Clear? Can you afford it?
"I owe you money, but my pen is broken. It's a pen I've used for a long time..." Lin Yu's voice became slower and slower, and in the end he could hardly make a sound.
Tao Xingye felt annoyed, "What the hell are you stuttering about?" He didn't stutter when talking to Jiang Shuang, but he stuttered like this when talking to him?
Lin Yu lowered her head, her nose aching. She bit her lip and refused to say another word. The ink-stained pen had stained her fingers, leaving large black stains on her school uniform pants.
She rolled up her exercise book and stuffed it into her schoolbag, and a school uniform suddenly appeared in Tao Xingye's sight.
He fixed his gaze on it. It was a school uniform jacket that looked no different from an ordinary school uniform. It was neatly folded and stuffed inside the schoolbag, covered with a layer of cellophane.
"You secretly picked up the clothes I threw into the trash can?" His tone was so gentle that even he himself didn't notice, let alone Lin Yu.
Lin Yu wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand, pulled out the clothes and put them on the table.
She didn't say anything, but Tao Xingye understood what she meant.
"Give it back to me?" His eyes moved from the school uniform on the table to Lin Yu. Everyone around was staring at them intently.
Tao Xingye suddenly remembered that Lin Yu was not liked by others, so he decided not to drive her away for the time being.
If she went to the back, she might be bullied.
Lin Yu was about to walk back with her schoolbag in her arms when Tao Xingye's voice rang out again, "Change it back."
His tone was calm, and he looked at the well-tidied school uniform with satisfaction.
Each piece of his school uniform is made of custom-made fabrics. On the surface, it looks the same as the ones issued by the school, but only an expert can tell the difference.
He wore it every day, so he recognized it at a glance.
"I'll pay you back what I owe you, and we'll break up." Lin Yu's tone was slow but firm.
Tao Xingye's expression grew increasingly gloomy. "Have you considered what will happen if we go back?"
Lin Yu didn't answer, but walked towards the last row with his head down, holding his schoolbag.
Something slammed to the ground. It was the school uniform—
"My things are thrown away, so just try picking them up again!"
Tao Xingye looked at Lin Yu, panting. The man paused for only two or three seconds before leaving again.
Tao Xingye was furious. Cheng, Lin Yu, you chose the path yourself. He wanted to see how long she could hold on.
Even if she knelt down before him and begged him crying, he would not help her once!
Contrary to Tao Xingye's expectations, she actually persisted for a long time. Even when faced with intensified bullying from others, she would rather get up an hour earlier every day to run errands and buy breakfast, and stay up late at night to make up for lost study time, rather than beg him.
Some students who were originally neutral, seeing that Lin Yu looked so indifferent and couldn't get a word out of her, began to order her around.
During breaks, you can always see Lin Yu running back and forth with a cup of water to help get water.
After the evening study session, Lin Yu sat in her seat and took notes as usual. Suddenly, a hand appeared and its slender fingertips gently took away her notebook.
Soft jade bones and icy porcelain skin, this pair of hands with feminine characteristics and masculine essence, Lin Yu has only seen one person with such a pair in the past fourteen years - Tao Xingye
"Even this kind of question can stump you now?" There was a frivolous look in his eyes. He pulled out a piece of paper and scattered it around on the table. Only the broken pen in Lin Yu's hand was left.
"Give me."
Lin Yu didn't respond. The next second, Tao Xingye suddenly held her hand and started writing in her notebook.
"You, what are you doing?" Lin Yu wanted to move away, but his big palm completely pressed Lin Yu's hand down. He didn't let go of Lin Yu's hand until he finished writing.
"What a crappy pen you have! Why don't you change it?" His palms were stained black!
"I use it." I didn't let you use it, Lin Yu's voice was dull and full of dissatisfaction.
Tao Xingye stopped wiping his hands and looked up at her.
"If you insist, you have to use my pen." She didn't force him to use it, so why did he complain about her pen and even write so many formulas in her notebook?
Lin Yu's eyes were full of grievance, and Tao Xingye's anger suddenly disappeared. He dropped his hand to the corner of his school uniform and pressed it hard with his ink-stained hand.
"Okay, I'm meddling in other people's business. But..." Tao Xingye held up his school uniform. "You made my clothes dirty. You have to compensate me, right?"
"I didn't, it wasn't me." Lin Yu's eyes were full of anxiety. How could the corner of his clothes be stained with ink? It wasn't her who stained it at all. Why did she slander her?
"But it's dirty now." Tao Xingye said with sympathy in his eyes, "What can we do?"
His voice was soft and there was a smile on his face.
Lin Yu felt a surge of fear in her heart. It had gotten dirty once before, and she had washed it for him, but he didn't want it and threw it into the trash can.
What should I do this time? Compensate him with a new one? But a school uniform costs 180 yuan...
"I'll compensate you for three weeks." She skipped dinner and collected three weeks' worth, which was barely enough.
"Three weeks?" Tao Xingye seemed very dissatisfied and dragged out the word.
What else does he want? How can he be so aggressive? Lin Yu bit her lip and clenched her hands tightly.
"What are you doing!" Tao Xingye suddenly took the book off her desk, "No, throw it away."
Lin Yu stood up to stop him, forgetting the ink on her hands as she pressed it against his snow-white sleeve. This time, there was no objection; it was her own hands that had stained it.
"Who wants to throw it away?" Tao Xingye's eyes were filled with joy. "You can take it back and use it for me as an apology."
He moved Lin Yu's things over without question. The classroom was air-conditioned and not stuffy, but he took off his coat because he felt that his school uniform was dirty.
Lin Yu suddenly remembered his scolding that day—"It's dirty, it's dirty. No matter how you wash it, it won't be clean."
"Hello!"
Lin Yu looked up, and a school uniform fell from the sky and covered her. Tao Xingye's voice came to her ears again, "Take it and wash it. You don't have to pay for it."
She took off her school uniform and looked at Tao Xingye in disbelief. The man was leaning on the desk with his head held high. His long hair was lightly curled and he was smiling very happily.
Lin Yu felt sad. Was it really worth being so happy just to bully him?
Lin Yu sat back next to Tao Xingye. Some girls in the back row were afraid of Tao Xingye, and their bullying of her decreased significantly overnight.
During the day, she no longer had to run back and forth in the classroom, helping others find papers, get water, and buy snacks.
She washed the school uniform in the bathroom for a long time at night when no one was around. When she handed it to Tao Xingye, he had a strange expression on his face, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or unhappy.
There is a lot of ink stain, and there are faint marks no matter how you wash it.
Lin Yu originally thought that he would never wear it again and just liked to torture himself, but when she was doing her homework, she accidentally caught a glimpse of ink marks on the corner of his clothes.
Every other day, the ink mark would reappear, until the weather became too hot to wear a coat anymore.
Lin Yu's hair grew longer and longer. When she tilted her head to do her homework, her hair always fell to Tao Xingye's side.
He pressed on her many times, and Lin Yu couldn't bear the pain. Tao Xingye always scolded her for crossing the 38th parallel. When she went out on the weekend, a motorcycle collecting hair happened to pass by the school gate.
Lin Yu went to get her hair cut.
"Little girl, your hair is so black and long, I'll give you more money." The man held the blade close to her scalp and cut off clumps of hair.
School started on Monday, and Tao Xingye stopped in his tracks holding the hairpin he bought for Lin Yu.
Her long, smooth, black hair was gone, replaced by a head of frizzy hair.
The hair on the top of his head was growing out one by one, and the hair below was so sparse that only a small tuft remained, not even as thick as his little finger.
"Your haircut is so ugly. You were ugly to begin with, and now after cutting your hair, not even the last bit of your beauty is left!" Tao Xingye threw his schoolbag on the table.
The hairpin in her hand felt like a hot potato. "Why did you get such an ugly haircut? Did the stylist bully you?"
Tao Xingye looked at Lin Yu with a cowardly look on his face and said, "Tell me, if they really want to bully you, I will take you to deal with them at night." Everyone in Jincheng gives face to the Tao family, let alone a barber shop.
His tone became more and more aggressive, and Lin Yu lowered her head lower and lower. There were still three hundred yuan stuffed in her school uniform pocket. She didn't say anything, but took it out slowly, counted out one hundred and eighty yuan and handed it to Tao Xingye.
Looking at the stack of crumpled change, Tao Xingye was confused. "What does that mean?"
"I'll give it back to you." Lin Yu no longer stuttered when speaking, but he still spoke slowly.
Tao Xingye was angry, but he suppressed his temper and waited for Lin Yu to say the next word. However, she remained silent and just lowered her head to pack her schoolbag.
"Give me back my school uniform money?" Tao Xingye's tone was exceptionally cold, his chest rising and falling slowly and noticeably. "Lin Yu, pack your schoolbag and sit in the back?"
The hairpin rubbed against his hand, and Tao Xingye felt ridiculous. Instead of playing tennis on the weekend, he went shopping, browsing street after street, buying pack after pack of hairpins, but none of them suited his taste.
Finally, they went to a store specializing in pearls. Through the glass cabinet, he immediately fell in love with a very small clip that was woven with a row of rice-sized pearls.
With Lin Yu's personality, she would definitely not bring someone who was too ostentatious.
"That's it, wrap it up."
The clerk didn't expect that a boy like him would buy a hairpin, and immediately became happy and said, "Little brother, this hairpin is not cheap, it costs 5600."
It’s certainly not cheap, but it’s not expensive either.
"Go and check out." Tao Xingye handed the card to the clerk without asking them to pack it.
I held it in my own hands and took it home.
Time passed minute by minute, Tao Xingye just sat half sideways, and Lin Yu didn't know how she had offended him again.
Because of nervousness, he stuttered again, "I paid you back. These days, I fetched water and ran errands. We are even now."
Clearing the difference? Tao Xingye threw the hairpin into the drawer, his body filled with anger, but his voice was remarkably calm. "I can't even buy a piece of clothing for 1,800 yuan, 180 yuan? How can you clear the difference?"
He pulled the schoolbag out of Lin Yu's arms and stuffed it back into the desk, his meaning was self-evident.
"You can't do this," Lin Yu put all his remaining money on the table. It was wrinkled and had passed through countless hands.
Tao Xingye thought it was dirty, so he picked it up and threw it to the ground. Several banknotes and Lin Yu's self-esteem were thrown to the ground by him.
Gradually, more and more classmates came to the classroom. Tao Xingye glanced at Lin Yu who was still standing there embarrassedly, grabbed her wrist and pushed her to her seat.
Lin Yu didn't say a word the whole morning, and Tao Xingye didn't care about her and just let her be depressed.
She has been ignoring me for more than a day or two, and this time is no exception.
At noon, most of the students in the class went to the rest area, and only the two of them were left in the class.
Tao Xingye finished the questions and was about to get up to eat when he felt a slight tug on the hem of his clothes.
Looking back, a small corner of the clothes was in Lin Yu's hand.
She lowered her head and handed over a small note.
Tao Xingye felt secretly happy when he looked at the note. He didn't even notice when Lin Yu secretly wrote a note.
He took the note expressionlessly and said, "Why don't you just say it to my face, you annoying person."
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