PPS Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Little Mongrel

“Ahhh, thank you, Xiao Chu, waaa! I have breakfast again!” Zhang Haoyu howled happily, clutching the breakfast Chu Zhaoyi handed him.

You have to understand that people who have classes at 8 AM don’t have time to buy breakfast.

They open their eyes and run straight to the classroom.

Chu Zhaoyi’s breakfast was delivered from Xianpin Pavilion on time, so naturally it didn’t take any time.

This time, Chu Zhaoyi only brought enough for Zhang Haoyu. Gu Yusen asked if the other two roommates were bullying him, but Chu Zhaoyi shook his head.

Gu Yusen didn’t think he was lying, so he didn’t ask any more questions. He watched him obediently finish his own breakfast and then handed him another portion. The main reason was that he had been at the school for a year and knew many people. He asked his friends to pay a little attention to Chu Zhaoyi in Art Class Four, and they would tell him if anything happened.

Gu Yusen suggested bringing breakfast for his roommate. First, Chu Zhaoyi didn’t live in the dorm, so it was difficult for him to have close relationships with his roommates. Plus, with Chu Zhaoyi’s personality, it would be good enough if he could just maintain a surface-level relationship. Second, it wasn’t a hassle, so why not?

“This baozi smells so good! Where did you buy it? I want to buy it next time too!” Zhang Haoyu took a big bite of the baozi, filled with happiness.

Awesome!

Li Yu didn’t come to class today. Xie Haoran sat next to Zhang Haoyu and noticed that Chu Zhaoyi didn’t do anything else after giving Zhang Haoyu his breakfast.

The fake smile on Xie Haoran’s face was barely holding up.

It was one thing to not eat himself, but another to not bring any for others.

Over the past week, as the class monitor and a student of Professor Li Ze, coupled with his easygoing personality, he was very popular in the class. He had never been treated like this before.

The fact that Chu Zhaoyi and Gu Yusen were connected had spread quickly throughout the school. Although Gu Yusen said he was a younger relative, everyone was still skeptical.

Moreover, the two of them often arrived and left together, and both were exceptionally handsome. With Chu Zhaoyi’s striking red hair, he had become quite a popular figure at the school in a short period.

However, after class, he disappeared, nobody knew where he went. His personality was aloof, and not many people dared to approach him.

Due to Gu Yusen’s great fame, Chu Zhaoyi’s reputation was also quite good.

Xie Haoran gritted his teeth thinking about all this, but ultimately didn’t say anything.

After class, Chu Zhaoyi went to Professor Qin’s office as usual. Zhang Haoyu originally wanted to connect with his roommate, Chu, but couldn’t find an opportunity.

Recently, his life in the dorm had not been easy. Li Yu was a snob who didn’t like talking to Zhang Haoyu because of his poor appearance. Especially since there was someone in the dorm he could curry favor with, he did his best to praise them, and would even pull Zhang Haoyu down a peg, occasionally saying bad things about Chu Zhaoyi.

“Sigh!” Zhang Haoyu sighed deeply, watching Chu Zhaoyi abandon him so decisively.

Seeing this scene, Xie Haoran surprisingly approached Zhang Haoyu.

Chu Zhaoyi hadn’t finished packing his bag yet, and Gu Yusen was already waiting for him at the classroom door. He couldn’t help but speed up a bit, not curious at all about their conversation.

“Going back to the dorm together?”

Zhang Haoyu was stunned for a moment: “Sure, aren’t you busy today?”

“It’s okay, I was busy with some family matters over the weekend, I’m a little tired, so I’ll take it easy today,” Xie Haoran said with a perfect smile, frowning slightly when talking about family matters, looking exhausted.

“Ah, what happened at home? Nothing serious, right?” Zhang Haoyu subconsciously thought it was something bad and wanted to show concern.

“Well, the family recently acquired a company and wanted me to try my hand at it. You know my hobby is painting, making me deal with this is worse than killing me, it’s exhausting,” Xie Haoran glanced at Gu Yusen walking over in the distance, and said casually.

His tone wasn’t too loud or too soft, but everyone passing by could hear him, even Gu Yusen who was walking over heard him and curiously glanced at this person named Xie Haoran.

The upper-class circle was only so big, the Xie family…? Didn’t ring any bells.

Zhang Haoyu touched his head awkwardly, listening to him. He could only smile, he came from an ordinary family, and could even be considered poor in the art school, so he couldn’t understand the pain of the rich.

How can a company be used for practice directly…

So this is how rich people are.

But these words sounded a little uncomfortable, and Zhang Haoyu felt that Xie Haoran’s attitude was strange.

As someone relatively close to Xie Haoran, Zhang Haoyu could occasionally sense that Xie Haoran wasn’t as easygoing as he appeared on the surface.

Although every time Li Yu insulted him, Xie Haoran would actually take the initiative to say a few words for him.

It was already pretty good.

But… the faintly revealed feeling of superiority made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he then let it go. Perhaps that’s how rich people are?

But then he thought about it, Chu Zhaoyi and Gu Yusen weren’t like that… the two of them never looked down on him in the slightest, and even brought him breakfast all the time.

Chu Zhaoyi didn’t pay much attention to him just because he was quiet, he equally didn’t like to pay attention to anyone.

Chu Zhaoyi packed his bag and directly stuffed it into Gu Yusen’s hand. The bag was so heavy, he didn’t want to carry it.

Gu Yusen was used to it, directly taking it and slinging it on his back, but he never had kind words in his mouth.

“You really are, I’m really spoiling you all day long.”

Xie Haoran naturally saw this scene too, frowned, and intentionally spoke to Gu Yusen.

“Ayi looks like a girl, and his personality is also a bit delicate. Brother Gu really takes good care of his younger relative.”

Gu Yusen’s face immediately darkened when he heard these words. He hadn’t forgotten the state Chu Zhaoyi was in when he had his breakdown, including where the school bullying Chu Zhaoyi had suffered originated from.

Young boys are always particularly sensitive about their long hair and feminine appearance.

It could even be said that these were the reasons for his autism.

Unexpectedly, the first to refute wasn’t Gu Yusen, nor Chu Zhaoyi, but Zhang Haoyu.

The moment he heard these words, this carefree boy blurted out: “Damn it, where does Chu Zhaoyi look like a girl? He’s so handsome, I’d be laughing in my dreams if I looked like that!”

Zhang Haoyu really thought Chu Zhaoyi was extraordinarily handsome, and not feminine at all, especially after getting that red hair, he was sunny and handsome, how could anyone see him as feminine?

Then his tone became somewhat dissatisfied.

“Also, don’t use ‘delicate’ to describe others! Especially since Xiao Chu is a boy, would you be happy if I used ‘delicate’ to describe you?”

These words were directed at Xie Haoran, and were rare and sharp.

Chu Zhaoyi originally felt a dull pain in his heart when he heard Xie Haoran’s words, and the image of him crying in his mind didn’t even have time to appear before it was interrupted by Zhang Haoyu’s loud voice.

Chu Zhaoyi blankly raised his head, his gaze falling on Zhang Haoyu’s frowning face.

For the first time, he seriously looked at this roommate of his. His appearance was honest and simple, and he was actually a little handsome, but in this school, he always felt inferior because of his family background, even his back wasn’t straight, and coupled with the fact that he wasn’t good at dressing, he always had a bit of a “rustic” air about him.

But he was a very frank and sincere person.

Xie Haoran’s hand in his pocket clenched tightly, the force so great that his nails dug into his flesh. His face was stiff and pale, and everyone’s eyes were focused on him, faintly showing dissatisfaction.

“I misspoke,” he could only force himself to defend.

Zhang Haoyu actually didn’t mean to attack him. He felt that there weren’t so many twists and turns between boys, everyone said what they meant, and after they were done, they were still good brothers.

But it was obvious that he thought so, but Xie Haoran didn’t.

After Xie Haoran said these words, he fled as if he was escaping, no longer able to withstand the strange gazes coming from around him.

Gu Yusen frowned, watching his embarrassed back.

This person is very strange. Why did he inexplicably use these words to attack Chu Zhaoyi? He even suspected that Xie Haoran knew something and deliberately said it to stimulate Chu Zhaoyi.

Gu Yusen was still thinking about it when he turned his head and saw a scene that made his temples throb.

Chu Zhaoyi’s unhappiness was dispelled by Zhang Haoyu’s loud voice. He looked at the silly, clueless Zhang Haoyu in front of him, and actually found it a little funny.

Like a little mongrel he had seen before.

He didn’t have any scheming thoughts. He would happily hug and gnaw on anything delicious, and would speak his mind directly if he was dissatisfied.

He would take care of Chu Zhaoyi because of his words “help take care of him” without knowing Gu Yusen’s identity. He would reserve a seat for him every day, and when some girls thought Chu Zhaoyi looked good and wanted his contact information,

Chu Zhaoyi wouldn’t handle these things, and wouldn’t put these people in his eyes as if he didn’t hear them at all.

It was Zhang Haoyu who noticed something was wrong and stood up to help Chu Zhaoyi refuse.

Chu Zhaoyi carefully recalled everything that had happened in the past, and the more he looked at Zhang Haoyu’s angry appearance, the more he felt he looked like a little mongrel.

He couldn’t help but reach out to want to stroke his fur.

His offensive claws had already reached the top of his head.

Before he could touch him, two different voices came from his ears.

“You can’t touch a big man’s head, Xiao Chu, don’t!” This was Zhang Haoyu.

“Chu Zhaoyi! Take your hand back!” This was Gu Yusen.

Chu Zhaoyi blinked innocently.

He still put his hand down.

As expected, it wasn’t good to touch, it was hard.