Chapter 8

"Isn't that enough."

He Chen smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Du Tiantian smiled honestly and didn't continue the topic, but chatted about life during the summer vacation.

Today is registration for the start of school.

No classes.

When the teacher wasn't there, everyone was chatting in groups of three or five, and the sound of laughter was endless.

Class 2, Senior Year.

Ruan Liuzheng sat there with a restless heart, out of tune with the lively atmosphere around her.

Suddenly, a figure sat down beside her, put an arm around her shoulder. Feeling the familiar touch, she wasn't surprised or repelled, just turned her head to look at the girl beside her, listening to her whispering: "Your mom is here, he went back to the class."

Ruan Liuzheng immediately showed a troubled expression.

"Zhengzheng, what's wrong with you?" Her deskmate girl didn't understand: "It's He Chen who was called to the principal's office, not you!"

"Xia Xue, you don't understand." Ruan Liuzheng looked at her deskmate and shook her head without speaking.

Although they were deskmates and also good friends and best friends, there were some things they couldn't confide in each other.

For example, she wasn't her mother's biological child, but was also adopted.

Although she was adopted from a relative's family since childhood and was closer in relationship, it wasn't essentially different from He Chen.

Especially after He Chen came, she felt that the mother's unclear care and love for her had suddenly decreased by more than half.

She couldn't help but doubt her mother's love for her, and even felt it wasn't as good as for the later He Chen.

Now that He Chen had caused trouble and her mother was called over, although it had nothing to do with her, she couldn't help but think that if her mother was angry, would she implicate her?

After all, both were adopted, not biological. If she disliked one trouble, she might not necessarily not vent her anger on the other.

She was too embarrassed to tell her deskmate Xia Xue about this sensitive worry.

Although Xia Xue's family was a reorganized family and she was following her stepmother, their family was rarely unusually harmonious. Every time she heard the fairy-tale-like beautiful interactions of their family, she envied them.

Unlike her, where the material conditions at home might not be lacking, but when it came to the family atmosphere, it was really hard to say, and she always felt that her mother had never been happy.

It was only recently that it had gotten slightly better.

It was probably because of He Chen...

"If you don't understand, just tell me." Xia Xue touched Ruan Liuzheng's head affectionately. Seeing that she really didn't want to say, she changed the subject: "Zhengzheng, you said during the summer vacation that He Chen had to practice martial arts every morning, noon, and night, is it true?"

"I wish it were fake!" Ruan Liuzheng heard this and couldn't help but look at Qian Sanyi, who was sitting in the back row surrounded by the crowd, and complained to her deskmate in a low voice: "You don't know how embarrassed I am."

"Embarrassed or not aside, did he practice anything?" Xia Xue was very interested.

"What could he practice?" Ruan Liuzheng sneered: "You really believe in martial arts and such? Those are all things in martial arts novels, all fake!

You forgot, you practiced it yourself.

Whether it's true or false, you should know best."

"..." Xia Xue was a bit embarrassed.

Back then, Liu Xing, who was brought over by her stepmother, stood up for her younger brother Xia Yu and hit the child who bullied her younger brother Xia Yu, leading to a series of escalating conflicts.

During that period, the three of them were obsessed with practicing martial arts to protect their own safety. In the end, the matter was resolved happily and peacefully, and her martial arts journey naturally came to nothing.

Mainly because nothing was practiced.

Naturally, there was no motivation to continue.

But for her, who wanted to be strong, this wasn't anything glorious.

Therefore, after being embarrassed for a moment, she retorted stubbornly: "It's not like that. Liu Xing's little aunt has real skills. Not only is she young and a third-degree black belt in Taekwondo, but more importantly, her family's martial arts are powerful. I heard the martial arts value is off the charts. It's just a pity that Liu Xing is a loser, and because he changed his surname, his little aunt is unwilling to teach him, otherwise I would have followed her to learn, and I would definitely be very powerful too."

Seeing that Ruan Liuzheng was completely uninterested in this, she hurriedly changed the subject: "Anyway, it's already like this, thinking more is useless, and I think He Chen is not wrong."

"You also have a crush on him?" Ruan Liuzheng looked at her deskmate sideways.

"Not at all!" Xia Xue was immediately anxious: "I'm just talking about the matter! Don't you think what he said makes a lot of sense?

For example, his mockery of Yuan Hua in Class 12, Senior Year!

I simply applauded and agreed with it, couldn't agree more!"

Ruan Liuzheng hurriedly comforted her deskmate.

She knew that Xia Xue had always had good grades and was competitive, and also participated in the district's essay competition, thinking she could win first place as always, but this time she was hard-pressed by an essay "My District Head Father," which made Xia Xue almost make a big scene, insisting that the organizers of the district essay competition give an explanation.

In the end, although she was comforted by her parents who understood society, she had been brooding over it.

Now seeing He Chen say it in public, Xia Xue's full praise of He Chen was reasonable, and it didn't necessarily mean she had a crush on He Chen... of course, that possibility couldn't be ruled out.

With He Chen's face, unless you were blind, very few girls wouldn't be moved.

"Don't look up to him too much, he is not the kind of person who hates evil and insists on justice as you imagine." Ruan Liuzheng shook her head to cool Xia Xue down.

"How is he not?" Xia Xue was unconvinced: "Except for him, who else dares to do this? If he didn't hate evil and insist on justice, why would he offend Ji Yangyang first, and then offend Yuan Hua?

These two are the ones who can easily win the first prize in the essay competition by writing 'My District Head Father'!

Does an ordinary person have this courage?"

"Hmm?" Ruan Liuzheng's heart moved when she heard this.

He Chen clashing with Ji Yangyang was for Lin Miaomiao.

Then why did he imply and mock Yuan Hua?

She wasn't as simple as Xia Xue, thinking He Chen hated evil and insisted on justice. It was mostly because he didn't like Yuan Hua and had hostility toward Yuan Hua.

But why?

There was something mysterious here.

In the blink of an eye, the morning registration ended, and the students dispersed one after another. Tomorrow was the official start of school.

The parents also dispersed.

The morning's events seemed to have passed silently like this.

He Chen didn't wait for a summons, so he followed the crowd and left school. He took his foster sister who was waiting on the side, went out of the school gate, and rode toward the residential complex.

He thought it would be silent all the way.

Who would have thought that when they rode to a deserted corner, Ruan Liuzheng's gloomy voice suddenly came from behind: "Do you like someone like Qiu Ya?"

"Someone like Qiu Ya?" He Chen was surprised, then laughed.

Ruan Liuzheng immediately flushed, let go of the corner of He Chen's clothes, subconsciously made a protective gesture for her chest again, and then was ashamed and angry at He Chen's feigned ignorance.

Qiu Ya in Class 12, Senior Year, was Yuan Hua's deskmate, and also a famous figure, one of the strong contenders for school beauty.

It's just that unlike them who relied on their faces, Qiu Ya relied more on her figure.

That bulging, unusually eye-catching figure!

This was why she thought about why He Chen had hostility toward Yuan Hua and chose to imply and mock him without hesitation.

Yeah!

It wasn't at all what Xia Xue said about hating evil and insisting on justice, but that He Chen, like other boys, was drooling over Qiu Ya's body, it was lowly!