Don’t Try To Corrupt Me

Chapter 72

In short, the injustice, where the the culprit was known due to the expression on Sheng Yuan’s face, was deemed an accident due to the absence of eyewitnesses and the influence of dark forces.

It was a really outrageous injustice!

On the other side, Zheng Zilu squeezed into the bathroom with astonishing strength. When he finished washing his hands and came out, he saw the two confronting each other by his bed.

Sheng Yuan’s eyes carried a sense of judgment, while Yu Zuojin remained the same, with an icy expression on his face.

The atmosphere was tense.

Zheng Zilu: ?

Did they have a conflict?!

Zheng Zilu looked at Sheng Yuan, then at Yu Zuojin.

With such a disparity in size between them, if they were to fight…

Zheng Zilu monkey climbed the tree and jumped to Yu Zuojin’s side.

Sheng Yuan, I won’t help you.

Not helping meant that Sheng Yuan would be bloodily tortured by Yu Zuojin alone. But if he did help, it would turn into both of them being tortured together.

Ultimately, both of them wouldn’t be able to escape being bloodily tortured.

However, as Zheng Zilu looked at Sheng Yuan’s left cheek, which was redder than the right, his sense of justice compelled him to step forward.

After all, society needs people like him!

Zheng Zilu pointed at Sheng Yuan’s left cheek. “What happened to your face?”

Before Sheng Yuan could speak, Zheng Zilu turned his finger towards Yu Zuojin and said, “Did you hit him?”

Sheng Yuan: “…”

Yu Zuojin: “…”

When the two remained silemt, Zheng Zilu intended to seek justice for Sheng Yuan. He pointed at Yu Zuojin and said, “How could you…”

But halfway through his sentence, he met Yu Zoujin’s cold gaze.

Zheng Zilu trembled and turned to Sheng Yuan, pleading, “How could you provoke him?”

Sheng Yuan: “…”

Is distorted justice still justice?

Zheng Zilu no longer wanted to get involved in this mess. He pretended as if he hadn’t been there and went to the desk to tidy up his books.

Sheng Yuan raised his wrist and checked the time on his watch. He got up from the bed, smoothed out the rumpled sheets, and picked up his down jacket.

“I’m going.”

Zheng Zilu replied with an “mm”.

The door of Room 407 opened and closed again.

Guo Gang came out and noticed that both Sheng Yuan and Yu Zuojin had left.

Sheng Yuan had left some things in Room 408 and planned to go back to retrieve them.

Moreover, through the experiences of this afternoon, he realized the numerous tricks of high school boys.

The case of the tooth mark during the lunch break might happen again in the future when the other party’s exam scores have not improved.

Sheng Yuan decided to do something.

He observed Yu Zuojin from the side. After returning to Room 408, Yu Zuojin went and got the textbooks from the table. It seemed like he would go to class in the afternoon.

Sheng Yuan coughed, casually pretending to be indifferent. “I’m not angry anymore.”

“We can be close like this next time.”

Yu Zuojin paused with his hand holding the English vocabulary book.

Suppressing long-term goals with unfulfillable short-term rewards that seem easily attainable is a supporting strategy.

Treating it as a casual mention, Sheng Yuan complained, “I don’t even know when your class has exams.”

“How about this?” Sheng Yuan took the English vocabulary book from Yu Zoujin’s hand and opened it, pointing to three consecutive pages. “Memorize these words. I’ll come back to the dormitory tomorrow at noon to test you. If you get them all right, we can be close.”

Yu Zuojin showed obvious interest. He looked at Sheng Yuan’s cheek, and his hoarse voice made a sound, “Alright.”

“That’s settled then.”

Sheng Yuan left Room 408.

Yu Zuojin held the English vocabulary book in his hand and flipped to the pages Sheng Yuan had just pointed out. To ensure he didn’t forget, Sheng Yuan had thoughtfully folded the corners of the pages.

However, upon opening them, he realized that Sheng Yuan had pointed to the table of contents.

And there were 408 words.

Yu Zuojin: “…”

Sheng Yuan returned to the classroom, and the tooth mark on his face had mostly faded, except that his left cheek was still red.

Xia Zhiqi returned from outside the classroom, eating an ice cream popsicle. He was shocked when he saw Sheng Yuan.

“Brother Sheng!”

Sheng Yuan lifted his eyelids.

Xia Zhiqi: “Who dared to hit your face like that?”

Sheng Yuan: “…”

Truly Ambitious: “…”

After the afternoon nap, Yu Zuojin walked into the classroom with the vocabulary book. The noise in the classroom had significantly decreased, either because it was almost time for class or because he had entered.

But Yu Zuojin’s return to class made an improvement.

The class monitor noticed that most of the students in the class were still afraid of Yu Zuojin, unable to experience the collective care and friendship. As the leader of the class, he had to take on the responsibility of caring for his classmates.

He stood up.

“Class monitor, please close the door.”

“Alright.”

Although he was originally going to find Yu Zuojin, his feet took him to the door instead: “…”

Don’t casually boss people around!

After two science classes, it was time for self-study.

The class monitor quietly approached Yu Zuojin’s seat, hoping to catch his attention.

“Brother Runtu.”

The student next to him: “…Yes? Hey, are you okay?”

“Sorry, it just slipped out.” The class monitor lowered his head and wrote a note, tossing it onto Yu Zuojin’s desk.

Yu Zuojin stared at the note for a few seconds and then opened it.

“Welcome back to campus life. If you encounter any difficulties, you can find me anytime—Zhang Dongliang.”

Yu Zuojin: “…”

Who is Zhang Dongliang?

At this moment, the class monitor waved his hand.

It’s me, it’s me.

Yu Zuojin glanced at him, and the class monitor responded with a smile. The next second, he turned his head as if he hadn’t seen him.

Class monitor: “…”

You heartless, emotionless bastard.

Yu Zuojin didn’t intend to respond to the note, but he looked at the 480 words written in the vocabulary book.

After a while, a paper ball rolled onto the class monitor’s desk.

Class monitor:!

Fuck! A reply!

What is remembered will always be echoed!

He unfolded the paper ball and saw the messy handwriting inside.

“How did you manage to memorize 480 words in a day?”

The class monitor earnestly replied.

“One night, one pen, one miracle.”

The value of the class monitor’s response was equivalent to having no value at all.

—-

The next day at noon, Sheng Yuan arrived at Room 408. Yu Zuojn was sitting at his desk and it was clear that he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Sheng Yuan remained calm. He pulled out another chair, sat down, and took the vocabulary book. He noticed that Yu Zuojin’s eyes had some shadows.

It seemed like he had been memorizing words until late at night.

His face remained indifferent and composed, without any nervousness before an exam.

Sheng Yuan: “I’ll test you on a hundred words.”

Yu Zuojin nodded as he held the pen. His dark eyes were cold and serious. His profile was perfect, almost flawless.

Truly Ambitious couldn’t help but feel moved.

[System: You know, this kid is really good-looking.]

Sheng Yuan: “…”

Indeed, Yu Zuojin’s appearance and features were impeccable.

The boy’s melodious voice began reciting words and their English meanings. Usually, in vocabulary tests, students either only read the pronunciation or only the English meaning. However, since Yu Zuojin had a weak foundation, Sheng Yuan’s method was beneficial for his learning.

Yu Zuojin wrote slowly, taking a few seconds to contemplate after each word. Twenty minutes passed, and they were nearing the completion of a hundred words.

Until Sheng Yuan read aloud, “Crocodile.”

The pen paused on the paper.

Yu Zuojin: “…”

Don’t know.

But he still wrote down the word: animal.

And this one “don’t know” was like opening floodgates.

“Whale.”

Yu Zuojn: …animal.

“Octopus.”

Yu Zuojin: animal.

“Vulture.”

Animal…

“Pterosaur.”

Ani…

The last five words shattered the impressive situation of writing ninety-five words correctly.

He looked at the paper filled with words, a genuine sense of unwillingness rising in his heart.

Sheng Yuan happily took his test paper. Considering Yu Zuojin’s class time, sleep time, and work time, being able to answer this many words was already quite impressive.

And what made Sheng Yuan even happier was that his face escaped another tooth mark.

“You got five wrong, keep trying next time.”

After grading the paper, Sheng Yuan returned it to Yu Zuojin, but his pupils contracted when he saw his face.

There was a look of regret and disappointment on the handsome face, emotions that didn’t belong to him.

In Sheng Yuan’s impression, Yu Zuojin was mostly indifferent.

He had seen him smile whenever they were together, but afterward, he never saw Yu Zuojin show any emotions other than irritability and indifference.

But now, it was different.

Perhaps it was the slight regret of being so close to success.

But most of it was the disappointment that he couldn’t be intimate with Sheng Yuan.

To the point where he couldn’t control his expression and couldn’t look at him.

Sheng Yuan’s looked at his expression, and it was like a blow to the head.

He was genuinely sad.

Yu Zuojin really does like him.

“Yu Zuojin.”

Yu Zuojin looked up and Sheng Yuan’s face suddenly grew warm.

Sheng Yuan held his chin, leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

“Muah—”

His lips lightly touched his face and quickly moved away without lingering.

Then he calmly stood up.

“A reward for you.”

After speaking, he walked out of room 408 with stiff movements. “I have something to do at noon, so I’ll leave first.”

Everything happened too suddenly, leaving Yu Zuojin in 408 without reacting.

He raised his hand to touch the spot where Sheng Yuan had kissed him, and realized that Sheng Yuan had kissed him without any pressure from him. His whole face turned red, from his ears to his neck.

It was different.

It felt completely different.

The one way intimacy and Sheng Yuan taking the initiative to kiss him were not on the same level.

Yu Zuojin looked at the paper filled with words.

He suddenly felt that memorizing 480 words in one night was not enough. He should memorize 560.

He should make Sheng Yuan take the initiative to kiss him.

In the afternoon, the physics teacher came to Class 10 with a stack of test papers.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he was met with a chorus of complaints.

“Another quiz, teacher?”

“Didn’t we just have a quiz last week?”

“Can’t we skip the quiz?”

Teacher Li treated the students like friends. “Look at you, so lacking in ambition. How will you handle the college entrance examination? What’s the point of not having a test during this period?”

“Teacher Li, can we discuss the questions? I have a lot of questions to ask.”

“Me too, me too.”

He slammed the test papers onto the podium. Being in their final year of high school, he understood their exhaustion.

“Alright, let’s vote. Should we go over the questions or have a test during this period?”

By saying this, his intentions were already clear—to give the students a break, to have a class without a test.

Teacher Li: “Raise your hand if you agree to go over the questions.”

A large number of hands went up in the classroom.

“Put your hands down.” Teacher Li continued, “Raise your hand if you agree to have a test.”

They didn’t expect anyone to want a test, but in the midst of the silence, one hand was raised.

Yu Zuojin.

Teacher Li:!

Yu Zuojin raised his hand and looked at him.

Teacher Li read something in his eyes.

–Old man, you better give the test right away

Author’s Note:

Truly Ambitious: Why did you kiss him?

Brother Sheng: I just felt sorry for him. (Whistles and walks away)