hanging around in front of us every day, and it's disgusting to me. It would be better for all of us if we could send him to death sooner."

She looked at everyone and asked, "Isn't it?"

Everyone nodded quickly and said with a smile: "Yes, that's right."

Xuan Yexian still laughed sarcastically, snorted twice, and looked noncommittal.

No one knew whether she was angry or satisfied.

Zhang Caixia didn't like this atmosphere and frowned uncomfortably: "Then it's settled!"

Everyone nodded.

The bell rang for class, and the teacher came out from the darkness. Seeing Le Yuan standing at the door but not entering the classroom, he asked in confusion, "Aren't you going in?"

Leyuan entered the classroom silently.

After class, the teacher packed up and returned to the office. The surrounding classrooms became lively, but this classroom was completely different from the other classrooms. Everyone looked at each other and didn't even dare to stand up. It was extremely quiet.

Outside the window, everything was silent.

Zhang Caixia walked in front of Leyuan, and the person at the table in front of Leyuan immediately stood up and gave up his seat. Zhang Caixia dragged that person's table and sat on it. She swung her legs at Leyuan, but when Leyuan ignored her, she kicked his desk impatiently and said, "Look at me!"

Le Yuan had his eyes downcast, but upon hearing this he raised his head.

Zhang Caixia sneered, "I thought you were a tough guy, but it turns out you've become soft a long time ago. Why are you pretending?"

Zhang Zhaoxia turned around and said with a smile: "If you really have thorns, what are you doing here? You're either dead or gone."

Ma Zaian agreed and nodded, "That's right."

Li Xiaomei looked at him with disdain, moved away, and shouted to the amusement park: "Hey! Have you watched the live broadcast?"

Paradise did not answer for a moment.

Xuan Yexian kicked his stool and said, "I'm talking to you, you're being rude."

Leyuan suppressed a sneer and said, "No."

Li Xiaomei clapped her hands and said, "Interesting, you have good luck."

Zhang Caixia waved her hand and said, "Just watch it once now."

Ma Zai'an rolled up his sleeves and walked over, blocking the way to Paradise, blocking Paradise between the wall and the people, and asked with his back to the light, "Where's your cell phone?"

Paradise replied: “No.”

Ma Zai'an frowned: "You are talking nonsense! How is it possible that someone doesn't have a mobile phone now?"

He grabbed Leyuan by the collar and said, "Are you pretending to be stupid? Don't waste our time."

Leyuan smiled and said, "I'm so poor, how can I afford a cell phone? And no one will contact me."

Ma Zaian let go of him doubtfully: "It seems so."

Li Xiaomei covered her forehead and said, "What? Didn't the head teacher call him? He must be lying when he said he didn't have a cell phone!"

Ma Zai'an was furious and punched Le Yuan in the face, cursing, "You liar!"

Leyuan dodged his fist, and Ma Zaian staggered and almost hit the student behind Leyuan. The student was so scared that his face turned pale and he didn't move. He stared at the fist so close with his eyes pressed together, holding his breath, and his eyes were numb.

Leyuan sat down and took out his schoolbag: "There is no cell phone. You can check it."

Ma Zai'an snatched the schoolbag and threw it on the ground. The books fell out of the bag and were kicked, scattered all over the ground.

Ma Zaian looked around but couldn't find his phone. Li Xiaomei sighed beside him, "School doesn't normally allow cell phones, so it's normal that he doesn't have one."

Ma Zaian asked angrily, "What do you mean? Is there any?"

Li Xiaomei stood up, blocking the space behind Le Yuan. Her shadow fell on Le Yuan's back and neck. Le Yuan's hair stood on end. He could almost feel the other person's body temperature. His stomach began to ache. Li Xiaomei blew a breath on his neck: "Write an IOU. I have an old mobile phone that I can lend you. Just return it to me after you watch the live broadcast."

Leyuan frowned and asked, "IOU?"

Li Xiaomei said with a smile, "Eight thousand yuan. My things are very expensive. I can't buy anything cheaper. You don't have to lend it to me, but if you can't get your phone out tonight, it won't be as easy as a few words."

Leyuan's eyelids jumped: "I'll write it."

Li Xiaomei smiled and said, "That's right."

Zhang Caixia scolded: "Soft-footed shrimp."

Leyuan lowered his head and wrote the IOU, turning a deaf ear to the others. He already owed eight million, and eight thousand was nothing. He couldn't pay back a single dollar anyway.

Li Xiaomei received the IOU and said with a smile, "Thank you, you can pick up your things now."

Ma Zaian couldn't tell whether he was envious or jealous. His face flushed and he moved his foot away from the white homework book. A large, black shoe print was firmly stuck on it, blocking the words.

Leyuan picked up the things on the ground with an expressionless face.