Chapter 47 (1/2)

Fake Slackers

Translator: Jury

Editor: NomNom

First Published on Chaleuria

047 – Looks alone don't cut it

”Any friends willing to step in and defend our lives?” Wan Da gestured furiously ”Yu-ge, will you help?”

Xie Yu said, ”We're not friends and I'm busy”

Wan Da: ”……”

Cold As cold as always

Wan Da watched as Xie Yu, after saying all that, still proceeded to get up and sit down next to thefacing the corridor He couldn't tell what on earth this cold big bro really intended

Was he willing to keep watch or unwilling?

He Zhao s He's on the lookout”

Wan Da was genuinely shocked He said, not quite believing it, ”How do you kno can you tell?”

Xie Yu was a loner, prideful, very antisocial, and had a hair-trigger temper

The words, 'Don't bother me,' were just about written on his face

Last year when their class year had been split into the East and West Buildings, the Big Bro of the West Building had been Xie Yu Just the rumor of his black nail polish had scared away countless people He sounded like a dark, twisted character

He Zhao didn't answer Wan Da's question

He juht, I just know

Xie Yu was still on his phone Frolance up and outside then look back down after finding nothing out of the ordinary

He Zhao sat down at the desk in front of Xie Yu, his back to the blackboard as he watched the group play Dou Dizhu Then he glanced up at the latest hoiven: My dreams

Class 3's homeroom reports were especially terrible In the whole class of 30-odd people, no one had any talent for drawing Since they wouldn't win any contests, they ht as well not waste their effort on it

But they were very creative Every student wrote a wish on their paper and stuck it to the board with tape in the shape of a rather untidy heart

It was just so Sen took reat treasure

He Zhao glanced back at the person in front of hi Bro of the West wore his school uniforrown cooler lately—and, perhaps because he didn't like the cold, had put on a jacket on top of his uniforers peeking out as he concentrated on tapping at his phone screen

Xie Yu's entle For instance, when he woke up duringself-study and blearily opened his eyes Or when he said, 'none of my business,' then, after a pause, added a question ers curled, his pinky lightly hooked on the edge of his sleeve

He Zhao rapped on the desk ”Little friend, what dreaers stilled on the phone screen He had been chatting with Aunt Mei—asking how business was going at Guang Mao and telling her not to scrih help, she should hire several e of topic surprised hiaze and turned around to look at the honment on the blackboard

He had scribbled dohatever caenuinely lay them out in this 'heart of love' for the whole world to see would have been too drah school student's entire world consisted only of 'the high school exahed when they collected their papers to fill in and didn't take it seriously ”Dreaet about Fudan But you can have Fudan milk tea,” Liu Cunhao mocked him, then narrated a daydream of his own ”Me, I want to save the world”

Wan Da patted the class rep's head ”You'd better co about nonsense”

In adolescence, no one really had a clear or solid self-is like drea about it

Xie Yu had already forgotten what he had written down He thought about it a little more closely and reht that his 'world peace' had been perfunctory enough, but now he realized the guy in front of hienius ”Strike it rich?”

Xie Yu said, ”…You disapprove?”

”Nope This is a good drearaphical photo of hiain and asked, ”Where's et? What suave photo?”

”I posed so hard Didn't you get a photo?”

Posed

At the mention of this word, Xie Yu felt transported back to that very aard event that was so eall to mention that?”

”Why wouldn't I?” He Zhao said ”You couldn't resist taking photos of ht, 'Couldn't resist, my ass'

Really shameless

Xie Yu had uploaded the photo on his feed Since He Zhao really wanted to see it, Xie Yu found it and showed it to hilanced at it and found that it was quite a passable photo ”Good photography skills Of course, the ienic…” As He Zhao spoke, he accidentally scrolled down to the coh Xie Yu was a loner who didn't draw attention to himself, there wereat the names, they were all Aunt somebody or So-and-so's Mom, all old ladies of some sort, and one of them even had the note, 'Breakfast place one street over – wang's Mom'

Aunt Mei: Son, who's this in the middle? Quite handsome

xy replied to Aunt Mei: An idiot

Dalei: dauy seem so familiar?!

xy replied to Dalei: Crowd-face¹

He Zhao read through all of them and found that his little friend was quite happy to diss him ”Never mind the crowd-face bit, you told your otten about the comments section He said calmly, ”That's my Godmother”

Xie Yu rarely talked about his family and now he produced a Godmother out of nowhere These fifty-plus comments indicated that his little friend's social netas quite i, ”You have a Godmother?”

Xie Yu introduced her briefly ”My Godmother Ground snake ² Met her on the streets”

He Zhao pointed at the name Dalei ”And this one?”

Xie Yu said, ”You rew very frustrated—he had no idea how to explain his relationshi+p with the breakfast store aunt one street over—and papered it over with the comment, ”You're suave, you're not a crowd-face,” and declared the matter finished