Chapter 101: Where Is Your School Badge?

The next day.

Sike Academy holds an awards ceremony on the 15th of every month, requiring students from every class to wear their uniforms and school badges, arrive at the auditorium on time, and listen to speeches from the Principal and outstanding student representatives.

Class A's seating is in the front of the auditorium, and due to the Academy's strict requirements, there were no cases of tardiness.

Qi Yu was the one who arrived earliest, sitting in his seat very quietly, waiting for the awards ceremony to begin.

When Ling Wu arrived, he greeted him: "You came very early."

Qi Yu nodded slightly: "I just arrived; the Rights Protection Department is very strict about catching Special Students who are late."

"Mm." Ling Wu asked casually: "How is your grandmother's condition?"

Qi Yu: "The treatment was timely; she has already been discharged."

He looked at Ling Wu beside him; the youth had fair skin, and from the side, his eyelashes looked even longer and denser, with his eyelid crease tucked down, revealing that hidden little mole—a look that easily makes people fall for him.

Qi Yu was stunned for a moment, his gaze unable to help but fall upon him.

It was hard to determine when it started, but Ling Wu had quietly captured much of his attention, and Qi Yu felt an illusory sensation that the skin near the cigarette scar on his collarbone was itching and burning...

Perhaps the cigarette scar wasn't itching; it was his heart palpitating.

This palpitating emotion grew more serious and intense the more time Qi Yu spent with Ling Wu, to the point where it could no longer be hidden.

Qi Yu did not consider himself a good person; the sinister things he had been exposed to since childhood had baptized him into a paranoid and gloomy person.

And precisely because of this, he was completely unable to resist someone as pure and clean as Ling Wu.

Qi Yu once felt that Ling Wu was the moon reflected in a lake, an existence that could be looked upon but not reached, but when he learned that his own background allowed him to pursue, the sprout of desire in the depths of his heart grew in the wind, turning into a towering tree in an instant, the concealment beneath its massive canopy just like the true feelings he dared not show.

"Ling Wu, there are no more classes this afternoon..." Qi Yu gathered his courage: "Are you free?"

Ling Wu: "I am free."

Qi Yu's eyes were pitch black, filled with hope: "A new amusement park has opened next to the Academy; may I invite you to go play together?"

Ling Wu turned his body to the side and asked him in a low voice: "Is it fun?"

Qi Yu was somewhat surprised: "You've never been to an amusement park?"

Ling Wu stared at the partner before him, remained silent for a long while, and said: "No... when I was young, my family was very strict with me and didn't allow me to go to such meaningless places of entertainment. By the time I could freely manage my own time, I realized that there was no longer any need to go to that place."

Jin Liangjin's education was very harsh.

At that time, there were only two children in the Jin Family, Ling Wu and Jin Shaoyu. Since Ling Wu bore all of his father's expectations, Jin Shaoyu could grow up happy and carefree.

As the future heir of the Jin Family, a childlike heart and freedom were both unnecessary things.

"Ling Wu, let me tell you a secret: I've also never been to an amusement park." Qi Yu lowered his head slowly, his voice so soft that only the two of them could hear: "This is a secret that belongs only to the two of us."

The two youths smiled at each other and nodded.

The time for the awards ceremony to begin was drawing closer, and the seats around them were gradually filling up.

Wei Ranxu tugged at his tie, his expression arrogant; he possessed an innate sense of haughtiness and disdain. He walked toward the empty seat near Ling Wu and sat down as if nothing were the matter.

Bai Yinan rushed over, his gaze scanning the area.

Then, as if he had discovered something in the crowd, his eyes lit up; he ran over in a flurry, stood next to Wei Ranxu, and patted his shoulder.

"Wei Ranxu, swap seats with me; I want to sit next to classmate Ling Wu."

Wei Ranxu crossed his arms over his chest and glanced up at him: "Don't you have your own seat?"

"I do!" Bai Yinan said righteously: "That's why I said I want to swap with you."

Ling Wu noticed the two of them, glanced over, and saw Wei Ranxu's expression, which was both rascally and annoying, as he spat out a single word with extreme brevity: "Oh."

A long while passed.

Under Bai Yinan's gaze, Wei Ranxu scanned him, his tone drawn out: "Not swapping!"

"Besides, does he even want to sit next to you?"

Bai Yinan snorted coldly and waved his index finger in front of him: "You think everyone is like you? You really are a plastic brother with Shen Zhaojue; don't you dare try to sow discord between me and classmate Ling Wu."

Wei Ranxu: "Oh."

He felt his fist itching a little.

If it weren't for the fact that someone like Bai Yinan relied on being born into the Bai Family and having a decent background, he would have been beaten to death by others outside long ago for that foul mouth of his.

No wonder there were rumors that the inheritance rights of the Bai Family might fall to his older sister.

Someone nearby said: "Look, the people from the Rights Protection Department are here."

"Stop arguing."

"The awards ceremony is about to start, hurry up and sit down."

Bai Yinan sat down next to Wei Ranxu reluctantly, his body leaning away in the other direction as if he had a virus.

At the red carpet at the entrance of the auditorium.

The people from the Rights Protection Department had department badges hanging on their chests and held notebooks and pens in their hands. The person walking at the very front was Jing Du. He wore a navy school uniform, and the golden school badge made him look exceptionally noble and extraordinary. A fountain pen was clipped to his chest pocket, and he held a notebook in his slender, beautiful hands. His tie was tied neatly, adding an air of asceticism.

The auditorium instantly erupted.

"Ahhh... it's Young Master Jing!"

"Heavens, ever since Young Master Jing stepped down as the Student Council president, it's been so rare to see him in his school uniform. It's clearly the same clothing, so why does he look so infuriatingly good in it?"

"Hasn't it been almost half a month since we last saw Young Master Jing at the Academy?"

"I didn't expect Young Master Jing to come and inspect personally. Did you all wear your school badges? Young Master Jing is known for being impartial; if you get caught by him, there will definitely be no shortage of punishment from the Rights Protection Department."

"Will Young Master Jing be speaking as an outstanding representative this time? I'm so looking forward to it."

"He probably will... the outstanding representative has always been Young Master Jing in the past, but it could also be classmate Ling Wu; after all, his grades this time were excellent, full marks in three subjects."

"It doesn't matter; whether it's Young Master Jing or Ling Wu, I like them both, as long as it's not that balding Principal—I lose my appetite just looking at him!"

Jing Du was truly impartial, leading the people from the Rights Protection Department to catch several people who weren't wearing school badges; after being recorded, they would face severe punishment.

Those people were miserable and full of regret.

The people from the Rights Protection Department walked toward the direction of Class A.

Several people's gazes turned toward Ling Wu at the same time.

Ling Wu felt a bit strange being stared at, and upon looking down with a sense of intuition, discovered that the school badge on their chest had fallen off at some point, leaving only the pin.

Just as they were thinking this, a pair of spotless leather shoes appeared before them; Ling Wu raised their eyes and realized Jing Du had walked up to them, the other party looking down from above with a steady, slightly chilly tone: "Student Ling Wu, where is your school badge?"