Chapter 35: Make it Big

“You came back so early today?”

Seeing Xu Mingyuan and a few boys coming back with basketballs, Tao Shuxin asked curiously.

Usually after playing basketball and eating, they would stroll around the school until the bell rang, for fear of wasting a second of extracurricular time.

“It’s getting cold, snakes, rats, insects and ants have all hidden themselves, so why would people stay outside for long?” Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

“Tsk, you are the snake, rat, insect and ant.”

Tao Shuxin thought Xu Mingyuan was secretly mocking her again, and slapped him angrily.

“I’m not that bad.”

“I’m not a bad person!” Tao Shuxin rolled her eyes.

“Yeah, compared to you, I am definitely a bad guy.” Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

Tao Shuxin was stunned when she heard Xu Mingyuan say this.

Shouldn’t he fight back?

Tao Shuxin put down the pen in her hand, crossed her hands on the table, leaned over, turned her head, and squinted her eyes to look at him.

Seeing her eyes rolling around like a little fox, Xu Mingyuan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He took off her hairpin and threw it aside.

“What are you doing?”

Tao Shuxin pouted, picked up the hairpin on the table, took out a small mirror and carefully pinned up her bangs.

“I was just about to ask you, who knows what you are doing? You’re staring at me making me scared.” Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

“strangeness.”

“Why is it weird again?”

“You’ve changed. Something must be wrong with you.”

Tao Shuxin nodded affirmatively.

“I don’t have any. Boys don’t do that. This is all middle school knowledge.”

“You’re going to die.”

Tao Shuxin pinched Xu Mingyuan hard several times.

Unfortunately, I wore thermal underwear under my school uniform after the frost fell, so it didn’t hurt at all.

Normally, Tao Shuxin would not chat with Xu Mingyuan at this time, but she was very curious, so she said unyieldingly: “That’s not necessarily true, how about I give you a gasket?”

Xu Mingyuan was stunned. She actually dared to say that. Then he looked into her lively eyes.

Ten seconds later, Tao Shuxin’s eyes flickered and began to hesitate, and finally she was defeated by Xu Mingyuan, who was as thick-skinned as a city wall, and sat up straight with a ruddy face.

“It’s nothing, actually. You know Lin Jing from Class 1, right?”

“I know, what happened to her.”

Tao Shuxin spoke calmly, but pricked up his ears.

Seeing her head leaning over here slightly, Xu Mingyuan said with a smile: “She transferred to another school.”

“I know.”

“how do you know?”

“I saw the grade ranking list for the monthly exam and her grades are so good. Huh? Don’t you know that?”

Tao Shuxin noticed this and turned to ask.

“I don’t know. I don’t care about the big list.”

“How dare you say that? You were ranked 1032nd in the last monthly exam! You’re almost in the bottom !” Tao Shuxin said sarcastically, and then continued, “You’re really heartless. Didn’t you have a relationship with her? You didn’t even know she transferred to another school?”

“What’s wrong? Are you jealous?”

“Go to hell.” Tao Shuxin was so angry that she kept elbowing him. After a while, she said, “Why are you saying this?” “Guess why Lin Jing came to see me?”

“How can I guess that?”

“Isn’t that hard to guess? Of course, she fell in love with me at first sight because of my handsome appearance.” Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

“Please have some shame, I’m about to vomit, ugh…”

Although she said that, Tao Shuxin was still very confused in her heart. Could it be that a girl like Lin Jing really fell in love with Xu Mingyuan at first sight?
But what good was there about Xu Mingyuan? He was a bad person, a bad student, and a bad talker. There was nothing good about him.

“I met Lin Jing purely by chance. I don’t remember when it was last semester, but it should have been not long after school started. I remember she was wearing a cotton jacket.”

“and then?”

Tao Shuxin listened carefully, and when she saw Xu Mingyuan thinking, she urged him.

“Saturday evening self-study ends an hour early, and I probably wanted to go out and surf the Internet all night. I seemed to have forgotten something, so I came back to school to get it, and I happened to see Chen Junjian blocking her.”

“There is such a thing? Why is Chen Junjian blocking her?” Tao Shuxin was surprised.

“Of course it’s not a good thing. If there were more people, it might be okay. But for a man and a woman alone, what could a boy want to do by not letting a girl go home at night?”

“No way, you are judging others by your own standards.”

“I know whether I am a villain or not, but a gentleman would not do such a thing. I thought the atmosphere was a bit weird and the girl was shaking, so I went over and took her away.”

“How did you take it away?”

“Well, I just said a few words and took her away.”

Xu Mingyuan couldn’t remember some details. It was possible that they cursed at each other and said some harsh words, but they didn’t fight at that time.

“Oh, so that’s how it is? Hmm… that’s not right. I heard that Lin Jing doesn’t have a very good reputation.”

Tao Shuxin pondered for a moment. When she saw Xu Mingyuan and Lin Jing getting close, she angrily confronted him, thinking that he was allowing himself to degenerate.

“How could a girl who studies well and doesn’t have any scandals suddenly get rumored to have a bad behavior? It’s obvious that someone is deliberately throwing dirty water at her. It’s not surprising that you can’t figure it out with your IQ.”

“Your IQ is better than mine, right? Don’t you even look at your own grades? Humph!”

Seeing that he always complained about himself every time he spoke, Tao Shuxin’s cheeks bulged with anger.

Of course, there is no problem with her IQ, but her EQ is not very good. She never thinks carefully about what others say and is easily deceived.

“So Lin Jing found me. She knew I wasn’t afraid of Chen Junjian, so she wanted me to help.”

“Oh, I see.” Tao Shuxin suddenly realized, her eyes shining, as if she had broken through the fog, “So you guys are pretending to be in love to prove that Lin Jing doesn’t like Chen Junjian, right!”

“The method doesn’t necessarily require falling in love, but I thought of this idea because I saw that she was beautiful.” Xu Mingyuan said with a sly smile.

“You took advantage of others! You took advantage of them!” Tao Shuxin poked him angrily, “No wonder Lin Jing transferred to another school, it’s because of you!”

“If you say so, then so be it.” Xu Mingyuan did not explain.

“Then why does she want to leave? She’s already in her third year of high school, and it wouldn’t be good for her to transfer to another school.”

“Maybe she couldn’t handle the pressure. Lin Jing is pretty and her grades are okay, but when girls get together they like to say bad things about her, and the rumors spread all over the city. Not everyone can stand people pointing fingers at them behind their backs.”

Xu Mingyuan did not tell her about Lin Jing’s car accident. Not only was there no point in telling her, but if it got out, it would easily disrupt his plans.

Moreover, Chen Junjian handled the matter too roughly. It is unlikely that he used his family connections. Most of his friends came here with money, so it would be rare for them to do things properly.

The most likely reason for Lin Jing’s transfer to another school was that the perpetrator was caught and confessed that Chen Junjian was the mastermind behind the incident, and then his family cleaned up the mess.

Chen Junjian’s biggest mistake was being too conceited and using some petty tricks that were not worthy of being shown on the public. This also doomed him to be just a small fry in the Chen family.

If Chen Junjian was a great man, he should have gone to the No. 1 Middle School in the city and made a name for himself among the children of the powerful and wealthy there, so that he could show that he was also a great man.

This turned out to be true later. Apart from his father Chen Xiangli, the people in charge of Xiangli Group’s affairs were his brother Chen Junxing. Chen Junjian’s own abilities were just average, and he rarely showed up in public.

People who like to do small things behind people’s backs will not achieve much. If they want to do it, they should do it on a big scale.

(End of this chapter)