CH 5

05. Ointment

Jiang Juan’s actions made everyone in Class 2 confused. Jiang Juan and Xie Jingxian didn’t show each other a good face since the first year of high school. What’s the matter with repeatedly showing goodwill to Xie Jingxian now?

Jiang Juan returned to his seat and saw that the favorability and trust on the system page had not changed, which was expected. Xie Jingxian was not someone who would be so easily moved.

What Jiang Juan wanted was not Xie Jingxian’s goodwill or trust in him, he just wanted to spend his upcoming days comfortably before returning to his original world.

For example, don’t go hungry.

It’s that simple.

The students in the class were very curious, as they felt that the atmosphere between Jiang Juan and Xie Jingxian was very weird, but they didn’t dare to ask what was going on.

Jiang Juan returned to his seat and noticed that Bai Guang, who was writing his papers sitting in front of him, turned his head to peek at him from time to time. Don’t know what he thought about, Jiang Juan slightly pursed his lips and laughed, as he lightly kicked Bai Guang’s chair from under the table.

“Hey, Bai Guang, you often tip off Xie Jingxian, so you can talk to him, right?”

Bai Guang was so frightened that he almost jumped up from his seat, when he was called by name. He repeatedly shook his head, “I…I don’t.”

How can he admit to doing such a thing, if he did then Jiang Juan will definitely beat him to death. Jiang Juan saw Bai Guang trembling violently and was speechless, “What are you afraid of, I don’t eat people. Since you talked to Xie Jingxian, can you do me a favor?”

He took out a box of ointment and said, “You know, Xie Jingxian’s hand is burned, go give this medicine to him.”

Jiang Juan brought this box of burn ointment from home. Since he was always in pain, he kept all kinds of medicines at home. Befitting his status as Young master Jiang, these medicines are the most expensive and best in the market.

Bai Guang stiffly turned his neck around, and moved his gaze from Jiang Juan’s face to the ointment he was holding in his hand.

Seeing that he was silent, Jiang Jian said, “Why, are you worried that I did something to this ointment?”

Bai Guang’s eyes widened, his expression saying, how did you know? Jiang Juan felt helpless and funny at the same time, this kid, why was everything written on his face.

Jiang Juan said, “Don’t worry, this box of medicines is new and has not been opened before. Look carefully, the seal is still there, untouched. I didn’t do anything.”

Bai Guang looked carefully, and sure enough he saw that the seal has not been opened yet. Jiang Juan said, “This medicine is for scalds, and it is much better than the medicines prescribed by the school hospital.”

Bai Guang looked at Jiang Juan, gritted his teeth, and asked the question in his heart, “Why aren’t you giving it to him yourself?”

Jiang Juan sighed and told a half-truth, “I was ignorant in my first year of high school, which caused a lot of damage to Xie Jingxian, and now I…”

Bai Guang’s ears moved, Jiang Juan’s behavior in the past two days was really weird. Especially with Xie Jingxian, Bai Guang felt that he might get to know the answer to the question that others were afraid to ask.

As he listened to his pounding heart, he asked Jiang Juan in a low voice: “Then you…”

Jiang Juan said, “I think I did something wrong in the past, and now I want to make amends, but I am afraid that he will not believe me so easily. So I can only ask you.”

Bai Guang looked at Jiang Juan suspiciously, not knowing whether he was acting or telling the truth, but he finally took the ointment and put it into his pocket.

Jiang Juan laughed and reminded him, “Hey, don’t say that I gave this ointment. I’m worried that he will hold grudges against me. Knowing that it was given by me, there is a chance he won’t use it.”

Bai Guang nodded.

Bai Guang held the ointment that he put in his pocket while guessing the truthfulness of Jiang Juan’s words. After being on pins and needles for the whole morning. He finally stopped Xie Jingxian on the way outside the school.

This was the main road. There are tall sycamore trees growing on both sides of the road. As Xie Jingxian stopped, the sunrays making their way past the sycamore leaves and landing on his face, made the boy’s appearance look even more handsome.

Bai Guang always felt that Xie Jingxian had an aura that dettered anyone from getting close to him, which made him a little scared, but his character was of not wanting to see his classmates being bullied-especially such an excellent classmate. Therefore, although Bai Guang was afraid, he still kept tipping Xie Jingxian off again and again.

Bai Guang handed the ointment in his hand to Xie Jingxian, and as soon as he looked up, he met Xie Jingxian’s obsidian coloured cold eyes and his mind went blank, as he stammered, “This is… Jiang, Jiang Juan asked me to bring it to you. Yes.”

After he finished speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong words, and Bai Guang’s eyes showed the look of horror, as if he was afraid of something very terrible. He took a step back, turned his head and ran away.

Xie Jingxian looked at the back of Bai Guang who was fleeing away, and at the delicate ointment box in his hand, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

**

In class in the afternoon, as soon as Jiang Juan saw Bai Guang, he asked him how it went.

Bai Guang whispered, “I gave it to him.”

“He took it?”

As Bai Guang nodded his head, Jiang Juan was a little surprised. Before the female lead’s appeared, the male protagonist had never accepted anyone else’s kindness. But then again before the appearance of the female protagonist, no one had expressed kindness to him.

Jiang Juan looked at Bai Guang, and said in his heart that, Xie Jingxian really did not reject this kid. He smiled and said, “Okay, thank you.”

Looking at the smile on Jiang Juan’s face, Bai Guang hesitated. Seeing that Jiang Juan was in a good mood now, he wanted to explain what he had accidentally said. After gathering enough courage, just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, he saw Xu Rang coming in from outside with a sweaty head.

As soon as he saw Xu Rang, Bai Guang remembered that in his freshman year in high school, Jiang Juan took Xu Rang to fight everywhere, and the courage that he finally mustered up was gone. He turned back and resumed solving the questions.

However, one day later, the burning pain in Jiang Juan’s hand did not ease at all.

The original owner was delicate, and screamed at the slightest injury or pain. The medicines prepared at home were the best and most expensive. The effect was quite remarkable. But even now his hands are still so painful. The only explanation is that Xie Jingxian didn’t use the medicine at all. .

Jiang Juan pondered, this kid must have lost the ointment. He frowned slightly, this should not be the case.

After class, Jiang Juan stopped Bai Guang from going out of the bathroom. When Bai Guang thought about what he had accidentally leaked, he was very frightened. If Jiang Juan found out about it…

Fortunately, Xie Jingxian rarely communicated with Jiang Juan, and Xie Jingxian probably wouldn’t have said it. But that couldn’t hold back his fear. This school bully-level character harassed him every day.

Jiang Juan didn’t know what Bai Guang was thinking, so he handed Bai Guang a roll of gauze, “Go, help Xie Jingxian change the medicine.”

Bai Guang took the gauze and said with a silly expression on his face, “Huh?”

The people next to him saw that Jiang Juan was blocking a person. That person’s face immediately became pale and he looked very scared. They didn’t want to cause trouble, so they all withdrew spontaneously.

Jiang Juan only glanced at the people who had fled and didn’t pay much attention to them. He said, “Ask him if the ointment is still there or not, if not, use this box.” Then he stuffed a new box of medicine in Bai Guang’s hands.

Bai Guang returned to the classroom with a bewildered face, as if he didn’t realize what just happened.

Jiang Juan walked outside for a bit, and when he came back, he saw that Bai Guang was already standing at Xie Jingxian’s table.

Jiang Juan returned to his seat as naturally as possible, grabbed the dictionary and pretended to be memorizing English words, while the corner of his eyes drifted to the opposite side from time to time.

While peeping at Xie Jingxian, he was caught off guard by Xie Jingxian’s cold and dark eyes. He was slightly startled, then turned his head as if nothing had happened, leaving only the back of his head for Xie Jingxian to see.

Xie Jingxian narrowed his eyes, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the box of ointment in front of him, and untied the gauze wrapped around his hand.

Bai Guang looked at him suspiciously and asked, “You, do you really think he changed?” Jiang Juan’s behavior was really abnormal, combined with his numerous past records, he always felt that there was something wrong with the medicine.

Xie Jingxian’s hand was already scalded, what if there is a problem with the medicine? Won’t his hand end up being crippled?

Xie Jingxian on the other hand, was not as worried as Bai Guang, and said softly, “It’s fine. Let’s wait.” He also wanted to see what Jiang Juan wanted to do.

Bai Guang quietly glanced back, and saw Jiang Juan stretching out his little finger from under the English dictionary, urging him to hurry up.

Bai Guang: “…”

Bai Guang unscrewed the ointment with a tangled face, and dipped a little on the back of his own hand. It felt icy cold and quite comfortable.

After waiting for a few minutes, Bai Guang didn’t feel any discomfort, so he handed the ointment to Xie Jingxian.

Jiang Juan had been paying attention to the movement over there, and seeing that Xie Jingxian did not reject it, he was finally relieved.

Next to him, Xu Rang squinted his eyes and said to Jiang Juan, “Brother Juan, do you think that millet grain has become more courageous recently?”

Jiang Juan looked towards him, “Millet grain?”

Xu Rang said, “Bai Guang, that kid. Don’t you think the name Millet suits him?”

Jiang Juan was speechless, this kid likes to call people by their nicknames so much, Ye Pei is called Ye Zi, Bai Guang is called Millet, and the grade director is called Barbed Wire- because the grade director was bald, the top of his head was bare, and the few hairs above his ears looked like an iron wire.

Jiang Juan suddenly became curious, “Hey, have you ever given me a nickname?”

Xu Rang didn’t expect Jiang Juan to ask this question, and was caught off-guard. He coughed slightly and said, “No, how can it be, Brother Juan is Brother Juan, where do you need a nickname.”

Jiang Juan looked at Xu Rang suspiciously. The novel was limited in length and could not reflect all the details, but the world here is real and the characters are more three-dimensional. Xu Rang was as lively as it was depicted in the book. He loved giving people nicknames so much, and Jiang Juan would have definitely not been able to escape. Even if he didn’t say it out aloud, he must have secretly thought about it in his heart.

Xu Rang felt uncomfortable when Jiang Juan looked at him, touched his nose, and saw Bai Guang coming back, and he quickly stopped Bai Guang, “Hey, you and Xie Jingxian have been very close recently, so high profile, when did you become so courageous? What are brother Juan and I in your eyes?”

Bai Guang thought that he didn’t want to be so high-profile, it was Jiang Juan who forced him. But Jiang Juan obviously didn’t want others to know about this, so Bai Guang could only grit his teeth and refrain from speaking.

Seeing Bai Guang’s silence, Xu Rang let out a snort, and was just about to scare him, when Jiang Juan, who was next to him, rolled up the workbook and slapped it on his head, “You talk too much, can you memorize the English text, the teacher is going to ask it in the next class? Let’s do a spot check.”

As soon as he heard that, Xu Rang straightened his chest and said confidently, “No matter whether I do it or not, I won’t be the one who will be picked for answering.”

As a result, Xu Rang was directly slapped in the face during the English lecture. He was picked by the English teacher for reciting words. As a result, he couldn’t even recite a single word. He was honorably punished for the last class in the classroom.

Xu Rang stood leaning against the wall and was not even listening to the class. He just darted his eyes around, grabbed the classmates who were doing small movements under the desk, and reported them to the teacher. In the end everyone became honest.

No one made even a small gesture. Xu Rang got bored, but he suddenly noticed a small delicate box on Xie Jingxian’s table.

He was no stranger to that box. It was specially designed for scalds. Jiang Juan gave him a box. The effect was excellent, but the price was not very good.

He thought in this heart that he had never realized that Bai Guang was so sincere towards Xie Jingxian, that he even gave such an expensive medicine to him.