Chapter Twelve

  "No." He chuckled softly, "I just came out of the classroom and was going to the office to help the math teacher get some teaching materials. I didn't expect to run into you here, so I couldn't help but call out to you."

  "What's with calling out to me all of a sudden?" I asked, looking away with embarrassment.

  My mind was filled with thoughts because of this sentence, and suddenly I felt a bit awkward in front of him, lowering my head to look at the ground, while slowly walking towards him with a twisted expression.

  "Zhang... which grade and class is Fei fellow student in?" I said slowly, my hands grasping the hem of my skirt nervously, anxiously waiting for his response.

  After a long while, there was still no response from him.

  I felt something was strange, and couldn't help but look up to see my class teacher standing in front of the corridor with a pointer in hand. Her short hair was standing on end, her eyes were wide open, and when she saw me notice her, a terrifying smile suddenly appeared on her face. She stretched out her hand to adjust the somewhat rusty metal frame of her glasses, and let out a shrill scream.

  "Xia Qinghe, stop right there."

  "No!"

  Watching her hand holding the whip, it was spinning rapidly in the wind at 360 degrees, as if it would fly out of her hand and lash towards me at any moment.

  Stop? I'd rather die than stop, unless I'm an idiot who deserves her whip.

  Listening to her high heels clicking, making a strange and ominous sound in the corridor, I ran desperately ahead, under such a big sun, she didn't seem tired at all, chasing me all the way to the school gate.

  "Uncle, hurry up and give way."

  I let out a shout of surprise and gestured with my eyes for Uncle Gatekeeper to hurry up and get out of the way.

  Because, from the start of school until now, I haven't been on time for a single class, so even the security uncle at the campus gate is extremely familiar with me. When he sees me sprinting towards him at 100 meters per second, Security Uncle's baton falls to the ground and he leaps into the security room in one swift motion, his movements as agile as an athlete.

  "It's been just one day since we last met, and your skills have improved so much already!"

  I gave him a thumbs up and quickened my pace, hearing the shrill cry of our class teacher getting closer and closer, and suddenly jumped out of the school gate.

  "Hey, isn't this the thirteenth generation? How come you're running like a rabbit now? If you keep running like that, the few pounds of meat on your chest will be gone!"

  Suddenly, I heard the sound of a fox in my ear, and I shook my head to dispel that nightmare-like voice. However, just then, my leg was caught by something unknown, and my body lost its balance and fell forward.

  I closed my eyes and shouted loudly: "Ah... help!"

  With a "thud", my chin hit someone's leather shoes, I stretched out my hand to hug that leg and lifted my head with a grateful face towards the person who saved my life.

  Under the sunlight, his shoulder-length hair fluttered gently in the breeze, with a hint of a smile on his lips and an enigmatic grin on his face. He crouched down, brushed aside my messy bangs, and gave me a mischievous look.

  My intuition told me that this fox was up to no good again, I let go of his pants corner, swooshed up from the ground, and took a deep breath ready to make a run for it, but just as I started, my hair was grabbed by him.

  "Ah......, hurry up, let me go quickly."

  As I watched the class teacher getting closer and closer, I suddenly panicked, stretched out my hand to grab the other end of my hair, and pulled it back with him.

  The class teacher's whip cracked loudly in the air, seeing the fox tightly grasping me, a joyful expression appeared on his face, the cracking sound grew louder and louder, the whip stretched out pointing this way, excitedly rushing over.