To Burn On Touch - CH 30

The investigation of this nasty brawl that had started yesterday evening after school was not over yet. Except for the two people lying in the hospital, the other parties involved still had to be questioned by the director and teachers in the morning. After the adults had figured out what had happened, the boys in the second year of senior high school were all given major demerits, and the two students from the experimental class of first year were given a lighter punishment. They would be supervised by the homeroom teacher to write a review and it would be over. 3H41RI

This morning, Yu Ran spent all his time in the office. He thought he could finally relax after lunch. But he was informed by the representative of the Language class that he was required to do Silent Writing to make up for the test contents of the two Language classes that morning.

Surprisingly, Chu Mian was also on the name list for Silent Writing, and Yu Ran couldn’t help but sigh: “Teacher Wang is really merciless, she doesn’t give special treatment to good students.”

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The two went upstairs and made a turn, and they were simultaneously shocked by the sight in front of them — the straight and wide corridor was crowded with students who were doing Silent Writing on both sides. Students on one side were pasted to the wall and on the other side were sitting by the window. Dozens of students were lined up neatly from the entrance of the stairs to the end of the corridor, all of them working hard and doing Silent Writing in classical Chinese. It looked very spectacular.

Pushing open the door of the Language office, the inside was even more overcrowded. 0unSDs

Yu Ran finally asked an acquaintance to help squeeze out two positions. When he turned his head and took a look, it turned out that Chu Mian had been asked to write “Jing Ke Stabbing the King of Qin”, and his was “Zhu Zhiwu Makes Qin Retreat”, so he couldn’t copy Chu Mian.

Chu Mian finished his Silent Writing assignment very quickly, and when he saw that Yu Ran had only written the beginning on the paper, he leaned over to teach him.

“You slow down, slow down, too fast…”

After writing only two sentences, Yu Ran couldn’t help but sigh softly.

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Chu Mian lowered his speed of speech and continued to recite the text to him. But not only were Yu Ran’s hands slow, he also couldn’t keep up with his hearing as well. From time to time, he had to ask, “Huh? What did you say just now?” “What was after ‘help provide the food they lack’? I didn’t catch it”.

Chu Mian had no choice but to get closer, his chin almost on Yu Ran’s shoulder as he talked to him.

Yu Ran could now hear the content of the text clearly, and the speed of his Silent Writing naturally accelerated. He could smell the scent of shampoo in Chu Mian’s hair. He also noticed that Chu Mian’s voice would become more husky after he lowered it. Especially when Chu Mian reminded him of a typo, his tone would be slightly raised as if he was in a hurry, but the next second, he would resume his patient tone.

A methodical boy like Chu Mian easily created a firm sense of security in his heart, and Yu Ran unknowingly forgot about the restless state he had been in when he had entered the door just now. sRtWNx

“Because of the power of people…” When Chu Mian recited the text, he often scanned Yu Ran’s ears and sideburns, worried that his lips would rub against them if he got too close.

Moreover, Yu Ran had a habit of turning his head directly when he couldn’t hear others, so Chu Mian had to lean back to avoid him.

Seeing that Yu Ran was finally about to finish his Silent Writing, Chu Mian secretly rejoiced. But when he leaned close to Yu Ran’s ear to whisper the last paragraph, someone also whispered in his ear: “Chu Mian, have you finished your Silent Writing?”

Chu Mian was caught off guard and shrank his shoulders. The side of his face bumped into Yu Ran’s ear, it was a little cold. HoC9zQ

“Yes…” Chu Mian turned his head and replied in a low voice.

He hadn’t noticed that Teacher Wang had already paced to his side without anyone noticing. The eyes behind her cold lenses were also shining with a cold light. She said solemnly: “Since you’ve finished your Silent Writing, leave quickly. Why are you acting all lovey-dovey with him here? Leave, leave, leave!”

After saying that, she also grabbed the Silent Writing in Chu Mian’s hand.

“Okay.” Chu Mian nodded hurriedly, his face still not free from the shock just now, and he even forgot to look back at Yu Ran before he left. cum2Zq

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Sure enough, Chu Mian was a good boy who was afraid of his elders.

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Yu Ran could hardly restrain a smile. Even if he had already forgotten the text of the last paragraph, he was in a very hearty mood now.

Chu Mian did not go home directly in the evening after school. He planned to go to the hospital to see Cai Hanchuan and the others for their injuries. Yu Ran knew that his aunt had paid for the medical expenses, and for a while, he felt that their family was too magnanimous: “You are too caring, even burying after killing, so responsible.” oIVzXR

“It’s not that I care about them. I just want to inquire about something,” Chu Mian said lightly. He took off his school bag, took out a few notebooks and handed them to Yu Ran. “Go back and complete your notes. I’ve folded the edge of the pages of the ones that are going to be tested in the midterm exam for you.”

Yu Ran took them and hugged them in his arms, but Chu Mian insisted that he immediately put it in his school bag, fearing that he would not even notice that he had dropped a notebook halfway.

“Do you think I’m stupid?” Yu Ran complained, but still obeyed and put the notebooks away. When he was done, he did not forget to stand at ease and salute Chu Mian.

Chu Mian turned away, hiding the smile at the corner of his mouth. “Let’s go.” ZcoqSd

Yu Ran held his heavy school bag and watched Chu Mian go away safely before taking the bus home. After eating, he copied the notes wholeheartedly.

Yu Jin, who was in the middle of playing with his mobile phone, inadvertently looked up and saw that his brother was actually doing homework. He was so surprised that he walked to his side and sighed with emotion: “You’ve changed, have you been cursed?!”

Yu Ran didn’t look up: “Go away, Laozi’s exam’s coming. Do you know how difficult the questions in senior high school are?”

Yu Jin looked down at the notebook on Yu Ran’s desk and grasped the important point: “You’re actually copying a girl’s notes! You’re in puppy love!” XPTqke

Yu Ran pushed him with his palm. “Can’t my xiōngdi have good handwriting? Get out of the way, don’t bother me.”

Yu Jin snorted coldly. Still half in doubt, he went far away from his brother and sat down on the bed to observe him quietly.

Soon, Yu Jin discovered a weird thing — when his brother was copying notes, he would often put down his pen, hold up the borrowed notebook in both hands and look at it closely for a few minutes and only continued to copy when he had appreciated it enough.

It was simply the case of “cannot tear oneself away”… A newly learned idiom appeared in Yu Jin’s mind. TMbplF

Late at night, when Yu Ran was vigorously copying notes, he heard his brother calling his girlfriend behind him.

The voice of the thirteen-year-old boy hadn’t changed much. When he deliberately called the girl in the same class “baby” and “cutie” in a tender tone, Yu Ran was so disgusted that he had goosebumps all over his body. He directly threw a pillow and forcibly terminated Yu Jin’s conversation.

“What? You’re jealous because you’re single?” Yu Jin was indignant. “Maybe it’ll be even more disgusting when you’re dating someone.”

Yu Ran recalled his brother’s tone just now, and responded, “Fuck off, I won’t date.” xJXeoG

“You’re already fifteen years old, ge! How can you not be in a relationship at such an age? Do you want to be an adult before you start dating someone?” Yu Jin spoke with a kind of gravity that was beyond his age at this time. “Let’s bet, if you fall in love before graduation, you’ll call me ge.”

Yu Ran disdained this kind of boring and stupid bet: “Okay, let’s bet.”

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Seeing that the time was getting late, Yu Ran remembered that he had not used up his call time, so he picked up his phone and called Chu Mian to chat.

Yu Jin was lying in bed, listening in bewilderment. He noticed that his brother smiled and said to the other side of the phone, “If I become a teacher, will you listen to me?” Yu Jin instantly sat up straight and then perked his ears to listen. yF0u7S

When Yu Ran hung up the phone, Yu Jin’s voice came from behind him: “You’d just said that you weren’t in a relationship.”

Yu Ran looked back at him suspiciously. “Why? I was talking to a friend, a guy.”

“But…” Yu Jin hesitated. “Is there a difference between your tone of talking just now and my tone of coaxing a girl?”

Yu Ran was dumbfounded, and immediately grabbed another pillow and threw it at Yu Jin. “What the heck do you know, don’t compare me to you.” lXdGtP

In fact, if it weren’t for his younger brother’s reminder, Yu Ran wouldn’t have noticed that his attitude when facing Chu Mian was involuntarily different from when facing others.

But when he thought about it, it was inevitable. After all, Chu Mian easily fell asleep, fell suddenly, and also couldn’t laugh loudly. When seeing someone with such harsh physical conditions, who wouldn’t develop a “protective desire”? Yu Ran felt that it was only natural for him to treat Chu Mian a little better.

Yu Ran even felt that everyone, and not just him, should be more gentle with Chu Mian, so that Chu Mian could be in a happy mood every day, and perhaps get rid of the “sleepiness” as soon as possible.

Yes, Chu Mian deserved to be treated better… Yu Ran was convinced of this. H 5Isb

Recently, the autumn sky was clear and the air was bracing. The day of the midterm exams was getting closer.

Every Friday was the time when the students slacked the most. Even in the Language evening self-study, many students dared to let their minds wander. Undoubtedly, Yu Ran was one of them.

Yu Ran leaned his back against the wall and said to Chu Mian with his body tilted: “Teacher Wang has changed her hair style. Why does she have so much hair even after tying it up? My god, look at her, if you say she has a clothes iron hidden in her hair, I’ll believe you.”

Chu Mian was the kind of student who listened intently until the very last second of the class. No matter how Yu Ran tried to get him to be inattentive together, he remained unmoved. VmzQTB

Yu Ran was bored, and he turned his attention to the nearby Cui He, with whom he got along pretty well. They folded paper planes and threw them at each other. They also set a rule: No matter how far the paper plane was thrown, as long as it was not discovered by Teacher Wang, the person responsible for picking up the plane had to go and pick it up.

“Whoever chickens out is a loser!”

Yu Ran first threw the plane on the window sill while Teacher Wang was writing on the blackboard. Cui He pretended to draw the curtains, and then made the plane fly to the front door of the classroom. Yu Ran plucked up the courage to make an excuse to go to the toilet, and when he returned, he deliberately gave Cui He a sinister smile.

“You’re done for.” Yu Ran held up the plane confidently and aimed at the position of the lecture desk. 910EqZ

“Do you want to fucking die? You’ll be discovered!” Cui He smiled and raised her middle finger, feeling that Yu Ran’s actions were too stimulating.

Yu Ran lightly breathed “ha” at the tip of the paper airplane. He held his breath and quietly waited for the opportunity when Teacher Wang would turn around and write on the board again.

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Now was the time!

Without thinking about it, he applied force on his arm and threw out the paper airplane— jk7LPY

The white cone drew a smooth and graceful arc in the air before resting in Teacher Wang’s bun accurately.

“Hey, fuck…” Yu Ran quickly covered his mouth, unable to believe that his move had backfired.

Cui He’s smile stiffened on her lips and her mouth dropped open in amazement.

“A piece of good news and bad news,” Yu Ran leaned out of his seat, and talked to Cui He in a low voice, “The good news is that Teacher Wang hasn’t found out yet; the bad news is that… you fucking have to take the plane off hahahahahaha!” HUVuCy

Cui He immediately raised two middle fingers at him to express her anger at the moment.

“You two… What are you doing?”

Chu Mian had just raised his head to take notes, when he suddenly found that Teacher Wang had a white paper inserted in her pitch-black bun. He looked intently and realized that it was the paper airplane that Yu Ran and Cui He had just been playing with.

Other students in the class had also noticed one after another that Teacher Wang’s head inexplicably had an extra thing to it. They wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to laugh. Everyone could only lower their heads and try to hold back their laughter, trying to maintain the order of the class. bw0vpT

One didn’t have to guess or know to confirm that it must be Yu Ran’s masterpiece. Chu Mian couldn’t help but laugh before sighing softly: “You’re doomed, Yu Ran.”

“Hey, don’t worry.” Yu Ran waved his hand. “The plane was folded from your Silent Writing paper.”

Chu Mian glanced at the corner of his desk, and sure enough, there was a page missing.

His expression turned cold, and he grabbed Yu Ran’s collar. P92u3s

Teacher Wang heard something on Yu Ran’s side, and turned around after writing on the blackboard to find that he really was not listening to the class, and Chu Mian in the back seat had also followed him and was currently fighting with him.

However, she was no longer surprised by the frequent contact between the two of them. She hadn’t eaten her dinner yet so she wasn’t in the mood to criticize them. She just told them: “Why don’t you both go out?”

Chu Mian still wanted to attend class, but he didn’t dare to refute Teacher Wang. He was simply held by Yu Ran by the wrist, and he slipped away through the back door to the corridor to stand outside.

“I’ve a better sense of belonging when standing in the corridor than sitting in the classroom.” Yu Ran couldn’t count how many times he had been kicked out of Language class. He turned to look at Chu Mian. “Hey, have you ever been punished by a teacher to stand in the corridor before?” RD6rS7

Chu Mian shook his head.

Not only had he never been punished with standing in the corridor since he was a child, even the number of times he had been given writing lines as a punishment was only a handful.

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“Wow, then today is too memorable.” Yu Ran patted Chu Mian’s shoulder excitedly. “You gave your first time to me?”

Chu Mian expressionlessly pushed his hand away. “Nothing to be proud of.” fAcXzv

Yu Ran happily bent his fingers and counted: “Look, it is your first time being punished for to stand in the corridor, and you also wrote a review today for the first time. I was also the one to pull out your bird, and you also wore a dress for the first time… Isn’t it all because of me?”

At the end of the count, Yu Ran proudly raised his head and chest, and clenched his fists.

He felt that he could one day make Chu Mian “get conned for the first time”, “swear in public for the first time”, and “skip class for the first time”.

Thinking about this, Yu Ran couldn’t help but snort twice, and told Chu Mian in an imperative tone: “You wait, I’ll take away more of your first times!” vkc0MC

His voice echoed in the empty corridor, and all the students in the first year heard it clearly.