Chapter 12 Chapter 12 is boring.
On Friday afternoon, Ji Maili skipped class again.
Shen Lu sent him a message but he didn't reply.
Chen Lu posted a circle of friends: Missing person notice, looking for a lost little idiot.
Chen Lu doesn't post on WeChat Moments often, let alone something that could arouse people's imagination. This is totally unlike his style as the vice president.
As soon as the circle of friends was posted, the comments became lively instantly——
Monitor: Who is that little idiot?
Student Union Member: This is such an indulgent nickname, President Shen, there must be something going on.
Student Council Member: Oh my god, which beautiful lady is the one who received the missing person notice from the God of Slaughter himself?
English class representative: I don’t know how many girls will be heartbroken.
Your Tao Ye: ????? ?????
The Path to the Living: [terrified] [terrified] [terrified]
The lost little idiot didn't see the missing person notice. He was in the hospital. Liang Lin fainted. The doctor said that Liang Lin fainted because of lack of rest for a long time.
When Ji Huan heard that Liang Lin was admitted to the hospital, he hurried back.
Her workplace is a bit far from where they live now, so she doesn't come back every day. Last week she worked overtime and didn't come back on the weekend. When Ji Huan saw Ji Maili's bruised face, he was shocked.
"Oh my god, what's wrong with your face?" Ji Huan hung the bag in her hand around Ji Maili's neck and held his face, looking at it over and over again. "Did you scare Mom to death?"
Ji Maili was so dizzy that he pushed Ji Huan's hand away and said, "No, Mom doesn't know."
Ji Huan found it incredible, "You don't know? You always wear a mask in front of mom?"
No one knew what was in Ji Huan's bag. It was so heavy that Ji Maili's neck was almost broken. He took the bag off his neck and said, "I told my mom I was going to evening self-study. She was asleep when I got home."
Ji Huanxin said, "How can you say such nonsense?" "What about the weekend?"
Ji Maili himself felt guilty: "Go out and make up for it."
Ji Huan didn't know what to say to him: "Oh my god, you're so bold! You've been in the last place in grades since elementary school, and you still need extra classes? You better be more careful. Do you think Mom is as stupid as you? I was just wondering why she didn't get enough rest when she was fine. It turns out she's worried about you. When will you grow up?"
Ji Maili had a sad face and said nothing. He really hadn't taken good care of Liang Lin during this period, and he didn't know why she suddenly fainted.
Ji Huan pinched his chin and looked at his face. The more he looked, the more disgusted he became. "How did you get beaten like this? Don't you have a lot of friends? Weren't they always cheering for you when you were fighting?"
Ji Maili dodged Ji Huan's hand and said, "I don't have any friends."
Ji Huan gloated, "Do you know now that you have no friends? I don't know how you managed to piss off Chen Lu, and now you're always against him."
Ji Maili was very proud when he talked about this. He smiled and said, "I have reconciled with Chen Lu."
"Are you reconciled?" Ji Huan asked, "Did you kneel down and apologize to him?"
Ji Maili: “…”
Ji Maili couldn't stand it anymore: "Am I your biological brother?"
Ji Huan said seriously, "No, my parents wanted to have another child, but they couldn't conceive, so they went to an orphanage and brought one back."
Ji Maili was fed up with his sister's mouth, "Ji Huan!"
Ji Huan shouted even louder than him: "Want to die?"
The nurse came over and said, "Keep your voices down, this is a hospital."
Ji Huan apologized to the nurse and pulled Ji Maili to sit down. "You're a grown man, but you have to do those sissy things. Seven-year itch? Are you planning to remarry now? Why don't you go kowtow to him again? I'll be your witness this time. I always feel really sorry that I didn't see that scene back then."
Ji Maili thought his sister was sick, "You are perverted, he is a man."
Ji Huan said: "What's wrong with a man? Haven't you been treating him as your wife since he was a child?"
Ji Maili thought his sister was particularly terrifying, "No, I'm not, we're brothers!"
Ji Huan snorted, "Boring."
What was so boring? Ji Maili was puzzled.
Ji Huan and Ji Maili went to see Liang Lin. Liang Lin was still asleep, so they didn't want to disturb her. When they came out of the ward, Ji Huan asked, "Since you've reconciled with Chen Lu, did he tell you why he transferred to another school? Did you get angry because you told him you liked the girls in your class?"
Ji Maili frowned: "When did I like the girls in our class?"
Ji Huan knocked him on the head. "What the hell are you pretending to be? It's okay that you're not good at studying, but you're also so forgetful. Which idiot was the one who cried and told me that he was angry because you liked someone else?"
Ji Maili didn't want to admit that he was an idiot back then: "No, it's because Shen Lu's parents divorced, his mother took his brother away, and his father was in debt, so he moved and transferred schools!"
Ji Huan felt that such a thing was not something that would warrant leaving without saying goodbye. She looked at Ji Maili suspiciously, "Are you sure there's no other reason? Otherwise, why didn't he tell you that he transferred to another school?"
Ji Maili didn't say anything. He didn't dare to ask about these things in detail, for fear of bringing up unhappy memories of Chen Lu. He always felt that this time of reconciliation between the two of them was not the same as before. Chen Lu had other friends, and he was no longer his only friend. Moreover, he was no longer like before and could not care about anything. He didn't dare to mention it, let alone ask.
Ji Maili said sadly, "His family has bought a house, and he lives alone now, in a place where the rent is only 500 yuan. Sister, my heart hurts when I see him now. He must have been so sad back then. I wasn't by his side when he was most sad. I even opposed him and caused trouble for him all day long. Now he even has to ask me to reconcile with him. I feel like I'm not worthy of being his best friend."
Ji Huan patted his brother's head sympathetically and said gently, "Silly boy, don't think like that. Maybe you are no longer his best friend."
Ji Maili: “…”
Ji Maili raised his head and looked at Ji Huan with indifferent eyes.
The biggest question in his seventeen years of life was why his parents gave him a sister. Was it to add to his life's burden?
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At school, after seeing Chen Lu's missing person notice, Tao Dacheng finally forced out all the past grievances between Chen Lu and Ji Maili. He looked at Chen Lu in disbelief: "So you left without saying goodbye because something happened at home?"
Shen Lu glanced at his phone. Ji Maili hadn't replied yet: "Yeah, almost."
Tao Dacheng shook his head with emotion. "No, you're not playing the tragic hero. Did you watch too many TV dramas when you were a kid? How is this any different from those scenes where someone dies of cancer and leaves without saying goodbye? Besides, is it really necessary to leave without saying goodbye?"
Tao Dacheng became more and more excited as he spoke: "We were sworn brothers in kindergarten. This damn thing makes my two-year friendship pale in comparison."
Chen Lu said, "You're not very bright to begin with, so don't flatter yourself."
Come to think of it, Chen Lu couldn't remember how he and Ji Maili had quarreled.
He vaguely remembered that Ji Maili had asked him to teach him how to play basketball on a whim. He had never liked sports, and Shen Lu hadn't asked him why at the time. Ji Maili studied diligently for two days, and then came to tell him that the girl he liked liked boys who played basketball.
At that time, Chen Lu's parents had just divorced, and his mother wanted to take him and his brother away. Chen Lu didn't know how to tell Ji Maili that he was leaving. But at this time, Ji Maili said that he had someone he liked.
What Chen Lu cared about was not who he liked, but that he was no longer the only one he liked. If he was not the only one, it was not important, even if he left, it would not matter.
The next time they met was when they entered the first year of high school. Shen Lu never expected to see him here.
Ji Maili suddenly jumped out and blocked his way, looking like he was ready to fight. Shen Lu was too surprised. He didn't know how to explain his absence without saying goodbye, nor did he want to talk about his family affairs in a hypocritical way. In order to find out which class he was in, he said, "Class no. If you stay outside during class, your class points will be deducted."
It was this sentence that irritated Young Master Ji. From that day on, Ji Maili opposed him in every way and would never show mercy when it came to causing trouble.
He had known Ji Maili's character since he was a child, and he didn't take his little tricks seriously at all. What he couldn't stand were the friends Ji Maili made.
The prerequisite for joining the student union is to become a class monitor first. He hated these troubles the most, but he still took them on one by one. With the title of student union, he had many privileges, such as changing Ji Maili's grades for being late or skipping classes, keeping an eye on Ji Maili, and causing trouble for Ji Maili's "friends".
But every time he punished those people, Ji Maili would retaliate against him. With so much back and forth, in the eyes of others, they had a grudge against each other.
On the day Ji Kai was arrested, he saw the news and went to Ji Maili's house.
The Ji family's house where he used to hang out had been sealed off. Ji Maili squatted alone under a street light and cried. I don't know how sad he was that his voice became hoarse from crying. In the end, he couldn't even make a sound, and just squatted there and trembled.
Ji Maili cried until midnight, and Chen Lu stood at the intersection until midnight.
At that time, all that was left in Shen Lu's heart was regret. If he hadn't quarreled with Ji Maili, if he had reconciled with him earlier, then he could have been with him and comforted him, not letting him cry alone from dusk to dawn.
"Hey, Shenlu, Shenlu!"
Tao Dacheng pushed him and said, "Fuck, what are you thinking? You look like you've lost your soul. It's so scary."
Shen Lu came back to his senses, "Are you brave enough to do anything?"
Tao Dacheng: "No, so don't scare me. If you scare me, you will be responsible."
Shen Lu said in disgust, "I don't want to be responsible for you."
Tao Dacheng nodded sarcastically, "Yeah, of course you don't want to be responsible for me. Who else do you like besides Master Ji?"
Shen Lu refreshed his circle of friends.
Ji Maili finally showed up.
Mai Mai: Missing persons report.
【Private Chat】
-Maimai: My mother fainted due to hypoglycemia. I am in the hospital and will not be going to school this afternoon. Please ask Zhou Luyang to get my schoolbag. I will come to your house to get it tomorrow. By the way, don’t forget to write my self-criticism.
-Chen Lu: Got it. Take good care of Auntie. Also, you'd better cover your face so that Auntie won't faint from shock when she wakes up.
-Mai Mai: [die for me.jpg]
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