The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

For a moment, Shi Wenshu didn’t know whether to ask Zhu Tong why his grandfather taught him this principle, or why it was not his father but his grandfather who taught him. 

He took a deep breath and continued, “Yes, your grandfather is right, but what he taught you is the principles of life, which does not apply to exams.” 

Zhu Tong asked puzzledly, “Why?”

Shi Wenshu: “…” 

“Because you are a high school student now. What a high school student should do when taking the exam is to do everything possible to get the highest score possible. So that you can have more choices after the college entrance examination.” 

Zhu Tong paused, but he still looked at his teacher blankly, “But then, the grades I get aren’t my own grades.”

He didn’t care much about the college entrance examination grades either. As for which university he wanted to go to, he could attend them without getting good scores. On the contrary, for the university that required high scores to attend, he didn’t care to attend them. 

So he doesn’t understand what’s the use of relying on luck to get high grades.

Shi Wenshu’s felt extremely complicated. Apparently, Zhu Tong was the type of student that was surprisingly simple yet stubborn. 

He rubbed his forehead helplessly, sighed and said, “Okay, let’s not discuss this for now. Let’s put it like this: if you think you can answer the question, then you will answer it, correct?” 

Zhu Tong nodded, “Correct.”

Shi Wenshu: “Then do you want to improve your grades?”

Zhu Tong’s eyes lit up slightly. “Yes.”

It seemed that Shi Wenshu could lead it up with this. He smiled, and continued, “Then, if I  transfer your seat back, will you continue to sit at the same table with Shao Ming?” 

Zhu Tong’s English scores were very good, and his Chinese was not too bad. This showed that he has a foundation for learning.

As long as he could study well, he didn’t have to worry about Zhu Tong’s grades failing. 

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, the light in Zhu Tong’s eyes went out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Same table with Shao Ming?”

Shi Wenshu replied, “Yes.” 

Zhu Tong asked, “Why?”

“…”

Must there be a hundred and thousand of reasons? 

Shi Wenshu said, “Didn’t you want to be his deskmate when you first started school? He has good grades, and you can ask him for advice if you don’t understand.”

Zhu Tong fell silent.

Shi Wenshu thought he was worried that Yuan Shaozhou would come to trouble him again. So, he was trying to comfort him that someone would take care of this matter. Before he could say that, Zhu Tong raised his head and said, “Can I change? Others said that the boy sitting in front of me is the second in the year. I will ask him for advice.”

“In front of you… Lu Zheyu?” Shi Wenshu was startled, and then smiled, “His grades are indeed very good, but he…”

Zhu Tong: “?”

‘What did Lu Zheyu do??’

Shi Wenshu lowered his eyes and paused for a moment, but said nothing.

He looked at Zhu Tong again and said, “You don’t want to be Shao Ming’s deskmate?” 

“No,” Zhu Tong shook his head.

Shi Wenshu: “Then…” 

“It’s because he probably wouldn’t want to be my deskmate.” 

“…”

Shi Wenshu asked, “How do you know that?”

“I…” Zhu Tong was suddenly at a loss for words.

How would he explain the landslide decline in favorability not long ago?

He faltered, “I guessed it.”

Shi Wenshu was dumbfounded for a moment, then smiled more kindly, “If you are uncertain, don’t jump to conclusions.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Is this… lifting a rock and hitting himself in the feet?

In the classroom, Shao Ming was leaning against the window and looking down at his mobile phone. On the screen was a text message from a person without a name. 

< — >: Since you are rich with life experience, you should be able to discern what you should and shouldn’t do. You will have to come back to A City sooner or later. This is your real home.

Shao Ming looked at the WeChat message expressionlessly, his eyes were full of coldness.

How decisive was this person when he was thrown away more than ten years ago?

And this person had the gall to lecture him about “real home”. 

He sneered in his heart. He didn’t know how many times he blocked these kinds of strange numbers. He decisively deleted the text message and turned off his phone.

The screen of the mobile phone just turned off when a shadow suddenly fell over the side.

A person stood in front of him. His back was against the fluorescent lights in the classroom.

He was slender and tall, with a sickly paleness on his handsome face.

Because of the backlight, his face was shrouded in harsh shadows. A few reflections on his body enveloped him in a strange glow. 

Shao Ming paused for a moment before remembering to manage his expression. He raised his head, revealing a polite smile, and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Tong looked at him with a slightly tense expression. Pretending to be calm, he said, “Shi-laoshi asked me to move my seat back.”

Shao Ming was only stunned for a moment. But he quickly regained his composure. “Oh, do you want my help?”

His reaction was so natural and calm, it stunned Zhu Tong. “You don’t ask why?”

Shao Ming casually said, “Oh, why?”

“…”

Zhu Tong righteously answered, “For learning.”

Shao Ming continued to smile. “Okay, I understand.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Why did he feel like he was being perfunctory? This made him kinda uncomfortable.

Shao Ming repeated again, “Want my help?”

Zhu Tong blinked back to his senses, “No, I can…”

Before he finished speaking, Shao Ming moved.

In the classroom, because Zhu Tong returned to the classroom but did not return to his seat, someone had already looked over in curiosity.

Instead of letting Zhu Tong attract attention because of his tortoise-like speed, it’s better for them to work together and get it done as fast as possible. 

Zhu Tong looked at his desk, which had become unbearably heavy due to the piles of books, somehow easily dragged by Shao Ming with one hand. The pile of books on the desk was still neat and motionless.

Shao Ming said, “Bring the chair over by yourself.”

“…”

There was a lot of friction between the table legs and the ground, and the person who was peeking heard the sound and looked over openly.

The desks that were separated for a few days have been reunited.

–So of course, this made it into the forum. 

[Witness No. 1 report: Zhu Tong’s seat was changed back again!]

[Witness No. 2 report: Zhu Tong’s desk was moved back with the help of Study God!]

[Fuck! What’s the situation? Will Zhu Tong continue to fight against the evil forces?]

[Isn’t the point that the desk is moved by the Study God? Is this implying that he has made a choice?]

[What choice? Choose Zhu Tong? ]

[I really don’t know what the Study God thought. Xia Yang pursued him so hard but he wasn’t moved. Instead, he fell in love with a weak boy with poor grades.]

A few days ago, Xia Yang’s supporters in the school were dissatisfied with Zhu Tong because of the “sink” incident.

At this moment, some 2nd Year students just uploaded a new post, and they couldn’t wait to fight back. 

[Ouch, the sour chicken jumped so quickly? What do mean by his poor grades? Have you seen Zhu Tong’s answer sheet? All the answers he wrote down are correct, but he left a lot blank. He must have done it so badly on purpose.]

[Have you read too many novels? WHy would he fail the exam on purpose? I think he is afraid that he will lose face if he fails the exam, and deliberately only chooses the questions he can do. He wants to create the illusion that he is a top student!]

[Illusion? His English is 149! Even if he becomes a translator in the future, it’s much better than some people who can only become beggars on the street!] 

The atmosphere on the forum was tense. The two sides refused to give in to each other.

Meanwhile, in the classroom, Zhu Tong was obsessed with practicing questions and strictly implemented his “purpose” of moving the seat back.

Soon his brain was stumped by a math problem in the preliminary test.

He couldn’t figure it out.

The system urged in his mind, ‘Ask the white moonlight!’ 

Zhu Tong resolutely refused, ‘I will not.’  

System 666: ‘Why? Isn’t this a great opportunity to show your eagerness to study?’

Zhu Tong: “…”

Actually, it’s not that he doesn’t want to ask. He’s just afraid of the possible backfire.

After the desk was moved back, he and Shao Ming didn’t speak a word.

He intuitively felt that Shao Ming was not in a good mood. Because he usually has a smile on his face, as if he was relaxed all the time. Shao Ming’s attitude was also very good when he helped him move the desk just now, but to him, it’s obvious he was being deliberate that way. 

Was he upset because Zhu Tong suddenly moved the seat back?

But his favorability has not decreased, making Zhu Tong couldn’t understand.

With these questions bottled up inside his mind, he subconsciously tilted his head to look at his deskmate.

Shao Ming now lowered his eyes and eyebrows. His eyelashes were thick, and his three-dimensional facial features were as perfect as a Greek statue from the side.

With such a face, it’s no wonder Xia Yang fell in love with him at first sight in the bar.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly noticed that the corners of Mr. White Moonlight’s mouth slightly turned up.

Zhu Tong’s alarm bell rang, and just as he was about to look away, the young man had turned his head to look over.

Shao Ming supported his head with one hand. With a smile on the corner of his mouth, his gaze looked like he was teasing. 

“Do you know what it means if a person always stares at another person for a long time?”

Zhu Tong subconsciously replied, “What does it mean?”

Shao Ming’s smile became even wider, “It means… he might have taken a fancy to that person he was staring at.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

“Maybe he has a grudge against him.”

Zhu Tong took a few seconds to digest his words. He hurriedly said, “Don’t worry, I’m neither of the two. I was staring at you because I wanted to ask you something I don’t understand.”

Shao Ming: “…”

Seeing him deny it so simply, Shao Ming chose to believe him. Lowering his eyebrows, he said, “Oh, that’s really a pity.”

Zhu Tong: “?”

‘What’s the pity?’

‘Anyway, as long as he doesn’t misunderstand…’

He glanced to the side and continued to explain, “Actually… I didn’t mean to disturb you. I originally wanted to ask classmate Lu Zheyu for advice, but Shi-laoshi said it was inconvenient for him, so he asked me to sit here.”

As he got up, he forgot to ask Shi Wenshu why Lu Zheyu was inconvenient.

Shao Ming continued to lean against his arm, lazily asking, “Oh, so I’m just a spare tire?”

Zhu Tong: “???”

What does this have to do with Shao Ming devolving into spare tire status?

He had a twitchy, irate expression on his face.

‘What the fuck is he talking about?! Are we even speaking on the same channel?’ 

Shao Ming spent all his time admiring Zhu Tong’s efforts to explain.

Although he didn’t know why Zhu Tong kept trying to explain his purpose of moving back, he didn’t mind Zhu Tong moving the desk back.

His deskmate seemed to have some interesting misunderstanding about him.

He had a smile on his face, this time genuine. His pissy mood from the previous text message had been completely gone. 

Zhu Tong was distracted by his words, so he stewed in silence for a while, and somehow managed to change the subject, “In short, I don’t have those messy thoughts about you, you don’t… don’t…” 

‘Sigh… why do I keep trying to explain?’ What’s the use?’

Before Zhu Tong could think about it, he saw that Shao Ming’s expression finally changed.

Shao Ming suddenly had a bitter face, and sighed for a long time, “You keep emphasizing it so much that you will make me doubt my own unparalleled charm. I am so sad.” 

‘Congratulations! You gained +3% of the white moonlight’s favorability. Your current favorability is 14%.’

Zhu Tong: “…”

Listening to the system prompt in his head, looking at his deskmate’s shocked acting. 

Zhu Tong indifferently had an epiphany:

‘Oh, I believe you.’

‘Unexpectedly, you’re just a drama queen.’