Strawberry Kiss Mark (草莓印)🍓 by Bu Zhi Shi Ke Cai (不知是颗菜) ~Chapter 35

After getting the hush money, for the whole day Chen Xing Ruo doesn’t sneer and scoff at him.

She heard that Lu Xing Yan will come to the self-study session at night so the time she buys milk tea, she also buys a cold green milk tea for him.

—— It can be as a reward for him.

After buying the milk tea, Chen Xing Ruo goes to wait for Shi Qin and Di Jia Jing in front of the stationery store.

After a while, Di Jia Jing and Shi Qin are out.

Shi Qin sees that she is drinking the milk tea and holds another cup. She is curious: “Xing Ruo, you plan to drink two cups? Or is it for Ruan Wen?”

“It’s for Lu Xing Yan.”

Chen Xing Ruo is very honest.

Shi Qin asks again, but Chen Xing Ruo doesn’t think she should hide anything. So she just tells them about the hush money.

Shi Qin laughs: “Ay, I notice that you can interact with him quite well as desk-mate. In the past I thought he was too cruel, he could hit people without saying anything. But every time I hear form you, I feel that he is so funny and stupid, haha….”

Chen Xing Ruo: “Indeed he is stupid one…”

Both fo them keep on talking and laughing on the way, Di Jia Jing walks beside the other side of Shi Qin. She is not laughing and not talking. Whenever Shi Qin asks her about something, she just forces herself to answer it.

Shi Qin and Chen Xing Ruo think that she is acting that way because she doesn’t get good marks for this examination so she is in a bad mood. So they don’t talk about the examination too.

After sitting down, Lu Xing Yan and Li Cheng Fan just come inside the classroom.

Lu Xing Yan is sweaty, he throws his basketball under his chair. He even complains of how their classroom has no air conditioner.

Chen Xing Ruo pulls his corner of the lower hem of shirt and puts the green milk tea on the table.

“What is this?” Lu Xing Yan lowers his head and notices the green milk tea on his table. He picks it up: “What is this, for me?”

Chen Xing Ruo: “Em.”

“…… Chen Da Xiao Jie (Ms Chen), is the sun rising on the wrong side?”

Chen Xing Ruo also drinks her milk tea, she doesn’t have an energy to talk with him. She doesn’t even raise her head. She just flips open her book and says: “Anyway I used your money to buy, you can drink or throw it away.”

Just in time the bell rings. The teacher on duty gets into the class and asks everyone to shut up.

Lu Xing Yan sits down. Then he thanks her.

He picks up his glass and sways it over to Li Cheng Fan.

He is showing off.

Li Cheng Fan cannot endure it. He lifts his head and says: “Sir, I report Lu Xing Yan is drinking milk tea during the night self-study session!”

Everyone looks at Lu Xing Yan.

The teacher also looks at Lu Xing Yan.

Lu Xing Yan is holding the milk tea, he doesn’t drink it.

The one who is drinking is Chen Xing Ruo, who is beside him.

Chen Xing Ruo pauses for two seconds and turns a round. She glances at Lin Cheng Fan calmly.

Ling Cheng Fan is terrified. “Sir, I recall my report!”

“Pfff…..”

“Li Cheng Fan, are you stupid?”

“He is simply a clown.”

Everyone is laughing so hard.

Chen Xing Ruo is a multi-talented and has a good grade. She is loved and liked by a lot of teachers. So what if she drinks her milk tea.

The teacher slaps the table and says: “Everyone, be silent! There’s no rule that we cannot drink milk tea during the night self-study session. Li Cheng Fan, don’t make trouble.”

Li Cheng Fan has offended the goddess, he doesn’t speak too much. He just raises his arm to show that he is surrendering this debate.

The teacher also warns him. “Li Cheng Fan, tidy up your uniform.”

Li Cheng Fan is speechless, he doesn’t anything and just tidy up his uniform.

Then he looks at Lu Xing Yan, he is raising his cup of milk tea. Then he toasts at him.

Lu Xing Yan is happy.

After teasing Li Cheng Fan, Lu Xing Yan watches Chen Xing Ruo drinking her milk tea and reading book. He examines her when she puts down her cup. “What is your flavor, why is it different from me?”

He is curious.

He reads the label of her cup. “White peach oolong tea with light cheese. Twenty two….. mine is just eight dollar. You buy eight, and yours is twenty two?”

Chen Xing Ruo looks at him and says nothing. Her expression says: “So do you have any opinion?” “You should be thankful that I bought you one.”

This time Lu Xing Yan is doubting her.

When Chen Xing Ruo notices that Lu Xing Yan is about to drink hers, she immediately covers her straw.

Lu Xing Yan shakes her hand away: “I’ll try it first, I don’t need your straw.”

He just opens the lid and just drinks it.

The cheese is too sweet and thick.

The drink supposedly to be drank without straw, but because Chen Xing Ruo just ate her dinner, she doesn’t want to drink too greasy drink so she just uses her straw to drink the green tea.

Lu Xing Yan just drinks it. He is not fond of sweet things. He is silent for a while.

After a while, he says: “Why girls love to drink this kind of tea. This is too strong, it almost chokes me.”

Chen Xing Ruo: “……”

Looking at how his action, she just puts down her book and then waves at him to come closer.

Chen Xing Ruo frequently asks Lu Xing Yan to come closer and then she will baffle on his ear-side.

Lu Xing Yan has been humiliated so many times by her so he knows this act of “Close-form attack <Kao Jin Shi Da Ji>”

He doesn’t move yet inside his heart, he is wondering what she will say.

He is hesitant for a while, then he comes closer. Then he says alarmingly: “What do you want to do?”

Chen Xing Ruo takes out a tissue and the folds it. Then she wipes his mouth.

Chen Xing Ruo suddenly finds something is wrong with her action so she stops. She says: “Wipe it by yourself.”

Lu Xing Yan is startled.

He can feel her warm fingers.

He responds quickly and says unexpectedly “Help me to wipe it, I cannot see it.”

Chen Xing Ruo then distance herself from him, she pursues her lips and says nothing. She just gives her mirror to him.

Lu Xing Yan is expecting it.

He sneers and takes his mirror. “Okay I’ll wipe it by myself.”

Chen Xing Ruo takes her ballpoint and then marks the book she is reading.

She doesn’t know why but she feels so hot. Her ears also feel so hot. She is thinking about it and she suddenly wants to tear her rubber eraser.

She also drapes her hair down to cover her ears and half of her face.

Lu Xing Yan is wiping his mouth and then he smells something. He then looks at her.

Does she need to do this? Is he really annoying that she needs to cover half of her face to not look at him???

The two periods of self-study session pass by smoothly. The time it’s the end of the session, He Si Yue is called by Wang You Fu to the teachers’ office. The time he returns back, he has a paper on his hand.

He goes to the front podium and says: “I want to discuss a matter with you. Later on I’ll pass around the information for your parents. Please bring it home this weekend and let them sign this part.”

Someone is asking: “Ban Zhang (Class leader), what information is that? Is it school report?”

He Si Yue smiles” No, it’s the information about parents-teacher meeting. It will be on next Friday. Please let your parents take a look at it. Wang Lao Shi says that everyone needs to attend if there’s no other urgent matter.”

“Why should we have parents-teacher meeting, I’m done, I’m done!”

“I haven’t told my parents about my marks. My rank is falling to 78th, I’m done…”

Everyone is howling in disappointment.

“Actually the teacher has sent the report, yet the school is afraid some students fill the wrong information so they want your parents to come.”

Everyone is howling again.

Both Chen Xing Ruo and Lu Xing Yan also did the same, they fill the contact number of their parents with their own numbers.

But Lu Shan especially contacts Wang You Fu to change the contact numbers.

When Chen Xing Ruo and Lu Xing Yan are bickering because of the milk tea, Lu Shan and Bei Yue are bickering too during a party.

That night, Lu Shan is bringing Pei Yue to a party of a new product release of Jiang Che’s company, who is his nephew.

During the after party, Lu Shan and Jiang Che are talking about the product and he wants to introduce him to a client. The time he is taking out his phone, he gets a message about the parents-teacher rmeeting.

He finishes his talk with his cousin then shows the message to Pei Yue.

Pei Yue doesn’t care, “For every mid-semester examinations there’ll be meeting like this, why are you making a fuss about nothing.”

“I’m not. I’m just thinking about Chen Xing Ruo. What will happen to her. Lao Chen (Chen Xing Ruo’s father) is still at Roma. Two days ago I contacted him, he plans to go to Iceland. He cannot return for a while.”

“I think Xing Ruo will not contact him too.” Pei Yue thinks about it and asks: “Then are you free next Friday?”

Lu Shan: “If everything is crammed, then I definitely will have time.”

Pei Yue: “Then you go to your son’s parents-teacher meeting, I’ll help Chen Xing Ruo. We will go together.”

Lu Shan stops for two seconds and then puts down his glass. He asks: “No, why should I go for Lu Xing Yan’s Parents-teacher meeting, and you go for Chen Xing Ruo? Didn’t Xing Ruo call you and tell that she gets first rank? Why don’t you go for Lu Xing Yan, and I go for Xing Ruo?”

Pei Yue’s face shows her disdain. “Look at the message. Lu Xing Yan gets 398, he doesn’t even get 400. If I go for him, I will lose my face, then even ten-stories building cannot cover my embarrassment.”

“I’m a big boss, how could you ask me to go to a meeting for a son that cannot even reach 400, don’t you think I’ll be embarrassed?”

“Haven’t you hear how a father should teach his son. Let me tell you Lu Xing Yan cannot get a good grade is your responsibility, Lu Shan. What is your right to disdain him?”

Of course Lu Xing Yan doesn’t know about how his parents are fighting for his parent-teacher meeting.

The time Lu Xing Yan hears the news of parents-teacher meeting, he doesn’t feel or think anything. He just thinks about Chen Xing Ruo’s family. He glances at her.

Everyone is discussing this topic hotly. Yet Chen Xing Ruo seems to be indifferent. She just continues to do her worksheets.

Lu Xing Yan takes the pen and knocks it on her head. “What are you planning? You are going to ask your Pa to coe.”

“I’ll not.”

Chen Xing Ruo doesn’t raise up her head, she is calm.

“Then you want to ask my Ma to come to yours too?” He asks again. “You are planning to persist to not contacting your Pa ah.”

“Why do you care? Is it because I eat your family’s food?”

“…..”

“Perhaps you don’t eat it too?”

Chen Xing Ruo is quick to respond.

Lu Xing Yan feels something is wrong, she doesn’t turn her head to look at him. Her hair is covering her face. Is she crying?

Thinking about this, Lu Xing Yan unconsciously just extends his hand and moves her hair hair to the back of her ear.

The action is too close and intimate.

Without paying attention, Lu Xing Yan’s fingers touch Chen Xing Ruo’s small ears. It’s so soft.

Chen Xing Ruo doesn’t immediately respond. “So what if I eat it, I eat your family’s rice so I need to be a girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law of the family?”

When she is speaking, her lips touch Lu Xing Yan’s wrist.