Both he slits his personal throat.

Or Xia Zhiye dies by hearth.

In any case, if the fool talked about Madagascar yet another time, both he or Xia Zhiye, one in every of them would disappear.

From right here on, Tune Yan pretended as if he had by no means met this particular person, shut off his cellphone, tossed it into his desk drawer, randomly picked out a worksheet, and left his new desk mate with the facet profile of his chilly and expressionless face.

This little desk mate was fairly fairly, but it surely appears his mood was a bit dangerous.

Xia Zhiye soundlessly frowned, and didn’t say the rest. He simply pulled out the seat close to the aisle, sat down, and stated to the coed on the desk in entrance: “Let me copy your homework.”

“Okay!” The little fatty in entrance respectfully pulled out a pile of worksheets, “Your Majesty, which topic would you wish to peruse first?”

“Which topic is being collected first?”

“English, your majesty.”

“Then that one.”

“Yessir!”

The 2 echoed this acquainted play, and it may very well be seen at a look that they did this typically.

Tune Yan took a fast look, and felt that this type of idiotic buddy system in all probability couldn’t assist the despot of No.3 Center Excessive.

However this peek was caught by Xia Zhiye, whose mind was one-sided, and with a smirk, stated: “What’s it, is it that your desk mate is tremendous good-looking?”

Tune Yan coldly and heartlessly used a crimson pen to mark an ‘X’ within the worksheet: “I simply really feel that this type of social brother1 additionally copies homework, is kind of laborious to return by.”

Xia Zhiye contemplated over this “social brother” nickname, and chuckled: “In any case, isn’t it simply loving the job I took up? As a pupil, I shouldn’t disrespect the lecturers, doesn’t that make sense?”

Appears fairly boastful.

Tune Yan almost needed to present him just a little crimson flower2.

Though Shen Jiayan’s checklist of harmful folks was stuffed with nonsense, it bought one factor proper – that’s to remain distant from Xia Zhiye.

In any case, it’s frequent data that being loopy has the phenomena of individual to individual transmission.

And he has no want to smash his mind at a younger age.

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Usually talking, the afternoon on the primary day of faculty was normally left for college kids to revise their homework. Though the admissions fee at Nan Wu’s No.3 Center Excessive was not excessive, there was fairly a little bit of homework assigned.

For your entire afternoon, the Xia Zhiye who was busy giving lecturers respect may very well be thought of to be quiet.

Tune Yan additionally took out the worksheets that Shen Jiayan despatched over and in addition accomplished them.

Simply as he completed, Ruan Tian appeared on the doorway: “College students, I’m right here to make a couple of bulletins.”

Everybody was busy revising their homework, and nobody paid consideration to her.

Ruan Tian additionally appeared for use to it, and stood on the podium: “The primary announcement is that tomorrow morning, the category exercise price of 80 yuan is to be collected. Hand it over to the sports activities committee member. The second announcement is that I’ve two items of excellent information, which do you need to hear first?”

Nonetheless, nobody paid her any consideration.

“Then I’ll first say the considerably excellent news first. As a result of remedial classes will proceed till September, there shall be no mid-semester break. So to alleviate everybody’s burdens, the varsity has determined that from now till September 1st, all of the second years do not need to attend morning and night self research.”

There was a brief interval of silence.

“Fuck! I didn’t hear incorrect, proper? The college is lastly performing like an individual?!”

“Tian mei3 is essentially the most lovely girl! Lengthy stay Tian mei!”

“Then Tian mei, what’s the not so good piece of reports then?”

The initially listless classroom grew to become energetic as soon as extra.

Ruan Tian smiled sweetly: “The not so excellent news is that on the finish of the month, we’ll maintain a grand and ceremonious joint examination with No.5 Center Excessive, No.8 Center Excessive, No.11 Center Excessive, and No.24 Center Excessive.”

The viewers that simply got here to life swiftly died right away.

“Aw, don’t be like this.” Ruan Tian added a couple of phrases, “To encourage everybody’s enthusiasm for the check this time, the varsity particularly put aside a small scholarship with the intention of rewarding the scholars who rank within the prime ten within the joint entrance examination, in addition to a prize for essentially the most improved pupil. Everybody, cheer up!”

Everybody died just a little extra inside.

They had been to not blame, No.3 Center Excessive’s degree of training was simply at this degree. Other than the unprecedented state of affairs of the coed who broke into the highest ten final 12 months, yearly the highest ten scorers had been normally divided up into college students from No.5 Center Excessive and No.11 Center Excessive. So irrespective of how a lot cash was put aside for them, it had nothing to do with them.

As for essentially the most improved award, everybody knew what they spent their time on in the course of the summer season break. To not do worse than earlier than would already be thought of an extrajudicial act of nice fortune from Buddha, how may they ask for something extra.

Ruan Tian was exasperated: “Overlook it, you guys play it by ear then. Right now’s self research is now over. Tomorrow morning, the lecturers for every topic will study all of the homework. You all ought to revise what you need to revise. If you happen to actually can’t full all of it, go away English homework for final, okay?

“O……ok……ay……”

“Have a look at you guys taking part in useless. Class is dismissed.”

“Aw yeah! Time to eat! Let’s go!”

The classroom instantly grew to become abandoned, forsaking Ruan Tian on the very entrance of the classroom, and Tune Yan and Xia Zhiye on the very again of the classroom.

From starting to finish, Xia Zhiye declined 4 or 5 folks’s invitation to dinner, and leaned his head to take a look at Tune Yan: “This worldwide good friend from Madagascar, how about I deal with you to dinner?”

Tune Yan’s face remained unperturbed as he packed his bag: “If you happen to say that phrase once more, I’ve no qualms with peeling off your tongue and delivery it off to a desert in Madagascar to pin onto a cactus to show it to 7 days and seven nights of scorching daylight.”

“……”

It was clear that nobody would dare to talk to this society brother like this usually, and Xia Zhiye’s expression confirmed a little bit of shock.

“So please transfer apart.”

Tune Yan carried his backpack and stood up, and with a downward gaze, checked out No.3 Center Excessive’s little tyrant subsequent to him with an oppressive expression as if saying  “should you provoke laozi once more, laozi can’t promise not doing something to you.”

Xia Zhiye barely raised his head, held eye contact with him for 3 seconds, after which leisurely spit out three phrases: “You’re so fierce.”

Tune Yan: “……”

Mhm fuck you, my fist is able to go4.

He was nearly to throw out Xia Zhiye and the chair he was sitting on together with him, as he was blocking the exit to his seat, when Ruan Tian, who was nonetheless standing on the podium, stated: “How come the 2 of you’re nonetheless right here?”

Xia Zhiye turned his head, and leisurely replied: “Reporting to the instructor, earlier this afternoon, pupil Tune Yan helped me out with a giant drawback, so I need to deal with him to dinner to precise my gratitude.”

“Ah, so it’s like that.” Ruan Tian’s face was as if she had been immediately enlightened, “Then pupil Tune Yan ought to shortly go. It simply so occurs that you may seize the chance to strengthen the bonds of friendship, domesticate a superb relationship, and a tacit understanding. The joint examination’s grades are all as much as you, combating!”

Tune Yan: “……”

Who the fuck desires to strengthen the bonds of friendship with this fool.

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Below the pressure of Ruan Tian herself exiting the varsity with them, Tune Yan may solely agree with a paralyzed face.

The previous avenue at nightfall was far more pleasing to the attention.

Although it was simply as crowded and noisy, every storefront lit up lights, and grilled lobster was organized abundantly at every stall. As soon as the meals entered the pot, a burst of smoke and oil arose, and an array of spices and herbs may very well be smelled within the air without delay. With the folks all shouting with laughter or with anger, the road appeared a lot brighter and lovable.

Xia Zhiye requested: “You in all probability by no means ate at this type of place earlier than.”

Tune Yan didn’t reply.

As a result of he actually had not come to this type of place to eat earlier than.

Though his mom died early, and his father detested him, with reference to his materials life, he had lived lavishly for so long as he may keep in mind, significantly as he grew with age. The extra Tune Minghai labored, the larger his enterprise grew, and within the internal metropolis of Beijing, he may very well be thought of a bonafide wealthy second technology.

It wasn’t as if he seemed down on these sorts of locations, it was purely as a result of he had no probability to go to.

Xia Zhiye noticed his expression, guessed that he was in all probability proper, and lazily threw his hand on his shoulder: “Advantageous, then right now I’ll deal with you to a giant meal, and allow you to see what it means to have a grasp among the many folks.”

Within the subsequent second, his claws had been forcefully pushed off: “Don’t fucking mess with me.”

“We’re all brothers, what’s incorrect with placing my arm in your shoulder.”

“Who the fuck is your brother.”

“We fought collectively, stood within the rain collectively, met one another’s mother and father collectively, instructed lies collectively, and we nonetheless aren’t thought of brothers?”

“……”

Tune Yan unexpectedly couldn’t refute this for a brief time period.

So this brother took him backwards and forwards by means of the crowds of the old style avenue, took seven or eight turns, and walked uphill and downhill.

Lastly stopping at a trolley hidden from the road: “Auntie, two massive bowls of combined pea noodles, and one other massive bowl of wolftooth potatoes5.”

Tune Yan: “?”

If he noticed appropriately, the roof of the cart was roughly 1 meter broad, with a coal furnace organized subsequent to it and a big pot was positioned on prime of the furnace. Two collapsible tables had been set out together with a couple of stools, after which that was it.

Tune Yan: “Large meal?”

Xia Zhiye: “This bowl isn’t sufficiently big?”

Tune Yan: “……”

It actually was massive, virtually as massive as Tune Yan’s face.

The minced meat was unfold thickly, the crimson chili oil was unfold generously, the wolftooth potatoes had been fried a golden brown and sprinkled with cumin and chili flakes. All the pieces smelled significantly aromatic.

The girl promoting the noodles was skinny and appeared misplaced, and her eyes had been so giant they gave the impression to be bulging. When she was serving up the noodles, she energetically gestured one thing at Xia Zhiye, and her face was filled with an trustworthy and joyful smile.

Xia Zhiye handed the cash to her, however she was unwilling to take it, and he or she pushed it away desperately. On the finish, it wasn’t till Xia Zhiye stated “If you happen to hold performing like this, I received’t come again” that she reluctantly took the cash, and continued on to assist the opposite friends.

In the meantime Tune Yan had already used a couple of tissues to wipe the desk and stools thrice.

“Watch out.” Xia Zhiye carelessly tossed his bag to the bottom, pulled aside the one time use chopsticks and handed it over to Tune Yan, “Strive it.”

Tune Yan actually had no means of understanding why this particular person took him round for the higher a part of the day, simply to carry him to eat a bowl of noodles at this nook avenue cart which will or could not have a enterprise license.

However he additionally wouldn’t go as far as to unreasonably throw a tantrum like a younger grasp.

After taking the chopsticks, he then took a chew of the noodles. The noodles had been each tender and slippery and the minced meat was salted completely. The style was unexpectedly fairly good.

Nevertheless even when it tasted good, it nonetheless wasn’t definitely worth the almost ten minute stroll to eat a bowl, so he felt that Xia Zhiye was kind of just a little loopy, and he simply needed to shortly end consuming and go away this particular person.

However there’s a saying that “issues prove opposite to what one’s needs.”

In the meantime there may be additionally one other saying, “enemies meet on a slim street.”

The 2 sat behind the trolley close to the sting of the steps minding their very own enterprise and consuming their noodles after they heard a well-known sound spoiling the temper.

“Yo, girl boss, your enterprise is booming.”

“Wu wu, wu wu wu.”

“Cease gesturing, we are able to’t even perceive it. Simply take out the cash.”

“Wu wu wu!”

“Why are you making a lot noise, you opening this type of noodle stand used fairly a little bit of our boss’s advantages, no? In any other case how may a mute woman such as you open a stand? We’re simply amassing your safety price and also you’re nonetheless sad, don’t you perceive having a way of…… Fuck! Who threw these chopsticks!”

“Sorry, it slipped out of my arms.”

Xia Zhiye wiped his arms, rotated, and with raised eyes, seemed on the different, giving off the looks that he was each undisciplined, and laborious to impress.

That group of beforehand boastful feather dusters stared blankly.

After three seconds.

“Fuck! Xia Zhiye! Why the fuck are you all over the place!”

The crimson haired hen was near having a breakdown, and even that place that can not be named already started having ghost pains.

Xia Zhiye earnestly replied: “It’s in all probability future.”

“What fucking future!” The crimson haired hen held up a small knife and pointed it at them, howling aggressively, “Laozi received’t hassle in regards to the stuff this afternoon, however this time it has nothing to do with you, cease meddling, or else don’t blame me for being impolite!”

If he hadn’t seen this group of individuals flee in defeat earlier right now, Tune Yan in all probability would have been intimidated.

However that scene was simply too profound, to the extent that there was not even just a little sense of concern or nervousness. He merely put down his chopsticks apathetically, took out his cellphone, and ready to dial 110.

But Xia Zhiye pressed down on his wrist.

Tune Yan raised his eyes: “It is a lawful society.”

Xia Zhiye’s face was stuffed with deep emotion: “I do know. However this stall doesn’t have a enterprise license.”

Tune Yan: “……”

Seems it actually didn’t have a fucking enterprise license.

If he did name the police, maybe even the pot can be taken away and the mute woman’s option to make a residing can be damaged off.

Tune Yan couldn’t do one thing like that.

So with out altering his expression, he modified Shen Jiayan’s identify to 110, after which dialed it: “Whats up, is that this 110, I need to report one thing to the police.”

Shen Jiayan on the opposite facet of the cellphone: “?”

The feather duster on this facet of the cellphone: “??”

“Bro! He really known as the police!”

“Younger folks not often have any advantage!”

The feather duster first to react threw himself over, getting ready to grab Tune Yan’s cellphone.

Tune Yan reacted extraordinarily shortly, raised his cellphone excessive whereas standing up and walked backwards.

However his foot by chance stepped on air subsequent to the sting of the steps, and he twisted his ankle. He immediately sucked in a breath of chilly air, and his complexion modified.

Upon seeing this, Xia Zhiye stated nothing, stood up, grabbed the stool and ruthlessly smacked it on the head of the one that was attempting to seize the cellphone.

A sound echoed, and that particular person painfully lined his head and fell to the bottom.

Xia Zhiye stood subsequent to him, and a lightweight glinted from the nook of his eye. He lazily swept his gaze over the others: “Anybody else?”

Contemporary blood dripped down from the stool onto the bottom, a pointy distinction to the pale and slim fingers, considerably surprising to see.

Everybody else: “……”

Didn’t actually dare.

“If you happen to don’t dare to proceed, then you need to make the most of the truth that we didn’t inform the police the deal with but and run, or else we received’t allow you to off simply.” The youth’s voice was relaxed and lackadaisical, but it surely wasn’t laborious to listen to the chilly and ruthless which means in his phrases.

Not like the earlier informal perspective in direction of combating, the Xia Zhiye this time appeared to take it extra critically.

Along with the actual fact that there have been extra passerbys, making a giant fuss would additionally profit nobody. The crimson haired hen thought of it for a second, grinded his tooth: “I’ll allow you to off right now, we’ll discuss this debt later. Let’s go, brothers.”

The group of individuals shortly disappeared into the gang on the road.

Xia Zhiye tossed apart the stool, then walked to Tune Yan and kneeled down. He reached his hand out to roll up the cuffs of Tune Yan’s pants. Tune Yan needed to keep away from it, however Xia Zhiye’s hand calmly gripped his ankle.

The youth’s excessively skinny ankle bone chafed the hole of his palm, giving off a way of fragility.

Xia Zhiye’s fingertip caressed the realm: “It’s swollen, I’ll take you to the hospital.”

Tune Yan extracted his ankle: “No want, I’ll go on my own.”

Xia Zhiye raised his head to take a look at him: “How are you going to go by your self?”

“Take a cab.”

“What sort of cab do you assume can drive in right here?”

“……”

Seeing the defeat on the face of the younger grasp, Xia Zhiye couldn’t assist however calmly chuckle: “Don’t fear little class mate. I’ll take accountability of you. So would you quite be carried like a child, or a princess carry?”

Tune Yan’s face was apathetic: “I’d quite die.”

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Such a fairly little classmate, there’s no means he needs to be left to die. In the end, Tune Yan was forcefully carried by Xia Zhiye to the curb, and a cab was known as to take them to the hospital.

It was already very late at night time by the point they returned to the dorms.

The dorm auntie noticed Tune Yan’s leg in a forged without delay, and couldn’t maintain again her cry of alarm: “Aiyah, how did this occur? Is it severe?”

Tune Yan leaned on his crutch: “No want, it’s not severe.”

It actually was not severe, it was simply an ankle ligament pressure, and wasn’t that severe. He simply wanted to placed on a forged, recuperate for 2 weeks, and take anti-swelling and anti inflammatory medicines, and he can be advantageous.

It’s simply that after this type of lovely and clear younger grasp will get damage, it significantly attracts one’s sympathy, and the aunty was exceedingly distressed trying on the harm. She glared at Xia Zhiye with a glance of “blaming the scumbag”: “Did you do that?”

Xia Zhiye didn’t hesitate: “Yeah, it’s my drawback.”

The aunty gained enthusiasm: “I knew it! Let me let you know, it doesn’t matter should you’re wild by your self, however don’t provoke the brand new pupil, okay? However seeing as you already attracted bother, then you need to man up, and take accountability. You need to correctly deal with others, do you perceive?

Xia Zhiye nodded: “Aunty, don’t fear. I shall be accountable for Tune Yan.”

The aunty was glad: “That’s about proper. Then you definately guys hurry up and relaxation, and sleep early. Don’t depend on your youth to mess around in the course of the night time, you heard me?”

Xia Zhiye nodded as soon as once more: “Mm, I bought it. I received’t mess around with him at night time.”

The aunty seemed over at Tune Yan once more: “And also you?”

Tune Yan: “……”

He didn’t know why the extra he listened to this dialog the extra he felt one thing was incorrect, so he didn’t actually need to partake within the dialog.

However the aunt’s concern was apparent and tough to refuse, so he may solely harden his scalp: “I bought it.”

The aunty may then be thought of totally glad, and proceeded to go away.

Xia Zhiye tilted his head to take a look at Tune Yan, and laughed ambiguously: “Come, classmate Tune Yan, to take accountability for you, shall I hug you up the steps?”

Tune Yan coolly tossed out two phrases: “Fuck off.”

He then leaned on his crutch and ready to depend on his personal efforts to climb up Nan Wu’s No.3 Center Excessive’s dorm’s insurmountable top of six storeys.

However whereas climbing up step one, a “ka-cha” may very well be heard, and the traditional, hospital-provided, picket crutch cracked aside with a sound of defeat.

Tune Yan: “……”

Xia Zhiye: “……”

Later, Xia Zhiye utterly couldn’t maintain again and laughed out loud: “Okay, I received’t tease you anymore. Which room, I’ll assist you to up.”

Tune Yan woodenly tossed apart the crutch: “616.”

Xia Zhiye raised his eyebrow: “The room quantity’s not dangerous, fairly fortunate.”

Fortunate my ass.

If he had been actually fortunate, it was unlikely for him to be this unlucky.

Tune Yan had on a bitter expression, as if he had been mourning a deceased mom or father, and accepted Xia Zhiye’s proffered arm. Whereas borrowing the opposite’s energy, the pair of 1 a lame and the opposite a crutch, walked as much as the sixth flooring.

It’s cheap to say that this complete fiasco wasn’t solely Xia Zhiye’s fault.

In any case, the opposite simply needed to deal with him to a meal, and didn’t count on to fulfill the group of little gangsters. After assembly the gangsters, it was additionally himself who thought to name the police which subsequently attracted the gangsters’ ire, and brought on him to sprain his ankle.

On this whole state of affairs, there was no fault in Xia Zhiye’s subjective wishes in any respect.

However Tune Yan felt that he and Xia Zhiye’s characters had been seemingly innately incompatible, in any other case it might be unlikely that their first assembly was adopted by a struggle, nor would he make himself briefly disabled.

Additionally, this particular person’s mind appeared to have some points.

So with the intuition to cherish his life and IQ, Tune Yan determined that the farther away he was from Xia Zhiye, the higher it was.

It could be greatest if they may stay and die with none additional contact.

Or else he was afraid that he wouldn’t have the ability to maintain again, leading to a fatality.

Whereas pondering, they arrived on the door of room 616. Tune Yan took his bag again from Xia Zhiye’s hand, and coldly noticed him out: “We’re right here. Thanks. Take care. See your self out.”

However Xia Zhiye stood in the identical spot, unmoving.

Tune Yan impatiently raised his eyes, and pushed down his irritability: “You don’t want to return and sleep?”

Xia Zhiye lowered his head and checked out him: “I need to return and sleep, however……”

“Spit it out.”

“The door is blocked.”

“?”

“I can also’t manhandle an injured particular person.”

“……”

“So would you thoughts transferring a bit, let me open the honorable door to 616 after which focus on this?”

“…………”

Open what, Tune Yan needed to immediately burn down the door.

1. Social brother (社会哥), a time period of irony meant for somebody who acts vulgarly or who’ve poor disposition however act arrogantly

2. Giving little crimson flowers to applaud somebody for being courageous/doing one thing praise-worthy

3. Mei = 妹 = youthful sister; on this case the scholars are praising RT as being younger; they’re additionally performing quite casually with their instructor right here

4. In Chinese language it’s 拳头硬了, and is a meme (right here), just like the Arthur fist meme (see right here)

5. Blended pea noodles (豌杂面) and wolftooth potatoes (狼牙土豆)