But more than fearing Lin He discovering it, she was more afraid of another aspect.
—Getting ears pierced must be painful, right?
“It doesn’t hurt,” after school, Tang Shuxuan also joined the conversation.
She guaranteed: “I’ve done it twice, barely felt anything, don’t worry.”
Lin Zhexia: “But it still has to go through your ear…”
Chen Lin: “It doesn’t hurt, go ahead without worry.”
She wanted to go.
But she truly didn’t dare.
After school, she walked shoulder to shoulder with Chi Yao toward the bus stop, dragging her feet, her gaze constantly drifting towards the commercial street.
Chi Yao sensed her increasingly slower pace and reminded, “You might as well crawl to the bus stop.”
Lin Zhexia: “…”
The next second, Chi Yao said again: “Tell me, what do you want to buy?”
Lin Zhexia still wanted to back out: “Nothing I want to buy.”
“Nothing you want to buy,” he said, “yet you keep staring at the opposite side.”
Lin Zhexia finally gathered her courage: “Actually… actually I arranged to meet someone after school to have a fight in the alley of the commercial street, you have to come with me to admire my fighting prowess.”
Chi Yao: “Oh.”
He didn’t react much to the story Lin Zhexia casually made up.
Lin Zhexia: “That’s your reaction?”
“You want me to admire—”
Chi Yao changed his reaction as she wished: “Or are you afraid you can’t win and want brother to help you?”
…
The dead title jumped up and attacked her again.
Is there no getting past this title?
Lin Zhexia needed his help now, so she couldn’t offend him. She pretended not to hear and asked again: “So are you willing to go with me?”
Her reply was three words.
“Not willing.”
“…Reason?”
“I’m scared,” Chi Yao, with that face that looked like trouble and seemed to have a gang of minions behind him, said the most absurd thing in the most arrogant tone, “I get weak-kneed when I see others fighting.”