Chapter 7: Leniency for confession, severity for resistance

Lin Jingxue saw him like this, her brows involuntarily furrowed slightly; in this situation, she also couldn't say anything too harsh, so she said to Li Yan:

"This matter is your fault; you ought to apologize to An Yu classmate."

"Okay, Teacher Lin."

Li Yan answered quickly, which made Teacher Lin and the other students in the class feel a moment of surprise, as if they didn't know Li Yan.

Ye Chen also felt a bit surprised by this, but when he saw Li Yan turn around with a smile, he almost couldn't resist rushing over to beat him up.

At this moment, Li Yan had already turned, though his face bore a teasing smile; it's hard to imagine that someone so young could have such thoughts.

It's quite obvious this is a trick he habitually uses at home; otherwise he wouldn't be so practiced at it.

"Really spoiled and pampered."

After saying that, Ye Chen fell silent and quietly watched Li Yan's next move.

"Sorry, An Yu classmate; I hope you can forgive my unintentional act—I'm apologizing to you here."

An Yu was inherently kind; hearing Li Yan say that, her resentment instantly dissipated by half.

She quickly said to Li Yan, "It's fine, Li Yan classmate; I don't care about it anymore."

"Okay, thank you, An Yu classmate."

After saying that, Li Yan no longer looked at An Yu, but turned directly to Teacher Lin Jingxue and said, "Teacher Lin, you see An Yu classmate has already forgiven me—can we just let this matter go?"

Li Yan spoke with genuine sincerity, making it hard to find fault with him.

Seeing this, Lin Jingxue said to Li Yan, "This matter is your fault; you must not do this again."

After Lin Jingxue finished speaking to Li Yan, she had him sit down; when Li Yan sat down, he deliberately hunched his body and glanced back at Li Yan; Ye Chen sensed Li Yan's gaze, but he didn't care—just a little brat; even if he were a heavenly devil, Ye Chen has plenty of ways to deal with him.

"If I still had any humanity, seeing you're still small, I'd be the first to give you a beating."

Ye Chen said in his heart.

The next day, because of this incident, nothing else unpleasant happened.

In the afternoon, school let out.

An Yu ran over to say goodbye to Ye Chen, and to thank him for helping her today, she also gave him a milky-white rabbit candy.

Seeing that milky-white rabbit candy, Ye Chen's eyes lit up at once—it was a childhood memory of his; since he grew up, he hadn't had one for a long time.

Ye Chen took the milky-white rabbit candy from An Yu's hand and said thanks.

Upon hearing Ye Chen say thank you, An Yu's face broke into a smile.

"Goodbye, Brother Ye Chen; see you tomorrow."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

Ye Chen didn't know that after returning home, An Yu told her parents about this, but the way things developed was somewhat beyond his expectation.

Not long after An Yu left, Ye Nan also came to pick him up.

At that time, Li Yan's parents hadn't come to pick him up yet; Ye Chen left the classroom and had to pass by Li Yan, who deliberately stuck out his leg trying to trip Ye Chen, but Ye Chen saw through his little trick.

He walked over without changing expression, lifted his foot and kicked hard.

As the saying goes, to act you must go all out; he also lunged forward, fell to the ground, his little face full of grievance, crying, "What the heck, I'm gonna die from this fall."

Ye Chen's cry of pain rang out; at that moment, Li Yan, clutching his leg in pain, heard Ye Chen's voice and the corner of his mouth twitched into a smile; seeing Ye Chen fall to the ground, Lin Jingxue rushed over and asked, "Ye Chen, are you okay?"

Ye Chen heard Lin Jingxue's voice and replied, "I'm fine."

After he said that, Lin Jingxue helped him up.

"Glad you're okay."

Li Yan, standing nearby, gave a soft "tsk."

"You fell down, yet you still kicked me and hurt me—you're really detestable."

Li Yan thought that, still not forgetting to glance at Ye Chen, while at this moment Ye Chen had already left the classroom together with Lin Jingxue.

Li Yan didn't see that as Ye Chen was leaving, the corner of his mouth curled up in a faint smile.

"Little brat, playing with you is like playing with a dog."

Ye Chen thought that, and together with Lin Jingxue he came to the school gate.

Just as they arrived outside the school gate, they saw Ye Nan waving at them.

Seeing that, Ye Chen turned to Lin Jingxue and said, "You can go back, Teacher Lin; my old man has come to pick me up."

Lin Jingxue heard Ye Chen call his father "old man" and her eyes filled with shock.

"If you call your dad like that at home, won't you get beaten?"

"No."

While speaking, Ye Chen had already turned and walked toward Ye Nan.

When he reached Ye Nan's side, Ye Nan took out a grilled sausage, which is a meat sausage.

"Little Chen, look what this is—your favorite grilled sausage!"

However, upon seeing that grilled sausage, Ye Chen felt outright nauseous.

A foul odor lingered, and vaguely a stench wafted into his nose.

"Ugh~ I won't eat it; if you want to eat, you eat it."

"You kid, you usually love eating these things, so why aren't you eating today?"

"The past is past, the present is present; always treating the past as the present, people won't improve—now I've grown up and no longer like these things."

After Ye Chen finished speaking, Ye Nan gave him a flick on the forehead.

"Ow, what are you doing?"

Ye Chen sensed Ye Nan's move, but he didn't choose to dodge, because he clearly understood his current identity—just a child; such a quick reaction and even anticipating the action would be too abnormal, and for now he didn't want to draw his parents' attention.

"Who taught you to speak like that, with an old-fashioned air? I'm punishing you to walk the small path with me today."

Ye Chen: "......"

Ye Nan said, and shoved that sausage into his mouth. Seeing this, Ye Chen quickly spoke up to stop him: "Old geezer, if you get diarrhea from eating it, don't blame me for not warning you."

"Your dad's physique is top-notch; you think everyone's like you, getting knocked over by a gust of wind?"

"Good words can't dissuade a damned ghost; if you mess up your stomach, you'll suffer."

"All right, I'm not you—I won't get diarrhea."

Ye Nan said, having already eaten the entire sausage.

"Finished eating, get in the car!"

Ye Chen, back at home, intuitively felt that something was about to happen, but he didn't know what.

Just as he was feeling puzzled, a phone call came through.

Ye Nan picked up the phone and said, "Hey, An Yu's dad, what's up?"

Ye Chen, upon hearing Ye Nan say "An Yu's dad," instantly frowned slightly, wondering, "Could it be because of today's matter?"

Just as Ye Chen was speculating, Ye Nan kept making sounds from beside him: "Hmm, oh? Ah? Hmm~".

Ye Chen, listening to Ye Nan's voice, was really curious what they were saying, so he mobilized his spiritual power to listen in—but just then Ye Nan suddenly hung up the phone.

Ye Chen: "......"

After hanging up the phone, Ye Nan looked at Ye Chen with a stern face and said, "Come clean, what did you do at school today? Leniency for confession, severity for resistance."

Ye Chen, listening to Ye Nan's words, was stunned repeatedly.

Finally, all doubts turned into an "Ah?".