Only then did Bai Youwei’s gaze slowly move to Chen Hui’s face.
“Yesterday?” she asked in confusion. “What about yesterday?”
Chen Hui’s face reddened. She said directly, “Yesterday Liao Jingjing said I like your brother. Don’t believe her. She’s talking nonsense.”
Bai Youwei looked at Chen Hui calmly.
Chen Hui, being stared at continuously, felt somewhat uncomfortable. Just as she was about to speak, she heard Bai Youwei lightly say “Oh,” then withdraw her gaze, no longer looking at her.
Chen Hui breathed a sigh of relief.
Then her heart filled with mixed feelings. She’d lost sleep all night over this matter, yet Bai Youwei had such a casual reaction.
Forget it, forget it. As long as there’s no misunderstanding, that’s good.
She lifted her foot to leave. Just then, she heard Bai Youwei ask slowly, “Why don’t you like him? Isn’t he good?”
Chen Hui’s eyes widened. “He’s so much older than me!”
She was only fifteen. Shen Mo looked at least twenty-five or twenty-six!
“Oh, you like younger ones…” Bai Youwei asked, “Like Tan Xiao? Tan Xiao seems to have just turned twenty.”
“Why would I have to like them?!” Chen Hui felt Bai Youwei was toying with her and became somewhat angry. “At this stage, I won’t consider any romantic issues! I just want to study hard and in the future…”
Her voice stopped. Her expression also stiffened.
…Study hard and get into a good university in the future…
But now, even the school was gone. What meaning did her dreams have?
Forget it.
She didn’t want to discuss this with Bai Youwei. Feeling dejected, she started to walk away, only to have Bai Youwei call her back. “Hey, do me a favor.”
Chen Hui looked back at her suspiciously.
Bai Youwei raised her chin, indicating the other side. “That student—do you know him? Call him over.”
Chen Hui didn’t understand. “Call him for what?”
Bai Youwei: “To eat noodles.”
Chen Hui: “…”
She looked at Bai Youwei strangely, then shouted in that direction, “Lin Zihang, come here!”
It wasn’t too far away, but somehow the male student seemed dazed. He sat among a group of students in his school uniform, as if he hadn’t woken up, with no reaction at all.
Chen Hui frowned and called two more times. “Lin Zihang! …Lin Zihang! Come over here!”
The students beside him all heard. They reached out to push him. “Hey, Lin Zihang, Chen Hui is calling you.”
Only then did Lin Zihang have some reaction.
Just a little.
He slowly raised his head, searching for Chen Hui’s figure in the crowd. Chen Hui waved vigorously at him again before Lin Zihang finally saw her.
He walked over step by step…
“Lin Zihang is so strange today.” Chen Hui was somewhat worried. “He couldn’t be sick, could he? There’s no doctor here. It better not be illness.”
Bai Youwei looked at the student gradually approaching, asking indifferently, “Do you like him?”
Chen Hui was truly angry now, frowning at her. “Do you have to talk like this?!”
“It’s fine if you don’t like him.” Bai Youwei’s expression remained indifferent. “I see he has no energy. Give him your bowl of noodles.”
Bai Youwei’s words made Chen Hui feel uncomfortable all over, but Lin Zihang’s appearance was indeed not quite right. She handed over the noodle bowl, saying to Lin Zihang, “Why are you so listless? Teacher Cheng made noodles. Eat some. Hold it at the bottom, don’t get burned…”
Before she finished speaking, she felt Bai Youwei tug her clothing!
Caught off guard, the noodle bowl in her hand instantly tipped over, spilling soup and noodles all over Lin Zihang!
“What are you doing?!” Chen Hui stared wide-eyed at Lin Zihang’s blue and white school uniform stained with large patches of tomato soup. Anxious to the point where even her hair seemed ready to stand on end, she raised her hand to help wipe it, only to discover Lin Zihang had no reaction.
Such hot noodle soup—could he not feel it?
Chen Hui felt her heart seize.
She instinctively looked at Bai Youwei, only to see Bai Youwei pick up the cane beside her, raise her hand, and reach forward with a poke—
Without using much force, Lin Zihang was knocked down!