CH 12

Translation checker: Rin

Editor: Junyans

Soon, Bai Yuzhu, their homeroom teacher, learned of the conflict from the head teacher. Fortunately, after weighing it up, the grade group did not take any disciplinary action against Yu Ran and Bai Yuzhu reluctantly let it go from her heart. 

It hadn’t been long since the school had started, but Yu Ran had already been involved in two conflicts in a row. Bai Yuzhu had no choice but to keep a close eye on him.

“Ye Xi, you hand out these keyrings to everyone, one for each person.” Bai Yuzhu carried up a small cardboard box and handed it to the short-haired girl beside her, “There are also identity cards, also one for each person; it’s attached to the keyring.”

The girl named “Ye Xi” nodded and took it, and returned to the classroom with the box of keychains. She started to hand them out from the first seat by the window, and when she was about to reach the last row, her footsteps suddenly stopped, and she hesitated to step forward.

… It was that thug who had threatened her last week with “Be careful in the future”. 

Moreover, she had just heard in the office that he had fought twice with the leader of the second year of senior high school. The process was incomparably hair-raising and savage. The band-aids on his face were strong evidence. Ye Xi took a quick glance at the boy, and her heart chilled.

However, Yu Ran was completely unaware of the fearful look the girl was throwing at him. At this moment, he was holding a large bag of Guai Guai, grabbing one piece and throwing it into the air, which was followed by him tilting his head and opening his mouth to catch it. The pieces hit the bridge of his nose or the top of his head several times in a row, but not even one successfully fell into his mouth.

“Damn it!” Yu Ran vented his anger. He reached into the packet to grab a handful of Guai Guai, and thinking “If I throw a lot of them at once, at least one will definitely enter my mouth”, he directly tossed all of them at once above in the air.

Patter, patter — Chu Mian looked at his messy desktop in astonishment.

“I was wrong!” It was too late for Yu Ran to beg for mercy. Chu Mian had already lifted him by his collar and dragged him to the window, as if he was ready to directly throw him out.

Now is the time. Ye Xi walked towards them at the opportune moment, took out a keyring and threw it on Yu Ran’s desk. 

Just one more for Chu Mian… Ye Xi moved forward and before she could extend her hand, Yu Ran suddenly stepped backwards and bumped into her hard. Ye Xi grabbed the corner of the desk in order to maintain her balance, but unfortunately the cup on the desk fell to the ground.

Ye Xi’s heart sank, and there were only two words left in her mind: I’m doomed.

I was already warned to “be careful” during the cleaning before, but I actually made a mistake again. This time I’ll definitely be beaten by the gangster… Afraid of seeing Yu Ran’s expression, Ye Xi lowered her head in despair, and her mouth kept chanting “sorry”.

Yu Ran and Chu Mian stopped in their tracks at the same time, and gazed at the girl. 

“What is this thing?” Yu Ran curiously picked up the mini doll keyring on the desk, “Did you put it here?”

“Teacher Bai asked me to hand it out to everyone…” Ye Xi replied cautiously, “This is our school’s mascot.”

“Need to pay?” Yu Ran asked.

Ye Xi was taken aback. Need to pay? Soon she suddenly realized what was happening, took out her wallet, and respectfully handed fifty yuan to Yu Ran as a protection fee. 

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Only after hearing his pleasant tone did Ye Xi pluck up her courage to look up and observe the situation, and found that Yu Ran’s smiling demeanor revealed a desire for the mascots. It was completely at odds with the swift and fierce temperament between his eyebrows.

“Each person gets one, it’s a free gift from the school.” Ye Xi silently put away fifty yuan and handed the cardboard box to Yu Ran, “You, you can choose whatever you want!”

She quickly bent over and picked up Yu Ran’s cup and checked it thoroughly, and sighed in relief after finding out that the plastic shell was not damaged. 

Yu Ran was very excited to choose a mascot. He also took the box over to Chu Mian to look at the mascot’s information card with him.

“Introduction to the members of the ‘Zizi Family’—” Yu Ran read it out loud, “The meat zòngzi — Niu Zizi, the jujube zòngzi — Tian Zizi — the red bean paste zòngzi — Mian Zizi… Chu Mian, I’ll give this ‘Mian Zizi’ to you, it has the same name as you!”

“Whatever, all of them are ugly anyway.” Chu Mian glanced a few times at the triangular-shaped zòngzi dolls, and could not help but ask: “Can one person only have one?”

“En, that’s why it’s very hard to choose.” Yu Ran was entangled. He felt that the expression of each zòngzi was very cute. Each emotion — happiness, anger, joy and sadness — corresponded to a different flavour. For example, Chu Mian’s “Mian Zizi” was a blushing and shy zòngzi girl. 

Eventually, Yu Ran chose a pure white round zòngzi named ‘Xiao Zizi’, which was a black sesame tāngyuán. It was obviously the smallest in the family, but its expression was the most fierce — this was the reason why Yu Ran liked it; it looked very dangerous and intimidating.

He handed the rest of the mascots back to Ye Xi. The girl hugged the box and fled in fear.

Throughout the class, Yu Ran couldn’t stop playing with the soft body of “Xiao Zizi” and couldn’t put it down.

“Take out your ‘Sunshine Classroom‘, I’ll be teaching Classical Chinese.” The Language Teacher Wang looked at Yu Ran’s desk and saw that Yu Ran’s desk was messy. There were books on all subjects, but she didn’t see the Language book. “Yu Ran, you didn’t bring your homework again! Did you even write it, huh? In fact I’ve no doubt you didn’t write it, so hurry up and look at it together with Chu Mian!” 

The speed at which Teacher Wang talked was always like a series of cannons, urging people to rush their hands and feet. Yu Ran pulled a long face at her and dragged his chair to the side of Chu Mian’s seat.

“I see that there’s still little time, so I’ll go through the previous section all at once.” As soon as Teacher Wang said this, the class understood that their lesson would not end in time again. “I’ll read the answers once — CADBACB. Raise your hand if you got all of them right.”

The students looked around, the class was quiet.

Yu Ran, resting his chin in his hand, stared at Chu Mian’s choice and found that it was the same as the standard answer, but Chu Mian didn’t react at all. 

“You got all of them right, so why don’t you raise your hand?” As Yu Ran said this, he grabbed Chu Mian’s arm and tried to lift it upward forcefully.

“What are you doing?” Chu Mian frowned and clicked his tongue, and pushed Yu Ran’s hand away, “Won’t lift.”

“Men shouldn’t carelessly say ‘won’t lift’ kind of thing…” Yu Ran gritted his teeth and insisted on helping Chu Mian raise his hand to prove to everyone that he did everything right. Chu Mian didn’t want to stand out in the class, so he exerted force on his arms to compete with Yu Ran.

In the end, it was Chu Mian who was superior, and when he came back to his senses, Teacher Wang had already finished the multiple choice questions. 

Yu Ran breathed heavily, relaxed his arms, leaned weakly against Chu Mian, and lamented: “You’re so strong, I’m exhausted.”

Teacher Wang continued to talk about the next question. She raised her head to confirm that Yu Ran was carefully listening to the class, but saw him lazily resting on Chu Mian’s shoulder, the two of them whispering.

“Yu Ran! Why are you acting like an endearing little bird?” Teacher Wang’s roar made the two of them tremble in shock. Chu Mian’s limbs automatically became limp and he immediately fell down. Yu Ran quickly put his arms around Chu Mian to stabilize his body.

“Even hugging each other? Even if you two want to bill and coo, you have to listen to the lecture! This will be in the next monthly exam. Don’t you know that this exam’s score is related to your future placement? Still not hurrying up to learn,” Teacher Wang lectured. While tapping her knuckle against the exercise book in her hand, she reminded the class not to laugh anymore and to pay attention to the lecture. 

Because he was physically powerless now, Chu Mian couldn’t justify himself even if he wanted to. He could only glare at Yu Ran with his eyes.

“Let’s carefully listen to the lecture.” Yu Ran ignored Chu Mian’s eyes. He wrapped one hand around Chu Mian, picked up a pen with the other, and pretended to make notes on the exercise book.

“Yu Ran, you wait for me.” Chu Mian’s voice was gloomy.

“I’ll wait, I’ll wait.” Yu Ran glanced at the clock on the wall. “I’ll wait for you at the third window of the cafeteria in a while.” 

After a few minutes, Chu Mian’s body gradually regained its strength. The first thing he did was take back his exercise book from Yu Ran, then he deliberately did not show it to the other party.

Yu Ran gave a continuous “āi” to express his dissatisfaction, “Let’s look at it together, the teacher has instructed us to look at it together.”

“You don’t even listen to the lecture, why do you even need to look at it?”

“Then we must pretend like we’re looking, or else Teacher Wang will scold me again.” 

But Chu Mian had already made up his mind. Not only did he put the exercise book on the edge of the desk, he even moved his chair a little away from Yu Ran. It was crystal-clear that Chu Mian had forbidden Yu Ran from coming close to him, let alone have any physical contact.

Yu Ran also simply snorted coldly, and sat to one side and took out his mobile phone to secretly play “Temple Run”.

The small fights between schoolboys would not easily rise to the level of contradiction. When the bell rang signifying the end of the class, Yu Ran immediately became energetic, and with a playful smile, dragged Chu Mian to the cafeteria to eat. He also didn’t forget to turn his head and call Fang Zhao’s username: “Diūgē, let’s go! ”

In recent days, the three of them had been eating together. Chu Mian originally had no intention to go with them, but these two people didn’t listen to his protests and brought him along, so he had to accept this enthusiasm. 

The window from where Chu Mian picked up his food was fixed and the chef was also private, dedicated exclusively to Chu Mian. If one wanted to manage the symptoms of “narcolepsy”, one had to be strict with their diet. Spicy and sweet foods were the first thing to be avoided. His daily lunch looked rich in ingredients, but in fact, it was so light that Yu Ran lost his appetite after tasting it a few times.

“Hey, I had told you the other day that our school emblem is Zòngzi, but you didn’t believe it! Even the mascot is Zòngzi.” Yu Ran and Fang Zhao queued up at the ordinary window to get food, and the two resumed an old conversation.

“Zòngzi has nothing to do with the school emblem, okay? Don’t you know that our cafeteria’s signature dish is Zòngzi? The students who ate it were all able to get into a first-tier school. Making this into a mascot, I think it’s for the cafeteria’s advertisement.” Fang Zhao pushed up his glasses. “Oh, Zòngzi is available only in the morning. You’re fucking late every day, so you don’t know about these things.”

“Then later I’ll ask the Cook Aunt what our school emblem is,” Yu Ran said, “Let’s bet.” 

“Bet on what?”

“Let’s make it an exciting bet…” Yu Ran thought carefully, and said slowly, “Whoever loses will have to ‘kanchō‘ Chu Mian.”

Fang Zhao froze and could’t help but let out a “fuck”, “Yu Ran, you’re too much. Even the punishments in Truth or Dare aren’t as ruthless as you!”

“What’s wrong? Chu Mian only looks as if he has a bad temper, but actually…he’s pretty easy to coax,” Yu Ran said optimistically, “Anyway, you won’t get killed, at most you’ll be second-degree disabled.” 

Fang Zhao shook his head, “I’m not afraid of Chu Mian getting angry. The main thing is that it’s impossible for a person to want to do…this kind of thing to Chu Mian, right? Who the hell would go to ruin the image of a male god, huh?”

“What’s wrong with it?” Yu Ran asked strangely, “Then, if you don’t want to do ‘kanchō’, then can you pull out his bird.”

Fang Zhao could not listen to this anymore: “Yu Ran, you’re sick! Don’t do such things to the male god!”

“Tch,” Yu Ran dismissed him, “Forget about the bet, you really can’t afford to lose.” 

The two of them holding their dinner plates found Chu Mian’s location and sat down to eat together.

During the meal, Chu Mian slept for a few minutes. When he woke up from his nap, Fang Zhao found that Yu Ran was always glancing at Chu Mian, and occasionally put down his chopsticks, his right hand eagerly stretching forward.

Fang Zhao felt that something bad was going to happen. While Chu Mian was not paying attention, he quickly kicked Yu Ran a few times, signaling him to be more well-behaved, and not try to ruin Chu Mian’s image.

“Chu Mian.” Fan Zhao shot him a warning look but Yu Ran ignored it. “Will it stand up every time you wake up?” 

Chu Mian was still a bit confused, and his brain was blank. He slowly turned his head to look at Yu Ran, his expression dull.

Fang Zhao immediately kicked Yu Ran hard. And Yu Ran, as if no one was there, continued to talk to Chu Mian like he was complaining: “Don’t men often react when they wake up from sleep? Inexplicably, there’s no solution for this. And since you sleep so many times, won’t you always—”

“Yu Ran!” Fang Zhao observed Chu Mian’s expression, and immediately interrupted Yu Ran’s question. “Don’t discuss such a deep topic while eating.”

The plan in Yu Ran’s mind was actually very good. As long as Chu Mian was willing to answer his questions, he would take advantage of the other party’s inattention to quickly reach out between his legs to give him a surprise! However, because he was worried that this would cause Chu Mian to have a cataplectic attack, he decided to go a little slower to avoid scaring Chu Mian, giving him time to be mentally prepared. 

“Speak up man, just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and satisfy my curiosity,” Yu Ran asked sincerely.

Fang Zhao clearly saw that Chu Mian was already getting angry.

“Where did you get so much curiosity from?” Chu Mian stared at Yu Ran coldly. “What’s the matter, why don’t you come and confirm it yourself?”

Normal people would definitely back off when they hear this, not to mention Chu Mian’s tone of voice was very sarcastic. But the result was that Yu Ran calmly said “Okay”, and directly got to it, lightly grabbing and rubbing the place mentioned by the other party with his hands at once. 

Fang Zhao gasped, feeling that the scene was too shocking.

The unusual feeling made Chu Mian sober in an instant, and he looked down at Yu Ran’s thin hand with distinct joints in a daze.

Next, Yu Ran’s description of Chu Mian’s manhood made Fang Zhao see darkness in front of his eyes —

“What you have in there, it’s heavily laden with fruits.”