Chapter 32: Boundaries and A Sudden Downpour
(Part 1)
Lu Anran’s evidently livid expression surprised the classmates seated around her.
“This is already beyond that of being straightforward! If I slapped you across your face, can I then tell you that I’m a heavy- handed person and not to be afraid of pain! “ Lu Anran lifted her eyebrows and said while looking towards the embarrassed Chu Yao, “Making scathing remarks and being straightforward are two different matters. Shooting one’s mouth off and being frank are two different matters. Having no upbringing and being laid- back are two different matters. Being ignorant and being honest are two different matters! Please make a clear distinction before speaking again!”
“I……” Chu Yao never expected Lu Anran to retaliate and was suddenly dumbfounded.
“Why are you shouting at her! I have already disliked you for a long time!” Seeing Lu Anran actually shouting at Chu Yao, Sun Shasha also flew into rage at once.
“Disliked me for a long time? You must be joking! We were classmates for no more than three days! I have never even seen you before entering this class! Why would you be unhappy every time you see me!”
“Sun Shasha, aren’t you going too far!” Ji Ling glared at Sun Shasha. She did not want to say anything initially, but she was unable to control herself any longer, “Whatever Lu Anran wants to do is her own business! Everyone came out to play! What on earth are you doing!”
“Ji Ling, don’t speak out of turn! I just dislike her!” After yelling at Ji Ling, Sun Shasha turned to glower at Lu Anran again, “Isn’t it just because you are stinking with money! Otherwise, based on your grades, how could you have entered the Prep Class! Still appointed as a class monitor! Bah! I’m the first to be dissatisfied with your appointment as a class monitor!” Sun Shasha has always been the class monitor in the Prep Class previously. At first, she thought that she could still be reappointed. Who would have thought that her plan would be spoilt by a Lu Anran who popped out from nowhere?
She was already resentful against Lu Anran. With further discord sowed by Chu Yao, Sun Shasha immediately burst into flames and was completely determined to have a fall out with Lu Anran. Anyway, she has long disapproved of these few scums stinking up with money tyrannising over the campus, who even bullied her best friend who grew up with her from young!
“There’s no need for you to judge how my grades are like! Whether or not it is sufficient to enter the Prep Class is not for you to arrange! If you are dissatisfied with my appointment as a class monitor, it will be more effective for you to go and discuss it Teacher Qin instead of hurling abuses here!” Lu Anran said indifferently. Enough was enough.
“You!” Sun Shasha was so angry that she almost raised her hand to strike her.
“Shasha! Forget about it!” Chu Yao pulled Sun Shasha away. This was a good time for her to improve on the impression the class’ have on her, “Shasha, Anran and I grew up together since young. She is not a bad person. Each of you take a step back, don’t be so rash!”
“She was just talking about you in such a way a moment ago, why are you still speaking up for her?!” Sun Shasha really felt that Chu Yao was too kind and too easily taken advantage of, and instead, got even angrier. Pointing her finger at Lu Anran, she scolded, “You are absolutely rotten to the core! Scumbag! Chu Yao is so nice towards you, yet you actually bully her! Aren’t you good friends who grew up together since young? Isn’t Chu Yao your one and only best friend? Yet, you treat her in this way!”
“Which of your eyes see me bullying her?” Lu Anran crossed her arms in front of her chest, “Is it that I deserve to be berate by the two of you? I can’t retaliate? Just saying a couple of sentence means that I’m bullying her? Can you not be so melodramatic? You think you are shooting an eight o’clock drama? The eight o’clock drama isn’t even as melodramatic as you!”
“When did we berate you!” Sun Shasha persisted, “I am just stating the truth!”
“Do you know what the truth is?” Lu Anran really felt it was ridiculous.
“You are just pretending not to eat meat! What’s wrong with what I said!” Sun Shasha will definitely not believe that there are people who do not eat meat! Even monks leave the mountain, what’s more this Honourable Young Miss, “It’s merely because the food we eat was of too low quality and was undeserving of your status. Nothing more! What’s wrong with the way I scold you?”
“I don’t eat meat because my father has been missing for several years and I am praying for him. Hoping that he will come home soon!” Lu Anran has her own reasons, “You don’t even know anything. Who are you to criticise the way I live my life! Chu Yao also knows about the matter of my father’s disappearance. If you don’t believe me, you can go and ask her!”
Once Lu Anran said those words, Sun Shasha dazedly looked towards Chu Yao. All the rest of the classmates were also at a loss, looking at each other before staring at Chu Yao.
Chu Yao was stunned. She then awkwardly answered, “Yes, yes, it is so……”
Chapter 32: Boundaries and A Sudden Downpour
(Part 2)
“You obviously knew about this matter. When Sun Shasha repeatedly slandered and provoked me, what were you this ‘good friend who grew up together since young’ doing? You didn’t even say a word on my behalf!” Lu Anran crossed her arms in front of her chest and said sarcastically, “Chu Yao! You are really my best friend ah!”
“An…… Anran, let me explain……” Chu Yao was also bewildered. The current situation was very unfavourable to her. Not only will the relationship between her and Lu Anran sour, even the other classmates will misunderstand her.
“There is no need to explain!” Lu Anran said lukewarmly, “Chu Yao, I don’t blame you for treating me so cruelly!” It was not yet time for Lu Anran to snap off the thread of clue Chu Yao provides in drawing out the mysterious man, so she quit while she was still ahead, “Everyone came out to play today, happily. I really did not want to make it so unpleasant.”
“Anran……” When Chu Yao heard Lu Anran saying that she did not blame her, she was a little relieved. If Lu Anran started to take precautions against her, how would she be able to deceive Lu Anran to die tomorrow ah!
“I’m not in a good mood and won’t be going shopping with all of you! I’m going to buy some things first!” Lu Anran turned and went out.
“I’ll go with you.” Linda was, of course, on Lu Anran’s side.
“Wait for me!” Ji Ling hurriedly followed.
“Uhm……” Wu Gang hesitated for a moment but also followed silently. Seeing someone taking the lead, one by one, the rest of the students in the class all trailed after Lu Anran. In the large circular seat of the originally bustling McDonalds, only Chu Yao and Sun Shasha these two people were left.
“Chu Yao……” Sun Shasha had a lot of questions to ask Chu Yao.
“Don’t talk to me!” Chu Yao had a cold expression on her face. This damn Lu Anran! Why doesn’t she just go and die! She actually brought away the entire class of people!
“……” It was the first time Sun Shasha has seen this side of Chu Yao and was puzzled. She remembered that whenever Chu Yao told her about the matter of Lu Anran’s bullying, it was always with a fragile expression earning Sun Shasha’s sympathy.
Sun Shasha does not come from a good family background. Both her parents are factory workers who leave early and return late everyday just to scrape enough money for both her brother and her to attend school. They have relatives who could have lent a hand to them, but each and every one of these relatives were more snobbish than the other, so she really hated these standoffish rich and wealthy! It just so happened that Chu Yao described Lu Anran as that kind of person that she had an outlet to vent her feelings, but the Chu Yao now was very frightening, as if she was a different person from before.
“I’m going home……” Chu Yao carried her bag and turned to leave. She will not lose. Her strategy cannot be wrong. Her only failure was to find Sun Shasha such a pig teammate! But it does not matter. Her failure was only temporary!
Just wait till tomorrow! Tomorrow! Lu Anran will soon completely disappear from this world! As long as Lu Anran is completely destroyed, her failure this time will not be regarded as a failure! She can absolutely thoroughly make a comeback! As long as Lu Anran died! As long as she dies, everything will be okay!
Looking at Chu Yao’s figure from behind, Sun Shasha frowned. What’s wrong with this Chu Yao? Suddenly turning hostile? Wasn’t she still okay before? But why does it seem like she has become another person? This kind of change made Sun Shasha a little afraid, keeping her own thoughts to herself.
Thunder rumbled, and a flash of lightning ripped through the darkening sky, following immediately after, raindrops the size of beans pounded on this part of the urban district. People who were strolling along the streets hid under the eaves of a small store along the streets in succession.
“Wow! This heavy rain is so sudden!” Ji Ling exclaimed, “The weather forecast didn’t predict any rain today ah!”
“When was the weather forecast ever accurate ah!” Tian Miaomiao, who was beside Ji Ling, rolled her eyes while brushing away the raindrops on her short hair.
“Is it going to rain tomorrow?” Several male students from the class began to worry.
“Should not…… It’s so rare to have an excursion for once!”
“It shouldn’t! With such a heavy downpour tonight, it ought to be a fine day tomorrow!” After saying this, Tian Miaomiao sighed, “Also don’t know how long this downpour will last for.”
“It shouldn’t be for too long……” Ji Ling also looked out the French window at the downpour.
Lu Anran found a chair nearby and sat down and then looked around. This store is a café. Just now to avoid the rain, everyone entered this store. The originally empty small store became crowded in an instant. The smell of coffee in the air was so strong that it was intoxicating. Noticing Lu Anran sitting down, everyone looked for a place to sit down as well.
The shop assistant inside heard some sounds and came out to serve customers. Seeing the sudden increase in people in the small shop, she was also surprised, “Wel…… Welcome……” The shop assistant was a female in her twenties. She tied her hair in two low ponytails and wore a red and white apron with the café’s logo printed on the chest, “What would you like to drink?”
“What do you have here?” It was because everyone wanted to avoid the rain that they suddenly rushed into the store. They have never been to the store previously and still did not know what they sold.
“The left wall shows all the different types of coffee in our shop. The right wall are the different types of desserts. There are also cakes that were made today on the counter.” The shop assistant said while smiling at the crowd. She had also gradually relaxed from her state of panic.
“What would you recommend?” Tian Miaomiao was a little dazed looking at both sides of the wall.
“The Italian coffee at our store is very good. One of our baristas is also a humorous Italian man.” The shop assistant said smilingly.
“Then I want……” Ji Ling paused. Looking towards Lu Anran, she asked, “What are you having?” She truly did not know that coffee could be distinguished by nationality.
“A cup of cappuccino.” Lu Anran said.
“Then I also want cappuccino!” Ji Ling did not understand the difference between these coffee types, but it was for sure that whatever Lu Anran this kind of Eldest Young Miss was drinking should taste good.