The Youthful You Who Is So Beautiful (CH.24 UPDATED) 少年的你，如此美丽

Chapter 2

Chen Nian was greeted with cigarette fumes the moment she exited her toilet cubicle. Chen Nian turned away and started coughing. When the fumes finally cleared, Wei Cai's arrogant face entered into Chen Nian's vision field. Remnants of make up were still left on Wei Cai's youthful face, the overly mature makeup looking extremely out of place on such a young face.

Chen Nian, too, wished that she would be able to age tremendously within a single night. Only then would she be able to successfully escape the ferocious and cruel colosseum, and avoid being preyed on by the merciless vultures.

However, she was unable to escape her youth no matter how hard she tried.

Chen Nian started towards the door of the toilet. However, before Chen Nian could even take a single step, Wei Cai abruptly slammed her onto the cubicle door. Chen Nian hoped from the bottom of her heart that this would simply be an one-off incident, and didn't serve as a signal of the start of Wei Cai's war on her.

Wei Cai slowly moved her cigarette towards Chen Nian's stiff face, before finally pressing it against the cubicle door. She closed the distance between her and Chen Nian, "What did the police officers want from you?"

Chen Nian replied calmly, "They...they asked the same...... same few questions."

"Sa...same....same..." Wei Cai mimicked Chen Nian's stutter. "Why is your mouth so stupid? Can't it speak properly? Just look at you – the police would still suspect that you're lying even if you're speaking the truth."

Chen Nian shook her head vigorously.

"So, Chen Nian. Tell me – where was I when Hu Xiao Die jumped from the school building?"

The sunlight shone on Chen Nian's face, highlighting her pale complexion; Chen Nian glanced at Wei Cai, trying her best to complete the sentence in a single breath, "School......" Wei Cai stared at Chen Nian viciously, and was about to slap Chen Nian when Chen Nian finally finished her sentence, "Outside school...".

That day, Chen Nian was on her way home when she saw Wei Cai and her friends surrounding a female student from High School. They were extorting money from her.

Wei Cai looked at Chen Nian coldly, "You stuttered this to the police?"

Chen Nian lowered her head. On spotting some slight movements from Wei Cai's hand., Chen Nian immediately shook her head and replied, "I wrote."

However, the slap still found its way onto Chen Nian's face.

Chen Nian's head was tilted to the side, her long black fringe serving as a cover for her flushed facial expression and her shame.

"I knew you wouldn't dare to speak about rubbish." Wei Cai spat at Chen Nian. Just then, the bell rang, signaling the start of lessons. Xu Miao, who had been standing guard at the door, started to urge Wei Cai, "Come on, let's go."

Wei Cai walked closer to Chen Nian, and grabbed a few strands of hair from Chen Nian's neat ponytail. She coiled the hair strands around her finger, and gradually pulled on the strands till they broke, "Chen Nian, you better keep your mouth shut tight."

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Every class is like a miniature society. There's people whose personalities are bright and extroverted, there's people who's busy all the time, and there's people who's quiet and reserved. There's also people who are individualistic and independent, people who are simply normal and ordinary, and people who are simply invisible.

Chen Nian belonged to the final group.

Chen Nian managed to hurry back into the classroom before the bell stopped ringing. She took a look at the teacher and the students who were bustling about, only to find that nobody had noticed her. She walked back to her table and seated herself down.