Chapter 3: The School Hunk's Story - Chi Gong Lie, I Want to Annul the Engagement!

  Sunday.

  I was in my room listening to music and reading a comic book. "Kosugi, phone," I heard my mom's voice. I got up from bed, opened the door, and saw my mom holding a painting board and colors at the entrance, getting ready to go out.

  "Kosugi, there's a girl on the phone looking for you, go and pick up quickly. Mom is going to the suburbs to take pictures, order takeout for lunch by yourself."

  "Oh, okay. Mom, goodbye." After waving goodbye to her mom and watching her leave, she picked up the receiver that had been placed on hold, "Hello, I'm Sha Shan."

  I am Solo Blue Law.

  "Who is this? My mom told me it was a girl who called me!" Receiving the call from her boyfriend, of course, made her feel sweet. They had been dating for almost half a month now, and this was still his first time calling her! But just now, when her mom left the house, she clearly said it was a girl who called, so how did it turn out to be him?

  "I'm outside now, because I was afraid your mom would answer, so I had a sister from a public phone booth help me dial."

  My blue law is so meticulous, even this has been taken into account. I'm touched and thinking about it.

  "What were you just doing?" The boy's clear and gentle voice came through the receiver.

  "I just finished my homework and lay down to read a comic book I bought a few days ago."

  "Are you free? Can we go out today?"

  "Of course! My dad and mom have all gone out, I'm the only one left at home. Today, I'll probably even have to take care of lunch by myself!"

  "I'll meet you at 9:45 in front of the theater, okay?"

  "Alright, see you then." I hung up the phone and looked at the clock on the wall, it was exactly half an hour before 9:45.

  I took out a set of clothes from the closet and changed into them. I clipped on my favorite hair clip. I admired myself in the mirror, Ah, Sansan, you're really beautiful! ^0^ Then I put on my backpack and happily headed out the door.

  When I arrived at the theater entrance, Lan Lu was already there. Lan Lu looked even more handsome after changing out of his school uniform, how could he be so cute? I really couldn't believe that such an excellent boy actually liked me, it's so blissful!

  Today's performance is a French musical, which happens to be touring this city this month. The actors danced so fiercely, sometimes ballet, sometimes samba, and sometimes jazz. And the plot was also very interesting, with all the emotions expressed through songs. But the ticket price must have been super expensive too? It was already past 12 o'clock when I came out after watching the musical.

  "Blue Law, how about I treat you to lunch?" I said as we walked out of the theater hand in hand with Dan Blue Law.

  "No need, I'll treat you." Lan Lu said with a smile.

  "No way. You invite me to the opera, so I'll naturally treat you to lunch." It's only fair that everyone takes turns paying once.

  "But I want to treat you." The boy's clear face showed a hint of shyness.

  "It's okay, next time we go out you can treat me." I stuck to my principle and couldn't let him pay all the time just because I was his girlfriend.

  "En. You like it that way, then that's how it is." The boy still nodded. Although he heard his good friends say that when they went out with their girlfriends, the boys should pay. But Sha Shan was the first girl he had confessed to and pursued, so if she liked this way, then he would listen to her. As long as she was happy, nothing else mattered.

  "What shall we eat then?"

  Two and a half kids, of course, can't go to some high-end restaurant, and we're not that luxurious either. Although it wasn't a romantic candlelit lunch, we had a warm meal. We went to a small coffee shop where Lü Yu ordered a steak set meal, while I had a Western-style cake and a cup of Snowflake Jasmine tea.

  I was eating a Western-style cake and found that the fruit on top had cherries, which I didn't like to eat. I pushed them aside, just in time to see Lan Lu looking at me.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Cherries look cute, but I've never liked eating them since I was a kid." Then asked Lan Lu if he likes to eat cherries? He nodded unknowingly.

  I don't know where I got the courage from, but I used the small spoon I was eating with to scoop up the cherry and feed it to him. I could feel my right hand shaking all the way to the fingertips, half from nervousness and half from shyness. San Lan's pure face also turned slightly red, becoming even more enticing. Just as I was about to pull my hand back, he ate the cherry off the spoon. Then we just quietly ate our own meals, neither of us daring to look at each other. But our hearts were like they had drunk honey, pounding rapidly.

  The beautiful weekend is over, and I have to go back to school obediently. But I haven't forgotten about the engagement with Chiguya, planning when to find him and exchange back the ring that witnessed my marriage contract with him.

  Wednesday afternoon, just after the math teacher had finished class, the next lesson was a free activity period. The head teacher surprisingly announced an early dismissal, which was unusual. With the extra two hours, I decided to go to Yan Chuan No. 1 Middle School to look for Chi Gong Lie, who should have been in school at that time.

  I arrived at Yanjiang No. 1 Middle School, and the gatekeeper stopped me from entering, saying that I could only pass after school was over. How could that be? If I waited until they got out of school, how would I find Chi Palace Crack? So I had to use the gatekeeper's sympathy, told a small lie that I came to find my brother because the school suddenly ended early, but I lost the key at home and couldn't get in, so I could only run here to ask my brother for the key.

  The old man saw that I looked honest and innocent, wearing my school uniform which I hadn't had a chance to change out of yet, and he became even more convinced. He said to me, "Wait here for a few more minutes, they'll be finishing their second class soon, and then I'll make an exception and let you in."

  As the music bell rang, I followed the direction of the old security guard to find the teaching building and found Class 1 (15). Standing at the door, I stopped a boy who came out from inside, "Hello, can you help me call Chi Gonglie in your class?" The boy looked at me with deep meaning and turned back into the classroom.

  Maybe because of the end of class, many people were making noise in the corridor outside. I, wearing a uniform from another school, became an oddity in other people's eyes, and would occasionally turn my head to take a look, even students from neighboring classes sitting by the window were curiously staring over.

  Just now, the boy who went in to call Chi Gong Lie for me didn't come out again. Instead, two boys who looked like rascals came out, wearing their school uniforms sloppily with the top two buttons undone, and walked towards me with a sly smile.

  "Are you looking for the delayed palace crack?"

  "Ah. Trouble you guys to call for me."

  "What school are you from, running here to find Chi Palace? Ah Qi, look at this, isn't this the uniform of Experimental High School?" He remembered that Experimental High School and their school were just one in the south and one in the north. Unexpectedly, a primary school girl had come, it seems that the charm of the elder is indeed boundless!

  I'm getting annoyed with their boring actions, and I regret whether I shouldn't have come to this school to find him. His person hasn't appeared, but one by one, roadblocks keep popping up. I'm here to find someone, not to fight my way through. Just as I was thinking that, three fashionably dressed girls walked over from the left, and the middle one was the most stylish and beautiful.

  "Xi Jun, Long Qi, is the palace cracked?"

  "This elementary school girl is also looking for him." The boy named Hee-joon, who seemed to be familiar with these girls, smiled and replied.

  The girl listened to his words and originally ignored me, but now she looked at me with a proud glance and asked, "What does she want from Wang Lie?"

  "I don't know either. The boss is on the basketball court and has already sent someone to call him." He spread his hands.

  How detestable! What is this, am I an animal in a zoo for people to gawk at? I couldn't help but think angrily, just as I was about to turn back, it really wasn't worth coming on this trip.

  At this time, Chi Palace Crack returned in a basketball uniform. At the door, he saw Long Qi Xi Jun and others, and directly asked: "What did you call me back for?"

  "Ah, this little girl in Xing Shi Fu Zhong School uniform is looking for you." He pointed at me.

  "Palace crack, I didn't train this afternoon. Wait for me after school, and we'll walk together." The proud girl who looked like a princess became extremely gentle when she saw Ji Gong Lie.

  "Is it you?" Chi Gong Lie was somewhat surprised to see me.

  "I have something important to tell you."

  "Long Qi, what's next period?" he turned his head to ask the quieter boy.

  "It seems like a political lesson."

  "If the old man asks, just say I went to the school infirmary. You guys handle it as you see fit." He said to them after glancing at the time.

  "What about me?"

  Chi Gong Lie didn't answer her, and instead took me to the school's beverage department. He ordered a cup of orange juice for me, and then grabbed a bottle of iced tea from the ice cabinet and started drinking it with his head tilted back. Just as he was tilting his head back to drink, I saw that there was also a chain similar to mine at his collar, so it seems what Mom said was true.

  "Let's call off the engagement." I pulled out the chain with a ring from my backpack, "This one is just like yours. If we exchange them and take back the rings engraved with each other's names, then the engagement won't count anymore. Here, now you give me the one on your neck too."

  I happily handed over the chain in my hand to him, and then reached out for his, after which I could also go home. Chigong Lie took the ring I handed over to him, and examined it carefully. "You were very disgusted when you exchanged vows with me?"

  "It's not like that, even if I were someone else, I would still do the same. Don't you want us to break up sooner? You and I have never met before, don't you think this is all absurd? And besides, I saw that pretty girl earlier seemed to like you."

  "Who told you that it would be fine if you just exchanged this?" asked Chi Palace, shaking the chain in front of me.

  "Of course, my mom told me. Didn't your aunt tell you? But never mind, now quickly give it to me." I replied happily. What's going on, he just held onto my stuff and stared at me quietly, but didn't seem to have any next move. It was so infuriating that I really wanted to take matters into my own hands and snatch the ring back from his neck.

  "Chi Gong Lie, haven't you skipped class again? You should be in the classroom at this time." A man in his fifties with a somewhat bald head, who looked like a teacher, came in to buy something and was about to leave when he suddenly saw Chi Gong Lie sitting at the round table and walked back over, asking sternly.

  "Damn it, even here I can run into the Mediterranean." Seeing him walking towards himself, Chi Guo couldn't help but curse. The "Mediterranean" in his mouth was actually Yan Jiang Yizhong's homeroom teacher, who had a habit of being pretentious and could talk about trivial matters for half a day.

  I remember on the second day of school, he and a group of classmates were walking from the playground to the cafeteria after physical education class. He saw him call out his name, then smiled fawningly and said: "Unexpectedly grown up so big, I even held you when you were young. Can you adapt to the new school? If there's anything, just come find Teacher. How's your grandfather lately?" Then he said a few more extremely affectionate words, like a smiling fox. Later, Chi Guo Lie would often run into him, always educating him with an air of being his elder, making people feel annoyed to death.

  "I'll go to class first, you wait for me here, got it?" Leaving this sentence behind, Chi Gong Lie ran out of the cold drink department. The instructor saw that Chi Gong Lie had returned to the classroom and with eyes as sharp as a fox, looked around at me before leaving with his things.

  I don't want to stay here waiting for you to come back, it's so boring. But he took my chain away and didn't return the one that belongs to me, can't he just leave my stuff behind before leaving? How annoying. When I walked out of the school gate, the security guard uncle even asked with a concerned face if my brother was found and if I got the key back. I nodded with a guilty conscience and waved goodbye to him.