The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

A little disbelief flashed in Zhu Tong’s eyes for a moment. It left him wondering when did he mention such a “request”? 

Was Shao Ming’s face thicker than the Great Wall? Why wasn’t he embarrassed in the slightest! 

“I…”

‘Congratulations! The white moonlight’s favorability has broken through the 20% threshold. Please continue to work hard!’ 

Zhu Tong: “…”

He thought Shao Ming would feel uncomfortable when he mentioned these things. But instead… he seemed to be in a good mood?

Zhu Tong swallowed his comforting words. As a result, he actually swallowed air wrongly, directly causing him to choke. 

“Cough, cough cough!!” 

His body couldn’t stop coughing.

Shao Ming only saw him stunned for a moment, then coughed continuously. The smile on his face faded, replaced by worry. “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Tong: “N-nothin– cough cough!!” 

Shao Ming could see that he was choking on pure air. A strange color flashed across his face. He muttered, “Why are you…”

‘–Why are you so careless?’

Shao Ming didn’t know how to react. He hurriedly stretched out his hand to caress his back to comfort his deskmate.

After a few minutes of continuous coughing, Zhu Tong felt his strength had been sapped away. He limped to the side, half-leaning into Shao Ming’s arms. 

Tang Nuan in the front seat turned her head when she heard the earth-shattering coughing sound. She saw Zhu Tong leaning against Shao Ming’s arms very delicately, his face flushed from coughing.

“What’s wrong with Zhu Tong?”

Just as Shao Ming was about to speak, Zhu Tong suppressed his cough and looked up, “I’m o-okay, cough– hack-!!!” 

Tang Nuan: “…”

Zhu Tong finally stopped, but Shao Ming still continued patting his back. In a nervous voice, he asked, “Is it better?”

Zhu Tong nodded, “It is.”

Shao Ming let go of his hand, and went to grab his water bottle. He opened the cap and offered it to Zhu Tong. “Drink some water.”

Zhu Tong took it and drank it.

Because he drank too fast, a drop of water stuck to the corner of his mouth, flowing directly to his chin and neck.

Without even thinking about it, Shao Ming wiped the stray droplet with the back of his hand. The moment they made skin-to-skin contact, they both froze at the same time. 

Zhu Tong held the water bottle in one hand, and supported Shao Ming’s outstretched arm with the other. Meanwhile, Shao Ming held the cap of the water bottle in one hand, and stroked Zhu Tong’s back with the other.

They were like hugging.

Tang Nuan: “…”

She shouldn’t be here, he should be under the table.

The school bell rang suddenly, jolting her up from her dazed state. She quickly turned her head back. 

Zhu Tong also came back to his senses. He looked down, and took back his hand on the man’s arm. “…Thank you.”

The temperature on the arm suddenly disappeared, Shao Ming paused, then he laughed. “I made you choke, and you still thank me?”

Zhu Tong shook his head. “I choked on myself, and it has nothing to do with you.”

“…”

Shao Ming was speechless for a while.

He capped the water bottle, and took it back from Zhu Tong’s hand. He put it back on the table, and accidentally caressed Zhu Tong’s hand. Somehow, he didn’t want this contact to end. 

Zhu Tong didn’t notice his strangeness. After the teacher entered the classroom, he devoted himself to his studies.

At the end of evening self-study, Zhu Tong insisted not to let Shao Ming send him back to the hotel by bicycle. He was afraid that this person would insist on fulfilling his “promise” and would show him off at the door of the hotel room.

In fact, his feet were almost healed, even if he walked back to the hotel by himself, there would be no problem.

It’s all because Uncle Liu made a big fuss. He said that if he insisted on walking back by himself, he would report it to his grandfather.

The thing is, Young Master Zhu feels like using the family’s Maybach as a mode of transportation is very ostentatious in this kind of small county town. He didn’t want to attract the wrong attention. 

In P.E class on Wednesday, Zhu Tong was finally relieved. He refused Shao Ming’s support, and walked down the teaching building smoothly by himself.

After the “coughing blood” incident last time, the P.E teacher of Class 3 didn’t dare to be a bystander anymore. Before the class bell rang, he already waited on the playground early.

“I asked for a class leave for you. You don’t have to go to the assembly. There is a clean stool over there, and you can sit there.” Shao Ming told him even before the class start.

Zhu Tong: “…”

Following Shao Ming’s line of sight, there was indeed a chair under the flag raising platform. He didn’t know where Shao Ming got the stool.

He was startled, shook his head and said, “No need, I can just stand.”

Shao Ming looked at him with a smile; he didn’t force Zhu Tong. 

Zhu Tong looked down at the whistle hanging around his neck, and reminded him, “Hurry up and gather.”

Shao Ming instead replied, “No hurry, everyone hasn’t arrived yet.”

“…”

Indeed, not everyone had arrived. However, the playground was already pretty lively. 

Zhu Tong looked at the basketball players on the court, took out his phone and took a picture of them.

Shao Ming was already very familiar with his operation. He chuckled and said, “Send it to your sister again?”

Last time at his milk tea shop, the young master seemed to have taken a photo as well.

Zhu Tong nodded. “Yeah.”

Shao Ming saw that he was taking pictures seriously – and this young master seemed to do that, taking everything he did seriously. 

He couldn’t help being curious, so he directly asked him, “How old is your sister?”

Zhu Tong looked at him and replied, “She’s as old as me; we are twins.”

“…”

‘Twins?’

Shao Ming suddenly put him under harsh scrutiny. 

Zhu Tong looked puzzled, and asked with visible confusion. “What’s wrong?”

hao Ming looked at him suspiciously and said, “Could you be… a woman disguised as a man?”

Zhu Tong: “??”

‘How did you come to this conclusion? I don’t look like a girl!’ 

Shao Ming smiled innocently. “Almost everyone who disguises herself as a man claims that she has a twin sister.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

‘But I really have a sister!!’

Just as he was about to clarify his gender, Luo Suo suddenly called Shao Ming on the playground.

“I’m going to meet up with him, remember to take a handsome picture of me.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Who is going to take pictures of you??

But before he could refuse, the taller youth ran away.

Seeing Shao Ming standing under the administration building and blowing his whistle, Zhu Tong paused. He silently raised his phone, and took a serious photo.

Then, together with the previous photos, he sent it all to his sister via WeChat. 

After transferring to another school, he would take new photos and send them to Xiao Xin almost every day. But all the replies he got were reaction memes of a character expressing their grievances. 

Besides that, she never said anything else. 

Zhu Tong was not discouraged, and continued to share his recent situation with his sister to reassure her.

At Aesop1 International School in A City, Zhu Xin just finished her piano class. 

As Zhu Xin came out of the music classroom, she looked down at her phone and clicked on the new photo sent by her brother.

Someone next to her glanced at her unintentionally, and suddenly said in amazement, “Wow, who is this? He is so handsome!”

Zhu Xin turned her head and glanced, proudly boasting, “Isn’t he handsome? My brother sent it to me.”

“Your older brother?” The classmate paused and said, “This was taken on the school’s playground, right? It seems that your brother has a good life after transferring to another school. I remember that he didn’t even come out of the classroom in our school.” 

Zhu Xin also smiled at that remark. “Mn, yes.” 

‘As long as he lived well…’

She was thinking in her heart when suddenly someone called to her from somewhere behind. 

“Zhu Xin! There is someone looking for you at the school gate.”

Zhu Xin turned back. “Looking for me? Who is it?”

“He said he was your brother.”

“…”

Brother?

Zhu Xin looked at her phone, which hadn’t turned off yet. She began to feel lost before she had time to be pleasantly surprised.

She frowned slightly, and said to the person who sent the message: “Thank you, I understand.”

The school name is 伊索; Yīsuǒ, the Chinese name for Aesop.