Shen Xingze had sharp eyes. He saw at a glance that the note in Jiang Luo’s hand was identical to the one he had received, and the balance in his heart tilted even more toward Jiang Luo.
Li Miao suddenly smiled. His smile was like a glacier melting, but at that moment, no one appreciated it.
“Shen Xingze.” Li Miao stood up and turned to look at Shen Xingze.
Li Miao’s peach-blossom eyes were very beautiful… the kind that looked affectionate even when staring at a dog. Shen Xingze felt dazed for a moment, but quickly turned to disgust.
Li Miao was indeed good-looking, but liking him or not was another matter entirely.
“You’re even dumber than I thought.” Li Miao’s tone carried genuine confusion.
Shen Xingze was just about to get angry when Li Miao spread his hands. “How did I push him? Did I fly over there?”
Shen Xingze froze. Only then did he carefully look at Li Miao. The boy was wearing a pair of limited-edition sneakers for the season, pure white, not a speck of dust on them.
He then looked over at Jiang Luo. A few days ago it had rained, and the edge of the rooftop had not been cleaned in time, leaving a puddle of muddy water.
If someone had walked over there, their shoes would definitely have been splashed with mud.
“I… I felt someone push me. When I got up, only Li Miao was behind me…” Jiang Luo explained guiltily.
“You… why didn’t you say so earlier…” Shen Xingze realized he might have misunderstood Li Miao, and his tone also became a little guilty.
If Li Miao had explained himself earlier, could he have misunderstood him?
Li Miao looked at Shen Xingze as if he were crazy. “Did you even give me a chance to explain?”
He came up ready to hit someone.
Shen Xingze’s face heated up. “…Forget it. Since it’s been explained clearly, let’s go, Jiang Luo.”
Jiang Luo had never expected things to turn out like this.
Shouldn’t Brother Xingze have used this opportunity to see Li Miao’s true domineering nature?
But Jiang Luo soon had no chance to keep thinking about it.
Because it was his turn.
“Hold on. I’ve explained myself, but you haven’t.” Li Miao shifted his gaze and looked at Jiang Luo.
“And you,” Li Miao lifted Jiang Luo’s chin with a finger, “what did you mean by giving me that note?”
“It’s clearly after school now, but Shen Xingze came too… Can I take that to mean he also received a note from you?”
“What? Were you trying to frame me?” Li Miao’s eyes went straight through to the bottom of a person’s heart.
How could Li Miao have guessed?
“I…” Jiang Luo’s breathing began to quicken.
“What right do you have to say that about Jiang Luo?” Shen Xingze frowned. “Even if you didn’t do this, you can’t just slander people. Don’t think everyone is as sinister as you.”
Jiang Luo, as if grabbing onto a lifesaving straw, looked at Shen Xingze pleadingly. “Brother Xingze! It really wasn’t me!”
“Is that so?” Li Miao’s face was full of mockery. He pulled the note out of his pocket and rubbed it between his fingers. “Are you saying that there was someone else here who would use this kind of cheap notebook with rough paper?”
Shen Xingze suddenly looked at Jiang Luo.
Jiang Luo’s face went pale. “I…”
“Smack…” The sound was even crisper than before, and Jiang Luo’s face turned to the side again.
Li Miao shook out his hand, satisfied.
Li Miao stood up. “You should be glad I’m in a good mood today.”
Mainly because he had already hit enough people.
“Otherwise… if you framed me like this,” Li Miao said meaningfully, “since I already took the blame, I would have to make it real.”
“By then, it wouldn’t be as simple as just pushing someone.”
Jiang Luo’s face grew paler and paler, becoming even more pitiful and endearing.
“Enough!” Shen Xingze’s eyes wavered for a moment, then suddenly became firm. He interrupted sharply, “No matter what, if it weren’t for your indulgence before, would this group of people be so arrogant?”
“Why don’t you say that if your mother hadn’t given birth to you, none of this would have happened in the first place?” Li Miao laughed in anger.
Was it the plot that made people blind, or was it love that made people blind?
“You!” Shen Xingze couldn’t hold back and raised his hand.
The next second, his arm was firmly caught by a hand with distinct knuckles.
It was Shen Yu.
“Let go!” Shen Xingze tried to break free, but failed, making him look somewhat flustered instead.
“Can’t win an argument, so you want to fight?” Shen Yu stood in front of Li Miao and looked down at Shen Xingze.
His eyes were dark and heavy, like a bottomless vortex.
Shen Xingze’s face grew even uglier, but he really could not break free from Shen Yu.
“Who said I was going to hit him! I was going to pull Jiang Luo up!” Shen Xingze said awkwardly.
Shen Yu glanced at Li Miao.
Li Miao was in a very good mood and nodded. Only then did Shen Yu let go.
Regaining his freedom, Shen Xingze rubbed his wrist and no longer looked at Li Miao. He reached out to Jiang Luo.
Jiang Luo hesitated for a moment, then placed his hand in Shen Xingze’s palm.
The two of them could be said to have fled in defeat.
“You called me over just to watch the show?” After everyone had left, Shen Yu turned to look at Li Miao.
“Mm… sort of.” Li Miao was in a very good mood. Who knew what the system wanted when it called Shen Yu over? Anyway, he had been brought here.
From the moment Shen Yu appeared, Li Miao had been smiling as he looked at him. When he saw Shen Yu look over, Li Miao raised a hand. “Rub it for me. It hurts from hitting people.”
Shen Yu let out a helpless sigh, reached out to take Li Miao’s hand, and turned it over. He had not expected the palm to really be red.
What kind of person slapped someone a few times and ended up with their own hand turning red first?
So delicate.
Shen Yu rubbed it carelessly a couple of times, then pulled Li Miao’s hand away as if shocked by electricity.
“Alright? Let’s go.”
After leaving the school gate, the two parted ways. Li Miao entered the Rose Garden across from the school, while Shen Yu stepped into the slums just a wall away.
“President Shen.” After turning a corner at an alley piled with trash, a voice rang out.
Shen Yu paused and turned around.
A man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a silver suit stepped out from the shadows.
Bai Xin naturally took Shen Yu’s bag and followed half a step behind him.
“How is it?” Shen Yu asked.
Bai Xin lowered his head slightly, as if reporting to a superior. “The results of the test on your blood sample are out.”
“Speak.”
“A neurotoxin was detected in the sample…”
Someone was walking toward them from the opposite direction. Shen Yu turned his head slightly, and with one look, Bai Xin immediately stopped speaking and moved half a step closer to Shen Yu.
“Xiao Yu is back?” It was a neighbor. The neighbor looked at Bai Xin. “Your brother came to see you?”
“Yes.” Bai Xin smiled slightly. “I’m on break recently, so I came to see Xiao Yu.”
To outsiders, he was Shen Yu’s cousin, and he would occasionally come by to visit Shen Yu.
After the neighbor walked away, Bai Xin continued, “The doctor said the toxin in your body should already have been cleared, but this toxin leaves residue, so there may be aftereffects.”
“What aftereffects?” Shen Yu frowned.
“It is a new type of toxin, so even the doctor can’t say for sure, but in any case, it has something to do with emotions.”
Shen Yu nodded thoughtfully. No wonder he had felt inexplicably irritable these past few days, especially when he was at home.
“There is still no solution for this residue right now,” Bai Xin continued. “But the doctors have already started researching it. If there is any progress, they will let us know right away.”
“Alright.” Shen Yu nodded.
It was only a little irritability. He could endure it.
…
Li Miao’s homework had previously always been outsourced to Ji Zhou.
After Shen Yu became his deskmate, he handed it over to Shen Yu.
For three years in the junior division, everything had been peaceful like this. No one expected that just a few days after moving up to the senior division, trouble would arise.