Chapter 1 (2/2)
Rumours that the reason he'd transferred from far aas because he'd hit a teacher, with the reason for that being that the teacher had been too ood at fighting
But up till now he'd never seen Kou Chen fight
Despise
Wei ChaoRen lights a cigarette, and continues to rub thetile in his hand
“Hurry up, you've rubbed it into a blank tile by now!” Xu Chuan knocks on the table i the tile in his hand onto the table, “Actually rubbed it into a blank one for real”
“Pung,” Kou Xiao takes away the blank tile
“Jie5 older sister are you for real?” Wei ChaoRen is stupefied, “A Pung for this?”
“Put the cigarette out,” Kou Chen says
“What?” Wei ChaoRen turns to look at hilances at hi blind?” Wei ChaoRen puts the cigarette out
“Don't you see my sister here?” Kou Chen says
“I'm sorry Jie, it wasn't on purpose,” Wei ChaoRen sends Kou Xiao a fist and palht fist connects with the left pal,” Kou Xiao waved her hand, tossing a tile onto the board, then thought a little before asking, “Your class distribution list has probably come out?”
“Mn,” Kou Chen nods his head
“I went and looked,” Xu Chuan says, “Nothing special, just that that, Huo Ran, I thought he'd choose the sciences, turns out he's in the same class as us”
“Which Huo Ran?” Kou Chen asks
“That rude one during the basketball match,” Xu Chuan says, “The one you said looked pretty cute”
“Oh,” Kou Chen responded, “I'll take back the ‘pretty cute'”
“Why?” Xu Chuan starts laughing
“His te sucks,” Kou Chen says
In contrast to Kou Chen's rumours, Huo Ran's bad temper was most certainly not a rumour, known by not just the students, but also the teachers, at the end of every ter hi back to school every start of the semester, his mother would follow behind to remind him, “Don't lose your tehs
“Xiao Huo?7 means “little huo”, meant to be a cute address, also because he's the son, his dad would be the ‘big huo' ” Moain from behind
“Ah,” Huo Ran looks back at her
“Go safely,” Mo his bag onto his back, he pushes his bike towards the lift entrance, then presses the button
Hison the door-fra at him
Huo Ran stares at the lift door for ait unbearable, turns his head back, “What are you doing?”
“My son is so good-looking, cute,” Moives the level of the lift a glance, then picks his bike up before turning to open the door to the fire escape, running down the stairs along with the sound of hisLei rode his scooter around the flower bed circling the stairway, co the bike he was pushi+ng out, “Is this the one you just fixed up? I'll ride for a bit”
“Our proportions8 not exactly sure what the terlish is so this is ht, and the seat tube height/length of a bike is tailored according to this height dictionaries kept giving ht not be the saht not be cos the scooter to a stop, “Okay, aren't you just trying to sayas yours, don't need to s are long, that's still a difference in proportions,” Huo Ran says
“Bullshi+t, I'er, wouldn't I be a leg derabs the bike fraht”
“Carbon fra Lei's scooter, “Probably around 10 plus jin9 unit of ra out on the bike
“Going to school directly or?” Huo Ran starts up the scooter and follows behind hi for us at the beef noodle place,” Jiang Lei says
There was a beef noodle shop in Xu ZhiFan's housing district, Huo Ran finds it tastes extrey portion of noodles, just an exceptional amount of broth that you could tell fro Lei absolutely adored it, so he's always forced to join in
After finishi+ng a bowl of noodles, apart fro else
But Xu ZhiFan was still wiping his
“Are hulances at the building in front of the?”
“Huotta experience the burden of history,” Xu ZhiFan says
“This ghost building's already not too bad, not putting us in the real ghost building over there…” Jiang Lei says as he rubs his arms
The school was a hundred-year old school, the floor directly below them from the stairway to the corridor to the classrooms were all s with classroo the wooden boards underneath, all of thes”, the one they were in was the only building still in use, and it's been said that they would tear it down for reconstruction next year
The paint on the ground had long worn off, but the boards were made of solid timber, he wasn't sure how many years and how many people have walked over the on thee
“Hun, this building had a total of 4 classrooe Lei said as he walked up the stairs, “Let's all sit together, with Hu Yi would be just nice”
“Mn,” Xu ZhiFan nodded his head, “Towards the back”
“The last row,” Jiang Lei says
Huo Ran reached the second floor, the classroo at the back door they could see a sea of back-facing heads
“This kind of door at the back really doesn't give any sense of security,” Xu ZhiFan gave a sigh
“The second or third rows froaze swept across the room, the last roas already fully occupied, but there were still e rows
“Sure,” Xu ZhiFan followed behind him
As Huo Ran walked over towards the second row from the back, so and started walking backwards without even looking, if Huo Ran hadn't raised his hand to block, they would have collided head-on, but this eency brake had caused him to step on a scarred wooden board and almost twist his ankle
“fuck,” Huo Ran furrows his brows, instantly rather annoyed, “Watch where you're going”
The person facing hiaze swept up towards his face, then also stopped and didn't move
It was Kou Chen
Perhaps it was because everyone knew about how in the previous seht during that basketball ht on the first day after school reopened, everyone was immediately full of anticipation, Huo Ran could literally feel how the surroundings quietened down, as well as i
“Huo Ran,” Xu ZhiFan called out to him from behind in a low voice
He of course knehat thathi to put up with it
He paused, lowering his voice to say, “Move aside”
The moment he opened histowards the side, obviously prepared to hed in his heart
As expected, as soon as he heard hihtly tilted body i directly in front of hi way
Huo Ran narrowed his eyes into a thin line, looking at him
Kou Chen had not yet spoken and still did notat hily peaceful
The stale their throat
Huo Ran recognised him, this was Xu Chuan as part of the trio
Xu Chuan patted Kou Chen's shoulder, “Kou…”
Before he ed to finish, the floorboard suddenly made a kcha sound, Huo Ran still hadn't fully understood what had happened when Kou Chen's face disappeared from in front of him
fuck!
He looked doards stunned and realised that Kou Chen's person was still there, but he had one leg stuck in a broken piece of floorboard, his ar on to the table next to him, with a similar stunned expression on his face
– End of Ch1 –
Author's Notes:
Long time no see ⊙▽⊙。
Tl Comments: Hiya! So this note is a bit different from the one on Wattpad, since it's the first chapter here but I'll probably just copy and paste the rest directly or cut out soe here so some disclaimers:
1 I'm Chinese but not native, so there'll be some jokes/references I won't be able to explain and I'd like to apologize in advance for all that!
2 In this chapters most of the footnotes were for clarification/fun facts, but in future chapters I'll leave the ones I find really i exposed in brackets, for exaned left (similar to how I've done on Wattpad) This is just in case some of you (like me) usually skip hidden footnotes You can click the hidden ones if you're interested at your own discretion, though I really reco on the's confused you but I will likely only check this site once a hen I update the new chapter so replies !