SB-chapter 6

Wang Yibo had initiated the fight.

The scene was a mess and Xiao Zhan ducked afar from shock. He was really scared of fights. Even if it were the two puppies from his old home who playfully chased one another, he dared not to be in close proximity.

Who would want to fight Wang Yibo?…

It’s not even a fight. It’s a one-sided slaughter where Wang Yibo was beating someone up.

There were girls nearby who started to scream and shriek.

The Discipline Department didn’t dare to intervene and stop the fight either. They hurriedly went to call for a teacher and they ran over with a loudspeaker.

While running, they yelled, “Who, who is fighting?! Everyone stop what you’re  doing!!”

He Peng didn’t even have the ability to resist Wang Yibo’s punches. He cursed in his heart. He didn’t even get a chance to fight back!

A few young and strong male teachers ran over to pull the kids apart.

The moment the principal saw Wang Yibo, he started to tremble. “Wang Yibo!! Stop what you’re doing! Press him down! Press him down!”

The male teacher panted as Wang Yibo was stubborn as a mule. When he was pulled back, he didn’t forget to kick the other party one last time.

The principal’s eyelids jumped and he scolded, “Look at your head. Why aren’t you staying home to rest? Why did you come over?”

The voice rang through the sports field as the principal said this through a loudspeaker.

The principal expressed the whole faculty and students’ requests. Right. He had already injured his head. Why is he still here?

Whenever Wang Yibo was present, there was bound to be a fight. Everyone hoped for him to recover and stay at home during this process.

Wang Yibo wiped the corner of his lip with his thumb and said sincerely, “Going to school is a top priority for students. I need to uphold this responsibility.”

Old man principal gave him a look as if “I’d be damned to believe you.”

He glared at Wang Yibo for a while before he trembled and said, “Where’s the teacher in charge? Which classes are you guys from? Take them all away!”

The two teachers in charge hurriedly ran over. The moment Xuan Lu saw Wang Yibo, her scalp felt numb.

She grinded her teeth and hollered, “Come with me!”

Xiao Zhan silently stood in the crowd and his face was slightly pale. Wang Yibo was too frightening.

Xiao Zhan imagined the scene after Wang Yibo found out he was the cause of his injury and his legs couldn’t help but tremble in fear.

Wang Yibo didn’t rush to catch up to the teacher in charge. Instead, he suddenly turned around to look at Xiao Zhan, while the latter instinctively took a step back. He hid behind Peng Chuyue.

This didn’t stop Wang Yibo from casually pointing at him.

“I got into a fight for Xiao Zhan.”

Xiao Zhan: !!!

It could be said that Xiao Zhan had never participated in fighting, this divine activity.

But Xiao Zhan always attended the national flag ceremony.

Today was a day worth to be commemorated.

He Peng was pulled away by his teacher in charge while Xiao Zhan silently sat by Wang Yibo’s side.

He entertained himself and thought that this was the first time in his life to have participated in a fight. Who knows if his father would applaud him once he finds out?

Xuan Lu rubbed her forehead.

Wang Yibo was a regular visitor. Even if he lost his memory, he still maintained his arrogance. He lazily leaned against the chair and looked down, playing with his phone.

However, Xiao Zhan sat straight and remained well-behaved.

Xuan Lu’s gaze went back and forth between him and Xiao Zhan.

She said, “Xiao Zhan, tell me first. What happened today?”

Xiao Zhan sat up straighter and explained, “He Peng insulted me first. And then because I had saved Wang Yibo, he decided to stand up for me.”

Xuan Lu didn’t know what to say. She glanced at Wang Yibo who didn’t even look at her and was a bit angry.

“Wang Yibo, why’d you beat people up again?”

“Didn’t he explain? I was just standing up for him.” Wang Yibo finally raised his head and said, “One should repay double the favor despite being granted a small favor. Teacher, didn’t you teach us this?”

Once he finished, he turned around to look at Xiao Zhan, an unknown smile on his face.

Xiao Zhan tugged the corner of his lip rigidly.

At this time, He Peng’s teacher in charge arrived too. Xuan Lu rushed and walked out.

The two teachers murmured something outside and when Xuan Lu came back, she glanced at Xiao Zhan, saying, “Go back to class for now. After school’s over, come back here to write a self-criticism.”

Xiao Zhan was confused. “I, I also need to write one?”

Xuan Lu said, in a bad mood, “You guys all have to write. Even a top student won’t be an exception.”

Xiao Zhan walked out in a gloomy mood while Wang Yibo followed behind.

He heard him complain in a soft voice, “How come you have to call me out when you’re the one who got in a fight?”

“Didn’t you want me to teach them a lesson?” Wang Yibo said, “How come you hid so far while I was beating them up for you? You’re such a great friend.”

Xiao Zhan turned around to look at him. He was doubtful. “You were standing up for me?”

“What did you think then?”

“Wasn’t it because he was hinting that you don’t love our nation, and that he accused you of disobeying the school rules, and also the fact that he called you a f**ker?”

Seeing his sincere gaze on him, Wang Yibo suddenly flicked his forehead.

Xiao Zhan shivered and stumbled a couple steps back from the force. It felt like he was trying to scam him by pretending to fall.

Wang Yibo placed his hand down and said, “My head still hurts and I don’t want to cause any trouble lately. Do you understand?”

The moment he mentioned his headache, Xiao Zhan felt bad and guilty. He said, “Then…let’s tentatively say you did stand up for me.”

Wang Yibo suddenly felt his heart aching. He reached over and grabbed Xiao Zhan’s arm, pulling him over. He said, “Tentatively? Hm?”

Whenever he knitted his eyebrows, it felt like he was going to eat someone.

Xiao Zhan held his breath and heard him continue, “This father had done this for you. The fact that you said tentative. Try saying ‘tentative’ again, hm?”

Xiao Zhan ended up taking the blame for no reason and he didn’t dare to place the blame on Wang Yibo either. He nodded firmly.

So what if he had done this for himself? He was Wang Yibo’s benefactor plus a good friend right now.

He followed Wang Yibo back to class.

Seungyoun and the two others were already in their seats and making up for their loss of sleep.

Wang Yibo stopped and asked him, “Where’s my seat?”

Xiao Zhan hurriedly pointed at the window by the last row.

Wang Yibo glanced at him and walked over, sitting down.

In order to prevent puppy love in class, it would be a homogeneous arrangement.

Same gender people would sit next to one another. Although the students have the choice to choose their seats based on their grades, because Xiao Zhan was quite tall, he would never choose a seat in the front row despite given the opportunity to pick first.

As for Peng Chuyue, because he was always second in class rankings, he would choose to sit next to Xiao Zhan all the times.

After Xiao Zhan took his seat, he felt a gaze behind his back the entire time. He fidgeted and secretly looked behind him.

As expected, Wang Yibo was spinning a pen with his fingers and glancing at him.

Xiao Zhan immediately turned around and a sense of terror bloomed in his heart.

Peng Chuyue suddenly drew a thumbs up on the desk and wrote under the drawing:

“It was clear that Wang Yibo knew the rules of School. He’d fought for you. Are you touched by his actions?”

Xiao Zhan didn’t dare to move.

He saw it but didn’t respond. He put his head down and look rigorous notes.

Halfway through class, he was suddenly hit by something. He reached over to find a small paper ball stuck in his neck collar.

Xiao Zhan looked a the teacher whose saliva had spat across the class. Being that he respected his teachers, he placed the small paper ball in his pencil case and didn’t open it.

Peng Chuyue secretly looked at him and passed him another note. “Aren’t you going to take a look?”

Xiao Zhan ignored him.

After that, Wang Yibo threw another paper ball at him. Again, it accurately got stuck in his neck collar.

Xiao Zhan silently took it out and placed it in his pencil case again, not opening it.

A huge bang rang from behind them —-

It was the sound of Wang Yibo moving his chair.

The teacher in front knitted their eyebrows. Xiao Zhan also turned around, looking at Wang Yibo crossing his arms over his chest as he leaned against the wall.

He stared coldly at him.

Due to pressure, when the teacher was teaching again, Xiao Zhan unscrambled the paper ball to see: “why didn’t you take a look?”

While listening to the teacher, Xiao Zhan opened the previous one as well. “What do you want for lunch?”

There was something really wrong with Wang Yibo.

He could’ve asked him this after class.

Xiao Zhan busied himself with taking notes again.

When the teacher finally stopped and had them silently memorize the poem, he then replied under Wang Yibo’s messy handwriting.

“We’ll see when we head to the cafeteria. Don’t pass notes to me while we’re in class. If you have something to say, say it after class, ok?”

This was the first time he had passed notes in class. He was extremely terrified and crumbled the paper ball in his hands, not having the guts to throw it to Wang Yibo.

Wang Yibo stared at his hand which was crumbling the paper ball over and over. It felt like he was crushing his heart. Tsk.

He poked the student in front of him and said, “Hey.”

The other party immediately slid their chair back but kept their eyes on the teacher. “What’s the matter?”

“Give me the note in Xiao Zhan’s hand.”

Someone grabbed Xiao Zhan’s hand as well as the note. He instinctively looked back to see a student behind him gesturing.

Then they delivered the note to Wang Yibo.

Wang Yibo grabbed the note and then looked at the boy’s head. He was a bit unhappy.

He looked down and unscrambled the paper ball. His gaze landed on “ok?” and he suddenly felt a tingle in his heart.

He curled his lip and responded with an “ok,” then threw it back in Xiao Zhan’s neck collar.

During class, Xiao Zhan usually didn’t go anywhere else but the bathroom. He either read books, did homework, or just worked on practice exams if he had no homework.

In a year, he had done at least five pages of a practice exam per day on average.

Sometimes if he was under too much pressure or too excited, he could probably finish ten pages worth of practice exams or more.

There were many students who would follow his lead and go buy some practice exams, but it was usually blank even after class was over.

Xiao Zhan was different. No matter the subject of each practice exams, he would finish it completely and didn’t miss even a single question.

Peng Chuyue frequently sent Xiao Zhan a picture of a person sitting there well-behaved and maintaining a smile. On top, it would say “this is probably what a genius looks like.” That picture perfectly expressed his feelings.

He couldn’t help but admit that he might not be able to catch up to Xiao Zhan’s footsteps ever.

Because in his heart, he only cared about studying and his academics.

The moment class was over, Wang Yibo got out of his seat. He sat in the last row so even if people by his side didn’t move over, he could easily walk in and out.

Someone knocked on Xiao Zhan’s desk and everyone in the class quietly looked over.

Xiao Zhan was in the middle of doing his homework and he looked up to see Wang Yibo.

He immediately dropped his shoulders and asked, “What do you want?”

His nasal voice made him sound like a spoiled child.

Wang Yibo said, “Come to the bathroom with me.”

Xiao Zhan confirmed once again that there was something wrong with his brain. He scrunched his eyebrows and said, “I don’t need it.”

“But I need it.” Wang Yibo said, “Come and accompany me.”

“…” Xiao Zhan made eye contact with him for two seconds and he had to hold back his thoughts.

He got out of his seat and followed Wang Yibo, saying, “Can you not be so close to me while we’re in school?”

He was afraid of Wang Yibo’s enemies finding him.

Wang Yibo comforted him, “Don’t be afraid. They all think that we’re good friends because you saved me. They don’t know our true relationship.”

Xiao Zhan was speechless.

When they were at the bathroom, Wang Yibo asked him, “Aren’t you going to use the bathroom while you’re at it?”

Xiao Zhan said unhappily, “I don’t need it.”

He leaned against the door and turned his phone on.

A majority of the students in class were supposed to turn in their phones, but Xiao Zhan was an exception. The teacher knew that he had a lot of self-control so they usually didn’t force him to turn it in.

As it turned out, good students really would receive superior treatment.

After Wang Yibo washed his hands and came out, he peeked his head over Xiao Zhan’s shoulder.

They were extremely close and his breath was on his ears.

“What are you playing?”

Xiao Zhan instinctively extended the distance between them.

Wang Yibo softly chuckled and said, “Why are you still so frightened? We’re good friends.”

Xiao Zhan placed his phone away and slightly brushed his curly bang to the side. “Let’s go back.”

PHe didn’t dare to discuss being “good friends” with him. After all, it was meant to deceive Wang Yibo.

He hoped that Wang Yibo didn’t recover his memory before the college entrance exam. Then everything would be perfect.

On their way back, Wang Yibo suddenly placed his arm over Xiao Zhan’s neck and brought him to his chest.

Everyone on the hallway all looked over and avoided them as if they were scorpions or snakes.

Wang Yibo said, “If you encounter any problems in the future, don’t be afraid. Whoever dares to insult you, insult them back. Whoever dares to beat you, beat them back. If something happens, I’ll take care of it. Ok?”

To speak the truth,  Xiao Zhan still didn’t understand why some people liked to hook their arms over someone’s shoulders. It didn’t even feel comfortable to have an arm over one’s shoulders.

Especially when the other party was stronger and taller than them. Under the situation where Wang Yibo was quite muscular, Xiao Zhan’s face gradually flushed and reached over to pry his arm off his shoulders.

Xiao Zhan said, “I know. Loosen, loosen your grip a bit.”

Wang Yibo listened to him and loosened his grip.

Xiao Zhan looked at him and suddenly felt a sense of shame from using him. He pursed his lips and murmured, “Why are you suddenly…so nice to me?”

“Aren’t you my…” Wang Yibo paused and his gaze landed on Xiao Zhan’s face momentarily. He curled his lips and said, “-benefactor.”

He pressed on Xiao Zhan’s shoulders and brought him into his arms.

Xiao Zhan whose head bumped hard against Wang Yibo’s chest was speechless.

There’s really something wrong with your brain.

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