Chapter 36
It was obvious that those two men were Chu Xi’s subordinates, and it was Chu Xi who had saved him.
What a coincidence!
He Yuan scrambled to his feet, not even bothering to dust himself off before smiling and saying, “I’m fine, I’m fine! Thank you!”
Chu Xi frowned, scanning He Yuan from head to toe. “You’re saying you’re fine when you’re all black and blue? And you can actually still smile after being beaten up? Let’s go, I’m taking you to the school hospital.”
“Um, no need for the trouble, I feel like I haven’t…”
“If I say go, you go,” Chu Xi said impatiently, then tried to suppress his impatience. “You might think you’re fine now, but maybe you’re just too dull to feel it. Maybe your ribs are broken!”
He Yuan: …
Put that way, he wasn’t wrong.
Besides, one must listen to their savior!
So He Yuan nodded and stepped forward. “Alright then, thank you again!”
Chu Xi stared at He Yuan, his gaze shifting from helpless dissatisfaction to extreme helpless dissatisfaction. Finally, he lifted his noble hand, picked a blade of grass off the top of He Yuan’s head, looked at it, and flicked it away with immense disdain.
He Yuan scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.
“You two, take this crazy robot back.”
“Yes.”
“Hey, wait!” He Yuan asked anxiously. “Where are you taking the robot butler?”
“Back to the Alliance Administrative Building for processing. It went crazy; what else can we do but contain it? Is he your robot?”
He Yuan shook his head. “It belongs to General Wen Su.”
“Then contact Wen Su to come and get it.” At the mention of Wen Su, Chu Xi was clearly unhappy. “Can’t even manage a robot properly, what kind of General is he?”
He Yuan gave a hollow laugh.
That was the only option for now.
“Then, Butler, you go with them to the Administrative Building first. Don’t worry, they are good people! They will find a way to treat you! General Wen Su will come for you very soon! I know you were just disordered earlier, I’m absolutely not angry with you! Please don’t feel guilty!”
Although the robot butler couldn’t understand him right now, these words had to be said!
After speaking, he turned back to signal Chu Xi that he was ready.
Chu Xi: …
If anyone else spoke to a robot like that, he would have scoffed, thinking they were being pretentious or dramatic. But coming from He Yuan…
It just seemed incredibly sincere.
With everything arranged, He Yuan underwent a checkup at the school hospital accompanied by Chu Xi. Sure enough, the talk of broken ribs was just scare tactics! There were only minor soft tissue contusions and bruises; a bit of medicine would do the trick.
But Chu Xi still wore a “count yourself lucky” expression.
Walking out of the school hospital, Chu Xi didn’t speak, didn’t move, and gave no further instructions.
He Yuan observed secretly, thinking this was the typical behavior of a tsundere—”I am a young master, so even if I really want to talk, I won’t speak first; you have to initiate the conversation, understand?” He decided to play along expertly. “Chu Xi, thank you for saving me today and accompanying me to the hospital! I’d like to treat you to a meal as thanks. Are you free right now?”
Sure enough, Chu Xi checked his watch and said reservedly, “It is time to eat, but there’s no need for thanks. It wasn’t a big deal, and I didn’t help you just to be thanked.”
He truly had the air of an ancient chivalrous hero!
He even repeated the same words He Yuan had said when saving the Young Master last time!
This Young Master was really quite interesting!
They didn’t go to the cafeteria but found a quiet, elegant Western restaurant outside the campus.
Chatting over the meal, He Yuan learned that Chu Xi had lived a very free life since childhood. Most of the time, tutors came to his home. When he got lonely studying at home, he went to school; when he got annoyed with school, he went back home.
After finishing his high school curriculum, he didn’t go to university immediately. Instead, he spent two years roaming the stars, living on various planets to find his interests and think about the future. He only came to Star Source University after determining his ideals and goals.
What an unimaginable life.
So enviable.
“I’m the youngest child in the family, overprotected by them. Almost no one outside knows me. You have to keep it a secret too, hear me? I want to live a somewhat normal university life.”
He Yuan nodded immediately. “Don’t worry, my lips are sealed!”
“Right now, the thing that annoys me most is those few bodyguards. Although they usually hide so I can’t see them, I know they’re always there. It’s still uncomfortable.” Chu Xi sighed. “It’s my fault too. I went home and mentioned being picked on by those guys at the lake. Actually, I just mentioned it casually, I didn’t even care anymore, but my dad felt like the sky was falling! He immediately sent bodyguards! So annoying!”
Chu Xi was filled with righteous indignation, chewing his steak with extra force, his cheeks puffing out.
He Yuan smiled knowingly watching him and persuaded, “But it’s precisely because of those bodyguards that I could be saved today! They are still very useful!”
“That’s true,” Chu Xi muttered helplessly. “I’ll think of a way later. Anyway, I can’t stand having people follow me all the time.”
“Thinking back on it now, I still have lingering fears,” He Yuan said. “If I hadn’t happened to run into you today, I…”
“Who said it was happenstance?” As soon as the words left Chu Xi’s mouth, his face flushed red with a swish, and he hurriedly lowered his head to eat to cover it up.
Tsundere skill activated again.
He Yuan paused. Thinking about it slightly—last time he saved the Young Master, it was by the lake. This time the Young Master saved him… also by the lake!
“You came specifically to find me?!”
Chu Xi’s lowered face turned even redder.
He Yuan’s eyes widened. Thinking a bit more, he thought he understood. “Oh, I helped you last time, so you wanted to help me back so we don’t owe each other anything, right?”
So that’s why the Young Master repeated his words from before.
As a result, Chu Xi instantly became dissatisfied. He looked up, raising an eyebrow. “Don’t owe each other? Am I that petty?! Hmph, let me tell you, even if you hadn’t helped me last time, even if you were just that He Yuan who made me lose face at the military banquet the time before last, I still would have stepped in today! I-I am not at all like what you, Wen Su, and others imagine!”
He Yuan: …
Actually, he had already figured that out.
“I’m sorry,” he said seriously. ” regarding the time before last, and my nonsense just now, I apologize to you. About the banquet, I later learned you only spoke indiscriminately due to a lack of information, saving face, and impulse. I… I was quite impulsive back then too. I regretted it very quickly, I just didn’t have the chance to tell you. I’m very glad to have this chance today! After these two encounters, I understand you much better! We seem to have a connection. If you’re willing, how about we become friends?”
It wasn’t a coincidence, nor was it to settle a debt. Not only did he save him, but he also specially accompanied him to the hospital and ate with him.
The olive branch from the Young Master was already very obvious.
It was He Yuan who had momentarily overthought it; now he had to actively make amends.
Sure enough, the Young Master showed that tsundere expression again—reluctant on the surface but actually very willing. “If we weren’t friends, would we be eating together? Do I look like I have too much free time?”
Hehe.
He Yuan snapped a flurry of photos of the half-eaten meal. Today was even better than last time; it was worth a post with pictures and filters!
Three minutes later.
Wen Su, seeing the social media update—
He Yuan was eating.
Not at a normal mealtime.
Not in the school cafeteria.
Eating exquisite food, and judging by the abundance, it was likely for two people.
And eating very happily.
Extremely happily.
So much so that he specifically posted an update, with photos that were carefully composed and edited.
It looked remarkably like…
A date.
Swish—Wen Su’s heart constricted painfully.
His day was ruined from this moment on. Aside from letting his imagination run wild about He Yuan’s “date,” he couldn’t think about anything else.
At the same time, He Yuan on the “date”—
“Chu Xi, since we are friends, I have a question I want to ask you. Of course, if you mind, you don’t have to answer.”
“What question?”
“About your blind date with General Wen Su before.” He Yuan chose his words carefully. “Did you… agree to the blind date because you had a crush on him?”
As soon as the words fell, Chu Xi scoffed.
“Crush on him? Am I crazy? Why would I have a crush on a stone that’s hard and smelly?”
He Yuan paused. This didn’t look like a tsundere act.
“Then…”
“Don’t mention it. I get angry just thinking about it. I had terrible luck last time!”
Chu Xi recounted the story vividly.
It turned out that while roaming the stars, he met many people who actively confessed their love—Alphas, Betas, and even Omegas. Although he didn’t accept anyone, he didn’t reject this kind of social interaction either.
The bodyguards naturally reported this. His family, worried about him, investigated those who confessed and found they were either playboys, scumbags, or after his family background.
His family felt he was young, full of fantasies, and lacked experience. Afraid he would lose himself or get hurt, potentially causing irreversible consequences, they decided to cut the Gordian knot and find the most reliable person for an engagement directly.
It just so happened they hit it off with General Wen, who was racking his brains over his son’s marriage.
“They always underestimate me!” Chu Xi said angrily. “How could I lose myself?! I know exactly what intentions those guys have! It’s just that usually no one plays with me, and those guys are reasonably good at coaxing people, so I continued to interact with them, that’s all.”
“But being like that all the time was indeed quite boring. Then I got hoodwinked by my family’s rhetoric while my guard was down!”
He Yuan opened his big eyes curiously.
“They said time is precious, not a bit should be wasted on useless, boring people. Whether playing at romance, blind dates for marriage, or even just perfunctory time-killing, one must find the most excellent and formidable person. Then they asked me, do you know what a top-tier Alpha is like? Once you know that kind of Alpha, you will definitely regret wasting your time in the past.”
“I-I admit, I was somewhat persuaded at the time, and a bit curious. Especially since they said Wen Su also had a good impression of me, but just couldn’t express it due to his personality. I… I had a sudden fit of kindness and thought that kind of Wen Su was… actually quite pitiable! I thought, fine, let’s meet, we’ll see if it works out. The result!!!”
Chu Xi slapped the table hard.
“I was furious! I was going to explode! They teamed up to trick me! Played me like a monkey! Indeed, one cannot be too kind, and absolutely cannot feel sorry for an Alpha! You will become unfortunate!!!”
“Hmph, later Wen Su’s father apologized to me, several times. My father also apologized to me, promising only to manage my safety in the future and not interfere with anything else. So what? I won’t forgive them!”
He Yuan laughed listening to this. “You only forgave me. I’m so lucky!”
Chu Xi waved his hand. “You were just a small fry in that matter, and didn’t know the situation. I can distinguish right from wrong.”
He Yuan nodded happily.
At first, he thought that if he and Chu Xi were friends, and if Chu Xi liked General Wen Su, while he had… done that with General Wen Su, the situation would be complicated. So he sought confirmation from Chu Xi to know where he stood.
Now hearing Chu Xi say this, things were much simpler!
However, the topic had already led to Wen Su, so naturally, it wasn’t easy to stop there. After complaining, Chu Xi naturally asked He Yuan, “By the way, aren’t you Wen Su’s life assistant? Why did you come back to school? And the rumors about the relationship between you and Wen Su, are they true or false? Oh, you don’t have to answer if you mind.”
He Yuan: …
He Yuan: ……
He Yuan: …………
Crap, what a massive boomerang.
It hit him right in the face.
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