The dean under him lectured Yun Mi for a while.
The bald eagle's sharp eyes asked, "What's in that plastic bag you're holding?"
Yun Mi secretly hid the bag behind her back. The principal's face turned even uglier, and he was about to step forward. Fortunately, Old Qi came to claim his student and took Yun Mi away.
"Mimi, where did you go?"
Ding Yuan feared two people: the female demon Du Yun and the bald eagle principal.
Most teachers at Shanfu were easy to get along with, except these two. The terrible things they did were too numerous to record.
Seeing Yun Mi's indifferent expression, Ding Yuan felt scared for her. "You know, the last student caught by the bald eagle had to give a forty-minute speech under the national flag."
Yun Mi was also startled. "How many minutes?"
"Without a script. Forty minutes, not a minute less, timed with a stopwatch."
"..."
Yun Mi's heart pounded in hindsight. She silently shut her mouth.
Ding Yuan wanted to know what Yun Mi had bought. She squinted suspiciously.
A bag full of stuff—wouldn't it have been safer in the classroom? A big target like that, lucky not to be confiscated by the principal.
Yun Mi didn't tell her. Right under Ding Yuan's nose, she started swapping places with people behind her.
One after another.
Ding Yuan was initially wondering if Yun Mi had found a new bestie outside, then suddenly froze. She grabbed Yun Mi's arm and said, "Yun Mi, you're not going to that someone, are you?"
Yun Mi looked up in surprise.
Hearing Ding Yuan's light remark, "Don't you think... you care too much?"
...
"Yang Ge, holy shit, what's Yun Mi doing up front?"
Class One was lined up at the back. Xie Yue leaned in and hissed.
In the flowing crowd, a not-so-short girl kept shifting backward every now and then, like a groundhog.
Xie Yue squinted. "Tell me, how far back is Yun Mi planning to go?" He rubbed his chin, curious. "Is there some golden treasure behind us?"
Chen Yiyang stood there, standing out like a crane among chickens. His eyelids were drooping, about to close, giving him a listless and aloof air.
Chen Yiyang said flatly, "I don't know."
Xie Yue chewed over the words, a guess he didn't dare say out loud in his heart: "You don't know?"
Chen Yiyang hummed in response.
Suddenly, a call came from ahead: "Chen Yiyang."
"?"
After a lot of effort, Yun Mi finally swapped positions and moved to the end of the line, but she still didn't dare to fully turn her back to the principal speaking passionately on stage.
Her mind was stuck on Ding Yuan's careless remark.
Standing right in front of Chen Yiyang, the girl suddenly put her hands behind her back and gently passed something to him.
"For you."
Sunlight covered the entire playground, students in uniforms standing all around.
Chen Yiyang's gaze fell on the girl's fair hand reaching out from her baggy sleeve. Yun Mi handed over a whole bag of medicine.
Cold medicine, fever reducer, anti-inflammatory.
Even a thermometer.
Yun Mi had been secretly worrying about him, afraid he might suddenly get a fever like her father.
"I thought you looked a bit off."
Xie Yue overheard and immediately widened his eyes, lowering his voice: "Chen Yiyang, you're not feeling well?"
Yun Mi ignored him, stubbornly pushing the medicine into his hand: "Take it."
She turned her face back slightly, her voice soft: "And... about me calling you a big idiot—don't mind it."
Chen Yiyang was slightly taken aback.
The girl's delicate face was fair. Yesterday, it had been full of worry and fatigue; today, it was clean and fresh. Her amber eyes were bright and soft.
Just a little awkward. After speaking, she pretended to be cold and turned back.
Chen Yiyang's voice was light, slightly hoarse from discomfort: "I don't mind."
Yun Mi pursed her lips and let out a soft snort, a hint of accusation in her tone: "Oh, yeah?"
Then why didn't you reply to my message?
Xie Yue clicked his tongue in admiration from the side: "Damn, Yun Mi, you got caught by the bald eagle for being late just to buy medicine? You're—"
He was almost moved.
Chen Yiyang was just a little uncomfortable. Normally, he would just tough it out.
This was the first time someone had been so perceptive, and the first time someone had gone to so much trouble to buy him a whole bag of medicine.
He stared at the bag, then suddenly lowered his eyes and muttered under his breath, "Little idiot."
His low, magnetic teenage voice was distinctly husky.
Yun Mi was just trying to justify herself, thinking she was definitely a "perfect sister" and it had nothing to do with "caring." But hearing this, she bristled instantly.
What the heck.
He called her an idiot.
So he really did hold grudges.