The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Zhao Yuan, Zheng Kai, Wang Xiang and their new friends kept playing basketball until the evening. They really enjoyed hanging out together and decided to go singing at a karaokea together tonight. They invited their friends to join them, thus all the girls of Dorm No. 213 and all the guys from Dorm No. 216 came to the karaokea, except Lin Wenxi. Shu Xiaoman was surprised that Lin Wenxi did not come and asked, “Where is Lin Wenxi?”

“Now, he’s a sleeping beauty in his bed,” Zhao Yuan teased smilingly while thinking, “Lin Wenxi has really crossed the line this time. I’ll continue ignoring him until I return to the dorm tonight to tell him everything.”

The guys and the girls had a good time singing, drinking and playing games at the karaokea. When the guys tipsily returned to their dorm late at night, they could not find Lin Wenxi anywhere or get through to him on the phone. Neither did they find any note left by him. Zheng Kai did not consider this a big deal, but Zhao Yuan was worried to death when he noticed that Lin Wenxi had not touched the lunch food on the table at all. He was so frightened that he immediately sobered up and urged Zheng Kai and Wang Xiang to look for Lin Wenxi together with him. As such, the guys hurriedly walked out of their dorm again.

They searched all the places on the university campus, which were frequented by Lin Wenxi, such as the bridge, the library and the piano room, and even went out of the university to look for him. Nevertheless, they still failed to find him. When they returned to their dorm again, Zhao Yuan looked worried and dejected and said, “We need to call the police.” Zheng Kai thought that Zhao Yuan was making a fuss about a trifle and said, “Come on, he’s an adult now. He knows that he has to be responsible for himself, and he doesn’t have to tell you everything about himself. Don’t be so worried!”

“I agree with Brother Kai,” Wang Xiang echoed.

“He didn’t have lunch or receive any of our calls. As his roommates, we need to care about his safety. Do you think that everyone is like you, who will probably survive after being thrown downward from the 11th floor of a building?” Zhao Yuan retorted impatiently.

“Well, brother Yuan has a point too,” echoed Wang Xiang. Zheng Kai raised his fist upon hearing that and immediately scared Wang Xiang away.

Suddenly, Zhao Yuan slammed his head heavily and shouted, “No, this is no good!” With these words, he ran out of the dorm again.

“What? Are you serious?” Zheng Kai felt helpless and tired out, but he still ran after Zheng Kai. So did Wang Xiang. The next moment, the three boys were stunned and stopped at the door. They saw an exceptionally pretty boy walking toward them with sleepy eyes.

The boy they saw was Gu Xi.

“Why did you come here?” Zheng Kai could not help but frown.

“Why can’t I come here if you can come?” Gu Xi could not help but smile sweatly at Zheng Kai. “It’s been a while.”

“I’m busy now. Let’s talk later,” Zheng Kai said, ready to leave.

“You guys are really noisy. Now everyone knows that someone in your dorm is missing. Acctually, he’s lying on my bed now. He’s just too embarrassed to return to your dorm,” Gu Yan said smiling and pointed toward his dorm.

Zheng Kai was rendered speechless. After a while, he could not help but curse, “F*ck!”

Gu Xi said with a smile, “Don’t just say that. If I give you a chance, are you willing to sleep with me?”

“Whew, you’re talking like this again. I have nothing to say to you!” Zheng Kai said and then rushed back to his dorm.

Gu Xi kept smiling and looked at Wang Xiang. Wang Xiang rubbed his hands together and said, “You know brother Kai just can’t understand your humor. Don’t mind it.”

After that, Gu Xi watched Wang Xiang go back to his dorm and whispered to himself, “I got used to it a long time ago. If you don’t want me to say it, I won’t say it anymore.”

Zhao Yuan strutted into Gu Xi’s dorm and dragged Lin Wenxi out. Lin Wenxi kept his head down and remained silent. When Zhao Yuan was about to flare up, he saw students of the other dorms come out and watch them. He suppressed his anger and dragged Lin Wenxi to a staircase. He asked grumpily, “Where did you hide?”

Lin Wenxi, who had looked so embarrassed a moment ago, suddenly became confident and said, “Did I hide? I just found the toilet in our dorm somewhat stinky and went to sleep with Gu Xi. Did I have to ask for your permission to do that?”

Zhao Yuan was stuck for words and then he raised another question. “Why didn’t you eat your lunch?”

“I just couldn’t eat it!”

“You really overdo your acting!”

“Anyhow, that’s none of your business!”

“Why didn’t you come out earlier! We were so sleepy and we kept looking for you and shouting your names for more than two hours. Our voices get hoarse because of that. Don’t tell me that you didn’t hear us,” Zhao Yuan said angrily.

“I really did not hear that.”

“You, You did this on purpose! Otherwise why did you look so embarrassed just now?”

“Did I? When did you see that I was embarrassed?” Lin Wenxi lifted up his chest and retorted.

“Hey, it looks like that some boy considers himself to be strong enough to strike out on his own. Do you really think that your wings are strong enough for you to fly to the sky?” Zhao Yuan teased grumpily.

Lin Wenxi pretended to misunderstand him and said, “What are you talking about? Fried chicken wings, or brine duck wings?”

“Lin Wenxi, you’re so selfish. You deliberately hid from us and kept us looking for you just because I didn’t talk to you at noon. You are really pampered!” With these words, Zhao Yuan turned around and left.

Upon seeing Zhao Yuan flare up, Lin Wenxi felt dejected and said, “That’s none of your business. Why do you have to care so much about me?”

Zhao Yuan was surprised upon hearing that and sighed secretly, “Why did I break up with Chen Wanxin today?” He walked back into his dorm and left the door open.

Lin Wenxi felt sad. He had never meant to play tricks on his roommates. Although he was somewhat irritated by the cold attitude of Zhao Yuan at noon, he did not deliberately leave the lunch food untouched. The reason he did not eat it was that it was too spicy. He had some stomach problems and could not eat spicy food. In the evening, he went to find Gu Xi and chatted with him. They talked about poems, history and traditional Chinese painting. They enjoyed it so much that they forgot about the time. As Lin Wenxi did not want to meet Zhao Yuan for the time being, he decided to sleep in Gu Xi’s dorm. When Zhao Yuan, Zheng Kai and Wang Xiang failed to find him anywhere and came back to the dorm, he heard them talking but was too embarrassed to walk out. As such, Gu Xi walked out first, trying to extricate Lin Wenxi from this awkward situation. Lin Wenxi had never expected Zhao Yuan to accuse him of being selfish and pampered. He felt that he was wronged and decided to sleep in Gu Xi’s dorm for the night.

Zhao Yuan waited for a long time but still did not see Lin Wenxi come back. He thought that Lin Wenxi must have decided to sleep in Gu Xi’s dorm. He felt a headache after drinking so much liquor and walking for such a long time tonight. He felt exhausted and fell asleep.

The next morning, when Lin Wenxi went back to his dorm to take his textbooks together with Gu Xi at 7:30 am, they were surprised that everyone in the dorm had already left. Lin Wenxi exchanged a look with Gu Xi and wondered, “Although the teacher is going to call the roll at 8:00 am this morning, they really don’t need to get up this early. And they were drunk last night.” Lin Wenxi and Gu Xi hurriedly left for the classroom.

Wang Xiang had gotten up early because he had been woken up by a call from Zhang An’an, asking him to occupy a seat for her. Zheng Kai had gone to play basketball with his friends in the early morning. As for Zhao Yuan, he had gotten up early to buy breakfast food for Chen Wanxin.

Zhao Yuan had planned to leave immediately after delivering the food to Chen Wanxin, but the moment he met Chen Wanxin, he was surprised and decided to stay. Chen Wanxin carried a pile of books and said smilingly to him, “Some girls failed to get their textbooks yesterday. I’ll bring these books to the classroom for them.”

As the books were obviously too heavy for Chen Yuxin to carry, Zhao Yuan decided to help her out. He picked up two heavy bags and walked toward the classroom together with Chen Wanxin. Wang Xiang saw what happened, as he was waiting for Zhang An’an here.

Zhang An’an stood at the gate of the dormitory building and watched Zhao Yuan and Chen Wanxin walk away while sighing, “Wenxi has a strong rival in love.”

In fact, it was Zhou Nannan who was put in charge of distributing these textbooks. Zhou Nannan had her period today and planned to ask Wang Zhengjuan for help. To her surprise, Chen Wanxin took all the textbooks away right after she received a call from Zhao Yuan. She clearly had a hard time carrying so many textbooks, but she refused help from all the other girls.

Upon seeing that, Shu Xiaoman felt puzzled and asked Zhang An’an what why she behaved like this.

Zhang An’an told Shu Xiaoman what had happened yesterday, but Shu Xiaoman still felt confused.

Zhang An’an explained further. “Firstly, she asked Zhao Yuan who he thought could make her happy. If Zhao Yuan had broken up with her because of Zheng Kai, he would’ve said Zheng Kai. However, he didn’t say that. She observed him for a while to further confirm that he did not break up with her because of Zheng Kai. After that, she asked Zhao Yuan who would make him happy. She was pretty sure that Zhao Yuan liked Lin Wenxi. In this way, she figured out why Zhao Yuan wanted to break up with her.”

“Why didn’t she just ask him whether it was because of Lin Wenxi? Why did she have to take so much trouble?” Shu Xiaoman gazed at Zhang An’an confusedly. She thought that Zhang An’an had probably thought too much.

“No, if she had asked him directly, he would’ve felt alerted. In this way, she would’ve never been able to get the answer. She managed to make him put his guard down by asking him the first question. As such, when he answered the second question, he did not hide his true feelings anymore. Wanxin asked me to come down together with her because she needed my opinion to further confirm her conclusion.”

Shu Xiaoman could not help but exclaim. “Oh, gee. You must’ve been stressed out. What did you do?”

“I don’t think that I can deceive her. Acctually, I don’t quite agree with her analysis and conclusion, but you know, once she makes up her mind, no one can change her. I’m just a little worried that she’ll do something bad to Wenxi. No, no, no. She won’t,” Zhang An’an gently touched her own chest and said.

Shu Xiaoman could not help but frown.