“Hey, hey, have you heard? The freak in our class is dead!”
“What ?! No way! Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Ah? Dead? How did he die?”
“I heard that the body was found on the street off-campus. Reportedly he fought with the homeless people in that street in order to grab a cake, and then was beat to the death by the homeless people!”
“My God, this is too terrible.”
“For a cake? This is too sensationalized! Isn’t it just a cake?”
When Xiao Chen heard the voice of the person next to him, his head began to feel faint. His right hand tightly clutched his chest, while his left hand was firmly propped up on the table to maintain his balance.
In front of his eyes, he was seeing stars and everything around him looked unreal. What was terrifying was that his body began shaking all over, like chaff in a sieve.
The people next to him who were still talking quickly noticed that something was wrong with him, and looked over in horror.
Xiao Chen leaned down and began to retch. His stomach was churning incomparably fierce, but he could not spit out anything after retching and holding his position for a long time. If only he could only spit out the acid in his throat, but he couldn’t vomit.
Although everyone didn’t like to pay attention to him normally, they were still just children and their mind was not as complex as adults. As soon as they saw Xiao Chen like this, someone rushed out to call the teacher.
It was as if Xiao Chen’s entire body was cramping. His body kept shaking, crazily shaking, he tried to clasp his hands together to prevent himself from shaking too much, but the result was just in vain.
Instead, he trembled even more terribly.
Gu Luming.
Xiao Chen’s upper lip incessantly rubbed against his lower teeth. He could hear the sound of the world he had built with great difficulty crashing down, shattering very loudly and completely.
He couldn’t see clearly the faces of the people around him, nor the surrounding environment. He could only feel that he was dizzy.
The next second, he lost his center of gravity and slid on his chair, both knees softened. His upper body had no support, hitting the ground directly.
In the chaos, he saw one face after another, even heard countless screams and shouts, and someone rushed up to catch him, gasping.
“Xiao Chen.”
“Hm?”
“Do you like to eat the little desserts from the shop across from the school?”
“…How did you know?”
“Heehee, then I’ll bring you some on the way to school tomorrow!”
“Ye! Okay!”
Xiao Chen suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the surrounding white, and zoned out, as if he was in a dream.
For a moment, he even thought he was back to that summer.
He tightly clutched at his chest, there was a kind of inexplicable twisting pain in his heart.
He dreamt of that person again!
It was a nightmare that he has been unable to escape for so many years.
“Xiao Chen.” That person’s tone calling him still echoed in his brain. Even the last syllable of that person calling him, and the slightly raised corner of his mouth, he remembered it all clearly.
I haven’t forgotten, nor can I forget.
Xiao Chen was somewhat silent.
The black shadow hid under the bed, like a viper living in a deep ditch, clinging to Xiao Chen’s side.
Heehee, this was his baby.
“You’re awake?” A nurse came in, switched out a bottle of medicine for him, and had him continue the iv drip. While changing it on his side, the nurse said, “Your friend has gone to the toilet, I reckon he will be back in a while.”
Xiao Chen nodded, his face remained very pale.
He was in a trance for a moment, suddenly wondering why he was lying here.
Zhang Hui had just finished going to the toilet and walked in. Seeing that Xiao Chen woke up, his eyes lit up.
“Thank the heavens, brother, you’re awake!” Zhang Hui walked in with a look of excitement, holding in his hand the stomach filling food he had just stopped over to buy.
He directly placed the food at his bedside.
It was a bag of bread rolls and sweets.
Xiao Chen looked at it out of the corner of his eye, unknowing of what to think again, and was a little distracted.
“Come on, have some food.” Zhang Hui tore the packaging of a little cake and then placed it on Xiao Chen’s hand.
Xiao Chen was silent. After a long time, he put the little cake back on the table, “I don’t like sweets.”
Zhang Hui didn’t doubt him.
Xiao Chen took the initiative to ask, “How is everyone? Why did I suddenly faint yesterday?”
Zhang Hui just took a bite of bread and paused, sighing, “How else can it be, everyone is scared half to death, especially Yuan Daqiang, who is still shivering all over in the dorm.
“Li Yewen was also admitted to the hospital, but it seems that she was discharged this morning. It’s not like you, who fainted for so long.” Zhang Hui sounded like he was complaining, but in fact, he was full of concern.
Xiao Chen nodded understandingly.
“The doctor said that you are fine, just that you’re somewhat hypoglycemic and your body is a bit weak.” Zhang Hui sighed helplessly.
Xiao Chen pulled out a smile, “I’m fine, you go back first, don’t you have class today? Please help me ask for leave.”
Zhang Hui nodded, “Alright, you have a good rest.”
After Zhang Hui left, Xiao Chen lay quietly on the bed alone, looking at the sky outside the window, and was lost in thought for a long time.
“Do you like this book that much?” The grey-eyed boy lovably sat next to Xiao Chen, and stared at Xiao Chen brightly.
Xiao Chen’s hand turned the page, and then he nodded lightly.
“I don’t like it.” The grey-eyed boy narrowed his eyes.
Xiao Chen was a bit puzzled. This was the first time he heard the boy so clearly expressing his dislike of something, that he turned his head to look at him and asked, “Why?”
“Because as long as you are reading this book, you won’t remember that I am sitting beside you!”
The boy said, aggrieved and mumbling to himself, like a pekingese abandoned by their owner, pitiful.
The scene that fell on Xiao Chen’s eyes was really cute and funny.
He hooked the corner of his mouth and smiled.
This smile was very beautiful in the boy’s eyes. He was dazed, and his whole person was stunned in place.
The sun shone well on the side of Xiao Chen’s face, turning into a faint halo circle. His auspicious phoenix-shaped eyes narrowed slightly, full of stars, reflecting the boy’s figure.
The boy not only looked foolish, but also felt his face turn completely red.
Xiao Chen rolled his eyes and continued, “Then let me read it to you.”
The boy’s eyes lit up, he immediately adjusted himself and was ready to listen to the story.
“To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.”
“And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.”
“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…” (“The Little Prince“)
Xiao Chen’s voice was very pleasant, like cold spring water, very clean, a soft voice, impeccable diction, every word, every syllable was entirely perfect, striking the boy’s soft heart.
Together with the whole world, it seemed incomparably gentle.
Xiao Chen came back to his senses with great difficulty, and secretly decided to do something in his heart that he had always wanted to but never did.
He simply put on his clothes, went through the discharge procedures, and left the hospital expressionlessly.
The entire way he was silent like always, having a map open on his phone and purposefully heading to a location.
Finally, after making several turns and walking into an alley, he reached his destination.
He looked at the number at the door, paused, and walked in.
“Handsome guy, what kind of tattoo do you want to get?” The tattoo artist in the shop was a girl who looked like a tomboy. She was very cool, with yellow hair and all kinds of tattoos all over her neck and arms.
Xiao Chen sat down, pursed his lips, took out a picture from his wallet, and looked up at the tattoo artist, “I want to get the tattoo in this photo.”
The tattoo artist nodded, took the picture, and there was a flash of amazement flashed in her eyes.
It was a combination of a snake and red roses.
A snake coiled in roses.
Roses have always represented passionate romance, and roses in the language of flowers meant a combination of love and its absence.
But snakes were just the opposite. Since ancient times, snakes have been symbolized as animals of mysterious power. In the Bible, a snake tricked Eve into stealing the forbidden fruit, the original sin.
She’s never seen someone ask for a snake wrapped around a rose tattoo.
More so, this bundle of roses was covered with thorns, but the snake tightly strangled it, wishing that its flesh would be pierced by the sharp thorns of the rose, and let its own blood water the rose.
“Are you sure?” the tattoo artist asked him repeatedly.
A tattoo was permanent, it will follow a person for a lifetime. There were too many cases in the world where tattoos were regretted.
Xiao Chen did not hesitate, nodded and opened his mouth slightly, “Yes, I want to tattoo it on my back.”
The tattoo artist understood.
The shadow hid in a crack on the ceiling, staring at Xiao Chen’s face with a foolish expression.
It seems that no matter how much he looks, it isn’t enough. He itches to tear open his bones into his stomach, hide him, and slowly enjoy him.
Keke, truly good looking.
This was his unique and unrivalled treasure
Hee hee.
“What are you drawing?” As soon as Xiao Chen came over, he noticed the boy’s movements and was a little surprised to see the boy painting.
He didn’t expect that the boy could actually draw.
Xiao Chen looked closer and found that it was a portrait of a snake wrapped around a rose.
The impact of the picture is very strong.
The boy’s gray eyes flashed with some indescribable obscure emotion.
“Do you like it?” He asked Xiao Chen instead.
Xiao Chen heard the words and carefully looked at the painting.
To be honest, it was a bit scary at first glance, because the snake was truly too realistic, just like a real one, but after looking it a few times, it inexplicably struck a chord with Xiao Chen, It even made him feel speechless to the point of feeling like crying.
“I like it.” Xiao Chen nodded honestly.
It’s truly beautiful.
The grey-eyed boy smiled. This smile was a little different from his usual smile. Instead, it was a little scary, even a little cold, but his smile was somewhat sweet, like a child who stole candy.
The boy pointed at the rose in the picture and stared closely at Xiao Chen. “This is you.”
He pointed to the snake again and continued, “And this is me.”
Xiao Chen looked at him with some astonishment.
The corner of the boy’s mouth raised in a dazzling arc, “On the little prince’s planet B612, the bundle of roses looking forward to love finally met Mr. Snake who accidentally broke into the planet one day. Mr. Snake fell in love with the rose at first sight and was determined to protect it, so that the rose that should have lived in the greenhouse could be a proud and dazzling rose again…”
Gu Luming will definitely protect Xiao Chen.