ICY Chapter 1
by Volare“Ding ling ding ling,” the school bell rang.
“Quick, quick, he’s coming, quickly, say your lines.”
“You’ve only been at our school for a year and so many people have confessed to you, boys and girls, and you haven’t taken a fancy to any of them. Are you that hard to get?”
“Of course, if I’m going to marry, I’ll marry the best.”
Su Zhao Li, using his peripheral vision, watched the tall boy in the school uniform enter the classroom from the side. He quietly asked Chu Nan Du, who was echoing his words, “Do you think he heard?”
Chu Nan Du gave him a speechless glance. “Open your eyes and look around. Everyone in the hallway and classroom is looking at us. I thought you only wanted him to hear it. You’re so loud, why didn’t you tell me earlier? It’s so embarrassing.”
“I was just afraid he wouldn’t hear. Help me out. I want to get to know him at noon.”
Su Zhao Li patted Chu Nan Du’s shoulder and happily returned to his own classroom, not caring about the people around him looking at him. He was very happy right now anyway.
Chu Nan Du gave a strained smile to the people around him who were looking at him with strange and inquisitive eyes, cursing Su Zhao Li in his heart. This was truly a sin.
“Jiang Shi, are you going home for lunch?”
Jiang Shi looked up from his workbook at Chu Nan Du, a good student in his class for two years but whom he had never interacted with before. At this moment, this person was looking at him with a false, ingratiating expression.
“Yeah,” Jiang Shi frowned as he replied.
“Well, could you do me a favor? I think you live near my house, and I see you every time after school. Could you possibly take my brother home at noon today? You know, my brother is pretty good-looking, and a lot of people have designs on him. I’m not comfortable without someone watching him.”
“Ugh,” Chu Nan Du cursed in his heart at the words he was saying and at Su Zhao Li. It was too difficult to say.
“Since he’s your brother, why don’t you take him yourself?”
“I have something to do at noon today and can’t go home with him. Please, please,” Chu Nan Du said very sincerely.
“Brother Chu, we live in the same residential complex, why don’t you let me take him?” Zhou Er, who had been listening to the whole conversation from the front row, turned around and asked.
“Get lost, get lost. Look at your skinny arms and legs, what can you do?” Now that he had said such embarrassing words, he couldn’t let it fall short of success.
Chu Nan Du’s eyes were too sincere, and since it was on his way, Jiang Shi agreed.
“Your brother is?”
“You don’t know? It’s that person who was talking to me in the hallway just now, you heard him, right?”
Of course, Jiang Shi had heard. That person was so loud that he was almost yelling in his ear. It would be strange if he hadn’t heard.
“I heard.”
Good that he heard, Chu Nan Du thought.
“I’ll introduce you two at noon. Thank you very much.”
“See you at noon.”
After class at noon, before Chu Nan Du could finish packing his books, he saw Su Zhao Li hopping and skipping to their classroom door, then fixing his hair at the door before entering with a poised smile.
Chu Nan Du gave him a speechless glance. Was he really that eager?
Su Zhao Li waited for everyone to leave before clearing his throat. “Brother.”
Chu Nan Du immediately got goosebumps all over his body and was also very helpless. He could only force a poised smile and lead Su Zhao Li to Jiang Shi’s seat. “Jiang Shi, this is my brother, Su Zhao Li. I’m troubling you today.”
“A Li, this is Jiang Shi.”
“Hello, Brother Jiang Shi.”
“Watch your influence,” Chu Nan Du said quietly to Su Zhao Li.
“Mm,” Jiang Shi glanced at Su Zhao Li. He was indeed as Chu Nan Du had said, Su Zhao Li was very beautiful, the kind of beauty that blurred the lines between male and female. If he had such a brother, he would protect him just as closely.
“Then, Brother, if you have something to do, go ahead and get busy. I’ll leave with Brother Jiang Shi.”
The intention to urge him was evident in his words. “Hmph, I’m leaving.”
He had to hurry home. He couldn’t tell his mom that he wasn’t coming home for lunch.
“Thank you, Brother Jiang Shi.” Su Zhao Li tried to find something to talk about as they walked.
“You don’t have to call me brother. We should be the same age. You can just call me by my name.”
“Okay, then let’s add each other on our way home. This is my contact information.”
Jiang Shi looked at the stack of sticky notes in his hand, each with the graceful strokes of calligraphy “Su Zhao Li 130…”
“So many?”
This was to prevent the dramatic mishap of losing them. This was what Su Zhao Li had carefully prepared for several days, from the shape of the sticky notes to the patterns to the words on each sticky note, he had carefully selected everything.
“You’re so sweaty, did you run back? Why didn’t A Li come back with you?” Mother Chu asked, holding a spatula.
“Um… I was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, he’ll be back in a bit.”
Another lie. Today was the most dishonest day of his life.
“Okay, we’ll eat in a bit.”
“You’re back pretty quickly.”
“Hey, Jiang Shi is so clueless, he just kept walking forward with his head down, I could only follow him.”
“What news did you find out today?”
“Two things. First, he heard you talking. Second, he didn’t know who you were before.”
“The road is long and arduous.”
“A Li, when we eat…” That pause… the next sentence was self-evident.
“Okay, Caregiver, hee.”
“Mom, he’s looking longingly at the other end of his phone.”
Su Zhao Li kicked Chu Nan Du under the table.
“A Li has someone he likes?” Mother Chu asked.
“I didn’t say anything,” Chu Nan Du came out to add fuel to the fire. What difference was there between this and saying everything?
“Caregiver, don’t ask, don’t ask.” Su Zhao Li was really embarrassed.
“Okay, okay, I know you have good grades and your own ideas, but it’s senior year now, remember to balance…” “Okay, Caregiver,” Su Zhao Li quickly interrupted.
“How is it? Did he add you?”
“No.” Su Zhao Li lay dejectedly on the bed. “I gave him a whole stack, he really doesn’t get it at all.”
“You brought it on yourself. Who told you to fall for someone like that? You’re not even willing to lower yourself to chase after him. You deserve to suffer the pain of longing.”
“People who are too eager are not easily treasured. I just decided, once I get familiar with him, I’m going to make him suffer the pain of longing.”
“And don’t call me brother all the time, it’s too mushy.”
“Okay, I won’t call you brother anymore.”
“Don’t even think about it. I’m talking about Jiang Shi.”
“Got it. It’s just to leave a different impression at the beginning, I won’t do it anymore later.”
“Hey, go to school first, don’t wait for me. I’ll pretend to run into him downstairs at the residential complex and go to school with him. Don’t come and bother me.” Su Zhao Li pushed Chu Nan Du out of the room.
“You’re really like a married son who’s been lost to his family. Let me say one more thing, Mom and Dad told me to keep an eye on you. I’ll continue to follow your situation. If it’s not appropriate, I’ll advise you to break up.”
“I know, I know. I also said that if I’m going to marry, I’ll definitely marry the best. If it’s really not appropriate, I’ll definitely break away before you remind me.”
“I hope so.”
“Hurry up and go, hurry up and go.”
Su Zhao Li arrived downstairs very early to wait, and was now chatting with Old Wang, the security guard, in the guard house. Su Zhao Li looked pleasing, and was deeply loved by adults since he was little. He could chat with anyone for a while. Old Wang also knew him, and seeing him standing in the sun, he invited him inside to sit. In just this short time, the two of them had almost become forget year’s end friends.
As if sensing something, Su Zhao Li looked up and saw Jiang Shi, who was almost in front of him. “Uncle Wang, I’m not chatting anymore. My friend is here, I’m going to school. See you next time.”
“Okay, go ahead.”
“Hello, we meet again.” Su Zhao Li jumped out suddenly, pretending to have really run into him by chance.
“Where’s your brother?” Jiang Shi looked behind him and didn’t see Chu Nan Du.
“Went to school early.” Jiang Shi frowned, wasn’t he worried? How could he just leave him like that?
“Then I’ll take you again.”
“Thank you.”
“Jiang Shi,” Su Zhao Li nervously called out, calling his name in front of him for the first time, “Why didn’t you add me?”
Jiang Shi took out the stack of sticky notes from his pocket. “I took a nap at noon and forgot.”
“Oh, okay.” Su Zhao Li could chat with anyone, but his mood really affected his performance. Facing Jiang Shi, he always had to think before he spoke, which made him unable to speak.
The two were silent all the way. When they reached their floor, Su Zhao Li ran back to the classroom, and Jiang Shi didn’t care.
When Jiang Shi arrived at the classroom, he saw that Chu Nan Du was already in his seat, and couldn’t help frowning, not understanding the two brothers.
“Don’t eat, let’s go, let’s go to the sports field to watch Jiang Shi play soccer.” As soon as class was over for dinner, Su Zhao Li pulled Chu Nan Du away.
“Watch him play soccer? Wasn’t it because of him playing soccer that you couldn’t stand him?”
The thing was, when Su Zhao Li first came to their school a year ago, he and Chu Nan Du were strolling around the sports field during dinner time, when suddenly, out of nowhere, he was hit on the head by a ball. Yes, it was Jiang Shi’s ball. Originally, if Jiang Shi had come over to apologize at the time, the matter would have been over, after all, no one could be blamed for this kind of thing. But Jiang Shi was far away and didn’t come over. It was the goalkeeper who came to pick up the ball and apologized to him. So Su Zhao Li couldn’t stand Jiang Shi, he really couldn’t stand him, unilaterally couldn’t stand him.
“Forget it, I’m not going to argue with you about this. I still don’t know how you took a fancy to him.”
“Hurry, hurry, hurry. Jiang Shi has a lot of little fan girls, I need to franticallyshua my presence recently.”
Sitting on the stands, you could see the entire field clearly. There were a lot of people next to them, many of whom had bought food from the cafeteria to eat. Su Zhao Li looked at the pancakes, bread, and grilled sausages in the hands of the students next to him. The food in the school tasted very good, and Su Zhao Li couldn’t help swallowing.
“I’m hungry.” Su Zhao Li whispered in Chu Nan Du’s ear.
“What do you want to eat? I’ll go buy it.” Chu Nan Du knew it would be like this.
“I want to eat everything.” Su Zhao Li blinked his eyes at Chu Nan Du. “Go to the cafeteria and see which one has fewer people and buy that for me. I’m so hungry.”
“Okay, ancestor.”
“Hee.”
Su Zhao Li turned his attention back to Jiang Shi on the field. He didn’t really understand soccer, and he didn’t like to watch it before, but when you watch it seriously, you can enjoy it.
“Here, bread, grilled sausage, orange juice. How’s it going on the field?”
Su Zhao Li took it, opened the bread bag and took a big bite. “Jiang Shi is really awesome. So soccer matches are so exciting.”
“Who told you not to like sports before? You’re prejudiced against soccer.”
“It’s not that I don’t like sports, I just don’t like sports that make you sweat. Hold this for me.”
Su Zhao Li handed the bread to Chu Nan Du, opened the orange juice and took a big gulp, finally feeling comfortable.
“You drank it? I was originally thinking that you would take it to Jiang Shi to give him water.”
“I’m not going. That’s too overeager. And can people drink orange juice after exercising?”
“I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it. It should be okay.”
“Then why did you buy it?”
“Isn’t it because you like to drink it? You can train him unknowingly, and the two people with similar habits should get along better.”
“That makes sense.”
Poor Jiang Shi was arranged unknowingly.