Chapter Twenty

  Just as Yang Rui decided not to continue and was about to turn around and leave, a playful voice came from beside his ear, saying: "Xiao Mi Mi, awesome! You've only just arrived, and one girl after another is looking for you. My Chu Qi doesn't even have your popularity."

  Yang Rui knew Zhang Yang, one of the school's big shots. It was hard not to know him, and hearing him talk like that made her feel a bit disgusted. She had always looked down on people like them, a bunch of rebellious teenagers who came together to form a motley crew. They didn't study, they just mixed around in school, and even if they were just mixing around, they shouldn't have affected others. But they were the kind of people who not only didn't study well themselves but also led others astray.

  "Zhang Yang, what nonsense are you talking about?" Li Hui heard their conversation and came back to intervene, knowing that they were just joking around. However, he also knew that Yang Rui often had biased views towards them, and on top of that, she was a good friend of Wang Zhiqiao's.

  "Chuqi, look at them, they must be having an affair. I just said one sentence and he couldn't take it, jumping out to scold me, how hurtful. You don't even care." Zhang Yang started acting coquettishly towards Chuqi, the people in front were already used to it, normally they would bicker like this anyway. They were all immune to it.

  "Just be quiet for a while." Chu Qi ignored Zhang Yang's antics. "You'll just make trouble for Li Miao, can't you just calm down? Li Miao has been in a bad mood these past few days, be careful or he'll hit you. Just don't provoke him anymore."

  "Chu Qi, you're also abandoning me? Can you bear to hurt someone's weak and small heart like this?" Zhang Yang blinked his eyes repeatedly, Chu Qi was speechless. Yang Rui sneered at him. A big boy, not a bit of dignity, acting cute and pretending to be innocent, but she thought he wasn't being cute, more like being shameless.

  Li Hui walked up to Zhang Yang with a dark face, waving his fist at him, signaling him to shut up. Zhang Yang pretended to be pitiful, shrinking his head and pretending to be very scared, causing the people in front of them to burst out laughing. Li Hui couldn't help but smile too.

  Yang Rui felt like her three views were about to be destroyed, Zhang Yang was not as cool and handsome as he usually was. At that time, the trend of boys' love had not yet become popular, and girls would often fantasize about relationships between schoolboys and girls. The girls at that time were still very innocent, they would blush when they saw boys, let alone fantasize about them. Yang Rui felt like she was in for a treat, being able to witness such high-quality boys' love with her own eyes, what a great blessing! Unfortunately, Yang Rui was still naive at the time and only thought that Zhang Yang had fallen short of her expectations, shocking her. She wished she could record his appearance on her phone and show it to his brainless fans, so they could see how their prince charming really looked like.

  Yang Rui was shocked, stunned on the spot, forgot to leave this place of right and wrong, watching Zhang Yang in that fanciful state. At this time, Li Miao came over, stood in front of her, gestured for her to leave, but she didn't react for a long time. Li Miao was speechless, if only I had known earlier, I would have let her stay here, now look at her staring intently without any intention of leaving.

  Li Hui could only make eye contact with him again, but unexpectedly she still didn't notice, and was still looking at others. This silly girl would wait until they noticed her again, and then tease her, he couldn't control that much, even if he died he wouldn't save her again. Just as he thought this, Chu Qi noticed and came over, Li Hui gestured to him, Chu Qi nodded, both of them exchanged a knowing smile, and Li Hui pushed the silly girl out, more people noticing soon after.

  Yang Rui was pushed away and suddenly came to his senses, realizing that he had lingered among those people for so long earlier. If it weren't for Li Huan, he would have been noticed again and teased by them once more.

  "Thanks for helping me out just now." Yang Rui said sincerely.

  "It's just a small effort on my part, and I don't even want to help you." Li Hui said expressionlessly, if it weren't for... she wouldn't care whether he lived or died.

  "Ugh." Yang Rui was choked by his words, so bluntly expressing his own thoughts, really hurtful. But also nothing to be surprised about, they are just this kind of person, never consider your feelings. Luckily, he had some understanding of him before and knew he was in a bad mood, otherwise he wouldn't have been standing there calmly.

  "Aren't you going to say something? Why aren't you saying a word now." Li Hui noticed that his bad tone had affected Yang Rui's mood, so he restrained himself and changed the subject.

  "Oh, I came to talk about the matter between you and Wang Zhiqiao." Yang Rui calmed down his emotions, thought for a moment, and spoke up. Since he asked on his own initiative, he might as well speak out once more.

  As soon as the words came out, Li Hui's face sank straight down, his face pulled long, and Yang Rui automatically shut up. It was not easy for him to be himself, and he would eventually get heart disease from being messed with by them. Dealing with these old men was absolutely not a human job! He was always being bullied, and this was still something he had brought upon himself. Who let him run into Wang Zhiqiao that weirdo? And accidentally became good friends with her. When friends were in trouble, how could he not help?

  "You, what exactly..." Yang Rui started to probe cautiously, seeing Li Huan didn't turn around and leave, Yang Rui let out a sigh of relief, it seemed they could still continue discussing this topic.

  "Aren't you guys going to talk anymore?" Thinking of what Wang Zhiqiao said, Yang Rui roughly knew what had happened between them and didn't bother to ask more questions. Li Huan's mood was so bad now, if he asked some sensitive question that would infuriate him, turn his face away and walk away, how embarrassing it would be for himself.

  But the words were spoken for half a day, and Li Hui did not respond, with a gloomy face, unable to see any change in expression. Yang Rui felt a bit awkward, brother, although it's summer, but there's no need, no need to be so cold. If you don't want to talk, you can leave, standing here, yet not saying a word, what's the point of this?

  "I think we should talk." Li Hui felt that he couldn't sit down and talk to her now. He felt ashamed to face her, when she had seen through his thoughts so thoroughly, and he wanted to continue helping her only out of a certain sentiment, unable to say no to her, feeling heartache for her, and sorry for her. But this couldn't erase his intention to retreat at that time.

  He was so easily seen through by her, feeling a deep sense of shame. As a man, he had been inconsistent, and although his subsequent words were also sincere, they seemed more like the behavior of a hypocrite. When exposed, he felt extremely embarrassed.

  These days, she has been distant from her, only feeling that she has no face to face her again. How she looks at herself is probably thinking that she is hypocritical. Her heart and mouth are not the same, and she doesn't want her to look at herself like that. Since she can't face it, she might as well escape and numb herself.

  Can I still talk to her? How can I talk to her? Will she talk to herself? What will she say? How does she see herself? It has become a curse that deeply troubles myself.

  I've never met anyone like her before, making me feel so at a loss, flustered and unable to use any of my usual tricks.