A chubby green-haired boy, a tall and lean rainbow-haired boy, and a vibrant, pretty high-ponytail girl.
With these three gathered together, it was undeniably a unique scenery in the cafeteria.
The chubby green-haired boy held a tissue, wiping down the dining table.
The rainbow-haired boy was wiping a stool, doing it with extreme care.
The two of them looked completely like the most loyal servants attending to a little princess.
Jiang Yingying had never seen Su Nanye act like this, and her mouth dropped open in shock.
“Alright, you can sit down now.”
Ever since the other day when his sister refused to eat the shrimp he and the old man had peeled with their bare hands, Su Nanye knew his sister had a bit of a cleanliness quirk.
God knows how many people had sat in these cafeteria seats, and some seats had even been stepped on by people.
He definitely had to wipe it clean for his sister before letting her sit.
Su Ning had enjoyed the meticulous care of her older brother and Ji Yang since childhood.
She didn’t feel anything was amiss about their current actions either.
After sitting down, she noticed many people staring at their side.
Furthermore, a lot of whispered conversations drifted into her ears.
“Holy shit! Is this still the school bully I know? He’s treating this girl way too well!”
“Heh, I bet it’s just because Jiang Yingying is here and Su Nanye is putting on a show! He wants to make Jiang Yingying jealous!”
“Turns out boys are so scheming too!”
“Their scheming is on another level. Poor beauty in the middle is just reduced to a tool!”
Hearing this, Su Ning furrowed her brows slightly.
A tool?
Her?
From these whispered discussions, it wasn’t hard to tell that her brother seemed to like Jiang Yingying.
In her past life, her brother remained unmarried even at forty and never dated.
When she asked him why he didn’t date, her brother always said he was busy with work.
Actually, she knew her brother did it because of her.
He was afraid a sister-in-law wouldn’t treat her well or make her unhappy.
In this life, she didn’t want her brother to sacrifice his own happiness for her sake anymore.
Therefore, even though her very first meeting with Jiang Yingying earlier wasn’t very pleasant,
she wouldn’t interfere with her brother liking her.
However, just as she was about to ask,
Su Nanye suddenly raised his head, glaring coldly at the group of people whispering among themselves. “What the hell are you guys gossiping about?”
The reputation of the school bully preceded him.
For a moment, everyone quieted down like quails, not daring to speak.
Yet inwardly, everyone secretly concluded that Su Nanye had been seen through and was lashing out from anger!
Jiang Yingying had originally been displeased by Su Nanye’s attentiveness toward Su Ning.
Hearing the gossip made her understand that it was all just to provoke her.
That made complete sense.
The school belle was the school belle after all, and soon three boys came over and sat across from and beside her.
“Yingying, can I sit here?”
“Yingying, do you want this chicken drumstick?”
“Yingying, drink this yogurt. It’s peach-flavored, your favorite.”
Jiang Yingying remained expressionless, coldly scoffing inwardly.
Did these people even qualify to eat with her?
Maintaining her aloof arrogance, she ignored their remarks and ate her meal on her own.
Until her little follower Zhao Mang came over, “All of you get lost. Stop daydreaming like a toad wanting to eat swan meat. Yingying is not someone you can aspire to reach!”
Regarding the person her brother liked, Su Ning naturally gave a bit more of her attention.
Seeing this, she turned her head and whispered to Su Nanye, “Brother, do you really like Jiang Yingying?”
Su Nanye swallowed the rice in his mouth and took a sip of the seaweed egg soup that barely had any seaweed in it. “Don’t listen to their nonsense.”
There was no need for her brother to lie to her.
Curious, she asked again, “Then why does everyone say you like her?”
It didn’t matter if others misunderstood, but it wouldn’t be good if her sister misunderstood him.
So Su Nanye stopped hiding it. “Yingying is Aunt Wu’s daughter. Mom said she has poor health and asked me to take care of her a bit at school. I often bring her things, and that’s how rumors started around school.”
“What?”
Su Ning was greatly startled, dropping the piece of meat off her chopsticks.
She had indeed heard that Wu Lili had a daughter who fled abroad with her back then.
When Wu Lili was sentenced to life imprisonment,
Wu Lili’s daughter had even specially returned to the country to beg Su Nanye to issue a letter of forgiveness for her mother.
She felt that after so many years, a life sentence was too severe.
Her mother hadn’t had an easy time these past fifteen years, and they shouldn’t treat her mother like that.
Su Ning hadn’t been present for this matter and only heard about it from Ji Yang.
Of course Su Nanye refused, so Wu Lili’s daughter chose to appeal.
The result of the second appeal came out a year later.
Wu Lili was sentenced to death.
Because a thorough police investigation revealed that Wu Lili had returned to the country to traffic drugs.
Through a twist of fate, this was the outcome; she heard Wu Lili’s daughter had fainted on the spot back then.
Seeing Su Ning’s expression, Su Nanye hurriedly whispered, “Yingying is actually a good person. She often checks in on me privately. Once I sprained my foot playing basketball, and Yingying was the one who bought me medicine. She’s not like her mother.”
For some reason, his voice grew softer and softer as he spoke, and his confidence wavered more and more.
Before Jiang Yingying had been impolite to his sister just now, he truly felt Jiang Yingying was a wonderful girl.
Su Ning picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks and put it into her mouth.
Even if her brother didn’t like Jiang Yingying, he probably had some fond feelings for her, at least different from how he treated other girls.
Jiang Yingying was indeed very beautiful.
Any teenage boy would inevitably feel a flutter in his heart when such a gorgeous girl showed him tender care and concern.
However, Su Ning reserved judgment on whether Jiang Yingying was the same kind of person as Wu Lili.
Perhaps she loved her mother deeply, a love that overrode morality and the law.
Or perhaps she truly felt no guilt toward two innocent lives lost, just like Wu Lili.
“Alright then.”
Su Ning replied in a flat tone.
Hearing her tone, Su Nanye’s heart sank slightly, and he picked out the shrimp from his bowl and placed it in hers. “Have this.”
His sister was unhappy; from now on, he would definitely keep his distance from Jiang Yingying!
Ji Yang ate at lightning speed, finishing half a basin of rice in no time. Only then did he look up at Su Nanye and say, “A lot of people are saying you’re the school belle’s spare tire.”
Su Nanye’s face fell. “Let someone say that to my face and see if I don’t kick the living daylights out of them!”
He had automatically purified his usual rough language in front of Su Ning.
Su Ning raised an eyebrow. “Good thing the term simp is not popular yet.”
Su Nanye and Ji Yang simultaneously asked in confusion, “What dog?”
Just as Su Ning was about to repeat herself,
out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a short-haired girl holding a lunch tray and looking around for a seat.
Huizhong’s cafeteria wasn’t large, and those who lined up later had a hard time even finding a place to sit.
Su Ning raised her hand and waved. “Chen Lanxin, there’s an empty seat right here!”
A table had four chairs attached.
Since the school bully had a rather bad temper, no one had dared to sit in the fourth seat.
Hearing a familiar voice, Chen Lanxin looked toward the source.
Hesitating for two seconds, she walked over anyway.
She sat down in the empty seat across from Ji Yang and said very softly to Su Ning, “Thank you.”
Su Ning smiled. “It’s nothing, we’re deskmates after all. We can eat together often from now on.”
Right at that moment,
Su Ning suddenly noticed the entire table shaking.
She frowned.
Turning her head, she saw the face of the chubby green-haired boy turning as red as a beet from his ears down to his neck.
He had turned into a green-haired Guan Yu!
It must have been due to extreme nervousness, causing his body to shake like a sieve out of control, which in turn shook the table.
“Damn! Do you have Parkinson’s?”
Su Nanye glanced at him, reaching out a hand to hold him down and stop him from shaking.
Ji Yang’s heart felt like it was about to jump out of his throat, and he couldn’t even form words anymore. “No, no. I am done eating, I am leaving first.”
Su Nanye: “Oh!”
Su Ning: “Oh!”
Chen Lanxin: “Huh?”