In the morning, Lu Qingci stood at the school gate as usual, checking discipline, occasionally lifting his head to look outside. When he saw a familiar car slowly drive in, a trace of tenderness flashed through the boy’s dark, chilly eyes.
He saw the boy regain his spirits, and hop down from the car in a neat school uniform. His delicate, fair face was tinted by the morning sunlight, and the bright, good-looking eyes carrying an easy smile walked toward him. As he passed by, he brought with him a gust of wind that stirred the heart.
He even tied his tie today, how obedient.
Looking at the boy’s slim, tall figure, Lu Qingci’s indifferent eyes flashed with a touch of softness.
“Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu!”
Zhou Nan came running over in a rush, stretching out a long arm to loop around Jiang Baiyu’s shoulders. His tall body bumped the boy so hard that he staggered a few steps forward.
Jiang Baiyu finally steadied himself, then smiled and gave Zhou Nan an elbow jab.
The two boys walked into the campus just like that, hugging each other as they went.
Even though he knew they were friends, Lu Qingci’s expression still turned cold.
In the five years, he had had so many chances to have sex with Jiang Baiyu, but because of his own twistedness, he and Jiang Baiyu had never done such an intimate thing.
Jiang Baiyu was very good-looking, the type both boys and girls would like. His personality was also very gentle, he did not like getting angry, and he could play with anyone. In fact, there were many people around him who liked him.
Yet back then, he could not see Jiang Baiyu’s good points.
After the routine inspection ended, Lu Qingci hurried back to the classroom.
Because he knew that after he and Jiang Baiyu became deskmates, Jiang Baiyu would bring him all kinds of breakfasts and snacks every day.
Back then, he had never touched them.
When he got annoyed, he would even, in front of the boy, directly throw the breakfast box and all into the trash can. The sight of the boy looking hurt and wronged, yet not daring to disobey him, would give him a sense of being high and mighty, and a strange pleasure.
Back then, he had truly been despicable.
Today, he would eat the breakfast clean, and then thank Jiang Baiyu. In exchange, he would give Jiang Baiyu a cup of juice.
He hoped that this way, their relationship would naturally be able to get a little closer.
In the classroom, Jiang Baiyu was opening a set of math mock exam questions.
Lu Qingci slowed his steps and walked calmly to the seat beside him.
Sure enough, there was a neatly folded paper bag on his desk. When he opened it, inside were a sandwich breakfast and a bottle of drink.
The breakfast Jiang Baiyu had given him.
Even though he had expected it, Lu Qingci still could not help his heartbeat speeding up a little.
He glanced at the boy’s lowered head as he worked on the problem, and the indifferent corners of his lips slightly curved into a beautiful arc.
Class was about to start, and he did not have time to eat the sandwich, so he only took out the drink. After that, he carefully and meticulously folded the paper bag and put it into the desk drawer. He deliberately moved very slowly, looking as if he treasured it seriously, as if he liked this breakfast very much.
This surprised Jiang Baiyu.
He quietly glanced sideways once, and when he saw Lu Qingci about to turn back and look at him, he quickly lowered his head, avoiding meeting Lu Qingci’s gaze.
This nervous, shy-looking action made Lu Qingci even more certain that the breakfast had been given by Jiang Baiyu.
In order not to show any flaw in front of the boy, he pretended not to know.
He deliberately turned back and tapped Zhou Nan’s desk, saying, “Can you help me tell the person who sent the breakfast thank you? Also, give this to him.”
As he spoke, he placed a bottle of juice on Zhou Nan’s desk.
Zhou Nan gave him a sideways glance, took the juice, and turned to the girl in the back row. “Xu Ying, the class monitor says thank you for the breakfast, and that he’s giving you this juice to drink.”
Lu Qingci’s hand, just about to twist open the drink bottle, suddenly stiffened, and a chill then covered his clear eyes.
He abruptly turned around and called out coldly, “Xu Ying.”
Xu Ying had just taken the milk from Zhou Nan’s hand, surprise flashing in her eyes. Looking up, she saw Lu Qingci’s cold, intimidating gaze, with a hint of anger hidden within it.
Lu Qingci quickly stood up, put the paper bag and the drink together on the girl’s desk, and took the bottle of juice from the girl’s hand. In a low voice, he warned, “Please don’t send it again in the future.”
Xu Ying looked awkwardly at the paper bag, her face flushed red as she sat there. The sudden emotional reversal made her want to cry.
Watching Lu Qingci’s before-and-after change, Zhou Nan was speechless and asked, “Class monitor, so you asked me that just now to trick me into finding out who sent it to you? What kind of operation is that?”
Lu Qingci was used to it. “Don’t let anyone else put things on my desk in the future.”
“What does that have to do with me.”
Zhou Nan snorted, then turned back to comfort the girl. “Anyway, if you want to send something again later, just change the person. For example, Xiaoyu, he’s the one who needs nutritional supplements.”
Jiang Baiyu: ……
Jiang Baiyu glanced sideways at Xu Ying, who looked like she was about to cry, as if he were seeing his former self.
Just like Xu Ying, in his previous life he had been treated by Lu Qingci like that, without the slightest mercy. He still did not learn his lesson, thinking that sending things a few more times would move Lu Qingci’s heart. Again and again, he was humiliated by Lu Qingci.
He was simply asking for abuse.
Thinking this, Jiang Baiyu tucked himself a little farther inward again, moving several centimeters away from Lu Qingci.
Lu Qingci noticed the boy’s subtle movement, and the coldness between his brows deepened.
Jiang Baiyu was very obedient, and very cautious. But after he had treated Xu Ying like that just now, would he scare Jiang Baiyu and make him dare not send him breakfast again in the future?
However, forget it.
Lu Qingci thought to himself, in the future he would be the one sending Jiang Baiyu breakfast and snacks, the one taking the initiative.
What he needed to do now was figure out how to naturally get closer to Jiang Baiyu, and Lu Qingci kept looking for an opportunity.
Finally, during math self-study, he found one.
Jiang Baiyu was working on a math problem, but after racking his brains for a long time, he still could not figure out the solution.
He held his paper and turned back to ask Zhou Nan, “Zhou Nan, show me how you solved this problem.”
Zhou Nan glanced at it and directly pulled a test paper out of a stack of textbooks, saying, “It’s all here, just copy it directly.”
Lu Qingci casually turned his head back, looked at the test paper in the boy’s hand, and said lightly, “It’s wrong.”
Zhou Nan: ???
“How do you know I got it wrong?”
Lu Qingci said, “Wrong. The whole paper did not even reach a passing score.”
You didn’t even look at it, and you’re saying I failed.
Zhou Nan was indignant in his heart, but he also did not have full confidence.
After all, Lu Qingci was a genuine top student. In his second year of high school, he took part in the national joint exam, and his score ranked first in the city among all college entrance exam students. As soon as senior year started, he was directly admitted early to A University. Not only could he get full marks in math and science, he could even get the last giveaway questions right. He was ridiculously, absurdly good.
Zhou Nan said, “Then tell me where it’s wrong?”
Lu Qingci pushed his own test paper over to Jiang Baiyu’s desk.
Jiang Baiyu froze for a moment.
“It’s not hard.”
Lu Qingci took his own pen, and on the answer space for the problem Jiang Baiyu had asked about, he wrote out the solution steps with shasha shasha, explaining them step by step as he wrote. He did not say much, but every sentence was key.
Concise and clear, extremely easy to understand.
Jiang Baiyu suddenly understood, and said in surprise, “So it’s this simple. I thought too complicated.”
Lu Qingci used a red pen to write a line of formula on a blank space of the test paper, saying, “Just remember this formula, and problems like this can all be solved.”
Jiang Baiyu kept nodding. “Then I’ll try solving the next one.”
Lu Qingci only glanced at it and said, “The next one needs a different formula.”
Jiang Baiyu was a little confused, and could not help turning back to ask him, “Different? Which one?”
Their gazes met. Lu Qingci saw curiosity flashing in the boy’s bright eyes, the question gathering between his delicate brows, his handsome features completely falling into his eyes.
Very obedient, very cute.
Lu Qingci’s indifferent lips curved up almost imperceptibly. “Do it first. Ask me if you don’t understand.”
“Okay, I’ll try.”
Jiang Baiyu only cared about taking back his paper and solving the problem, and ignored the softness in Lu Qingci’s tone.
In the back row, Zhou Nan was still clawing at his hair, thinking hard. “Which step did I get wrong? I didn’t get it wrong.”
Forced to, he flipped through the solution. After seeing the answer, he stared in disbelief and questioned, “Class monitor, I didn’t get this problem wrong!”
“I didn’t say this problem was wrong.”
Lu Qingci’s tone was calm, as if there were no scheme or calculation in it at all.
“You!”
Zhou Nan was furious at his matter-of-fact expression and was about to reason with him when he heard Lu Qingci let out a mocking laugh. “You got more than half the other problems wrong.”
Zhou Nan: …
Suddenly, several girls by the window leaned out to look outside, excitedly discussing:
“Oh my god, is that Yan Jinzhou? He’s so handsome.”
“I heard the Yan family handed this year’s school celebration planning over to him. Amazing!”
“What’s so amazing about that? He joined the management level of Yan Group while he was still in college.”
…
Seeing the commotion, the other students in the class gathered over one after another. “Where? Where? Let me see, let me see.”
Yan Jinzhou?
After hearing that name, Jiang Baiyu immediately stopped writing.
It was exactly Yan Jinzhou, who had saved him yesterday.
And this person was also his future marriage partner.
Curious, Jiang Baiyu stood up and said, “Zhou Nan, come on, let’s go take a look too.”
But Lu Qingci was sitting at his seat blocking the way, his body completely unmoving, steady as a mountain.
Jiang Baiyu lifted a leg, then put it down again, awkwardly scratching the fine hair by his ear. “Class monitor, I want to go out.”
Lu Qingci nodded at his chin coldly and asked in a faint voice, “Did you finish the problem just now?”
Jiang Baiyu said, “I’ll do it when I come back.”
“You’ll forget it.”
Lu Qingci raised his eyes and looked at the boy who was anxiously trying to get out. His dark eyes were like a deep pool, his voice as clear as water. “The homeroom teacher said you asked to sit with me so I could help you study.”
Jiang Baiyu: …
Zhou Nan was still worrying over his failing paper and said without even looking up, “It’s just a man, what’s there to look at? I’m not going.”
Jiang Baiyu glanced outside the classroom and had no choice but to sit back down.
Forget it, there would be plenty of chances to see Yan Jinzhou later.