Chapter 36 — The Campus God Who Spat Blood (10) | Took It Too Far Without Meaning To
Someone tried to bolt, but Cheng Rui clamped a fist on the hem of her shirt. “Run where? The boss is not going to eat you!” He gave her a shove through the door, then hid by the frame to spy on the fallout.
Xing Ge cleared her throat. “Um… I am sorry. I should not have snapped at you.”
The black-haired young man rose. Those long jade-green fingers of his slid along the top shelf and drew out another thick volume: Criminal Psychology.
Xing Ge: “…”
She was going to die a horrible death, right? A horrible death, right? A horrible death, right?!
Inside, she spammed the system. “system brother, help!”
It replied in a hollow voice, “Already dead. If you have business, burn paper money.”
Seriously? Could that excuse be any lamer?
Rely on yourself.
Xing Ge snatched the book from his hand. His eyes slanted over to her, cold and flat. She instantly pasted on her best pitiful look. He always used to fall for this. “What will it take for you to forgive me? Do you want me to atone with my life?”
“Sure. Go die.”
His lips were flushed as rose petals and his posture was idle, but what he said was icy enough to freeze the marrow. His eyes were not pure black either. A deep sea blue bled through, eerie and ghostly. One look made your scalp prickle.
Xing Ge: “…”
Actually openly encouraging her to die. The male lead was broken, right? Broken, right? Broken, right?
When she simply stood there stunned, Chen Xi slipped the book from her grasp with no effort at all and let out a soft, mocking breath.
“All right. If that is what you want.”
A hoarse voice sounded by her ear.
“Yingzi!”
Cheng Rui shrieked from the doorway.
In his field of vision, the slim figure leaped off the balcony.
“Boom!”
The crash slammed into their eardrums.
Chen Xi flinched as if struck. The book flew from his fingers, clipped a glass of water, sent it splashing, then shattered on the tiles. Shards skittered everywhere.
His body began to tremble on its own. Fear made his eyelids quiver, and a mist rose in his eyes.
“Ying… Ying’er!”
He vaulted once and lunged onto the balcony, howling down into the void.
The commotion rattled the adjoining dorms. Heads popped out over railings. People shouted, asking what happened.
“Holy Sh—!”
Cheng Rui took one look and almost fainted. The cool and steady Chen Xi had gone completely out of his mind. He clutched the railing and swung a leg over. This was the fifth floor.
What is this, a double-suicide scene?
Cheng Rui sprinted, wrapped his arms around Chen Xi’s waist, and clung for dear life. “Boss, calm down! This is the fifth floor! If you jump, you die!”
“Calm my a**!”
Chen Xi whipped around and roared, veins standing out on his brow. “You f***ing let go!”
When Cheng Rui still refused, Chen Xi’s knee came up in a swift, brutal bump. Pain wiped the color from Cheng Rui’s face. He was kicked clear across the balcony before he knew it, teeth bared, unable to get up.
My waist is broken, he thought faintly, seeing white. He nearly blacked out.
“I am sorry, Number Two,” Chen Xi said under his breath.
“Boss, do not do anything stupid!” Cheng Rui rasped, throwing out one last plea.
Chen Xi did not answer. He leaned back against the balcony rail. The wall still held a little leftover warmth, but his heart was ice. Clouds stained the sky in his eyes, a deep red, as if some fairy had spilled her rouge box across the dome of heaven. It was strangely gorgeous.
“Qi Shaoying, you fool! I already forgave you,” he murmured. “How could I bear to let you be sad...”
How could he ever bear to let him be sad?
It must hurt a lot down there.
Wait for me, wait for me.
He silently chanted, slowly closing his eyes.
“Boss, no!”
“Oh my God, someone is going to jump!”
“Classmate, please calm down!”
Screams rose and fell around him, merging into a blur. He could not make out the words. All he heard was wind, heavy and close, and the metallic taste of iron.
Then suddenly—
“Chen Xi, what you said just now. You forgive me, right?”
A figure leaned out from the balcony on the floor below, half a body visible, smiling with those signature apple-cheeked dimples.
Chen Xi: “!!!”
A corpse that sits up.
His head spun. He shook it hard and glanced down. The thing that had crashed to the ground was a stainless-steel thermos.
Xing Ge lifted a hand and waved. Her smile could really use a beating. “Happy birthday, Boss Chen Xi. May every year be like today and every day be like this!” She produced a tiny cream cake from behind her back like a street magician. It was not pretty, but the two cherries glowed red in the candlelight.
The star of the show stared at her for several long seconds, then turned without a word and ran.
Xing Ge: “…”
She put on a spectacle like that and could not get even a proper reaction?
The system muttered, “Spectacle my foot. You scared the male lead so badly he almost jumped off the building. What you did was really unethical, you know? You scared him into having a heart attack!”
Xing Ge gave a dry laugh. “He kept ignoring me, so I wanted to spook him a little. Who knew he would be such a coward?” He always looked so calm.
Before she finished thinking it through, someone slammed into her. No warning, no words. A stinging slap cracked across her cheek, loud enough to stun the crowd of onlookers watching from the dorms.
“F***!” Xing Ge yelped.
Who the f*** had the guts to lay hands on her?
With quick eyes and hands, she grabbed the other person’s wrist. Just as she was about to bend her knee for a stone-crushes-egg move, she looked up and saw that the person who hit her was looking at her with tears streaming down their face.
A beauty in tears, like a crabapple after rain. It was devastating.
Guilt flickered in Xing Ge’s chest. She loosened her grip in spite of herself. Why was she feeling guilty when he hit first? That made no sense.
“Smack!”
Unexpectedly, as soon as she let go, another slap came to her right cheek. Perfect, now she had a matching pair of monkey butts on her face!
“Can you cut the sh** already?” Xing Ge exploded.
Before the last word finished, he slipped an arm under her armpits, heaved her off the ground, and carried her toward the balcony.
D*mn it, was the male lead really planning to throw her off the building?
She had overplayed it. By a lot.
Her heart fluttered like a trapped bird. Her little legs pedaled in the air, never finding purchase.
He set her on the railing. One glance down and the fourth floor started to spin.
Then he leaned in and pressed his face hard against her chest, rubbing and rubbing, breathing her in like a child begging for comfort.
His short hair prickled through her shirt. It tickled like mad. Xing Ge balanced the cake in one hand and pushed at him with the other. “All right, that is enough.”
The handsome boy lifted his face. His jade porcelain face still bore tear tracks. It was clearly a weak and disheveled appearance, yet breathtakingly beautiful. He forced his face back into a scowl. “You menace. Do you dare scare me like that again?”
Good grief. This face should be illegal. Under those liquid phoenix eyes, Xing Ge’s ears went red like a rookie.
“I dare not. You are the magnanimous one. Please forgive your lowly servant.” She bobbed her head like a pecking chick.
Chen Xi snorted a laugh.
Like clouds parting to reveal the moon, as if everything around brightened.
“Blow the candles,” Xing Ge said cheerfully, holding out the cake. Thank heaven she had hands like a rock climber. That poor cake had survived.
“All right.” He closed his eyes and made a solemn wish.
The moon in the sea is the moon in the sky. The person before me is the one in my heart. I was always the audience, and now I am on the stage. If I cannot escape, then let me sink. If there really is a god in this world, I ask only this: let the person in front of me be safe and sound, year after year. That is enough.
With someone’s bright gaze on him, Chen Xi bent and blew out the candle.
The two looked at each other. He smiled again, a clean and warm smile, ten times brighter than spring water by the willow bank. Several guys without willpower had nosebleeds flowing. Wiping with their hands, they all shouted holy sh*t. Hey, is this 119? There's a demon here. I'm about to be bent!
Xing Ge scratched her head and grinned like an idiot.
“Clap, clap, clap!” The onlookers burst into applause, loud enough to rattle the windows.
The surrounding masses who had been force-fed dog food expressed: Although we do not know what happened, it always feels really amazing. Applause can never go wrong!
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