The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

Finding someone to help clarify things did not go as smoothly as Xia Yang thought.

Because of his capricious transfer, many people in A City knew about the conflict between him and his father. Those who were able to help him, refused to do so because of his father’s “instructions”. 

Some of his acquaintances were afraid to help him because the situation was too risky. No one knew the background of the people who were targeting the milk tea shop behind the scenes. If the clarification failed, they would be accused of colluding with the milk tea shop that sold opioid-laced milk tea, and their future would be ruined!

When Xia Yang was distressed, someone took the initiative to contact him.

It was the person who came to talk to him when he attended a banquet, and said that he could find someone for him.

There was someone to help, and it was someone he knew. Xia Yang didn’t think too much about it, and accepted his help.

However, after waiting for two days, there was no news.

On the other hand, Zhu Tong also waited for two days. 

–There was also no news. 

‘What’s the situation? Is my cousin still reliable?’ 

While doing homework, Zhu Tong occasionally looked down at his phone. Cheng Chen sent him a message.

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: Your classmate is not simple.

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Zhu Tong was baffled by this remark. Appropriately, he replied to his cousin with a bunch of question marks. 

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: I had someone check it out. The person behind Xiao Mi hides quite deeply. Who did your classmate offend?

If the person his cousin said was someone who “hides deeply”, then they’re definitely not an ordinary person. How could Shao Ming mess with such a powerful person?

Zhu Tong asked the system in his mind: ‘Has Xia Yang met anyone recently?’

The system faithfully replied, ‘According to the known data, no.’ 

If it’s not Xia Yang’s machinations, then just how did his deskmate offend? Zhu Tong sighed and asked his cousin again.

<Zhu>: Can you handle it?

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: What does it mean by asking me “can you handle it”? You don’t even have that little confidence in your cousin?

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<Zhu>: …

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: Wait.

Zhu Tong continued to wait.

But in the meantime, he had other things to do. Such as the class’ annual clean-up. 

“This big clean-up was organized by the whole school. In addition to the classrooms and specific areas of the teaching building, students are also asked to clean the hallways near the cafeteria. Class 3 is assigned to this area, too,” On the podium, Shi Wenshu spoke as gently as ever.

“After the clean-up is the monthly exam, so the school arranges the clean-up for the purpose of bettering your exam environment. In the end, the school will grade and evaluate your work. Laoshi hopes you will take this seriously.” 

Someone immediately responded.

The allocation of each student’s clean-up area was handed over to the class monitor, Tang Nuan. She shouldered the heavy responsibility single-handedly.

Shao Ming and several boys were assigned the task of cleaning the windows.

As soon as he received the task, Shao Ming got up and said, “The reward is you can copy my homework several times a week in the future. Who wants to take on this task?” 

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Almost immediately, many people clamored to take this task. 

“Me!”

“Ming-ge, look at me!”

“Me, me, me!”

Shao Ming pointed at the boy who was the first to speak, “The two windows next to the front door of the classroom belong to you.”

The boy responded immediately, “Okay!”

The other people who were not selected suddenly looked regretful.

Apparently this isn’t the first time this has happened.

Zhu Tong: “…”

Tang Nuan looked at Shao Ming helplessly, “You are doing this trick again, can you do it yourself with a sense of class honor?”

Shao Ming replied with an innocent face, “Class monitor, you can’t talk like that. Mental work is also labor, right? Doing my homework diligently every day is actually pretty hard.” 

Tang Nuan: “…”

–Well, if they copied Shao Ming’s homework, they don’t have to use their own brainpower to actually do it. And as for Shao Ming, he really could do his homework well. 

Tang Nuan shook her head. She looked at Zhu Tong again, then around the classroom, turned her head, and said, “Zhu Tong… can you be in charge of the podium?” 

There’s no need to bend down to mop the floor or climb up to wipe the window. He just needed to clean the blackboard, which was very easy. 

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Knowing that the class monitor was taking care of him because of his body, Zhu Tong nodded lightly and said, “Okay.”

Tang Nuan: “…”

He was really cute and obedient. Compared with the lazy Shao Ming, he was an ideal classmate in life!

As she spoke, she looked at Shao Ming again, her gaze seemed to say: ‘Look at Zhu Tong! He’s so much better than you!’ 

Shao Ming shrugged helplessly at her, feeling at ease in being lazy. Turning his head to meet Zhu Tong’s gaze, he bent his lips and smiled and said, “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Tong said, “What are you doing?”

Shao Ming was puzzled. “Huh?”

Zhu Tong expanded his question, “We are cleaning, what are you doing?” 

Shao Ming shamelessly said without changing his expression, “I’m supervising all of you.” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

Alright.

It’s hard for him to say anything about the opportunity to be lazy that others earn by their strength.

The others had already clearly divided their responsibilities and started to move. Zhu Tong didn’t say anything to him. He got up and walked to the podium.

Shao Ming sat leisurely on his desk, waiting for his deskmate to return after wiping the blackboard and desk.

But he found that after Zhu Tong stepped onto the podium, he looked down at the podium and didn’t move for a long time.

Shao Ming: “…”

This scene seemed familiar. He suddenly had a bad feeling.

In the next second, he saw that his deskmate didn’t do anything, and turned back directly.  Zhu Tong picked up the canvas bag hanging beside his desk.

Shao Ming knew why and asked, “What are you doing with this thing?”

Zhu Tong replied, “The podium is too dirty.”

Shao Ming paused in his seat for a while, then got up and followed.

Zhu Tong wiped a clean spot on the podium with a clean rag, put his canvas bag on it, and took out disposable gloves and other tools from the bag. Once everything was ready, he looked up and turned around, and saw someone standing next to him at some point.

“…Why did you come here?”

“…”

Shao Ming looked at his deskmate who was already fully armed. His emotions felt mixed. This was almost the same as what he saw during Zhu Tong’s first day of school. Only this time, he had an extra mask on his face.

Zhu Tong’s face was small, his mask engulfed more than half his face. Without the trace of illness on his face, his eyes were clear and bright – it’s as if he had no secrets to hide, as pure as a basin of clean water. 

Shao Ming paused, coughed lightly and said, “I think as a member of Class 3, I should still participate in the class clean-up.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

He turned his head to look at the window assigned to Shao Ming by the monitor.

Shao Ming made up a reason: “But I don’t like cleaning windows.”

“So I decided to take charge of the podium with you, do you still have the equipment?”

Zhu Tong continued to be speechless. He did have extra gloves and masks, as they were disposable items. He also still had spare cleaning tools he could lend Shao Ming.

Still in a daze, the shorter youth handed Shao Ming his canvas bag. 

After Shao Ming spontaneously took the “equipment” and put it on himself, Zhu Tong was a little slow and rolled his eyes, thinking, ‘If you want to help, just say so. What are you doing beating around the bush?’

Seeing that Shao Ming had put on his gloves, he handed him a new mask, saying, “There is a lot of dust on the podium, so you should wear this too.”

Shao Ming looked at the mask he handed over, and replied with a smile, “Just what kind of items do you store in your bag? How many things do you have?”

Zhu Tong: “Not many, they are all useful tools.”

Shao Ming: “…”

He thought to himself, ‘Your tools are beyond the reach of ordinary people.’

But outwardly, Shao Ming smiled as he took the mask. “What are we going to do, deskmate?” 

Zhu Tong didn’t realize it for a while, “What?”

Shao Ming clarified, “I’m a novice, it’s my first time cleaning, won’t you teach me?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Again, Zhu Tong was too confused to have a proper reply. 

Because… he used to be the one who was told what to do. 

In the hospital, the doctor told him what to do. At home, the servants told him what to do. After transferring here, he asked Shao Ming about his study problem.

It was the first time someone asked him what he should do.

This feeling was very strange.

He took the tools and demonstrated to Shao Ming, “It’s very simple, just wipe all the visible dust with a clean rag first, then spray it with alcohol. After that, clean the alcohol by rubbing and wiping it carefully.” 

The alcohol was diluted, its smell wasn’t that strong. 

Zhu Tong started from the corner of the teacher’s desk. Even the dust in the crevice of the corner of the desk was not spared from extermination.

Shao Ming looked at his earnestness and attentiveness. For some reason, Zhu Tong had a small smile all the time he cleaned.

–Zhu Tong was always like this, tackling all his tasks with a level of eagerness and seriousness. 

After wiping a corner of the desk, Zhu Tong raised his head with a sense of accomplishment, “How is it? Isn’t it very simple?”

Shao Ming: “…Well.”

‘Indeed, it was very simple. It’s just… after you finish cleaning this desk, it will be dinner time already.’ 

 Fortunately, he followed Zhu Tong. Maybe he could cut down the cleaning time. 

Shao Ming took the tool, “Then you will be in charge of the desk, and I will be in charge of the blackboard.”

The blackboard in the classroom was a push-pull type. It could be opened in the middle to reveal an LED display screen that could be connected to play videos or powerpoint. Because there were many joints in this blackboard, there were also many gaps. No one paid attention to it at ordinary times. If Zhu Tong’s cleaning method was followed, the amount of work would be relatively large.

However, as someone who already illegally traded his labor with homework, he couldn’t go back cleaning the windows. 

Others in the classroom had already noticed the two people on the podium.

“Study God actually join the clean-up? Is he changing his ways?”

“What kind of power does Zhu Tong have? He actually made a noble gas start to react1!” 

“Don’t ask. The reason is definitely the force of love2.” 

–Hey, classmate love is also love! 

Tang Nuan and another girl came in from the classroom door with a bucket of water. When they saw Zhu Tong diligently cleaning the teacher’s desk, they couldn’t help but step forward and said, “Zhu Tong, you don’t need to wipe it so carefully. Just wipe it until there’s no dust on the surface.” 

Zhu Tong already wiped half of the desk. He raised his head and asked, “Don’t we need to clean it?”

His eyes were sincere and innocent, and he was a little surprised.

Tang Nuan: “…”

What he asked was “no need”, but Tang Nuan always felt that what he said was “don’t do it”?

She choked for a moment. She didn’t want Zhu Tong to be troubled. She turned her head and saw Shao Ming in front of the blackboard, and said, “It’s not that we don’t need it… Forget it, as long as you are happy.” Anyway, there was someone taking care of Zhu Tong.

‘Hey, Shao Ming is working? Such a rare occurrence, ah. Might as well squeeze him for extra work.’ Tang Nuan thought. 

Zhu Tong: “…”

He lowered his head and continued to wipe the desk. After wiping the desk surface, he moved on to the under desk area. This area had a place that was used to store the chalk box. Because it was rarely cleaned, a thick pile of chalk dusk was everywhere, accumulating into every crevice. 

Zhu Tong squatted down to take a look, and couldn’t help frowning in distress. There was simply no way to start. He stopped suddenly, and Shao Ming, who was wiping the gaps in the blackboard, turned his head and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Zhu Tong hurriedly said, “It’s nothing.”

He was thinking about the sense of collective honor that the monitor had said before.

This is his task.

Sighing lightly, he took out all the chalk boxes in the under desk area and wiped them with a rag, but a part in the corner could not be wiped out. He had no choice but to take a ruler, intending to scrape lightly in the corner, and moved his head closer. 

At this time, two boys came in from the door of the classroom fighting. During the scuffle, one of them rushed to the podium and slammed into it. 

With a loud “bang”, a cloud of dust shook off into the bottom. Zhu Tong tried to avoid it, but some of them got inhaled and into his eyes. 

“C-cough!” He snorted, subconsciously stepped back, bumping into someone’s leg.

Shao Ming turned around when he heard the loud sound. He looked down to see his deskmate covering his eyes and frowning.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay?”

He quickly put down his tools and squatted down, and at the same time looked at the two boys who were fighting with a sinister look, “What are you two doing?”

As soon as they got asked, one of them subconsciously apologized, “Yes… I’m sorry.”

Shao Ming ignored them both, and looked down at Zhu Tong. Seeing that he was about to raise his hand to rub his eyes, he quickly grabbed his wrist, “Don’t rub it.”

Shao Ming took off his gloves and supported Zhu Tong, “Come on, stand up.”

The shorter youth’s eyes were covered with dust, and he was very uncomfortable. His hands were also grabbed, so he could only stand up passively.

With one hand supporting him, Shao Ming leaned close to his face and said, “Let me see, can you open your eyes?” 

Zhu Tong shook his head. “No… I can’t.” As he spoke, he raised his hand again.

Shao Ming stopped him and said, “Don’t move your hands, I’ll take a look.”

Just as he was thinking about blowing it, there was a “bang” at the direction of the door of the classroom, and a bucket fell to the ground.

Luo Suo stood outside the classroom door with a look of shock on his face. “Ming-ge, what are you… doing?”

From his perspective, Zhu Tong was held tightly in Shao Ming’s arms. Zhu Tong desperately tried to stop something, but their distance was very close. It looked like they were about… to kiss? 

‘Here?! Now?? In the classroom??’

‘No matter how uncontrollable you are, you can’t mess around on the podium!’

Luo Suo felt his worldview had been shaken. Others in the classroom were also stunned. Even those who were worried that Zhu Tong would come forward to ask about the situation gave up their thoughts.

Going to the podium now… seems a bit too ignorant!

Only the two people hugging each other on the podium were still present. Shao Ming was worried about Zhu Tong’s eyes, so he ignored the gawkers and pulled Zhu Tong out.

Zhu Tong still shut his eyes tight. “Where are we going?”

“Go to the sink and rinse it out.”

“…”

When passing by the door of the classroom, Shao Ming said to Luo Suo, “Clean the podium.”

Luo Suo: “…”

‘’The task was thrown to me, what on earth do you want to do!!’

But before Luo Suo could complain, the screams of girls in the classroom had covered his voice.

“…”

–Honestly, he had no idea what they were excited about.

a noble gas, i.e Helium, Neon, etc. does not react with other elements. This student is just making an allegory.

it’s actually the “power” of love. But the term “force” of love is more fitting because the previous student used a chemistry term.