He Will Come Back Before Dawn

19

The summer heat was frightening. Shang Mengxian’s friend asked her, "How's it going?"

Shang Mengxian couldn't possibly tell the humiliating story of almost being bitten by a dog. She contemptuously spoke in her defense, "It's okay. I walked with him for a while, and he took the initiative to talk to me."

Her good friend Hao wasn't surprised, "You're probably the best looking girl he has ever seen. And maybe no one's gonna like him in his life, so it's normal for him to get a little excited."

Shang Mengxian opened her mouth and closed it again. How could she say the man's reaction was particularly bland, but on second thought, as her best friend had said, he probably wouldn't even get the chance to meet a better-looking girl. It was only a matter of time before he would be swooning over and trying to please her.

She had no shortage of admirers, but a crippled and aloof admirer, that sounded challenging.

It's possible to be liked by such a person and turn him into a Lapdog. However, he was still good-looking, cold, and resolute. Otherwise, Shang Mengxian would not endure nausea to approach him. What's more, she heard that he was the first in his grade.

Shang Mengxian knew that this kind of person lacked the love most. In the afternoon, she took the imported chocolates sent by other boys from her drawer and went downstairs to the first class of the seventh grade before the class started.

Shang Mengxian stopped a student from that class, "Can you call Pei Chuan from your class for me?"

When the boy saw the famous beauty from the second grade of the junior high, he blushed and agreed.

Pei Chuan heard that someone was looking for him outside, so he put down his book and went out.

The midsummer cicadas were buzzing, and the fan hanging overhead in the classroom was moving slowly, and time appeared to be slow.

When Pei Chuan went out and saw Shang Mengxian, his expressions remained unchanged, "What's the matter?".

"This is the chocolate that my mom's friend brought from abroad. It's quite delicious. Thank you for showing me the way before. I'd like to share it with you."

Pei Chuan swept his eyes at the chocolates in her hand. He also had this brand at home. Jiang Wenjuan's colleague brought them from abroad, but Pei Chuan didn't like to eat them, so he gave them all to Bei Yao.

He was not stupid. He could very well perceive the contempt inadvertently revealed in Shang Mengxian’s tone. Her tone was as if it was a very rare thing that he had never seen in his life.

Pei Chuan didn't take it, and with a cold face, he turned around to enter the classroom.

Shang Mengxian's face turned red. It was the first time she was refused in front of the whole class. She couldn't keep her previous expressions, but somehow managed to show an accommodating smile and went upstairs back to her own class.

Pei Chuan went back to the classroom and looked at the third row in the middle where Bei Yao was lying on the table to sleep. Her long eyelashes were dark and curled down like two weightless butterfly wings.

Pei Chuan retracted his sight and began to read the physics book that he was supposed to learn in the third year of junior high.

This matter that Pei Chuan's didn’t even take to his heart was imperceptibly fermenting in the school.

By the time Bei Yao heard the news of the baseless accusations, Shang Mengxian’s act of sending chocolates had evolved to be very detrimental to Pei Chuan.