Ji Zhou and Lin Shi, along with several others, only barely managed to hold back Li Miao’s hand, which had already drawn the bow and arrow.
The scene briefly descended into chaos. Jiang Luo was rushed to the hospital, and somehow no one was paying any attention to Li Miao anymore.
“Want to eat?” Shen Yu’s voice rang out.
The coldness in Li Miao’s eyes faded slightly. He turned around. Shen Yu was holding the apple with the golden arrow stuck in it, looking at Li Miao with a serious expression.
As if the one who had nearly been shot through the heart by Jiang Luo just now wasn’t him.
“Eat my ass.” A nameless fire surged in Li Miao’s chest. He turned and walked away.
Shen Yu followed behind Li Miao. “Don’t be angry…”
“Angry?” Li Miao’s lips curled with mockery as he turned back. “Why would I be angry? It’s not like I was the one who almost died here.”
Li Miao’s anger level: 100.
“Because I didn’t protect myself well,” Shen Yu said, wiping the apple with his clothes. “I didn’t protect Master’s little dog.”
A trace of the anger in Li Miao’s eyes faded. Anger level: 80.
Seeing that Li Miao was finally willing to listen, Shen Yu continued, “It’s not that I don’t care about myself. It’s because you were there, because I had you backing me up.”
The little dog’s eyes were full of unconditional trust.
Li Miao’s anger level: 60.
Shen Yu smiled faintly and held out his hand again. “Want an apple?”
Shen Yu almost never smiled. It was only then that Li Miao noticed that when Shen Yu smiled, two little tiger teeth showed.
Li Miao’s anger level dropped to zero.
Li Miao snatched the apple from Shen Yu’s hand and bit into it viciously, as if he weren’t biting an apple but Shen Yu himself.
The next day, when Li Miao got to school, he heard the good news that Jiang Luo would have to stay in the hospital for a month.
“Too short,” Li Miao muttered as he opened his desk drawer.
In an instant, a pile of pink and blue envelopes spilled out.
Li Miao: ?
Ji Zhou had been waiting to see this scene. He held back a laugh. “You definitely didn’t check the forum. Those two arrows you shot yesterday were amazing. You’ve become Nan’en’s big star now.”
Li Miao instinctively turned to look at Shen Yu.
Shen Yu stared darkly at the pile of envelopes. When he noticed Li Miao looking at him, he looked away, his expression wounded.
Huh? The little dog had learned how to act spoiled?
Li Miao poked Shen Yu and said without the slightest hesitation, “Help me throw them away.”
The little dog’s tail started wagging again.
Shen Xingze turned back to look at the intimate interaction between the two, his gaze flickering.
It was only yesterday, when Li Miao had looked at him with killing intent, that he suddenly realized Li Miao really did not love him anymore.
Those eyes that had once looked at him with affection now held only that lowly special admittee.
It was exactly the outcome he had always wanted, and yet Shen Xingze found he couldn’t bring himself to feel happy.
Shen Yu tossed every last love letter into the trash without missing one, then sat back down beside him and looked at Li Miao. “I want a reward.”
“What kind of reward?” Li Miao looked at him with easy amusement.
Shen Yu leaned closer to Li Miao, like a big dog asking its Master for a head pat.
Amusement appeared in Li Miao’s eyes. He reached out and rubbed Shen Yu’s head, messing up the black hair into a mess, just like Shen Yu’s heart.
Coincidentally, Ji Zhou happened to turn his head and see the scene.
“You, you, you!”
“What about me?” Li Miao raised an eyebrow.
“How can you be so cruel?” Ji Zhou said with heartfelt outrage. “If you touch someone’s head, they won’t grow any taller!”
The six-foot-three Shen Yu: …
“Oh, right,” Ji Zhou said, his eyes sparkling. “For next week’s performance, our class is doing a skit. Do you want to join?”
“No.” Li Miao shook his head without hesitation.
“Ah…” Ji Zhou looked a little disappointed.
“What are you performing?” Li Miao asked curiously.
“My role is very important,” Ji Zhou said solemnly. “Let me put it this way: I am the core of the core of the skit. Without me, the whole thing simply can’t function…”
While Ji Zhou was bragging, a student came in through the back door. “Second Young Master, someone is looking for you.”
Li Miao frowned and turned around. In the corridor stood Jin Lai.
Was he here to settle accounts?
“What do you want?” The two of them stood at the end of the corridor.
Jin Lai sized up the boy in front of him.
The Li family’s second young master had the face of an angel, but his arrogance and bullying nature were famous throughout the entire school.
“Hey, were you the one who hurt Student Jiang Luo?” Jin Lai asked with his hands in his pockets.
Jin Lai, the only son of the Jin family, was cheerful and carefree, a real Little Sun. But when he looked at Li Miao, there was a faint hostility in his gaze.
“What, got a problem with it?”
Jin Lai had also grown up surrounded by admiration, and with one level above Li Miao, he naturally had a faint sense of superiority. He couldn’t stand Li Miao’s attitude. “Jiang Luo is my friend. If you hurt him, you’re slapping me in the face!”
“Slapping you in the face?” Li Miao laughed and nodded.
It looked like Jin Lai still hadn’t heard of his great achievements yet.
“Smack!”
The next second, Li Miao swung his arm and satisfied Jin Lai’s wish to be slapped in the face.
Wait, what? He really hit him? Wasn’t this the part where they were supposed to say harsh things? Jin Lai was completely dumbfounded.
“Was that enough?” Li Miao narrowed his eyes happily.
Jin Lai stared at Li Miao in disbelief and instinctively wanted to hit back.
But he stopped an inch from Li Miao’s face.
No matter how outrageous Li Miao was, the surname “Li” still stood in front of his name.
Besides, Li Miao had been arrogant since childhood. If Jin Lai slapped him once, when it reached the elders, at worst it would just be another ordinary stain in Li Miao’s long, dark history.
But for him, it would be different. If he really slapped Li Miao once, it would be a provocation to the Li family.
Damn it! Why did it feel like he was doing worse than Li Miao?
Li Miao, as if he knew Jin Lai couldn’t land that slap, didn’t even bother to dodge. He just smiled at him, eyes unblinking.
Jin Lai’s expression changed several times. Gritting his teeth, he said, “You got Jiang Luo hospitalized, and you can’t even bother to go visit him? Isn’t that a little too cold-blooded?”
“Visit him?” Li Miao raised an eyebrow, then suddenly dragged Jin Lai into Class A.
It was break time, and everyone had been busy with their own things. When they saw the two of them come in, the room fell quiet.
The entire Class A stared at the two of them on the platform. Only Shen Yu’s gaze landed on Li Miao’s hand, which was gripping Jin Lai’s collar, and he frowned almost imperceptibly.
“Everyone, quiet down,” Li Miao said with a half-smile, looking around the room. What a pity Shen Xingze wasn’t here.
“Senior Jin wants to take everyone to visit Student Jiang Luo. Does anyone want to go?”
Li Miao’s tone was calm, but in the ears of the Class A students, it was no different from asking who wanted to die.
The room fell silent.
In the novel, Class A students were just background NPCs, barely affected by the plot. Compared with the named leads, they felt more like living, thinking people.
A group of arrogant young masters and young ladies deigning to visit a special admittee?
Besides, that special admittee had brought the injury on himself.
Jin Lai hadn’t expected a single person in all of Class A to speak up.
“So it seems I’m not the only cold-blooded one here?” Li Miao smiled at Jin Lai. “But that’s fine. If they won’t go, I will.”
He pulled Jin Lai along and headed out.
Jin Lai had only heard that Li Miao was crazy. He hadn’t expected him to be this crazy.
As he was being dragged out of the school gate, Jin Lai looked to security for help, assuming they would stop Li Miao. But after Jin Lai and the guard held eye contact for 1.5 seconds, the guard very naturally looked away and began staring at the sky. “What nice weather today.”
The security guard was useless. Surely the Li family wouldn’t allow Li Miao to act this recklessly, would they?
By the time Jin Lai got into the car, he had gone numb… the one driving in the front seat was unmistakably the Li family’s butler in white gloves.
Was there really no one in this world who could control Li Miao?