The second year of high school passed quickly. Ke Shaobin’s grades stabilized in the top three of his class and the top twenty in the entire grade.
For a ‘middle rank’ student who only got an average score on the high school entrance examination, such progress had impressed teachers and parents, but Ke Shaobin still felt that it was not enough. His goal was Hua’an University, the top 3 famous universities in the country, and he must work harder to be admitted. He needed to be in the top 3 in the entire grade.
The third year of high school was the last year of hard work.
Ke Shaobin began to double his efforts. His math, biology, and physics grades had been good, and his chemistry grades had improved with the help of Xin Yan’s notes, but among the three main subjects, Chinese and English were still weak.
Students would always see Ke Shaobin, wearing glasses, walking back and forth in the garden near the school playground, and memorizing books. Many people had a deeper impression of him as a ‘nerd’.
There was still one month left before the university entrance examination.
Every morning at 6:30 am, Ke Shaobin came to school early and memorized texts in the garden. Before the morning reading class began, the school was very quiet. This was why he liked to come to school to memorize.
Although he could memorize at home, he always felt that his memory was better when he breathed fresh air outside. Especially in the early mornings at school, the scent of plants and trees in the garden in summer helped to refresh the mind.
He didn't care at all about what his classmates thought of him.
Anyway, after the university entrance examination, it was hard to see each other again if they didn’t get into the same university.
This morning, it suddenly rained. Ke Shaobin was halfway through his memorization. Soaked by the rain, he hurriedly ran back to the classroom with his textbooks. When he came to the classroom, he found that there was only one student in the class.
Ke Shaobin was soaked, his school uniform clung to his body, his glasses were covered with water droplets, so he couldn’t see who was in front of him. He almost crashed into the other party’s arms.
A pair of slender hands gently supported him. Ke Shaobin took off his glasses while apologizing, and wiped them quickly with the glasses cloth in his pocket. The other party’s eyes kept on him. Ke Shaobin raised his head in confusion, opening his eyes wide to look closely before recognizing the person in front of him. “... Xin Yan? You’re here so early?”
Xin Yan looked at the soaked teenager in front of him. When he met those beautiful eyes, his Adam’s apple couldn’t help but roll slightly. His body suddenly felt a little hot, and not quite comfortable. He averted his gaze and whispered, “I’m on duty today.”
Ke Shaobin wiped his glasses while saying, “Oh. It’s raining outside.”
Xin Yan: “I know.”
Xin Yan turned around and fished out a clean towel from his schoolbag. He handed it to Ke Shaobin and said, “Wipe it.”
Ke Shaobin: “En?”
Xin Yan frowned and said, “There’s water all over your hair. Wipe it dry and return it to me.”
Ke Shaobin thanked him and quickly dried his wet hair with the towel. In the process, he took off his school uniform jacket and wrung out the water on it as well.
He turned his back to Xin Yan, and his rain-soaked body was displayed in front of Xin Yan without obstruction. Although his height was only one meter seven, the teenager had a well-proportioned figure, a thin waist, and long legs. The lines of his entire body looked smooth and beautiful, without a trace of fat.
Xin Yan looked at the teenager’s thin and beautiful back, and a very strange feeling rose in his heart as if he had been burned by something.
——It was a desire to dominate.
He wanted to possess this person completely, violate this person, and make him completely belong to himself.
The feeling was so intense that it went insane.
He even did not hesitate to defile the other party to keep the sunshine in his heart forever.
Xin Yan clenched his fists tightly on his side, trying to control his emotions.
Before Ke Shaobin sorted out his clothes and turned around to return the towel, Xin Yan had already adjusted his expression and returned to his usual indifference. He took the towel and said lightly, “No thanks.”
Ke Shaobin was about to say ‘thank you’, but when heard him say ‘no thanks’ first, he froze for a moment, then smiled and scratched his head. “Then, I’ll continue memorizing. You can get busy with yours.”
Ke Shaobin sat down and focused on the English words.
Xin Yan turned around and went to clean up.
An eerie silence fell over the classroom.
It wasn’t until other classmates came to class one after another that Xin Yan returned to his seat and began to write his homework.
The sky cleared up in the afternoon, but Ke Shaobin caught a cold and kept sneezing.
It was just a cold from the rain, and it should heal quickly. With that in mind, he insisted on attending class. However, in the afternoon class, his head was groggy, and he accidentally fell asleep. Since he had been working hard and getting good grades, the teacher didn’t give him a hard time and called him into the office after class to ask about the situation.
Ke Shaobin said that he caught a cold in the rain and might have a fever.
The homeroom teacher said warmly, “You’ve always been a serious student, but you can’t ignore your body for the sake of studying. I give you a day off, go back and get some rest. Come back when you’re well.”
Ke Shaobin had no choice but to go back and pack his schoolbag.
As a result, while packing his schoolbag, he found a box of medicine and a stack of material in his schoolbag.
It was a cold antipyretic medicine, and the materials were ‘Chinese Important Exam Points’ and ‘English University Entrance Examination Vocabulary List’, which were directly sorted out and printed.
Ke Shaobin looked at this material with some surprise and looked around.
None of his classmates met his gaze.
Who put it there?
Ke Shaobin’s mind was full of doubts. He suspected Xin Yan because the style of these notes was clear, without a single superfluous sentence of nonsense. It was very much liked the chemical notes that Xin Yan gave him at the beginning.
However, he looked at Xin Yan and the other party was bowing his head to do the question, not paying any attention to him at all.
He thought of his freshman year in high school. He took the initiative to show favor to Xin Yan only for him to say ‘Stay away from me’. In the past three years, although they had been in the same class, they didn’t speak to each other much. Xin Yan always looked indifferent. If it isn’t him, won’t it be a shame to ask him yourself?
Ke Shaobin retracted his gaze, squeezed the material in his hand, and silently said in his heart, “Thank you.”
***
This time the cold came on strong and the fever lasted for three days before it improved.
After returning to the class, Ke Shaobin was glowing with energy and self-confidence. From that day on, he carried the notes sent by the mysterious person with him and went to the garden every morning to memorize them, feeling as energetic as if he had acquired the secret of martial arts. He successfully passed the bottleneck period of Chinese and English.
On the last mock exam, Ke Shaobin made it into the top five in the entire grade.
Only the top three students in High School No. 14 got into Hua’an University last year, but the admission scoreline was different every year. The mock exams differed from the official university entrance exams, some students would misbehave and some would over-perform.
Maybe I’ll be able to do better than that.
Ke Shaobin had an excellent mentality and had been silently cheering himself up.
It was almost time for the university entrance examination.
Today was Ke Shaobin’s duty again. He did the duty diligently because it was his last duty in high school. After cleaning the classroom, he walked out the door, and upon passing by the corner of the restroom; he heard the sound of fists and kicks from inside.
A familiar voice trembled his heart. He immediately stood on tiptoe and looked in——
In the past, the few occasional times he had seen school violence, it had been the taller boys in his class who had surrounded Xin Yan and beaten him up. He had thought it was like that again, and was trying to pinch his throat to imitate the homeroom teacher’s voice to save Xin Yan.
As a result, the scene in front of him left him dumbfounded.
It wasn’t those people who beat Xin Yan.
Xin Yan fought the four of them alone.
Those four people had cloth bags over their heads and were lying on the ground holding their heads and wailing!
Xin Yan’s hands were covered in blood, like a demon from hell. His gaze was terrifyingly cold. Ke Shaobin heard the sound of one of his classmates’ bones shattering, and someone else’s front teeth were knocked out.
Ke Shaobin: “......”
The four of them rolled on the ground in pain. Xin Yan slowly washed his hands in the sink and said lightly, “Do you really think I’m afraid of you? In the past few years, I’ve just been too lazy to take care of you.”
Lin Rong’s head had a cloth bag and he let out an angry roar. “Xin Yan, you are fucking seeking death!”
Xin Yan squatted down, removed the cloth bag from his head, patted his face, and said, “Go and sue me. The university entrance examination is coming up soon, and I can get into the top two prestigious universities in the country to bring honor to the school. You school scum can’t even get into a junior college. Do you think that the school will expel me at this time?”
The four people: “...”
Xin Yan chuckled. “What’s more. The camera in the corridor is broken, so you have no proof of who hit you guys today.” He raised his mobile phone and said, “On the contrary, you guys, there’s a ton of footage here from the previous siege.”
Ke Shaobin: “......”
Xin Yan said, “Someone once said to me that I’m a wonderful person to be envied by you. One day, I’ll spread my wings, tramping you scum under my feet.” He suddenly stretched out his foot and stepped on the face of the boy who had bullied him for three years, directly stomping blood out of the other party’s face.
The boy’s terrified screams echoed repeatedly in the restroom, making Ke Shaobin’s heart skip a beat.
Xin Yan looked at the other condescendingly, and said coldly, “High school is over. Your terrible lives have just begun. No need to say goodbye.”
He retracted his foot and turned away.
When he went out the door, he happened to collide head-on with Ke Shaobin, who tiptoed to watch the pay and forgot to hide.
Ke Shaobin took a step back in fear. His face turned pale.
Xin Yan’s originally icy gaze suddenly became much milder after seeing the frightened Ke Shaobin. He said lightly, “Thank you for the past three years.”
Before Ke Shaobin could reply, he saw Xin Yan simply turn around and leave.
The teenager slung his schoolbag over his shoulder, his back was tall and looked lonely.
But the footsteps were firm.
Ke Shaobin unexpectedly found that in the past three years, unconsciously, Xin Yan had grown so tall.
For the first time, he knew that Xin Yan alone could actually fight four people??
***
The results came out soon after the university entrance examination.
Xin Yan was first in the entire school, and Ke Shaobin overachieved and got second in the entire school.
Ke Shaobin excitedly applied for the coveted Hua’an University’s Faculty of Computer Science, and Xin Yan enrolled in the Hua’an University’s Faculty of Chemistry. As for those scumbags, he heard that there were those who had broken their lower legs, those who had their front teeth knocked out, and those who had their heads broken, needing several stitches…
But they all shut up in unison, and did not say who beat them. They just said that they were accidentally falling.
Rumors said that it was Xin Yan who did it.
Ke Shaobin was certain that it was Xin Yan who did it.
After hearing that Xin Yan was admitted to Hua’an University, Ke Shaobin was delighted for Xin Yan and felt relieved. After all, Hua’an University was a famous school in the country. The students who got into this place were the most outstanding students in various places, and there would be no such thing as campus violence.
Xin Yan could also start a new life in a new world.
No one knew why Xin Yan suddenly made a ruthless move in the men’s restroom that day.
It was just because those four people had dirty mouths, having dirty talks in the restroom——
“That nerd Ke Shaobin. Do you guys think he’ll get into the key university this time?”
“What’s the point of getting in if you’re stupid and short? In the future, he won’t be able to get along in society!”
“Haha, a pretty boy like him is suitable for being raised by a rich woman.”
“Don’t tease, it’s just–can he do it? I’m guessing his little friend doesn’t even have his hair on.”
“That’s right. He’s skinny, sure can’t satisfy a rich woman in bed, hehe…”
The conversation between several people was getting more and more obscene.
Xin Yan clenched his fists tightly in secret.
He could tolerate these people speaking ill of him.
But he couldn’t bear it if these people insulted the sunshine in his heart.
Ke Shaobin was his only reverse scale.
Xin Yan came out of the darkness. His face was as pale as a demon. Before the four of them could react, he put them to the ground and punched them a few times.
Blood covered the back of his hand. His face turned icy, stunning the four of them.
They thought that Xin Yan had come to settle old scores before graduation. No one thought that he was doing it for Ke Shaobin.
***
On the day he went to school to pick up his admission letter, Xin Yan and Ke Shaobin happened to meet.
The homeroom teacher was overjoyed and called them into the office. He said, “You both got into Hua’an University. Fantastic! In the future, you will be schoolmates, and you should take care of each other.”
Ke Shaobin looked very embarrassed and didn’t know what to say.
Xin Yan said lightly, “Don’t worry, teacher. We will take care of each other.”
The teacher handed them the admission letter and explained a lot of precautions after going to university. They walked out of the school gate together with the admission letter. Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and said with a dry smile,, “We’ll be schoolmates again in the future.”
Xin Yan said lightly, “En. What time do you want to report?”
Ke Shaobin said, “The letter states that the month-long military training will begin on August 1st. I plan to go over two days early on July 29th to tidy up the dormitory and so on.”
Xin Yan: “Let’s go together. I’ll buy tickets for the 29th too.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes widened slightly, looking at the other party with some surprise. He thought that Xin Yan was going to say ‘stay away from me’ again, but did they actually go together?
Xin Yan met those puzzled eyes and coughed lightly, saying, “I originally planned to leave on the 29th.”
Ke Shoabin: “...Oh.”
Xin Yan changed the topic and said, “Go home. I’ll take you.”
He turned around and got on the bicycle, but Ke Shaobin didn’t move.
Xin Yan raised his eyebrows at Ke Shaobin and asked, “What? Don’t dare to sit for fear I’ll drop you?”
Ke Shaobin hesitated, sat in the back seat, and tightened his grip on Xin Yan’s waist.
In the summer evening, Xin Yan rode his bicycle, carrying the sunshine in his heart forward. A rare smile appeared on his always indifferent face.
They were admitted to the same university.
That’s where the new story begins.
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