Fake Boy

Chapter 9 – Little White-Eyed Wolf

When Li Mingzhu saw this message, her temples throbbed to the point her head started aching.

Lu Yao was the type of person that wouldn’t give up until all hope was gone; she wondered where all his energy came from.

She ignored his message but, in the next moment, her phone vibrated again.

[Hey! Don’t play dead! I know you read my message.]

Li Mingzhu snorted, messages didn’t have the read receipt function; Lu Yao was just swindling her.

Her phone was vibrating in the drawer, but Li Mingzhu turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, only concentrating on studying.

Behind her, Su Xiao pulled her sleeve.

Li Mingzhu turned back and saw Su Xiao excitedly pointing out the window.

She looked in that direction, there, Lu Yao was holding the school’s broom, ostentatiously standing near the back door and staring at her.

Li Mingzhu felt a jolt all over her body, she immediately sat upright and looked at the blackboard, but in her heart brewed storms on rivers and seas: ‘Why was Lu Yao here?’

She sat rigidly not for long, when her phone vibrated again; it was Lu Yao’s message again.

[Turn around, I’m talking to you!]

Li Mingzhu ignored him.

[I’m going to call out.]

Li Mingzhu still ignored him.

After a while, Lu Yao stood carefreely at the back door and said aloud: “Ami, you’re talking too fast, no one can understand!”

It was Ami’s English class. In addition to teaching the excellence class, she also got assigned to the art class, in the hope she could help them improve their grades.

She was moved wherever she was needed; using the best-qualified teachers to block the mouths of the art class’s parents.

Lu Yao passed half a semester fooling around under her nose and defying the rules, he was very arrogant.

“Lu Yao! You, what are you doing?!” Ami shouted.

“I’m auditing, swimming freely in the ocean of knowledge, you aren’t letting me? That’s too irresponsible for a teacher.” Lu Yao said as he walked in dragging his broom, next he grabbed a chair and sat down by Li Mingzhu’s side.

Li Mingzhu’s body got stiff.

Lu Yao very familiarly pulled over half of Li Mingzhu’s English book, then with his hand indicated to Ami to continue with the lesson and to pay no attention to him.

“I’m sitting here to listen, you can continue.”

Lu Yao’s attitude was as if he was a director here for inspection.

“Lu Yao, get out, out!” Ami frowned and said surging with fury.

“I’m not!” Lu Yao met her eyes while resting his chin on his hand.

Ami repeated it twice, then let him be.

Lu Yao, this little ancestor, refused to comply with discipline, but the teachers couldn’t do anything about it, because of his background, many teachers, who got their salary from the government, would be humble towards him; as long as Lu Yao didn’t go overboard, they would turn a blind eye.

Lu Yao always stepped just on the edge, hence the teachers who wanted to give him a lesson couldn’t find any fault with him.

“You’ll have to go out if you make noise!” Ami warned Lu Yao.

“I won’t, I’m here to learn.” Lu Yao said solemnly,

Li Mingzhu glanced coldly at him, Lu Yao ignored her and started flipping over Li Mingzhu’s English book; he was talking idly while looking through the book.

When the students around them saw Lu Yao sitting down next to Li Mingzhu out of the blue, they all got extremely surprised.

Everyone looked at Li Mingzhu with an expression asking for gossip, they wanted to ask but didn’t dare to ask, they suppressed it till noon.

Yang Ke was restless for the entire English class, words tossed and turned over and over again in her head, when the class ended, she finally mustered up her courage and asked:

“Lu Yao, why didn’t you go to class?”

The number of girls talking to Lu Yao every day if not one hundred were at least eighty, so Lu Yao answered nonchalantly.

“Disciplinary punishment, I have to clean up the public area for a week.”

Yang Ke got an answer, her heartbeat become more fast, she pretended to ask uncaringly: “Then why aren’t you sweeping?”.

Lu Yao suddenly crooked his mouth and smiled, then coquettishly asked: “Senior, can you help me sweep?”

Hearing his tone, Yang Ke felt like jelly and almost slipped down from the chair, accompanied by Lu Yao’s innocent expression, she almost agreed.

Li Mingzhu took out her lunch box from her schoolbag to go eat on the sports ground.

Lu Yao immediately turned back and caught her arm.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“Let go.” Li Mingzhu said coldly.

“I’m not letting go.” Lu Yao glanced at her lunch box, “You are going to eat, eh, just in time, I’m also hungry …”

“If you’re hungry then go eat on your own, don’t bother me.”

Li Mingzhu wasn’t polite at all, after she said those words, all the people around got pale.

Lu Yao usually was very arrogant at school, he practically acted like a bully, so ordinary students didn’t dare talk to him.

There was no one like Li Mingzhu, who dared to talk back at Lu Yao and didn’t put him in her eyes.

The atmosphere suddenly got tense, Yang Ke was trembling in fear, she quickly tried to mediate: “Are you going to the canteen to eat? Li Ming usually doesn’t go to the canteen, he always brings food from home, why don’t we…”

Lu Yao didn’t listen to her at all; he stretched his legs and stopped Li Mingzhu.

“What’s in your hands? I also want to eat it.”

‘Eat your sister.’ Li Mingzhu thought.

Li Mingzhu’s lunch box was terribly miserable, except for the white rice, there were only green vegetables and tofu; if you gave it to a dog, even a dog wouldn’t eat it.

The people present felt the tense atmosphere and fled, even the ones that usually stayed to review their homework went to the library upstairs; in a moment, in the classroom, the only ones left were Li Mingzhu and Lu Yao.

Lu Yao had long arms and long legs, furthermore, he was good at sports, dealing with a chicken like Li Mingzhu was a piece of cake, he took her lunchbox with no effort, but when he opened it his expression wore down.

“This is what you eat?”

Li Mingzhu got angry from the shame, having his pathetic lunch being seen by others, his face flushed red.

“Give it back!”

Lu Yao used her chopsticks and took a bite, but immediately spit it out from the disgust, frowning, he spit it on Li Mingzhu’s bowl.

When Li Mingzhu saw it, she got dumbstruck and trembled with anger.

“Lu Yao, you …!”

Lu Yao couldn’t read the situation, as a young master, he had never eaten something so disgusting, he threw the lunch box on the table, hooked Li Mingzhu by the shoulders and dragged her out.

Li Mingzhu was so angry to the point of spitting blood, but Lu Yao was completely unaware: “What kind of shit are you eating? Even dogs don’t eat such things, seeing you caring so much about it, I thought it was some kind of delicacy.”

“No wonder you are so thin, every day you only eat this stuff, it’s already a good thing that you haven’t died of hunger.” Lu Yao lifted up her arm with disdain.

“Let’s go, this brother today will offer you lunch, a sumptuous meal!”

“Get off! I’m not going!” Li Mingzhu gritted his teeth, she didn’t want to eat food given out of pity.

“Li Ming, you are very funny, did I ask for your opinion?” Lu Yao jeered, then dragged her to the supermarket.

Lu Yao was pretty famous at school; the supermarket was very crowded, but after he entered, everyone spontaneously stepped aside.

Lu Yao stood in front of the shelves picking and choosing, ignoring all the gazes cast upon them, while the other hand firmly grabbed Li Mingzhu not letting her run away.

Li Mingzhu was so angry, that she probably became mad and started feeling amused.

She had never figured out that little bastard Lu Yao’s thoughts, so didn’t know what he was up to this time.

After paying, Lu Yao went to the sports ground, carrying the plastic bag in one hand and grabbing Li Mingzhu with the other.

The two sat on the stands, Lu Yao looked through the things in the bag, then threw the bread and ham in Li Mingzhu’s arms.

“There’s more after you finish.”

Li Mingzhu looked at him hesitantly, holding the bread in her hand not eating.

Lu Yao already tore open the packaging bag, seeing Li Mingzhu looking at him, he asked puzzled: “Why are you looking at me? Eat, or you want me to feed you?”

Li Mingzhu’s mouth twitched, she recalled that time when she locked Lu Yao up.

Apparently Lu Yao also remembered, he coldly said: “You really are amazing, Li Ming’er, aren’t you afraid of getting a beating?”

‘A dog that bites doesn’t bark, a dog that barks doesn’t bite.’ Li Mingzhu thought.

She wanted to say it out, but after all she was eating his food, the bread was still in her hands, it wasn’t good to call him a dog.

Li Mingzhu expressionlessly stuffed the bread in her mouth, she decided to temporarily put apart her hatred for Lu Yao and sign a treaty for the moment.

Lu Yao gnawed like a dog and finished eating at lightning speed.

After eating, he glanced at Li Mingzhu, she ate very neatly and composedly; she would swallow before taking the next bite. It was different from his way of eating which left many bread crumbs near his mouth.

Whenever she cracked a smile when in a good mood or when the sun rose in the west, Li Mingzhu’s face could stir up people’s hearts and make them dazed for a long while.

She looked like her mother, but also inherited a part of her father’s genes, so she had handsome looks, even just eating was very pleasing to the eye.

But Li Mingzhu hardly was in a good mood. She usually had a gloomy face, exuding the aura of someone not to be provoked, making her look like a sharp blade; if someone wanted to approach her, they were bound to pay the price by bleeding.

While looking at her, Lu Yao lost control of his voice box and words jumped out of his mouth: “Li Ming, you’re so sissy.”

Li Mingzhu’s movements got stunned, she replied “What’s up? Offending people is the trend now?”

Lu Yao came to himself and became aware of what he said.

“Who the fuck is offending you!” He blustered.

“If I call you a sissy, are you happy?” Li Mingzhu coldly glanced at him.

Lu Yao got choked off.

“I don’t know what you want to do, but don’t play your tricks on me.” Li Mingzhu continued unhurriedly.

After Li Mingzhu finished eating, she immediately put the principle of eating other’s food[1] behind her mind. She was a little white-eyed wolf[2], she wouldn’t get friendly with you no matter how much you fed her.

“Don’t think you can bribe me with a meal.”

Lu Yao was dumbfounded by Li Mingzhu’s words.

His contest with Li Mingzhu started two years ago and he never got the upper hand. This all started because of Li Mingzhu, he only wanted to ‘get revenge’, but now the victim Lu Yao received the perpetrator Li Mingzhu’s warning.

Li Mingzhu’s words meant: ‘Don’t expect me to forgive you.’

… What the heck! So it was his fault now!

Lu Yao personally experienced Li Mingzhu’s ability to confuse right and wrong, and turn black into white. Less than half a semester had passed and Lu Yao became the one “looking for forgiveness”!

Lu Yao was astonished.

From the beginning of school till now, he got kicked by Li Mingzhu and also got locked up in his room. Perhaps he got bewitched; he persisted in revolving around Li Mingzhu, and just now he eagerly brought her lunch, but after eating she turned hostile in a blink of an eye.

Lu Yao felt wronged.

The injustice of the millennium!

He analyzed for a long time but still didn’t understand where the problem was.

Li Mingzhu snorted coldly and was about to leave.

Lu Yao pulled her in a haste and said as if possessed: “What about two meals?”

Li Mingzhu raised an eyebrow: ‘Does this brat have Stockholm syndrome?’

Notes

1. Literally ‘the mouth that eats the food of others is softened’, after someone invites you to a meal, you are indebted to him and owe him a favour, so you would have to treat them better.

2. ‘White-eyed wolf’ refers to someone who won’t feel grateful to you no matter how good you treat them, some would also take your kindness for granted and blame you if you don’t help them anymore.