When Li Jia arrived at the B University basketball court, the four big guys from the Sweeper had already left triumphantly, while the four members of the Sniper team, including Li Yan, were lying on the court with bruises and swelling on their faces.
Li Jia walked up to the group and, seeing Li Yan's still fiery eyes, calmly asked, "Do you want to take revenge yourself?" Li Jia's words slowly calmed Li Yan's bloodshot eyes, and staring at Li Jia's composed face, Li Yan nodded heavily.
"Get up first, come back with me." After saying that, Li Jia ignored Li Yan and the others and walked out of the basketball court. Several teammates tried to pull Li Yan up, but Li Yan shook them off and staggered behind Li Jia. The other members of the sniper team spat at Li Jia and Li Yan's backs from a distance, then picked up their sports bags, picked up their basketballs, and left the court from the other side.
Li Jia didn't ask what happened in detail along the way, she just drove quietly. Li Yan's eyes were fixed on the front of the car, his fists were clenched tightly. Li Jia didn't ask, and he didn't say anything either. The two of them returned to the dry cleaner.
As soon as she entered the house, Meng Yao saw the bruises on Li Yan's face and the bloodstains around his mouth. She quickly went upstairs, took out a first-aid kit, and pulled Li Yan to the rest area to clean his wounds.
"What happened to Xiaoyan? Did she get into a fight?" Li Xiaoqing asked Li Jia as she walked out from behind the counter toward the rest area.
"You should ask him yourself. I don't know the specifics either." Li Jia sat down in the rest area and gestured for Li Xiaoqing to ask Li Yan herself.
"Xiaoyan, has someone brought up Mom again?" Li Xiaoqing took the cotton swabs from Meng Yao and cleaned the bruises on Li Yan's forehead as she asked casually.
Li Yan didn't speak, but nodded in front of Li Xiaoqing. "I'll make him apologize to me sooner or later!" As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, the wound on his lip was pulled, and his face twitched in pain.
"Brother Li, you'll definitely keep your word, right?" After treating the injuries on his face, Li Yan stared at Li Jia, who was sitting to the side, and asked her solemnly.
"That's right. The premise is that you need to learn how to get along with people. Although you are very outstanding, one person's strength will never be greater than that of two. You don't need to refute me now, nor do you need to agree with me. In time, you will naturally understand." After saying this long-winded explanation, Li Jia got up and went upstairs to the second floor, calling Li Xiaoqing up with her. "Xiaoqing, come up and chat with Brother Li for a while!"
"Oh, okay! You rest here for a while, have some water. Brother Li said he'd definitely do what he said he'd do." Li Xiaoqing finished speaking to Li Yan and got up to go upstairs. She sat down on the sofa in the living room next to Li Jia. "Brother Li, Xiaoyan, he…"
“It’s alright, let’s put his matter aside for now. I suddenly had an idea, can you give Brother Li some advice?” Li Jia finished speaking and adjusted her posture to make herself more comfortable. Li Xiaoqing nodded, “Brother Li, please tell me! What is it?”
"Xiao Yan's personality wasn't like this from the beginning, was it? When did it start? I want to know more. If he continues like this, the setbacks he will face after graduation and entering society will be unbearable for him. Without good interpersonal relationships, his life will become very gloomy and boring. I believe you don't want him to become like this, right?" Li Jia's thoughts were the main task for the next step: to find a way to guide Li Yan towards a normal personality development.
Although it's not apparent now, based on Li Jia's understanding of him, Li Yan's arrogance is deeply ingrained. He looks down on everyone around him and disdains communicating with them, always believing he can handle everything himself. If this arrogant personality is allowed to develop unchecked, the only result will be isolation. No one wants to experience being friendless.
"Xiaoyan used to be very well-behaved. He became like this because of his mother's death. Since the day his mother passed away, he has stopped talking to anyone on his own initiative. Even at home, he rarely interacts with me and Xiaotong."
Later, his personality became increasingly aloof, and he also became adept at pretending. He would not get angry unless it involved his mother, at least not on the surface.
In the teacher's eyes, he was a model student. Although he was surrounded by classmates, none of them were willing to truly interact with him, and he himself disdained deeper relationships with them. Because at school, he couldn't get any help from his classmates, his personality became increasingly unacceptable to them, leading to his current state. Li Xiaoqing organized her thoughts and recounted a long story about Li Yan.
"You mean Xiaoyan looks like a well-behaved child on the outside, but is actually very proud inside, so proud that he even looks down on everyone around him?" Li Jia extracted some key points from Li Xiaoqing's words and asked calmly.
"Yes, that's it. Xiaotong and I have tried many methods, but none of them have worked. Brother Li, do you have any ideas? I'm afraid that if Xiaoyan continues like this, something bad will happen to her in the future..." After Li Xiaoqing finished speaking, she looked at Li Jia expectantly, waiting for Li Jia's answer.
"Don't worry, with Brother Li here, everything will be fine! Okay! Let's go downstairs and have dinner! Leave this to Brother Li!" Li Jia gave Li Xiaoqing a positive answer, patted Li Xiaoqing's shoulder, got up and went downstairs. Downstairs, Meng Yao, Li Yan, Zhou Xiaoyu and Li Xiaotong were all sitting on the sofa chatting. It was obvious that today's work had been completed ahead of schedule.
"Let's go! Xiaoyu, lock the door. Let's walk to eat. We can't fit so many people in the car!" Li Feng waved and led the way out of the store.
With so many people, what to eat for lunch? In the end, the vote was for hot pot! The score was four to two. The girls' love for hot pot was unusually persistent, and they wanted to eat it for lunch! Since the vote was over, the group chose a hot pot stall on Xuefu Road and enjoyed a delicious hot pot meal. They didn't return to the restaurant until 2 pm.
The store was mostly done for the day, so Li Jia took Li Xiaoqing and her two siblings home. She also called Jiang Ling, who was working overtime, for a quick chat. Jiang Ling had been incredibly busy lately, so Li Jia didn't ask her anything specific. After dropping the siblings off, Li Jia went back to the store and pulled Meng Yao upstairs, saying mysteriously, "I want to be a teacher!"
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