Chapter 31: People Are Gradually Becoming Frightening

  "What? You mean this match was sponsored by your father?"

  "Yes, my mother was a dancer, unfortunately she had to bid farewell to her dancing career early due to illness. However, she always missed dancing and felt that her life was incomplete. So, my father encouraged more students to dance in this way, helping them fulfill their dreams, to comfort the regret in my mother's heart."

  "Oh, I see! Your mother is really fortunate." Fang Li replied thoughtfully.

  "Well, my mother's name is Huixin. Originally, I was very supportive of this matter, but two years ago, there were two girls competing fiercely, one girl in order to get the first prize, replaced another girl's makeup remover with sulfuric acid. Later, the truth came out and it was inevitable that she would be imprisoned, while the girl whose face was ruined jumped off a building."

  "How could this be? People are really scary." Fang Li's mouth was wide open in surprise.

  "People are gradually becoming terrifying, becoming terrifying for all sorts of benefits. Maybe today the people around you are your classmates and friends, but tomorrow they will become treacherous and do things that are worse than pigs and dogs because of various thoughts."

  "It's just as well you can't dance, even if you could I wouldn't let you go anyway." Mo Xiao suddenly bumped into the disheartened Fang Li.

  "Why? I'm your girlfriend, shouldn't you be trying every means to help me win?" Fang Li asked, pretending to be angry and pouting.

  "I'm afraid you'll get hurt, there are many things in here that you don't know about. If you want a prize, I can have my dad present one to you at any time, and those judges are all my uncles and aunts."

  "I don't need it, I'm not interested."

  Mo Xiao wrapped Fang Li in his arms, and Fang Li's cheek rested on Mo Xiao's shoulder. In this moment, the heavy sense of security made it feel like the entire world had come to a standstill, everything was quiet, and there was nothing to fear or worry about. Perhaps they lacked a romantic love for each other, but Fang Li felt that Mo Xiao could love and protect her just like family.

  An Junli and Du Ruo still stand together as a couple under some inexplicable name, but they really have an inexplicable tacit understanding between them. Du Ruo will start to consider An Junli's feelings and fulfill her duties as a girlfriend.

  It wasn't clear when Du Ruo's heart had gradually leaned towards An Junli, but An Junli was still completely unaware. He thought that the only thing he needed to do for Du Ruo was to help her get what she wanted, care about her, and then the two would have nothing more to do with each other after a long time. However, An Junli was still very good to Du Ruo, not out of love, but simply because he cherished her.

  An Junli thought that after two people had been together for a long time in a way that others took for granted, they would naturally think of each other. Du Ruo was also a pitiful person who needed care from others. And Du Ruo's dependence on An Junli grew deeper and deeper, even this feeling had already exceeded their imagination. Time had made them forget that they were actually just in a transactional relationship, taking what they needed from each other.

  Du Ruo continued to practice dancing diligently, not daring to stop for a moment. An Junli would go help her buy the food she liked and pour water for her. Fang Li saw all of this and couldn't believe that aloof An Junli would treat a girl with such wholeheartedness. It turned out it wasn't that someone was heartless, but rather because you weren't the one who could move his emotions.

  As for Meng Xi, she would sometimes sneak a peek at Dan Qing's situation by going to the building downstairs, because Dan Qing was just a nominal student in school and rarely showed up. Now, in order to avoid Meng Xi, he wouldn't even show up at school anymore.

  It's strange to say that today, Meng Xi saw Egg Clear and his father going out together. The relationship between the father and son has always been bad, and they usually avoid each other at home. This time, they actually went out together, which is really puzzling. Moreover, Egg Clear's father looked much older, thinking about it, you can tell how unfilial Egg Clear usually is.

  But Su Xia on this side had eaten something bad again yesterday and was going to the hospital for the big weekend, Fang Li was scolding, "Look at you, it's so tiring to scold people with just one mouth, and you're always eating everything, aren't you afraid that one day the doctor will seal your mouth shut, so as not to trouble me, I am Qin Er Shi."

  "You're being so venomous today, are you taking advantage of me when I'm weak and crawling all over my head? Hey, isn't that Egg Tart's dad?"

  "No way, you're not that old."

  "That's right, you see that's egg white," Fang Liken said with certainty.

  "Really? Egg white got sick?" Su Xia asked, "Let's go ask if it's syphilis or gonorrhea."

  "You're the most venomous one, yet we're friends."

  "Jokingly, if he died, I'd die of crying."

  "This sentence still has some conscience."

  As she spoke, Su Xia pulled Fang Li's hand and hurriedly walked over. Didn't she just say that she was weak and needed Fang Li to carry her back? How did she suddenly become so brave?

  "Uncle?"

  "Ah, Su Xia, and Fang Li, what are you doing here?"

  "Oh, I indulged in a food craving last night and my stomach has been bravely sacrificing itself today." Su Xia said with a self-deprecating smile. "What's wrong with the egg whites? You don't look well either."

  "Oh, well, I..." The father of Dan Qing began to stutter.

  "My dad didn't sleep well last night." Egg suddenly came out and explained.

  "Hey, you stinky egg, it's been ages since we've seen you. Let me count how many days it's been since you last reported to us." Su Xia counted on her fingers, "It's almost a month now, I think your time is up." Even when she was ill, Su Xia still had to get in a few sharp words.

  The egg white stiffened with a smile, and his father, also an egg white, lowered his head in silence.

  "What's wrong with you, Egg White? Are you sick?"

  "It's nothing, just a cold."

  "You're not the type to even take medicine for a cold, why are you at the hospital today?" Su Xia's face was full of surprise. "Wait, this is the oncology department, Egg White, what..."

  Su Xia and Fang Li's faces changed at once, while the father of Dan Qing had a musical luster in his eyes, then covered his mouth and quickly walked towards the corner of the corridor.

  "Hurry up and say it."

  "You all thought of going somewhere else, this doctor is very familiar with my dad, so my dad just brought me here directly."

  "Then your dad is..."

  "He also had something urgent to attend to and said he would leave first, but ran into you guys and chatted for a bit longer. He must be rushing off to work now."

  "Oh, you scared us to death!"

  "I'm going to be a great hero who saves the world, how can I die young?" Egg's face had an exaggerated expression, as if trying to hide something, "Besides, the fortune teller said that my good fortune is boundless and my prosperity is not shallow. In the future, I might have three thousand concubines in the palace, or maybe even open up a royal palace, and reluctantly become a noble consort for you guys."

  "Get out of here! If you had any descendants, I would have overthrown you and become the Empress Wu Zetian myself." Su Xia struck back without mercy.

  "Hehe," everyone's tightly knotted hearts finally relaxed, while at the end of the corridor, an old father was covering his face and weeping.

  The weather is gradually warming up, and many people have taken off their thick down jackets and put on lighter clothes. Su Xia's first thing to do after putting on her single-layer clothing was to weigh herself, "I really did it for the chickens, ducks, and geese that died this winter, I've gained all their weight myself." Su Xia said with a sad face.