Chapter 5 This flower is poisonous!

  Ko Sung-gang, the captain of the school's judo team. His family runs a judo gym and he lost his mother at a young age. He has been subjected to harsh training by his father since childhood, who has high expectations for him. Starting from elementary school, he participated in various judo competitions, growing slowly from being a novice to becoming a second-degree black belt by the time he entered middle school. Despite appearing strong on the outside due to his strict upbringing, he yearns for gentle love inside. One day, when Choi Soo-young kindly handed him a bottle of water, he was deeply moved and began to develop feelings for her...

  "Hey, shorty! I challenge you to a duel, a fair and square fight between men!" The girl he liked had just told him that she liked another guy, who seemed even less worthy than himself. How could Gao Cheng not erupt in anger?!

  "Gao Chenggang, please, calm down a bit, I'm eating!" Cui Xiuying was also quite helpless about this big guy. Although girls all like to have pursuers, because of this silly big guy, all the pursuers in school had disappeared. Every time she got close to another boy, this silly big guy would rush over and challenge that boy to a fight or something, making all the boys in school keep their distance from her.

  "Xiu Ying, you have to believe that only a strong and robust Gao Cheng Gang can protect you! So, leave this short guy alone. Just look at his build, he's like a leaf that can be blown down by the wind. How can he protect you?!" Gao Cheng Gang raised his arm, rolled up his sleeve, revealing his bulging biceps, showing off his robust body. "Come on, shorty! Let's settle this once and for all with a man-to-man fight! Let Xiu Ying see who is the man worthy of her affection!"

  "Go away..." Just as Choi Soo-young was about to speak up and chase Ko Sung away, Lee Choo put down her lunchbox and stood up beside her.

  "Hey, Li Qiu, what are you doing?" Could this Li Qiu really be unable to withstand the provocation and actually go duel with this big guy?

  "Shorty! How dare you! Come on, Gao Chenggang can't wait any longer!" Seeing Li Qiu stand up, Gao Chenggang appears extremely excited. Since Cui Xiuying is here, he definitely won't use force, so he keeps teasing Li Qiu with words to make him take the initiative to fight him!

  Li Qiu put down the half-eaten lunchbox, stood up, gazed in Gao Cheng's direction, and took a step closer to him.

  "Li Qiu, have you gone crazy?" Just by looking at their builds, it's clear that Li Qiu is no match for Gao Chenggang! You see, although Gao Chenggang is only in his second year of middle school, his body has already developed to be as sturdy as a cow, and he's over 1.7 meters tall...

  "Come on!" Gao Cheng rubbed his hands together, tensed up his body, took a step back with his right foot, and assumed a fighting stance, waiting for Li Qiu's arrival.

  Li Qiu walked step by step, neither too fast nor too slow, towards Gao Chenggang. In a short while, they were only a few steps apart. Li Qiu stopped in front of Gao Chenggang, his eyes fixed on the small path beside him, the grassland, and the shrubs below. At this moment, the distance between them was just right for a normal confrontation.

  "Ah!" Gao Cheng had just seen Li Qiu stop in her tracks, and immediately let out a loud roar, his face twisted with excitement! He was about to make a move when he saw Li Qiu crouch down...

  "Hey! Youngster, are you ignoring me?" Li Qiu crouched down, pretending to be non-existent, staring at a nameless flower. Gao Cheng was already in a predicament, but then he realized there was no toilet paper...

  Although Tokyo and Seoul are almost at the same latitude, Tokyo's temperature is obviously warmer than Seoul's. The iris flowers that bloom from April to May have already begun to wither in some parts of Seoul, while others are still blooming. In Japan, however, they have already started to bear fruit. What surprised Li Qiu was that on this lush green lawn, where flower stems were hardly visible, he managed to find an iris plant. Although the variety wasn't his favorite blue one, it was indeed an iris. "You really are everywhere!" Li Qiu gently stroked the seed pod of the iris, sighing inwardly. In fact, from start to finish, Li Qiu had no idea what Choi Soo-young and the big guy were talking about; he was just trying to find his favorite flowers on the lawn, and unexpectedly, he really found one.

  "Hey, kid! It's just a blade of grass, are you ignoring me?" High Chenggang, who had suddenly become enraged, was itching to kick Li Qiu to the ground with one foot. But beside him, Cui Xiuying's big eyes were staring at him, and he couldn't bring himself to hit someone in front of the girl he liked. "Ah!" High Chenggang took a big step forward, his rough hands grasping the iris flower and pulling it out by the roots. In his rage, he continued to tear and trample it, even using his teeth to bite it, until the iris was reduced to powder...

  "Come on! Let's duel!" He threw the broken iris stem aside, spat out the flower leaves and roots that had been stained with his biting mouth, and shouted loudly!

  "That's a big one, this flower is poisonous!" Li Qiu stood up and left with just that sentence, turning back to the pavilion to continue eating his lunch. The iris flowers were beautiful, but indeed poisonous, although not highly toxic, they could be used as medicine, but if people mistakenly ate them, it would cause diarrhea, internal bleeding and other symptoms.

  "Hey! Shorty! Are you mocking me? Come here, let's duel! Don't be a coward and hide behind a woman!" Ko Sung-il didn't understand Korean, but Lee Chul's cold tone made him think that Lee Chul looked down on him.

  "Gao Chenggang said, 'That flower just now is poisonous...'"

  "Poison? What poison? Xiuying, you know how I... huh? Is it poisonous? Which weed? Xiuying, I... see you later!" As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Cheng immediately turned around, constantly spitting out saliva, and rushed towards the school infirmary...

  Life is made up of countless small episodes like this, and it's precisely these small episodes that make the bumpy road beautiful.

  In the afternoon, Choi Soo-young didn't have any performances. Kim Min-young had originally asked Choi Soo-young to take Lee Chae-ah around the campus and introduce her to more friends, but he didn't know that Choi Soo-young was actually a loner at school too. If she wasn't interested in class, she would doze off, and after class, she would also doze off. At noon when classes were dismissed, she would find a quiet place to eat. She really didn't know many people at school. In the evening when classes were dismissed, it was always like this - she was always the first one to rush out of the school gate.

  "Why are you running so fast?" Lee Qiu, who was being dragged by Choi Soo-young to run behind her, was a bit out of breath and leaned against a cherry blossom tree on the side of the road, panting heavily. Choi Soo-young had long legs, but he had short legs. For every step she took, he almost had to take two steps, and his body was being pulled by her, so he had no choice but to run after her, which is why he ended up like this.

  "Not running? Gao Chenggang's big head is blocking the way, and it's delaying my dinner! Gao Chenggang is a small matter, eating is a big deal! I'm starving."

  "......" Li Qiu turned his face to look at Choi Soo-young standing beside him, those slender long legs were so captivating, but this height was too much pressure for him, "Growing that tall and still eating..."

  "Why can't you eat? You're so short, but you still want to follow and eat together."

  “……”

  "By the way, you seem to like that kind of flower, it's so hidden and you can still find it. Is it beautiful when it blooms? And, is it poisonous too?"

  "Iris flowers are very beautiful, and beautiful things need to be carefully nurtured. Those who know how to appreciate them will not be harmed by their poison."

  "Really?" Choi Soo-young turned around, her twin tails swinging in an arc, her slender legs striding forward as she headed home. "Hurry back home, I'm starving!"

  ……

  As soon as they entered the house, the two saw Boa lying on the sofa in the living room, looking bored at the TV. Her slender fingers kept pressing the remote control, and the images on the TV screen didn't stay for more than three seconds.

  "We're back!"

  "Oh, welcome back." Boa replied casually to Choi Soo-young as usual, but suddenly she thought of something and sat up straight, "And also, welcome back."

  This morning's matter was indeed let go by Li Qiu, but after all, she still spent the whole night with Li Qiu. Although she had already realized it last night, wasn't it herself who took the initiative later? Today, she has been thinking about last night's things...

  "Sister Boa, is Auntie cooking?"

  "Hmm, Uncle Minying is back, so we can eat now, right? By the way, wasn't it Li Qiu? The practice room on the second floor has been renovated and the luggage has been moved in, so you can move in tonight." Although the matter has passed, there will always be some awkwardness, won't there?

  "Thank you." With that, Li Qiu walked up to the second floor with her small backpack, opened the door opposite her room, which was the practice room...