Chapter 496 Chen Jinzhi Extra: YoungAndBeautiful (Part 2)
Putting aside those inexplicable palpitations, what Chen Jinzhi smelled from Su Chengyi was first of all the smell of the same kind.
Maybe it’s because they are transfer students from the same country, and they will inevitably want to “huddle together for warmth” in a strange environment;
Or maybe it’s because he is so taciturn. The expressionless attitude and the faint sense of world-weariness that pervaded his body made Chen Jinzhi, who usually pretended to be gentle and tolerant, seem to have seen himself after taking off the mask.
But there are probably some differences, Chen Jinzhi thought.
The facially paralyzed Buddha sitting next to him is not targeting anyone. He is just not interested in anything in the world. Living is good, and death is fine.
As for Chen Jinzhi, it’s because her life is so boring. She couldn't see the future and had no time to think about it.
Every time the hour hand turns around, she starts to worry about what to eat next. The tuition fee has not yet been paid. Will she be kicked out by the landlord tonight?
And one way to escape these thoughts is to learn.
Chen Jinzhi studies well, partly because he wants to try his best to get into a good university and get a good job after graduation;
Another part of the reason sounds more realistic. A student with excellent grades can get more attention from the teacher, so she can avoid many nasty pranks among her classmates.
When you first come to a foreign country, it is not easy to adapt to the teaching schedule.
Of course Chen Jinzhi knows this very well. When she first transferred here, she couldn’t even speak Korean.
During class, it is like listening to scriptures, and the teacher will not slow down the teaching progress for a special person.
In order not to disturb other people in the family, Chen Jinzhi, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, chose to sneak out of the house quietly every night and learn the language by himself by using the weak emergency light in the corridor.
One time, I forgot to lock the door latch in a daze, and the door closed automatically when the wind blew.
And if you knock on the door and wake up the people inside, you will definitely be scolded or even beaten.
After trying to weigh the pros and cons, Chen Jinzhi decided to stay up all night at the door.
In the late autumn weather, she finished studying an entire book of "Yonsei Korean" while trembling.
Based on these not-so-good memories, Chen Jinzhi felt that Su Chengyi might also encounter the same troubles as her.
After all, when I introduce myself, it’s just a simple hello, but it’s so stiff.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me at any time."
Chen Jinzhi considered it for a moment and said in her best polite and distant tone.
Su Chengyi held her chin up and said "hmm" casually.
This is a person who is very good at chatting to death.
With this thought in mind, Chen Jinzhi simply put aside his desire to take the initiative to establish diplomatic relations.
The days when the two sat at the same table did not last long.
The school seemed to have undergone some institutional reforms, and suddenly began to pay attention to grades.
Uploading and distributing, in the past, the seats in the class were randomly arranged, and you could almost sit wherever you wanted. Now, in compliance with the school's call, it has become a strict order of performance.
After the teacher announced the news, there was a lot of noise and protest in the classroom.
Park Zhenyan was originally surrounded by her cronies and younger brothers. She relied on these connections to pass the class quizzes on weekdays. Now that there was no hope of cheating, she was of course the one who protested the most vigorously.
However, the deal was already done, and the teacher waved his hand:
"Start changing seats."
The first place winner, Chen Jinzhi, won the special "Teacher's Favorite" seat in front of the podium.
Of course, she doesn’t really want to get such an honor.
Su Chengyi, who was not ranked because he was a transfer student, inherited Chen Jinzhi's original bottom position.
Neither of them showed any major emotional fluctuations regarding this seat-swapping incident.
Su Chengyi's expression was as expressionless as ever, and Chen Jinzhi's smile was as official and polite as ever.
“If you have anything in the future, you can still come and ask me.”
After the official farewell, Chen Jinzhi packed his schoolbag and stood up, but was suddenly attracted by the graffiti on the table. .
She was used to ignoring these things, but after a long time, she felt embarrassed by the insulting words on them.
“It doesn’t matter.”
Su Chengyi said this without even raising his eyelids.
He put his black shoulder bag on the table and calmly accepted the somewhat uncomfortable new seat.
Chen Jinzhi glanced at him intently, took the schoolbag he handed over, turned around and walked to the front row.
The next day, when Su Chengyi came to school, he found that the desktop had been wiped clean.
He raised his head and glanced at the front row. Chen Jinzhi had a ponytail today.
The tips of her hair swayed gently with the morning breeze, and the exposed white neck was cleverly hidden in the collar of her school uniform.
Obviously the distance in the physical sense has been shortened, but Chen Jinzhi's attention is always inexplicably attracted to Su Chengyi.
He always looked out the window in a daze during class.
When he goes to a convenience store, he only buys strawberry-flavored milk.
On his wrist is an old-fashioned quartz watch with a stainless steel case.
He hasn't made any friends yet.
The math papers he handed in always scored perfect marks.
His elective language class is German and he seems to be learning it very well.
Every time Chen Jinzhi passed by the elective classroom, he could hear his voice being called up to read the text.
“Dubistmein, ichbindein.”
Despite this, they remained silent to each other and never said another word.
Occasionally, Chen Jinzhi thought that maybe other people could not help but want to pay attention to him, so there were fewer pranks against her, and most people were more interested in this mysterious transfer student.
Perhaps due to good luck, Chen Jinzhi unexpectedly got a peaceful high school life, which was almost her biggest wish in the past.
But as the days went by, she felt a little unnoticeable in this calmness.
The graffiti in red font no longer appeared on the desk. When she lowered her head, she could always see those words. This time, they were even indelible versions.
Human beings may be such creatures. After being oppressed for a long time, when they suddenly regain their freedom, not only will they not feel relaxed, but they will force themselves to become the new culprit of their own torture.
Chen Jinzhi occasionally thinks of the evaluation of her by a group of people headed by Park Zhenyan.
That is, there is nothing but this face, like a dummy without emotions and pain. When you graduate from high school, you will go back to the class you belong to. When you get old, your appearance will fade and you will be given up by everyone. abandon.
Obviously, having this face really caused her a lot of trouble.
Chen Jinzhi has experienced this since she was a child. Her stepmother once wanted her to enter the most popular entertainment circle in South Korea with her face. However, on the first day of her interview, Chen Jinzhi was raped by the male director. His eyes and words dissuaded him.
Of course he didn't look good after returning home like this. From then on, every expense of Chen Jinzhi was recorded as a debt to be repaid in the future.
Of course, interest is included.
Since Chen Jinzhi entered middle school, there has been an endless stream of people coming to express their feelings, many of whom she has no impression of.
Of course, there are also people who don't even know how to pronounce her name correctly, so they can stop her with a playful smile and confidently ask if they want to date.
The reason why Chen Jin was completely alone in her last year of high school had a lot to do with the fact that she rejected too many people and offended too many people.
To this day, she can't help but have doubts, will anyone really love her in this world?
It has nothing to do with skin, disguise, or anything else. It just means loving her as a person and pitying her heart.
With such confusion and a feeling similar to inferiority, Chen Jinzhi's eyes always fall on someone without leaving a trace.
Although the two still had no communication, Chen Jinzhi always seemed to be able to draw some sense of security from him.
She thought she hid it well.
Before that day.
Chen Jinzhi doesn’t like rainy days.
Sometimes she laments in her heart that it is very likely that Chen Jinzhi in any parallel universe does not like rainy days. The damp smell will bring bad memories to your face, making it difficult to breathe and make you feel depressed.
Coupled with the many worries these days, she made this mistake that she would never have made before.
"Hahaha! Goodbye~~No teacher will come to patrol the building today, so don't try to ask for help anymore, just stay safe and stay safe! Good night~"
Pu Zhen Yan's arrogant voice came from outside the door, and she shook the key chain in her hand. She specially asked someone from the sports department to get it.
She sounded as excited as if she had finally succeeded in revolting after decades of hard work.
Chen Jinzhi paused for a moment, bent down and put the basketball basket in his hand on the ground, turned around and looked around.
This is the equipment room.
Because of the need to prevent theft, there is only one iron door.
It is closed on all sides, and the windows are high up, so it cannot accommodate adults entering or exiting - even someone as thin as Chen Jinzhi cannot.
The people outside the door screamed and laughed for a while, but they could not hear her humble begging for mercy as expected. In the end, they felt bored and left noisily.
Chen Jinzhi listened to their retreating footsteps, sighed softly, and squatted down against the wall.
If there is no patrol teacher tonight, she will have to wait until someone passes by during morning class the next day before she can go out.
If it were normal times, this would not be an unbearable thing.
Today is a rainy day.
The equipment room had an unpleasant smell of rust, and raindrops pattered on the awning outside. Occasionally, lightning flashed across, turning the dark equipment room into daylight.
It's like a plot that often appears in campus horror movies. Under normal circumstances, when the next round of lightning strikes, there will suddenly be some disheveled female ghost floating in the air with her tongue sticking out.
Chen Jinzhi looked calm and opened her eyes in the darkness. She was not afraid or believed that there were creatures like ghosts in the world.
The premise is that there is no sound of footsteps coming from the corridor, sometimes far, sometimes near, sometimes light and sometimes heavy.
Chen Jinzhi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this strange movement.
Because even if it’s not a ghost, it might be a perverted murderer hiding on campus?
Chen Jinzhi thought of the wanted criminal who appeared in the newspaper some time ago.
After a brief hesitation, she stood up and calmly pulled out a baseball bat from the corner.
The footsteps originally passed by the equipment room, but when Chen Jinzhi breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly turned back and stopped at the door.
“Boom.”
The iron door was knocked.
This means that the visitor knows someone is inside.
Chen Jinzhi nervously held the baseball bat in his hand, mentally weighing his chances of winning if he broke in.
"Chen Jinzhi?"
The person outside the door suddenly said.
The familiar, cold voice, the Chinese words spoken with perfect pronunciation.
Chen Jinzhi's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and she threw the baseball bat in her hand back to the shelf with a clang.
"Su Chengyi, you are going to die."
This was the first conversation between the two after they changed seats.
“Are you scared?”
The voice outside the door brought a smile that could not be concealed.
It sounds rather gloating.
“No.”
Chen Jinzhi let out a breath and squatted down again against the iron door.
"How did you know I was here?"
After she regained her composure, she couldn't help but ask.
"Guess."
Su Chengyi heard her voice lowered a bit and guessed that she was probably sitting down at this moment, so she also sat down against the door.
The two of them formed a back-to-back position through the thick iron door.
“Yes.”
Of course Chen Jinzhi knew that he was fooling people, so he just followed his words.
She was thinking about something else at the moment.
Mingming and Su Chengyi haven't spoken to each other for a long time - in fact, the two of them haven't spoken a few words from beginning to end.
But now when I talk, I don’t feel unfamiliar or strange at all.
He didn't seem to care about the current situation, he just found her inexplicably, and sat with her in this rainy night across the wall inexplicably.
“I was reading in the library. When I left school, I met some people and heard them discussing things about you.”
Su Chengyi changed into a comfortable sitting position and put his schoolbag aside. He also had a book in his elbow, which proved that what he said was indeed the truth.
“I walked back when I heard something about the equipment room. I didn’t know where the equipment room was, so I walked around several floors and wasted some time.”
After listening After his explanation, Chen Jinzhi finally understood why the footsteps just now sounded so strange, sometimes closer and sometimes far away.
It’s really scary.
But after Su Chengyi answered her question, he closed his golden mouth that seemed to be coated with 502 glue at the speed of light.
Then the atmosphere fell into silence again.
The rain outside the window showed no sign of letting up, thunder exploded, and the dark equipment room no longer evoked sinister associations with ghosts.
Chen Jinzhi still curled up habitually and hugged his knees.
She lowered her eyelashes in the darkness, as if she felt the warmth belonging to other people from the other side of the iron door.
This atmosphere cannot be said to be very charming, but it is not bad either, and it is even a bit memorable.
Chen Jinzhi has heard many people describe youth as a heavy rain. She didn't understand it before, but now she understands it.
We should continue to find some topic, Chen Jinzhi thought. She had never been the type to be silent before.
It’s just that I haven’t spoken to someone like this for a long time, and I’m a little uncomfortable.
What should I say?
: Why did you come to me?
:How long do you plan to stay here?
: When the rain stops, will you leave?
Of course, these awkward questions that sounded a little fragile were all rejected by her in the end.
Hearing the faint sound of turning pages outside the door, the last thing Chen Jinzhi said was:
"What book are you reading? Can you read it to me?"
There was silence outside the door for a long time, and Su Chengyi's eyes fell on the title of the title page.
For no reason, he remembered the day he first met Chen Jinzhi.
Yes, she seems to think she hid it well.
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(Help, I originally wanted to finish writing two chapters, but I misestimated the progress. I collapsed after three days of writing an extra chapter!!! )
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