Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Shu Mian didn’t go to the bathroom; instead, she stood by the window in the corridor, enjoying the breeze.
Lin Xuan debuted after taking the art exam in her senior year of high school. Later, she rarely came to school, and it was said that she and Tan Xuzhe had broken up.
Now it seems to be true, they’ve blocked each other… So she must be an ex?
Shu Mian stood there for a while, then patted her face and prepared to return to the private room.
But a middle-aged man in a white shirt and a crooked tie swaggered over, smiling frivolously, “Little sister, all alone?”
The strong smell of alcohol emanating from him made Shu Mian frown. “No, there’s another one in my belly.”
“…”
She then tried to walk past the man, but he blocked her way.
Just then, she noticed someone not far away.
Under the dim yellow light of the corridor, Tan Xuzhe leaned lazily against the wall, his deep peach blossom eyes curving upwards, and it was unclear how long he had been watching her.
“You’re quite interesting, little sister.” The man loosened his tie and said with a flippant expression, “Don’t go, chat with your brother for a while, or have a drink, okay?”
As he spoke, he reached out to grab Shu Mian’s wrist, but failed.
Tan Xuzhe, tall and long-legged, walked over in a few steps, grabbed his wrist first, and looked at him with a half-smile, “What are you doing?”
“It’s none of your business… Ah!” The man, who had been quite defiant, screamed in agony as the excruciating pain in his wrist caused him to break down.
He felt like his bones were about to break. And when he looked up again, he saw that the boy was much taller than him. He hurriedly begged for forgiveness, “I was wrong, I was wrong. I was just drunk, I didn’t mean anything by it.”
Tan Xuzhe glanced sharply at the man, who looked like he was out socializing, and scoffed, “Drunk? Why don’t you go bother your clients and bosses then?”
He paused, then asked with a cold laugh, “Do you think young girls are easy to bully?”
“I was really wrong, young man. I’ll never do it again.”
Tan Xuzhe applied more pressure to his hand, his voice, though seemingly casual, carried a sense of oppression, “You know you were wrong, but you still don’t know who you should apologize to?”
The man screamed in pain several times, then immediately looked at Shu Mian, “I was wrong, I’m sorry!”
Although this person did not cause her any real harm, Shu Mian tilted her head, blinked, and looking innocent and naïve, said, “What did you say? I didn’t hear you clearly.”
Men who harass women under the guise of being drunk deserve to suffer a little longer.
“I was wrong, I’m sorry!”
The man raised his voice and repeated, pleading, “Please tell your boyfriend to let me go, my bones are about to break…”
The term “boyfriend” made Shu Mian pause for a moment. But she pursed her pink lips and said, “Serves you right.”
“…”
Tan Xuzhe’s gaze fell on the girl’s soft, white face. Under the light, her lips were a delicate pink, like tempting jelly, making one want to take a bite.
He immediately looked away, his voice lazy and deep, “How about we make him kneel down and kowtow a few times?”
“…”
The man immediately looked at him in disbelief, his eyes saying: Not a buddy?
But considering the height difference between the two, and the fact that the boy was young and vigorous and had so much strength, he knew he couldn’t beat him, so he didn’t dare say anything.
“Never mind, that’s bad luck,” Shu Mian said, wrinkling her nose.
Tan Xuzhe then released the man’s wrist. “Get out.”
The man rolled away nimbly, his drunken staggering now completely undetectable.
With only the two of them left, Shu Mian felt somewhat uneasy. Just as she was about to go back, she heard the boy’s low, suppressed laughter, almost a whisper.
She looked up in confusion and, sure enough, saw Tan Xuzhe smiling.
His shoulders trembled, his laughter was light and restrained and his chest rose and fell slightly. When he saw her raise her eyes, he lazily raised an eyebrow and suppressed his laughter.
Shu Mian looked completely bewildered, subconsciously touching her face. Her ears felt a little hot, and she asked softly, “What are you laughing at?”
Was there something on her face? Or was she just funny to him?
“It’s nothing.” Tan Xuzhe leaned back slightly against the windowsill, his long legs naturally stretched forward.
He smiled slightly. “You’re not as timid as I imagined. You’re well-behaved yet have your own sharp edges.”
Well-behaved yet with sharp edges?
When Shu Mian was in his presence, her mind always became unconsciously sluggish, trying to discern whether what he said was good or bad.
Then his deep, pleasant voice rang out again, “Quite cute.”
She looked up in a daze and met his smiling, captivating eyes, her heart pounding uncontrollably.
So… was Tan Xuzhe praising her for being cute?
Shu Mian blinked gently, “If you praise other girls as cute, your girlfriend will be unhappy, right?”
She regretted it as soon as the words left her mouth… He was such a perceptive and intelligent person, wouldn’t he see through her testing whether he had a girlfriend at a glance?
“I don’t have a girlfriend.”
Tan Xuzhe looked at her with a half-smile, “I do have a rumored girlfriend.”
Shu Mian was taken aback. “Rumored girlfriend?”
“Yeah, a week ago I rode my bike to take a girl back to school, and someone posted it on the school forum. Everyone’s saying she’s my girlfriend. What else could she be but a rumored girlfriend?”
He spoke slowly and deliberately, glancing down at her expression as he spoke.
Shu Mian realized that the rumored girlfriend he was talking about was her.
So he saw that post too? The post was deleted so quickly; it must have been his doing.
“Don’t you think so?”
Tan Xuzhe leaned down slightly and called her in a lazy, deep voice, “Rumored girlfriend.”
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