Chapter 10

The place was eerily silent for a while.

"Wait a minute, Top Student." Wang Lu'an was the first to return to his senses. His eyes flitted between the two of them and he asked with amusement, "You refused our school beauty's WeChat but you want Yu Fan's instead?

You're that serious about fighting him?"

Chen Jingshen glanced at him, "Fighting him?"

Wang Lu'an wanted to ask again but the person next to him suddenly moved.

Yu Fan once again tried to pull his clothes out from the other person's grip.

"Add me on WeChat, my ass. How many times have I said it already? I don't…." His words abruptly came to a stop. He then forced out through his teeth, "Get lost. Don't bother me again."

Just as Wang Lu'an wanted to say that there was no need to have such a big reaction, he turned and looked over and was left stunned again.

Why were his brother's ears red?

The sky was a little dark. When Wang Lu'an wanted to take a closer look, Yu Fan had already turned and left.

As his handsome figure passed by the parked bicycles, he appeared a little hurried.

... Back at home, Yu Fan laid down on the sofa and browsed through his phone.

The group chat he had silenced for more than a year was now sitting at the very top of his WeChat interface. The number of notifications had already reached 99+.

The group chat was run by Zuo Kuan. Practically all the troublesome students at school were in this group. Yu Fan however wasn't familiar with most of them.

At this moment, Zuo Kuan was in the middle of chatting.

[What's with that top student? Yu Fan seems to dislike him.] [That can't be. If he doesn't like him, why did he help him get his money back?] [But when Top Student asked for his WeChat, he didn't give it. And he even cursed out him out!"] Yu Fan's eyelids twitched. He recalled Chen Jingshen's expression when he grabbed his clothes just now.

His eyes were lightly lowered as he calmly and straightforwardly looked at him ——- It was just like the time when he gave him the love letter.

Dammit. Why doesn't this person have any self-consciousness about being gay?

Aren't they usually quite secretive?

Why was he going around showing it off like a peacock instead?

Yu Fan closed his eyes and rubbed the lobe of his ear.

He had left too quickly earlier. He should've punched Chen Jingshen in the eye first.

Yu Fan swiped his finger and left that group chat. When he returned to the WeChat main interface, there was suddenly a red '1' appearing in the friends column.

He casually tapped it open. It was a new friend request. The other party still had the original basic profile picture. It looked like a newly created account—— [S requested to add you as friend: I am Chen Jingshen.] [Source: The other party added through a contact shared by 'Zhang Xianjing'.] Yu Fan frowned. He sat up from the sofa.

Without even stopping to think, he rejected the request, took a screenshot and sent it to Zhang Xianjing.

[-: ?] [Zhang Xianjing: Hehe, when I said that I can give him your WeChat, Chen Jingshen immediately added me.] [Zhang Xianjing: Since Top Student has requested it, why don't you just add him?] [-: No.] [Zhang Xianjing: Well that's up to you, I got his WeChat anyway. When I manage to get the answers to the exams, I'll send you a copy too~] Yu Fan then remembered that he still had a copy of the exam answers in the pocket of his school jacket.

He got up and took it out. The scratch paper had unfortunately been crumpled up too many times, it was a rather pitiful sight.

He stared at that sheet of paper for a few seconds before softly clicking his tongue. He then went over to the desk in his room, opened the third cabinet on the bottom and roughly tossed it in.

The scratch paper bounced around a few times before finally stopping beside a pink envelope.

Yu Fan casually cooked himself a bowl of dumplings. After taking a few bites, just when it turned eight, his phone lit up again.

[S requested to add you as friend: I am Chen Jingshen.] [-: Reject. Reason for rejection: Get lost.] At 9pm, Yu Fan was taking a shower.

[S: I am Chen Jingshen.] Did you fucking set an alarm?

Yu Fan dried his hands with a towel and rejected it.

At 10pm, Yu Fan just started a game of Snake.

[S: I am Chen Jingshen.] At 11pm, Yu Fan ended his game of Snake.

[S: I am Chen Jingshen.] At 12pm, Yu Fan stared at his phone screen in annoyance. As soon as the friend request appeared again, he tapped the accept button.

Bring it on.

Yu Fan stared expressionlessly at the blank chat interface between himself and Chen Jingshen.

Let me see what you want.

Ten minutes passed, there were no movements from the other end.

Twenty minutes passed, no news.

Thirty minutes passed, no news.

.....

An hour later, Yu Fan looked at the empty chat interface between himself and Chen Jingshen, tapped open the other person's profile and blacklisted it.

-In the middle of the night, Yu Fan opened his eyes to the sound of rustling.

All the drowsiness that had taken over him was gone in an instant. He picked up his phone and checked the time. 3:30am. Not even roosters were awake.

There was another clatter coming from outside.

Yu Fan's expression turned cold. He got up from his bed and took out a badminton racket with several broken strings from behind the curtain.

He softly approached the door and placed his hand on the doorknob—— "I didn't hear the call just now. I just got home. So did you bet on that game for me or not? Bet what? Didn't I tell you already? Bet ten thousand on the team winning 2:1 —— I'll give you the money after you've helped me bet, you think I'm going to go back on my words?"

Yu Kaiming's voice sounded like an electric drill. It squeezed through the cracks in the door, "Which station is playing it again?…..Yes, yes, I know."

Hearing the familiar voice, Yu Fan threw the racket back to where it was.

His expression turned even colder.

Two minutes later, the sound of a soccer match could be heard outside.

When Yu Fan opened the door, Yu Kaiming was opening a bottle of beer.

He had his two legs resting on the table as he watched the soccer game in comfort.

Thinking that the volume was too low, Yu Kaiming picked up the remote and increased it by another ten notches.

Yu Fan leaned against the door frame, "If you're deaf, you should get it treated."

Yu Kaiming's act of drinking paused but he continued to turn up the volume. His eyes were still on the TV, "I can do whatever I want in my own home and play it as loud as I want. If you think it's noisy, you can get out."

Yu Fan didn't hesitate at all. He went back into his room, picked up the things on the table as well as his jacket and left.

After closing the door, he leaned against the meter box outside for a while.

The moment he heard the words 'and shooooot———-", he raised his hand, pulled the switch and then proceeded to take out a padlock from his pocket and locked the meter box.

When Yu Kaiming stuck his head out of the balcony, he happened to see Yu Fan's leaving figure.

With his face red with anger, he cursed vulgarly, "Yu Fan you fucker! Get back here, you son of a bitch! Get back here, you hear me?!"

In the dark night, the boy's figure appeared thin and frail. Without bothering to say anything back, he left without looking back.

Yu Fan reserved a seat at an internet cafe and slept for two hours there.

The internet cafe was small and the only vacant seat was by a broken window.

He closed his eyes for two hours in the cold wind, the smell of smoke intermittently wafting over in his direction. The people next to him played as if they were in a war, their voices louder than the karaoke place next door.

When Yu Fan woke up, he felt dizzy. He felt that it might have been better if he had just stayed up all night.

The mornings in early spring were still rather cool. It was drizzling lightly outside.

The owner of the internet cafe was an old acquaintance of his. Seeing him come out, he stuck his head out from the front desk, "Yu Fan, heading to school? You're dressed too thinly. Don't you know how cold it is today? It's raining outside, take an umbrella with you."

"No need."

Yu Fan zipped up his uniform jacket and walked into the rain.

When Chen Jingshen arrived at school, there weren't many people in the classroom.

Seeing a certain someone sleeping at their desk, he paused slightly and then looked at the clock above the blackboard.

Yu Fan's entire face was buried in his arms. His hair was dishevelled and his shoulders rose and fell with his breathing. Looks like he had been sleeping for a while.

The temperature had dropped drastically today making the thin uniform jacket on him look out of place.

Chen Jingshen took out his workbook and casually flipped through it.

A gust of cold wind blew in. The person next to him moved and tucked their fingers in their sleeves.

Chen Jingshen got up and gently closed the window next to him.

Everyone was surprised when they saw the person who was usually late to class already in his seat when they entered their classroom.

"Yu Fan, why did you come so early today?" Zhang Xianjing looked back at him, "Turning over a new leaf?"

Yu Fan's fingers resting on the desk twitched. A long time later, he squeezed out, "En."

"To be this sleepy, did you thieve around last night?"

Wang Lu'an raised a brow, "Isn't he always sleepy?"

"He would usually still show some of his face. I can only see his hair today."

Zhang Xianjing leaned over and smiled at the person next to her, "My dear deskmate, did you do yesterday's maths homework?"

Wang Lu'an, "I did it. You can copy mine."

"Forget it. With your grades…" Zhang Xianjing looked at him with disgust, "It's almost time for self-study. Hurry and go back to your seat."

"Hey, you're too two-faced!"

Yu Fan wasn't asleep but his head felt very heavy and he couldn't muster up any strength so he could only lie on his desk and listen to their exchange.

The surrounding noises sounded more and more distant until he finally couldn't even understand the words entering his ears.

A while later, Zhuang Fangqin's angry voice drifted indistinctly over, "Some students, although they came to school early, they've been sleeping all morning."

"Forget it, let him sleep. He'll regret it later."

A while later, she changed her mind, "This is important here, everyone note it down….Who closed all the windows in this classroom? Students at the back, go and open all the windows around you. Can't let the classroom get too warm or a certain someone would sleep comfortably the entire time."

"Teacher, I closed it." A deep voice sounded from the side, "I was cold."

Zhuang Fangqin looked at Chen Jingshen's white down jacket in confusion, "Oh alright….don't open it then."

"I'll be going through this exam paper today. Everyone will need to copy the solution to the problems they got wrong ten times and hand it in tomorrow. Students who don't hand it in will be asked to stand in front of the blackboard during class next week."

.....

Yu Fan fell asleep completely After an unknown period of time had passed, two light knocks sounded next to him. It made his temples throb.

Wang Lu'an's voice drifted over, "Hey brother, school is over. You're still sleeping after sleeping all day? Come, let's go eat."

Yu Fan had a splitting headache. He lightly shook his head.

Wang Lu'an, "You're not coming?"

Yu Fan nodded.

"You're not hungry? I heard that there is a newly opened malatang place at the end of the street. It'll be a good treat on such a cold day. You're really not coming?" Wang Lu'an finally relented, "Then I'll go by myself."

Yu Fan's eyelashes fluttered. He didn't respond.

Before Wang Lu'an left, he subconsciously glanced at the person next to Yu Fan.

School had ended a while ago but Chen Jingshen was still busy studying.

His sitting posture was a little more relaxed than his usual look in class and his jaws were tense as his eyes remained fixed on the problems in his exercise book.

As expected of a top student, Wang Lu'an thought to himself.

The student in first place is still staying behind to study. Looks like he's very determined to do better than everyone.

The people in the classroom left one after another, leaving only the two of them.

After completing the practice paper he was working on, Chen Jingshen glanced over. The person there was still lying there, showing no signs of waking up.

He leaned back and took out another practice paper from his desk.

After completing two problems, he heard the person next to him let out a heavy breath.

Chen Jingshen's act of writing paused. When he looked over, he realised that something wasn't right with Yu Fan.

Yu Fan thought he was just sleep-deprived, and that was why he sometimes felt hot and sometimes felt cold. His throat was dry and sore and he found it difficult to breathe.

A gust of cold air blew in through the cracks in the door. He shrank back from the cold. Just as he was about to change his position, he suddenly felt a warm touch on the back of his neck.

Before he could realise what it was, that thing suddenly flipped over and completely covered the skin there.

The palm belonging to the boy was wide and hot. It easily wrapped around the back of Yu Fan's neck.

Yu Fan trembled. The skin there began to tingle.

He opened his eyes with difficulty and turned to look at the person next to him.

Chen Jingshen was typing something on his phone with one hand while the other hand rested on the back of his neck. Feeling his gaze, he raised his eyes slightly.

Yu Fan's eyes were bloodshot and red. His dark eyes stared motionlessly at the boy sitting next to him.

A while later, Yu Fan moved his lips with difficulty.

Because he hadn't spoken for a long time, his voice was hoarse and not very threatening.

"You fucking….." Yu Fan narrowed his eyes, "Sexual harassment?"

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Chen Jingshen frowned and pursed his lips into a straight line. He only spoke up a moment later.

"Yu Fan, you have a fever."