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Fourteenth Period (2)
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!
Jiang Huihui put down the pen and covered her ears, “Don’t talk to me.”
Some people were naturally born with a mean look, where a single glance from them was able to silence others.
Meanwhile, there were those who even if angry, their anger was still soft and weak, not the least bit intimidating.
Zhou Yanli voluntarily admitted his mistake, “My fault, I really was wrong this time. I definitely won’t be like this next time.”
He surprisingly was able to bend when necessary. Earlier, when beating the person up, he was like a feral wolf with a menacing look in his eyes, yet now, he was like a puppy pitifully begging for forgiveness.
Qin Yu who was just an aisle away, upon seeing this scene, had a meaningful look in his eyes.
Looks like there’s new material for gossip.
——The transfer student erupted in fury for the sake of a beauty, and immediately after, pitifully begged for forgiveness. What a spectacular drama!
Jiang Huihui was easier to coax than he’d imagined. Hearing his promise, she paused for a moment, before finally willing to turn around and look at him, “You better not lie to me.”
“Not lying.” Seeing how swollen her eyes were, Zhou Yanli figured that she must have cried for a long time.
“That guy is fine. It may look his face was covered in blood, but it was actually all just blood from his nose. Quite disgusting really, even got it all over my hand.”
He played along and put on a disgusted look as he looked around for something to wipe away the bloodstains.
Jiang Huihui handed him a pack of tissues.
He thanked her and reached out to take it.
Jiang Huihui was still a bit uneasy, “Has everything been taken care of? I saw that the math teacher was quite angry just now. They’re not gonna expel you, are they? What if the other party’s parents come over to ask for an explanation, what will you do?”
Some of the blood had dried, unable to be wiped away no matter what, can only use water to wash it off.
“This matter, you don’t need to worry about. With Zhou Jinwei around, there won’t be any problems.”
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Jiang Huihui nodded, hesitantly opening her mouth, “Then….Zhou Jinwei, he…..”
“You definitely don’t need to worry about him. He’s much more capable than you think.”
Jiang Huihui’s face turned red, wanting to refute. She wasn’t worried about him……
But without waiting for her to speak, Zhou Yanli, who was truly unable to stand the bloodstains on his hand, got up and said, “I’m going to go wash it off first.”
The blood on his hand weren’t all that guy’s. There was also his own blood.
He’d punched too hard, ending up with a small abrasion. Zhou Yanli was scared that Jiang Huihui will worry if she sees, so decided to go downstairs to buy two bandaids to put over it.
Unexpectedly, he ran into Zhou Jinwei, who most likely had just come out of the principal’s office.
Zhou Yanli tore open the bandaid and slapped it over the wound on the back of his hand. Afterwards, he lifted his eyes and asked him, “All done?”
“En.” Zhou Jinwei watched him pull down his sleeve after putting on the bandaid, all the way until it covered up half his hand, and once it was completely covered up, he finally relaxed a breath.
“What’s wrong with your hand?” Zhou Jinwei asked him.
“It’s nothing.” It was a bit cold at this hour. Zhou Yanli had his jacket zipper pulled all the way up, his sharp chin getting half covered.
His facial features were relatively sharp, like a sharpened knife. This was also the main reason why despite clearly resembling Zhou Jinwei, he looked a lot meaner than him.
“Mostly got scraped when beating up that guy.” He unconcernedly swung his arm. It was actually quite exhausting to beat up someone, his arms already so sore.
Zhou Jinwei’s concern just now was like as if randomly asking, leaving it at that.
After pausing for a moment, he casually asked about Jiang Huihui.
Mentioning Jiang Huihui, Zhou Yanli sighed, “Just managed to calm her. Got careless, couldn’t hold back this time.”
Zhou Jinwei slightly frowned, “Use your brain more, not your fist.”
Such familiar words. His dad had warned him in the exact same way twenty years in the future.
But after warning, there were usually other punishments too.
Due to the suppression from the bloodline, as well as his deep-rooted reverence towards his dad, Zhou Yanli didn’t argue with him this time, instead just lazily nodding his head, “Understood.”
When Zhou Yanli returned to the classroom, Jiang Huihui’s mood had already returned to normal.
She said with a serious look, “Don’t get into fights anymore in the future.”
Zhou Yanli nonchalantly nodded, “Alright, no more fighting.”
Jiang Huihui frowned, “Be more serious.”
Zhou Yanli copied her look and put on a serious face, “Understood.”
Jiang Huihui inwardly grumbled, can’t even copy her properly, so stupid.
After spending time together these last few days, she seemed to have grasped some of his personality.
Reckless and impulsive, easily ignited and explosive. Moreover, once he goes out of control, it was very hard to pull him back. Don’t know how he has managed to get by these last seventeen years of his life.
Jiang Huihui thought of a middle-ground solution. She said, “In the future, if you get into a fight, I’ll cough, and you just stop, okay?”
Zhou Yanli frowned, clearly unwilling, “Are you trying to tame a dog?”
Jiang Huihui lowered her head and pursed her lips, falling silent again.
Zhou Yanli couldn’t stand this pitiful look of hers the most.
He could only helplessly give in, “Fine, fine, fine, tame all you want.”
Jiang Huihui’s face instantly changed, lighting up with a smile as she extended her pinky to make a promise with him.
Zhou Yanli froze for a few seconds, taking a moment to talk himself into completing this childishly silly act.
He specifically extended his uninjured hand.
In the end, they even sealed it off with a thumb press. It’s said that only this way will the promise count.
–
The final outcome of that incident came out. The other party agreed to not continue pursuing it, so this matter didn’t get reported to the police.
The school’s punishment for Zhou Yanli was having his wrongdoings announced to the whole school, then have him write a eight hundred word reflection and read it in front of the whole school during the flag raising ceremony on Wednesday.
This segment, he was very familiar with.
What he wrote the most in this lifetime was just this reflection essay.
In less than ten minutes, he just finished writing one up.
Jiang Huihui helped him look over it. There weren’t any major problems. However, she didn’t forget to remind him, “You absolutely can’t make anymore mistakes during this period, else you’ll definitely get a demerit.”
Although reminding him, her own days weren’t any better.
Yesterday, she’d ran away from home all night. She most likely won’t be able to avoid getting scolded today.
She returned home carrying this kind of uneasiness. Originally, Zhou Yanli said that he’ll go up together with her. That way, if she gets hit, he can even help block a little.
Jiang Huihui was skeptical of his idea of ‘blocking’, afraid that it will turn into ‘beat up a little’.
“No need, I can go up on my own. If my mom were to see you again, she’ll definitely think I’m dating in school.”
Zhou Yanli immediately realized.
True. Right now, they were the same age after all. It was indeed easy for others to misunderstand.
“I’ll be right downstairs. If you get hit, just shout, I will be able to hear.”
She nodded, “Then I’ll head up.”
Zhou Yanli stood there, watching her go up the stairs.
His backpack casually hung over his left shoulder. His jacket was unzipped up, just hanging wide open like that, with a black sweatshirt showing underneath.
He had a kind of unruly swagger, quite unique. At least, in Pingjiang City, it was very rare to find someone as high-spirited and full of vigor like him.
Jiang Huihui nervously returned home, thinking that what was waiting for her was her mom’s reproaches and scolding.
But, she…..also secretly hoped that her mom would worryingly ask her where she went yesterday.
But there was nothing.
When she pushed open that door, the living room was completely empty.
Her younger brother heard the noise and came out from his room, holding a clear bouncy ball in his hand. Seeing her, he stuck his tongue out and made a face at her, “Mom went to the employer’s home and won’t come back these next few days, so even if you want to tattle, it’s also useless.”
Sure enough, he was the one who did it.
Jiang Huihui didn’t speak. She opened her room door and went in.
Perhaps her mom already knew who was the true culprit behind the flooding at home.
……also knowing that she’d wrongly blamed her.
But her way of dealing with this matter was just keeping silent about it, pretending that it had never happened.
Actually, it has always been like this. Whenever her younger brother did something wrong, the one to get punished was always her.
She should’ve been used to it, should’ve long been used to it by now.
Jiang Huihui pulled out the chair and sat down, planning on finishing the homework the teacher assigned.
But just as she wrote out the first word, the blue ink just got blurred by a teardrop.
She buried her head on her desk, suddenly breaking down in tears from the grievance.
She’d already cried before during the day, her eyes swollen to begin with. This while, it was even more swollen.
The grievance washed over her like a tidal wave.
Amidst her sporadic sobbing, her phone on her desk sounded several times in a row. She sat up, wiped her tears, and unlocked her phone.
It was a friend request.
—–Ares
Unknown as to why, seeing this name, a certain someone suddenly appeared in Jiang Huihui’s mind.
Ares, the ancient greek god of war. He even had the nickname of ‘the bloodthirsty demon king’.
Only Zhou Yanli was able to come up with such a corny ID.
Jiang Huihui accepted the friend request.
Her tears were still falling, even landing on her phone screen.
She used the tissue to wipe away the tears and sent him a message.
[HUIHUI: Zhou Yanli?]
The other party responded very quickly.
[Ares: Holy shit! How did you know it was me?]
He seemingly was very shocked.
Jiang Huihui found it funny, but she didn’t tell him the reason, instead asking him: [You have a phone now?]
[Ares: Yea, just bought it. This is my number, remember to save it.]
He sent a string of numbers.
Jiang Huihui had it saved in her contacts, labeling: ‘Zhou Yanli’.
[HUIHUI: Didn’t you spent all the money on buying clothes for me last time? How come you still have money to buy a phone?]
[Ares: I don’t have money, but the god of wealth does.]
Jiang Huihui’s eyes widened: [It can’t be that you asked Zhou Jinwei for money again?]
[Ares: Else what, look for you? Your pockets are even cleaner than mine.]
Jiang Huihui pursed her lips, her face turning red from his words. It seems…..this was indeed the case.
Her phone vibrated a few times in her hand.
[Ares: In any case, it’s Zhou Jinwei’s money, so I bought two, even specially picking a pink one for you. Don’t you girls all like this kind of girly color? I’ll bring it to school tomorrow to give it to you, quickly get rid of that old handy phone.]
Jiang Huihui corrected him: [It’s not a handy phone.]
[Ares: Fine, it’s not a handy phone, it’s a brick that can call and send messages.]
She lay on her desk, reading over those messages again a few times.
Zhou Yanli although was always unreliable, every time she was together with him, her bad mood seemingly would always disappear without a trace.
She felt unprecedentedly relaxed.
Even though he would always bring her fear, like today, but the behind those fears, it was all for the sake of standing up for her.
She received another message on her phone, but this time, it wasn’t from Zhou Yanli.
It was a group chat.
Group name: ‘One Big Loving Family’.
Jiang Huihui was confused, when did she join this group?
Carrying this kind of confusion, she sat up and opened the group info tab. She discovered that there were just three people in this group chat. There was her and Zhou Yanli.
As for the other person……..
She tapped open the other party’s profile.
The profile pic was a deep blue arctic glacier, the wechat name was a simple ‘Z’.
Z, Zhou? Zhou Jinwei?
This group chat was clearly just created by Zhou Yanli. Zhou Jinwei most likely also got dragged in without being aware of it.
This social media app doesn’t require the other party’s consent to invite them into a group.
[Zhou Yanli: From now on, we’ll communicate here. Remember to send the living expenses to this group too @Z]
Ten minutes later, Z finally replied.
[Z:….]
Jiang Huihui unconsciously smiled. She repeatedly tapped opened their profile pic, exiting out and opening it again.
Not getting tired of it.
Until another notification popped up in the friend request tab.
[Z requests to add you as a friend.]
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