The next day, a piece of news swept the entire Sega High School. It happened that there was no morning self-study that day, and each class had to go to the playground for the weekly meeting, which made it easier for gossip.
"Have you heard? There were two men doing something indescribable in the woods last night!"
"Fuck! Is this true?!"
"How could it be false? Director Zhao has caught them red-handed!"
“Exciting!”
"Tell me in detail, how is it indescribable? Hehehehe!"
"Simple, just two words: tree shock."
"Tsk tsk tsk, you city people really know how to have fun."
In fact, the rumor was not true at the beginning.
But as we all know, no matter what the news is, once it spreads widely, it will be far away from the original version. Especially this kind of salacious news, which often adds a lot of subjective color to the spreader.
So the incident changed from the initial "two men were caught in love in the grove" to "two men were kissing passionately in the grove and were bumped into by Director Zhao", and finally when it reached the ears of the person involved, Shen Xingyun, it had become "it was a dark and windy night, the two men were so horny that they couldn't wait to have sex in the grove".
Shen Xingyun was called to Zhao Caiming's office last night. He explained for a long time and finally made Zhao Caiming believe that he and Chen Xu were fighting instead of being in love.
When I was finally released, I felt exhausted and had nightmares about being chased by a dog all night.
I woke up late the next morning and was still in a daze when I got to school. When I heard Wang Zhao and the others say that two men were caught in an indescribable way in the woods last night, I didn't think of myself at all.
While gritting his teeth at Xie Ruan in his heart, he ate melons half asleep and half awake: "Who is it?"
Wang Zhao continued to send messages in the group without even looking up: "I don't know."
"You're crazy," Shen Xingyun yawned and sneered, "Is it so difficult to pay for a room?"
"You don't understand," Zhao Hongfu put down his phone and interjected, "What they're looking for is excitement."
"Have you found out?" Wang Zhao turned around and asked him.
"No," Zhao Hongfu rubbed his face in frustration, "It seems to be related to Chen Xu's group, but I can't find out the details." He looked at Shen Xingyun, "Brother Yun, you know a lot of people, please help ask."
At this time, Shen Xingyun had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.
Xie Ruan has been on his mind for the past few days, and he urgently needs to divert his attention. Hearing this, he took out his phone and said, "Okay, Xiaolin, right? What time was it last night?"
Zhao Hongfu thought for a moment and said, "It seems that he just finished his evening study session. It is said that he was exposed by a righteous passerby."
Shen Xingyun: “?”
Shen Xingyun suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart: "Revelation?"
"Yeah." Zhao Hongfu nodded. "I heard that he was bumped into by two people, so he called Zhao Caiming."
Last night, in Xiao Shulin, not long after evening self-study, Chen Xu was exposed...
Shen Xingyun suddenly reacted as if he had been struck by a stern warning.
Damn it! The melon was actually him!
Seeing that Shen Xingyun hadn't moved, Zhao Hongfu urged in a low voice: "Brother Yun, hurry up."
Shen Xingyun's face turned from green to black, and then from black to red, the colors were so colorful and wonderful. He tightly grasped the phone, his breath sinking, and he gritted his teeth and spat out a few words: "Go away! Get out!"
This incident caused a lot of uproar in the school. Xie Ruan heard countless people talking about it all the way from the dormitory to the gathering place on the playground.
He actually just wanted to make things difficult for Shen Xingyun, but he never expected that things would turn out like this. With Shen Xingyun's personality, he would be furious when he knew about this, right
Xie Ruan was overjoyed. As long as Shen Xingyun was unhappy, he would be happy.
"What are you laughing at?" Sun Haoxiang came over and saw him laughing, and joked, "What good thing happened? Share it with us."
"No, I just heard a joke." Xie Ruan didn't want to talk about Shen Xingyun, so he changed the subject vaguely, "Where's Bo Jin?"
They always act together, why did they separate this morning
Before Sun Haoxiang could speak, Pan Yu spoke first. He looked at Xie Ruan with burning eyes and said, "Are you looking for him?"
"No..." Xie Ruan was frightened by his gaze, and always felt that he was imagining something extraordinary, "Just asking casually."
"Oh," Pan Yu didn't know whether he believed it or not, he pushed his glasses and said, "He got up late in the morning and didn't come with us."
He looked down at the time and said, "It will be almost time for the bell to ring."
Xie Ruan thought about it and it seemed to be the case. He had indeed only seen Bo Jin in the cafeteria before.
"He often suffers from insomnia and is grouchy when he wakes up," Sun Haoxiang, who loves talking to good-looking people, squeezed over to explain, "so we basically don't call him in the morning."
He moved too much and bumped into He Mingjie's phone without noticing.
"You're going to die," He Mingjie hurriedly checked the dialog box, and was relieved to see that he hadn't accidentally sent anything he shouldn't have, "If you accidentally send obscene emoticons to my girlfriend, I'll never forgive you."
Hearing this, Sun Haoxiang was immediately shocked. Even Pan Yu had a look of surprise on his face: "When did you have a girlfriend?"
He Mingjie said proudly: "It's Lin Lu."
Lin Lu is the most beautiful girl in the second year of high school. She is pretty and has a good personality. The people chasing after her can line up from Sega High School to the South Railway Station.
"Huh?" Sun Haoxiang's jaw dropped. "Lin Lu is your girlfriend? When did you two get together? How come we didn't know?" He couldn't believe it. "No, how did you get her?"
He Mingjie said shyly: "I haven't caught up with her yet."
Sun Haoxiang and Pan Yu: “???”
Sun Haoxiang: "What's the point of calling her girlfriend if you can't get her?"
He Mingjie was dissatisfied: "Why not call me? A one-sided girlfriend is still a girlfriend!"
Sun Haoxiang: “…”
I didn't understand it, but I was shocked.
Xie Ruan did not participate in their conversation. In fact, ever since Sun Haoxiang said that Chu Bojin often suffered from insomnia, he had no time to think about anything else.
If Xie Ruan had doubts about Bo Jin's depression before, now he was 100% sure that Bo Jin did have a mental illness.
Long-term insomnia and suicidal tendencies, if this isn’t depression, what is it
Xie Ruan opened the webpage and began searching on it what to do about depression and insomnia.
He can't provide professional help, but in other areas, he can do whatever he can, just in case it is useful.
There were many different answers online, some suggested listening to white noise, some suggested eating nuts, and some even suggested seeing a guru. Xie Ruan ignored those unreliable suggestions, compared and checked the information one by one, and finally chose a method that was said to be very effective: drinking black wolfberry water.
Wolfberry is good for your health, and even if it has no effect on you, it won’t harm you.
Xie Ruan had never bought wolfberries before and didn't know how to choose, so he simply picked the most expensive organic black wolfberry.
You get what you pay for. There must be a reason why it is expensive.
After paying, Xie Ruan's wallet was empty, and he had to order one less meat dish at lunch in the cafeteria. But when he remembered that Bo Jin had asked him to sit at the same table with him and explained the questions to him, the pain in his heart quickly disappeared.
There were more and more classmates around, and the weekly meeting was about to begin. Just as Xie Ruan was about to put his phone back, his shoulders suddenly sank and there was an extra hand.
"What are you looking at?" Bo Jin half-hugged him from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder, and asked lazily.
Xie Ruan turned off the screen and said, "Get out of here." Without even looking up.
"Is this your attitude towards your tutor?" Bo Jin not only did not let go, but went even further and leaned most of his weight on him. "I'll give you one more chance. Say something nice."
Xie Ruan didn't say anything, but reached out to pry his hand away.
"You're so angry so early in the morning," Bo Jin ignored his anger and let him do what he wanted. From a distance, the two of them were close together, their fingers intertwined, and those who didn't know would think they were a couple in love. "Tell me, were you chatting with the girl just now?"
Xie Ruan looked at him with disdain: "Do you think I am you?"
"I didn't chat with the little girl," Bo Jin tilted his head to look at his profile and laughed softly, "The first person in the dialog box is still you, do you want to check it?"
His voice was very low, and when he leaned in close to speak, there was an inexplicable hint of tenderness and ambiguity. Xie Ruan instantly began to feel uncomfortable all over: "It's none of my business."
As he said this, he raised his shoulders and tried to shake Bo Jin off.
"Don't move," Bo Jin held his shoulders, his eyes half closed, his voice slightly sleepy, "Let me rest for a while, I have insomnia again, I didn't sleep much last night."
The weekly meeting had already begun. Zhao Caiming was adjusting his loud speaker under the national flag, and the formations of the classes had changed from disorder to order. Xie Ruan looked expressionlessly at the person who was sleeping on her with his eyes closed. After a while, his raised shoulders slowly lowered.
Forget it, just treat it as taking care of the patient. Anyway, they are standing at the end of the line and are not easy to be seen.
Xie Ruan is 178 cm tall, and Bo Jin is half a head taller than him. It looks quite uncomfortable for him to curl up and lean on him like this. Xie Ruan pursed his lips and adjusted his posture quietly and calmly.
The 20-minute weekly meeting ended quickly. Xie Ruan rubbed his stiff shoulders and did not go back to the classroom with Bo Jin and the others. Instead, he went to the supermarket. He found that his red water-based pen was used up while he was reading last night, so he had to go buy another one.
It was just after breakfast time, so there weren't many people in the supermarket. Xie Ruan paid quickly, and went to the toilet after leaving.
He despised Bo Jin for his many faults, but he himself was no worse. He thought the student toilets smelled bad and were not clean, so he only went to the teacher's toilet in the building.
But he was not lucky today. As soon as he walked to the door, he heard someone inside saying bad things about him.
Xie Ruan immediately recognized it as Li Mingliang's voice.
"Why did you break up with Brother Yun? Everyone in our class knows that he hooked up with Bo Jin."
"Bo Jin?" another person said in disbelief, "Are you talking about Bo Jin from Class 1? The one who won the gold medal in the Mathematical Olympiad?"
"It's him."
"That's impossible," another person muttered, unable to accept it, "How could God Bo be with him..."
"How is it impossible?" Li Mingliang sneered, "What's wrong with Bo Jin? Isn't he a man? With Xie Ruan's face, how many men would not be tempted?"
"That's right," the man seemed to be convinced. He paused and said jokingly, "It seems that the academic god's vision is not that good."
Li Mingliang sneered: "What good can someone like Xie Ruan get involved with? He's just a bookworm who studies hard, and you guys are praising him..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the toilet door was suddenly kicked open with a bang. As soon as Li Mingliang saw who was coming, he was grabbed by the neck and pressed firmly under the faucet.
The huge stream of water rushed down from above his head, hitting Li Mingliang so hard that he could hardly open his eyes. He choked on the water several times before he managed to curse: "Ahem... Xie Ruan, you are crazy!"
The people next to Li Mingliang were terrified. They had never seen someone like Xie Ruan who would take action without saying a word. They didn't dare to step forward to help, and stood there motionless, like a quail that had encountered its natural enemy.
Xie Ruan ignored him and lifted Li Mingliang up by his hair, almost tearing his scalp with such force: "If you are not clear-headed, wash yourself."
Li Mingliang struggled hard, but he was pinned to the sink and couldn't move at all. His face flushed, maybe because he was angry or choked, and he yelled, "Xie Ruan, let me go!"
Xie Ruan sneered and pushed him back in. Suddenly, the whole toilet was filled with Li Mingliang's uncontrollable coughing.
"Listen carefully," Xie Ruan's voice was cold and deep amid the sound of rushing water, with an undisguised hostility, "You said I was fine, and I am like this anyway. But if I hear you say bad things about Bo Jin again, I will beat you up every time I see you."
I carefully protected him and was on guard at all times, fearing that Bo Jin would end up like in the book if I wasn't careful. But this idiot was trying his best to hinder me from behind.
Sometimes, what can kill people may not be a sharp weapon, but a sentence or a line of words.
"Did you hear that?"
“Cough, cough, cough,” Li Mingliang was choking on the water and was about to die, but he still refused to give in, “It’s okay, it’s okay for you to protect me like this... ah!”
Li Mingliang screamed. Xie Ruan grabbed his hair and slammed him onto the marble countertop again and again, saying in a steady voice, "What did you say?"
Madman, this guy is absolutely crazy.
Li Mingliang was in so much pain that he almost fainted, and his face was covered with tears. His lips trembled, and he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words: "I know... I know."
Xie Ruan asked him: "What do you know?"
"From now on," Li Mingliang took a breath and squeezed out a few words with great pain, "from now on, don't say bad things about Bo Jin."
"It would have been better if you did this earlier," Xie Ruan patted his face and let him go, "Go away."
Li Mingliang finally regained his freedom, and he no longer had the courage to talk back to Xie Ruan. He didn't even have time to wipe the tears from his face, and ran away in a hurry.
Xie Ruan sneered, ran the water, washed his hands and left.
The footsteps gradually faded away until they could no longer be heard, and the bathroom, which had been tense just a moment ago, became quiet again.
In the innermost compartment, Bo Jin was holding a half-smoked cigarette. After a moment, the corners of his lips gradually raised.