CH 15

Coming out of the bathroom, Chi Le recalled Zhuang Xinchun’s deflated expression just now, and was a little excited, “Aren’t I very smart and did well just now?”

“Mhm, smart.” Sheng Zhuo put his hands in his pockets and clicked his tongue expressionlessly: “So smart that even Zhuang Xinchun can’t defeat you.”

Chi Le snorted lightly indifferently: “This Young Master won’t bother with someone like Little Green Tea1slang term in Chinese and often used to refer to someone who is young, naive, or inexperienced.”

Sheng Zhuo chuckled quietly. When he entered just now, it seemed like Chi Le’s eyes were slightly reddened with anger, but now upon closer inspection, it appeared as if they weren’t. He wasn’t sure if he had mistaken it or not.

“But why didn’t you choose to believe Zhuang Xinchun’s words like Fang Younian?” Chi Le was curious.

Based on his years of acquaintance with Zhuang Xinchun, Sheng Zhuo’s reaction is really rare.

Since childhood, Zhuang Xinchun liked to pretend to be innocent in front of his elders, and when he grew up a bit, he liked to pretend to be innocent in front of his classmates. Everyone would generally believe him. If it wasn’t for Chi Le who took advantage of his good looks, Zhuang Xinchun’s deliberately slandering him would have worked so much that he would become the image of a heinous villain. Fortunately, he is good-looking, and he can always attract people to meet him. After getting in touch with him, everyone will understand him. That’s why he was not slandered by Zhuang Xinchun to death.

Sheng Zhuo glanced at him, “Although you haven’t shown me a good face in the past two years, I can still tell whether you are that kind of person.”

As his classmate for so long, he has never heard Chi Le brag about his family’s wealth, let alone bullying others because of his family’s wealth, but he often hears others laughing at him behind his back as the young master of a nouveau riche family.

Last year, the class monitor’s father fell seriously ill, and their family faced financial difficulties. The class monitor even skipped lunch. Chi Le indirectly approached the class monitor, pretending to borrow homework to copy, and then ‘repaid’ the favor by inviting him for lunch. In reality, Chi Le completed his assignments on time every day and didn’t actually need to borrow from the monitor.

The class monitor probably also guessed that Chi Le wanted to help him, and after the situation at home eased, he gave Chi Le a small red flower brooch in front of the whole class, and Chi Le’s ears were red at that time.

If you want to say when Sheng Zhuo really paid attention to Chi Le, it should be from that time.

In reality, Sheng Zhuo rarely pays attention to anything unrelated to himself. Remembering the names of classmates in the class is only for the sake of convenience. He would smile when he sees everyone during regular times, but it’s simply to avoid wasting time on unnecessary troubles. However, Chi Le is an exception. Since the first day of school, he boldly entered Sheng Zhuo’s world. When Chi Le treated Sheng Zhuo as his bitter rival, Sheng Zhuo couldn’t help but take notice of him. As Chi Le got closer to Sheng Zhuo, Sheng Zhuo involuntarily began to focus his attention on him even more. This dynamic has been growing increasingly intense over this period of time.

Sheng Zhuo also felt strange in his heart.

“You are the third person besides my dad and Jian Cheng who believes in me without asking why.” Chi Le said excitedly, “Other people will always be fooled by Zhuang Xinchun’s innocent and harmless face, alas, they’re all so stupid.”

Sheng Zhuo’s footsteps paused slightly, and his brow furrowed imperceptibly. “He used to bully you frequently?”

“How is that possible? At most, during the early days when I didn’t know much about his character, and I was younger back then, he managed to deceive me for a few days.” Chi Le looked ahead at the road. “But he also suffered quite a bit. After all, everyone loves me, and I have a charming appearance that people find appealing.”

Sheng Zhuo glanced at him but didn’t see the truth in his words.

Sheng Zhuo didn’t worry after thinking about it. In the past two years, Zhuang Xinchun had said bad things about Chi Le in school, but it didn’t affect Chi Le’s popularity at all. On the contrary, Zhuang Xinchun didn’t have any long-time friends around him. You can pretend for a while, but you can’t pretend for a lifetime.

Sheng Zhuo’s eyes flicked on Chi Le’s face, and he bent his lips and smiled, “Hmm, indeed, you do have a quite likable appearance.”

Chi Le’s heartbeat was inexplicably fast, and he glanced at him quickly, then quickly looked away, cleared his throat, and pretended to be calm, “Brother Zhuo, it’s dangerous for you to do this, since you know I’m likable, don’t look twice, otherwise what should I do if you like looking more and more?”

Sheng Zhuo continued to walk forward, turned his head, and glanced at him, “Well, then I’ll take a closer look and see if I can start liking more and more.”

Chi Le smiled playfully, “Brother Zhuo, although I don’t want to disappoint your admiration… But I did lie to you just now, in fact, I punched Zhuang Xinchun first.”

Sheng Zhuo raised his eyebrows, deliberately sullenly.

Chi Le explained in a panic, “I didn’t mean to lie to you, I mainly wanted to annoy them.”

Sheng Zhuo twitched the corners of his mouth and chuckled, “You think you can fool me?”

Chi Le: “…” Well, it’s really difficult for him, a bad performing student, to cheat the top student.

But since Sheng Zhuo didn’t believe it just now but still chose to stand by him, it means that Sheng Zhuo wanted to stand by him from the beginning to the end, and the feeling of being deliberately pampered by Sheng Zhuo is really not bad.

Chi Le raised the corners of his mouth happily, and the depression in his chest just now was swept away, and his mood became better and better.

*

After the final exams were over, the only thing left was waiting for the grades to be announced before the winter break could begin. The atmosphere in the classroom became relaxed, and even the teachers’ expressions improved a bit.

After school, Chi Le and Sheng Zhuo still made an appointment on the basketball court, but today Chi Le brought the Samoyed there too, there was no way he could leave the dog, the Samoyed clung to him tightly today, when he went home to put a schoolbag, the Samoyed would not let him go, and the Samoyed would whine as soon as he was about to leave, which sounded pitiful, so Chi Le pulled it along as soon as his heart softened.

Uncle Li stopped the car, and the Samoyed got out of the car first, stood on the ground, and shook its hair, Sheng Zhuo recognized at a glance that it was the dog on Chi Le’s profile picture, the whole body was snow-white, and the fur on its body was very clean, not even a stray hair was found.

Chi Le then got out of the car and walked over with the Samoyed by the hand. The Samoyed squatted on the ground sticking out its tongue, tilted its head to look at Sheng Zhuo, he didn’t recognize his identity at all, its round eyes looked ignorant, and it had a good temper.

Sheng Zhuo knelt down and stroked the dog’s head, then looked up at Chi Le, “Your dog?”

Chi Le took the dog leash, nodded proudly, and introduced: “This is the coolest dog in the world, as cool as its master.”

The coolest dog in the world squinted its eyes in enjoyment under Sheng Zhuo’s rubbing, and let out a whining sound like a baby in its throat, and wagged its tail vigorously, if it wasn’t for Chi Le who was pulling the leash hard, it would almost lay down directly for Sheng Zhuo to rub its belly.

Chi Le: “…”

Sheng Zhuo gave a low laugh and scratched the Samoyed’s chin rewardingly.

Chi Le rubbed the dog’s head bitterly, and the Samoyed wagged its tail even more happily.

Sheng Zhuo raised his head and asked, “What’s its name?”

Chi Le pursed his lips, “…Gummy bear.”

Sheng Zhuo lowered his head, looking at the Samoyed who looked nothing like a bear in front of him, lost in thought.

The Samoyed stared at him innocently with round eyes.

“I named it when I was ten years old, and I happened to like eating gummy bears at that time.” Chi Le tried to explain, struggling a bit, “If it were now, I would definitely give him a majestic and nice name.”

“For example?” Sheng Zhuo followed along his train of thought, “Little candy bear? Bear fruit candy?”

“No! I’ll call it… ‘Study Genius’’ Brother!” Chilè chuckled and squatted down, rubbing the dog’s head together with Shengzhuo. “Gummy bear is my little brother. Since you asked me to call you ‘brother,’ then it’s also your little brother. Have you watched ‘The Return of the Condor Heroes’? It’s like when Qiao Feng and Duan Yu became sworn brothers and included Xu Zhu. You are our big brother, and you have to protect us in the future!”

Sheng Zhuo: “…” Does Fang Younian know that he might have an uncle dog in the future?

Chi Le held the Samoyed’s dog’s paw, shook Sheng Zhuo, and said with curved eyes: “Come on, let’s get acquainted, we will all be brothers from now on.”

Sheng Zhuo stretched out his palm silently.

Chi Le put the fluffy puppy paw on Sheng Zhuo’s palm, gently scratched his palm with the puppy paw, and asked with a smile: “Isn’t your brother cute?”

Sheng Zhuo shook the Samoyed’s little paw, looked up at Chi Le, narrowed his eyes, and slowly opened a smile on his lips, scratching Chi Le’s chin like a Samoyed, “My brother is quite cute.”

Chi Le: “…”

The two played with the dog for a while, Chi Le tied the Samoyed aside and went to play basketball with Sheng Zhuo on the court, the Samoyed wagged its tail and watched them, barking a few times from time to time.

Sheng Zhuo raised his eyes occasionally and found that the Samoyed’s bright eyes were exactly the same as its owner, especially when it looked at him eagerly, which made people unconsciously soften their hearts.

Sheng Zhuo taught Chi Le for a while, and when he saw that Chi Le had learned about today’s content, he threw the basketball in his hand. “You should practice it yourself first.”

Chi Le watched him walk away suspiciously, scratched his head lightly, and continued to practice shooting.

After a while, Sheng Zhuo bought a ham sausage from nowhere, squatted next to the Samoyed, and fed it to the Samoyed bit by bit.

The Samoyed happily licked his fingers, and jumped straight on him, making Sheng Zhuo laugh, and the clear laughter spread all the way to the basketball court.

After looking for a while, Chi Le couldn’t resist and squatted down next to the Samoyed, eagerly looking at it together.

Sheng Zhuo observed the two pairs of sparkling eyes across from him, lifted his eyelids teasingly, and lightly tapped Chi Le’s head. “Why are you competing with it?”

Chi Le covered his forehead and yelled, “Brother Zhuo, you can’t forget about me just because you have a dog as your little brother. I was your little brother first, and then we got Gummy bear as a little brother. There’s a chronological order to this!”

Sheng Zhuo twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled lowly, “Childish.”

Looking at the smiling face on his face, Chi Le laughed, raised his hand to hook his neck, and pulled him down, “Are you not convinced?”

The Samoyed thought the two of them were having fun, so he also ran over to join in the fun, put his two front paws on Sheng Zhuo’s legs, arched Sheng Zhuo with his head, and stuck out its tongue to lick him.

Sheng Zhuo was pinched by a man and a dog, so he had to raise his hand, his smiling eyes curled up, “Okay okay, I’m convinced.”

Chi Le continued to cling to his neck, his gaze filled with anticipation. “Then how about you call me ‘Brother Le’ too?”

“Weren’t you just talking about chronological order? In that case, you let your dog little brother call you first.”

…

The two turned their heads to look at the Samoyed together.

The Samoyed squatted beside them, shaking its head, looking at this and that for a while, and when he saw them looking over, he gave them a ‘woof’ happily.

Sheng Zhuo couldn’t stop laughing, his body trembled with laughter.

“Stop laughing.” Chi Le bumped his arm, and finally couldn’t help laughing.