This rain never stopped.
By the time the two of them had reached the bottom of the International Department’s building, it was just as if they had been fished out of the water.
Lu Tong wrung out the rainwater from the corner of his coat and said expressionlessly, “Is this how you send schoolgirls home?”
Qin Chu scratched his hair, “I haven’t sent anyone else home.”
Lu Tong stared at the umbrella, regarding it with disdain, “Is that your umbrella?”
Qin Chu looked at it, “I don’t know whose it is. I took it from the classroom.”
He was not one to carry an umbrella with him.
In the eyes of Qin Chu, who was a late-stage chūnibyō1(neologism) strange behavior characteristic of a teenager going through puberty (loanword from Japanese “chūnibyō” = Chūnibyō (中二病) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers. It translates to “middle-second syndrome” (i.e., middle-school second-year).) cancer patient, carrying an umbrella with him was just like carrying a handkerchief. It was really not in line with his persona.
Lu Tong walked into the elevator with him.
“You took someone else’s umbrella? You have returned. What will the other person do?”
Qin Chu said casually, “I don’t take it every day. And no one wanted this umbrella.”
— — I didn’t know why no one wanted it before, but now I know.
Lu Tong pressed the elevator button, “Why did you think of taking it today?”
Qin Chu, “Isn’t it because of you —”
The words came to an abrupt end.
Lu Tong didn’t notice anything and asked back, “Because of me? Don’t push the pot on me2Don’t blame me.. I’m not the one who asked you to pick me up.”
Qin Chu calmly breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he is stupid.
The elevator door opened with a “ding”, and they arrived at the twelfth floor.
The dormitory staff auntie was standing in the doorway. The iron fence in the middle, which Qin Shiwu had praised as the “Three Gorges Dam”, hadn’t been pulled up yet. Students who were charging their batteries and blowing their hair could be seen everywhere in the corridor.
The school doesn’t allow students to use the sockets inside the dormitory to blow-dry their hair, so all of them blow-dry their hair outside after taking a shower, and there were extended sockets in the corridor.
When Qin Chu and Lu Tong walked out of the lift together, they caught the eyes of the nearest few.
The rest of the people didn’t pay much attention to them.
After all, not everyone in the Provincial No.1 High School would go on the campus forum. In other words, not everyone would pay attention to the two of them.
The students who were looking at the two of them right now were mostly attracted to them because they were good-looking.
The Provincial No.1 High School was considered a quite large high school in the entire province.
The academic department alone was divided into three departments, of which the first and second departments were the regular academic departments. The division was a study plan created by the Provincial No.1 High School in order to create a good academic environment: The classes were separated into two departments, each with two school headmasters, and a healthy competition that was getting better and better.
Lu Tong and Qin Chu were both in the first department. The divisions of the teaching buildings between the departments were different. Except for the laboratory building, which was shared by the first and second departments, the rest of the buildings were separated. Outside of any large-scale events of particular importance in the school, the students from the two departments would rarely gather together.
After all, the number of people in just one school department alone reached several thousand.
Inside the regular academic departments, the connection between the first and second departments was less. The one left at last was the International Department. The entire department was a separate building and the number of students in it was small. Basically, they will go abroad after more than two years of study. There was a wall between them and the regular academic departments, not to mention the usual contact between them was less. And the students of the International Department were rarely on the forum.
The moon seems fuller in foreign lands than in China.
Just as people who watch American dramas despise those who watch mainland China’s dramas, there were people who had fallen into the contempt chain, especially at an age when the contempt chain is at its peak popularity. The Provincial No.1 High School was also no different.
Standing at the top of the contempt chain in their school was the International Department.
Not only was the dormitory condition of the International Department better than that of the regular departments, but even the school uniform was better than that of the regular departments. Probably because the students who were going abroad were always the children of various small entrepreneurs, successful businessmen, or politicians, and they didn’t lack the money. As they were at the top of the contempt chain, of course, it didn’t matter to them what kind of school grass, forums, and so on were in the regular school department.
A large part of the reason why Lu Tong chose to live in the International Department was that there were fewer residents there who recognized him.
He walked to the entrance of 1201 and stopped in his tracks.
Qin Chu walked forward for a while but didn’t see Lu Tong following up. When he looked back, Lu Tong had already opened the door of 1201.
“You’re going the wrong way.” Qin Chu reminded.
The door of 1201 was pushed open, and Qin Shiwu sat up straight from the bed, “Who is it?”
Lu Tong appeared at the doorway.
Qin Shiwu locked eyes with him. And in the next moment, he crawled from the end of the bed to the head of the bed at the speed of light, violently unplugged the charging plug at the head of the bed, and then hid the phone under his pillow.
It wasn’t a mobile phone from this era. It was a mobile phone from sixteen years later.
The design was completely different from now. At first glance, you can’t tell any difference. But holding it in your hand, you won’t be able to resist taking a closer look. Even if he used it being a foreign product as a pretext, he couldn’t get through it — — What foreign goods had his dad never seen before?
Speaking of this mobile phone, Qin Shiwu was still investigating how it had followed him across time. Just before Lu Tong pushed the door in, Qin Shiwu tried to charge his phone with the current time’s charging cable, and it miraculously connected to the electricity. Just as he opened the album and turned to Lu Tong’s wedding photos, the real owner stood in the doorway.
“What are you hiding?” Lu Tong raised an eyebrow.
Qin Shiwu lay sprawled on his back on the bed. His head was drenched in cold sweat, and the corner of his mouth was tugged. A lie came out of his mouth, “I…… Was hiding books.”
Lu Tong let out a laugh, “Hiding your mobile phone, right?”
In front of Qin Shiwu, Lu Tong was always extra patient. He himself didn’t realize this, but Qin Chu did.
The latter leaned against the doorway, and his gaze fell on Qin Shiwu, who was creeping out.
Lu Tong asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Qin Shiwu’s puppy ears perked up, “I feel a killing intent!”
Lu Tong: ……
He turned on all the lights in Qin Shiwu’s room, illuminating the entire dorm room.
The sheets weren’t set, the clothes weren’t organized, and the room was a mess. There was nothing on the other bed or on the other desk. It seemed that Qin Shiwu was the only person living in his two-person dorm room.
Qin Shiwu slipped off the bed and looked at Lu Tong, “What are you doing here in my place?”
Lu Tong sat on the other bed and reached out to Qin Shiwu, “Hands.”
Qin Shiwu hurriedly covered his right hand with his left hand.
Lu Tong spoke again, “Take out your right hand.”
Qin Shiwu looked up at Qin Chu.
At some unknown time, Qin Chu had entered the room without making any sound. He directly found a stool in the dormitory and sat down, staring at Qin Shiwu with “kind” eyes.
Qin Shiwu swallowed his saliva, and the alarm bells went off in his heart: What’s wrong with my dad again?! Is it worth staring at me like this?
He stretched out his hand, and it was grabbed by Lu Tong.
On the back of Qin Shiwu’s right hand, there were still red marks from the duster that the dormitory staff auntie used to beat him with, this afternoon. The auntie was heavy-handed, and boys with thick skin could take a beating. So she wasn’t polite when she did it. It was a pity that Qin Shiwu was now a tender-skinned omega, and there were now bruises where the duster fell.
Lu Tong took out a bottle of alcohol disinfectant cotton from his schoolbag. When Qin Chu saw it, he thought the bottle looked strangely familiar.
Qin Shiwu didn’t expect Lu Tong to still remember his wound and he was stunned.
Lu Tong wiped his hands with alcohol. Then, like a magic trick, he took out a popsicle and stuck it on the back of Qin Shiwu’s hand.
The back of his hand, which was still a bit hot, instantly cooled down quite a bit after the popsicle was stuck on it.
Qin Chu spoke eerily, “When did you buy the popsicle?”
Lu Tong, “Just now, when I was in front of the supermarket.” After thinking about it, he added, “Before you came.”
After Qin Chu heard this, his mood didn’t change from cloudy to sunny; instead, he spoke more and more cuttingly, “How come I don’t get this treatment?”
It seemed that this person remembered.
This alcohol disinfectant cotton that Lu Tong was using now was exactly the one that was bought by Qin Chu when he was bleeding from getting trapped by the door in the hospital the day before yesterday.
He still had some left over after using it at that moment, and it was a pity to throw it away. So he brought it to the school. He didn’t expect it to come in handy on the first night.
“How old are you? Do you have to make snide remarks about other people eating ice cream?” Lu Tong asked, feeling speechless, “Besides, your wound was bleeding. How can you apply ice to it?”
Qin Chu was unconvinced, “Why can’t you apply ice to it? You just don’t care about me.”
When Lu Tong heard this, he thought: What the hell? You’re blaming me for this? There is something wrong with you!
Qin Shiwu applied ice to it for a while, happily tore open the popsicle package, took a bite, and kept it in his mouth, slowly waiting for it to melt.
Qin Chu glared at Qin Shiwu, “What are you smiling about?”
Qin Shiwu, “Nothing. The ice cream is so sweet.”
Qin Chu: ……
Qin Shiwu took another bite, “I forgot that you don’t get to eat it. Then you can watch me eat it.”
Qin Chu, “…… The cold will kill you3His indulgence in the ice cream will bring forth trouble.!”
He lifted his foot and walked outside, and when he passed Qin Shiwu, he slapped the ice cream in his hand onto his face with all his might.
Qin Shiwu’s ice cream, which he had only eaten two bites of, died an honorable death on his face and slowly fell from his face to the ground, revealing Qin Shiwu’s incredulous face.
Extreme joy brings sorrow.
Qin Shiwu jumped up from the bed and chased after him wildly, “Qin Chu! Damn it! You are so immature! You have to pay for my ice cream!”
Qin Chu didn’t look back and closed the iron door aggressively with a clang, which shook the entire dormitory building, and all the students stuck their heads out to take a look.
Qin Shiwu was so angry that tears came out of his eyes, “I hadn’t even taken two bites yet!”
Lu Tong saw Qin Shiwu’s pitiful expression. He was feeling so aggrieved that you could hang a kettle on his mouth.
He, “You can buy more if you want to eat.”
Qin Shiwu sat on the bed, fuming, “Can it be the same!”
Can — — Can the one he eats later be the same as the one he ate now?
Translator’s corner
I might split the next few chapters too (๑•́ㅿ•̀๑).
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