Chapter 56 - Ghost School (10) (2/2)

Su Ling fell silent for a few seconds. In the end he didn’t say that sentence and just opened his lunch box.

But he could no longer be saved. He actually thought that such a childish teenager was extremely cute………

“Your lunch today looks delicious too.”

The teenager took a bite of his bread and his eyes fell onto Su Ling’s lunch box. He let out a muffled praise and appeared to be quite envious.

Su Ling’s actions stopped. He thought about whether or not he should give him his lunch but was worried that it may seem too sudden. He then heard the teenager say: “I really envy you. Your mum makes such delicious meals for you every day.”

“……….I did it myself.”

“Huh?? Yourself??” The teenager’s eyes widened. His cheeks were bulging from the bread and he looked like a hamster, “You’re amazing.”

Su Ling didn’t say anything. The teenager was also used to his cold response. He swallowed the bread and continued to speak to himself.

“Whoever gets together with you will definitely be happy………..”

Su Ling’s heart skipped a beat. The hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly.

“Although I have never said it before, but I have always thought that you have a lot of strengths.” The teenager smiled and said, “You’re smart, handsome, tall, can cook and you’re very detailed……..”

Hearing his sudden praise, Su Ling was a little at loss. His heart thumped like crazy and his fingers curled into a fist. Sweat oozed out from the palms of his hands as he suddenly felt nervousness that he had never felt before.

“So……….”

As he said this, the teenager paused for a moment. He then said: “Don’t worry about what others say. You have the right to like anyone and you deserved to be liked by anything. Even if senior sister rejected you, you………”

Su Ling’s brain exploded, and his heart instantly fell into a pool of ice.

He quickly stood up and the lunch box fell to the ground, scattering the lunch inside onto the ground. His chest rose and fell, and both his eyes were red. He looked at the boy with a look of both anger and anguish.

“You came to find me………just to tell me this?”

This was the first time the teenager saw Su Ling react so fiercely. His face instantly went pale and he realised that he had angered Su Ling.

That day, he had also witnessed that scene and, later, he had heard about the rumours about Su Ling. He felt bad for Su Ling and just wanted to tell Su Ling that he is a good person, that he shouldn’t be concerned about the others and that there would be better girls waiting for him.

But he had made things worse, and had made Su Ling suffer even more……..What is he doing……..

“Sorry……….”

The teenager bowed his head and uneasily apologised to Su Ling.

Su Ling’s breathing was slightly uneven. The heart that was originally in dull pain felt like it was pierced through in one go. Fresh blood trickled out and he felt sharp pain in his chest.

This isn’t right………..How can he get angry at that boy? He clearly knew that the boy was just worried about him and only wanted to comfort him. He should instead be grateful to him.

But the moment he learned that the teenager had thought that he liked Lu Jie, he couldn’t control his emotions any longer.

———How can you think that I like someone else………

———It doesn’t matter who misunderstands me but for you alone, please don’t misunderstand and think that I like someone else…….

———-Because the person that I like is you. And I would only like you.

Unable to restrain his feelings anymore, Su Ling suddenly grabbed the boy’s shoulder and made him look up at him.

The teenager felt some pain at his shoulder and his eyes were filled with confusion. He wanted to continue to apologise to Su Ling but when he was faced with Su Long’s oppressive gaze, he forgot his intention to do so. He looked at the pair of eyes that looked straight at him and he could see himself reflected in those eyes.

“I don’t like Lu Jie. I also won’t like anyone else.”

Su Ling stared into the teenager’s clear eyes as if he was looking straight into his heart.

“The person that I like is———-

“Brr———-Brr———”

The sound of a phone vibrating suddenly interrupted the conversation. At the same time, there was the faint sound of footsteps. Su Ling’s expression quickly changed. He immediately let go of the teenagers shoulder and moved to hide behind a tree. He didn’t want others see him interact with the teenager.

The sound of footsteps disappeared after a few seconds, and no one came over. The teenager looked over at the tree that Su Ling was hiding behind and hesitated for a moment. He then picked up the phone first.

“Hello? Ah hello senior…….There’s something urgent? Ok, ok. I’ll head over now.”

The teenager put away his phone and his mood was a little down. He hesitantly spoke up:

“Sorry Su Ling. A senior is looking for me so I need to hurry over……Sorry, I’ll apologise to you properly next time. I’m sorry about making you angry. I really didn’t mean to do that.”

After saying this, he walked away while looking back after almost ever three steps. It was clear that he was still very worried.

Su Ling leaned against the trunk of the tree and his body slowly slid down. He crouched down onto the floor, curled himself up and buried his face in his arms.

………He almost said it.

How can he do that? How can he say it………

Definitely not. He can’t say it. He can’t let Bai Yi know about this.

What’s more, he couldn’t imagine how the teenager would react. He couldn’t afford to be hated by the boy.

…………

The teenager rushed over to a lounge where Bai Yi and Ou Yang were waiting for him,

He panted as he pushed open the door to the room and said intermittently: “Se-senior, I’m here. Is there something that I can help you with?”

“You didn’t have to run so fast. The weather is very hot. Don’t get a heat stroke.”

Bai Yi walked over and rubbed his head. He passed over a wet towel for him to use to wipe the sweat from his face. He then smiled and said: In fact, although I said that it was urgent, it’s not really that urgent. I just wanted to give you a surprise. Look.”

He pointed to the table. On the table sat a plate of strawberry ice cream cake that was still emitting cold air. It instantly attracted the teenager’s eyes and he couldn’t help but blurt out: “Is that the limited edition ice cream cake?”

“So, I wanted you to hurry and come over. Any longer and it would have melted.”

Bai Yi smiled and said gently: “I know you like sweets and would easily lose your appetite but I thought that you might like it so I bought it.”

“But this takes a long time to get.” The teenager raised his head in surprise: “Senior you…….”

“It’s okay, when I went there weren’t many people.” Bai Yi smiled, “It’s probably because today is a working day.”

Ou Yang who stood on the side heard him say this and wanted to say something but, with a look from Bai Yi, he kept his mouth shut.

Recently, he has been having more and more difficulty understanding Brother Bai’s thoughts.

Ou Yang thought this with great confusion.

That store was clearly very popular and the line for the store even reached outside of the store. You could tell that you would need to line up for a long time. Bai Yi saw that there was a lot of people and his face immediately darkened. He had volunteered to line up in Brother Bai’s stead but was pushed aside by Bai Yi and could only stand by and watch.

As he stood in the queue, he had heard Bai Yi mutter more than once.

“Why am I wasting so much time for something like this?”

He also thought this. Why are we waiting here?? They had also specifically skipped class to come here. What are they doing here stupidly queuing up instead of attending class?

Fuck, they had also skipped math class. It didn’t matter for Brother Bai since he’s smart and it was okay for him miss a class, but he was someone who can never wrap his head around math!

Thinking this, Ou Yang couldn’t help but curse at Zhao Xiao Pang inside. That stupid fatty just had to rush over before class started to report that Junior Cheng liked to eat the limited edition ice cream cake from this store and that he would buy one from here every weekend. In the end, Brother Bai got up without any hesitation and left.

He gritted his teeth and came along. He thought that it was currently working hours so it shouldn’t be that busy and he wouldn’t miss his math class but, when he arrived, he realised that he had severely underestimated the stores popularity. How can there be so many people……..

At that time, Ou Yang face was already a little distorted. Seeing that Bai Yi didn’t seem to be in a good mood, he couldn’t help but feel a little happy. He thought that Bai Yi would give up but, in the end, he saw Bai Yi walk over to the end of the line with a cold expression.

“Why am I wasting so much time for something like this?”

Once again Ou Yang heard Bai Yi say this line. He almost fell to his knees——-Brother! If you really can’t stand it, then I’m begging you to just leave. Why are you still standing here waiting?!

But when it was time for math class to start, Ou Yang had become numb and he had also calmed down. He felt that he seemed to have finally figured out what Bai Yi’s intentions were ———–It must be because Brother Bai wanted to “inadvertently” let Junior Cheng know about how hard he had worked waiting in line. By using this trick, it could help boost Junior Cheng’s good feelings for him!

When he realised this, Ou Yang immediately took out his phone and used it to take photos of Bai Yi waiting in line. He prepared those so that the teenager could look at it in the future.

But when he walked out of the store, Bai Yi whose expression still had not improved said faintly: “Don’t tell Zhi Chu useless things.”

“Ah? Oh……….”

Ou Yang agreed with a look of confusion. He had originally thought that he understood what Bai Yi’s intentions were but now it seems like he no longer did———Wasn’t it because he wanted to show him how much he had suffered to boost his feelings? Why aren’t we telling him?

Also, Brother Bai had always called Junior Cheng “Cheng Zhi Chu” behind his back. When did it become “Zhi Chu”…………

However, this was not the most horrible thing that Ou Yang had encountered today. It was when Zhao Xiao Pang suddenly called.

“Brother Bai, Junior Cheng went to find Su Ling. He’s having lunch with Su Ling!”

“…………”

Ou Yang was almost scared onto his knees by Bai Yi’s expression.

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Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 56)

I hate it when Zhi Chu’s attention is on something else.

If that “thing” is human, I hate it ten times more.

If that person was someone that I hate (including my other selves), I would want to kill them.

………..Only Zhi Chu’s kiss can comfort me.