Upon hearing Song Jianbai’s words, Chu Xingyan thought about it for a moment and agreed.
Coming over from his uncle’s place by bus took only about twenty minutes. The bus went directly there, with one stop right downstairs from his uncle’s apartment building and another right outside the school gates.
Furthermore, for some reason, Chu Xingyan felt the warmth of familial care for the very first time.
Even though this person was not his actual parents, he was still his uncle.
Seeing Chu Xingyan agree, Song Jianbai broke into a slight smile.
“I thought you might not be used to it, because lately you always run outside, and I thought you would be very resistant to living with me,” Song Jianbai admitted, somewhat surprised.
Turns out, the school tyrant was actually quite easy to coax.
Hearing this, Chu Xingyan did not know how to explain himself for a moment.
After all, he already knew that he was not his parents’ biological son. The compensation money from his parents’ car accident had already been divided among the relatives on both his father’s and mother’s sides.
Since he was not their biological child, no one was willing to raise him.
Only his uncle had taken him in.
Chu Xingyan’s impression of his uncle was still stuck on what he was like three years ago.
That was why he kept running outside every day.
In any case, he knew that his uncle was not exactly a reliable person either.
But now, Chu Xingyan truly needed to re-evaluate his uncle.
In the afternoon, the teenager’s family finally arrived.
Upon hearing that their son had been beaten up, the other party naturally refused to let the matter rest.
Especially upon seeing Song Jianbai, they became even more aggressive.
In their eyes, Song Jianbai looked like someone who could be easily extorted.
Yet clearly, Song Jianbai was not the kind of person who could be easily taken advantage of.
Instead, through the confrontation between the two children, the truth about why Chu Xingyan threw the punches finally came to light.
“So, both of you, because I am an adult, I will not resort to violence. But if I ever hear that kind of talk again, it will not be my nephew doing the hitting next time.” Although Song Jianbai knew that the words spoken by that teenager were unpleasant, he never expected them to be so vicious.
That couple had originally intended to extort them.
Yet they never imagined that their own son would utter such malicious words.
The other person’s parents had passed away just over a month ago. Anyone with a shred of humanity would not say that someone else’s parents deserved to die.
Now, the tables had turned, and it was the teenager’s parents’ turn to apologize to Song Jianbai.
Song Jianbai refused to accept it. “The one who was hurt is not me, but Xingyan. As his elder, I need to seek justice for him, but I cannot forgive on his behalf. If you want to apologize, you must apologize to him. Whether to forgive you or not is for him to decide.”
Chu Xingyan, who had been standing to the side observing everything with a detached expression, never expected that the matter of forgiving the other party would fall upon him.
Naturally, the other party’s parents had not expected it either; they had only assumed they would exchange polite pleasantries.
They never imagined that Song Jianbai would actually demand that they, as elders, apologize to a child.
What could a child possibly understand? Whatever they, as parents, said went. Besides, asking them, as adults, to apologize to a child, did they have no pride left?
For a moment, the entire office fell silent.
Chu Xingyan and the head teacher of the teenager both stepped forward, wanting to smooth things over.
They felt that since the matter was now clear, and the other party’s child had already been beaten up, neither side could be considered at a loss.
Therefore, with a verbal agreement that everything was fine, the matter should just be dropped.
The two children would make up in a few days.
Coupled with Chu Xingyan’s long list of past infractions, resolving the issue smoothly now would be considered a good thing.
Song Jianbai remained silent and instead looked at Chu Xingyan.
Chu Xingyan did not want to drag this matter out any further either.
Besides, what his uncle had done was already more than enough.
Chu Xingyan was already quite satisfied with the level of respect he had been shown.
Therefore, he did not wish to continue pursuing it.
Seeing that Chu Xingyan did not want to dwell on the matter any longer, Song Jianbai wore a smile on his face.
“Since this is the child’s decision, I will no longer interfere.”
This time, the incident concluded with those words from Song Jianbai.
Naturally, as they left the office, Song Jianbai even smiled brightly and asked the other party’s parents if they wanted to go out for dinner together or anything of the sort.
As for the other party, they naturally left in a huff, dragging their child back with them.
After all, their child had been beaten, they got no money, and they had completely lost face.
The moment they stepped out of the office, the teenager was slapped across the face by his father.
Clearly, getting involved in this kind of trouble was far from a good thing.
Song Jianbai raised his hand as if to say something, but ultimately said nothing.
That was someone else’s child, and it was not his place as an outsider to lecture them.
Afterwards, Song Jianbai went back to speak with Chu Xingyan’s head teacher about how Chu Xingyan would no longer live in the school dormitory and would instead be moving back home.
The head teacher, recalling how compliant Chu Xingyan seemed around Song Jianbai, readily agreed.
“Chu Xingyan’s academic performance is very good. I am worried that this incident might deal a blow to him and cause his grades to plummet. I was originally considering whether we should let him take a one-year leave of absence to adjust his mindset before returning.” After thinking it over, Chu Xingyan’s head teacher could not help offering this suggestion to Song Jianbai.
After all, given Chu Xingyan’s grades, he attended a top-tier university nationwide, and he would definitely have space for much better academic pursuits in the future.
Listening to the head teacher’s words, Song Jianbai figured it probably would not be necessary.
After all, the Chu Xingyan in the book went through a toxic romance with someone else during his sophomore year, dealt with the mess involving his biological father, and still managed to get admitted into the most popular graduate program at the country’s best university.
Therefore, Song Jianbai felt that even if he did not take a leave of absence now, it would not be a problem.
Still, since the head teacher had brought it up, Song Jianbai agreed to go back and talk to Chu Xingyan about it.
Consequently, Song Jianbai did not make Chu Xingyan attend classes for the rest of Monday afternoon, bringing him straight back home instead.
Upon arriving home, Song Jianbai naturally set to work on handling his professional tasks first.
Actually, ever since arriving in this world, Song Jianbai had not fully understood what kind of story this was.
Combined with the strange smile Xixi wore when assigning this mission earlier, Song Jianbai felt that he really should take a close look at the original plot of this novel.
However, he was not very skilled at operating the system interface.
Even though his evaluation scores were nearly perfect, he truly was not accustomed to having a system attached to him.
As he worked, Song Jianbai listened to the summary provided by the system.
When he heard that the novel he transmigrated into was a dual-protagonist BL story, his mind genuinely went blank for about three seconds.
“What about the next one?” Song Jianbai could not help asking.
“All one thousand five hundred of your missions are dual-protagonist BL stories,” the system’s voice replied.
Hearing this, Song Jianbai finally understood what Xixi’s smile had meant.
Still, that did not pose any real problem.
If they were all dual-protagonist stories, the probability of him returning to his original world anytime soon was quite low, unless that author wrote another dual-protagonist story in the same universe, or until he completed all one thousand five hundred missions.
With that thought, Song Jianbai pulled his thoughts back.
He would worry about future missions later.
For now, he needed to handle the plotline of the kid right in front of him.
Once he finished his work, he finally emerged from the study.
Judging by the looks of it, the kid must not have slept at all last night, as he was currently passed out asleep on the sofa.
Song Jianbai had originally intended to talk to him about his studies, but then thought better of it.
He could let him sleep first and talk about it later.
Chu Xingyan was awakened by the appetizing aroma of food.
Opening his eyes, he found that he was sleeping on the sofa, with a blanket draped over his body.
This made him sit up abruptly, and he looked toward the kitchen area, where he saw Song Jianbai busy cooking dinner.
He then glanced at the wall clock; it was already close to six o’clock.
He had slept for nearly four hours.
His uncle actually had not woken him up to study.
Especially today, when he had been called to school because of a fight.
(Banhaia Novel, much joy)