Chapter 5: Injured – The Chaos Caused by a Piece of Cake

In the evening, Fang Chuning was immersed in playing games in her room when the door was suddenly opened from the outside. Startled, she quickly hid her phone behind her back and picked up a book from the desk, pretending to read.

“Oh~ you’re playing games again!”

The one who entered was Fang Tianli, wearing cartoon pajamas. He looked smug, as if he had caught her red-handed, with his arms crossed.

Fang Chuning sighed with relief, tossed the book aside, and continued playing without paying attention to him.

Fang Tianli gently closed the door and strode over like a victorious rooster, with his hands behind his back and his chin raised. “If you don’t want me to tell Dad and Mom, you’ll have to do me a favor.”

“Damn it, Gao Qiong! You kill her!” Fang Chuning exclaimed excitedly, grasping her phone as if she was driving, swaying from side to side.

“You met Su Qi this afternoon. The favor I want you to do is related to him.” Fang Tianli paced back and forth in the room, talking to himself.

“The other team is so arrogant! Hold on a little longer. When I get there, they won’t even have a chance to beg for mercy!”

Fang Tianli: “He’s actually quite pitiful…”

“Great, great, great! I’m about to get a quadra kill!”

Fang Tianli: “His mother passed away, so he only has his father to rely on. He can’t even afford the tuition fee for school now, so he has to draw pictures outside to earn money.”

“Look at them crying for their moms, haha!”

Fang Tianli: “He’s even a year younger than me. It’s too pitiful for someone so young to not be able to study.”

“They look pretty miserable. Let’s not waste time and push the tower.”

The two of them were on completely different wavelengths, with one playing and the other talking.

At the moment of winning, Fang Tianli covered the phone screen with his hand, his eyes sparkling with anticipation. “So, can we sponsor Qi Qi’s education?”

Fang Chuning looked at him in confusion. “Can’t you just go and talk to Mom about this? It’s not like I’m the one paying.”

“I want you to talk to Mom!”

Fang Tianli hemmed and hawed for a while. “Your words carry more weight!”

Fang Chuning’s eyes probed, “I think you’re just afraid of being scolded, aren’t you?”

Caught in his thoughts, Fang Tianli puffed out his pink cheeks, angrily snatching her phone. “I don’t care! You have to help me, or else…or else I’ll tell Dad and Mom that you play games every day until the wee hours of the morning!”

Fang Chuning was indifferent. “Then go ahead and tell them.”

Fang Tianli glared at her, and they were at a stalemate. Just as it seemed like he was about to cry, Fang Chuning sighed helplessly and persuaded, “Actually, Dad wasn’t wrong. You can’t just help someone because you think they’re pitiful when you see them on the street. There are so many pitiful people out there. Can you help them all?”

“…I just want to help Qi Qi, I don’t care about others!” The boy whimpered, his voice tinged with tears.

Fang Chuning found it a bit strange. “Why do you insist on helping him?”

“Because…because he’s really good at drawing, and I want to learn from him…” It turned out to be because of this.

“If you really want to draw, you can just hire a teacher to teach you. Why go through all this trouble?”

Fang Tianli’s love for drawing had been evident since he was young. It was said that during the grabbing ceremony, he grabbed a paintbrush. Unfortunately, he had the heart but not the skill. The things he drew were extremely abstract, and only he could understand them.

“It’s different. I don’t want those people to teach me. I just want Qi Qi to teach me! Will you help me?”

It was rare for Fang Tianli to show such vulnerability to her. Fang Chuning twirled her pen with her fingers, deep in thought for a while, then opened her palm. “Give me back my phone first.”

Fang Tianli obediently held the phone with both hands and placed it on her palm.

Fang Chuning nodded with satisfaction. “I can mention it to Mom, but whether she agrees or not is not my business.”

Fang Tianli nodded happily. “Mm-hmm!”

…

Fang Chuning had originally planned to find a good opportunity to bring it up, but Fang Tianli was too impatient. He kept giving her hints, and his eagerness was evident to Fang Hong.

“Is your eye twitching?”

Fang Tianli’s expression froze, and he frantically shook his head, then buried his face in the bowl and ate.

Fang Chuning swallowed the food in her mouth and pondered for a few seconds before saying to Fang Hong, “I want to sponsor a student.” Her directness made Fang Tianli choke, and he suddenly covered his mouth and started coughing.

Fang’s father was displeased. “Tianli, eat slowly. You have no manners for a boy.”

“Oh…”

Fang Hong glanced at her own son, then looked at her daughter. “Why the sudden thought?”

“I just think that the boy’s painting skills are quite good, and Tianli happens to like painting too. They are about the same age, so they might have common topics and it could help Tianli with his painting. Don’t you also hope that Tianli can have an outstanding skill?” Whether the skill could be outstanding was still too early to say. With her son’s scribbles, there was no room for improvement.

“Wait,” Fang’s father interrupted her. “Chuning, are you talking about the boy who came to our house yesterday?”

Fang Chuning glanced at the nervous Fang Tianli. “Yes.”

“No way,” Fang’s father didn’t even think about it. He obviously had a bad impression of the little boy from yesterday. “That kid looks timid on the surface, but his intentions are not simple. He knows to come and cling to our family after only knowing Tianli for a few days.”

Fang’s father’s thought was probably that his own children were the best-looking and the most innocent, and other children who took the initiative to approach them had ulterior motives, unless they were from a well-matched family.

“Dad, I was the one who dragged Qi Qi back. It wasn’t his idea!” Fang Tianli retorted.

Fang’s father glared at him. “You’re still young. What do you know!”

“I’m already fourteen. I’m not young, and I understand!” After saying that, Fang Tianli turned to the person in the main seat and pleaded pitifully, “Mom, please help him. He’s so pitiful…”

Fang Hong’s heart ached for her younger son and immediately agreed. “I don’t have time to handle it personally. Let your assistant uncle take care of this matter, okay?”

“Mm-hmm!”

“Fang Hong—” Fang’s father’s voice suddenly rose.

“Darling, Chuning is right. If that child is really good at painting, he might be able to guide Tianli well. It’s a good thing for children to have their own ideas. We can deal with future matters in the future. These are all small issues.”

“Small issues? Small issues are what your company deals with. Those are big issues!” Fang’s father abruptly left the table and strode towards the second floor, followed by the sound of a door being forcefully closed with a “bang.”

Fang Tianli trembled and helplessly turned his gaze to his sister.

Fang Chuning deliberately scared him by mouthing the words “you’re doomed” at him.

Fang Tianli was on the verge of tears.

Fang Hong, however, was not in a hurry. She instructed the housekeeper to have the kitchen prepare a few more dishes that Fang’s father liked and to send them to the room at the right time. When it came to coaxing people, she had at least a dozen years of experience. She knew exactly how to coax and when to coax.

“You two eat well. Remember to drink more soup after the meal.”

With that, she also left the table and went to the bedroom on the second floor.

Only the two siblings were left at the dining table. Soon, Fang Chuning also got up. “I still have a few games to finish. You eat slowly. You can drink my portion of the soup too.”

Quickly, only Fang Tianli was left at the dining table alone. For a moment, he felt a bit lonely.

“Young Master, would you like to have some soup first?” the housekeeper asked.

Fang Tianli shook his head and ate silently.

…

The next morning, when Fang Chuning arrived at school, she happened to run into Xu Muzhou getting out of the car at the school gate. She deliberately slowed her pace, and when the boy walked to the same line as her, she happily greeted him, “Good morning, Xu!”

Xu Muzhou’s eyes shifted slightly, and he only gave her a faint nod.

Indeed, any thought of their relationship improving even slightly was just her illusion.

The boy quickly walked past her into the school. Fang Chuning followed behind, feeling a bit depressed. Soon, someone put an arm around her shoulder. “Haha, I saw that. You took the initiative to greet the vice president, but he ignored you!”

Fang Chuning yawned and lifted her hand to push the person away. “Don’t be so clingy early in the morning.”

Gao Qiong still shamelessly clung to her. The two of them playfully fought as they entered the classroom.

After one class, Fang Chuning was organizing her after-class materials when a figure suddenly walked up to her desk. She looked up and saw that it was the boy who sat behind her.

The boy had his hands behind his back and smiled at her. “I have something I want to give you.”

“Huh?”

The boy placed the item he had been hiding behind him on her desk. His smile was generous and dazzling, completely different from his previous blushing appearance whenever he saw her. “This matcha cake is made by me. I couldn’t find anyone to help me taste it. President, if you don’t mind, could you please try it for me?”

“What?”

The boy looked pitiful. “Please, President…”

Fang Chuning glanced at the cake and nodded blankly. “Okay, I’ll try it when I have time later.”

The boy’s actions were seen by many people in the class. The male classmates were jealous and secretly cursed him for being a green tea, pretending to be something he wasn’t.

Taking advantage of no one being around, Fang Chuning secretly took out the class roster from her drawer. After matching each desk, she finally learned the name of the boy sitting behind her.

“Jiang Luoyu…” She unconsciously read it out loud.

Fang Chuning’s gaze fell on the matcha cake. Next to the cake, the boy had thoughtfully prepared a small spoon.

It looked quite appetizing.

She hadn’t eaten much this morning, so it was just right. Fang Chuning was reading a book on her desk while picking up the cake when suddenly a shadow stopped beside her desk. She looked up.

“Hand in your homework.”

The boy looked down at her. Under his glasses, his eyes were covered with a faint shadow. His attitude seemed even colder than usual.

“Oh, oh.” Fang Chuning put down the cake and rummaged through her backpack.

A few girls in the classroom were chasing and playing around. As they passed by them, the girl running in front seemed to trip over something. She let out a cry of surprise and instinctively grabbed the boy’s clothes. The girls chasing behind couldn’t stop in time and all piled up. In just a moment, the classroom became chaotic.

Fang Chuning sat in her seat, dumbfounded. She was still in the act of flipping through the novel website when the scene in front of her had already turned into a mess. Her desk was pushed over, the cake she hadn’t had a chance to eat was smashed to bits, and Xu Muzhou’s foot was trapped under the desk.

Other classmates quickly came forward to help move the desk away. Xu Muzhou’s face was pale. He slightly lifted his school pants, revealing his originally fair ankle, which was now purplish-red and terrifying to look at.

Qin Shaoqing squatted down to support him and turned his head to reprimand those girls. “It’s all your fault! Look what you’ve done to Muzhou!”

Those girls scratched their heads, not knowing what to do. “Let’s…let’s take him to the infirmary first?”

“You don’t need to say it!” Qin Shaoqing snorted coldly. He and two other boys slowly helped Xu Muzhou up. During the process, the boy’s face turned even paler when his right foot accidentally touched something.

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“Should I…carry him to the infirmary?” a female classmate suggested.

“No need,” Xu Muzhou shook his head to refuse. He looked as fragile as if he would shatter with a single touch, yet he pursed his lips and endured.

In the end, a few male classmates still supported him to the infirmary.

The three girls in the classroom were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but when they turned around, they saw the expressionless face of the class president. The three of them instantly became apprehensive again.

Fang Chuning threw the novel website onto Gao Qiong’s desk and stood up to walk out. “You three, come with me to the president’s office.”

Sometimes she felt that Xu Muzhou should go to the temple to offer incense. He had been too unlucky these past few days, either catching a cold or getting injured. Later, when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that every time he was unlucky, it was indirectly because of her.

This realization was truly suffocating.