Chapter 2: Easy Approach (1)

  In the past few years, Gu Xian had been inexplicably staring at Tang Suo, unaware of what else she was thinking.

  Tang Sugar bit her lower lip tightly, looking hesitant. Finally, she plucked up the courage and slowly walked to his seat, opening the fist that had been clenched all this time in front of him with a slow and cautious movement, looking serious and mysterious. Even Gu Xian Year and the surrounding classmates who were watching couldn't help but be curious, stopping their pointing and staring at her, their eyes fixed on the slowly opening fist.

  A milky white sea snail with brown wavy spots appeared before them, and several girls couldn't help but let out a low cry of surprise: the sea snail was too beautiful, just like a work of art, making people want to possess it at first sight.

  But Gu Xiannian just smiled disdainfully and asked with a puzzled expression, "What's this?" as he gazed at Tang Sugar's eager face.

  "This...my mom left it for me, I...I want to give it to you." Tang Sugar felt extremely nervous for some reason, and even his speech was stuttering and incoherent.

  "Why give me gifts?" He looked at Tang Sugar with confusion.

  Tang Tang became even more embarrassed, she hadn't expected him to ask for a reason.

  "Because... you lent me an umbrella."

  "Hmph! It's not about that at all, you just want to find an excuse to get close to the class president. And look at your own behavior, a toad like you thinks it can eat swan meat!" Duan Juan said, hitting right on her sore spot.

  Tang sugar was extremely embarrassed, one hand kept twisting the hem of his clothes, but his eyes refused to move away from Gu Xiannian's handsome face.

  He looked at the gift and then at her, his smile broadening: "It's nothing, no need to thank me."

  He didn't reach out to take the shell, clearly refusing her.

  Tang sugar's stubbornness suddenly came up, and he refused to withdraw his hands holding the gift.

  The two sides were stuck in a stalemate for no reason, and finally, Gu Xianye had no choice but to pick up the conch shell with his index and middle fingers.

  This expression, this action pierced Tang Su's sensitive and fragile self-esteem, suddenly making him feel worthless. The thing that was so precious to him in his own heart was actually worthless in his eyes!

  But she suppressed the sourness in her heart, anyway, he accepted her gift, didn't he?

  Tang sugar didn't understand why he cared so much about whether he accepted his gift or not, what did it represent? In his heart, he was just like a stray dog! He had only condescended to help him once.

  Don't think too much, Tang sugar!

  She walked towards her seat in a trance-like state, only to hear Du Juan say sweetly from behind: "Class monitor, I really like this seashell."

  "Take it if you like."

  What Gu Xiannian said was light and casual, but it stirred up a stormy sea in Tang Su's heart.

  Tangtang's eyes widened as she turned around to see that Gu Xiannian had indeed handed the seashell to Dujuan. A pang of silent pain shot through her heart, and her face suddenly changed color. She let out a hurt cry, rushed over, snatched the seashell from Dujuan's hand, and clutched it tightly. Regret filled her small heart, and tears welled up in her eyes as she gazed at Gu Xiannian with sorrow. Without a word, she returned to her seat, sat down stiffly, and buried her face in her textbook. Heaven knows she couldn't focus on the words; all she could hear was the chatter of her classmates.

  "What's wrong with her? Her reaction is so weird!"

  "You're acting like a neurotic!"

  "It's hereditary, isn't it?" Du Juan said with disdain, her voice as loud as an atomic bomb exploding in the classroom, so that everyone could hear clearly: "Her grandmother was mentally ill, and this illness is inherited. Her mother was abandoned by her father and committed suicide after losing her mind. You tell me, would a normal person seek death? It's probably another case of mental illness, and now it's probably her turn to fall ill."

  "Really?" A few girls pretended to be very scared.

  "Of course it's absolutely true, I guarantee it with my personal integrity!" Du Juan said, thumping her chest.

  What's your moral character? Do you have any integrity?

  Tang Sugar sneered in her heart.

  She strained to straighten her back, although the hurtful words had pierced her spine, she still had to pretend to be nonchalant, quietly reading a book, even hiding her endurance very well, otherwise what could she do, she didn't have the ability to fight back!

  Tang sugar began to regret, regretting why she was so impulsive just now. The snail shell was taken away by Dujuan, and it was taken away. Why did she have to grab it back? Now it's good, provoking Dujuan to tear open her scars that she didn't want others to know, one by one, and show them off in public, bloody and gruesome.

  Others knowing is okay, but she just doesn't want Gu Xi Nian to know. He didn't attend elementary school and junior high with her, he doesn't know about her past or her family background. Now that he knows everything clearly, will he look down on her even more?

  She had wanted to retain some dignity in front of him, but now it seems impossible!

  Tang Sugar particularly wanted to know Gu Xiannian's current reaction, and couldn't help but sneak a peek at him. He ignored her, as if she were an invisible person.

  Tang Sugar suddenly felt a tightness in her chest, so tight she couldn't breathe.

  At this moment, Xia Ye appeared at the classroom door, a pair of bright black gem-like eyes scanned her class and located Tangtang's position. She walked up to her with her long legs, three steps two steps, put down a bowl of steaming hot beef noodles in front of her, turned around and left without saying a word.

  Xia Ye's sudden appearance and disappearance in class caused a stir, especially among the girls who were whispering to each other.

  "Who is that extremely handsome senior? How does he know that psycho?"

  The name of Tang Sugar was secretly changed by those girls to "Neurosis".

  "What's the point of even giving her food?" The girls asked each other with a sour tone.

  "He's her half-brother from her stepmother, who has a mental illness, but they don't share a single drop of blood."

  Azalea deliberately said the last sentence in a strange tone, and also winked at the girl next to her, several girls pushed each other back and forth in an exaggerated manner, each laughing with ill intentions.

  A girl suddenly remembered something: "Ah! I remember! The neurosis in junior high school once intentionally ran on the playground, and when she saw the senior just now, ah! No! Brother! Hehe, when he came over, she immediately pretended to faint, asked for a hug, and was disgusted to death!"

  "Really? How shameless!"

  "She can't even see it, but she was already flirting with boys when she was so young."

  The girl's conversation was filled with envy, jealousy and hatred.

  Azalea looked at Gu Xian Nian with a hint of a smile and said: "Class Monitor, you'd better be careful, don't get caught."

  As soon as she heard this, all the hidden grievances suddenly burst out like a flood that couldn't be contained. In an instant, they surged up to Tang Su's heart. She slammed her textbook heavily onto the desk and picked up the steaming hot beef noodles. Her eyes were bloodshot as she walked straight towards Du Juan with a gloomy face that made people shiver.

  Azalea looked around for help, but the girls who were just standing next to her had already slipped away, sensing that things were not going well. They became frightened and stared at Tang Sugar with trepidation, stuttering: "Y-you... what do you want to do?"

  What does this girl want to do? Don't worry, I'll reveal the answer for you right away!