Chapter 6: You Are Cheap part 1
Shen Xun, Ruan Yi’s nemesis, and concurrent fiancé.
The Ruan and Shen families had been friendly for generations, but however good the relationship between the Ruan and Shen families used to be, the relationship between Ruan Yi and Shen Xun was just as bad now.
Actually, when they were young, Ruan Yi’s relationship with him wasn’t that stiff. Instead, they were exceptionally clingy, otherwise, why would an arranged marriage be set so early?
The turning point was in high school when Shen Xun went crazy.
He would throw attitude at Ruan Yi at the drop of a hat. Ruan Yi also had a rich young miss’s temper and couldn’t stand being treated like that at all.
But Ruan Yi didn’t want the two of them to break up vaguely. She tried to reconcile twice to no avail. The last time she gave him an out was in the indoor gymnasium.
The scene from back then replayed in her mind.
The boy held the ball in one hand, feinting sideways. The moment his knees bent slightly, the muscles on his legs tensed into a smooth arc under his shorts.
Three-step layup. The movement of his fingertips flicking the ball was sharp and handsome. The basketball brushed against the inner side of the backboard and netted perfectly. In that instant, the whole court was filled with cheers and applause.
After landing, he shook the slightly wet tips of his hair. His Adam’s apple rolled gently with his panting. His sexy, thin muscles rose and fell with his breathing, full of vigorous youthful aura.
The girls of the student era were like a group of cute little butterflies, jumping and hopping to surround Shen Xun, offering him water one after another.
Shen Xun didn’t accept a single bottle. His face was full of impatience. “Don’t come near me.”
Just like that, he squeezed out of the crowd stiffly with a sour face.
Shen Xun should be glad this was an era that looked at faces. Otherwise, with this kind of terrible personality, who would like him?
Ruan Yi walked toward him holding a bottle of sports drink.
They had been in a cold war for nearly half a month. This was the last time she would give him an out; that brat better know what was good for him.
Out of the corner of his eye, Shen Xun saw the girl walking toward him. His body instantly stiffened. He tugged at the hem of his shirt, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and touched his neck.
Eight hundred fake moves in one second.
“Shen Xun! Try pretending not to see me again!”
Ruan Yi stared at him, shaking the sports drink in her hand. Grapefruit flavor, her favorite.
Shen Xun turned his head uncomfortably and saw her outfit. Immediately, his brows locked tight, and the hands hanging by his sides unconsciously clenched into fists.
Ruan Yi’s uniform skirt was a bit short; evidently, the waistband of the skirt had been rolled up a few folds. Her slender legs were blindingly white. The size of her uniform shirt was also the smallest.
She clearly could have bought a size larger, but she just likes to wear it so tight…
The academy’s uniforms were expensive and textured, just a bit too conservative. This was the most popular way to wear them right now; fashionable girls in school all dressed like this.
“Ruan Yi, do you really like attracting men’s attention?” Shen Xun’s tone was very unfriendly.
Ruan Yi didn’t understand why he said such sharp words. Her pretty face instantly turned red with anger.
“Shen Xun, what do you mean?”
Shen Xun looked at the flushed girl in front of him, his tone becoming even more certain, face full of disdain.
“My meaning is, you being like this is very cheap.”
Ruan Yi was thoroughly thunderstruck. There was actually someone in this world who dared to call her cheap. How rare.
Whether she was the Ruan family’s daughter or not, a girl’s clothing and attire shouldn’t be evaluated like this. It was very classless.
Ruan Yi fell silent.
Shen Xun thought he had provoked her and grinned with a sneer. “Did I hit the mark? Looks like those things are true. You are really loose.”
The surrounding students were shocked by the swords-drawn, bows-bent atmosphere between the academy’s two prominent figures.
The gymnasium instantly became much quieter. Everyone pricked up their ears to eat melons and eavesdrop.
Ruan Yi couldn’t understand what the “those things” in his words meant. She just felt the person in front of her was crazy, speaking nonsense. After all, him going crazy wasn’t a matter of just a day or two.
Disgusting to the extreme. Ruan Yi felt like she was eating shit just by arguing one more sentence with him.
In the silence, the sound of a plastic bottle cap popping open rang out with a click. The sports drink in Ruan Yi’s hand splashed all over Shen Xun’s head and face.
Transparent liquid dripped in strings down his bangs. The soaked jersey clung tightly to his body, making the superior muscle lines under the fabric exceptionally obvious. Even the boy’s long eyelashes hung with water droplets.
“Shen Xun, when did I give you the illusion that I am easy to bully?”
Shen Xun’s jersey was soaked through. His chest heaved violently, his face full of disbelief as he looked at her.
“Three seconds. I give you three seconds to apologize to me, otherwise…” Ruan Yi didn’t say more.
She raised her hand and extended three slender fingers, counting down.
“Three, two…” With every number counted, she lowered one finger.
Shen Xun froze on the spot, completely not expecting things to develop like this. He opened his mouth, stammering.
“Ruan Yi, what are you doing? I was just…”
“One!” His explanation was loudly interrupted by Ruan Yi calling out the final number.
“Good. You have no chance.”
Ruan Yi screwed the cap back onto the empty bottle, turned around, and left without looking back.
Shen Xun reacted and instantly panicked. The “face” he usually cared about most was completely thrown to the back of his mind. He chased after her and grabbed the girl’s slender wrist.
“Ruan Yi! Are you for real? Don’t throw a temper tantrum.”
Ruan Yi pulled her wrist back with force, but couldn’t move it at all. Her soft skin was gripped tightly by him, and her wrist turned red in a circle.
“Let go!” Ruan Yi turned back and shouted.
Shen Xun was stunned. He saw the girl’s beautiful eyes were completely red. Her eye sockets were full of tears, only she was forcing them back.
Shen Xun’s heart stung sharply, and he reluctantly let go.
He watched helplessly as the girl’s back disappeared into the light of the doorway.
Running all the way home, Ruan Yi hid in her room and cried ceaselessly. Before this, they had clearly been best friends.
Her mother came to knock countless times, but no matter what was said, Ruan Yi refused to open the door.
“Xiao Yi, baby, open the door, okay? Little Xun came to find you. Mom asked him what happened, but he wouldn’t say either.”
“If there’s an issue, let’s communicate properly. Everything can be solved, okay baby?”
Ruan Yi, overwhelmed by emotions, didn’t want to hear anything. Ruan Mother had no choice but to let her calm down first.
Ruan Yi hid under the covers, crying until her eyes were swollen.
Suddenly hearing a rustling sound at the window, she looked up in confusion, only to be left dumbstruck.
Gu Zhi, in an extremely awkward posture, was clinging to the narrow windowsill and knocked on the window.
Ruan Yi was so scared goosebumps rose all over her body. She immediately stopped crying and rushed to the window to slide it open.
The boy stumbled and lunged in, accidentally pinning Ruan Yi underneath him due to a misstep.
Gu Zhi propped himself up. “Sorry Sister, you didn’t get bumped, did you?” He anxiously checked if Ruan Yi was injured.
Ruan Yi’s bedroom carpet was very thick. It just hurt a little; she wouldn’t be injured at all.
“Gu Zhi! You’ve really gone crazy. Do you have a death wish?”
Gu Zhi was yelled at and immediately explained, “Sister, I was worried about you. I was afraid you would…”
His words weren’t finished before he was embraced around the neck by Ruan Yi.
“Idiot! You’re not allowed to do this again!”
The girl’s head was buried in the crook of his neck. Her voice was soft and sticky, still carrying the slight hoarseness of crying.
Gu Zhi went stiff all over. He braced his hands on her sides, desperately controlling the distance between their bodies.
Fuck… if I don’t control it, something will happen.
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