Chapter 16 (2/2)

It displayed the conversation between him and Jiang Xiuqiu. He deleted a few other messages as well as his replies, save for the one that said ‘Fu Zhiyi becomes the one to receive the inheritance’.

He raised his head slowly to look at Zhao Mingxi.

“Then let’s go.” Zhao Mingxi stood up and packed her things. Just as she moved, she accidentally saw the message that Fu Yangxi received.

Mingxi’s mind immediately went blank. She was stunned.

“What happened?” Fu Yangxi pretended as if he was not aware that his phone was unlocked.

Mingxi quickly averted her gaze. “Nothing.”

However, her mind was in shock—

What did she just see?!

So the reason why Fu Yangxi was texting someone with such a stern expression was because they were talking about this?

And to think that Mingxi was originally planning to approach Jiang Xiuqiu and Fu Zhiyi once they came to school.

However, from the looks of it, she won’t be able to approach this Fu Zhiyi anymore. There was no point for her to offend Fu Yangxi who was a 6% for someone who was a 2%.

—As for the inheritance, it had nothing to do with her. It wasn’t as if these young heirs would give her a penny from it.

At that moment, fence-sitter Mingxi made a choice.

She will try her best to avoid Fu Zhiyi in order to prevent her benefactor Fu Yangxi from hating her and stopping her from freeloading on his luck.

“Let’s go.”

Suddenly, Mingxi caught sight of a cut on the back of Fu Yangxi’s left hand. As he had pulled his sleeves over his hands just now, she didn’t notice it. It was due to him having to clean up the takeout that he revealed the injury.

Perhaps it was because of Fu Yangxi’s unusually pale complexion that the red marks on the cut seemed to be quite deep.

“Wait. I have something to do.” Mingxi quickly said.

The light bulb on her head lit up. How many tiny buds will grow from her buying band-aids for this young master?

Once she finished, she picked up her bag and ran out of the library.

While the convenience store was quite a distance away from the school, it should only take her about 10 minutes to get there and come back.

“What’s up with her?” Ke Chengwen was confused as he looked at Mingxi’s retreating figure.

“…”

Fu Yangxi kept his phone with a dark expression.

“Let’s wait.” Fu Yangxi pulled out a chair and sat down once more. But this time, there was a dark aura around him when he sat down.

As time passed, Ke Chengwen felt like he was getting more and more depressed.

A while later, Ke Chengwen couldn’t help but to look at his watch. “Xi ge, it couldn’t be that she was too shy to take all these so she found an excuse to slip away first, right?”

Fu Yangxi thought: She did slip away first, but it wasn’t because of these things.

He took his phone and stood up in annoyance. As he put on his jacket, his face was so scrunched up that water was about to be squeezed out from it. There was also a sense of sorrow in his expression.

“Forget it. Let’s go.”

He did predict that Zhao Mingxi would not pass his test this time; that after seeing that message, her attitude toward him would change. He was prepared for it. But what he didn’t expect was for her to be so direct as to immediately slip away! She was too f*cking decisive!

What was he supposed to say? As expected of her?!

She wasn’t interested in his money.

Yeah right. Turns out, she was just like many others, waiting just because of their interest toward his status as the inheritor.

Fu Yangxi felt worse than when he thought she was interested in his money. It was as if someone had stabbed him with a knife.

He shouldn’t have tested her. He should’ve taken her by the back of her collar and tossed her out the moment she ran over to him at the beginning.

Fu Yangxi and Ke Chengwen walked out of the library.

Fu Yangxi threw the takeout box into the trash can with a loud clang.

Ke Chengwen was pushing the luggage as he asked, “Are you going home tonight?”

Fu Yangxi ignored him. He continued to walk down dejectedly.

Ke Chengwen had no idea what transpired just now. He could only follow him.

However, just as Fu Yangxi was walking down with heavy steps, he suddenly stopped and looked ahead. Zhao Mingxi was running up.

She was running up to him.

*

A High’s library was a very tall building. The stairs leading to it had about 50 to 60 steps. During cold nights such as these, there were no lights around them save for the luminescence coming from the nearby snack street. It poured down in a manner similar to that of the Milky Way.

Zhao Mingxi was carrying her old school bag with her back against this Milky Way. There were beads of sweat appearing on her clear forehead.

Her footsteps sounded quick, and there was also the noise coming from the beat of her bag hitting against her back.

Fu Yangxi’s heartbeat quickened.

Mingxi ran to him. She gave him and Ke Chengwen a questioning look. “Didn’t I say to wait for me?”

You guys couldn’t even wait 10 minutes?

Fu Yangxi’s mind went blank. For some reason, his voice was a little hoarse as he stammered, “…I thought you weren’t coming back.”

“I went to buy something. Come here.” Mingxi pulled him to a corner of the steps where the flowerbed was.

He didn’t know why, but the current Fu Yangxi was as if he had been pulled out of the mindset of a Demon King. He lowered his gaze to look at her, his feet following her steps as he obediently allowed her to pull him to the corner.

Mingxi took out the things she bought from her bag. There was a bottle of iodine, a pack of cotton swabs and a single use gauze roll.

“As your cut is a little long, I figured that band-aids might be too small for it. Don’t worry, this gauze was made of pure cotton. Just bear with it for a while, it’s better than letting it inflame. I can’t believe I didn’t see this just now. You actually had the gall to hide it under your sleeves. You’re only making the wound more prone to inflammation by doing so.”

Mingxi passed him the things. “Clean this up before going home.”

“…”

Fu Yangxi was looking at her with a lowered head. His Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat, but he did not reach out to take the items.

“What happened to you?” Mingxi raised a hand and waved it in front of him.

Fu Yangxi couldn’t describe how he was feeling right now. He couldn’t even display any other expression— there was only a weak and gentle look of vacancy.

He thought that the moment she saw that message, she would stop approaching him; that maybe Jiang Xiuqiu was right; that since she wasn’t here for the money, then she must be here with a long-term plan for major returns, for anything else.

But it seemed like it wasn’t so. At least, she wasn’t here for any of those two reasons.

This was the first time that someone liked him so seriously and treated him with so much devotion. The tips of Fu Yangxi’s ears were not turning red anymore. Instead, there was an unusually serious emotion stirring within him. His heart was beating fast.

“Fu Yangxi?” Mingxi said his full name.

Only then did Fu Yangxi come back to his senses as if he was harshly awakened.

Yes. That’s right.

Test, what the hell was he testing for?

Jiang Xiuqiu was just blindly jealous of him.

Zhao Mingxi truly liked Fu Yangxi— as a person!

Fu Yangxi lifted his brows slightly before carefully observing Mingxi. He first raised an eyebrow and smiled. Then, a half laugh appeared before he finally burst into an expression of happiness.

Mingxi: ??? Did his intermittent neuropathy* strike again?

ray’s note: a type of nerve injury.

Fu Yangxi appeared to have understood something. He licked his molars and said with the utmost arrogance, “Oh, so the reason why you left in such a hurry was because you wanted to buy these for me?”

He placed extra emphasis on the words ‘for me’.

Mingxi was very sleepy. She didn’t want to prolong this conversation any further. She had already bought the iodine, but if he didn’t apply it on his hand, the buds wouldn’t grow.

Therefore, regardless of the consequences, she opened the bottle of iodine and the pack of cotton swabs before pulling his hand over to her.

“Hey woman, what are you doing?” Fu Yangxi was shocked. He immediately retracted his hand and with a flushed face, pulled over his jacket which was messy due to her pulling earlier. He looked around them. “Stop tugging at me. We’re in public.”

“I’m trying to apply medicine on you,” Mingxi said. “If you don’t want to, forget it.”

“Seeing as how you—” Fu Yangxi still wanted to annoy her.

Mingxi expressionlessly pressed the cotton swab on his hand.

Fu Yangxi instantly yelped in pain, “Gently! Gently!”

Mingxi held his hand and applied less pressure on it. She slowly applied the iodine on the wound.

Fu Yangxi licked his lips. He couldn’t help but to smile when he saw how gentle she was.

The wound on the back of Fu Yangxi’s hand was quite deep. It seemed as if it was cut from a piece of glass. But shards of glass would at most inflict cuts on one’s palm or fingers, so why was he cut on the back of his hand?

When Mingxi first transferred to the International Class, she thought that he was an arrogant and domineering school hunk. But now Mingxi felt that he wasn’t as bad as he seemed. Thus, she didn’t feel as afraid of him anymore.

Furthermore, Mingxi didn’t ask him where this injury came from. After all, everyone had something they didn’t want anyone else to know about.

Just like how no one asked why Mingxi only came to the city from a small town after 15 years; why Zhao Zhanhuai only picked up Zhao Yuan and never her; how she didn’t want to answer these questions.

She simply helped him clean up his injury without interrogating him.

…

The two of them were very close to each other as Fu Yangxi leaned in. When Mingxi was done and raised her head, she almost touched Fu Yangxi’s face. This person had an extremely handsome and outstanding face. Even his Adam’s apple was beautiful, filled with the hormones of a young man.

Mingxi’s mind was in a haze. She took one step back. “It’s getting late. I should get back.”

Fu Yangxi said, “Right.”

Ke Chengwen was being a third wheel as he squatted down at one side. Only when Fu Yangxi and Mingxi started to walk toward the dorms did he follow them.

The two of them sent Mingxi to the dorms. After speaking to the lady in charge, they carried the items upstairs.

Then, Mingxi sent them downstairs.

Fu Yangxi had his hands stuffed in his pockets. He was in high spirits. Just as he was about to say nonsense like ‘Little Mask, are you happy seeing as how a handsome guy and a not so handsome guy had sent you back to your dorms tonight’, Zhao Mingxi had already covered her ears and ran upstairs.

Fu Yangxi: “…”

Ke Chengwen didn’t care if he was ashamed, he laughed out loud.

However, as Fu Yangxi was in a good mood, he didn’t want to make a fuss about it.

He called Jiang Xiuqiu with the aim of showing off to him. “If you say such things again I’ll stop being friends with you.”

Jiang Xiuqiu still couldn’t help but to ask, “Since she’s not interested in money nor the surname Fu, what is she interested in?”

Fu Yangxi touched the gauze at the back of his hand and tried his best to contain the shy smile on his face. He gave a final answer.

“She’s interested in me.”

Jiang Xiuqiu: “…”

Ke Chengwen: “…”

Fu Yangxi made up his mind. Since he was certain that she was interested in him and that she genuinely liked him, he would have to treat her even better from now on.