She’s Too Delicate
Translator: Shiny
Ruan Yue stood quietly by the window.
From childhood to adulthood, Fu Zhixing had always taken care of her. In her third year of senior high, she had run out in the middle of the night after learning of her parents’ divorce, and was finally found by him.
At that time, she had felt that he must also like her, so with the pretext of being drunk, she had tried to hug him and kiss him. But, he had stepped back and stopped her before taking her back to his house to sober up. She had slept in his bed, and once she had woken up, she saw that it was 12am.
The door was not closed properly, and she could hear the conversation between him and Uncle Fu in the living room.
“Tell me honestly, do you like Ruan Yue?”
“Dad, what do you think?”
His voice was coloured with astonishment.
“In anyway, we grew up together since childhood. I can’t just sit back and watch as she goes out to get drunk at night. Besides, she’s not my type.”
“……You have a type you like?”
“Mm. Someone virtuous like mom should
be suitable. She’s too delicate.”
………
Inside the classroom, Fu Zhixing raised his gaze and took a glance out the window.
On the platform, a boy finished cleaning up the garbage and came down with a mop.
He caught sight of Fu Zhixing’s worried expression and couldn’t help teasing him and saying, “Good luck with your love affairs, class monitor.”
“Get lost.” Fu Zhixing scolded good naturedly. He took his notebook and walked back out.
Ruan Yue was still standing in the same spot, and didn’t move even as his footsteps came closer.
Fu Zhixing called out to her, “Let’s go.”
Ruan Yue’s turbulent mood had already calmed down. She walked towards him and her gaze fell on the notebook in his hands. She hesitated and asked, “Do you have to inspect the public health and sanitation?”
The student union had just been elected at the beginning of the school year as the seniors had to quit from their duties in order to focus on their studies. Fu Zhixing had taken over the position of the president of the union. At this time of the day, he had to take people to patrol and inspect the classes.
Before her eyes, he stepped back and said, “It isn’t necessary for me to go. I’ll go down to give them the book and accompany you for a walk in the playground.”
He had always been like this. Magnanimous and bright. He had always treated her like this on the surface.
In this manner for so many years, but he didn’t like her……
Ruan Yue was unable to put a name to the emotion in her heart. A bit sour and painful, but she also felt glad. Fortunately, they had grown up together with a mutual affection.
——
Outside the classroom, there was a crowd of gaping students watching this scene.
Once both of their figures disappeared from the corridor, a boy exclaimed, “Oh ho!” He clicked his tongue and sighed ruefully, “These two have an unclear relationship huh? This is the first time I’ve seen Great Beauty Ruan acting so lovable, even my bones have melted.”
“Hahahaha-”
“Qin Zheng, you pervert!”
When both he and Li Shiyu had been punished to stand outside by the politics teacher, they had both run away immediately. Just as they came up, they saw such a play of love and affection. How could they not make a ruckus? They kicked Qin Zheng’s ass and Li Shiyu turned his head and asked some boys from class 19 next to him, “Where’s brother Chen?”
“He was here just now.”
“He probably went down, he just asked me for a lighter.” A boy replied.
——
Downstairs, the student union members had been waiting with their work cards for a long time. Finally, they caught sight of Fu Zhixing who was late, with Ruan Yue following behind him.
Someone immediately laughed and stood up. “Nowadays they also bring family members when inspecting sanitation?”
“Shut your mouth.”
Putting the notebook into the boy’s arms,
Fu Zhixing looked at Ruan Yue and said softly, “Don’t pay attention to him.”
Ruan Yue nodded and did not say anything.
Fu Zhixing looked back at the others. “You guys go ahead today. I have something to do today and wont be going won’t go.”
After speaking, he and Ruan Yue headed towards the playground.
This move left a few of the members who were unclear about the situation dumbfounded. They couldn’t help but cast sidelong glances at the boy who had just spoken. “What’s the situation huh? What’s this?”
“That’s right, who’s that girl? She’s really beautiful.
The boy’s name was Meng Hao, and he was in the same class with Fu Zhixing.
They had already known each other for several years. He sighed and said meaningfully, “Can’t say what the situation is. Anyway, our Senior Captain Fu treats her as an exception. Tch, I guess we’ll have to find a small notebook to take notes if we’re going to go into an in-depth investigation.”
“…….”
The officers looked at each other.
The rest of the union members looked at each other helplessly.
Meng Hao sighed with immeasurable melancholy and said, “Let’s go, others have love affairs while we are devoted to our duties.”
——
Ruan Yue and Fu Zhixing finally reached the playground.
In the afternoon, after classes, most students spent this time meeting up together for evening study. The playground was filled with students, and the whole way through, the sounds of recitation were endless.
The strange and distinct sounds left Ruan Yue in a trance once again.
“What happened?”
Both people walked until they were standing in the shadows of the Wutong tree. Fu Zhixing came to a halt and inclined his head to look at her. He asked her tentatively, “What’s preoccupying you?”
His voice was very pleasant to listen to, clear and refreshing. Very easy to recognize.
She raised her gaze to look at him, the eyebrows were thin and smooth, the shadows from the luxurious foliage of the tree cast upon his face, making his facial features appear strikingly soft and smooth…..
It was the way she remembered him.
After a long time, Ruan Yue softly said, “It’s nothing. I just suddenly felt a little upset.”
Fu Zhixing looked at her calmly for a while, then suddenly bowed his head and laughed.
Ruan Yue was baffled, “Why are you laughing?”
“You-” Fu Zhixing opened his mouth, but did not finish speaking.
After growing up together, there should be no one else who knew more about Ruan Yue than he did.
This girl was proud and sensitive, with a chilly exterior and a soft center. She would keep a lot of things in her heart without telling anyone, forcing you to guess. Her happiness was restrained, and her sadness was also reserved. She was like a fragile princess, so people had to cautiously take care of her.
……
At six o’clock, the school bell rang.
Under the shade of the trees, several girls put away their textbooks and walked in the direction of the dining hall together.
After a few steps, one of them stopped abruptly and nudged Ding ChuChu who was walking at the edge. “No wonder someone wasn’t willing to come out with you. Look, over there with the school grass.”(1)
“Ah?”
Ding ChuChu stared blankly and followed the girl’s line of sight.
Not far away, Ruan Yue and Fu Zhixing were walking together, following a tide of people going out of the playground.
She withdrew her gaze, and her thin arms tightened around the books she held within her embrace. Looking at the girls by her side, she pursed her lips and said, “They’ve known each other for several years. It’s normal to hang out together.”
Soon after the start of the school year, the classes had just been divided and the students were not that familiar with each other. After listening to her, someone immediately became curious, “Childhood sweethearts?”
“Should be. We live in the same neighbourhood as Fu Zhixing.”
“Ah, then you are also a pavilion near the water.”(2)
“What-”
Hearing this admiring tone, Ding ChuChu’s face turned red at once. “I came to Ningcheng to study, not for that kind of thing…..”
“Haha, ChuChu is a good student indeed.” Someone said jokingly, and seeing her snowy face turning rosy, she couldn’t help pinching it. She smiled and said, “You’re too thin-skinned. You’d better give up on getting a boyfriend, otherwise you’ll be bullied to death!”
“Who would be willing to bully her? Once someone catches sight of her, they’ll only be filled with the desire to protect her, don’t you think?”
“Exactly! Lu Chen even came to blows for her!”
As soon as these words came out, Ding ChuChu became even more flustered and hastily pulled the girl’s arm, “Sun Jing, you don’t say anything. He was just passing by that day.”
“Haha, is he so nice to everyone else?”
Sun Jing teased her again, and seeing her looking so upset that she might hit someone, she hugged her books and immediately dodged to the side. With that movement, she suddenly caught sight of a group of tall boys coming towards them from afar.
She winked at Ding ChuChu and said, “Look, your saviour-”
Ding ChuChu exclaimed and subconsciously turned her head, immediately catching sight of the figure in the middle of the crowd.
The one without a school uniform was Lu Chen.
…….
“Brother Chen, are you sure you don’t want to go tonight?”
Walking in the rear, Li Shiyu asked in disbelief.
Amongst their group of friends, Lu Chen was most severely addicted to the internet. Out of the five school days of the week, he basically spent four of them at an internet cafe. One could only find him in the dorms during the weekend, and most of the time it was because he had to sleep since he had stayed up for two nights consecutively.
If you wanted to look for the most unrestrained person in No. 1 middle school, look for Lu Chen in Freedom Island.(3) His title of ‘Master of Freedom Island’ wasn’t coined by him!
Listening to him saying no to playing all night, who the hell would believe it?!
Lu Shiyu felt as if his three views had been attacked……
Lu Chen couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to him. He raised his leg and kicked him away. His jaw was slightly restrained and he lowered his nose close to his shoulder, sniffing lightly.
After smelling, he subconsciously raised his eyebrows.
The ancestor of his family had a lot of ailments, the most important of which was; she mustn’t smell smoke.
In the beginning when he had gone to look for her, nine times out of ten, her eyebrows would crease and she would move away nonchalantly. This often made him wonder whether he was too rogue and had a bad body odour which he hadn’t discovered himself. These two doubts nearly drove him insane.
Later, he figured it out and took a bath and changed his clothes each time before going to see her. Additionally, he would chew gum on the way while constantly smelling himself.
Afterwards, both of them started living together and he directly quit his hobby of playing all night.
With such a warm and fragrant nephrite by his side, who would want to stay out all night?
In fact, Ruan Yue was not the sexy sort of beauty of public opinion. She was cold and indifferent, and during the night, he wasn’t allowed to turn on the lights. He had changed the curtains of that small window three times just so he could see clearly the subtle expressions she made in those moments.
When he was weary, he often felt that this person was made for him by God.
For the purpose of punishing him……
“Brother Chen, brother Chen.”
The noisy voice by his ear pulled him back from his thoughts.
Lu Chen lifted his eyes and glanced at him.
His gaze was the sort that would make people feel he couldn’t be trifled with. His glabella was narrowed, with high brows with a swift and fierce eyebrow shape, and deep eyelids. Underneath his straight, sharp nose, he had a pair of thin lips. When he looked at someone, he gave off the impression that he was cruel and detached.
Seeing him looking at himself in such a way, Li Shiyu didn’t dare to pretend. He smiled happily and asked, “Then, after evening studies, do you want to go play for a while?”
“No.” Lu Chen refused directly.
“…….”
Li Shiyu’s mouth fell open in an ‘O’ shape. He gloomily asked him again, “Then what’s the plan after we have dinner?”
“Self study in the classroom.”
After saying this sentence, Lu Chen entered the dining hall.
Li Shiyu’s steps paused and he looked to his left and right. His face stupefied, he asked the others, “Did Brother Chen receive some stimulus?”
“……The wine lover’s heart is not in the cup.”(4) After a few seconds of silence, someone said uncertainly.
Li Shiyu lifted his gaze and discovered that Lu Chen who was in front of him had been blocked.
Woah, the School Flower?!
1.Most handsome boy in school.
2.近水楼台- pavilion near the water – this is an idiom which means that you basically have an advantage to gain favor from someone due to your proximity; ie, in a favourable position.
3.Freedom Island is the name of the Internet café they frequent.
4.Wine lover’s heart is not in the cup. This is an idiom which means he has an ulterior motive.
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