The Tang Family’s Seven Os - Chapter 158

“Hey! Aren’t you afraid of me?” When Sheng Cen returned to the classroom, he couldn’t help but kick Tang Qi Yuan’s chair when he thought of the cigarette butt that he had been forced to throw into the bin.

“Why should I be afraid of you?” Tang Qi Yuan was about to make a study plan for Sheng Cen and didn’t even raise his head when he replied.

“They’re all very scared of me.” Sheng Cen’s gaze swept around the room, his voice slightly cold.

Tang Qi Yuan finally looked up at Sheng Cen and said with a compassionate gaze: “That’s because you haven’t shown everyone your kindness, if everyone saw your kind side, they wouldn’t be afraid of you.”

Sheng Cen pursed his lips in disbelief and slowly denied: “I’m not kind.”

Tang Qi Yuan patted Sheng Cen’s shoulder and said: “Classmate Sheng, you have to have confidence in yourself.”

Sheng Cen took a look at his own shoulder where he had been patted and realised that Tang Qi Yuan’s perception of him was extremely wrong. Moreover, Tang Qi Yuan’s tone was certain in an out-of-ordinary way, as if he really knew him.

He couldn’t help but sneer: “What makes you so sure? I’ll say it again, the word ‘kindness’ has never had anything to do with me.”

Tang Qi Yuan looked at him and after a moment of silence asked: “Classmate Sheng, do you hate me sitting here?”

Sheng Cen answered without hesitation, “Of course.”

“But look, my books are still intact, my table and chairs are also in good condition, and my person is even better, not even a hair has been touched.” Tang Qi Yuan looked at Sheng Cen and said in a light tone: “You hate me, but you didn’t bully me.”

Sheng Cen snorted lightly, he just didn’t think it is worth being childish like a primary school student to bully his classmates.

He pursed his lips in silence, he didn’t think that this little nerd looked silly but was not really silly. He looked at Tang Qi Yuan and decided not to argue with the little nerd about such a topic that has no nutritions and went back to sleep on his desk.

When Tang Qi Yuan saw that Sheng Cen had started sleeping again, he frowned in disapproval, but everything had to be done gradually, not overnight, so he thought it would be better to have a good study plan before he starts to supervise Sheng Cen’s studies.

In the evening, when the school bell rang, Sheng Cen immediately left the classroom with his bag on his back, finally able to get rid of the little nerd.

He met Xia Cheng Lang at the door after school, and Chen Zi Zhan and a few of his classmates walked out behind them. Almost every day after school, they always liked to follow behind him and Xia Cheng Lang for a distance after school.

People thought they were a so-called clique, but in fact there were only a few people who were really close to them, the others were just foxes borrowing the tiger’s prestige1狐假虎威 (hú jiǎ hǔ wēi): an idiom, originally means a fox that falsely uses the power of a tiger to scare a hundred animals; later, it is used as a metaphor for relying on or relying on the power of others to oppress or intimidate people., but Sheng Cen and Xia Cheng Lang were too lazy to care, so they let them follow.

Sheng Cen thought he had finally gotten rid of Tang Qi Yuan, but to his surprise, he had only just reached the stairs when Tang Qi Yuan caught up with him, running and calling after him, “Classmate Sheng Cen, wait for me! I have something to say to you!”

Sheng Cen impatiently stopped in his tracks and glared back at him, “What is it?”

Tang Qi Yuan gasped lightly for a few moments to steady his breathing before saying: “I’ve made a study plan for you, take it back and read it when you have time.”

“No time.” Sheng Cen walked forward without looking back.

Tang Qi Yuan grabbed his sleeve, “The teacher said that I should supervise your studies.”

Sheng Cen looked down at his wrinkled sleeve and said in a cold voice: “Let go!”

Tang Qi Yuan slowly let go of his hand, but fearing that Sheng Cen would walk away, he did not completely let go of his hand. He stubbornly squeezed Sheng Cen’s sleeve with two fingers and did not let go, “You take the study plan I made for you, bring it back and take a look, I have been preparing for a day.”

Sheng Cen frowned, “You’ve been working on that all day today?”

No wonder the little nerd not only spent less time nagging to him today, but even complimented him less often.

“Right.” Tang Qi Yuan nodded and shoved the neatly folded plan into his hand.

Sheng Cen impatiently took it and opened it to take a glance at it. Tang Qi Yuan’s writing was regular, and the plans were beautifully arranged one after another. Sheng Cen could see that he was very careful when writing this plan.

He frowned slightly and casually tucked the plan into his pocket, glaring at Tang Qi Yuan and asking: “I’m putting it away now, okay?”

After he finished, he impatiently turned around and left, and the others immediately followed him.

Tang Qi Yuan hurriedly took a few quick steps and opened his arms to block in front of him, “Wait, I haven’t finished yet, I still have to explain your last exam paper to you.”

“No need.” Sheng Cen bypassed him and continued walking forward, the impatience on his face was clear to see.

Tang Qi Yuan still wanted to stop him, but Xia Cheng Lang stepped forward and looked down at him to kindly advise, “Classmate, you’d better stop pestering my cousin, he’s already very patient with you, if you provoke him again, he’s going to get angry.”

Chen Zi Zhan stood behind Xia Cheng Lang and shouted arrogantly: “Tang Qi Yuan, you don’t think you’re still class president now that school is over, do you? Don’t keep pretending to be the good class president here! It’s annoying to watch.”

He was already uncomfortable with Tang Qi Yuan, and now that Xia Cheng Lang had opened his mouth first, of course he immediately took the opportunity to step on Tang Qi Yuan.

When Sheng Cen heard the voice and looked back, he saw Tang Qi Yuan standing in place with his hands and feet at a loss, he couldn’t help but feel annoyed in his heart and hooked his finger at Tang Qi Yuan, saying in a cold voice: “You come here.”

“Classmate Chen, I didn’t pretend to be the good class president.” Tang Qi Yuan glanced at Chen Zi Zhan and explained before turning his head and running in small steps to Sheng Cen, “Classmate Sheng, have you changed your mind?”

“En.” Sheng Cen’s brows furrowed as he faintly responded, turning back to Xia Cheng Lang and saying: “I’ll leave first.”

Without even looking at the others, he simply turned his head and walked away.

Chen Zi Zhan watched Sheng Cen take Tang Qi Yuan away and reluctantly shouted, “Sheng Ge, don’t be fooled by him, he’s just deliberately pestering you!”

He felt that Tang Qi Yuan just knew Sheng Cen’s identity and that is why he deliberately approached him like he did, wanting to ask for some favours and pave the way for the future.

Unfortunately, his words were destined to go unanswered, and Sheng Cen did not even turn his head back, as if he had not heard his words, and directly led Tang Qi Yuan away with big strides.

Chen Zi Zhan’s face turned black with anger at the two of them ignoring him, but he did not dare to provoke Sheng Cen, so he could only hold back the anger in his heart.

As Tang Qi Yuan followed Sheng Cen, he took out Sheng Cen’s paper from his bag. He still felt miserable looking at the paper, and was silent for a moment before he spoke and sighed, “Classmate Sheng, you’ve got too many questions wrong!”

Hearing his surprised tone, Sheng Cen couldn’t help but curl his lips a little and said in a dismissive manner: “En, the grades are a little bad in the eyes of you, the study tyrant.”

Tang Qi Yuan endured and endured, but still couldn’t help but say: “Even in the eyes of a study trash, your grades are also too tragic.”

Sheng Cen sneered and turned his head to glare at him, once again suspecting that he was deliberately playing dumb, otherwise how else could he always poke the right places to make him angry until he is speechless every time.

Tang Qi Yuan looked at Sheng Cen’s gloomy face and hurriedly reflected on himself, he felt that his words just now might have been too damaging to his table mate’s self-confidence. This was really not conducive to the cultivation of tacit understanding between the table mates, he thought for a moment and complimented: “…… this ‘solution’ character is still written very nicely.”

Sheng Cen turned his head and gave him a look.

Tang Qi Yuan stared at the test paper, struggled to look at it for a moment, and once again praised it with a clear conscience: “……you’ve written this paper neatly, and it’s beautiful!”

Sheng Cen had written the word ‘solution’ after each of the big questions in a very regular manner. This ‘solution’ was written by him in a ‘dragon flying and phoenix dancing’ manner, the rest of the paper was all blank, at a glance it did look very neat.

Sheng Cen turned his head to look at him again and said in an indifferent voice: “If you can’t compliment, don’t compliment, hurry up and talk about the questions, so I can go home afterwards.”

“……Okay.” Tang Qi Yuan decided not to make things difficult for himself anymore and give up this opportunity to communicate his feelings with his table mate.

Because he really couldn’t compliment anymore.

Sheng Cen walked straight ahead while looking around, he wanted to find a cafe or something around here so that the little nerd could finish his explaining the questions quickly and he could go home soon.

Before he could see the cafe, he heard a bang from behind.

He turned around and saw Tang Qi Yuan standing in front of a billboard, tears streaming down his cheeks, already in too much pain to speak.

Sheng Cen’s face sank, striding back and lifting his chin to look at it, “What’s going on?”

“I was concentrating too hard on the paper, I didn’t notice the billboard in front of me and accidentally bumped into it.” Tang Qi Yuan huffed in pain with small mouthfuls of air, his face burning.

Sheng Cen’s hand squeezing his chin tightened, slightly tilting his head to the side and taking a closer look at the injured area on the left side of his face.

Tang Qi Yuan’s left cheek was already red and swollen, his skin was very soft, so the red marks on his face were very obvious, the corners of his eyes were stained with tears that had accidentally flowed out from the pain earlier, his eyelashes were wet and he looked very pitiful.

Sheng Cen’s eyebrows knitted together, his lips unconsciously pursed into a straight line, he let go of the hand pinching Tang Qi Yuan’s chin, reached out to stop the car that had been following them, tugged Tang Qi Yuan’s hand and got into the car.

Tang Qi Yuan sat in the car confused, rubbed his cheek and asked: “Classmate Sheng, where are you taking me ah?”

“Capital Hospital.” Sheng Cen said to the driver with a sullen face.

The driver responded and started the car, he was originally the driver who sends the Second Prince to school. Just now, seeing that the Second Prince had something to do and didn’t want to go home for the time being, that’s why he kept following behind the Second Prince.

Tang Qi Yuan quickly waved his hand, “There’s no need to be so troublesome, I’ll just go back and use an ice pack as a cold compress.”

He had been in poor health since he was young and had to go in and out of the hospital often, so he hated going to the hospital the most.

Sheng Cen ignored his objection and just tugged down his hand to keep him from touching the wound on his face, “Don’t move around.”

Tang Qi Yuan blinked innocently, his cheek was sore and hot and he always unconsciously wanted to touch it.

Sheng Cen fixed his hand in his own, not allowing him to touch it.

Sheng Cen looked at his gently blinking eyelashes and hesitated for a moment before reaching out his other hand to roughly wipe away the teardrop at the corner of his eye.

“Thank you, Classmate Sheng.” Tang Qi Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, his face twisted slightly as the wound moved when he smiled. He quickly calmed down, not daring to make any more superfluous expressions.

Sheng Cen turned his head to look out of the window, the finger that was stained with Tang Qi Yuan’s teardrops unconsciously rubbed it gently, Tang Qi Yuan’s tears carried the warmth of his face, warm and soft, just like him as a person.

melon: I walked into a billboard before…more accurately put, I jumped into it as I was jumping across a drain and since I was looking down, I didn’t see the billboard on the opposite side and yeah. It hurt but luckily, I still managed to cross safely without falling into the drain, that would have been combo x 2