Shou closed the door. His heartbeat was still beating a bit faster.
The high school student grabbed the other person’s lapel in front of him. The muscles of his arms were sturdy. With a leopard-like look, he was full of explosive power. His protective attitude made the shou surprised. But the violence and fierceness revealed in this made the shou to be scared witless.
Shou was afraid of violence, or maybe he was even terrified of it.
The shou has been here in this city for three years. This was the second house he has changed into. He didn’t have any fixed social relations and he haven’t settled down in one place. He usually changes his job and moves to another corner.
The shou looked helpless and panic-stricken. The wounds on his arms and back were all whipped red, clutching the old schoolbag, tears streamed down his face
If his father see him crying, he would become even more disgusted and would say: How could a boy be like this?
How could a boy be like this?
The shou had heard this sentence many times before from everywhere. No matter if it was at school or at home, it was like he was of a different kind.
The shou’s fingers trembled nervously and he tried hard to control himself. He took a clean glass, poured a few glasses of water for himself, and drank it. This allowed his rapid breathing to slowly calm down.
The shou was afraid of the high school student. He was afraid of a young guy who was seven or eight years younger than him. Rather than saying that he was afraid of the high school student, it would be better to say that he was scared of violent and cruel people like the high school student. He was like a rabbit in the jungle who was instinctively scared of the tigers and wolves.
The shou worked as a shop assistant in a supermarket chain. His diploma wasn’t really great and he wasn’t good at dealing with people. So he could only do simple tasks.
Shou wore his work cap and squatted in front of the shelf to sort out the goods on the shelf.
The weather was hot and the frequency of drinks being bought became higher.
The shop’s cashier was a young lady with a round face1when I searched this round face part in the internet, my images section was filled with the picture of Abby Park and a ponytail. Her name was Qiu Qiu. It was hot at noon. So she ordered two cups of milk tea and casually gave one cup to shou.
The shou was somewhat surprised when he received the love and said, “No……No need.”
The young lady said, “No need to be polite. I am giving this to you. I am quitting having sugar. – So I can only drink one cup.” She happily sipped on the milk tea while saying that she was quitting having sugar. She looked at the shou with expectant eyes and said, “Drink it. It’s delicious.”
Shou thanked her in a cramped manner, neatly arranged the drinks on the shelf, and rubbed his sweaty palms before picking up the cup of cold milk tea.
The little girl’s eyes turned into crescent moons and the shou’s ears turned red. The young lady suddenly screamed, “You are blushing!”
She said, “Little Brother Lu, you are so cute when you blush!”
The shou’s surname was Lu.
The shou became more and more helpless. While holding the milk tea, the little girl muttered that there are fewer boys who blush while being shy nowadays. After a while, she asked the shou if he had a girlfriend? Without waiting for him to answer, she thought aloud: Obviously not. Little Brother Lu, you cannot be so shy. You will get bullied.
The shou was completely overwhelmed. He hesitated while holding the milk tea.
Suddenly, a person came in from outside to change shifts with the young lady and she said: There was a fight. A group of people was fighting in the alley. Oh my! The fight was so fierce. They fought so fiercely that they almost died.
The young lady asked: Who was fighting?
She said: I don’t know. They looked like students of the affiliated middle school. The two of them were still wearing the school uniforms of the affiliated middle school.
The shou’s eyes opened up a bit. It was a curious coincidence2demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence and he thought of the high school student again.
Translator’s corner
The shou’s surname was Lu.
The first piece to the puzzle: MC’s name
BTW this chap is gonna have 10 parts cause the raws are like that.
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