Chapter 13. ☆ He Zhouguan

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, He Yiyang was shocked. Thinking that the sentence was inappropriate, he promptly added: “High school students are not allowed to fall in love early and delay their studies. You are so stupid, so don’t distract yourself with unnecessary people, eh?”

“I don’t want to fall in love early. I also told you that Zhengyuan is just a former tablemate.” Ruan Mengmeng explained, “Didn’t Senior Sister Lou call me out? He was just concerned about me today…… Brother, why were you there again?”

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Ruan Mengmeng’s expression had no trace of hesitation. He Yiyang breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised his eyebrows, “You care about me?”

“You ……” Ruan Mengmeng didn’t expect this person to be so overbearing. She opened her small mouth, but she couldn’t even say anything.

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Ruan Mengmeng hurriedly waved her hands, “No, no, I’m convinced. I’m convinced. I’m convinced of whatever brother says.”

Oh God, just don’t pinch her face again.

“Does your face hurt?” He Yiyang asked.

Ruan Mengmeng nodded. There were two fingerprints on her fair skin.

He was a little distressed, but his mouth said, “If you had said you wouldn’t fall in love early, it would have been over. A dead duck’s mouth is hard [2].”

“…I…”Ruan Mengmeng was dumbfounded, unable to say anything again.

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What could Ruan Mengmeng do when she encountered He Yiyang, who had a better brain than her and a slicker mouth than her, and who would just pinch her face at the drop of a hat?

This was the brother that she had been rushing to recognise, yet she couldn’t say anything back, even if she swallowed her teeth!

“I ran into you both by chance after the student council broke up,” He Yiyang explained, showing an uncomfortable gesture. “From tomorrow onwards, I will be in the student council office until noon. It is quiet and air-conditioned, so you can come over and ask questions.”

“Doesn’t Brother take a nap?”

“There’s a couch. I can just lie down for ten minutes.”

As he said this, he suddenly realised that the two of them were extremely close to each other, and He Yiyang’s upper body jerked back with a look of horror: “Why are you so close to me? I told you, I wouldn’t like you!”

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“…I…”Ruan Mengmeng was going crazy, “You’re the one who dragged me in, okay?!”

“No, it’s not possible!” He Yiyang hesitated for a split second, refusing to admit it.

Ruan Mengmeng turned around in anger. “Hmph, I don’t want to see you again today.” She stopped at the door, turned her head, and pouted, “Have good dreams, brother.”

The door clicked and locked, and He Yiyang’s heart was pounding a little faster.

The girl’s unique fragrance and softness exploded violently at this moment.

The figure of Ruan Mengmeng rushing in wearing a fluffy pink nightgown earlier also flashed in his mind, and he couldn’t stop thinking about it. It even added in a background sound, “Brother, Brother Yiyang ……”.

With a muffled roar, he walked towards the toilet, lost in thought, his face full of haze and unwillingness.

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After ten minutes of dawdling over the last big question on the maths paper, Ruan Mengmeng slumped her shoulders in dismay. The pen in her hand snapped onto the table, and her head hit the edge of the table with a thud.

She lowered her head and murmured, “Why is maths so hard?”

In the past few days, He Yiyang was in the student council office after lunch, taking over the school affairs and the duties of the president of the first high school as early as possible. Ruan Mengmeng admired him and felt that his health bar was at least twice that of the average person.

She also went to the office at noon, asking for advice on mathematics, physics, and chemistry that she didn’t understand, but she was full of warm thoughts….. No, Ruan Mengmeng couldn’t resist the fact that she was sleepy when she was full. Experts have said that after a meal, the blood concentration in the brain was thin, and it was normal to feel dizzy due to a lack of oxygen.

Therefore, when He Yiyang explained the topic, she could not help but yawn, and pinching her face was useless. With her watery eyes open, her brain had actually fallen asleep a long time ago.

He gave up the treatment and sent her to the sofa for a nap while he tapped his fingers on the keyboard.

The air conditioning in the president’s office was so cold that the puffy Ruan Mengmeng woke up from her nap yesterday with a dizzy head. By the time she got home at night, not only had her ferocious aunt come, but she also had a feverish cold.

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The other girls in the class were envious of her being able to get close to the high-cold male god.

God knows, she was not blessed with He Yiyang’s ‘coolness’.

When she wrote a paper, he pinched her face at every turn.

Well, if she couldn’t do it, he pinched it; if she could do it easily, he rubbed it. In short, it was just a problem with her face.

Then there’s the pickiness when it comes to lunch: the meat was stale, the vegetables were old, the chilli seeds were vexing, the aubergines were soft and unappealing… He was always eating a meal and muttering.

When he was sleepy, he wanted a drink. There was only tea in the office since the former president, Mr. Zou, only drank tea. But, he didn’t want it, so he instructed her to buy coffee at noon. Then, he didn’t want to drink it because it was instant.

The next morning, she reminded him to bring coffee to refresh himself. He was baffled, and in turn taught her to drink less coffee, saying that she was already stupid and then it might damage her nerves!

Ruan Mengmeng was dumbfounded. Who could tell her if she had never used the word ‘cold’ in the right way!

‘I’m so dizzy’. She asked for leave from the sports committee to go down to the gymnasium and slumped down on the table, breathless.

The phone in the desk drawer vibrated with a wechat from Lu Zhengyuan.

[Mengmeng, Chen Linjia said you have a cold; I’ll go to the infirmary and buy you cold medicine. Comforting head touch.jpg]

[I ate cold medicine, but I just have no energy and want to sleep]

……

After replying to the message, Ruan Mengmeng lay on the table with her under her head, sniffling. Her stomach was cold and heavy, but her body was hot.

He Yiyang walked in and found the little fatty curled up in a ball. He frowned and sprinted over.

“What’s wrong?”

Reaching out, he touched Ruan Mengmeng’s forehead; her body temperature was cold but sweat-sheeny.

He pulled her arm up and said urgently, “Come on, go to the infirmary.”

Ruan Mengmeng looked up and suddenly became aggrieved when she saw He Yiyang, softly shouting, “Brother ……”

He Yiyang lifted Ruan Mengmeng with both hands and swept her up in front of him, “Don’t go to class. You should go to the infirmary and lie down.”

“I haven’t asked for leave from Teacher Chen yet.” Ruan Mengmeng was really uncomfortable, and she couldn’t even listen in class.

“Leave it, there’s me.”

He Yiyang’s heart ached when he heard her soft voice.

What were one or two lessons? He could make up for her if she missed a month or two.

The infirmary was on the north side of the school. When passing by, you had to pass through the playground, and it was the middle of class.

Ruan Mengmeng leaned on He Yiyang’s side, and He Yiyang didn’t avoid taking her by the shoulders.

The students at the back of the line doing exercises were bored, and their eyes were darting around. When they saw them, they were excited and clamouring. You tapped me on the shoulder, and I tapped him on the shoulder, watching the fun.

Before long, half of the large playground had stopped moving.

Ruan Mengmeng was a little embarrassed. He Yiyang was the ‘high-cold’ male god, and she was just a little nobody.

The little nobody clawed at the male god, and the burning jealous gazes of men could almost burn her to death.

A chill ran down Ruan Mengmeng’s spine as she held her strength and pushed He Yiyang down, “Brother, I’ll walk by myself.”

“Can you walk if I don’t help you?” He Yiyang’s arm tightened in dissatisfaction, “Shut up and lean on me!”

He knew the little fatty’s concerns. His eyes sharply swept the playground.

Ruan Mengmeng didn’t push him away but was hugged even tighter. Looking up, He Yiyang’s tall body was like a piece of high-pressure tempered glass, helping her to block all kinds of inquisitive and malicious eyes.

For a moment, her mood was a little complicated. It was somehow sour and sullen, yet she wanted to laugh. But she couldn’t figure out such complicated thoughts, so she stopped thinking about them.

Ruan Mengmeng whispered, “Brother, you have so many girlfriend fans in school.”

“What fans or not? They are all passersby. What’s the point of thinking about these irrelevant ones?” He Yiyang’s fingers subconsciously tried to pinch Ruan Mengmeng’s face and were scalded by the heat that was on the high side. “Mengmeng, you have a fever!”

Ruan Mengmeng was confused, “Huh?”

You… you are so stupid, ah! You didn’t call me when your pupils were dilated! “

He Yiyang was simply furious. He bent over with his hands under the bend of her legs, picked her up and ran wildly to the infirmary.

“Whoa! Senior!”

“Ahhhhh ……”

The younger students roared in awe, each one overwhelmed with excitement.

Lu Zhengyuan had previously planned to look for Ruan Mengmeng after the exercise, as the two of them were not in the same class anymore and he could not be the first to know about anything. So, after thinking about it, he rubbed up against the boys’ team in Chen Linjia’s class during the exercise and asked about Ruan Mengmeng.

A scream in his ears now made his heart drop like weightlessness.

“Don’t put on a losing face; you still have a chance.” Chen Linjia came over and said.

Lu Zhengyuan looked in the direction of the infirmary, “Senior He treats Mengmeng differently. He values her a lot.”

“They’ve been playing since he was a kid, so naturally his friendship is not ordinary,” Chen Linjia rolled her eyes and spat, “Besides, He Yiyang has a high and arrogant temper. Only Mengmeng can stand him.”

She also smiled and teased Lu Zhengyuan, “Don’t worry. They both made it clear that they treat each other as brother and sister, so you can boldly pursue her. I support you.”

Lu Zhengyuan’s lost expression glowed and he couldn’t hide his excitement. “She really only sees He Yiyang as her brother?”

“Really!” Chen Linjia nodded, “I’ve laughed at her before, but with Mengmeng’s straightforward and frank nature, you know if she says no, it’s no. She is just more dependent on He Yiyang. The trust and protection built up as a child is always different.”

“That’s good!” Lu Zhengyuan smiled, sunny and handsome. Even though his face was flushed with embarrassment, he also said generously, “Chen Linjia, you help me as an inside man. As long as Mengmeng …… you have any request, just mention it!”

“Hahaha, good point, good point.” Chen Linjia patted Lu Zhengyuan’s shoulder, “I’m relieved to be handing Mengmeng over to you. He Yiyang, that guy… just a layer of skin can bluff people. The real character is poor to death.”

Ruan Mengmeng, who had been sold by her two friends at the same time, didn’t move with her thermometer in her hand. She just looked at He Yiyang with bewildered eyes.

He Yiyang: “What?”

Ruan Mengmeng pursed her lips and shook her head. She wanted to say that he had been too presumptuous, but when she thought that he was worried about her, she couldn’t blame him.

The school nurse took the thermometer, “38.2 degrees. You should lie down and rest.”

She really had a fever, so she lay down on the bed and the school nurse put a cooling patch on her.

“Look at this flesh of yours, it’s useless! You can catch a cold even with a little air conditioning,” He Yiyang said, frowning in a bad tone, “Classes are about to start. I’m going to ask your class teacher for leave.”

He turned around and didn’t take two steps before turning back and saying, “I’ll come see you after school.”

Ruan Mengmeng was stunned and nodded obediently.

He Yiyang’s coldness was only towards people he didn’t know well, but he was actually very good and kind to those he recognised.

Ruan Mengmeng smiled and drifted off to sleep until there was a lot of noise outside the infirmary.

In a blur, it seemed like Jiajia and her brother were arguing ……

[1] She was teasing him by calling him an officer. 

[2] A dead duck’s mouth is hard, which means that the person is stubborn to a fault.