A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 015 - Tattletale

He’s Right Here. He’s Drinking Right Next to Me.

The moment Sheng Wang spotted Gao Tianyang opening his mouth, he hooked his arm around his neck, covered his mouth and dragged him out of the class. “Don’t shout, the moment you make a sound you’re dead.”
Gao Tianyang nodded after he took roughly a century to digest what he saw.

“I’m letting go then,” Sheng Wang looked up and shot a smile at the people inside the classroom after he spoke in a low voice. The rest had no clue what was going on, and only thought that they were playing around.
Gao Tianyang nodded again.
Sheng Wang finally released him and stood up straight.

Gao Tianyang looked like he was in need of oxygen after receiving such a huge scare and being suffocated for a good while. He weakly leaned against the corridor railings, and fanned himself with his collar. A moment later, he finally squeezed out, “What’s even going on between the two of you?”

Sheng Wang did not exactly treat his own family situation as a taboo topic, if someone asked he would just say that he belonged to a single-parent family. However, this did not mean that he was willing to talk about everything to other people. He was also unsure if Jiang Tian was willing or not.
People at this age were usually both proud and sensitive. Sheng Wang prided himself as half the classic example of one. As for Jiang Tian, he felt like this person was double that.

Therefore, he pondered before saying to Gao Tianyang, “It’s a little too complicated for explanations, just think of this as the two of us splitting rent. Go ask Jiang Tian for the specific details.”

Since he was a childhood friend, Gao Tianyang should more or less already know about Jiang Tian’s family situation. He would not end up touching all of his sore points.

Gao Tianyang said ‘oh’, sounding like he only half understood what he said, and did not carefully think about the meaning of ‘splitting rent’. He only followed up with, “Why did you still say that you’re not close to Tian-ge then?”
He recalled even further, and felt like he was lied to even more, “My god, so the two of you share a house at night, and pretend to not know each other in the day? For what? Underground celebrity romance?”

“Bullshit,” Sheng Wang said, “he stays in his room, I stay in my room. Will you be close to your neighbours?”
“I will,” Gao Tianyang said, “I live opposite my grandparents.”
“.......”
Sheng Wang wanted to toss the annoying pest downstairs.

“The two of you even have each other’s WeChat,” Gao Tianyang felt even more woeful as he spoke, “I knew Tian-ge for more than a decade, I only got his WeChat a few years ago, and yet it only took the two of you a couple of days.”
Sheng Wang replied with an ‘Oh’.

Two seconds later, the young master suddenly realised that something was wrong and slapped Gao Tianyang’s back. “How many years has it been since WeChat came out?!”
Gao Tianyang doubled over with laughter against the railing. He rubbed the area where he was slapped, “Aiyo, no way, I’m going to Tian-ge and tell him. Why are you so easily tricked.”
As this person spoke he really dug out his phone. Sheng Wang rolled his eyes, lifted his foot, and walked.

The people inside the classroom came out chattering, the group of people joked and shoved each other around as they walked towards the staircase, exactly meeting up with the two who just came out of the toilet.
Qi Jiahao just washed his hands. The moment he saw Sheng Wang, he momentarily froze in the midst of shaking water droplets off his hands.

That instance of awkwardness was actually quite obvious, but the lighting in the corridor was too dim and everyone was jokingly and playfully shoving each other around. Nobody really noticed.
The next second, he already reverted back to a normal expression, and flicked a bunch of water in Gao Tianyang’s face. “Not bad, you managed to scam in a God of Studying!”