Chapter 3: The Most Humble When I Like You (13)

  Auntie stood up from the sofa, pointing at Xia Ye's nose and scolding loudly: "You little brat, your wings are not even hard yet, but you dare to speak to your mother in such a nasty tone! What have I done wrong to Sugar? Haven't I given her enough food or clothes? You keep saying that you don't use my money, but have you ever thought about where all those pocket money came from? Did you earn it yourself?"

  Xia Ye was severely scolded by his mother, but he didn't seem to be angry at all. Instead, he smiled and said: "I know that the money wasn't earned by me, nor was it earned by you, mom. In the end, it's all Sugar's dad who earned it. Now I'm using Sugar's dad's money to pay for his daughter's medical treatment, what's wrong with that?"

  After finishing speaking, he didn't even look at his mom's expression and went upstairs by himself, leaving behind his mom who was so angry that she sat down on the sofa, staring fiercely at his back.

  When Xia Ye walked to the door of Tang Sugar's house, she stopped and hesitated for a moment, turned the doorknob and walked in.

  Tang Tang had already taken a step ahead and returned to her room when the mother and son were quarreling, she knew that if she stood still or tried to mediate, it would not only be useless but also add fuel to the fire, because she was the spark that ignited the whole thing.

  At this moment, she was holding the few small pieces of paper that Gu Xiannian had passed to her with answers during the exam, and was staring blankly. Xia Ye had already walked up to her side, snatched the papers from her hand, looked at them in confusion, and asked: "Are you planning to bring these into the examination room? Are you planning to cheat?"

  His expression was shocked.

  Tang Sugar was originally very nervous, thinking that he had been seen through again, and was wondering how to explain it. But hearing his tone of speech seemed to be completely unaware, a hanging heart finally landed safely. He said with the trend: "Who is like you, academic tyrant!" He stood up, stretched out his hand, snatched back the note, and casually put it in his pocket.

  Just as Xia Ye was about to say something like "The homework is not good, there's a ready-made academic overachiever here, why don't we use it?", Tang Xin sneaked in and grabbed Xia Ye's hand, saying mysteriously: "Brother, I have explosive information!"

  "What's the big deal?" Xia Ye picked him up with one hand and asked with a smile, face to face. What could such a small kid have that's so explosive? At most it was just someone bullying someone else in kindergarten.

  Tang Xin looked at Tang Sugar with an uneasy expression and said seriously: "This secret I only want to tell you, brother."

  "Laughing on a summer night, he scratched his nose: "You're small but you've got a big personality, just you wait and see, brother will treat you like a little man, come to brother's room, let's have a heart-to-heart talk between men."

  After finishing speaking, she turned her head and said to Tang Sugar who had been watching them with a smile: "Go to bed early, don't stay up late, it's not good for your body."

  The sweetness warmed his heart as he watched the two brothers leave the house, and only then did he take out the few small pieces of paper from his pocket.

  At this time, a quarrel between Xia Ye and his mother came from downstairs, what were they quarreling about again, was it still because of himself?

  Tang sugar was somewhat anxious and distracted.

  She sometimes thought that if she hadn't come into this world, it would have been better. Maybe her mother would have given birth to another healthy baby, and maybe the three of them would still be living happily together now.

  Or it would be better if she died after her father and summer night's mother got married, at least this family wouldn't quarrel because of her, maybe they would live in harmony like other families.

  Sometimes, when life is dull and uninteresting, the rest of her life seems so long! But if she hadn't lived, how could she have met Gu Xiannian?

  Tang Sugar often felt that the heavens had a pair of hands that could turn clouds and rain, when she was at her wit's end, he would deliver hope to her, but when she was full of hope, he would suddenly extinguish all the light.

  And she herself, unarmed and helpless, could do nothing but face it, obey, then laugh and cry, cry and laugh, like a puppet controlled by fate.

  Tears flowed out unknowingly, trickling down her cheeks and into her mouth, the astringent taste drowning Tang Su's heart, as well as her unrealistic, shy girl dreams...

  Tears gently dripped onto the small piece of paper in her hand, and the words on it blurred as they were soaked by tears, becoming a vague mess, just like her relationship with Gu Xiannian - no matter how hard she tried, he wouldn't take a step forward, and Tangtang couldn't see any signs of clarity between them.

  She wants this kind of clarity, not that ambiguous love between young boys and girls, a relationship she dare not hope for.

  She only hopes that he will treat her like an ordinary friend, smiling at her when he sees her, allowing her to stand around him with other classmates during class breaks and listen to his eloquent words.

  But Tang Sugar knew that even this small wish was impossible to achieve.

  She silently sighed in her heart with a hint of sadness.

  "I wouldn't like her even if I liked pigs!"

  Those heart-piercing words suddenly popped out of Tangtang's mind without warning, and no matter how thick-skinned she tried to be to get close to him, her poor self-esteem wouldn't allow herself to take another step closer to him, even a small one.

  She doesn't want to... invite humiliation upon herself!!!!!

  Perhaps it's like this, in emotions, whoever takes the initiative must be prepared to get hurt and become humble, but when that humility is met with all sorts of disdainful disregard, who still has the courage to persist?

  Love requires two people working together...

  That's it, listen quietly to the songs you like, and look at the people you like from afar.

  I will leave you far away.

  Tang sugar crumpled those few small pieces of paper into a ball and threw them into the wastebasket, then fell asleep with tears still on his face.

  The next morning, Tang sugar woke up and regretted it. She carefully picked out the paper scraps from the wastebasket last night, smoothed them out on her desk one by one, and she still couldn't bear to part with them in her heart. She knew that Gu Xian would be an unavoidable calamity for her youth.

  When going downstairs, Auntie was not at home again. The summer night's face was gloomy and frightening. Even walking on the way to school did not show any signs of relief. Tang Sugar was so scared that she didn't dare ask anything.

  The two of them had breakfast at a simple breakfast shop in front of the school gate and then went to their respective classrooms.

  Sugar returned to her usual self, lowering her head as much as possible, and walked into the classroom. If she wasn't noticed or talked about by others, she would be in a good mood for the rest of the day.

  As she walked into the classroom, Tang Sugar secretly glanced around the whole class. Gu Xian and Du Juan had already arrived, sitting together, looking rather unhappy.

  What happened?

  Tang walked to his seat with a huge question mark on his face and sat down, picking up the English book without looking around and starting to read quietly.

  Perhaps it was an illusion, but she felt that Gu Xian's gaze had swept over her body several times like a dragonfly skimming the water.

  The bell for morning self-study rang, and it was not the English teacher who came in, but rather their class advisor, Teacher Qin.

  Today she is still elegant, gradually entering autumn, wearing a light green shirt, making her look more capable and dignified. Only today her expression is too serious, although she usually doesn't talk or laugh much, behind her back students affectionately call her "Extermination Master", but not like today giving off a cold and stern aura.

  She stood on the podium, carefully looking at each of her students one by one, and said: "Today, the teacher will take advantage of the early self-study time to hold a brief class meeting. First, the teacher wants to apologize to Tang Sugar for hastily making a decision without understanding the truth of the matter, causing her to suffer unjust punishment." At this point, Qin Teacher bowed down to Sugar.

  The whole class suddenly fell silent, everyone was stunned, especially Du Juan's face looked ugly, with a mixture of red and white.

  Tangtang, who had been pretending to read and didn't plan on participating, was now at a loss for words as she stared at Teacher Qin. She excitedly covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would let out an incredulous shriek. It wasn't until after a while that she finally relaxed her grip.

  These few words were like a ray of sunshine that swept away the dark clouds in her heart, making her feel warm all over. A hint of a smile hung on her lips, and she straightened her back.

  "Teacher, you said Tang Sugar wasn't the one who destroyed the classroom, then who was it?" a classmate couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

  "There is someone else who did the bad thing. The teacher knows who it is, but since she has always behaved well before, they want to give her a chance to change her ways, so they won't announce who it is."

  "As for the previous punishment of Sugar Sugar classmate, all of it will be withdrawn. The class duty will still follow the duty roster."

  Mr. Qin stopped here and seemed to have something more important to say.

  She finally set her gaze on Gu Xiannian, and after a long time, she said: "Gu Xiannian is currently acting as the class monitor temporarily. When the teacher thinks there's a suitable candidate, they will be reappointed. As for the vice-class-monitor position, it's cancelled!"

  This decision was like a powerful bomb exploding in the classroom, causing a huge stir. The students who were quietly listening to Qin teacher's lecture just a moment before suddenly started discussing it in hushed but intense tones, as if they had been stirred up like a pot of boiling water. The classroom immediately became noisy and bustling, with everyone's eyes scanning back and forth between Tang Sugar, Gu Xian Nian, and Du Juan, filled with speculation. Based on their own vivid imaginations, the students had already come up with all sorts of rumors. But the general direction was that Tang Sugar had been wrongly accused, while Gu Xian Nian and Du Juan were likely shameless people who had framed others.

  Most of the big kids in high school have a heart that hates evil, feeling that this declining world must be saved by these hot-blooded teenagers. The public opinion in the class quickly turned to sympathize with Tang Sugar, while Gu Xiannian and Du Juan were condemned.

  Because Du Juan is a girl, her classmates were more tolerant of her, but Gu Xian was a boy and had been the class monitor since childhood, always being the kind of "other people's children" who seemed to be able to do everything perfectly in the eyes of many parents, often being compared to their own good-for-nothing kids, so he attracted envy and was more likely to be pushed down by others.