“You can leave now.”
His tone remained unchanged.
Fu Yuling made a sound of agreement, and before leaving she said something that made Xiao Rui wailing for a while.
“Brother Li! I embarrassed you!”
“Just realizing it now?”
“Ah! You’re not the Brother Li I knew anymore…”
Ignoring his nonsense, Li Yan came to a clearly displaced object and looked intently at it.
Xiao Rui was still immersed in the words of Fu Yuling. “You didn’t finish writing, and there are eight mistakes in three sentences.”
By the time Li Yan stood in front of him again, he didn’t even react.
He thought Fu Yuling couldn’t read, so he was just going through the motions. He casually wrote a few things he couldn’t write. Who knew that this person could actually read?
Being serious in front of her, nodding along as she spoke, pretending to be busy with official business, wasn’t it a big embarrassment?
He felt a bit autistic.
“Let’s go.”
Xiao Rui looked over and Li Yan was already several meters ahead.
“Coming.”
“Bring the person down.”
Xiao Rui slammed on the brakes, then ran up and carried the person on his back.
He hastily caught up with Li Yan and couldn’t help but mutter.
“Brother Li, with your good academic performance, why did you become a police officer?”
He had asked this question many times before, but Li Yan never answered.
“What do you think?”
He calmly asked back.
Xiao Rui couldn’t guess his thoughts and immediately lost interest.
“Alright, alright, I’ll just think about what to eat next!”
Asking such questions, he was just bored after having eaten his fill.
Xiao Rui had a hint of a ruffian aura about him, his formal attire crooked and askew on his body. Unlike Li Yan who was meticulous, people usually thought he was a gangster when he was alone.
If it weren’t for the temporary “ID” from the police station, he would have to prove to others that he was a good person before doing anything.
Casting an envious glance at the person walking ahead, Xiao Rui stopped thinking about other things and focused on catching up.
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Since the day He Qiu and He Wen separated, He Qiu had stayed in his room and hadn’t left.
He Jingxue didn’t enroll him in school but signed him up for classes in town on Tuesday. In other words, he only had that one day a week to study and the rest of the time he had to self-study.
He was well aware of what He Jingxue wanted. He participated in all the exams not because he wanted to, but because He Jingxue made him participate, and he had to get full marks.
Otherwise, she would get annoyed because to her, he was just something she took out to compare with others in her spare time.
As long as she wanted to, she could abandon him at any time.
Previously, his motivation to persist came from his younger siblings. He was afraid that they wouldn’t have enough to eat or wear, so he tried his best to please He Jingxue and secretly brought them food.
Now when he thought of Fu Yuling, he put down his pencil and took a crumpled piece of paper that was already dry. He stared at it absentmindedly.
He didn’t know how long had passed when he picked up the pen and started writing and drawing on it.
Finally, one hour later, he finished the drawing.
He drew He Wen, He Xuan, He An, and himself. With a pause of the pen in his hand, he slowly drew a small Fu Yuling in a corner not far from them.
She was holding a paper airplane and looking at them with a smile.
After finishing the drawing, he wanted to hang it on the wall. But when he thought of He Jingxue, the light in his eyes faded slightly. He silently put the paper back in its original place. Only when it was out of sight did he pick up another notebook and start doing exercises.
