Chapter 218
Chapter 218
Over the next several days, Chen Daji and Zhao Fei took turns making their move.
During mealtimes, they bumped into every poor student in the school.
At first, each collision still drew crowds and condemnation from the other students.
Later, everyone understood the two boys’ true intentions. Instead of exposing them, they enthusiastically joined the performance.
Whenever a collision occurred, “extras” would promptly step forward to help the “victim” settle the dispute, naming a price and demanding compensation.
Their line was remarkably consistent: “This won’t be settled for a cent under twelve hundred!”
Naturally, Chen Daji and Zhao Fei cooperated fully.
Every time, they obediently admitted their bad luck, hung their heads in dejection, and paid to settle the matter.
The affair had a profound effect on both boys.
For the first time in their lives, Chen Daji and Zhao Fei experienced the joy of helping others. From then on, they never tired of it.
They truly lived by the saying: “Do not refrain from a good deed because it is small, nor commit an evil deed because it is small.”
Of course, they also shed the title of “villains” for good and became well-liked classmates.
Even Li Yun occasionally smiled faintly at Chen Daji.
Whenever she did, Chen Daji would sidle up with a shameless grin.
“Yun, how about agreeing to be my girlfriend? I promise I’ll treat you well!”
Li Yun was a true daughter of the jianghu.
Naturally, she would not give a scoundrel like Chen Daji a warm response. Her smile would vanish at once, and she would coldly toss out a single word.
“Scram!”
Going Home Week began tomorrow. Rejected by Li Yun yet again, Chen Daji found himself unable to sleep alone.
He climbed onto the roof and gazed toward the girls’ dormitory beneath the moonlight.
“Ah, you’ll never understand my tenderness…”
As soon as Chen Daji finished, a resentful, sorrowful voice drifted from the other end of the roof.
“I can never see you clearly…”
Having someone suddenly answer his song lyric in the middle of the night made Chen Daji shudder in fright.
Once he mustered the courage to look closely, he cursed at once.
“Fuck your grandpa, Fatty Zhao! What are you doing on the roof in the middle of the night instead of sleeping? Taking a shit?!
“Don’t you know scaring someone like that can kill them?”
Unconvinced, Zhao Fei immediately shot back.
“So what?! Did your family build this roof? You’re allowed up here but Lord Fatty isn’t?!
“Besides, everything is first come, first served. If anyone gets to complain, it sure isn’t you!
“What are you looking at, Little Chick? Fight me if you don’t like it!”
Chen Daji instinctively wanted to accept the challenge.
But when he remembered his appalling record against Fatty Zhao, he decisively abandoned the idea of asking for a beating. Instead, he changed the subject.
“You damn fatty, why aren’t you sleeping in the middle of the night? Did you climb up here to peep at people?!”
“Peep at my ass!” Zhao Fei was clearly too dejected to bicker with Chen Daji. As he spoke, he tossed half a pack of cigarettes to him.
“After I became poor, that woman had a change of heart. Not only did she dump me, she flaunted her love with that bastard Li Jinlong right in front of me today!
“It pissed me the fuck off!”
(Hua Jiunan and his two friends had never known that Li Jinlong was secretly behind the attempts to harm them.)
(Nor did they know of the connection among Li Jinlong, Li Jiao, and the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess.)
(As for how Li Jinlong’s blind eye recovered and why he did not die, all will be explained later.)
The fire of gossip blazed in Chen Daji’s heart.
“Fatty Zhao, who’s this woman you’re talking about? Is it the one who got a butt full of baby hedgehog quills the first time we fought?”
Zhao Fei dragged deeply on his cigarette, then heaved a long sigh.
“Who else could it be? Those two adulterous pieces of shit even said right in front of me that they’d get married after graduation!
“Fucking disgusting!”
As another man, Chen Daji deeply understood Zhao Fei’s humiliation.
Just as he was at a loss for how to comfort him, an agile black figure climbed onto the roof.
The figure moved so effortlessly that it seemed less as if he had climbed and more as if he had floated up with a light leap.
Chen Daji and Zhao Fei immediately went on alert.
Standing shoulder to shoulder, one assumed the opening stance of Monkey Fist and the other that of Mantis Fist.
“What manner of monster are you? State your name!”
The black figure did not answer. One swift stride brought him before the pair.
With only a few moves, he trapped both Chen Daji and Zhao Fei in grappling holds.
“Ow, ow, ow! It hurts!”
“Big Brother, let go! We’ll never call you a monster again!”
Hua Jiunan chuckled. After giving each of them a light kick in the backside, he released them.
“Zhao Fei, you shouldn’t be depressed that the woman ran off with Li Jinlong. You ought to be happy instead.”
Fatty Zhao gave a bitter smile.
“Hua Boss, are you trying to say it’s a good thing I got away from a rotten woman early?
“I understand the logic. I just can’t swallow the rage of being cheated on!”
Hua Jiunan deliberately looked surprised.
“You were cheated on? That’s not how I see it!
“I think Li Jinlong is the one who should be angry!
“Think about it. His wife spent an entire year keeping you company for free. Hehe. Doesn’t that feel good?”
Zhao Fei froze when he heard Hua Jiunan’s words, then threw his head back and laughed.
“You’re right, Big Brother! Why the fuck should Lord Fatty be depressed? Li Jinlong, that little prick, is the one who should be upset!”
Seeing Zhao Fei’s mood improve, Hua Jiunan gave a cold smile.
“That may be true, but we still can’t let the matter end here!
“Someone has trampled all over us. Pretending to be a coward now isn’t our style!”