Chapter 43
Jin Xi angrily left, and Bo Yan frowned as he returned to the dormitory.
Jing Chi and Xu Chaoyang, the two troublemakers, exchanged glances with each other, and didn't dare speak before going to sleep that night.
That night, Bo Yan tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. He took out his phone to send Jin Xi a text to apologize. The ssage was already typed out:
Jin Xi, I'm sorry. I took the wrong letter. Please give
another chance, okay?
As soon as the ssage was sent, a red exclamation mark appeared on the left.
He was blocked?
In the next dorm room, Jin Xi curled up in her quilt, with her head facing the white wall and her paws holding her phone, staring blankly at the dim screen.
This guy is so stupid!
Not only stupid, but also fierce, looking as if he wants to eat soone when he gets fierce.
From a young age, Shen Ping Chuan was also fierce to her, but Jin Xi was not a fragile girl. It was just that Bo Yan happened to say harsh words to her, which made her feel wronged.
Chu Zhao, Jin Xi's roommate, wrapped herself in a quilt like a caterpillar, only revealing her small face. She curiously asked Jin Xi, "What did Senior Bo Yan write in his love letter to make you so angry?"
Jin Xi ruffled her ssy hair and mumbled, "He told
to marry him."
"Pfft."
Chu Zhao couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Your passionate confession from Senior Bo Yan really took an unconventional approach."
"What confession? This guy was clearly just ssing with !"
Jin Xi decided she would ignore him from now on.
The next morning, she went to class with her books, together with her roommate. They happened to run into several boys coming back from morning drills as they were coming down the stairs.
Having just finished training, the sweat staining the front of their T-shirts was very noticeable, and you could feel the heat emanating from their bodies as they brushed past.
Bo Yan didn't look too happy. There were faint dark circles under his eyes. As he walked past her, he reached out and pulled Jin Xi. "Jin Xi..."
Jin Xi struggled free of Bo Yan's grip and said in a muffled voice, "You reek, don't touch ."
Upon hearing this, Bo Yan imdiately let go of her and stepped back, frowning as he went upstairs toward the public bathroom.
After the boys left, Chu Zhao said, "There's no stench. Your Senior Bo Yan is the cleanest."
"He's a nasty man."
Jin Xi was extrely irritated. She finally understood that being vicious to Bo Yan would only make her feel worse.
How could she beco like this? She kind of hated herself.
Jin Xi was depressed all day.
At noon, Shen Pingchuan asked Jin Xi to have lunch together.
On the second floor of the No. 3 cafeteria, Shen Pingchuan ca over with a tray. As usual, he picked out the biggest piece of at from the tray and set it aside.
Normally at this ti, Jin Xi, the little gluttonous cat, would surely snatch the lean at from his tray.
But oddly today, she absentmindedly poked at the white rice in her bowl, clearly lost in thought, barely eating a few bites.
Shen Pingchuan asked her to eat with him because he wanted to warn her about the Level 4 exam.
"How's the preparation going? Last ti Dad asked, I lied to cover for you. If you don't pass this sester again, even gods can't save you."
Jin Xi looked at him blankly, "When's the Level 4 exam?"
Shen Pingchuan put down his chopsticks in exasperation. "You don't even know when the exam is. Have you been preparing well at all!"
"Yes I have. I review vocabulary every day." Jin Xi took out the vocabulary book from her pocket to prove her innocence.
Shen Pingchuan said impatiently, "Prepare well and try to pass it once. Next sester, pass Level 6. Start preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam in your junior year."
"You've got it all planned out for ?"
Shen Pingchuan said matter-of-factly, "I'm your brother. Of course I should help you plan these things. I was thinking of having you take the IELTS and study abroad for your master's degree, but then I figured no, you're muddleheaded, I wouldn't feel assured with you going abroad alone. Staying in China is fine, you can go to our university, or apply for better ones if you want."
"Then what?"
"Then you can choose the job and do what you like."
"Can I go to Uncle Shen's company?"
Shen Pingchuan asked guardedly, "What for? Want to compete with
for the family property?"
Jin Xi laughed, revealing two small white eyeteeth. "We siblings are of one heart. What's there to compete?"
Shen Pingchuan rubbed her head and said gently, "The Shen family's power runs deep, with many peripheral branches. It's not as simple as you think. Anyway, as long as brother can provide for you, you won't go hungry. Don't worry and just do what you want."
Jin Xi oh-ed, and didn't continue the topic.
During the al, Shen Pingchuan casually asked, "Are you dating?"
Jin Xi choked on a mouthful of spicy fried rice and coughed violently, with tears and snot spurting out.
Seeing her react this way, Shen Pingchuan frowned. "So it's true?"
"No!" Jin Xi quickly denied, "Why would I date him!"
Shen Pingchuan was puzzled. "Him? So there is soone."
Jin Xi looked at the white rice in her bowl, feeling flustered. "Who's been telling you nonsense?"
Shen Pingchuan laughed. "I'm just teasing you, silly."
Jin Xi wanted to hit him when she heard this. She recalled Shen Pingchuan teasing her often when they were in high school, but she had a clear conscience because his tricks never worked.
Shen Pingchuan put down his chopsticks and asked curiously, "So who's the man?"
His interrogative tone made Jin Xi feel like she was the fallen woman being questioned about her illicit lover in a TV drama.
"There's no one." Jin Xi was a little nervous and said softly, "No illicit lover."
Shen Pingchuan: ...
"I see now." His eyes already showed understanding as he angrily said, "It must be him, that brat! Daring to seduce my sister right under my nose!"
Jin Xi's cheeks turned red as she hurriedly explained, "No, it's not him! He didn't seduce !"
"All this ti you keep running to the club for no reason. Other than that hypocrite Jian Sixun, who else could it be!"
Jin Xi was stunned.
"Huh?"
Shen Pingchuan said unhappily, "Let
make this clear, I don't approve of soone like Jian Sixun!"
Jin Xi felt the huge weight lifted from her heart. She breathed a sigh of relief and had the cheek to ask, "W-why not?"
"I've interacted with him in the student council before. This guy..."
Shen Pingchuan thought hard but couldn't seem to find any faults with Jian Sixun's gentle personality and capable work ethic.
"Anyway he's unsuitable! His physique is too weak, doesn't even have muscles. How can he be my brother-in-law!"
In Shen Pingchuan's eyes, few n in the world deserved his precious sister. If it were up to him, he would definitely choose the best for her.
"What about Senior Xu Chaoyang?" Jin Xi carefully beat around the bush, "He has a strong physique."
Shen Pingchuan flatly rejected it. "That foolish son of a landlord still wants to be my brother-in-law? Dream on!"
"What about Senior Jing Chi?"
"Nothing's wrong with him, just too sly. You silly girl can't handle that kind of craftiness."
"Then..." Jin Xi ran through a circle, asking about each of Shen Pingchuan's roommates, until finally circling back to that person.
She looked at him nervously and asked, "What about Senior Bo Yan?"
"Him?" Shen Pingchuan's eyebrows knotted together. He thought hard for a long ti. "He is..."
Jin Xi tightly gripped her chopsticks, staring at him until she could barely breathe.
"Hey, are you playing , little ass?"
"Bro, I'm going to the library tonight to review for Level 4. Bye!"
Before Shen Pingchuan could react, Jin Xi hurriedly got up and slipped away.
For several days in a row, Jin Xi barely interacted with Bo Yan.
Bo Yan thought to himself that this couldn't go on. He had to take action.
One afternoon in late May, the blazing sun shone intensely, making it hard to open your eyes. Bo Yan sat astride the obstacle wall on the training field, gazing at the wisps of cloud in the distance, unmoving for a long ti.
Behind him, Jing Chi climbed up in a few steps. Seeing Bo Yan sitting there in a daze, he patted his shoulder and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Bo Yan gazed at the drifting clouds in the distance and murmured, "Return from death's door."
Seeing the look of tragic resolve in Bo Yan's eyes, Jing Chi still hadn't reacted when Bo Yan closed his eyes. With a "smack" sound—
He leapt down from the three ter high obstacle wall, landing straight on the barren grassland.
Even Jing Chi's mom was shocked speechless.
He quickly flipped over the obstacle wall to check Bo Yan's condition. This guy cleverly avoided all the vital parts, landing on his knees which were scraped and bloodied, but otherwise he was fine.
"Damn! That was too extre!"
Jing Chi helped Bo Yan up and shouted to Xu Chaoyang who was rushing over, "Go get soone from the infirmary!"
Bo Yan grabbed Xu Chaoyang's arm, and sared the fresh blood from his scraped knee all over his face, "Go to the library and get Jin Xi, tell her I'm dying."
**
The school infirmary slled faintly of dicinal alcohol.
Bo Yan sat at the edge of the hospital bed, pants rolled up above his knees.
The nurse in a white coat carefully wrapped dicated gauze around the wound on his knee.
Jing Chi stood guard at the door, turned around and said in a low voice to Bo Yan, "She's here!"
A sudden shriek of pain from the treatnt room made the nurse jump in fright.
Imdiately after, as if possessed by an actor, soone collapsed straight onto the hospital bed.
The nurse was so scared she imdiately stood up, completely confused about what happened.
What was going on? What did she do?
"Student, what's wrong with you!"
Just then, Xu Chaoyang pushed open the door, and Jin Xi followed behind anxiously.
Bo Yan opened his eyes slightly, gazing weakly at Jin Xi by the bed, "Jin Xi, you ca."
Jin Xi looked at the thick bandages wrapped around his knee, biting hard on her lower lip until the flesh turned pale.
"It's nothing."
He struggled to sit up, and even coughed lightly, sounding weak, "It's just a small injury, your senior can take it."
The nurse was going blind, it was just a minor abrasion on the knee, yet he made it seem like he had a terminal illness. And he was panting, what was he panting so hard for!
But when she saw the flushed corners of this young girl's eyes, she imdiately understood what was going on.
When she was disinfecting his wound earlier, which was the most painful mont, she didn't hear a peep from him. But now he was yelling out.
Turns out it was because his girlfriend ca, now it's ti to act pitiful.
Jin Xi still ignored Bo Yan, instead asking the nurse anxiously, "Sister, how bad is his injury? It looks really serious, does he need to go to the hospital?"
The nurse looked back at Bo Yan, his eyes shining like stars. This sincere effort, he might as well kneel down for her.
"Well...the situation doesn't look good."
The nurse sister didn't have the heart to say the truth. Going against her conscience she said, "The knee injury is quite severe, excessive blood loss may affect intelligence. Anyway, he needs care and pampering."
"Pfft-" Hearing the words "care and pampering
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