OEBSAS |Chapter 10

A group of ten-year-old children were silently watching the classroom door, standing at attention.

When Shao Xian was at home, he had already recalled where his seat had been in fourth grade, and he paid no attention at all to the looks from his classmates as he walked toward the back row of the classroom.

He was taller than kids his age, and when he was little he had been spoiled, so he was very self-centered and did not like to be disturbed. So he occupied a desk by himself and sat in the back row by the window.

After Shao Xian sat down, he looked up and saw Chen Baizhou walking toward the back row against the wall on the other side.

Discussion started breaking out in the classroom.

Shao Xian did not care what the little radishes were chattering about. He took out his math materials and planned to finish all the remaining lessons.

Since he wanted to skip a grade, he had to prepare early.

“Bang!” A loud crash exploded by Shao Xian’s ear.

He immediately looked toward Chen Baizhou.

He saw that Chen Baizhou was sitting on the floor in a sorry state, while his chair had been kicked away by someone. It had hit the wall at the back of the classroom and toppled to the ground.

It was obvious that his fierce desk mate had deliberately kicked his chair away the moment he sat down.

The two rows of boys behind them immediately burst out laughing, and some girls also covered their mouths and laughed secretly.

Most of the children who could sit in this classroom came from wealthy or powerful families. The spoiled children of rich people basically had a hard time feeling sympathy for someone like Chen Baizhou.

Under Chen Yu’s bullying, who didn’t know that Chen Baizhou was a bastard of unknown fatherage?

Children usually could not tell right from wrong, and they were most easily led by the crowd. Because everyone else disliked Chen Baizhou, they also followed the herd and bullied Chen Baizhou, as if doing so would earn them a sense of group approval.

Chen Baizhou had long since become used to this low-level tactic. He expressionlessly got up from the floor, then, as usual, went to the back of the classroom to pick up the chair.

He did not know whether Shao Xian was watching him, and he did not dare raise his head, afraid that Shao Xian would dislike his sorry state.

Would Shao Xian think that the person he had treated so well was actually so unpopular, and that he was so timid and useless.

He kept his head down, just about to return to the desk, when a pair of shoes suddenly appeared in front of him.

The upper was white, and just by looking at it, you could tell it was very expensive.

That was not the point. The point was that he had looked at these shoes all the way this morning.

“Put the chair down,” Shao Xian said in a flat tone.

Chen Baizhou stood frozen in place, not daring to move. Both hands gripped the back of the chair tightly, and his lips were pressed into a hard line.

He was afraid Shao Xian would dislike him, and a wave of self-disgust could not help surging up inside him. He could ignore other people’s humiliation, but he could not keep calm toward anything Shao Xian did.

“It’s fine, put the chair down first. Doesn’t it get tiring to hold it up?” Shao Xian reached out and rubbed Chen Baizhou’s slightly long hair, and said with a light smile.

Chen Baizhou’s heart warmed. He obediently put the chair down. As long as Shao Xian was not angry, he was willing to do anything!

After he put the chair down, Shao Xian walked to Chen Baizhou’s desk mate. Although his expression was as usual, in the eyes of the whole class, he gave off an air of being completely beyond anyone’s control.

Chen Baizhou’s desk mate looked broad and strong, much sturdier than children his age, but when he saw Shao Xian, he still became a little afraid.

Logically speaking, Shao Xian was known as the class flower of Class One, even the school flower of Yuying Primary School. He looked so good that whatever expression that face made, it should not have been very frightening, but Chen Baizhou’s desk mate still got so scared his legs went weak.

At school, Shao Xian liked to keep to himself and was not interested in other matters. In the past, when they bullied Chen Baizhou, Shao Xian had always turned a blind eye.

Therefore, Chen Baizhou’s desk mate thought that Shao Xian was angry because he had been disturbed by the noise of the chair being kicked, so he hurriedly apologized, “Sorry, Shao Xian, I disturbed you just now, right? Sorry, don’t be angry.”

Almost all the children in Class One had been warned over and over by their parents either to get along well with Shao Xian, or not to provoke Shao Xian into anger. They did not understand it too well, but they vaguely knew that Shao Xian was on a higher level than them.

Shao Xian said expressionlessly, “Stand up.”

The boy immediately stood up.

“Sit down.”

The boy pretended to follow the order and sit down, but Shao Xian suddenly kicked the chair flying, sending it straight into the classroom door at the back. After a loud crash, the boy immediately let out a miserable cry.

His butt had made intimate contact with the floor, and it really hurt terribly.

The classroom fell silent. No one dared breathe loudly. This was the first time in four years of being classmates that Shao Xian had lost his temper.

Although there was not much expression on his face, everyone knew he was angry.

So terrifying!

“Does it hurt?” Shao Xian asked condescendingly.

The boy had a violent temper. Just now he had not wanted to provoke Shao Xian for no reason, so he had apologized politely. Now that his butt hurt from the fall, how could he care about so much? He rushed up and forcefully shoved Shao Xian.

Not only the classmates in the room, even Shao Xian himself was stunned.

He had lived for thirty years, and no one had ever dared shove him like that. Precisely because he had not expected it, he had not been careful, and the boy pushed him so that he staggered back several steps. His waist hit the corner of the desk behind him, and the pain made his brows knit.

Chen Baizhou personally witnessed the scene of Shao Xian hitting the desk. Seeing him frown in pain, a burst of viciousness that he did not know where it came from instantly filled his thin chest.

Shao Xian was injured because of him. How could he be so useless! How could these people be so disgusting!

Years of abuse had not made him want to resist, but after seeing Shao Xian being pushed, Chen Baizhou no longer wanted to endure.

He did something that was enough to make everyone stare in disbelief.

He charged over.

He knocked over the tall and strong desk mate, pinned the person to the ground, and sent his fists down on him with ruthless force, without the slightest mercy.

It was as if he had become a different person.

The classroom immediately turned noisy, with screams everywhere. Some people came over to pull them apart, some came over to watch, and some ran out of the classroom to find the teacher.

But Chen Baizhou seemed to be completely unaware. In his eyes there was only the boy’s miserable crying face, in his ears only the boy’s pig-slaughter-like howls, and in his heart… only the look of Shao Xian being hurt from hitting the desk.

“Chen Baizhou, that’s enough. Let’s not fight anymore, okay, okay, stop hitting him.”

A voice lingered in his ears, soothing the viciousness in his heart again and again. Chen Baizhou finally stopped, and looked up at Shao Xian.

At this moment, the ferocity in his eyes had not yet faded, and Shao Xian saw it clearly.

Shao Xian was startled. It seemed that the harm the Chen family had done to Chen Baizhou had already been carved into the child’s bones. Chen Baizhou usually looked obedient and well-behaved, but in fact, the dark emotions in his heart were no less than anyone else’s.

He had just been suppressing them all this time.

No wonder in his previous life, almost everyone in the circle said that Fu Baizhou was ruthless and merciless, cold and heartless. This was not groundless after all.

But this was not the child’s fault.

Chen Baizhou clearly also realized his own frightening side from just now. His hands had been trembling the whole time, and he turned his face away, not daring to meet Shao Xian’s eyes.

He finally realized that he also had such a vicious side. So what Bai Meijuan and Chen Yu said was not wrong. He was a bastard, and what flowed in his body was the blood of barbarians.

He had never fought back, because he wanted to use that to show that he was not barbaric, but all of that had just been destroyed by himself.

Would Shao Xian dislike him? Would Shao Xian look down on him? What should he do?

“Chen Baizhou, it’s not your fault,” Shao Xian said firmly.

He tightly held Chen Baizhou’s wrist, seeming to give him supporting strength.

Slowly, Chen Baizhou stopped trembling. He slowly turned his head, and saw Shao Xian smiling gently at him. Instantly, it was as if a warm current had been injected into his heart.

As long as Shao Xian did not dislike him, then he was not afraid of anything!

Although he had only been with Shao Xian for two days, in his short yet long ten years, he had encountered many, many people, and no one had ever treated him as well as Shao Xian.

Two days of happiness were enough to cover the pain and humiliation of the first ten years.

Very soon, the homeroom teacher, Wu Qilin, came over with a stern face.

Chen Baizhou’s desk mate was still lying crookedly on the floor, wailing. Shao Xian was holding Chen Baizhou and standing right beside the boy, as if nothing had happened.

After Wu Qilin understood the situation from the class monitor, his head immediately felt as big as a cow’s.

The always quiet and silent Shao Xian had actually suddenly disciplined a classmate? The always gloomy and taciturn Chen Baizhou had actually attacked his desk mate so fiercely?

Monday was truly a fresh day.

“Shao Xian, why did you kick Wang Zhe’s chair?” Wu Qilin asked.

Only then did Shao Xian learn that the boy bullying Chen Baizhou was called Wang Zhe.

He glanced at the class monitor, who had turned black and white upside down, and looked seriously at Wu Qilin as he said, “He kicked over Chen Baizhou’s chair first. I was just standing up for what’s right.”

Wang Zhe wailed even louder.

Wu Qilin knew Shao Xian’s identity, and it was indeed Wang Zhe who had done wrong first, so he could only go ask Chen Baizhou.

“Chen Baizhou, why did you beat Wang Zhe?”

If it was about revenge, Shao Xian had already helped him get revenge. It was not necessary to beat Wang Zhe again, right?

Chen Baizhou looked down at Wang Zhe. In his beautiful eyes, a trace of viciousness flashed and disappeared, but his face obediently answered, “He pushed Shao Xian. Shao Xian hit the desk and got injured.”

Got injured?

Wu Qilin was immediately shocked. If Shao Xian was injured, that was no small matter. He hurried over to Shao Xian and asked with concern, “Where are you hurt?”

The other classmates also saw Wang Zhe pushing Shao Xian, but Shao Xian had only hit the desk. How could that count as being injured? Compared with that, the scene of Chen Baizhou pinning Wang Zhe down and pummeling him was much more bloody and exciting.

Shao Xian shook his head and said, “Teacher, I’m fine. Wang Zhe is injured too. How about we send him to the infirmary first?”

Seeing Wang Zhe in that state, Wu Qilin had no choice but to nod. “Shao Xian, you come too. The other students all go back to your seats for morning reading.”

The classmates scattered like birds and beasts, all returning to their seats, but secretly watched as Wu Qilin took the three of them away.

Although Wu Qilin had only asked Shao Xian to go to the infirmary together, Shao Xian still pulled Chen Baizhou along with him.

The four of them arrived at the infirmary. The school doctor first examined Wang Zhe, who had been crying out the whole time. Seeing that there was no mark on Wang Zhe’s pale body, he shook his head and said, “There’s no injury, just a little red skin.”

Chen Baizhou looked fierce, but he was thin and weak, and he simply did not have much strength, so he had not hit very hard at all.

Wu Qilin glanced at Wang Zhe, and Wang Zhe immediately calmed down and stopped howling.

“Shao Xian, you should also lift up your clothes and let the doctor take a look,” Wu Qilin did not dare treat Shao Xian carelessly, and only felt reassured after he had checked.

Shao Xian himself also felt that his waist was a little sore, so he did not refuse. He lifted up the hem of his shirt, revealing fair, tender skin.

On the right side of his waist, a patch of blue-purple bruising was obvious, set off against skin as white as milk. It was simply shocking to the eye!

Shao Xian did not think it was anything. His constitution was like that. He was prone to bruising from even a light bump. It looked serious, but it was really just a minor injury.

“Hey, Chen Baizhou, don’t cry!” Wu Qilin was already feeling sorry for Shao Xian, and when he suddenly saw Chen Baizhou crying, he did not even know how to comfort him.

Shao Xian froze, then turned around to look at Chen Baizhou.

The child was staring fixedly at the wound on his waist, tears falling down as if they cost nothing. His lips were pressed tightly together, and a pair of little fists were clenched hard.

Shao Xian felt as if something had struck his heart. In an instant, it was as if he had been burned by the child’s tears, and all he felt was heartache and warmth.

How could he be this cute and this well-behaved?