Lu Mingren had given Lu Ziqing a car for his birthday after getting his driver’s license, but he usually felt it was troublesome and didn’t drive it much. So although his father sent him a message asking him to drive Gu Xiyu to class, he decided to ignore it and dragged Gu Xiyu into the crowd on the bus.
Gu Xiyu was someone who didn’t like having too much physical contact with people, something Lu Ziqing found out last night when he was instructing him to do his homework. He would always avoid his approach unconsciously, but he himself didn’t seem to notice this habit.
He glanced at Gu Xiyu, who was holding the handrail in front of him. Gu Xiyu seemed to have been squeezed by the people behind him, and he moved a little closer.
“You…” He had just frowned to express his “dissatisfaction” when Gu Xiyu suddenly grabbed a man’s hand with a cold face.
The man was well-dressed in a suit and was carrying a briefcase in his hand. He looked very refined and had a shiny silver watch on his wrist, which Gu Xiyu was holding tightly. He was obviously in pain, and after getting grabbed, his face turned red as he asked with anger: “What are you doing?!”
Gu Xiyu whispered in a calm tone: “Touch me again and you won’t have a hand anymore.”
The man became furious from embarrassment: “Don’t be narcissistic, okay? If I really wanted to touch, I would have touched the beauty next to you, instead of you, the man!”
There was indeed a beautiful girl with long hair standing next to Gu Xiyu. When the young woman heard these words, she was so frightened that she leaned a few steps towards the person who looked like her best friend, fearing that she would really encounter some pig laying hands on her.
Lu Ziqing didn’t see what happened, but after looking back carefully, he vaguely remembered that Gu Xiyu was indeed leaning towards him because the man in the suit had approached him.
He didn’t say anything, but Gu Xiyu had attracted the attention of everyone on the bus. One of the female high school students by the window seat suddenly said weakly: “I…. I can prove that this uncle was indeed touching the brother inappropriately… ”
The aunt next to her took her mobile phone and saw that there was a video of her recording the man in a suit. The man in the suit found it hard to argue, but he was still a little unwilling to admit guilt. He glared at the female high school student and slandered: “Did you guys collude to frame me? How can it be a coincidence that you happened to be recording a video? There’s nothing worth recording in the car!”
The girl who received everyone’s gaze blushed. She clenched her fists over her legs for a long time before she lowered her head and explained, “I…. I was recording that brother and that student next to him!”
Lu Ziqing, who was about to yawn but was suddenly named, was taken aback.
Judging from the school uniform, he and the girl were alumni.
The girl’s tone became more embarrassed: “I just think the two of them standing together is very eye-catching, so I wanted my friend to see it too, but I hadn’t expected that it would record that too…”
The bus was strangely quiet for a second.
The first to make a sound was the beauty who had hidden beside her best friend earlier. She couldn’t help but laugh, then coughed and turned her head away.
“Hey, this uncle looks familiar… Didn’t a little girl say she was touched by him last week? But he was so eloquent that he scolded the girl until she ran out of the bus crying. What about now?” Another aunt carrying a vegetable basket suddenly asked.
The man, who seemed less than 30 years old, was so embarrassed that his face looked ugly.
“I take this bus to the vegetable market every day, so I know what happens on a daily basis!”
The evidence was conclusive. In addition, people around him started holding up their cell phones, saying that they would call the police. He gave Gu Xiyu a fierce look and fled with his briefcase in hand at the next stop.
Only then did the bus’s atmosphere return to normal, and a few low voices of conversation remained.
Lu Ziqing lowered his eyes to look at Gu Xiyu, who was slightly shorter than him. He lowered his head and whispered into his ear: “Is my little mom that good, so a man would rather touch you than a beautiful woman?”
Gu Xiyu remained calm. Adolescent boys were indeed full of sexual curiosity.
He was thinking about how to teach this little boy a “nice” lesson when the driver suddenly braked. His body leaned forward on reflex and hit the person standing in front of him.
Although Lu Ziqing has been trying so hard to show his dissatisfaction, he still subconsciously reached out and put his hand around Gu Xiyu’s waist to support him.
Gu Xiyu, who crashed into the target’s arms, accidentally nudged against him as he moved around. With their bodies close to each other, he clearly felt a certain part of the target gradually get excited.
Lu Ziqing’s face changed many colors in a short period of time and finally became as black as the bottom of the pot.
Not far from them, a girl exclaimed too loudly out of excitement.
Gu Xiyu, who already had extensive experience, calmly let go of Lu Ziqing, but in his heart, he was laughing. He seriously commented to the intelligent system: “It doesn’t seem to be very big.”
“…”
Lu Ziqing’s face became more gloomy.
Gu Xiyu’s University was one station away from Lu Ziqing’s school, so the latter had to go off before him. Since the embarrassing incident, the other party hadn’t talked to him again, and after arriving at the station, he went straight down with a sullen face and ignored him.
This child was really funny.
Lu Ziqing had built a reputation as a school bully, he always portrayed himself as the worst student in the school and usually didn’t arrive at school on time. Today, under Gu Xiyu’s “leadership,” it was the first time since he was in high school that he entered the classroom before the class bell rang.
His classmates were dumbfounded when they saw him come in with a sullen face, and the voices talking about homework and daily life disappeared. The classroom was so quiet that only the sound of birds coming from outside the window was heard.
Unlike Xu Chengxuan, the top student in the class, Lu Ziqing was notorious in their school and was not to be provoked. When he had first enrolled in this high school, the high school bully at that time saw that he liked going to places like the rooftop, where he often hung out between classes. Lu Ziqing’s attitude was very cold, and he didn’t take their threats seriously, so he gathered all his buddies to teach Lu Ziqing a lesson.
No one knew exactly what happened, but that bully has never shown up to school since that day. Later, other students learned that he had transferred. On the other hand, Lu Ziqing only had a bruise on the corner of his mouth. The little brothers who had ganged up with the former school bully also scattered and were now under Lu Ziqing. According to the image Lu Ziqing showed, everyone named him the new high school bully.
“Ziqing, why did you come to school so early today?” His friend, who was copying homework on the last row of the table, only a corridor away from him, raised his head in surprise when he heard him pull his chair.
Lu Ziqing was a little annoyed and stuffed his schoolbag into the drawer: ” No reason.”
“Hey, what’s “no reason”? What happened to you today? The class teacher will check your homework during morning study, if she finds that you haven’t done it, she will definitely seize the opportunity to punish you.”
Lu Ziqing put down his school bag and put his head on the table without answering the nagging from that classmate.
Their class teacher, Chen Qiuping, happened to be the dean of students. She was a very strict woman who loved good students and hated the so-called “bad” students in her class. She had double standards.
If her good students were late or forgot to bring their homework, she would only say in a good voice: “You’ve worked hard. You must have studied late into the night yesterday and forgot, it doesn’t matter.”
If it was a bad student, she wouldn’t ask the reason but directly scold them: “Where did you go fooling around yesterday?! Instead of studying hard, you are fooling around, then you’ll leave and taint our beautiful society. You little scum!”
In this case, Lu Ziqing was already tired of listening.
He was finally awakened by the sound of the ruler banging on the desk.
Ever since Chen Qiuping swung a ruler at Lu Ziqing once and got his cold stare, she never dared to hit him directly again.
He got up and leaned back in his chair, lazily raising his eyes to look at the person in front of him: “What’s the matter?”
Lu Ziqing could be regarded as one of the biggest problems Chen Qiuping had encountered in her entire teaching career. His family background wasn’t easy to provoke, but he was still a problem student in school. She disdained him from the bottom of her heart, but never dared confront him because of his strong personality and natural coercive aura.
In her opinion, Lu Ziqing was a neurotic who would stab people with a smile if you pestered him.
Chen Qiuping didn’t expect that Lu Ziqing, who was always late, would arrive at school early. Although she didn’t really want to check his homework, all the students were watching them. And the dean’s momentum could not be mocked by the students.
She glared at him: “Where’s your homework? You didn’t do it again? If you haven’t done it, inform the monitor and copy it for me ten times!”
The corners of Lu Ziqing’s lips suddenly rose. He then took out all the homework books from his schoolbag: “If I’ve done my homework, teacher, would you help me correct it ten times?”
Chen Qiuping opened his homework book hesitantly and saw that all the questions were filled in with neat answers, and her eyes twitched: “Lu Ziqing, very good! Now you get people to help you do your homework?”
Lu Ziqing was not surprised. After the tip of his tongue touched his upper jaw, he asked, “Teacher, did you install a monitor in my house?”
“Otherwise, why are you so sure that I didn’t write the homework by myself?”
Ever since Chen Qiuping took over Class 15 of the second grade, she had never seen Lu Ziqing do homework. He even skipped most of the classes. Even if he stayed in the classroom, he only slept on the table without paying attention. It’s weird for such a student to be able to do the homework.
She had glanced at them at random just now, and the answers were all right.
With this thought, she said confidently: “This handwriting is so beautiful. How can I believe you wrote it? You don’t usually come to class, so how do you know how to solve these questions?”
Lu Ziqing chuckled at the words. He took one of the books and tore off the last page directly in front of Chen Qiuping and wrote a beautiful sentence under her astonished gaze.
He wrote, “When one has reached the end of the road and faces a dead end, do not give up hope. There is always a silver lining or better days ahead and better things to come. ”
His handwriting was exactly the same as that in the homework books. The style carried a majestic and unrestrained aura, which inexplicably matched the artistic conception of the poem written by hand.
“I really can’t solve the problems in the homework.” After he finished writing, he put down his pen and sat back in his chair. He raised his head to look up at Chen Quiping and smiled faintly, “But my little mo—my guardian can.”
———————-
“Hey, Xiyu, you’re finally back to class!” Gu Xiyu was walking to the classroom listed in his schedule when someone suddenly rushed up from behind and put his hands directly around his neck. Then the person patted him nicely before letting him go. “You suddenly asked for leave and left such strange words in your circle of friends; I was quite worried that something happened to you.”
In order to match Lu Ziqing’s class time, Gu Xiyu left for school early. He sat in the leisure area on campus and watched several replays of the original owner’s live broadcast. When he became somehow familiar with the original owner’s live broadcasting and gaming style, he then left when it was almost time for class.
He didn’t expect to meet acquaintances so soon.
[[Zhang Ming, the original owner’s best friend at the university, used to be roommates with him before the original owner moved out .]] The system prompt came on time.
Gu Xiyu replied: “No, there was something wrong at home, and I could only come back after taking care of it.” He didn’t intend to arbitrarily talk about him getting a marriage certificate with another man.
Zhang Ming didn’t even think about asking it. He happily told him about the gossip on campus from the past few days, who was with whom, who proposed to whom, who got caught, etc. It sounded like college life was particularly fulfilling.
It wasn’t until they walked into the classroom that Gu Xiyu, who was more sensitive to the surrounding environment, realized that the surrounding classmates would look in the direction of him and Zhang Ming from time to time. They would even mutter something lowly.
He felt that the object of their discussion should be him.
Zhang Ming, who was slow to react, realized this after they found a place to sit down. Just when they were feeling puzzled, a girl with a ponytail in the front suddenly turned her head.
She seemed to know them and asked directly: “Do you guys still remember the person who left an anonymous message on the school confession wall last month, the confession to the school grass?”
Zhang Ming nodded. He saw that girl glance at Gu Xiyu in embarrassment and then say: “I don’t know what’s going on, anyway, someone revealed that the person who confessed was the department flower.”
Gu Xiyu sighed silently in his heart, thinking that it turned out to be another instance of campus gossip.
Until he saw the eyes of the girl and Zhang Ming fall on him, and he suddenly understood something.
Was he….the department flower??
Gu Xiyu didn’t expect that the original owner had left a confession before his death. Even the teacher would subconsciously glance in his direction during class, causing him to be surrounded by all kinds of eyes all day long.
He was used to such things, but that didn’t mean he liked them.
The main system sent him an introduction.
[[Liu Sheng, the second male lead in this world, is the half-brother of the heroine. The original owner had a habit of wearing women’s clothing before, which was accidentally discovered by Liu Sheng. But the gentle Liu Sheng not only did not publicize the matter but even helped him hide it several times and did not treat him as an outlier. The original owner, who had rarely received such care since childhood, gradually developed feelings for Liu Sheng.]]
[[After realizing that he was about to be sold to someone else, the original owner impulsively ran to school in despair and wrote down his secret love for Liu Sheng.]]
Zhang Ming pounded his chest and said, “Why did you do such a thing without telling me?”
“You clearly know that the girl from the IT department has always been prejudiced against you, especially since she also likes that Liu Sheng. He always takes care of you…so she must have guessed that the person is you right away and investigated it secretly. Then secretly leak your network information!”
Gu Xiyu felt that he had experienced too many social deaths thanks to the big devil (Ji Chen), and he now had a very Buddhist mentality: “It doesn’t matter; it’s over. I will never run after Liu Sheng again. Others can just say what they like.”
It was unknown if it was a coincidence or if Liu Sheng deliberately avoided him, but he didn’t see him in the days after the incident.
Gu Xiyu would go to Lu Ziqing’s room to supervise his homework every night. Although Lu Ziqing was not supposed to be at the bottom of the list, judging from the current situation, it was still a bit difficult for him to break into the top 100. And every night, he had to fight him in a battle of wits to get him to do his homework.
Sometimes, in order to supervise him, Gu Xiyu would just sit beside him and play small mobile games.
Gu Xiyu happened to see the competitive game broadcast by the original owner on Lu Ziqing’s computer desktop, and he asked, “You also play it?”
“Yeah.” Lu Ziqing’s tone was quite proud, “I’m quite good. I can be counted as one of the top on the national server.”
Gu Xiyu smiled but didn’t really believe it.
It was not until Friday night that Lu Ziqing refused to do his homework on the grounds that it was the weekend, and took him to play games that he found out Lu Ziqing wasn’t bragging.
“It turns out that the hopeless player of that day was you?”
The doors on the left and right sides of the corridor were open. Lu Ziqing was in Gu Xiyu’s room checking his account when he saw the familiar nickname “CC.”
Gu Xiyu watched Lu Ziqing manipulate his mouse without permission and click on the friend list and accept a friend request from an ID called “Azure sky waiting for rain.” He was a little surprised: “You were that arrogant jungler.”
Unexpectedly, this rebellious teenager had actually adopted such a slick nickname.
He clicked on the information about Lu Ziqing’s game character and found that he did have a lot of awards based on the national standards. Most of the characters Lu Ziqing used were already first-tier. Even the competition scores were ranked in first place in the current season.
Lu Ziqing raised his eyebrows in satisfaction and then patted Gu Xiyu’s head before lowering his voice and saying, “Just wait, little mom, this arrogant jungler will carry you.”
Gu Xiyu didn’t bother to correct the way Lu Ziqing was calling him. Only after the other party left and he had closed the door did he suddenly react.
The remaining temperature and touch on the top of the head were so strangely familiar.
Gu Xiyu has only gradually realized now that even if he transmigrated to other worlds, his mission target… was still that mission target.
He returned to his senses and put on the headphones. Lu Ziqing pulled him into a team and started the double matching. While waiting, a message popped up on his friend list.
Colorful Marshmallow: [! ! Xixi, don’t pretend to be dead! Take a look at your Weibo when you have time. If you don’t fulfill your promise, your fans are going to blow up and say you broke your promise! ]
Gu Xiyu got a headache when he thought about the fan service. After thinking about it, he could only reply: […give me another week. ]
He needed to be mentally prepared.
Colorful Marshmallow: [… okay, then next Saturday, you can’t drag it anymore!]
Colorful Marshmallow: [Hey, is wearing the costume of that interstellar executive so painful? At least you didn’t choose a loli elf! ]
Gu Xiyu was startled, but before he could reply, he and Lu Ziqing were queued into the game.
Lu Ziqing’s deep voice rang out from the headphones, carrying a faint current: “Come on, little mom, which jungler do you want? I will choose it.”
Lu Mingren was busy socializing this weekend and was not at home. He and Lu Ziqing played games until midnight before they were ready to go offline. Lu Ziqing’s game skill was indeed very strong. He probably guessed that he wanted to familiarize himself with the heroes as he kept guiding him through the characteristics and operations of those heroes.
His serious tone and attitude subconsciously overlapped with the memory of a certain president. As Gu Xiyu listened, he almost forgot that he was not talking to that adult.
Habit was a terrible thing.
In the room on the other side, Lu Ziqing didn’t immediately disband the team, but instead stared at his game victories, feeling very happy.
Gu Xiyu’s voice suddenly came from the headphones.
“You like playing games so much, and you have strong control and skills. Have you thought about playing professionally?”
Lu Ziqing’s movement of the mouse stopped abruptly, and a memory came to him.
—–“You only know how to play games all day long; it is that kind of idleness that your mother dislikes the most!”
Lu Ziqing’s gaze stayed on his game records for a long time, then he closed his eyes and closed them cruelly, before lazily answering Gu Xiyu.
“Not interested.”
