Chapter 29 (1/2)

Chapter 29

When He Nuo was pushed forward, he knocked into Shi Yan’s back. Shi Yan thought it was someone who was trying to stop the fight so he didn’t even turn his head to look as he elbowed the person behind him. He Nuo stifled a pained moan as he stepped back.

“He Nuo.” w.a.n.g Feng supported him.

When Shi Yan heard him he quickly turned around, saw the w.a.n.g Feng who supported He Nuo and reproached, “You brought him here? What did you bring him here for?”

Shi Yan extended his hand to support He Nuo, but He Nuo avoided it. “Avoided” was a nice way to put it, his hand was actually flung off.

Shi Yan’s face looked livid, and his gaze turned gloomy. The crowd who was surrounding them, and even Shi Yan’s friends, had become nervous. But He Nuo, seemingly oblivious, walked over to the two unlucky guys and helped one of them up.

“Sorry for framing you, we will explain everything to the teacher, please let us go.” The guy whose eyes had turned into a slit was still summoning all his strength to utter apologies and beg for mercy. The guy at his side was also saying muddled “sorry”s.

He Nuo looked at their sorry figures and terrible faces, looked up and coldly asked Shi Yan, “Are you done?”

Their surroundings instantaneously turned eerily quiet, the crowd was agasp, and it was only after asphyxiation started to creep in that indistinct intakes of breaths were heard.

Shi Yan clenched his fists and his gaze landed upon that delicate neck, he was using all of his self-control to stop himself from running up to that neck and strangling it. He Nuo stubbornly welcomed his icy gaze, he was inexplicably angry. Shi Yan released the collar he was holding and left, the crowd automatically parted to make a path for his exit.

With this one fight, Shi Yan and He Nuo became famous overnight. Shi Yan originally already had a good reputation, but with this it was taken a notch higher. The usually confident, easy-going and elegant Shi Yan actually started a fight, and even spouted such unsophisticated vulgarities – he had greeted the other party’s mother1. The funny thing was that this incident that had made the crowd trip over their toes also made them admire Shi Yan’s arrogance and domineering att.i.tude, and how he had loyally protected his own people. His att.i.tude and actions were perfectly in line with the heroes and idols found in the romantic dreams of teenage boys and girls. For a long while after this incident, students would still happily discuss the battle that had occurred that day, and the lucky ones who had witnessed the scene described Shi Yan as someone who had “rushed to the crown in a fit of anger”2.