PPS Chapter 58
by VolareAfter class, Chu Zhaoyi packed his things and headed towards the door, only to see Zhang Haoyu running alone towards the cafeteria.
In his memory, Zhang Haoyu was quite popular. He didn’t hang out with Li Yu often, but he had other friends.
“What are you thinking about?” Gu Yusen stopped Chu Zhaoyi, who was walking straight ahead.
“Nothing.” Chu Zhaoyi grabbed Gu Yusen’s hand naturally.
Gu Yusen looked at their intertwined hands. His Chu Jiaojiao really wasn’t reserved at all!
Zhang Haoyu went to the cafeteria alone, feeling unhappy. Just as Chu Zhaoyi remembered, he did have a few friends, and they usually hung out together.
Even when he was the topic of discussion on the forum recently, when people talked about his mother being the one who sold egg pancakes at the school gate, his friends didn’t say much. Instead, they accompanied him in arguing on the forum.
After Chu Zhaoyi’s matter was exposed, his friends gradually distanced themselves from him.
Because he was known as Chu Zhaoyi’s best friend in the school.
The class divisions in their department were very serious. The group that Li Yu and Xie Haoran hung out with were all wealthy young masters from A City.
And their group consisted of ordinary families in the department.
The two sides naturally separated.
But after Chu Zhaoyi’s matter was exposed, his friends instead thought that Zhang Haoyu was currying favor with Chu Zhaoyi for some ulterior motive. But what was so glorious about Chu Zhaoyi’s identity?
A gilded canary? Or a shady lover?
Neither was respectable.
Zhang Haoyu didn’t believe it, but Chu Zhaoyi’s bad reputation was well-known in the school. Most students were more inclined to believe what was posted on the forum.
Whatever.
Chu Zhaoyi was clearly such a good person.
Zhang Haoyu took a big bite of his chicken leg. They were all blind!
“Oh, eating alone? Why aren’t you licking Chu Zhaoyi anymore? So, after all this time, he still doesn’t want to eat a meal with you!” A mocking voice rang from above.
Zhang Haoyu was very familiar with this voice.
Li Yu.
Ever since he started sucking up to Xie Haoran, he had been constantly sarcastic towards him.
Before, he would restrain himself a bit because he was on good terms with Chu Zhaoyi, at most making a few sarcastic remarks in private. Even if he occasionally heard them, it didn’t matter. But it wouldn’t be like now, deliberately looking for trouble.
“Mind your own business.” Zhang Haoyu didn’t look up, continuing to shovel rice into his mouth.
Eating was the most important thing.
“Zhang Haoyu! Your mouth is so dirty!” Li Yu said angrily, slamming his hand on the table.
“Oh, not as dirty as yours, right?” Zhang Haoyu felt that if he didn’t resolve this matter, he wouldn’t be able to finish his meal today, so he stood up and looked directly at Li Yu.
His appearance was rather simple and honest, his skin was dark, and when he smiled, his teeth were white, making him look easy to get along with. But when he frowned, he didn’t have much of a deterrent effect.
“I’m not going to mess around with you. Where’s Chu Zhaoyi?” Li Yu rolled his eyes and sat down directly opposite Zhang Haoyu, not being polite at all.
“What are you doing?!” Zhang Haoyu became vigilant instantly. In his heart, Chu Zhaoyi was now a fragile young man. It wasn’t easy for someone with autism to study smoothly in school.
Moreover, fate had inflicted so many hardships on him, even his hearing was impaired.
If he didn’t pity him, who would he pity!
There were still so many people who misunderstood him!
When Zhang Haoyu had nothing to do, he would argue on the forum, but he was weak and isolated, and was severely attacked.
“Damn it! The teacher for one of our courses is asking for homework! He doesn’t join the class group or the class committee, how can anyone find him? I finally saw him today, and he ran away in the blink of an eye.” Li Yu was furious. He was the academic representative of the class, and the teacher for this course was particularly strict. He had assigned homework last week, and Chu Zhaoyi was the only one who hadn’t submitted it!
“!” Zhang Haoyu didn’t expect it to be this matter. Damn, so many things had happened recently that he had forgotten to tell Chu Zhaoyi.
“…Idiot.” Li Yu looked at his silly, honest expression and knew that he definitely hadn’t told Chu Zhaoyi about this matter. His lips twitched.
Zhang Haoyu touched the back of his head guiltily.
Ahem.
He thought Li Yu was here to cause trouble.
Forgive him, he had been sprayed too much on the forum recently.
He was scared.
“Thanks, I’ll tell Chu Zhaoyi.” Zhang Haoyu took out his phone to send a message to Chu Zhaoyi.
Their contact information was exchanged the first time they met, when Chu Zhaoyi reluctantly held up his phone to scan the code under Gu Yusen’s direction.
He couldn’t help but laugh when he thought about Chu Zhaoyi’s expression at that time.
“Why are you suddenly smiling?” Li Yu rolled his eyes, grabbed the chopsticks on the table, took Zhang Haoyu’s chicken leg, and stuffed it into his own mouth.
“Hey, my chicken leg!”
“You’re so stingy. This young master will compensate you with ten.” Li Yu took a few bites, spat a bare bone onto the table, and raised his chin.
“Forget it, forget it. If you want to eat it, just eat it. Why are you here today? Aren’t you with Xie Haoyu?” Zhang Haoyu wasn’t a stingy person. A chicken leg wasn’t a big deal. Moreover, he didn’t have any issues with Li Yu, he just thought this person was a bit snobbish.
At first, when Xie Haoran wasn’t around, he was on pretty good terms with him. But later, he inexplicably stopped talking to him, and instead chased after Xie Haoran every day.
Although he didn’t really care, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
“Hmph, him? He’s participating in the Huì yǐng liúguāng competition recently and is being severely scolded by Teacher Li Ze. He’s in a terrible mood, so I’m avoiding him.” Li Yu snorted, his face showing some annoyance.
Zhang Haoyu was puzzled.
Weren’t they on good terms with Xie Haoyu?
“Hehe, I’m happy to be a bootlicker?” Li Yu knew what Zhang Haoyu was thinking when he saw his expression, and rolled his eyes again.
He wasn’t a masochist. He knew that he could get benefits from Xie Haoran, so he eagerly followed him, but he wouldn’t really see Xie Haoran as anything good.
Moreover, his family had a slight connection with the Xie family. Although the Xie family wasn’t the leader of A City like the Gu family, they were still much better than his family.
Just someone who wants both things at the same time.
A fool who likes to hear others praise him, yet pretends to be modest.
Does he really have any real talent?
Li Yu thought of the homework that Xie Haoran had submitted for this course. It wasn’t bad, it could be said to be the best in the class, but… it didn’t feel as amazing as the rumors made it out to be.
“Teacher Li Ze is really strict,” Zhang Haoyu said with emotion. In his impression, Xie Haoran’s professional level was quite high. Although he had hardly ever seen his paintings, all kinds of rumors praised him as being unmatched.
Even recently, on the forum, there were many people saying that Chu Zhaoyi wasn’t worthy of being Professor Qin’s student, and that Professor Qin should have taken Xie Haoran instead, and things like that.
As someone on Chu Zhaoyi’s side, Zhang Haoyu naturally felt a bit uncomfortable seeing that.
“Don’t worry about the things on the forum. Don’t argue with people on there every day. This isn’t something you can control.” Li Yu left these words inscrutably, stood up, and left, not forgetting to wave goodbye to Zhang Haoyu.
Zhang Haoyu felt inexplicable.
Saying it so profoundly.
He understood it very well, oh.