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Thirteenth Period (3)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Zhan Tong continued chatting with Jiang Huihui, but her eyes kept intentionally or otherwise drifting in Zhou Yanli’s direction.
She softly asked Jiang Huihui, “Are you very familiar with the transfer student?”
Jiang Huihui got stunned by her question.
This question……how should she answer?
Say that he was her future son?
If she really were to say this, she will definitely get treated as crazy.
Jiang Huihui thought for a moment and gave him a more suitable identity, “He’s my younger brother[1] from a distant relative’s family.”
She could clearly sense Zhan Tong relaxing a breath after hearing her answer, and at the same time, her eyes also began to shine brightly. She grasped Jiang Huihui’s hand, “To have such a handsome younger brother, why didn’t you tell me earlier!”
Jiang Huihui blanked, not expecting that she would have this reaction, “Huh? I……”
Zhou Yanli, who didn’t even react when he got bumped into earlier, suddenly woke up without any warning. He sat up, holding his neck as he rolled his shoulders, his bones making a cracking sound.
Zhan Tong carefully looked in his direction. While Zhou Yanli was stretching his neck and shoulders, he happened to meet her gaze. That pair of slender peach blossom eyes didn’t have any expression, still carrying a bit of languidness from having just woken up.
Because of this eye contact, the other party instantly turned red. She let go of Jiang Huihui’s hand and hurriedly got up to leave.
Zhou Yanli was baffled by her reaction, “Did she run into a ghost?”
Jiang Huihui softly reminded him, “You seemed to have scared her.”
Zhou Yanli had a displeased look, “Do I really look that scary?”
He really wasn’t blindly confident in himself. Since childhood, the girls that have chased after him even if not a thousand, there were still at least a hundred.
How come after coming here, he even scared one off?
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Jiang Huihui carefully studied that face of his. Zhou Yanli obediently sat there letting her study closely.
After Jiang Huihui finished looking, she came to a conclusion.
Very handsome, unforgettably handsome. He extremely resembled Zhou Jinwei.
However, when he didn’t have any expression, he indeed looked mean.
When meeting him for the first time, even Jiang Huihui got frightened to death. At the time, he’d singlehandedly picked up one of the girls who was bullying her like picking up a chick.
His arm strength was astonishing.
Jiang Huihui gave him a suggestion, “How about you smile more in the future? This way, you’ll look a lot more friendly.”
Zhou Yanli simply didn’t care whether he looked mean or friendly, but Jiang Huihui’s words, he for the most part will always listen to.
He immediately began putting it into practice, tugging the corners of his mouth and raising a smile at her, “How about it, is it friendly enough?”
Jiang Huihui momentarily fell silent, not saying a word. She held the pen and began doing her homework.
Not receiving an answer, Zhou Yanli reached out and pushed her elbow, “How about it? You still haven’t answered me.”
“Can you wait a bit before talking to me?” Her voice was slightly shaking. Her hand holding the pen was also slightly shaking. She had her head down, not daring to look at him. Her mind was filled with that smile of his just now.
She said, “Right now, I’m a bit scared of you.”
Zhou Yanli: ……
He leaned against the back of the chair and glanced at the class schedule on the blackboard. He pulled out a brand new textbook from his backpack, his pen even borrowed from Jiang Huihui.
At present, he was twirling the pen in boredom. He asked Jiang Huihui, “That girl just now was your friend?”
Jiang Huihui was in the middle of correcting the problems she’d solved wrong yesterday. Hearing Zhou Yanli’s question, she also wasn’t very sure, “You mean Zhan Tong? Should be considered as friends?”
She has always felt that in order to be considered friends, both sides need to have the same feeling. If it’s just one side thinking this way, then it was just thinking too much of oneself.
Jiang Huihui wasn’t quite clear about how Zhan Tong felt, but she felt that they should be considered friends now.
Hearing her say this, Zhou Yanli relaxed a breath. He’d recently quit smoking, not daring to smoke in front of Jiang Huihui.
He unwrapped a lollipop and put it in his mouth, “You should make some more friends. At this age of yours, you should be around people of your own age more, and not taking care of kids at home all day.”
Upon mentioning her home, Jiang Huihui’s expression instantly dimmed.
She didn’t go back all night yesterday, yet her mom didn’t even give her a call to ask about her.
Was her mom angry at her for running away from home, or simply doesn’t care whether she comes home or not?
Regardless of which, it all made Jiang Huihui feel sad.
She had her family viewed more importantly than anything, but her mom has always liked her younger brother more.
In fact, she would always mention in front of her that if the first child had been a boy, she wouldn’t have needed to experience the pain of childbirth again.
Her younger sister’s birth was an exception. Her mom originally wanted to abort her, but the doctor said that in her current condition, if she were to get an abortion, there was the risk of hemorrhaging.
Therefore, she had no choice but to give birth to her.
Jiang Huihui didn’t understand. Why was it that they were all her children, yet there was such difference in treatment?
If it was her, regardless whether it was a boy or girl, beautiful or ugly, smart or dumb, as long as it was her child, she would have all her love given to them.
Meanwhile, Zhou Yanli finally realized something, his brows furrowing, feeling that this name was a bit familiar.
Zhan Tong?
Aunt Zhan Tong?
F%#$, how come he remembered that Aunt Zhan Tong and his mom had only met in college? Could it be that he remembered it wrong?
However, he didn’t dwell on it too much. He was too damn tired, planning on sleeping a while longer.
The next class was still math class. The math teacher briefly came in for a few minutes and passed out a set of worksheets, telling them to have it finished by the end of this period.
The math teacher even instructed Jiang Huihui to maintain discipline in the classroom.
When Zhou Yanli heard, he even laughed. Let her maintain discipline? Just based on this soft personality of hers, who could she possibly keep under control?
And unsurprisingly, it was indeed as how he’d imagined. After the class bell rang, because there was no teacher, the classroom became noisy to death.
No matter how Jiang Huihui tried to warn them, it was all useless.
That voice of hers was even softer than a mosquito’s, what use can there be?
The noise continued, even appearing to be escalating more and more.
Jiang Huihui pursed her lips and tightly gripped the pen.
Seeing this pitiful look of hers, Zhou Yanli put away his smile just now, slamming the desk and saying in a heavy voice, “All of you shut the f#%$ up, do you hear?”
His voice wasn’t loud, but its effect was surprisingly good. Those people instantly quieted down.
Except for one person who was sitting alone in the corner of the classroom.
He was currently lounging around, playing a game, constantly shouting, “Charge!! F%#$, can’t you see that there was someone just now? Damn it, go, f#%$ your mom!”
In the quiet classroom, it was particularly jarring.
Zhou Yanli pulled out his chair and got up, walking before him.
The school uniform on him, compared to the other party’s loose-fitting uniform, appeared particularly well-fitting.
The coat’s shoulder line got perfectly stretched out by his broad shoulders. His figure was tall and slender, at the stage between youth and adulthood.
With one standing and the other sitting, Zhou Yanli’s eyes naturally looked down on him from above.
Based on his usual temper in the past, his fist would’ve long landed on the other party’s face, who would’ve even bothered to go the extra length of wasting one’s breath on the other party.
But now, he had misgivings, worrying that Jiang Huihui will get scared.
Zhou Yanli knocked on the other party’s desk, even talking to him rather politely, “Be quiet, we’re in class.”
The game screen on the other party’s phone turned gray, displaying ‘game over’.
He had his phone tossed aside, having his anger vented out on Zhou Yanli, “Who the f#%$ do you think you are? Whether I’m quiet or not, what the f#%$ does it have to do with you?”
Anger gradually rose in the bottom of Zhou Yanli’s eyes, but he still suppressed his temper, “While I’m still nicely talking to you and giving you face, it’s best for you to not f#$%ing push your luck.”
The other party coldly sneered, “You give me face? Who the hell do you think you are, even needing you to give me face? What, is that slut Jiang Huihui in some relationship with you, for you to this………”
He didn’t finish his words, because his jaw got smashed by a fist.
The corner of Zhou Yanli’s eyes were bloodshot, widely glaring open. He grabbed the other party by the throat and had him dragged out of the classroom, then had the classroom door locked from the outside, not letting the people inside come out.
They got locked in the classroom and could only hear the endless painful screams from outside.
Jiang Huihui panicked, pulling and tugging the door with all her might, wanting to go out to stop him.
That person was together with those thugs who had always harassed her outside the school previously.
No matter how hard Jiang Huihui tried to pull, it just wouldn’t budge. When the screams outside gradually died down, she thoroughly lost her mind, not knowing what to do. She started crying again, scared to the point where her entire body was shaking. Please, someone please come help her……..
When Zhou Jinwei came out to smoke, Sun Ju was also present.
He was leaning against the railing, looking at the building across from them with great interest, “Did you come out to see the commotion after hearing the noise?”
Zhou Jinwei didn’t speak. In fact, he didn’t even give him the slightest reaction, his face expressionless.
Sun Ju shrugged his shoulders. This person was as boring as ever, don’t know exactly what he was interested in.
He shifted his gaze back at the other building, remarking, “That new transfer student really is impressive, first publicly calling you dad, and now beating up his classmate. Tsk, tsk, tsk, if he continues beating like this, the other party will most likely lose half his life.”
After Sun Ju said this, he turned his head, wanting to ask Zhou Jinwei his thoughts.
After all, the dad that the other party publicly acknowledged was him.
But when he looked to his side, the person who was originally smoking there had already disappeared without a trace.
And on the ground a quietly lay a stubbed-out cigarette.
It had just been lit, not even taking a few puffs.
Sun Ju was puzzled, bending down to pick it up and throwing it into the trash can.
Someone who was usually obsessed with cleanliness would even casually toss a cigarette? This was unlike him, too strange, and also too unusual.
He turned and looked towards the neighboring building, lifting his brow.
Could it be that he was in a hurry to go see the commotion?
[1] In chinese, it’s pretty common for cousins to be addressed the same as siblings.
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