CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5: Eavesdropping on Gossip
Li Qi’s face was tense, and he frantically adjusted his glasses. Near the cafeteria entrance, he frowned and forcefully pulled his hand away from Chen Jiamu, “I’m not going! You go by yourself!”
“What are you afraid of?”
Chen Jiamu didn’t understand why he reacted so strongly.
“I’m not going, so there’s no need for so many whys.”
“Also, we’re not that close.”
Li Qi turned to leave, but Chen Jiamu blocked his way, “How are we not close? You stabbed me several times, and we lived in neighboring wards.”
“Look at you, you’re as skinny as a monkey, and you don’t even eat.”
Chen Jiamu stubbornly refused to listen, frowning and squinting his eyes to examine him.
“Scram.”
Li Qi felt that he was impervious to reason and didn’t want to continue arguing with him, so he pushed him, but Chen Jiamu didn’t move an inch.
Li Qi’s push was like a tickle to him. Chen Jiamu was about to act tough.
But the next second, Li Qi used his feet.
He lifted his foot and stepped heavily on Chen Jiamu’s instep. A black shoe print appeared on the white shoe.
Chen Jiamu didn’t expect him to do this, the sudden pain was excruciating, turning his face pale.
He stared at Li Qi incredulously, this person’s strength was so great?
This scene happened to be witnessed by the arriving little brothers. Seeing Chen Jiamu’s pale face, their steps froze in mid-air.
Hiss…
Someone actually dared to step on Chen Shao’s instep?
Just as they thought Chen Jiamu would fiercely push Li Qi down, Li Qi rolled his eyes and walked straight past them.
“This…”
“Chen…Chen Shao!”
“He’s too arrogant!”
The leader of the little brothers, Zhao Hu, was the first to rush forward, frowning as if he were the one who had been stepped on.
“Should we brothers…” Zhao Hu raised his hand and made a gesture to beat him up. With his fleshy face and a white scar on his nose, his appearance alone was chilling.
“Don’t bother him; I’ll handle his business myself.”
After a long pause, Chen Jiamu finally recovered, trying to wiggle his toes. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it wasn’t fractured…
Seeing Chen Jiamu’s caution, Zhao Hu’s heart sank. Could Li Qi have some leverage over Chen Jiamu?
However, he was only talking big. If he really asked him to trouble Li Qi, he would have to think twice.
He didn’t want to be the second person stabbed into the hospital by Li Qi…
The cowardly fear the brave; the brave fear the reckless; the reckless fear those who don’t fear death…
“Yes, sir.”
Zhao Hu smiled obsequiously, and Chen Jiamu glanced at him and waved them away. He ran off to chase after Li Qi.
“Brother Zhao, do you think Chen Shao has met his match?”
“Chen Shao didn’t even get angry when his foot was stepped on?”
“You don’t understand, Chen Shao is notoriously ruthless, but even the ruthless fear those who don’t fear death.”
“I guess he wants to make peace with Li Qi so he doesn’t have such a strong opponent.”
Zhao Hu felt that his idea was very convincing, and the more he thought about it, the more certain he was that Chen Jiamu was thinking this way.
Chen Jiamu ignored their guesses; he didn’t expect Li Qi to run so fast. In just a few minutes, he disappeared without a trace.
Sighing, Chen Jiamu turned back.
Li Qi turned a corner after a corner, seeing no one following him, finally exhaled slightly.
Why is this Chen Jiamu like an idiot? He was stabbed by him and yet still clings to him.
Logically, shouldn’t he resent me and make things difficult for me?
He even fawns over me…
Is this another one of his tactics against me?
Thinking this, the warmth in Li Qi’s chest suddenly turned cold. People are evil, and there is no such thing as gratuitous kindness.
He had always known why the Li family took him back. That woman said when she was drunk that the woman in the Li family was a hen that couldn’t lay eggs…
And he was just a pawn in their hands…
Even treating his illness was just to avoid being ridiculed.
Thinking of this, Li Qi clenched his fists, gritting his teeth and turning to walk towards the building.
In the afternoon, Li Qi slowly came out of the comprehensive building. He didn’t want to attend class; listening to those old professors lecture was worse than reading a book by himself.
As a result, as soon as he turned the corner, he saw Chen Jiamu leaning against the wall, hunched over, eavesdropping intently, his butt sticking out.
Li Qi found the sight extremely irritating. He thought to turn and leave without a word. Before he could move, Chen Jiamu turned his head.
Their eyes met, and Li Qi felt a headache coming on…
“So you didn’t go to class either, you skipped class?”
Chen Jiamu had been engrossed in eavesdropping; noticing someone behind him, he turned his head and saw it was Li Qi.
Li Qi was about to speak when Chen Jiamu ran towards him and grabbed his wrist, “In that case, let’s go eat melon together.”
Eat melon?
Before Li Qi could react, Chen Jiamu pulled him to the corner of the wall.
“Don’t talk, listen carefully; it’s next door, it’s quite exciting.”
The wall in front of them had weathered years of time, with mottled cracks appearing. Some cracks even allowed one to vaguely see the opposite scene, but the green ivy covered most of the view.
Li Qi wasn’t interested in gossip and frowned, wanting to leave, but Chen Jiamu wouldn’t let him go, tightly grabbing his arm, forcing him to press against the wall.
“You say you don’t want to date, it’s clearly just an excuse to get rid of me!”
“Three days after the breakup, you quickly got together with another girl. Is that your idea of ‘not wanting to date’?”
“I wasn’t dating, she’s my sister, what’s wrong with hugging her?”
“Don’t make such a fuss.”
The girl’s tone was agitated, but the boy was much calmer.
“Sister?”
“Then your mother is really fertile, going around having sisters for you!”
“Your father’s hat is quite firmly fixed, hasn’t he noticed for so long!”
“You, you insult me, why insult my family?”
“You were a sword in your past life! Now that you’re an adult, you’ve become a bitch!”
“Today, I’m not only going to scold you, I’m going to beat you to death!”
The couple’s argument escalated, and Chen Jiamu listened with relish.
He didn’t expect such a drama to happen in school.
Li Qi found it nothing new; in that cramped alley, this kind of drama played out every day.
Wives catching mistresses, husbands catching lovers, all kinds of dramas abound.
“Wasting my time.”
Li Qi glanced indifferently at Chen Jiamu and forcefully pulled his hand away again.
After pulling his hand away, the red mark on his wrist made him frown. Chen Jiamu also saw this and nervously looked away.
“Don’t you think this is exciting?”
“This is the first time I’ve eavesdropped!”
Chen Jiamu whispered, suddenly a roar came from the opposite side, “Who’s there!”
Caught eavesdropping, Chen Jiamu instinctively pulled Li Qi and ran. When they reached the edge of the playground, he realized.
Why was he running?
He was the one no one dared to provoke in his freshman year!