Chapter 4: Life is but a first encounter (four)

  Clap clap clap, bowing in gratitude for the peace charm reward from [Mu Li Kui]!

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  It wasn't a big deal at first.

  I remember that class was a self-study session without a teacher, and I was happily eating rose petal cream puffs with Xiaoyu under the cover of a pile of books. The puffs were brought by Haiying, who said they were made from edible rose flowers produced only in May in Province Y, sent to her by relatives who had traveled there. The taste of those rose puffs was indeed more delicious than those sold in City B, and we discussed the sweetness of the filling and the flakiness of the puff pastry in hushed tones while eating.

  Not long after, the English class representative who sat behind me suddenly called out to Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu didn't turn her head around, and during the break, she had a few words with the class representative. I guess she was still holding a grudge in her heart. As they were arguing, I happened to go to the bathroom, and when I came back, the river between Chu and Han had already been born. When I asked Xiaoyu about it, she only said that the class representative was really a despicable person among men. Therefore, before what happened later, I wasn't clear either what they were arguing about.

  The class representative called out a few more times, but Xiaoyu still pretended not to hear. I was also going to ignore the class representative's loud calls, but I suddenly remembered that there was an English unit test early tomorrow morning, and most importantly, neither Xiaoyu nor I had reviewed much for it. Even if we were to cram tonight, I estimated that we would still do poorly. So if it weren't for the class representative's "care", our grades would probably come out that night and we might be dragged to the office to drink freshly ground soy milk as a punishment for our poor performance in English class.

  Thinking of that thick, almost congealed yellow stuff, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. Just as I was about to tell Xiaoyu not to be so arrogant, or else she would suffer from indigestion for the next few days, a bright and vivid stream suddenly flashed before our eyes, and a long, curved object was thrown right in front of us. My wife is the school flower.

  As I finally saw clearly what was on the table, I froze for a moment, and before my brain could react, a scream burst out of my throat.

  "Ah——!"

  Since the "girl hanjian" in the online world, our school has also started to cultivate a large number of girl hanjians with sufficient moisture. Their common characteristics are avant-garde thinking, bold and uninhibited behavior, strong three views, but at the same time, they also have a soft heart that loves small animals.

  So normally when they see Xiao Qiang, the girls would first scream at a high decibel to express their excitement, then extremely excitedly trample it into a pulp on the spot, and finally calmly clean up the scene. And as one of the many girls, I always thought that if I were to encounter a similar situation, even if I couldn't remain calm like Haiying, I wouldn't be so excited that I'd hang all over someone else like Xiao Yu.

  It can be inferred that if I could hold my breath and remain silent as dead after shouting, the subsequent ending would be at most a simple reprimand from Umiko, the class leader, and then everyone would return to their normal activities after a brief fright, and this page would be turned over.

  But unfortunately, the fact is always at odds with what if. I have never been an animal protectionist and have no affinity for animals whatsoever. Seeing the animal I fear most in my life, how can I remain calm as if nothing has happened?

  I still remember, at that time when I let out a scream that could pierce through the night sky, Xiao Yu also followed me and screamed out loud. Her louder voice stimulated me, and I couldn't control myself as I raised my own decibel to the maximum. After staring at each other with four wide-open eyes for three seconds, we continued to scream in terror while jumping up from our seats using our hands and feet. Seeing Xiao Yu holding a box of rose-filled pastries steadily, I kicked her desk with one foot, but because there were still people sitting in front, the desk didn't fall over. Then, I pulled out a small stack of books from the class representative's high pile of books and smashed them onto something on the desk.

  Classmates around us stood up and left their seats to avoid being implicated, but I was the only one who kept throwing books at the desk. At that time, the scene was chaotic, but in the classroom, except for my and Xiaoyu's screams and the sound of books hitting the desk, there was dead silence.

  Later, Haiying and Aqian finally came over to stop my and Xiaoyu's crazy behavior. After I regained my senses, I immediately took the last book in my hand and slammed it hard against the class representative's head.

  He seemed to be shocked and stunned, seeing my swift action, he dodged too late, the corner of his head was scratched by the book, he stretched out his hand to cover his head and looked at me with a embarrassed face: "Sorry, Hua Hua, I didn't know you were also afraid of snakes. That's fake, originally I wanted to give the snake to Xiao Yu as an apology."

  Xiao Yu then reacted, glaring at the class representative: "What the...?! You call this an apology?! Apologize to your sister! Scaring me during recess wasn't enough, now you're doing it again in class, and scaring Yao Yao like that, making me reflexively get scared too. Are you tired of living?!"

  The class representative said weakly: "I'm not just because I scared you, so I want to give the snake to you, let you handle it. As for Hua Hua, she's never said that she's afraid of snakes."

  He didn't finish speaking, and I threw another big dictionary at him, which he quickly caught: "You damn pervert! Next time I'll use a real bamboo leaf to bite you to death, it's best if you don't say another word!"

  He hesitated and didn't dare to respond.

  After understanding the cause of things, Haiying slightly comforted me and asked the class representative to tidy up the books by herself, then she went back to her seat with Aqian.

  After that, I leaned against the wall with Xiaoyu and coldly watched as the class representative packed up his own books. Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly noticed someone looking at me. I lifted my head to look over, directly meeting a chilly gaze.

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