Too Many Young and Dangerous Movies!

Lin Shi was caught off guard and shoved away by Ji Xi.

He widened his eyes in mild surprise.

Yet there was none of the explosive rage the surrounding people imagined.

Instead, after regaining his footing, he smiled with amused interest:

"What, found a master, so now you have the courage to fight back?"

"Or did your exam scores come out a few points higher than mine, and now you are acting all high and mighty?"

As Lin Shi spoke, he closed the distance toward Ji Xi by a few steps.

"Someone like you, crawled out of a mud pit, can only pin all your hopes on the Gaokao to defy the heavens and change your fate."

"But I think you are still better suited to obediently rolling around in the filthy mud pit."

After hearing these words.

Ji Xi's expression did not change in the slightest.

He had heard too many similar words, completely unable to stir up any ripples in his heart.

Only, he inevitably felt a bit annoyed inside that he should not have taken this path today.

Classmates for three years, he should have understood long ago that Lin Shi was an entirely impervious person.

He had no need to waste such meaningless time on someone like Lin Shi.

Yet he knew full well that if Lin Shi was determined to block his path, it would be difficult for him to avoid it anyway.

Ji Xi thought that he should say something to completely dispel Lin Shi's urge to always come looking for trouble with him.

He had no time to spare on humoring him right now.

If it was because of Su Su...

"Lin Shi, I've said it many times, I don't like Su Su at all, and Su Su and I aren't close in the slightest."

"She is just trying to make you jealous, using me to provoke you and string you along."

"Whoa!" A sudden exclamation burst from the crowd of onlookers.

They never expected that Ji Xi would say it out loud directly.

Without leaving Su Su even a shred of decency.

This simply did not sound like something Ji Xi would say!

Lin Shi acted as though he had heard something funny.

He scanned Ji Xi with the look one gives when appraising goods: "What qualifications do you have to provoke me and make me jealous."

"Just because your grades are a few points higher?"

He made not a single mention of Su Su.

He only relentlessly disparaged Ji Xi in the areas where Ji Xi took the most pride.

This was his habitual bullying tactic.

He said with disdain: "You need grades to take the Gaokao, whereas the Gaokao is merely a dispensable pastime to me."

Ji Xi raised a hand and slapped away the hand Lin Shi attempted to place on his shoulder.

Since communication was impossible, Ji Xi stopped explaining as well, a mocking tone in his voice:

"You talk so nonchalantly right now, yet every time the results come out, aren't you the one who flies into a rage out of humiliation."

He leaned forward close to Lin Shi's ear and lowered his voice: "Admit it, Lin Shi, you don't care as little as you claim."

"You try with all your might, but you simply cannot beat me in exams. As long as I still take the tests, you will never climb over this mountain of mine."

Perhaps Ji Xi's provocation went too far, for Lin Shi laughed instead of getting angry.

The hand that had been slapped away did not drop, but instead gave two casual claps.

"Well said."

"However, I'd like to ask, where on earth do you get your confidence?"

"Surely you don't think Yan Xianjue will actually go head-to-head with me just to protect you."

Lin Shi lowered his hand and smiled at him derisively: "What on earth are you."

He did have an impression of Yan Xianjue.

When he was very young, in the old courtyard of the Lin Household.

A fair-skinned boy with red lips had impulsively rushed into his field of vision.

Only, it so happened that he was currently collecting the remains of his pet hamster.

Scaring the young master who had grown up in a candy house out of his wits.

He did not understand back then.

It was not until he entered high school that his father made a special trip home on his enrollment day.

Simply to warn him not to provoke Yan Xianjue at school.

Only then did he realize that the young master had been frightened by him.

"Heh, a young master scared by a dead mouse."

Ji Xi tightened his face: "Lin Shi, you are simply sick."

He meant it as a statement of fact, having heard Shen Fangli vent about how Lin Shi skinned mice.

Clearly, this person genuinely possessed a somewhat perverted streak.

"If we must say in what way Yan Xianjue is inferior to you, it should be that he isn't as perverted as you."

Lin Shi offered praise: "Yan Xianjue has decent taste, being a dog that knows how to protect its master."

Yet every surrounding classmate could hear the malicious disparagement toward Ji Xi hidden beneath his careless compliment.

"Yan Xianjue is here!"

Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.

Ji Xi and Lin Shi raised their heads at the same time to look in the direction of Class 7.

[Ah, so annoying, so annoying, so annoying!]

[After finishing physics class, I seriously urgently need to catch up on sleep!!!]

[This brain-dead piece of work Lin Shi!]

Shen Fangli could sense the irritation in his heart just from Yan Xianjue's inner voice.

As well as his deep resentment toward physics class.

It was easy to tell that he truly struggled a great deal with physics.

The busybodies in Class 7 had been the first to spread the news back to the classroom that Ji Xi was being cornered by Lin Shi.

Mainly to ensure it reached Yan Xianjue's ears.

The classmates in the room were all secretly observing Yan Xianjue's reaction.

Regarding Ji Xi—the grade genius who suddenly transferred into their class with only days left before the Gaokao—

They had remained in a state of distant, cautious observation over the past few days.

In truth, they were also quite confused by the various rumors circulating on the forum.

If they said Ji Xi had broken into Yan Xianjue's inner circle and that was why he transferred,

They couldn't really tell, because Yan Xianjue clearly still hung out with Zhou Ye the most.

At most, Ji Xi explained physics problems to Yan Xianjue during breaks.

Yet to say their relationship was bad—Yan Xianjue occasionally brought food back for Ji Xi when ordering takeout.

Seeing that Yan Xianjue's movements remained unhurried even upon hearing the news that Ji Xi was cornered by Lin Shi,

They harbored a few guesses in their hearts.

Yan Xianjue was followed by a cluster of classmates who had poured out of Class 7 to watch the excitement.

[Are they all really this idle?]

Yan Xianjue complained speechlessly in his heart.

He walked forward along the corridor, and the surrounding onlookers consciously made way for him.

[...]

[Are these people watching too many Young and Dangerous movies!]

[I'm done for!]

Standing not far behind him and listening to his inner voice, Shen Fangli fought so hard to hold back her laughter that her pretty face distorted.

"Ji Xi."

Yan Xianjue paid no attention to the commotion behind him.

Ignoring Lin Shi entirely, he called out Ji Xi's name directly.

"Come here."

"Oh."

Ji Xi nodded and obediently walked in the direction he was heading.

Lin Shi reacted faster than him.

As if a sensitive nerve had been struck.

He stepped forward and blocked Yan Xianjue's path with two strides.

He said with a playful tone: "Are you out looking for the new dog you adopted?"

Yan Xianjue lazily rolled his eyes at him.

"Lin Shi, your taste hasn't changed at all after all these years."

"Still so low."

"Putting on this human skin can't hide your innate barbarism."

[Psychopath.]

[Since you love comparing people to dogs so much, why don't you go be a dog yourself.]

[Just because your family background is slightly better, you really think you're a cut above everyone else.]

He realized, Lin Shi thought.

No wonder he had never seen Yan Xianjue at any Lin Household banquets ever since.

It turned out not to be just bad blood between the Lin Household and the Yan Household.

Rather, it was because he had witnessed the process of him skinning the little hamster.

Yet that was because the little hamster was sick.

He was merely helping it escape its suffering.

Lin Shi: "Your taste isn't much better either."

"A lowlife scraped from a mud pit."

"No matter how you blast them with a high-pressure washer, you can't wash away that stench of mold."