"The sports meet." Chi Ning glanced at Qin Heng and babbled, "There's a basketball game. Gotta go, bye."
Beep, beep, beep...
Chi Yang held the disconnected phone, then hesitantly glanced at the clock hanging in the living room.
What respectable school held basketball games at eight in the evening? It wasn't university.
Qin Heng raised an eyebrow as well. "A basketball game?"
Chi Ning looked at him, sounding perfectly justified. "Aren't I supposed to treat you to dinner? My house has a curfew."
Qin Heng gave an oh.
The two returned to where they had been reading. Li Qiuhe was long gone from his seat, leaving only a note held down by a water bottle.
[Teacher Wang told you to change out of the clothes and bring them to his office.]
After reading it, Chi Ning crumpled the note into a ball. When he looked up, he found Qin Heng holding open a plastic bag for him. "Throw it in."
The snack wrappers scattered over the ping-pong table had already been cleaned up. The unfinished mung bean paste drink lay in the plastic bag too, with a grimy wet wipe on top.
Chi Ning froze. Qin Heng had actually wiped down the table too?
He tossed the paper ball in his hand into the trash bag, unable to understand why someone like Qin Heng had been rumored to be the school bully.
This school bully...
Was rather superficial.
Everyone seemed terrified of him, but it wasn't exactly clear what they were afraid of.
As for Qin Heng beating people up, it seemed more like self-defense. He was the type who wouldn't provoke others unless they provoked him first.
And as for blocking younger students to extort pocket money, like the school bullies in the rumors did, he had never done