Jiang Minghua, along with two girls who had also finished their tests, helped Su Yu to the infirmary just as they were passing by Zhang Chen and Bai Xiruo at the entrance.
Seeing Zhang Chen outside, Jiang Minghua nodded and greeted him.
Zhang Chen knew this guy. In the original novel, Su Yu obviously couldn’t have only one suitor, and Jiang Minghua was one of them besides him.
After he was expelled, the position of openly following Su Yu around at school naturally fell to Jiang Minghua.
Because of that, the original body had even beaten him up pretty badly, but Su Yu would stop it later…
He was just a minor supporting character, and the book only mentioned this incident in passing.
But although Jiang Minghua was only a minor supporting character in the book, that was not the case in the original body’s memories.
Zhang Chen could remember many things involving the original body and Jiang Minghua, all of them as vivid as if he had experienced them himself.
The two of them had once been classmates in middle school.
Back then, Jiang Minghua’s grades were much better than the original body’s, and because of that, he always carried a faint sense of superiority in front of him.
Until one day, the original body could no longer take it and cornered him after school. After that, Jiang Minghua never dared to use his grades to lord it over anyone again.
After entering high school, he somehow ended up in the same class as the original body again, and they both set their sights on Su Yu at the same time.
Because the original body was always by Su Yu’s side, Jiang Minghua generally didn’t dare to make a move.
But as long as the original body wasn’t around, he would basically find a chance to get close to Su Yu.
He was the original body’s rival, and the two of them had never gotten along.
But he didn’t dare show it on the surface. He could only do little things to cause trouble in secret.
For example, right now, afraid that Zhang Chen might misunderstand and get jealous, he still nodded at him with an obedient, honest look.
In reality, he was just afraid of getting beaten up.
Zhang Chen raised an eyebrow and watched the group pass by with interest.
Seeing this, Jiang Minghua stopped in his tracks and offered a righteous explanation: “Su Yu fainted on the playground just now too. I brought her to the infirmary.”
Zhang Chen said, “Mm, why are you telling me?”
Hearing this, Su Yu turned around, frowned slightly in confusion, and then let the two girls support her into the infirmary.
“Ah… I, I thought I should tell you…” Jiang Minghua was a little stunned.
Before this, whenever he spoke to Su Yu, he might get forced back by Zhang Chen’s glare. So what was going on now? What did that mean?
“From now on, you don’t need to tell me about this kind of thing. It has nothing to do with me.” Zhang Chen curled his lips into a smile. “I’m the type who cares most about fairness, right, Xiruo?”
“Huh?” Bai Xiruo froze in panic. She had not dared to look at Su Yu from start to finish, and her feet slowly moved backward…
Jiang Minghua was equally confused. “Huh? What do you mean?”
“Exactly what it sounds like.” Zhang Chen grabbed the collar of Bai Xiruo’s school uniform as she tried to keep backing away. “From now on, however you want to chase girls, it has nothing to do with me. You don’t need to worry that I’ll hit you.”
“Me? I’ve changed my ways now. I don’t hit people anymore, and I won’t in the future either, right, Xiruo?”
“…You clearly said that just yesterday…” Bai Xiruo muttered to herself…
After hearing that, Jiang Minghua looked back at Su Yu and saw that she had already gone into the infirmary. Only then did he put on a carefree smile. “What are you talking about?”
With the girl he liked by his side, a boy always had to save face.
Zhang Chen didn’t expose him. He glanced at Bai Xiruo and said, “She’s already recovered, so I’ll take her back to class first.”
After saying that, without waiting for Jiang Minghua’s reply, Zhang Chen let go of Bai Xiruo’s clothes and followed behind her toward the playground.
Jiang Minghua stood there in a daze for a moment. Only after watching Zhang Chen go far away did he follow him into the infirmary.
He glanced at Su Yu sitting by the bedside and asked, “How are you? Are you okay?”
Su Yu looked up and glanced at the doorway, only to find that Zhang Chen had not come in after all.
The two accompanying girls shook their heads. “She’s fine. We’ll go buy Little Yu some candy. Keep an eye on her, okay?”
Hearing this, Jiang Minghua was secretly overjoyed at the chance to be alone with Su Yu. “Okay!”
After the two girls also left, Jiang Minghua carried a cup of water mixed with glucose over to Su Yu and carefully handed it to her.
“What did you and Zhang Chen just talk about?” Su Yu took it without drinking and instead asked about what had happened at the doorway earlier.
Jiang Minghua’s hand froze in midair, his mind taking a moment to catch up. “N-no, nothing.”
“Why are you asking about that?”
“Did he really not say anything?!” Su Yu frowned tightly. She had fainted from low blood sugar, and Zhang Chen was just turning a blind eye to it!?
She had deliberately pretended to have low blood sugar to see how he would react!
Not only was he not worried, he didn’t even come in to look at her once!?
What was he trying to do!?
Hearing this, Jiang Minghua put on a look of difficult thought, and after careful consideration said, “He and Bai Xiruo seemed to be on very good terms?”
“He didn’t really say anything. He just said that Xiruo was fine and that he would take Xiruo back to class first.”
“Oh, and he grabbed Bai Xiruo by the collar. I had never noticed before that the two of them were so close…”
“What? On very good terms? He grabbed Bai Xiruo by the collar? How did he grab her?”
Su Yu was shocked to the core by Jiang Minghua’s words. You have to know that just yesterday, Zhang Chen had sworn up and down to her that he would properly teach Bai Xiruo a lesson for her!
How had their relationship gotten so good that he was grabbing her by the collar now?
“Like this…” Jiang Minghua reached back and hooked his hand around the back of his own collar, lifting it upward. “He grabbed her like this.”
“He really didn’t say anything else?” Su Yu widened her eyes, furious enough that her chest rose and fell.
“Um… oh, actually… there was one more thing, but it’s not really easy for me to say.” Jiang Minghua said with a hesitant look.
“Say it!” Su Yu had no patience for Jiang Minghua’s nonsense. The whole reason she had let Jiang Minghua follow along was to use him to anger Zhang Chen a little, but she hadn’t expected to end up the one getting angered by Zhang Chen instead!
“I told him that you also had low blood sugar and that I was bringing you here. But he said…”
“From now on, there is no need to tell him about this kind of thing. It has nothing to do with him.”
Su Yu believed this, because before entering the infirmary, she had also heard Zhang Chen say, “Why are you telling me?”
What came after that about it having nothing to do with him was perfectly reasonable.
“Fine…” Su Yu nodded lightly after hearing that. “Nothing to do with him, huh. Fine…”
Seeing this, Jiang Minghua quickly asked with concern, “Are you okay, Su Yu? Zhang Chen was probably just warned by the teacher yesterday, so he’s still in a bad mood… That’s why…”
“In a bad mood… then forget it.”
Su Yu looked up at Jiang Minghua. “Jiang Minghua, do you want to have lunch with me?”
“Huh? C-can I?” Jiang Minghua was overjoyed.
“Why wouldn’t it be okay? It’s perfectly normal for classmates to eat together.”