Chapter 13: "From now on, you don't need to tell me about things like this. It has nothing to do with me."
Jiang Minghua, a lone boy, and two girls who had also finished their tests, helped Su Yu to the infirmary. They happened to pass Zhang Chen and Bai Xiruo, who were standing by the door.
Seeing Zhang Chen outside the door, Jiang Minghua nodded and greeted him.
Zhang Chen knew this person. In the original novel, Su Yu naturally didn't only have him as a suitor; Jiang Minghua was one of the others.
After he was expelled, the position of openly following Su Yu around school naturally fell to him.
Because of this, he would get a good beating from Zhang Chen, but these would all be stopped by Su Yu later...
He was just a minor character, and the novel only briefly mentioned this incident.
However, while Jiang Minghua was a minor character in the book, this was not the case in the original body's current memories.
Zhang Chen could recall many things related to the original body and Jiang Minghua, all as if he had experienced them himself.
The two had once been classmates in junior high.
In junior high, Jiang Minghua's grades were much better than the original body's, and because of this, he always had a faint sense of superiority in front of the original body.
Until one day, the original body couldn't stand it anymore and cornered him after school. After that, he never dared to act presumptuously based on his grades again.
After entering high school, he coincidentally ended up in the same class as the original body, and both of them simultaneously took a liking to Su Yu.
Because the original body was always by Su Yu's side, Jiang Minghua generally didn't dare to show his interest.
But whenever the original body wasn't around, he would usually find opportunities to interact with Su Yu.
He was the original body's rival, and the two had always been at odds.
However, he didn't dare to show it openly and could only play dirty tricks in secret.
Just like now, fearing that Zhang Chen might misunderstand or get jealous, he even honestly nodded and greeted him.
In reality, he was afraid Zhang Chen would beat him.
Zhang Chen raised an eyebrow and watched with interest as the group passed by.
Seeing this, Jiang Minghua stopped again and explained grandiosely, "Su Yu also fainted on the field just now, so I'm bringing her to the infirmary."
Zhang Chen: "Hmm, why are you telling me?"
Su Yu heard this, turned back, frowned slightly in confusion, and then was helped into the infirmary by the two girls.
"Ah... I, I thought it was necessary to tell you..." Jiang Minghua was a bit bewildered.
Before, whenever he spoke to Su Yu, he might receive a warning look from Zhang Chen. What did this mean now?
"From now on, you don't need to tell me about things like this. It has nothing to do with me," Zhang Chen said with a smile, curling his lips. "I'm a very fair person, aren't I, Xiruo?"
"Ah?" Bai Xiruo flinched in alarm. She hadn't dared to look at Su Yu the entire time, and her feet slowly shuffled backward...
Jiang Minghua was equally confused: "Huh? What do you mean?"
"It means exactly what it sounds like." Zhang Chen grabbed the collar of Bai Xiruo's school uniform, which she was trying to pull back, "From now on, how you want to pursue girls has nothing to do with me. You don't need to worry that I'll hit you."
"I've changed my ways now; I don't hit people anymore. I won't ever again, right, Xiruo?"
"...But he just yesterday..." Bai Xiruo muttered to herself...
Jiang Minghua heard this, turned to look at Su Yu, and saw that she had already entered the infirmary. Then he feigned a carefree smile: "What are you talking about?"
When the girl he liked was around, a boy always had to save face.
Zhang Chen didn't expose him, glancing at Bai Xiruo and saying, "She's recovered, so I'll take her back to class first."
Without waiting for Jiang Minghua's reply, Zhang Chen let go of Bai Xiruo's clothes and followed her towards the sports field.
Jiang Minghua stood stunned for a moment. After watching Zhang Chen walk a good distance, he followed him into the infirmary.
He glanced at Su Yu, who was sitting on the bed, and asked, "How are you? Are you alright?"
Su Yu looked up at the door and realized that Zhang Chen hadn't come in.
The two accompanying girls shook their heads: "She's fine. We're going to buy some candy for Xiaoyu. You watch her, okay?"
Jiang Minghua's heart swelled with secret joy at the thought of being alone with Su Yu: "Okay!"
After the two girls left, Jiang Minghua brought a cup of water with glucose dissolved in it to Su Yu, carefully handing it to her.
"What did you and Zhang Chen just talk about?" Su Yu took the cup but didn't drink, instead asking about what happened at the door.
Jiang Minghua's hand paused in mid-air, his mind a little slow to react: "N-nothing at all."
"Why are you asking about that?"
"Didn't he say anything?!" Su Yu frowned tightly. She had fainted from low blood sugar, and Zhang Chen was just going to ignore her!?
She had deliberately faked low blood sugar to see how he would react!
Not only was he not worried, but he didn't even come in to look at her!?
What was he doing!?
Jiang Minghua heard this and made a show of thinking hard. After careful consideration, he said, "I saw that he and Bai Xiruo seemed to be on very good terms?"
"He didn't say anything, just one sentence... that Xiruo was fine, and he was taking her back to class first."
"Oh, he also grabbed Bai Xiruo by the neck. I never noticed they were so close before..."
"What? Very good terms? He grabbed Bai Xiruo by the neck? How did he grab her?"
Su Yu was shocked by Jiang Minghua's words. She knew that just yesterday, Zhang Chen had sworn to her that he would teach Bai Xiruo a good lesson for her!
How could their relationship be so good now that he was grabbing her by the neck?
"He just..." Jiang Minghua reached back and hooked his finger into the collar of his own shirt, pulling it up, "...like this."
"He really didn't say anything else?" Su Yu's eyes widened, her chest heaving with anger.
"Hmm... Oh, actually... there was one more thing, but I'm not sure if I should say it," Jiang Minghua said, feigning hesitation.
"Speak!" Su Yu was in no mood to waste words with Jiang Minghua. She had only let Jiang Minghua follow her to provoke Zhang Chen, but instead, she was the one who ended up greatly angered by Zhang Chen!
"Didn't I explain to him that you also had low blood sugar and I was bringing you over? But he said..."
"From now on, you don't need to tell him about things like this. It has nothing to do with him."
Su Yu believed this statement, because before entering the infirmary, she had also heard Zhang Chen say, "Why are you telling me?"
It was perfectly reasonable for him to say things like "it has nothing to do with me" after that.
"Okay..." Su Yu nodded gently after hearing this. "It has nothing to do with him, right? Fine..."
Seeing this, Jiang Minghua quickly expressed concern: "Are you alright, Su Yu? Zhang Chen might just be... he was warned by the teacher yesterday, so he's still in a bad mood... that's why..."
"Bad mood... then forget it."
Su Yu looked up at Jiang Minghua: "Jiang Minghua, would you like to have lunch with me?"
"Huh? C-can I?" Jiang Minghua was overjoyed.
"Why not? It's perfectly normal for classmates to eat together."
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