The Little Fool Saves the Masochistic Novel Protagonist CHAPTER 15
Chapter 15
He Chenjiang was dumbfounded watching Chi Abei’s sudden change of expression. When did he steal his fish-shaped crackers?
Qin Wanpeng was even more aggrieved, his half-face still burning red. He pointed at his nose, stammering for a long time before finally managing a curse: “Chi Abei, you goddamn…”
Lin Xiu pulled Chi Abei behind him: “I don’t have his mother’s contact information, only his brother’s. If you want to offer condolences to his mother, I can help you make a call.”
Qin Wanpeng: “…”
Qin Wanpeng hadn’t expected the top student to be so scathing. Out of consideration for the Chi family’s face, he dared not do anything to Chi Abei, but Lin Xiu was a different story: “What do you mean, looking for trouble, are you? What business is it of yours that I’m talking to him? It’s your turn to speak now?”
Hearing his impolite tone, Chi Abei almost threw another fish-shaped cracker at his face.
However, before he could act, He Chenjiang stepped in front of Qin Wanpeng.
He Chenjiang glanced at Chi Abei, who had already taken a step forward, suddenly curious about what Chi Abei would have done if he hadn’t intervened.
Seeing Chi Abei silently retract his foot, He Chenjiang said, “We just saw him alone here, so we asked him who he came with. We weren’t causing trouble.”
Lin Xiu glanced at the red bean paste stuck to Qin Wanpeng’s hair: “Is that so? But it doesn’t look like that.”
Qin Wanpeng, noticing him staring at his hair, reached up to touch it: “Damn it, that goddamn idiot—”
Chi Abei hid behind Lin Xiu, tugging on his sleeve: “Brother, they’re so scary.”
Qin Wanpeng: “…”
Pretend all you want! You weren’t like that just now!
Qin Wanpeng was so angry his head throbbed: “Chi Xiaoshazi (Chi Little Fool), can you be reasonable?”
Chi Abei gave him a “Are you stupid for trying to reason with a fool?” look, then said to Lin Xiu: “Brother, let’s ignore them. They’re bad guys.”
Lin Xiu didn’t want to have anything to do with them either.
Watching them leave, Qin Wanpeng grumbled and furiously scratched his head.
Seeing He Chenjiang still looking downstairs, he walked over and said: “You were saying you wanted to recruit the top student, but after this little fool’s antics, I think it’s unlikely now.”
He Chenjiang’s mind wasn’t on Lin Xiu: “Don’t you think Chi Abei doesn’t seem as foolish anymore?”
Qin Wanpeng walked in front of He Chenjiang, pointing at his face: “You call this not foolish? Do you know how hot that red bean paste was just now? I almost got disfigured!”
He Chenjiang glanced at Qin Wanpeng.
Qin Wanpeng was already dark-skinned, and now one side of his face was a blotchy red and black. But if He Chenjiang wasn’t mistaken, Chi Abei had clearly done it on purpose.
He Chenjiang couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong. Although Chi Abei’s behavior was still as absurd as before, he just felt that something was different about him. Would the past Chi Abei have said something like “One should value oneself”?
Qin Wanpeng stopped thinking about Chi Abei; he’d always been erratic. Instead, Lin Xiu surprised him: “The thing wrapped around the top student’s hand just now wasn’t gauze, was it?”
He Chenjiang hadn’t paid much attention: “What else could it be?”
Qin Wanpeng wasn’t too sure: “It looked like the hand wraps used for boxing.”
He Chenjiang looked at him: “Him? That weakling, boxing?”
Qin Wanpeng also thought it was unlikely, but that was before he’d seen Lin Xiu tonight. With the way he moved just now, he didn’t seem weak at all.
…
Exiting the mall, Lin Xiu texted Chi Wendong to tell him he’d found Chi Abei, then called a ride-hailing car.
While waiting for the car, Chi Abei kept staring at the hand Lin Xiu had wrapped in gauze: “Brother, are you okay?”
“I’m fine.” Lin Xiu put away his phone and started to scold him: “Why weren’t you in school tonight? Did you run out just to bump into them?”
Chi Abei twitched his mouth, thinking, I must be seriously ill!
Chi Abei: “I didn’t climb over the wall this time.”
“Right, you didn’t climb the wall.” Lin Xiu looked at him: “Thanks to you, your dad got lung cancer again.”
Chi Abei froze.
The ride-hailing car arrived. Lin Xiu gently pushed him from behind: “Get in.”
Lin Xiu didn’t use much force, and Chi Abei leaned forward, muttering: “It’s just a little lie. Do you need to make the whole world know about it?”
Lin Xiu answered Chi Wendong’s call just after reading Jiang Yu’s message. Hearing Chi Wendong’s explanation of Chi Abei’s excuse for running out, he wasn’t surprised at all.
Yeah, he was used to it. After all, there was the car accident, the cancer, and even a death in between!
Lin Xiu opened the car door: “Do you think it’s appropriate to tell such lies every time?” At least it’s his own father, does he really need to curse him like that?
Chi Abei: “Inappropriate, but effective.”
Indeed effective, Lin Xiu couldn’t argue with that.
Lin Xiu got into the car from the other side. He didn’t dwell on Chi Abei’s lie: “So, what incredibly important thing did you run out for?”
It wasn’t incredibly important, but Chi Abei pulled out two cards from his pocket, handing one to Lin Xiu: “This is for you.”
Lin Xiu found it strange that he always gave him cards.
Seeing what kind of card it was, Lin Xiu was even more surprised: “A gym membership? Where did you get this?”
Chi Abei said: “I got it. It’s on the third floor of the mall. I checked it out, it’s pretty good.”
While Lin Xiu was tutoring Jiang Yu today, Chi Abei had been staring at him. He found Lin Xiu perfect in every way, except he was a little too thin. Besides working and studying, his only exercise was the school’s morning exercises. Chi Abei thought that wasn’t good enough; being too skinny made him easy to bully.
Lin Xiu hadn’t expected him to go to all this trouble just for a gym membership: “You came out just for this?”
Chi Abei: “Yeah, working out is good for your health. I recently found out I’m a little weak, Brother, will you come with me?”
You take someone’s money, you do their work. He was watching Chi Abei for Chi Wendong; he couldn’t let him go to the gym alone. Not to mention his questionable mental state and the possibility of being scammed, his appearance alone made him unsafe in such a place.
Lin Xiu had never seen anyone as impulsive as him: “Tell me beforehand when you want to go. Don’t go alone.”
Chi Abei nodded vigorously: “Mm-hmm.” Don’t worry, he wouldn’t go alone. If it weren’t to get Lin Xiu to come, he wouldn’t suffer through this in a million years.
Lin Xiu thought of Qin Wanpeng’s aggrieved expression and asked Chi Abei: “What happened just now?”
Chi Abei played dumb: “What happened?”
Lin Xiu looked at him: “Qin Wanpeng’s face, did you do that?”
Chi Abei denied it: “He stole my fish-shaped cracker and did it to himself.”
Lin Xiu didn’t believe him. Qin Wanpeng wouldn’t steal his food.
Seeing that he didn’t believe him, Chi Abei was afraid Lin Xiu would be kind-hearted and apologize to He Chenjiang for a misunderstanding. If that dog He Chenjiang took the opportunity to hit on him, he’d have nowhere to cry!
Chi Abei said: “Brother, they’re not good people. Don’t associate with them in the future.”
They weren’t good people, but those words shouldn’t come from his mouth.
Lin Xiu didn’t understand why he suddenly started avoiding He Chenjiang: “Weren’t you fond of He Chenjiang before?”
Although Chi Abei knew that the “before” Lin Xiu referred to wasn’t him, he still felt insulted: “I had surgery during the holiday…”
Lin Xiu didn’t know Chi Abei very well at this stage, but the May Day holiday was only a few days long, and he hadn’t noticed any surgical scars on him.
“Vision correction surgery,” Chi Abei looked up at Lin Xiu and said, “My eyesight was bad before, and I occasionally had both night blindness and day blindness. Now it’s better, I can see clearly.”
Lin Xiu: “…”
He’d heard of night blindness, but what was day blindness?
Night blindness and day blindness together, that’s basically blindness, right?
Looking at his bright, cunning eyes, Lin Xiu said speechlessly: “You didn’t have vision correction surgery, you had brain correction surgery, right?”
Full of nonsense, he didn’t seem like a little fool at all!
