The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

In Class 3, Shao Ming hadn’t returned to the classroom yet, but there were already many people around his seat.

A girl in the front seat of Tang Nuan said excitedly, “Fun fact: I have a cousin who is a nurse at the People’s Hospital. She was on duty last night and happened to be on the same floor as Yuan Shaozhou. She told me that someone installed a signal jammer in Yuan Shaozhou’s ward, and Yuan Shaozhou scolded the hospital like a lunatic last night, saying the signal is shit. That idiot can do nothing! My cousin and her coworkers all know the truth, but no one told him, hahahaha!” 

“Installed a signal jammer? Who did it? So amazing!” 

“Shrimp pig heart1! There’s no signal in the hospital, so what’s the difference between that and going to jail?” 

“Absolutely! Absolutely! Yuan Shaozhou really hit the iron plate this time!” 

“He might as well go to the police station and ask to be detained for half a month, at least he is still healthy.”

The discussion was in full swing, while Zhu Tong looked unaffected – he bowed my head to continue his study. 

He still had two hard unanswered questions in yesterday’s math mock test. 

When he was doing self-study in the morning, he suddenly had an idea, and he was trying to solve it.

Suddenly, someone said, “But don’t you think it’s strange? What happened to Shao Ming was exactly yesterday, and Yuan Shaozhou was beaten today.” 

“Yuan Shaozhou was beaten because he committed too many crimes. What does it have to do with Shao Ming?”

“But this is too coincidental, right? Someone broke the news about Shao Ming yesterday, and then the forum was blocked, and then Yuan Shaozhou was also admitted to the hospital. Hey, tell me, what was said on the forum yesterday, could it be true? Huh?”

The gossipers on the front suddenly became quiet.

Zhu Tong frowned suddenly, and looked up.

The girl who spoke was Tang Nuan’s deskmate, Tian Man.

As soon as she opened her mouth, the other girls showed signs of not wanting to talk to her. However, Tian Man didn’t realize it at all, and continued, “Blocking the forum and teaching Yuan Shaozhou a lesson are not something ordinary people can do. How can Shao Ming have this ability? Oh, did he find some big shots outside to help him?” 

At first, she thought it was funny, so she laughed. After a while, she felt a little embarrassed because no one was laughing alongside her. 

Tang Nuan frowned and said, “Tian Man, we’ve been with Shao Ming for so long, don’t you know who he is? Don’t talk nonsense if there is no basis.”

Tian Man became dissatisfied. “What is nonsense? Isn’t that what everyone says…”

“Tian Man.”

The person in the back seat suddenly said.

Because Zhu Tong rarely communicated with others, when he suddenly called Tian Man’s name, the gossipers in front couldn’t help but look at him.

Tian Man also turned her head away.

Zhu Tong looked straight at her and said, “I heard that your father abandoned his original wife, and married your biological mother after having an affair with her.” 

Tian Man’s face suddenly changed, and she said loudly, “What nonsense are you talking about!”

Zhu Tong looked at her expressionlessly. “I don’t know if it’s true, but everyone says so.” After giving her words back to her, Tian Man couldn’t say anything. Her face became pale. 

It was public secret that Tian Man’s mother was originally the mistress. Zhu Tong was not involved in these discussions, but heard some.

Others discussed it behind Tian Man’s back. No one thought that Zhu Tong would say it directly in front of her.

There was a moment of silence behind the classroom.

After a moment of stalemate, Zhu Tong said coldly, “If what I said is wrong, I apologize to you. But I also ask it once again: do you have evidence for what you just said?” 

“…” Several eyes turned to Tian Man.

Tian Man couldn’t say anything. Her brain was a mush at this moment. 

‘Congratulations! You gained +1% of the white moonlight’s favorability. Your current favorability is 17%.’

When he returned from the milk tea shop yesterday, his favorability increased by 1%. And today, it rose another 1%. 

Was it because of what he just said? 

Zhu Tong heard the system prompt and looked at the back door of the classroom.

And sure enough, he saw Shao Ming. The taller teenager walked towards him, looking uncaring of his other classmates. He gave the gossip mongers a smile – the kind that had a perceptible edge to it. 

“Oh, it’s very lively here?”

Tian Man’s face became even uglier when she saw Shao Ming come back suddenly. She didn’t know how much Shao Ming overheard her just now. 

She didn’t dare to stare at Zhu Tong anymore, and sat back in her seat with a guilty conscience, pretending to be immersed with her study. 

Sitting next to her and watching, Tang Nuan couldn’t feel any sympathy.

In the past, she thought that Tian Man was just speaking carelessly, but now she felt that the ugly words she occasionally blurted out were her true thoughts.

She was too ignorant.

She smiled apologetically at Shao Ming, and turned her head back.

Shao Ming didn’t care about the others, and just sat back in his seat.

Zhu Tong continued to work on the questions with his head down.

Shao Ming didn’t bother him, but just looked at his steps to solve the problem, and lightly reminded him, “You’re using the wrong formula.” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

The tip of his pen paused, and Zhu Tong raised his head. There was no trace of the fierce aura he had when confronting Tian Man just now. 

He paused for a while, then asked, “Then, what formula should I use?”

Shao Ming: “…”

Shao Ming felt that Zhu Tong was like a little hedgehog. He was aggressive in front of some people and had a prickly speech. But in other cases, he would show his pink, soft belly, full of trust. The contrast was unbelievable. 

He didn’t speak for a long time, Zhu Tong looked at him blankly.

Somehow, Shao Ming’s heart skipped a beat when he saw Zhu Tong. He blinked and stared back at Zhu Tong’s scratch paper, then stretched out his hand and said, “Give me your pen.”

Zhu Tong handed over the pen, looking very innocent and obedient. Shao Ming quickly wrote down a series of formulas on it.

Zhu Tong looked at what he had written. His eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had an epiphany. He wanted to take the pen back.

As soon as their fingertips touched, Shao Ming suddenly said, “Are you the one behind Yuan Shaozhou’s sudden retribution?” 

“…”

Zhu Tong’s heart skipped a beat for an instant.

In order not to be heard by others, Shao Ming said it close to his ear. His breath was astoundingly warm. It was only for a split second, but the aftermath lingered for a long time. 

Zhu Tong’s head felt dizzy, as if there was a persistent buzz clouding his brain. He suddenly sat up straight, blabbering, “He… he was too much.”

This time, his action was too obvious. However, he never thought he could hide it from Shao Ming in the first place.

Shao Ming saw his reflex of his. With a smile in his eyes, he leaned over and said, “You couldn’t stand it, so you asked someone to teach him a lesson?”

Zhu Tong nodded dryly.

In his mind, he was only repaying Yuan Shaozhou with what he’s due – using the gangsters to let Yuan Shaozhou taste his own medicine. 

“Oh,” Shao Ming turned his head and sighed regretfully, “It’s a pity, I thought you were doing it for me.” 

Zhu Tong said nothing, but only breathed a sigh of relief. 

He was about to stand up, but was halted by Shao Ming, who suddenly leaned over. The distance between their bodies was minuscule at this point. “What’s the matter with the signal jammer?”

Zhu Tong felt his shoulders sagged slightly, as they now sat down shoulder-to-shoulder. Subconsciously, he held a breath. He couldn’t let his gaffe be too obvious. 

However, Shao Ming took an inch and moved a little closer to him, “Huh?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

“T-the signal ja-jammer…” 

–It was something he asked someone to install to stop Yuan Shaozhou from continuing to make a mess online. Since he liked to make ruckus on the forum, Zhu Tong wanted Yuan Shaozhou to experience the taste of “isolation”.

And, it was too cheap for him to be isolated for only one day.

So he simply found a gangster and sent him back to the hospital.

He was thinking about how to explain, but Shao Ming already laughed, “And you still say you are not worried about me?”

Zhu Tong choked on his own saliva. He inched back from Shao Ming, saying, “He spread rumors and slandered people. It was only right for him to be taught a lasting lesson.” 

“Ah, so is it for justice?” Shao Ming didn’t quite understand why Zhu Tong insisted on refusing to admit it was for Shao Ming’s sake. 

His smirk had a slight tinge of teasing in it, and he continued to amuse himself with Zhu Tong’s antics. “Then, have you ever thought about what if what he said is true?”

From the beginning, Zhu Tong seemed to firmly believe in him.

They hadn’t known each other for long, and when Zhu Tong saw those comments, he didn’t even have a questioning look in his eyes.

‘Why?’ Shao Ming was puzzled.

Zhu Tong finally turned his head to look directly at him.

‘The truth behind those comments? The opioid-laced ingredients? His stepfather used to run a bar and went to jail? Or, that Shao Ming is a bastard who doesn’t know who his father is?’ 

Zhu Tong frowned, and suddenly in a serious manner, “I don’t know what kind of people your parents are. But on the first day I came here, Yuan Shaozhou troubled me, and you helped me, so you must not be a bad person.”

“…”

“Your milk tea shop is very clean. Customers come and go every day, so I know it’s not an easy feat to keep everything sparkly clean. I can see that your mother is very serious about running the shop, and seeing her attitude, it’s impossible for her to mix opioids in your ingredients. I only need to know these two facts. I don’t need to know other things, they have nothing to do with you.” 

Shao Ming: “…”

‘Has nothing to do with me…?’

Shao Ming didn’t expect him to say such a thing. Looking at Zhu Tong’s sincere eyes, he was stunned for a long time before he bent his lips and smiled, and quickly sat up straight with his crooked body.

“What are you doing so far away? Do you still need a pen?”

Zhu Tong: “?”

The topic changed too quickly, so he failed to react on-time. He looked at Shao Ming who was already sitting upright, and then at himself who had fallen to the edge of the table.

If it wasn’t for Shao Ming who kept inching closer to him, how could he be so far on the edge? 

This person actually cornered him, how shameless is he?1

虾仁猪心; it’s pronounced very closely to the actual idiom 杀人诛心. Basically, people would say the og idiom on online games voice chat, and they would mispronounce it bc they didn’t maintain standard Mandarin pronunciation when having fun. So it became a slang. The og idiom is “killing the heart”, which means exposing someone’s (usually vicious) thoughts.