CH 43

Villainous Poor Student (38)

The junior high school that the two of them attended was very close to He Siyu’s house, where He Siyu chose to go to school. Song’s parents were afraid that Song Xu Yi would not be used to the dormitory life, so they also gave Song Xu Yi the opportunity to be picked up by the family’s driver after the school year.

However, the family did not know that Song Xu Yi had already secretly planned her future arrangements for the next three years of junior high school: she planned to stay at He Siyu’s house all year round for the reason that she could not get up in the morning, so that she could have more time to start her own business at night.

“Xu Yi, wake up!”

The next morning, He Siyu called Song Xu Yi to get up and put on her school uniform. The two of them had breakfast together and then walked to school to enroll.

Song XuYi’s body had been affected by her sleepless nights, and she looked as if she hadn’t woken up.

The classes had already been assigned: He Siyu’s class A1 was on the 4th floor, and Song Xu Yi was assigned to class F6, on the 2nd floor.

When He Siyu arrived at the class, there were still relatively few people in there.

She didn’t want to draw attention to herself as soon as she entered the class and picked a corner seat to start reading a book, but He Siyu was beautiful even though she was sitting there in her old-fashioned blue and white school uniform like a painting, and even though she was sitting in the corner she was still the brightest presence in the crowd.

It didn’t take long for the news of a pretty girl in calss A1 to spread throughout the school.

“Have you heard? There’s a girl from class A1 upstairs who’s even better looking than Sister Song Han in third year!”

“Isn’t Miss Song Han the school beauty? Is there really such a good-looking girl in the world? I really want to see what she looks like——”

“Then let’s go and have a look! The teachers aren’t here yet anyway, so she won’t know if we’re in Class A1…”

……

Song Xu Yi woke up to the sound of the conversation at the desk in front of her.

She entered the classroom and went straight to the end of the classroom and sat down. After catching up on her sleep, she was a little more energetic now and listened to the conversation of her classmates, knowing without a doubt that they were discussing He Siyu.

He Siyu was beautiful, well-behaved and hard-working, and she was a goddess on campus as soon as she entered the school. The chances of such a girl growing up amidst love and praise turning dark again were almost zero.

Song Xu Yi is proud of this, thinking that this villainous line of He Siyu’s is almost terminated by now, and put her mind at ease and started writing her own after-sales improvement plan again.

After the platform had made a name for itself, some vendors had now taken the initiative to request to be included, and now there was an urgent need to use effective means to discipline them to deal with the aftermarket.

Having experienced the already perfected world of e-commerce, Song Xu Yi is standing on the shoulders of giants and is naturally able to write excellent plans. However, it is not only herself who is standing behind Song Xu Yi, she also needs to report her plans to her shareholders and investors, many of whom do not have the appropriate foresight due to the limitations of the times, and Song Xu Yi is already at a disadvantage due to her age, so she has to work harder to convince her investors.

Song Xu Yi had always worked wholeheartedly and was soon immersed in the process of writing a proposal…

“Classmate, classmate…”

It wasn’t until the teacher stood in front of Song Xu Yi’s desk that Song Xu Yi reacted to the fact that the class had already started introducing themselves, and that it was her turn——

Looking at the teacher’s stern gaze at her proposal in her hand, Song Xu Yi’s face turned red and she hung her head in frustration.

It was just the beginning of the school year when the teacher needed to make a statement, and Song Xu Yi happened to be in the middle of it. On the first day of school, Song Xu Yi was asked to call her parents and all her plans were confiscated.

Song Xu Yi’s name was also spread throughout the school.

“That girl named Song Xu Yi contradicted the teacher on the first day, she will definitely be expelled from school in the future,” several girls in class A1 got together after school to discuss the news they had heard with contempt in their eyes, “My mother said that such a student will definitely be a gangster in the future, she will not stay for one semester and will be transferred to another school. Later on, she might be detained…”

He Siyu’s face sank as she listened to the discussion in front of her. She put away her textbooks, which made a clear banging sound on the desk, and when the girls looked over, they met He Siyu’s visibly colder gaze: “I don’t know if she’ll be a gangster in the future, but talking behind people’s backs like this is a form of verbal bullying——”

Throughout the day, everyone tacitly agreed that He Siyu was the new class flower or even the school flower. She sat quietly, and when she introduced herself, she only briefly said her name, so many people subconsciously thought that she was a shy and introverted person, but at this moment, when they met He Siyu’s dark eyes, several girls clearly felt intimidated.

They wanted to argue with He Siyu, but they were the first ones to gossip, and He Siyu’s pretty face carried with it the indifference of a highland flower.

He Siyu slowly lowered her eyes.

She had originally wanted to be friendly with her classmates like Xu Yi had instructed her to be, but she seemed to have messed things up right after the school year had started…

She actually understood that these few young girls just wanted to exchange gossip and didn’t have any bad intentions to be precise…

However, the person they were discussing was Xu Yi.

He Siyu found herself unable to listen to anyone say anything bad about Xu Yi.

He Siyu hung her head, her long eyelashes hiding the look under her eyes, and when she raised her head again it was already five minutes later, and the rest of the students had already gone home, leaving only He Siyu in the classroom.

Only then did He Siyu start to pack her school bag and go downstairs with her books in her arms.

When she reached the staircase on the first floor, He Siyu’s footsteps gave way and she saw the door of the office next to the staircase wide open.

Song Xu Yi’s father was smiling as he told the teacher about Song Xu Yi being trafficked as a child, explaining why Song Xu Yi wanted to start her own business at such a young age, Song Xu Yi stood beside her father with her head hanging down, the little girl who was always in high spirits was now hanging her head down in frustration, looking incredibly pitiful.

He Siyu unconsciously pursed her lips.

But Song Xu Yi in front of her seemed to sense He Siyu’s gaze and immediately raised her head.

“You go home first,” Song Xu Yi told He Siyu by mouthing, “I guess I’m going back to my own house today…”

He Siyu nodded, looking at Song Xu Yi with a worried gaze, but not budging a step.

Looking at the teacher who was already completely captivated by Song father’s story and had already wiped tears from her eyes, Song Xu Yi knew that He Siyu was worried about her and quietly made a face for He Siyu.

He Siyu was stunned, shook her head and curled her lips into a smile, before slowly turning around and walking down the stairs.

When she could no longer see He Siyu’s back, Song Xu Yi sighed and continued to hang her head down.

She was actually not as calm as she appeared to be, for the first time in so many years she had been criticised by a teacher and was asked to call her parents, and Song Xu Yi was a little ashamed of herself, but Song Xu Yi knew it was her own fault for breaking discipline on the first day of school and deserved to be in the teacher’s crosshairs.

Fortunately, knowing Song Xu Yi’s previous experience of being trafficked, the teacher forgave her and handed back the report she had been writing for several days.

But this also blocked Song Xu Yi from working during class time.

Song Xu Yi could only work overtime in the evenings or after school, and after a while, her whole body looked much more haggard.

He Siyu could not persuade Song Xu Yi to take a break, so she could only try to help her by helping her with her homework, doing more work for her at night so that she could sleep…

But this was only a drop in the bucket. As the platform developed, the burden on Song Xu Yi became heavier and heavier, and Song Xu Yi was so tired that she was asked to call her parents twice for sleeping in class.

The third time Song Xu Yi’s parents were called, Song Xu Yi’s father became angry. He did not know that Song Xu Yi was sneaking out at night and thought that Song Xu Yi was staying up late writing plans, so he defied his wife and his two other children and had a private conversation with Song Xu Yi in his study.

“How can you give up your path of entrepreneurship?” Song father opened the door and looked at his pale young daughter, taking a deep breath in an effort to suppress his anger and heartache: “My Song family isn’t poor enough to let a young girl like you earn money to support the family!”

“I’m not doing it to support the family, and I know Dad won’t throw me away again,” Song Xu Yi hung her head and bit her lower lip, at this point she had to say what she really thought: “But there are so many girls under the sky. They are isolated in the darkness of the village, they don’t study, they can’t read, they are beaten by their husbands, they are persecuted by the world, dad, I want to work hard to earn money and help them…”

Song father froze in place, he had always thought that his youngest daughter was just insecure because of her abduction experience, but he had never thought that her heart was set to help the millions of poor women.

His throat twitched, but Song father suddenly didn’t know what to say: he had inherited most of his family’s wealth from his ancestors, and although he wasn’t extremely wealthy, he was still a prominent figure in the area. He had never set up a business, but he knew the hardships and difficulties involved, not to mention the unknown future of his youngest daughter’s business, and even if she could make a fortune from it, as a father, he only wanted his daughter to grow up happily and not to experience any more hardships…

“Dad, I can’t give up my career,” Song Xu Yi simply told her father, looking up at him steadfastly, “What can I do to get your permission to continue?”

He and his wife had always been pleased that their daughter had become assertive and understanding, but now they realized that it was not necessarily a good thing for her to be too assertive, and he would have preferred her to be as naive and brutal as she was when she was a child.

Song father took a deep breath, knowing that his daughter had probably made up her mind that it would be difficult to change her mind, so he had to settle for the second best.

“At your age, the most important thing is to study.”

“If you can be stable in the top five of your class in all your exams, I’ll help you ask for leave to allow you to start your own business privately,” Song father sighed deeply and finally compromised, “but if you don’t get top five in your exams, you can just go study honestly and wait until you’re in college to start your own business …”

Song father was of the opinion that Song Xu Yi could not be consistent in the top five, Song Xu Yi entered class F in the 20th percentile of the class, and Song father felt that the boasting of Song Xu Yi by the tutors in the past was entirely on account of his high price, and did not mean that Song Xu Yi really studied well. But just in case, Song’s father added, “If you get into trouble outside, you must tell dad, I’ve lived for so many years, I still have the ability to help my daughter out…”

“I know, Dad.”

She was used to coaxing He Siyu all this time, and when she saw the frown on her father’s face, she felt a little bit uncomfortable, and almost without thinking, she subconsciously praised him: “Thank you, Dad, Dad is the most sensible father in the world!”

Song Xu Yi was a good-looking girl, and when she looked at people with her eyes, no one would suspect that she was telling a lie.

Song father froze, not expecting his daughter to have such a high opinion of him, trying to keep a straight face, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily hooked up.

Song Xu Yi looked at the curve of Song father’s mouth and froze for a moment, then stared thoughtfully: is it true that all people in the world like to hear sweet words?

Song Xu Yi, a newcomer to the business world, suddenly felt that she had realized something at this moment.

He Siyu noticed that Song Xu Yi seemed to have changed.

She used to only pout to her when she was in trouble, but recently she started pouting to her from time to time and blowing rainbow farts, such as “Sister Siyu, you look great in this dress”, “Sister Siyu, you actually studied the second year topics, you’re really good”, “Sister Siyu, I heard you recently joined the school technology club, you’re really smart”…

The first time she said these words was very natural. Although He Siyu was blushing at these words, she couldn’t stop being happy in her heart, and she felt that Song Xu Yi was so cute that she could give her heart to her…

And in class, because Song father had made a point of greeting the class teacher and explaining the bet with Song Xu Yi regarding placing in the top five, the class teacher began to turn a blind eye to Song Xu Yi’s occasional wanderings in class, both of them waiting to see what Song Xu Yi’s results would be after the mid-term exams, and even secretly already preparing lines to teach Song Xu Yi.

Song Xu Yi thus had more time to do her work, and under the care of He Siyu, who was in the know, Song Xu Yi’s complexion finally improved.

Time flew by and it was soon time for the mid-term exams.

The mid-term exams were on Friday and the teachers finished correcting the papers over the weekend and announced the results on Monday.

It was only after the exams that Song Xu Yi found out that the next day was He Siyu’s birthday. Remembering what was written in her parenting books about taking care of He Siyu’s mental health, Song Xu Yi prepared a bunch of beautiful clothes as gifts and took a day off to play with her.

Originally, the two of them wanted to go out to a playground, but the weather was unlucky enough to make it rain, so Song Xu Yi had to stay at He Siyu’s home. Song Xu Yi worked all morning, and in the afternoon she and He Siyu ate longevity noodles cooked by Auntie Wang…

By the time she woke up it was late afternoon and the weather was clear again, Auntie Wang smiled mysteriously at Song Xu Yi, “Siyu said she was waiting for you downstairs…”

As soon as Song Xu Yi came downstairs, she saw He Siyu holding her bike.

“Do you want to ride on it?” He Siyu raised her lips slightly, looking slightly proud of herself: “I saved up money to buy it secretly, and I’ve learnt to be very good at it in the past two days, so we can take the bike when we catch the bus in the evening. I’ve calculated that it will save us nearly 40 minutes for the round trip…”

She couldn’t help Song Xu Yi in any other way but to desperately try to help her save time for rest——

Song Xu Yi did not expect that He Siyu had bought the bike for her. She had gotten into the habit of saying sweet things at the drop of a hat, but looking into He Siyu’s shy and expectant eyes, Song Xu Yi found that the sweet words she was used to saying were suddenly a little hard to come by.

She sat in silence on the back of He Siyu’s bike.

The system wailed in Song Xu Yi’s mind, “I want to raise a good girl too…”

Song Xu Yi curled her lips in a slightly provocative manner and deliberately wrapped her arms around He Siyu’s slender waist, “Sister Siyu, I will definitely treat you very, very well in the future…”

Song Xu Yi felt that she finally understood why elders liked to refer to girls as sweet little cotton jackets! Her mood at the moment was as warm as being wrapped in a small cotton jacket in the cold winter…

He Siyu’s body seemed to stiffen for a long time before a laughing voice came from the front, “You… you’ve been especially good to me——”

……

The wind blew by, bringing the fresh scent of flowers after the rain, the ‘jingle bell’ of the bicycle bell, the two girls traversed the city against the sunset sun, the sky was red like fire, the evening sun was spreading from the sea level, against the blue water, the lofty bridge, forming an incomparably magnificent picture.

Song Xu Yi tugged on the corner of He Siyu’s coat and told her to stop and enjoy the beauty of the sea… He Siyu complied, but quietly looked back at the cheerful smile on Song Xu Yi’s face as she sat on her side…

When Xu Yi smiles, she looks even better than the beauty of the sky.

The fact that Xu Yi is happy is the best gift she has ever received on her birthday, which has never been blessed before…