When Lin Zhexia entered the door, Lin He scolded: “Why are you back so late?”
Lin Zhexia changed her shoes at the entrance and said: “I… I went to the bookstore with Chi Yao.”
“Today, our Chinese teacher talked about essay writing and mentioned a set of very helpful books. She suggested we buy them to read, but we couldn’t find them after searching the bookstore.”
Lin He didn’t suspect anything: “Is your allowance enough? If you need to buy books and don’t have enough money, remember to tell me.”
Lin Zhexia: “It’s enough.”
When Lin Zhexia put down her backpack and sat at the dining table to eat, Lin He asked another question: “Why is your face so red?”
Lin Zhexia hadn’t noticed her blushing.
She belatedly raised her hand to touch her face, only then realizing it was indeed a bit hot.
“Maybe it’s too hot outside,” she said, “the temperature has been very high lately.”
The weather had indeed been getting hotter recently.
Lin He didn’t think much of it and put some food into her bowl with chopsticks: “That’s true, it’s been very hot lately. You should be careful not to get heatstroke.”
That night, Chen Lin sent her a message.
Chen Lin: Did you go?
Lin Zhexia replied: I went.
Chen Lin: I told you, it doesn’t hurt at all, right?
Lin Zhexia: …Mm
It didn’t hurt.
Because she wasn’t the one who got pierced.
Chen Lin enthusiastically asked again: What kind of earring did you choose?
Chen Lin: I like those dangling ones
Chen Lin: But that style is too obvious, afraid Old Xu would warn me
Lin Zhexia didn’t know how to explain to her, so she skipped the topic.
She reminded Chen Lin: Stop playing with your phone, we have a lot of homework today, hurry and do your homework.
Lin Zhexia temporarily put aside the fact that she had tricked Chi Yao into getting his ear pierced. Even while doing homework, the silver cross and Chi Yao’s face would still occasionally appear before her eyes.
Before bed, she opened her chat with Chi Yao and honestly admitted her mistake-
I’m sorry
Holding her phone, enduring her red-tipped ears, she typed letter by letter: Bro-ther.
However, after typing it, she still didn’t dare to send it.
This title seemed to have a special magic.
After all, calling someone “brother” who isn’t your brother feels very strange.
She turned over in her blanket, scratched her messy hair, and finally deleted those two characters.
In the end, she sent a term they commonly used between them-
Daddy orz-
The next day, the first thing Chen Lin did at school was to look at Lin Zhexia’s ears.
However, the girl’s earlobes were still clean, with nothing on them.
Chen Lin asked: “Where’s your ear piercing?”
Lin Zhexia: “It’s a long story…”
Chen Lin: “Then make it short.”
Lin Zhexia was silent for a few seconds: “The short version is, the piercing ended up on someone else’s ear.”
Chen Lin: “???”
Before Chen Lin could recover from this answer, Tang Shuxuan had just entered the classroom. She arrived late today, coming in right as the bell rang, and her first words were an unusual curse: “Holy shit.”
The next sentence was.
“Chi Yao is wearing an earring today.”
For high school students, getting an ear piercing was somewhat taboo. It was still acceptable for girls to secretly get piercings, as many teachers and students could understand, but boys wearing earrings, not just in their grade, but perhaps in the entire school history, you might not find a second person.
Moreover, the person wearing the earring was Chi Yao.
This person was eye-catching enough just napping on his desk during class breaks without doing anything else.
So Tang Shuxuan’s feelings when she learned about this were extremely shocking.
Lin Zhexia, on the other hand, was relatively calm. As the instigator, she asked a bit guiltily: “How do you know?”
“Not just me, the whole grade knows.”
Tang Shuxuan said, “To school, people around me were discussing this. Also, two girls in the next class have already gone crazy over this.”