Jiao Yushi was silent for a few seconds, lowered his head, and subconsciously took a sip of brown sugar tea. Because of the sweetness, he almost spit it out. He swallowed the unbearably sweet tea and said in a low voice, “There’s a reason for that.”

Chacha smiled in silence.

Jiao Yushi asked, “Aren’t you going to ask me what the reason is?”

Chacha said, “People who gossip don’t live long, I want to live a long life.”

Jiao Yushi fell into silence again.

She was leisurely drinking plain water. Midway through, she picked up her phone and looked at the time. It was almost ten o’clock.

Basically nothing happened during this half hour and it just passed by.

Time was indeed something that was easily lost.

Suddenly, for the first time in her life, Chacha felt regretful about the passage of time. If she didn’t do her homework, she wouldn’t be able to sleep.

What a pity!

Chacha put down the glass of water and said, “Student Jiao Yushi, since you’ve already taken a shower, dry your head, and drink brown sugar tea, I think you need to go back and rest to avoid catching a cold.”

Inwardly, Jiao Yushi thought this was giving eviction order while appearing like she was caring about him. She’s very good at speaking.

But he wasn’t willing to just leave.

Jiao Yushi showed Chen Cha the brown sugar tea and said, “There’s still this much left.”

Chacha told him, “You can take it back to drink. You don’t have to return the cup to me as well. I don’t mind.”

“I mind.” Jiao Yushi said with a hint of exasperation, “I don’t want to be alone.”

Chacha: “……?”

Seeing a confused expression on Chen Cha’s face, Jiao Yushi continued, “I just went back home and something happened that makes me very unhappy. Right now, I don’t want to be alone. We’ve known each other for so long, can’t you accompany me for a while?”

Chacha asked, “Have you done your homework?”

Jiao Yushi answered, “……It’s done.”

Chacha told him, “But mine isn’t.”

Jiao Yushi: “……” You sure is cold 🙂

A hurt expression appeared on Jiao Yushi’s face. Chacha maintained her smile as Jiao Yushi said, “I had a very bad life when I was a child. My father didn’t like my existence. Later, because he learned he can’t have any more children, he took me back, but after that, he didn’t treat me well and often beat and scold me……”

Jiao Yushi suddenly talked about his family affairs, mixing it with fabricated elements. His father indeed didn’t like his existence, but after being unable to have children, he liked him very much. After all, Jiao Yushi was the heir to his business empire. He didn’t care about him like a normal parent does, but Jiao Yushi was allowed to do whatever he wanted in other matters.

Chacha finally understood his purpose today. He wanted to gain sympathy.

It’s just that the reason behind it wasn’t clear yet.

Chacha suddenly became interested and planned to play along with him. She asked, “Then what about your mother?”

“My mother isn’t good to me either. She never has. But she’s still my mother. Sometimes I think about a lot of things, like why did she give birth to me if she doesn’t love me?”

Chacha thought to herself, For money, don’t you know very well?

But thinking so was one thing. She nodded and showed a sympathetic look at the appropriate time.

Jiao Yushi suddenly restrained all his expressions and looked at her with his usual indifference.

Chacha raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong?”

Jiao Yushi asked, “Aren’t you afraid of anything happening when you take a boy home?”

This topic was a bit of a leap, but it wasn’t unfathomable as he was mentally challenged. There was no fluctuation in Chacha’s heart.

Jiao Yushi thought that Chen Cha would be frightened, confused, or not care at all. Unexpectedly, she even showed a slightly interested expression and said in a seductive tone, “Then you can try making a move on me. I’m also curious as to what the outcome will be.”

Chacha said so, but she felt that Jiao Yushi wouldn’t really do anything, as he was playing the role of a weak, helpless and pitiful boy right now.

But she didn’t expect Jiao Yushi to suddenly rush towards her and grabbed her shoulders. Almost instantly, Chacha kicked his knee, grabbed his arm and twisted it, then pressed the unprepared Jiao Yushi onto the sofa.

Jiao Yushi: “……???”

Chacha said with a smile, “Ai, sorry, it’s a subconscious behavior.”

Jiao Yushi turned his head, his eyes a little sad. “You’re so ruthless.”

“How long are you going to pretend? I really have to do my homework.”

Jiao Yushi’s expression dropped and asked in a slightly bored tone, “When did you find out that I’m pretending?”

“From the very start.”

Jiao Yushi told her, “Alright. Let me go, I’m leaving. You do your homework.”

Chacha released him. “Don’t forget to take away your clothes before you go, as well as the towels and the cup.”

“I don’t lack towels and cups.”

“I’ll just throw them away then.”

“You‘re so wasteful. I’ll take them away.”

He sensed Chen Cha disliking him, so he could only spat back and take the things away to retain his dignity.

Chacha said, “Okay, bye.”

This time, Chacha finally got her wish and succeeded in completing her homework.

———pr

Jiao Yushi returned to his abode with a pile of things. He wasn’t renting the place. He planned to do so at first, but the view from the windows and balcony was good, and he liked it very much, so he just bought it directly.

Jiao Yushi didn’t expect his acting skills to be so bad that Chen Cha would see through it from the very beginning.

He originally thought that he was at least at the level of a first line little fresh meat^[1]originally refers to those young, cute, handsome and innocent male idols.

After putting the things in his hands to where they should be, he went to get a bottle of mineral water and drank half of it in one go.

The brown sugar tea was really too sweet and he had no idea how much sugar Chen Cha had added to it. It almost killed him. It’s sad how he endured things that he normally couldn’t tolerate, yet he was still exposed.

What a pity

He didn’t think he would get exposed because of his poor acting skills.

As to why he suddenly ran out to playact?

No reason. He just saw that it was raining and remembered the eight o’clock TV drama he had seen when he was a child. He wanted to see how Chen Cha would deal with a pitiful person who was drench in rain on a whim.

Also, he wanted to see Chen Cha’s thoughts a little bit.

Jiao Yushi couldn’t help but smile.

Perhaps it wasn’t that Chen Cha had a sharp eye and saw through his acting, but rather that she understood him well. But where does this understanding come from?

They don’t have too much contact and he was usually pretty nice to her. He would give her money whenever she wanted investment and he also helped her when her mother charged at the school.

If he hadn’t been the one involved, he would have believed the rumors online that there was something between the two of them.

Jiao Yushi took the mineral water and sat on the sofa in the living room. She took out his phone and opened Weibo to read the topics about Chen Cha.

It also involved him.

Before, he often went and left class together with Chen Cha, just like the time where they passed by the library and headed to the school gate. Not to mention that he was captured in the video where Chen Cha’s mother was acting like a shrew, like the hero saving the beauty.

There’s a lot of speculation about them online, but Chen Cha deliberately ignored it and never liked or forwarded related issue. Instead, she often interacts with Wei Jinsheng, Gu Fanghua and Ning An.

She kept her interactions simple and meaningful with Gu Fanghua and Ning An. But with Wei Jinsheng, she would comment on his Weibo with jokes like, 【Dip this Wei Jinsheng in egg and roll him in breadcrumbs before deep-frying him in oil. Even the next door kid will cry from the smell.】

Of course, it wasn’t as if Chen Cha was idle and goes to Wei Jinsheng’s Weibo every day. She would only leave one comment whenever Wei Jinsheng was @’ing her and saying a lot of flirty things.

In addition to Chengda School Grass x Chacha CP, there’s also Director Wei x Chacha CP with cult followings.

Many netizens were fond of good-looking people so there were more of them supporting him and Chen Cha, and fewer people were supporting Wei Jinsheng, but they were crazed fans who stood by him and created a new world of themselves.

In Jiao Yushi’s boring daily life, there was an additional daily boredom-relieving task: watching the two CP’s fight.

———pr

Because Chacha was disturbed by Jiao Yushi, she extended her homework time and stayed up until 12 am before going to bed.

The next day, she got up at 6 am to wash up and have breakfast. She then started memorizing words from 7 until 9 am.

Her daily routine these days was to wake up on time at 6 and have breakfast. If she has nothing to do in the morning, she would start memorizing from 7 to 9 am, which was exactly two hours.

After 9 am, she would go to the company and stay there when she doesn’t have classes. Then she would go learn self-defense in the evening, return home at around 8:30 pm and do other things, such as homework, reading documents, and so on.

If she was in luck, she could go to bed at 11 pm, but if she wasn’t, she’d have to stay up even later.

She had to do so, since she felt as if the day was a failure if she couldn’t get things done. She had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

“Ding ding ding~”

The sound of the alarm clock rang out. Chacha put down the English textbook she was holding and glanced at the time. Although she knew it was 9 am sharp, she still couldn’t help but confirm it with her own eyes.

She had no classes that morning. If she has, Ding Puyu would’ve already sent her a message of reminder.

This was something Chacha specifically asked him to do since she’s worried she would forget.

She went to the company and reviewed some documents for a while when Wei Jinsheng called.

“Chacha, we found the person who broke the news to Big Black Rabbit. It’s Lu Xiaoxuan, a small actress from our set. The paid posters were sent by the traffic star, Chen Chacha. Let me tell you, her family is quite powerful. How did you offend her?”

Chen Chacha?

Chacha didn’t expect this character to appear so soon, but on second though, it wasn’t that surprising. After all, she’s quite popular online. ‘Chen Chacha’ must also be on Weibo, so she would find out about it sooner or later.

The counterfeit must be particularly annoyed when she found out.

Chacha said, “Alright, you can handle Lu Xiaoxuan’s matter as long as it doesn’t affect the filming of the movie.”

“I plan to replace her. Although she has already filmed her parts and it needs to be reshoot, but I can’t let you suffer such injustice!”

Chacha told him, “As long the filming isn’t affected, it’s up to you.”

As much as she enjoy letting people who had done her wrong fall into depths of despair, she had invested money in the movie, therefore, she put aside her hatred for now. She’d just seek revenge later.

“By the way, what about Chen Chacha? What are you planning to do? I think it’s better for you to hold back for now. The power behind her is really not something ordinary people can deal with.”

Chacha said, “It’s fine, you don’t have to think too much about it. Just shoot the movie.”

“Sigh, alright, but I need a kiss to film better!”

Chacha hung up the phone.

The supervisor system, which Chacha hadn’t heard for a long time, suddenly popped up and prompted, 〖I advise you to be patient. Chen Chacha’s plot point hasn’t arrived yet. If you dispose of her, it’s not certain whether time will go back to the past, but if she messes Ning An’s future trajectory, it’ll already be fortunate enough if you can walk away without suffering any loss.〗

Chacha answered it, ‘I know, that’s why I don’t plan to take action for now. I’m just thinking of doing something that can make her feel both frustrated and helpless.’