I Will Always Love You - Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Because He’s the Most Handsome II

“You’re going to climb up on stage from the steps over there in a moment, do you understand?” Teacher Zhao pointed toward the area where there were steps to climb up on the stage a little worriedly as he prodded Xiaotu once again.

“Yep, yep!” Xiaotu nodded excitedly.

Just as Teacher Zhao was about to continue reminding her a little more, a girl holding a bouquet of flowers walked over, bent down to Teacher Zhao, and said, “Teacher Zhao, here are the flowers for your class.”

“Okay, thank you very much.” Teacher Zhao took the bouquet of flowers from the girl’s hands with a smile, thanked her, and glanced at Xiaotu, who was still intently watching the performance onstage. Still feeling somewhat worried about whether Xiaotu would be able to carry out this task correctly, he shook his head dismissively, took hold of her little hand, and said, “Never mind, I will take you over there myself. It’s quite dark in the auditorium, and I don’t want you to get lost.”

Xiaotu turned her head around and stared at Teacher Zhao for quite some time. Surprisingly, she then said, surprisingly, “Uncle, you never stop nagging.”

Teacher Zhao was caught off guard by her comment. He felt as if she had all of a sudden given him the cold shoulder. “Do you still want to go up on the stage with the flowers?”

“Yes, yes, of course I do.” Xiaotu quickly shot up from her seat and followed Teacher Zhao to the stairs that led up to the stage.

They stood next to the stairs as they finished watching the performance. Then, as the performance ended, Cheng Zhiyan stood up from behind the piano and, along with all of his classmates who had been dancing, he bowed to the audience to thank them for watching.

They received a thunderous round of applause.

“Go, go quickly!” Teacher Zhao gently pushed Xiaotu’s shoulder, shoved the bouquet of flowers into her hands, and motioned for her to start up the stairs.

Xiaotu held tightly onto the bouquet of flowers that was nearly half her size as she struggled to climb up the stairs and onto the stage.

The host knew that when this performance ended, someone was going to be assigned to deliver flowers to them and therefore wasn’t in any hurry to continue speaking.

The students who had just performed gazed down hopefully at the audience, only to see that by the stairs that led up to the stage, a bouquet of flowers seemed to be slowly moving toward them.

“Look, look, the flowers for our class are starting to move all by themselves!”

“Huh, how come the flowers tripped?”

“Ha, ha, ha, it’s actually a little kid holding the flowers…”

As Xiaotu was climbing up the stairs with the bouquet of flowers in her hands, she accidentally tripped and fell, sprawling onto the stairs.

The audience instantly roared with laughter.

Even the officials and the principal sitting in the first row couldn’t help but laugh upon seeing this scene.

Cheng Zhiyan turned his head slightly and caught sight of Xiaotu crawling onto the stage with a bouquet of flowers in her hands. He couldn’t help but frown. “How come this little rascal is the one delivering the flowers?”

After Xiaotu had tripped, Teacher Zhao had quickly rushed up and helped Xiaotu get up on the stage by holding her arms. Xiaotu patted the dust off her pants, situated the bouquet of flowers once again, and made a beeline toward Cheng Zhiyan.

“Little girl, little girl, you’re going in the wrong direction! The flowers are for the lead dancer,” Teacher Zhao whispered to Xiaotu in a low voice as he helplessly watched her run in the wrong direction.

Xiaotu only had eyes for Cheng Zhiyan.

She tottered all the way up to Cheng Zhiyan, shoved the bouquet of flowers into his hands, and exclaimed merrily, “Brother Orange Juice, flowers for you!”

Cheng Zhiyan glanced off the stage at the anxious Teacher Zhao, then helplessly accepted the bouquet from Xiaotu’s hands as he said, “Thank you very much.”