Chapter 11 Part 2 - Understanding of External Factors Beyond One’s Will

Translated by: Jellylynn

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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):

-俞知乐(yú zhī lè)- Yu Zhi Le, the female protagonist.

-余子涣(yú zǐ huàn)- Yu Zi Huan, the male lead

-谢成龙( xiè chéng lóng )- Xie Cheng Long, the ‘boss’ who was the leader of the group of boys that insulted the male lead.

As the heat dissipated, the weather turned cooler, and the sun set increasingly earlier. Yu Zhi Le, who often went home after shopping for groceries, felt that she had also joined the masses to toil and work night and day, and lived a particularly full life.

When she brought the food to the table, she originally wanted to call Yu Zi Huan to eat, however, Yu Zhi Le opened her mouth but had a new idea. She gently opened the bedroom door and saw Yu Zi Huan’s back in front of the desk lamp as he buried his head to do his homework. She crept forward and patted him on the right shoulder. She flashed her head to his left. Seeing Yu Zi Huan turn to the right and said with a smile, “It’s time to eat!”

Yu Zi Huan was startled, but his first reaction was to hastily close the exercise book on his desk, pushed it forward, and unnaturally covered the front page with a pencil case. At the same time, he stood up and leaned his body slightly sideways, making a gesture to leave, appearing very anxious to eat.

Yu Zhi Le was puzzled by his series of actions. She hadn’t paid attention to what homework he was doing, but she just felt that the words in the exercise book were a little ugly. And it was only now that she had time to think about it. Confronted with Yu Zi Huan’s surreptitious glance at her, Yu Zhi Le pretended not to know, and reached out to get the exercise book.

“Don’t…” Yu Zi Huan pulled her arm.

Yu Zhi Le eyed him and said, “It’s fine if you don’t want to show me. Tell me what you are up to? As long as it’s not something harmful, I can take it as I don’t know.”

Yu Zi Huan’s gaze flickered as he slowly put down the hand holding Yu Zhile, and lowered his head and didn’t speak, which seemed to mean to let her see it herself.

Yu Zhi Le’s heart thumped when he saw the manner he acted. He couldn’t really be doing something bad, right? She grabbed the exercise book and looked down. Without opening it, she spotted the problem.

In the name column on the cover, the words “Xie Chenglong” were written in a beast-like manner.

Yu Zhi Le slowly put the exercise book back on the table. For a moment, she didn’t know what expression to use to face Yu Zihuan, and could not say what she felt in his heart. She felt somewhat embarrassed, distressed, and resentful towards him for failing to meet her expectations.

“He forced you to help him with his homework?” Yu Zhi Le thought about how Yu Zi Huan seemed to spend much more time on homework recently than before. Originally, she thought it was because he had more homework in the third year of junior high school. Now, she understood that it certainly took a lot of effort to write homework for two people every day.

Yu Zi Huan did not answer immediately. He hesitated for a while before looking up and saying seriously, “No, I asked for it on my own initiative.”

This time, Yu Zhi Le didn’t have to think about what expression to make. She directly put on a dumbfounded expression and looked at Yu Zi Huan for a long time before she said with a sudden realization, “Are you attaining your goal in a roundabout manner?”

For the time being, he would please Xie Cheng Long to get on good terms with him. Anyway, he would not be in the same high school. Thus, he put up with the humiliation for a while before the middle school entrance examination, so that he wouldn’t find Yu Zi Huan to make trouble again.

Yu Zi Huan’s eyes lit up, but he did not know that what Yu Zhi Le speculated was in fact far from what he had planned. He was just ecstatic that Yu Zhi Le could understand him. A small dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth and he smiled clearly and shallowly, but strangely produced a little unconscious charm. “Yes, to attain my goal in a roundabout manner.”

Although Yu Zhi Le had a feeling of a good cabbage…. Oh no, a good poplar being at the disposal of a wild boar with big tusks when she thought of the innocent and noble Yu Zi Huan being taken away by Xie Cheng Long. However, she had to be supportive of his attitude of actively facing difficulties and trying to solve them, so she hugged him and optimistically encouraged him. “I will support you if you want to solve the problem by yourself, but if you don’t think you can withstand any longer, just come to me for help, I’m not afraid of trouble.”

Yu Zi Huan nodded obediently and was docilely pushed by Yu Zhi Le on his shoulder to the kitchen for dinner.

After dinner, the activities to ease digestion of the two were not suspended because of the dropping temperature. After refusing the blind date introduced by Aunt No. 1 last time, Yu Zhi Le seemed to be left out by Aunt No. 1. The older auntie and uncles who were close to Aunt No. 1 had a half-smile appearance and gossiped about her as if no one could tell that she was talking about her.

It was something like “a temporary worker, really take herself seriously. Let’s see who is going to marry her in the future”. They would even advise in a good-natured manner to her face, but every word of it reveals the disdain that she wasn’t a local and she didn’t have a proper job, and that she should be grateful when she could meet a man who was willing to marry her.

This was what she heard, perhaps what this group of idle people deliberately said so she could hear. The words Yu Zhi Le weren’t able to hear would probably be even more hurtful, but she did not mind it.

Yu Zi Huan would sometimes shoot an indignant look at those aunties and uncles, and he was promptly calmed down by Yu Zhi Le. “They are just neighbours, so it is enough to get by just on the surface. Their tongues are on their body, it is not like I could pull it out, right? Even if I do, they can still repulse you with sign language, do you believe it? You just have to make your life better, and then you will be able to piss them off to death.”

Yu Zi Huan nodded thoughtfully. Since then, he had been able to maintain a straight face no matter what people say, and his skills were increasingly surpassing those of Yu Zhi Le, who could not hide her worry.

But then Yu Zhi Le realised that he was becoming more impervious to Yu Zi Huan’s thoughts, and deeply felt that she was shooting herself on the foot. That was the latter story.