Xu Nuo is like a rope, restraining Yan Zhigui at all times. As long as he is around, Yan Zhigui will be a well-behaved and spoiled puppy. Without him, who knows how crazy he will become behind his back.
Yan Zhigui was very attached to him, almost to the point of being inseparable, whether at school or at home. Even if he wanted to change clothes alone in the room, Yan Zhigui was reluctant to leave. He would always knock on the door as soon as he finished putting on his clothes, as if he was lying on the door panel listening for any movement.
After most of his life in the new school had passed, Xu Nuo could recognize most of his classmates and even talk to a few of them. However, for some reason, he always felt that there was an invisible barrier between him and other classmates.
The pace of No. 1 Middle School is very fast. When Xu Nuo first arrived, he often couldn't keep up with the teacher's progress. Fortunately, Yan Zhigui always taught him patiently, and even took the initiative to clear his desk for him so that he had more time to review.
"Yan Zhigui, it's time to go home."
Xu Nuo looked up at the setting sun by the window. It was six o'clock. The boarding students had all gone to the cafeteria for dinner, while day students like them could go home after school. There were not many people left in the classroom.
Yan Zhigui enjoyed Xu Nuo calling him home after school every day. They lived together and had a common home, and every bit of knowledge about him fascinated him.
Today was unusual. Yan Zhigui, who usually picked up his schoolbag as soon as Xu Nuo finished speaking, did not move for the first time. Instead, he smiled and made way for him.
"Brother, please go wait for me in the car. The teacher asked me to go find him later."
"Did you make a mistake?"
Yan Zhigui looked at his delicate frown and laughed a little, but he deliberately lowered his head, looking lost and aggrieved. "Brother always thinks of me like this, it must be because of some competition."
"Sorry," Xu Nuo pinched his ear embarrassedly, "Then I'll wait for you in the car."
The young man's slender figure quickly disappeared from sight, and Yan Zhigui's gentle expression froze, and he took out his right hand from his trouser pocket.
He held a pink envelope in his hand, his knuckles slightly white from the force, but he could still vaguely see the word "Promise" written on the top of the envelope.
Yan Zhigui didn't have to wait too long. After about two minutes, the classroom was completely empty, and then the sound of the back door being pushed open came from inside.
It was a boy. Yan Zhigui had some impression of him. He seemed to be a basketball student in the class next door.
The boy was obviously stunned when he saw that Yan Zhigui was the only one in the classroom. He said sorry for disturbing him and was about to leave, but was stopped by the boy's cold voice.
"Don't think about him."
The boy paused, then turned back and asked, "How did you know?"
Yan Zhigui lifted the wrinkled pink envelope high up in the air, then gently let go, letting it fall freely to the ground.
"What are you doing?" The man on the other side was obviously annoyed. They were all hot-blooded young men who wanted to solve problems with fists if they disagreed with something. The boy walked over and approached Yan Zhigui with a bad look on his face.
"Promised to you?"
"I won't let him see this disgusting thing. Stay away from us."
The boy laughed out of anger and rolled his eyes at Yan Zhigui. "I heard before that you even secretly warned students who talked to Xu Nuo. You usually act like a decent person, but I didn't expect you to be such a pervert."
Xu Nuo remembered that his homeroom teacher had gone to a meeting this afternoon, and was afraid that Yan Zhigui would miss the meeting. He was thinking of turning back to tell him, but he heard the confrontation between the two people in the room just outside the classroom door.
The desk boxes were carefully tidied up, and the classmates who didn't dare to come forward seemed to have the answer at this moment. Neither of the two people in the room noticed him, and they were still confronting each other.
"Aren't you his younger brother? Why are you meddling in a reconstituted family?"
Yan Zhigui hated it most when others said this, as if without Yan Qingshan and Xu Rong's marriage, there was nothing between him and Xu Nuo. Without a trace of hesitation, he raised his ruthless fist and rushed towards the other person's face.
"Yan Zhigui!"
The fist just stopped at the last moment. The fierce Yan Zhigui suddenly let go of his strength and turned his head stiffly to look at the young man standing at the door.
He seemed to have turned into a puppet, opening his mouth mechanically but unable to utter a coherent sentence.
"Brother...Brother, it's not true...I..."
The boy just now also realized what was happening. Naturally, he no longer wanted to confess his feelings. He spat and walked out the door. Passing by Xu Nuo, who was still watching the fun, he said, "Who knows what kind of perverted things this guy might do. You'd better stay away from him."
"Get out of here!"
Xu Nuo stopped Yan Zhigui who was on the verge of going crazy. His hands were shaking with anxiety, as if it was the first day he truly got to know this so-called younger brother.
"Yan Zhigui!" The young man turned and left weakly, "Let's talk about it when we get back..."
Yan Zhigui was stunned for a moment, and quickly caught up with him, but he didn't dare to walk shoulder to shoulder with him. He could only follow behind him with his head down, like a big dog that had done something wrong and was waiting for punishment from its master.
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