Chapter 372: Evil (1)
Rainy night.
The cold raindrops fell thick and fierce, pelting the pale yellow umbrella. The sky was a depressing dark grey, thick clouds rolling and gloomy. Muffled thunder roared through it, bringing a sudden, oppressive feeling.
Qiao Xi was wearing red rain boots.
I walked through the small puddles formed by rainwater and headed towards the park.
The green plants on both sides of the road were silent in the rain, with only the rapid dripping sound of raindrops falling, which seemed particularly harsh in this quiet and empty street.
This is a park that children usually like to hang out in.
There are slides, seesaws, and ponies that get wet.
Qiao Xi just arrived here.
Before she could even get used to the change, she had to go and pick up her stepfather's son, who was now her stepfather.
She has now become a family member of one of the F4.
This was a reconstituted family. Her mother, in her assumed body, was philandering, promiscuous, and playful. She was often away from home, simply looking for a replacement. Her stepfather was an alcoholic, gambling, and violent man who abused his son with both beatings and verbal abuse.
The family environment is not very good.
Today was the first day the reconstituted family moved in, and she had never seen her younger brother. She only knew that he hadn't come home from school, and her stepfather had scolded her and told her to go out and look for him.
"Zhan Qi, are you here?"
The girl asked softly in a hesitant voice.
A slender and distinct hand stretched out from the small house in the middle of the slide. Qiao Xi walked around it and saw an indifferent boy sitting inside with his legs curled up, carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder.
His school uniform was washed a little pale.
It looked clean and neat when worn, but it was a bit difficult for a boy of his height to fit into the small slide. His light brown eyes turned away coldly when they met Qiao Xi's gaze.
Refuse to communicate.
He didn't seem to want to say anything to the girl.
Zhan Qi is from the class next to hers, and is only three months younger than her. Qiao Xi's identity is set as one of the many passers-by cannon fodder, and the male protagonist generally has no impression of these people.
Zhan Qi is no exception.
The boy came out of the slide casually carrying his schoolbag. His school uniform was already half wet. It was raining heavily and he didn't want to go back, so he just hid here.
"Are you the daughter that Zhan Hao was talking about?"
Zhan Hao, Zhan Qi's father.
"Well, Uncle Zhan asked me to come and find you home."
Qiao Xi nodded slightly and looked at the boy next to her who was half a head taller than her. She tilted the light yellow umbrella in her hand towards him and raised it a little higher.
Zhan Qi let her hold an umbrella for him.
He walked on his own with one hand in his pocket, and the girl caught up with him.
This is the campus F4.
Unlike the popular F4 in other Mary Sue campus novels, if you must say, they are more like the school bully F4. Plus, this is a remote town, so each of them is doing very well.
The only ones who study hard are Class 1 and Class 2.
The rest are basically mixed.
In the original plot, the heroine Bai Zhizhi was admitted to Class 2, which is Qiao Xi's current class, as soon as she transferred here because of her good grades.
As for this F4.
There are Yan Shen from Class 1, Yu Zhi from Class 2, Zhan Qi from Class 3, and Yan Liang from Class 4.
Yan Shen's family background is not small.
He was sent here by his parents to avoid disputes first, and would return to inherit the family business when the situation in his family stabilized. Yan Liang and Yu Zhi had not been introduced much yet, but Yu Zhi's family also had some background.
These four people are all male protagonists in the original plot.
Everyone has their own strengths.
Qiao Xi followed Zhan Qi home holding an umbrella.
Just opened the door and went in.
The smell of greasy food that had been left in the house for a long time soon wafted over, and the intermittent sounds of a middle-aged man burping while watching TV and picking his teeth with a toothpick could be heard.
Qiao Xi changed into slippers.
The young man, surrounded by icy vapor, stood motionless, his face cold and grim. His dark eyes flickered slightly, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
"Zhan Qi, change your shoes."
She took the boy's slippers off the shoe rack and put them away.
The house was cleaned just two days ago.
After all, they had just started living together, so no matter how sloppy they were, they were still newly remarried. Without saying a word, Zhan Qi changed into slippers, picked up her bag, and walked straight through the living room, ready to go back to her room.
A middle-aged man with a big belly sitting shirtless on the sofa.
Saw him.
He immediately got upset and yelled at the top of his voice, "You've grown wings, haven't you? You don't even know how to call your father Dad when you see him? Get out here, you just stay in your room all day long, look at you, what are you going to achieve with that horrible look!"
Zhan Qi tightened his grip on the strap of his schoolbag.
He turned around and walked back without saying a word, into the living room, away from the sofa.
The broken hair slightly covers it.
Blocking the wolf cub-like hateful and stubborn gaze, the middle-aged man immediately became annoyed with him, slammed the table and stood up, grabbed the feather duster next to him and hit him.
"I'm itching for you! How dare you not come back!"
Qiao Xi was standing next to him, her eyelids twitching.
Zhan Qi had no intention of dodging and just stood there enduring the beating. The middle-aged man cursed and hit him hard.
After just two slaps, Qiao Xi couldn't bear to watch any longer.
She quickly put away her umbrella and stepped forward to stand between the two of them. Because of her sudden appearance, the middle-aged man's hand waving the feather duster froze before it touched her.
Before this man loses his temper.
Qiao Xi spoke first.
"Uncle, he might have stayed to study and it started raining and he didn't have an umbrella, so he came back late."
The girl's voice was timid and cautious, filled with nervousness and uneasiness. The figure standing in front of Zhan Qi was petite, but extremely determined.
……have a finger in the pie.
Zhan Qi glanced at her and didn't intend to make excuses for her. He left the girl there and picked up his bag and turned back to the room.
"What's the point of learning? What can he learn with his dead look?"
Outside the room was the sound of a middle-aged man cursing and the young girl's anxious and pale defense of him.
There was constant noise outside.
The man's angry shouting became louder and louder, until the clear sound of porcelain bowls falling to the ground and breaking was heard, and all the noisy sounds were instantly quieted.
Immediately following.
There was the loud bang of the man cursing and leaving, and the door slamming heavily.
Then there was no more movement.
Zhan Qi unzipped his schoolbag. He was indifferent to everything that was happening outside. He spread out the weekly comic book that he had snatched from someone today and read it.
Qiao Xi in the living room.
Looking at the leftovers and broken bowls scattered all over the floor, she sighed slightly. Her identity was quite miserable. Her parents were not at home, so she had to do almost everything.
Even if you don't do it, it won't work.
The grumpy middle-aged stepfather would curse like he did just now, and if you don't work, you will be called a money-loser.
Plus this era.
It seems that smartphones had not yet become popular. It was the era of using PHS, and not every student at that time had a smartphone.
They now live together as a family.
Even the house is rented. Just now, the stepfather went out to gamble again. Her mother of such status lives in the big city and only comes home once a month.
Zhan Qi locked himself in his room when he got home and didn't eat much.
So now only Qiao Xi is left.
She used her cleaning skills to clean up the leftovers on the floor at once, and also ordered the broom to clean up the broken bowls and put them into the trash can.
This is the dinner table.
It seemed that these were all the leftover food that the man had left over from the previous few days.
The taste was really not very pleasant, so in order to be convenient and avoid waste, the stingy man put it in the refrigerator and shared the dish over several meals.
He also scolded his son for not eating.
However, Qiao Xi also found it difficult to eat the food after smelling the sour smell. Her stepfather had just lost his temper and smashed the bowl. He probably wouldn't be back tonight.
Qiao Xi cleaned up the mess.
There were still some food in the fridge, but she didn't plan on touching it. Given her stepfather's stingy nature, he probably wouldn't let her mess around. She simply made some sweet egg noodles to fill her stomach.
When taking out the noodles.
She thought about it and made one for Zhan Qi as well.
After all, they are still growing teenagers, and they need to keep up with their nutrition. It's really hard for a child to have such unreliable parents. Lack of love and low self-esteem, no one cares when they grow up abnormally.
Although I don’t know the specific plot of the original text.
But in the end, the heroine was killed and dismembered by these four people.
These four people probably have some problems that affect their personalities.
Qiao Xi was holding sweet egg noodles.
He came to the boy's door and knocked: "There's no dinner tonight. I cooked some noodles. Make do with it. I'll leave them at the door for you."
There was no response from the boy.
Qiao Xi put away the dishes and chopsticks, making sure they wouldn't be kicked, and then quietly left.
So much has happened in just a short time.
She hadn't had a chance to sort out the timeline yet, but now she finally had some free time. Qiao Xi took her copy back to her room and opened the script to read the newly added plot.
Now the timeline.
It was a week after the heroine Bai Zhizhi transferred to the school. Everything was fine when she first arrived, and the problems were not exposed so quickly.
F4 has not yet started to be interested in the female lead.
Qiao Xi ate egg noodles with a slurp. There was no homework in this school in the small town, and the students were all day students and did not live on campus.
It's completely free-range.
It’s up to you to learn or not. If you don’t want to learn, forget it.
But with the investment from the Yan family, the school is not too bad, and the teachers and environment are still acceptable.
After eating the noodles, Qiao Xi went to take a shower and wash up.
After I finish packing, I go to bed on time because I have to go to school early the next morning.
The room opposite.
Zhan Qi had finished reading the weekly comics. He subconsciously touched his empty belly and suddenly remembered that Qiao Xi seemed to have come before and put something in his belly.
Open the door.
Zhan Qi saw a bowl of egg noodles by the door. He brought it into the room in silence. The noodles were a little lumpy.
Still warm though.
Zhan Qi was eating, and his cold eyes seemed to soften under the dim light of the street lamp outside the window.
Just as Qiao Xi expected.
My stepfather didn't come home all night.
The next morning she got up early, made a simple breakfast, wrote a note as usual and left a copy for Zhan Qi before going to school.
The boy's door was locked.
They probably haven't woken up yet. F4 has always been capricious about their class time and won't come to school before noon.
Haven't entered the class yet.
Qiao Xi heard the noisy chattering of students and also keenly caught the dissatisfied scolding of several girls.
"Did you give Jiamin expired candy on purpose?"
Qiao Xi walked into the classroom.
I returned to my seat with my schoolbag on my back and looked towards the center of the noise.
She is indeed a transparent person.
She had no presence in the class and no one noticed her coming in.
Qiao Xi noticed the outstanding heroine at first sight. She was a pure and lovely girl with fair skin and picturesque eyes and eyebrows. However, at this moment, she looked a little flustered.
The girl has a single ponytail.
Revealing her delicate neck and beautiful and elegant lines, such a fair and delicate girl looks so cute that people want to bully her.
She looked utterly bewildered.
There was also a small bag of candy on the desk, which he brought from home and prepared to share with classmates.
"I...I'm not. The candy isn't expired."
Bai Zhizhi waved her hands quickly.
She turned around and took the candy on the desk, wanting to prove that she was right. However, the candy she brought was in bulk and had no production date.
The other side.
There was a girl lying on the desk with one hand covering her stomach, while several of her best friends stood by and stood up for her.
Qiao Xi just came in.
I saw Jiamin’s best friend questioning Bai Zhizhi.
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