It’s a matter of angle. Looking upwards, above the white shoes was the boy’s clean and neat ankle, and the blue veins were almost transparent under the light.
He probably noticed that there was someone below him, and his steps paused for a moment.
The noise upstairs suddenly became more lively. Yuanyang Building was thumping with footsteps, and the people upstairs said in a loud voice: “Found it. It’s over here. There are indeed a lot of people skipping classes and eating takeout… Isn’t Lao[mfn] Lao means ‘old’. It is a prefix used before surnames or names to show respect or familiarity for an older person, or to indicate someone is the eldest among siblings or colleagues.[/mfn] Chen patrolling downstairs? How did he let so many people up—”
There was more than one member of Disciplinary Inspection?
Because the man upstairs stopped for a while, Yu Sui glanced at the takeout in his hand, withdrawing his slender white fingers from the iron railing, and turned to go downstairs.
Today, Yu Sui ordered grilled durian, which was definitely not available in school. The smell couldn’t be covered by a layer of packaging. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have chosen to climb to the remote but less crowded Yuanyang Building.
As soon as Hu Fan came down, he was stunned by the smell of durian. His long-term experience of catching people made him immediately grab the railing and look.
There were mirrors installed on every floor of the building opposite Yuanyang Building. The distance between the two floors wasn’t far; so, those with good eyesight could see a blurry image of themselves from the opposite side.
The young man’s back flashed around the corner and was already far away from the rusty iron steps of Yuanyang Building. He looked at the mirror at the stairs and lifted the collar of his school uniform.
“Damn, did someone just come in? Who is this? So skilled in their job?” Hu Fan was sure that he didn’t hear any sound when he came down. If it weren’t for the smell, he wouldn’t have known that someone had escaped. He looked at Yan Xiu suspiciously, “Minister, did you catch this guy? Did you let him go again?”
Yan Xiu leaned against the railing and looked at the mirror opposite. He was no less surprised than Hu Fan: “No.”
Although he knew there was someone downstairs, he didn’t expect him to run so fast. He seemed to be an old hand at breaking the rules.
He roughly reviewed the figures of several habitual offenders in his mind, but couldn’t seem to find one that matched the man just now, and frowned in confusion.
Hu Fan was also paying attention to this. His eyesight was better than Yan Xiu’s, and he remembered a section of the pale neck: “Let me think. How many boys in our grade are this pale?”
After hearing this, Yan Xiu quickly searched through the wide range of faces in his mind and identified one person: “Yu Sui.”
“…” I’m asking how many.
The atmosphere in their Discipline Inspection Department was not conducive to gossip. Hu Fan didn’t find it strange that Yan Xiu had said these two words, but…
“It shouldn’t be Yu Sui,” Hu Fan shook his head. “Yu Sui has a great reputation among teachers. They say he is well-behaved and a bit reserved. He is usually very gentle to others. I heard that because of his childhood, he sometimes has trouble getting along with his classmates. How could he do something so wild?”
“Good?” Yan Xiu’s tone was a little strange.
At this time, members of the Discipline Inspection Department who had finished patrolling on the rooftop rushed into Yuanyang Building one after another. In addition, the smell of roasted durian had dissipated, so Hu Fan and Yan Xiu didn’t bring up this matter again.
The wild boy moved all the way to the back of the school. Although he moved quickly, from the perspective of others, he just looked like a student strolling leisurely.
When ordinary people walk, their arms will shake to some extent, but Yu Sui did not. He was able to keep his body straight and agile while replying to Yang Feiwen’s message, bypassing blocks all the way to his destination.
Yang Feiwen was squatting on the flower bed. When he received the message “I’m here” from Yu Sui, he hadn’t yet stood up. Yu Sui had already floated beside him, then patted him on the shoulder, “Let’s go.”
Normally, Young Master Yu wouldn’t bother exerting himself and wouldn’t be able to move so fast. Yang Feiwen took three steps at a time and ran after him: “What’s wrong?”
When they were both walking side by side, Yu Sui tilted his head slightly and said, “Trouble… I ran into the police.”
“Police…” Yang Feiwen’s nose twitched. “Fuck, grilled durian. Aren’t you going to Yuanyang Building? There are police in that damn place?”
Yes, a lot.
The two escapees carrying takeout food ran upstairs like ghosts, risking being taken directly to the principal’s office by the dormitory manager.
Yang Feiwen hid a bunch of things with strange functions, including a small telescope, from which one can see the school’s conference building hidden in a corner.
The two escapees squatted upstairs, looking down at the red stripes bands who were heading in groups from the Yuanyang building to the conference building.
“The entire Discipline Inspection is there.” Yang Feiwen was surprised. “They were having a meeting today, and you bumped into them. You won the jackpot, Sui’er!”
Yu Sui: “…”
All students in the discipline department wore red armbands—but they were still students at heart, joking and playing around as they walked together. Yu Sui couldn’t resist Yang Feiwen’s persistence, so he just glanced at them casually.
Human beings are face-obsessed.
Young Master Yu’s binoculars were undoubtedly aimed at the most eye-catching one in the middle, and further down, there was a pair of white sneakers. The man had the armband on his wrist and was looking down at their phone.
He was just about to turn the binoculars away to see if anyone else wore the same pair of sneakers when the person suddenly looked up and turned toward the dormitory building.
Yu Sui was startled and immediately dropped the binoculars, pulling Yang Feiwen down to squat.
“What?” Yang Feiwen looked confused.
“……” Yu Sui’s lips moved, and only then did he remember that a normal person’s eyesight couldn’t possibly see them from there without external assistance. He shoved the binoculars into Yang Feiwen’s arms, “It’s nothing. Don’t bring such evil things to school in the future.”
Yang Feiwen: “…???”
Student Council held a regular meeting every once in a while, which usually coincided with the training time of art and sports students. On this day, many students thought that all the members of the Student Council had gone to the meeting and ran around arrogantly. They didn’t expect that such a thing would happen before the meeting.
When the list of violations became so long, the Dean of Academic Affairs was furious and dragged the students to the playground for a run.
Yu Sui’s class had the hardest hit by disciplinary violations, so many students left, and the classroom suddenly became emptier.
“Where did everyone go?” their English teacher looked around. “Where is the class representative?”
The remaining students exchanged knowing glances.
The teacher looked down from the window and saw that, well, most of the people running in a staggering line were from their class. The English class representative was a chubby boy who was holding his stomach and gasping for breath.
Teacher: “…”
In the second half of the semester, there were more exams than usual in order to prepare for the next semester’s class divisions; extracurricular activities were reduced to the size of a sesame seed. For example, for this bilingual speech, their class was only notified to send someone just before it started.
The teacher originally wanted to call the class representative over as usual, but now the class representative was gone. She glanced around the classroom, her gaze shifting between Yu Sui and Shu Yi.
Whoever makes eye contact with the teacher at this time is out of luck.
Shu Yi held his head high and chest puffed out, while Yu Sui was secretly finishing his Chinese homework with his head propped down.
The teacher, contrary to their expectations, put down the lesson plan, before turning on the multimedia. Then, she commanded without a room of refusal: “Then, Yu Sui, you will give the bilingual speech at the flag-raising ceremony next week.”
Shu Yi turned around, furrowed his eyebrows, and glared at him unwillingly.
Yu Sui also frowned: “…”
More than half of the class had experienced Shu Yi’s pettiness. Although he couldn’t do anything to others, it’s annoying for him to roll his eyes or glare at people from time to time.
Especially since last week’s results were just posted this morning, Shu Yi didn’t surpass Yu Sui this time. He was so angry that he was like a puffer fish, acting all passive-aggressive the whole day.
In order to avoid practicing Tai Chi with Shu Yi, Yu Sui slipped away after class.
Yang Feiwen, who had also evaded the inspection by the discipline inspection, was secretly recording a video from the railing above the school oval.
Yu Sui, holding a popsicle in his mouth, said, “Give me one.”
“Here.” Yang Feiwen was busy adjusting the angle. “By the way, Sui’er, are you going to the haunted house?”
“What haunted house… Oh.” Yu Sui thought about it slowly for a moment, not interested. “Are you guys so free?”
Yang Feiwen: “No, no, your attitude is not right. This is not a question of being idle or not, it is about having the courage to explore the unknown…”
Two notifications suddenly popped up on his phone, and Yang Feiwen suddenly yelled. “Hey, hey! Wait a minute, brother, help me! Something big has happened!”
Yu Sui didn’t even move, just raised his eyelids and pulled Yang Feiwen down. Too lazy to even ask.
Since he refused to cooperate, Yang Feiwen took matters into his own hands and answered without asking: “Someone actually dug up this shocking gossip before me! Sui’er, someone is challenging my dignity as the number one paparazzi!”
Yu Sui was amused: “Didn’t you say not to call you a paparazzo?”
A message popped up on Yang Feiwen’s phone about the updates on the forum. He clicked on it immediately. After seeing the photo clearly, he cursed and looked at Yu Sui with a strange look.
Yu Sui was creeped out by his look: “What?”
“Traitor.” Yang Feiwen was about to cry. “You didn’t even tell me you were going to Yuanyang Tower for a date!”
What does this have to do with anything?
Young Master Yu was confused and quickly snatched Yang Feiwen’s phone.
An anonymous netizen uploaded a photo, which was clearly taken in front of the mirror opposite the Yuanyang Building. The distance was far and the figures were blurry. After being zoomed in, only one boy could be seen on each of the upper and lower floors of the Yuanyang Building.
The skylight scattered and drew a colored line on the mirror, which just separated the two teenagers upstairs and downstairs. They were completely unaware that the boy downstairs raised his head slightly, and the boy upstairs just lowered his head, his blurred eyebrows and eyes seemed inexplicably gentle.
[They looked at each other! They looked at each other! They’re on stairs, right? ]
[I don’t know who it is but I think they look like a good match! ]
[A glance that lasts a lifetime!] ]
[It’s Yu Sui, I knew it! ]
[kdlkdl] [mfn]kè dào le (嗑到了) is an internet slang that means “I ship them!”[/mfn]
[Aaaaaaaah]
[A phrase comes to mind: we don’t know each other well? It looks like they are really unfamiliar with each other! ]
[I swallowed the key! ]
Yu Sui didn’t understand. He turned a blind eye and ignored the comments, trying hard to identify whether the male protagonist in the blurry photo was showing the takeout paper bag.
Fortunately, at that distance, there was nothing to confirm his identity other than the color of his shoes.
As for shoes, Young Master Yu bought a pair every day, and they were very exquisite. The shoes he wore on that day were already a thing of the past. After this photo was circulated, the pair of shoes were destined to never see the light of day in the shoe box.
And the other…
Yang Feiwen: “How is it?”
“… Hmm.” Yu Sui slowly swiped the screen, genuinely puzzled. “Who is this?”
Translator Notes:
Hi! It’s Leya. This is my first translated novel ^o^! I am very excited to share this cute and funny novel to you guys. If there’s any typographical errors in the chapters, please let me know through comments. Thank you!
