Chapter 14: 14

Shao Zhan seemed to have no marks from the battle on his body. When the light moved, the light in the corridor flickered. The young boy slowly walked towards the few people lying on the ground.

The people on the ground held their stomachs, continually letting out groans of “aiyo”. 

When Shao Zhan turned around a bit, Xu Sheng then saw that “his” body actually did have a few wounds, but they were very light. The skin at the corner of his mouth had been cut a bit by the “Tool of Crime” the other person had been carrying.

This scene.

 

 

This lighting.

This gangster-like ending. 

It took the words “unscrupulous youth, gathering people to fight” to the extreme.

 

As Shao Zhan moved, the others also regained their senses.

Zhang Feng put down the broom in his hand. After the enthusiasm faded, he felt like he was a failure; especially under the suppressive aura of the master in front of him, his actions seemed even more embarrassing. He asked in a daze, “The… The fight is over?”

Zhang Feng, “So quick, from start to finish it barely took a few minutes…”

 

This was actually the exact same as those rumours!

Looks like this thing called rumours had its moments when it could be believed!

The shock Zhang Feng had received was too great, and he internally added, no, this feeling was even more fucking harsh than the rumours. As expected of Xu Sheng!

 

Zhang Feng thought up to here, and realised that compared to the matter of the fight ending so quickly, there was another obviously stranger matter in front of him. He looked towards the stairs. 

The school’s number one, who had a godlike presence in the examination room, the “Shao Zhan” who was usually cold and didn’t really care about others, was currently standing right across him. He was wearing Sixth High’s school uniform, but he had undone two of the buttons, and seemed a lot more casual compared to before.

Zhang Feng was confused. This occurrence was really too sudden. Who could tell him why the study god would appear at this kind of place at this kind of time?!

Zhang Feng, “Study god, you… You also come to the internet bar to go on the internet?”

Xu Sheng’s brain was also in a mess, his level of confusion no less than Zhang Feng’s. 

He did have a lot of rumours, and it was true that he didn’t follow the rules, but a part of it was complete nonsense, especially the most famous one about the five versus one. He didn’t even know which lunatic had spread that around.

Xu Sheng thought up to this point, then looked at the five “corpses” on the ground.

Xu Sheng breathed slowly. At that moment he was a bit confused, and was also despairing. He let go of the railing. “No, I have some business with him.”

Zhang Feng, “?” 

Before Xu Sheng came, he had imagined a lot of different situations.

Like seeing “himself” lying on the ground, beaten up by others, until his nose was bruised and his eyes swollen, for example.

 

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Shao Zhan just so happened to be looking for him too. He had said three minutes, and this person had only just arrived. He didn’t look too happy. “You could come even slower.”

Shao Zhan hadn’t wanted to fight. Before he opened the door of the internet cafe and walked out, he had come up with no less than three plans. However, once he went out, the other party had immediately swung his fist, leaving no space for him to maneuver. 

Xu Sheng had exhausted himself nearly half to death rushing over. After all, the matter had been of his own doing, and letting Shao Zhan take the flack for it wasn’t honourable.

“Lao Meng was looking for me and talked too much.” Xu Sheng bent over by the waist a bit, still panting as he spoke. He tried his best to keep his breath steady and said, “I rushed over when I saw the message.”

Message?

These two even added each other as friends? 

After Zhang Feng had received several aggressive shocks in a short period of time, he was hit by the strongest shock yet. He stared with wide eyes as the study god finished speaking, then the two of them went down the stairs together.

What on earth was going on? When did their relationship become so good?

Zhang Feng couldn’t figure it out. The other students in the internet cafe were shouting for him. He scratched his head and didn’t think about it in too much detail. “Coming coming, wait for me.”

At a convenience store downstairs, not too far away. 

This convenience store had quite a good reputation among the students of Sixth High School. Since it wasn’t far from the school, other than buying snacks and daily things, the students who usually went out of school to eat would also buy some sushi rolls and lunchboxes, so there would usually be a lot of students who came by in the afternoon or after school.

After a while, the store had specially opened up a small dining area––this so-called dining area was a simple table with a few chairs against the window by the entrance.

There were very few students coming and going at this time. Xu Sheng pulled Shao Zhan along and pushed the door open. When he went in, there wasn’t anyone in the dining area.

Xu Sheng, “You sit there and wait. I’ll go and buy medicine.” 

Shao Zhan lifted his hand and used his finger to rub at the corner of his mouth. “No need, it’s a light injury.”

Rather than this basically negligible injury, he wanted to figure out what on earth happened with the fight at the internet cafe.

 

As he said that, he directly grabbed Xu Sheng by his uniform collar, and pulled him back not harshly but not lightly either. “First, explain. That gang of people, who are they, what were they doing.”

Xu Sheng didn’t think it was a light injury, especially when that face was still his own. “To you it might be a small injury, but to me it’s not small at all. If it’s not taken care of properly it will leave a scar, it’ll damage my image.” 

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“…”

“So.” Xu Sheng pointed at the dining area. “Find a place to sit.”

Xu Sheng found a bottle of iodophor on the shelf, and picked up a bag of cotton swabs. Considering that the two of them had just gotten off from school and hadn’t had the chance to eat, Xu Sheng also grabbed a couple of sushi rolls from the fridge.

The convenience store boss scanned the items and asked, “Want to heat up the sushi?” 

“Yes.” Xu Sheng took out some change and passed it over. “Thank you.”

Two minutes to heat it up.

While waiting for Xu Sheng to grab those things, Shao Zhan’s head was lowered as he played with his phone. From a distance, that look, those clothes, and the fresh new injury on his mouth… No one would believe if he said he wasn’t bad.

He also had no idea what kind of days they had been living recently. 

Only then did Xu Sheng really talk about what had happened at the internet cafe.

“Today’s events.” Xu Sheng didn’t know how to phrase it. “I really didn’t think they would come back to look for me.”

Shao Zhan looked up at him. “Continue.”

Xu Sheng recounted simply the events of that day at the internet cafe. “It wasn’t really much of a conflict. I only bluffed them a bit. I guess they found out afterwards.” 

Xu Sheng’s bluffing included, but was not limited to:

Do you know who I am, mention something something famous X bro, if you don’t know him then go out and ask, come, let me tell you guys the story of how my X bro entered and left juvenile prison seven times that year.

Xu Sheng had never actually beaten others up.

He wasn’t the type of person who talked with his fists without any reason. He kept to the philosophy of not moving his hands if he could move his mouth. That day, Xu Sheng had swept his gaze over the pile of warehouse goods and sat on it, beginning to detail out his own big bro’s years, making up some gangster named “Xu Feilong”. He told the story of this person’s seven bouts in juvenile prison in a lively, enthralling way. “Me? You guys haven’t heard of Long ge’s name? You can’t just get by like this…when I was your age I was still in juvenile prison.” Having said this, he had said oppressively, “Do you know why I’m talking about this.” 

Shao Zhan heard this and threw his phone to the side. He finally understood why the group of people had come up to him today shaking their fists. After being led around dizzily like this, it all turned out to be an embroidered farce. “You went in and out of juvenile prison seven times?”

Xu Sheng rubbed his nose and also felt embarrassed. “It’s just bullshit I made up.”

 

His mental state could be exercised the day after tomorrow.

The two of them had experienced too many strange occurrences in the past few days. They were able to quickly calm down after facing today’s events. 

Shao Zhan, “Tell me any other stories you have.”

Xu Sheng, “I don’t think I have any others. You can go online at ease in the future.”

He had an image to uphold. This event had brought along a bit of shame and guilt.

For a rule-breaking school tyrant to be forced into a fight, if Meng Guowei or any other teacher knew about this, he would be peeled alive. 

…

As Xu Sheng spoke, he placed the items on the table and bent over, screwing the cap off of the iodophor. He took out a cotton swab and strongly grabbed Shao Zhan to force him to lift his head up.

Xu Sheng couldn’t help but feel strange as he looked at his own face from such a close distance. He grasped the cotton swab and said, “It might hurt a little. I’ll try to be gentle.”

Shao Zhan wanted to say this really wasn’t necessary. 

But in the next second, a slight pain and chill covered the corner of his mouth.

He could feel that Xu Sheng’s movements really were very light. He leaned in very closely to him, so close that he could count the eyelashes on “himself”.

There were a few students who had gotten out of school later currently buying food at the convenience store.

They were two girls carrying backpacks. They had probably stayed after school to do classroom duties. The two of them pushed open the door but before they could walk inside, one of them suddenly stopped in her steps. “What’s wrong?” 

The other followed her in turning around and the two of them saw the scene in the dining area—

The youth wearing the Sixth High uniform leaned forward, putting on medicine for the other. The two of them were in the corner; even if their line of sight was blocked, they could immediately recognise at a glance that the other person was the one who often gave disciplinary reviews in front of the entire school.

They seemed to have stumbled upon some incredible secret.

The two of them went back to the dorm together. Before entering the door, Xu Sheng handed over the medicine in his hands. “Remember to apply it three times a day.” 

Shao Zhan accepted this responsibility with reluctance and reminded him, “Practice writing, twenty pages.”

Xu Sheng, “…” If he didn’t say, he would’ve forgotten.

 

Shao Zhan had accidentally cleaned up his mess. Xu Sheng wrote his twenty pages tonight with uncharacteristic attention. He followed along exactly with how the guide displayed the characters and his strokes didn’t fly out of the grid marks.

When he lifted his head from the copybook, he realised that he had actually made a bit of progress. 

His writing usually was like weeds, without a single hint of “restraint”. Now that there was some restraint, the characters he wrote out were much better than before.

Xu Sheng tossed away his pen and decided to take a shower and sleep.

A multitude of thoughts flashed through his head for a while, finally landing on the image of Shao Zhan sitting on top of the pile of goods.

Shao Zhan had something in him that he couldn’t guess. He didn’t know why, but in that moment, he had gotten closer to the truth, that elusive, unknown him. 

The next day, as usual, Xu Sheng went into the classroom for morning self-study under the identity of “Shao Zhan”.

Not even three minutes later, he heard the classmate in the front row say as they did their homework, “Do you guys know, the thing about school tyrant fighting a one versus five outside school is true.”

The speed of something like gossip always exceeded the limits of people’s imaginations. It was especially true for gossip that was supported by reality.

The student in the front row added emotionally, “Looks like for some things, there’s no waves without wind! I didn’t believe it at all before, but it was actually true.” 

Xu Sheng, “…”

Xu Sheng found that this could be considered Shao Zhan’s help, completely solidifying this rumour.

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