Chapter 20 (1/2)

Chapter 20

“With the likes of your dinosaur bone-like body, you’ll collapse after just a few hits. I have tons of ways to kick you out (of school). Aren’t you good at transferring schools? Why not just run away again?” Shi Yan scanned over He Nuo’s skinny body with contempt.

Shi Yan’s words unintentionally hit He Nuo’s achilles heel; what He Nuo was most afraid of was offending Shi Yan and being sent to the village again; it’s not that he minded the arduous lifestyle in the village, but He Nuo was about to enter his third year. If he had to study in the village again, he wasn’t confident that he would be able to do well enough to enroll in university. So He Nuo hurriedly promised, “I won’t, I won’t collapse.”

“Ok, looks like you’re pretty smart after all.” He looked at his friends, “Brothers, time to get some exercise. This human sandbag looks good to practice on.”

He Nuo immediately jumped up in shock. He looked at Shi Yan, “Shi Yan, I…” He thought that he would only get beat up by Shi Yan once, he didn’t expect the others to join in.

“What? Wanna go back on your words?” Shi Yan asked gloomily, but a sly smile was plastered on his face.

In this kind of situation, how could He Nuo not know that Shi Yan was waiting for him to back out? He also understood that Shi Yan originally intended to make his life difficult anyway. By this point, it was too difficult to take his words back; if he backed out today, he would definitely have a hard time in school in the future.

“No, Shi Yan, but could you guys. .h.i.t in places that can’t be seen?”

“Why are you so troublesome?” one of the guys interrupted.

Another joined in, “Yeah, exactly. Where’s the fun in that?”

Shi Yan authoritatively declared, “We’ll compromise.”

He Nuo and Shi Yan’s friends were waiting for him to continue. Actually, Shi Yan was looking out for him and his friends. If they beat He Nuo up until his head swelled up like a pig’s head, everyone would notice, then wouldn’t that bring them even more trouble? Also, just hitting him this once seems like he was letting He Nuo off too easy, so he had an idea, “We have to purposely hit you in places that can’t be seen and hold ourselves back while doing so, so how could that reflect the sincerity of your apology? Did I say anything wrong, Dinosaur (He Nuo)?”

“So, we’ll just have to change the deal a bit. Since the quality isn’t there, we’ll have to make up for it in quant.i.ty. From now on, every Sat.u.r.day after school you’ll have to come here!” Shi Yan proudly disclaimed.

It felt like thunder just clapped through the clear skies, He Nuo couldn’t have imagined that Shi Yan would be this vicious – his cruelty had far exceeded He Nuo’s expectations. Shi Yan’s friends, on the other hand, were all full of reverence for Shi Yan and were complimenting him on his amazing idea.