Early the next morning, Mingzhe took the bus for more than an hour to the school as usual.
Several girls on the road saw him, pushing and shoving each other, blushing and whispering.
When he was about to enter the school gate, the older sister in the second grade of the school stopped him, “Mingzhe, do you have a girlfriend?”
Mingzhe hugged his schoolbag in his arms and shook his head silently.
The older sister’s head was about the same height as his, she stared at Mingzhe for a long while, then reached out to poke the corner of his mouth, but Mingzhe dodged it.
She snorted, “Where did the injury on your face come from? Who is so bold in this school? Dare to lay hands on my man! Tell me who did this, I will take someone to beat him up!”
Seeing that Mingzhe ignored her, she said again: “Forget it, if you don’t agree to date today? Then I’ll ask you again tomorrow. I warn you not to get too close to other girls. I will beat up whoever you get close with.”
After the older sister finished speaking, she casually patted his schoolbag.
As soon as she touched the zipper of his schoolbag, Mingzhe took two steps back like a cat whose fur had exploded*. He glanced at her with a cold face, and hurriedly walked around her.
*(see here:
The older sister gave a small exclamation of surprise before turning around and asking her friends behind her, “Does anyone know who beat him?”
Her friends shook their heads.
The eldest sister folded her arms, “I’m the boss in this area, date me early and you won’t have tosuffer this beating.”
“He’s pretty good-looking, but he’s so dull. He doesn’t even respond to a few suggestions.”
“Just playing around, why bother so much?”
Mingzhe walked into the public restroom, protecting his schoolbag.
When the surroundings became quiet, the zipper of the schoolbag opened by itself, and a little plasticine figurine poked its head out from inside.
He looked around and smiled at Mingzhe: “Xiao Zhe, is that girl chasing you?”
Mingzhe took out the little plasticine figurine and lowered his voice extremely low, “She changes boyfriends a lot, so she doesn’t really like me.”
Chu Shici sat on the palm of his hand, “Aren’t you only twelve or thirteen years old? Why are they dating at such a young age?”
“When I was in elementary school, people were already talking about it.”
He paused, and said in a low voice, “I heard that two people from the third and third classes of junior high school went out to open a room.”
Mingzhe has always shown little expression, but when this matter was mentioned, his expression brightened instantly.
Chu Shici suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu, the:’I don’t understand, but I’m shocked’ feeling.
When Chu Shici was a child, there was also someone in the class who had a puppy crush. Most of the children at this age aren’t serious.
But he really didn’t expect that there would be children who were so bold to open rooms.
There are many girls around Mingzhe, and he knows all the gossip in school.
Seeing that the Little Superman seems to be very interested in the topic of puppy love, Mingzhe tells Chu Shici everything he knows.
Two boys in the third grade of junior high school fought on the playground for a girl.
The ex-boyfriend of the older sister in the second year of junior high just now had a relationship with another girl. She became so angry that she stripped the girl naked and beat her up.
There is a small abandoned warehouse behind the school, and there are rumours that young couples will kiss there after school.
Chu Shici couldn’t help asking, “Is it true?”
Mingzhe thought for a while: “I’m not sure, it’s more than likely to be a rumour. So when I listen to gossip, I will selectively forget the name of the person involved and listen to it as a story.”
Before he finished speaking, the sound of children talking outside came from outside.
A few boys entered the toilet noisily, comparing each other’s size while relieving themselves.
Mingzhe was silent for a long time, and after they all went out, he said softly, “I don’t like going to the bathroom with my classmates.”
Chu Shici said, “Why?”
“They are always constantly comparing sizes and I didn’t want to be stared at.”
He paused, his cheeks flushed slightly, “They walked out with their shoulders crossed, but they didn’t wash their hands after going to the toilet, and even touched other people with the hand that touched that thing. Ge, if you hear someone say that I am a loner in school , don’t believe it. I’m fine, I’m not weird at all.”
Mingzhe really doesn’t fit in. On the way to school, no one spoke to him at all.
The girls just looked at him from a distance, while the boys ran past him playfully. Individuals with a bad temper deliberately bumped him a few times.
It may be that he has been isolated by his classmates all the time, which makes Mingzhe lack self-confidence.
He explained to Chu Shici several times in a row, trying to prove to him that he was a loner.
While comforting him, Chu Shici sighed to the system, “My Yan-ge is also very particular in this aspect. Sometimes I feel that Mingzhe is like the younger version of Yan-ge.’
The system is weaving a scarf, [It really looks like it. They are all ikemen*.]
*(original says: 小仙男 which I searched up means just very handsome guys. Female version is 小仙女)
Chu Shici followed Mingzhe to school today to avenge him.
Yesterday, Mingzhe was bullied at school and returned home covered in bruises. He won the fight and was proud of it. Showed off to Chu Shici with a straight face, and told how he beat three boys by himself.
The desire to win is strong, and even the vitality value has increased by 5 points.
But Chu Shici couldn’t let it go, this matter must be resolved.
From Mingzhe’s narrative, he roughly understood what went on.
Boys at this age haven’t learned to pay attention to their image and often get themselves messy. Among a group of mellow boys, the white and clean Mingzhe instantly attracted the attention of many girls.
He is good-looking, the first in his grade, and his physical test results are all excellent, which perfectly fits the setting of the male lead of the novel.
Mingzhe is soft-spoken and doesn’t like to talk much. They call him the Iceberg Academic Overlord. But if he is ugly, he will be regarded as a dumb kid with facial paralysis.
Last night, Mingzhe broke up a young couple’s date, and one of the girls confessed her love for him. The young couple quarrelled and refused to let him go, and finally the conflict intensified.
The boy simply called two senior boys and dragged Mingzhe to the men’s washroom. Their partners or girls all have a crush on Mingzhe.
He was malnourished for a long time, and if it was just an ordinary fight, he was not an opponent at all.
But when he was grabbed by the hair and made to squat, Mingzhe had an adrenaline rush and he successfully took a triple kill.
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Mingzhe didn’t know that Chu Shici came to school today to avenge him.
He thought that the Little Superman was here to supervise his studies, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to answer a few questions in class, wanting to show himself in front of Little Superman.
Mingzhe couldn’t tell what this feeling was.
When he was still with his parents, they always told him, ‘It’s useless for a family like ours to send you to college, you might as well go to a technical secondary school directly, so that you can be assigned a job after graduation. ‘
Uncle Liu also thought so, and once said that when he graduated from junior high school, he would ask someone to get him a job in the factory.
Growing up, no one has ever cared about his academic performance.
Little Superman seems to be different from them, and Mingzhe wants his approval.
He wants to hear Chu Shici praise him for studying well, and he wants Chu Shici to persuade him to continue studying and not to drop out of school to work.
When Mingzhe took the initiative to give a lesson in front of his classmates, the Little Superman he was thinking about was playing computer games on his desk.
Using the little girl’s account he registered to chat with a bunch of guys.
The system smacked his lips, [Calling everyone gege so sweetly.]
Chu Shici shook the black cloak behind him, ‘Paedophiles will not let go of an innocent nine-year-old girl, especially if this girl has no adult protection. Just wait, as long as there is a paedophile in Mingzhe’s group, he will definitely fall for me.’
The dim space suddenly lit up for a moment, and it was Mingzhe’s cell phone that received a new message.
Chu Shici looked up.
Dr. Chen, a psychiatrist from the Third Provincial Hospital: [Mingzhe, how is your mental condition recently? Do you still have thoughts of suicide? I will go to City Z for an exchange next month. When are you free? I would like to ask you to meet up.]
Basically every province has the Third Provincial Hospital, and Chen is not a rare surname.
Chu Shici searched for a while, but couldn’t match the doctor Chen in the text message with the information on the Internet.
Taking advantage of Mingzhe’s absence, he read yesterday’s text message again.
There was a message sent at five o’clock in the evening, shortly after Mingzhe got out of school.
An unknown contact is displayed on it, [You live alone, do you want pocket money? Uncle will buy you delicious food.]
Mingzhe: [Damn it, go away. I live with my brother, if you bother me again, I will call the police.]
Mingzhe used deflection and it’s super effective. That person has never sent a text message again.
In addition, at two o’clock in the morning, there was also a text message from an unknown number, [The photo of you without clothes is in my hands.]
Mingzhe also replied, [Don’t fantasise about things that don’t exist, treat your illness. I’ve seen this kind of spam message a lot, get out of here.]
Mingzhe is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, well-behaved and sensible.
He has always done a good job of protecting himself and intimidating his enemies.
Judging from Mingzhe’s reply, these should be harassing text messages sent in a wave.
Chu Shici propped his chin in thought, ‘Tong-ge, aren’t people who send such text messages afraid of being caught by the police?’
The system was busy crocheting a scarf, and it was already crazy busy after receiving an order for Christmas presents.
It threw out a pile of wool, [Quick! Knit some antler hats for me!]
While knitting a hat, Chu Shici frowned in thought.
The identity of Dr. Chen is unknown, and the content of the text message is normal, so he put it aside for the time being.
The other two text messages, one is a man tethering on the edge of being a pedophile while the other one is already involved sexual harassment.
Chu Shici checked on the Internet, and it said that this level of harassment is usually fined and detained for a few days. That is to say,they will only be deterred for a few days, and after that, they will come hopping out back to being their perverted selves.
He checked Mingzhe’s inbox, and there were only these two items. No other abnormalities were found, those may have been deleted by him before.
From the current point of view, someone should have given Mingzhe’s cell phone number to others.
But these kinds of harassing text messages are too mentally retarded, almost writing the word “bad guy” on their faces, and basically no one will answer them.
And only send one at a time, it is easy to be mistaken for sending text messages to the wrong person.
What is the meaning of those people doing this kind of thing, deliberately wanting to disgust others?
The system took a moment to take a look, [Tsk, does the hero have a physique that attracts perverts?]
‘Mass text messages are not aimed at Mingzhe solely.’
The system sighed that there were so many bad guys, then it went back to catch up with work.
Chu Shici let out a cold laugh. Sharks are usually not seen in the ocean, but as long as there is a slight smell of blood, sharks will be everywhere around.
Mingzhe and the group of children were the injured ones who fell into the water. The sharks came over smelling the smell of blood, took a bite and left contentedly. Then on them, leaving scars that cannot be erased for a lifetime.
A new message pops up on the chat interface.
Dancing Little Rabbit: [I saw your new post.]
Chu Shici posted a chat space* in Mingzhe’s school bag this morning, the content was that someone touched him while he was taking the bus. There is innocence in the wording, as if he doesn’t even know what he has experienced, full of ignorance of the world.
*(idk what it’s called, like a status post with a picture. The ones you have on Instagram: Insta stories and snapchat)
Superman Little Princess*: [Ying ying*, Rabbit-jiejie, Little Superman is so sad.]
*(in case anyone wants to know, in chinese it is 超人小公主: the little princess who is superman)
*(sound of crying)
Dancing Little Rabbit: [Don’t be afraid, I have experienced it too.]
Superman Little Princess: [There are lots of people in the car, should I yell for help?]
Dancing little rabbit: [No, don’t shout, they won’t save you, they will laugh at you. If you annoy the bad guys, you might get beaten. Don’t make a sound, just let him touch you. You won’t lose a piece of meat, just bear with it and it’ll pass.]
Chu Shici felt that this child’s thinking was wrong, and began to persuade her in a roundabout way.
But no matter what he said, the other side didn’t budge.
Thinking of the other girl’s experience, he was also helpless. The rabbit’s brain circuit seems to have formed, not only ignoring his advice, but also persuading him the same.
Chu Shici was a little anxious, and his words became more intense.
In the end, the two ended their chat in disagreement.
Before the rabbit left, she sent a text, [You are too young to understand anything. At this time, it is safest not to resist or struggle, and to let the other party do what they want. With so many people in the car, he could only touch at most, and wouldn’t do anything else. Don’t make things big, what if you are retaliated against by the other party. What if that person follows you and breaks into your house? We can’t resist, just bear with it.]
Then the avatar turns grey.
Chu Shici self-doubted for a moment.
Because he thinks from the perspective of an adult, so he can’t understand the plight of a child?
After the first maths class was over, Chu Shici looked around.
Making sure no one noticed this, he processed what happened just now, and told Mingzhe from a first-person perspective.
Mingzhe frowned slightly, “Why didn’t you resist?”
Chu Shici thought for a while, “After all, the bad guy knows which bus I take, what if he takes revenge on me?”
Dazedness was written on Mingzhe’s fair face, “Unless the police station is nearby, that kind of person will not be punished. Usually, he will only be kicked out of the car. After all, you can save face* at the same time not have a risk of being retaliated against?”*
*(face is like a cover, a facade kind of. To save it means that you want to protect it. You only want to show others the best side of you.)
*(Rabbit’s perspective and Mingzhe is reiterating it.)
“……Right.”
“Besides, since he knows which bus I take, will he squat around at the same stop after he finds out that I won’t resist? Students have a fixed travel time, so even if they can’t find them before school, they can find them after school. Isn’t it more dangerous like this? Forbearance will only increase their appetite, but it depends on the situation. If the other party has a knife, then think of other ways.”
After Mingzhe finished speaking, he found that Little Superman was looking up at him with relief.
He hesitated, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, I just suddenly discovered that my Xiao Zhe is really smart.”
Mingzhe was slightly taken aback, and after realising that it was a compliment, a blush spread across his cheeks in an instant.
He looked away and whispered, “Thank you.”
In the noisy classroom, footsteps could be faintly heard approaching.
Chu Shi flew under the desk with a whoosh, and Mingzhe leaned forward to block the view.
A boy came over, he was the one who fought with Mingzhe last night.
He slapped a piece of paper on the table, and said viciously: “Mingzhe, you robbed me of a date, I can’t just let it go!”
Mingzhe glanced at the girl not far away from the corner of his eye, “I don’t like her.”
The boy became even more agitated, “But she likes you. And it’s because of you that she broke up with me. Don’t talk nonsense, see you in the small warehouse behind the school after school today. If you don’t dare to come, you’re a coward. Remember it, Mingzhe?”
Mingzhe was also a little angry: “I told you that I don’t like her.”
“I just don’t like you. All the girls in the class like you. You are awesome ah.”
Chu Shici was eavesdropping on their conversation under the desk*, and that boy was deliberately finding trouble.
*(there’s normally a section where you can put papers under the school desks.)
Mingzhe is good at studies, sports, and popular among the girls. He far exceeds his peers by a large margin. He is also very clean, very different from the other students who don’t even wash their hands after going to the toilet.
However since he is always alone, he seems easy to bully and easily get hated on.
The friendship between classmates often begins with going to the bathroom together. With Mingzhe’s temperament, he will never compare who can urinate farther in this life. Immediately losing the shortcut to blend in with the crowd.
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All day long, Chu Shici was looking for an opportunity to go out, wanting to avenge Mingzhe.
But Mingzhe keeps a close eye on him, and everytime a lesson ends, Chu Shici will be caught and prevented from running around.
In Mingzhe’s words, the school is much bigger than home, and Little Superman will get lost.
Even security cameras don’t monitor people as strictly as he does.
All the way until school ended, Chu Shici couldn’t slip away from under Mingzhe’s nose.
The boy who gave Mingzhe the challenge letter passed in front of him with his school bag on his back, and gave him a provocative look.
After the boy left, the girl ran over to apologise to Mingzhe last night, “I’m sorry, I didn’t want to cause trouble for you.”
Mingzhe hummed, and the girl said with red eyes: “My father will pick me up after school, why don’t you take my car back?”
Mingzhe packed his schoolbag, “No need.”
“Are you mad at me?”
“No.”
The girl ran away crying.
Mingzhe stretched out his hand, wanting to explain to her. After hesitating for a moment, he retracted his hand again.
Chu Shici poked his head out from the collar of his school uniform, touched his chin and joked, “You made the little girl cry, you really do have the demeanour of a straight man of steel at a young age.”
Mingzhe left the classroom with the challenge letter, “I don’t like her, there’s no need to talk to her too much.”
But he liked Little Superman, so he explained: “Her house and mine are in the opposite direction. It will take more than forty minutes to take me home, which is too troublesome.”
Chu Shici just asked casually.
Thinking of the decisive battle tonight, he geared up and prepared to find a place for Mingzhe later.
He may not be good at other things, but he has never been afraid of fighting.
Mingzhe didn’t go downstairs, he walked to the door of the teacher’s office and found his head teacher.
He opened his sleeves, revealing the bruises from yesterday, and handed over the challenge letter, “Ms. Li, they told me not to leave after school. They beat me once yesterday, and today…”
Chu Shici tilted his head blankly.
This is not the right progression, aren’t we going to fight? Why did we come here to complain?
The homeroom teacher first looked at the injury on Mingzhe’s arm, and then read the challenge letter again, his face became more and more ugly.
Mingzhe pursed his lips tightly, lowered his head and choked with sobs, and said, “Ms. Li, can you help me? I’m afraid.”
Chu Shici: ? ? ?
He said that this kid was so confident during the day. It turned out that he had no intention of fighting those people at all, and he was ready to complain.
The female teacher quickly coaxed Mingzhe into her arms, and stuffed a bar of chocolate into his hand, “Where is it? Take teacher there.”
She pulled Mingzhe, called the dean who was about to go home, and walked aggressively towards the small warehouse.
The students who were still loitering around waiting for Mingzhe are all caught.
The evidence is conclusive, the circumstances are serious, all demerits were recorded and the parents were invited.
When those boys passed by Mingzhe, Chu Shici heard one of them complaining in a low voice: “Are you a primary school student? Complaining to the teachers.”
Mingzhe shivered, and shrank back towards the dean.
He didn’t say anything, just grabbed the dean’s clothes and buried his head in his arms.
The group of boys had to write a ten thousand word self-reflection, and recite their reflections under the national flag.
After leaving school, Mingzhe’s face immediately returned to normal.
Only then did Chu Shici realise that he had been crying for a long time without even a single tear.
Chu Shici smacked his lips: “I can fight for you, but if you complain to the teacher, you will be laughed at by your classmates.”
Mingzhe glanced at him, with a slight smile on his lips, “They were always laughing at me behind my back, so it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, I’m tired of hearing those words over and over again. I guessed it just now, you came to school with me today, to avenge me.”
He held up Chu Shici and kissed him, “Ge, thank you. The only thing I’m afraid of is Uncle Liu. I can handle the matters in school myself, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
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T/N: He’s adorable~
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Update: Tomorrow~
- After becoming enemies with the lord god
- Blog
- Completed
- Don't talk to me!
- Dropped
- Ghost Marriage
- Hunger Academy
- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
- Notices
- Ongoing
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- Want to ascend? Then fall in love.
- What can I do, I'm not human.
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