Lu Xi’s face was utterly crimson. There was a lingering contact left on his fingertips.

“I’m sorry.” He apologized quietly as he gazed on the wall.

In comparison with him, she solely felt slightly embarrassed after the preliminary shock wore off. It was simply an accident, not a giant deal.

Her enterprise got here again to thoughts. “You are taking down the English textbooks and papers.”

“Hmm.” He moved over with out wanting and took down a stack of books and papers in two or three tries.

There was no must take down the Chinese language textbook… Settling down she centered on his earlier check papers.

Her hand quietly circled the errors. She didn’t understand how lengthy it took as a dynamic and loud metallic music sliced by means of the silence. She appeared on the vibrating and ringing telephone on the desk, solely then did she discover that there was nobody within the seat subsequent to her.

Quickly, the boy returned to the room, scooped up his telephone, and stated, “What?”

[…]

“What time is it?”

[ …]

“Okay, wait.”

Choosing up the garments and pants from the cupboard, he walked straight out.

“Wait a minute,” Zhou Sisi raised her voice and stated, “the place are you going?”

Lu Xi walked out of the room: “Altering garments and going to play soccer.”

“The make-up class will not be over.” In actual fact it hadn’t even began but.

“This?” Counting on the absence of his dad and mom he continued, “I’ll make up for it later when I’ve time.”

Zhou Sisi frowned.

Placing on the jersey within the toilet, he took the time to textual content an emoji to his urging good friend.

Carrying shorts, a headscarf, and arranging just a few brief strands of his hair at will, he hummed the tune tune that she couldn’t bear in mind and went on to alter his sneakers. When he put his hand on the doorknob, he paused.

… No matter, it’s essential to play soccer.

As Lu Xi twisted the lock, he fled in the direction of freedom with out even bothering to look again.

Round 9 o’clock, Zhou Sisi went again house together with the spare key offered to her by Aunt Xu.

After ending a math paper given by the trainer, she glanced on the time- half-past eleven. Choosing up the important thing she proceeded in the direction of 302 and rang the doorbell.

“Howdy Auntie, I’ve come to return the important thing.”

“Yeah, are available in, have you ever had lunch?”

“Virtually.” Zhou Sisi fanned her eyelashes. “Is Lu Xi again?”

“Again? Did he exit this morning? This brat…,” Xu Xuelin appeared offended as she stated, “went out to play once more, huh. He doesn’t even know that point is valuable for him now.”

“Auntie, are you going to work this afternoon?”

“No, right this moment I took a half-day off and will probably be staying house.”

“Then I’ll come over at three o’clock within the afternoon to make up for Lu Xi’s English class. Is that okay?”

“After all, sure.”

Sitting in his room, Lu Xi snorted uncomfortably whereas listening to their dialog.

~Is she complaining to his mom?

After a short time, when she returned house, Chen Cui additionally returned again from work.

“You didn’t prepare dinner?” Chen Cui sat down on the couch.

Zhou Sisi silently cleaned the useless leaves from the pot.

“Ready for me to come back again and prepare dinner, don’t I must take a nap afterwards.” Chen Cui muttered, obtained up and went in the direction of the kitchen.

“Rice has been cooked,” Zhou Sisi stated as she didn’t management her energy and tore off a leaf that was not dry, “however there are not any greens.”

Chen Cui twisted her waist. “I nonetheless must do it.”

The clatter of pots and pans together with the sound of working water drifted from the kitchen.

“Hey, you didn’t have breakfast? Did you exit to eat?”

“Why ought to I eat unhealthy meals outdoors when I’ve breakfast at house?” Zhou Sisi retorted.

“——”

In a panic, she swiftly hid in her room and closed the door to beat back Chen Cui’s voice. In any case, she was simply an extraordinary one who had lived solely twenty-one years on this world.

When her grandmother was round, she had lamented a number of occasions that her granddaughter was mushy like dough, and anybody might knead her like one.

Rebirth didn’t change an individual’s temperament the other way up. At the very least not for Zhou Sisi. Regardless that her braveness had elevated, she nonetheless lacked dominance.

~I can solely keep away from it in the interim till I determine what to do.

She didn’t need to have lunch together with her mom.

After calling her twice, Chen Cui opened the door and got here in. “What are you doing right here dozing off? Don’t need to eat lunch?”

“—No.” She buried her head in her elbow.

“What’s the matter? Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

“—No.”

“Are you not hungry?”

“——”

“Sheesh no matter! I’m in a rush for lunch and I’ve a shift within the afternoon.”

Zhou Sisi buried her head even decrease. Having stayed on this place for a very long time her physique started to numb. Instantly a thought flashed up between the turmoil of ideas.

On this period, digital cost had already been launched and was being extensively used. Many operations could possibly be carried out on the cellular terminal platform, together with securities transactions.

Prior to now, she hadn’t paid a lot consideration in the direction of monetary funding, so she solely had a imprecise reminiscence of it. Nevertheless, she remembered {that a} 12 months or two later, a number of shares carried out so effectively that they had been extensively coated by the media.

Sure, she meant to put money into the inventory market. If… if someday she managed to achieve sufficient monetary sources, she would possibly be capable of sever her relationship with Chen Cui…

Zhou Sisi’s private account contained the New Yr’s cash, scholarships, and competitors bonuses that she had gathered for the reason that second grade of junior highschool. The overall quantity was appreciable for an extraordinary center college pupil.

The inventory market was tough to enter, and opening an account for minors was much more tough, so she busied herself with the businesses that carried out effectively on the inventory market.

She wrote down the names of the 2 most outstanding shares on paper and appeared  them up on the Web. Positive sufficient, she discovered the related info. At the moment, their state of affairs was common and even worse.

Taking a deep breath she divided all her cash into three parts-  two had been designated for getting the shares of the 2 corporations individually.

There was a slight downside with the method of buy. She was nonetheless a minor so was required to add just a few paperwork. Luckily, they weren’t tough to acquire. She deliberate to scan her ID at a print store within the afternoon.

She took a brief nap, by the point when she awoke she was the one one left in the home. 

~I really feel dizzy.

Zhou Sisi’s blood sugar and blood stress had been low all 12 months spherical, and having not eaten lunch, she felt discomfort proper after taking just a few steps.

Slowly, she trudged out of the room.

On the spherical desk within the eating room had been two dishes- one meat, and the opposite vegetable.

She stood silently for a second and introduced them to the kitchen in an effort to warmth  them up.

After dinner, she went out with a canvas bag to a printing store, which was close to the group’s north gate.

Zhou Sisi met a stranger within the store.

“Are you right here to print issues as effectively?” he requested.

“Yeah.” It took her two seconds to seek for this individual’s full identify from her reminiscence.

Tang Yan Zhang, was one grade beneath hers. His dad and mom was once colleagues in the identical hospital together with Lu Xi’s mom.

Zhou Sisi, Tang Yan Zhang, and the youngsters of a number of different medical professionals of comparable age lived within the residential space of ​​the hospital once they had been younger. They performed, ate snacks, laughed, and made hassle collectively.They had been very shut.

Later, the hospital’s coverage on residency was modified, many households moved one after one other, and youngsters had been scattered.

Solely Tang Yan Zhang and Lu Xi lived nearer to Zhou Sisi.

After coming into elementary and to junior highschool they spent more often than not in class, and naturally met new college students and made new pals. Thus they unconsciously misplaced monitor of their childhood playmates.

It was simply that once they often heard from the dad and mom about how somebody was doing, it might evoke a faint nostalgia.

——Lu Xi was not a member of “which”.1 After Zhou Sisi graduated from elementary college, Chen Cui rented their present home, and the 2 had been neighbors for a number of years.

“What are you doing with all these papers?” Tang Yan Zhang requested.

Zhou Sisi didn’t intend to inform him however merely replied, “It’s for some work.”

After taking the USB flash drive to scan, she took two English textbooks from her bag. “Boss, please assist me copy the pages with folded corners.”

“Single-sided or double-sided.” The boss flipped by means of the textbook.

Zhou Sisi stated warmly, “One-sided, A4, thanks.”

Tang Yan Zhang had been ready on the facet. “Isn’t this a junior highschool English e book?”

Zhou Sisi: “Yeah.”

Tang Yan Zhang: “What do you utilize it for? What competitors entails junior highschool information?”

Zhou Sisi: “—No, it’s not for that.”

Tang Yan Zhang: “I’m going to search for my junior textbook to overview later.”

Zhou Sisi: “——”

The reward from the dad and mom was certainly true. Tang Yan Zhang was a great little one who cherished to study.

However what she didn’t know was that she was additionally the “little one of another person’s household” within the eyes of different dad and mom.

Particularly in Xu Xuelin’s eyes, she was good at every part. She fairly preferred this little lady Zhou Sisi. 

Truly, Xu Xuelin specifically ready a big plate of contemporary fruits as she waited for Zhou Sisi’s arrival.

“Sisi, Eat fruit.”

“No, thanks, Auntie.”

“Auntie requested you to eat. Why are you being so well mannered?”

Zhou Sisi smiled shyly and ate just a few cherries.

“Auntie, is Lu Xi awake?”

“This brat by no means takes a nap at house.”

Xu Xuelin observed her hesitation. “It’s okay for those who go straight into his room sooner or later. There may be nothing that he must do with the door closed.”

Zhou Sisi nodded.

Her jade-like complexion, high-quality eyebrows, and eyes had been clear and delightful, the lips had been stained with cherry juice… She appeared cute and nice.

Tuk-tuk! 

She knocked on the door.

Lu Xi reluctantly stop the sport.

“Did you memorize all of the phrases?” She obtained straight to the purpose.

“Are you kidding?” He moved his bitter wrists. “How can I bear in mind all 5 – 6 hundred phrases?”

“It’s not 5 – 6 hundred.” She drew out the printed and certain vocabulary record. “All the junior highschool has 1782 essential phrases.”

Lu Xi: “——” Rattling! A lot.

“There are solely Fifty-six days left till the highschool examination. Ranging from right this moment, you must memorize not less than 32 phrases a day.”

“Your fundamental grammar will not be dangerous, however most of your sentences are incorrect. Now let me discuss it. Or do you have got any questions?”

~Sure, can I not take the English make-up class?

Lu Xi glanced outdoors the door, the tigress who was answerable for his life and loss of life was sitting in the lounge.

“—No.”

She opened the pen cap and rapidly wrote on the white paper. “To begin with, let’s discuss compound indefinite pronouns, this~” defined rigorously.

She spoke slowly, and her voice was naturally mushy and candy. If it was another person, they’d really feel that listening to her lectures was even gratifying. It was a pity although that the one listener was absent-minded.

“Do you perceive?” she requested after finishing the primary lesson.

Lu Xi yawned. “Ah…!”

Zhou Sisi’s expression remained unchanged. “Take a look at this query, what did you fill-in?”

“C,” Lu Xi stated lazily.

“This isn’t a multiple-choice query.”

“Oh, so… I don’t know.”

She put the pen down and checked out him.

Seeing her put down the pen, he thought she was going to lecture or scold him, identical to the earlier tutors.

A handful of orange rays of solar fell on the desk, and he poked it together with his lengthy, skinny fingers, boredly pondering of Jiang Ziya’s large transfer within the sport.

“Maybe you didn’t perceive. I’ll say it once more.” Nonetheless mild as a misty rain.

…Huh? he was slightly stunned.