After the Real Young Miss Became My Canary - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Shen Ying

Then she lost interest in reading further.

Hong Kong University has a system for sending students abroad on a government scholarship. Song Zhi was transferred back to the country by Song Guan without her knowledge.

Xie Chu still believed that she wanted to use this opportunity to go abroad again, to get far away from the Song family.

So when she found out that the spot had already been reserved for Shen Ying, who had been ranked first in her class since she started university, she couldn’t help but feel anxious.

As a globally renowned university, Hong Kong University would definitely not use underhanded methods to change a pre-determined spot.

Xie Chu wanted her to go back.

But what Xie Chu didn’t know was that Song Zhi had also contributed to her own return.

After all, who would abandon a huge family fortune to go abroad and dream of a different life?

She never told Xie Chu these things. She felt there was no need to drag another person into the mud pit that was the Song family.

In the end, she only sent a smiley face to Xie Chu. Xie Chu understood her character and didn’t send any more messages, only telling her to call if she needed anything.

At 7 a.m. the next morning, Song Zhi had just opened her door when two pairs of hands at the doorway blocked her from leaving.

Song Zhi stood at the doorway with her arms crossed, completely speechless. “Are you intentionally blocking the door so I can’t go to school?”

The two people at the door looked at each other and didn’t dare to release their grip.

Song Zhi sneered. “If I really wanted to go out, you two wouldn’t be able to stop me.”

This was the honest truth. She had only said what she said yesterday to make Song Guan uncomfortable. She understood his reason for wanting her to enroll.

After all, his useless son was embarrassing and not presentable, and although he didn’t like her, she was much more outstanding than anyone else in the family.

The bodyguards at the door hesitantly lowered their hands. Song Zhi went downstairs without looking back, walking past the maids who were about to get her ready.

The maid saw her walking away and was about to call out, but Song Zhi happened to turn her head.

Song Zhi smiled with her eyes curved. “My room doesn’t need to be tidied. And from now on, you don’t need to wake me up. I’ll get up on my own.”

The maid nodded repeatedly, afraid that if she was a second too late, an ashtray would be thrown at her, just like it had been at the young master.

After all, they had spent a lot of time wiping up the blood from the floor the day before yesterday.

But now, she looked up.

She only saw Song Zhi’s receding back. Remembering Song Zhi’s smile from before, she suddenly felt that this young miss’s temper wasn’t as bad as she had heard.

When Song Zhi arrived at the underground garage, the bodyguards and driver were already ready.

When she arrived at the school, someone was already waiting for her at the entrance.

It was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. He was pot-bellied, and his face had three layers of fat when he looked down. When he saw the car stop at the entrance, he immediately came forward.

The man was very fat, and his eyes squinted so much when he smiled that you couldn’t see them, but he insisted on using those tiny eyes to look at Song Zhi while he chattered nonstop.

When Song Zhi saw his four-layered face, she felt a wave of discomfort. The second time he got close to her, she stopped walking.

The man was perceptive and immediately shut up. “Student Song, what’s wrong?”

Song Zhi: “Are you my homeroom teacher?”

“Yes, yes. My name is Hong Deliang.”

Song Zhi’s face was sincere. “You’d better not stand too close to me. Otherwise, if my bodyguards misunderstand and do something, it wouldn’t be good.”

Hong Deliang looked at the bodyguard who had already moved in front of Song Zhi without making a sound, then looked at the sincere expression on Song Zhi’s face, and immediately took two big steps back.

Originally, the higher-ups had told him to give this ill-tempered young miss from the Song family a tour of the school, but this young miss didn’t mention it at all and just headed straight for the academic building. And…

Every time he stood next to Song Zhi, her expressionless bodyguard would silently move between them. After a few times, he realized what was going on.

Finally, Hong Deliang could only stand a meter in front of the bodyguard and say to Song Zhi, “Student Song, I have something else to do. I can only accompany you to here today.”

Song Zhi smiled and nodded.

Hong Deliang took one step closer, and the bodyguard immediately extended his arm, blocking him at a distance.

Hong Deliang looked left and right secretively. It was probably class time, and there were very few people around. He whispered to Song Zhi, “Student Song, what you said before might not be possible.”

For the first time all day, Song Zhi listened to him seriously. “Why not?”

Hong Deliang looked a little troubled. “Because your roommate is a student from a poor background, and she’s not willing to move.”

Song Zhi didn’t even turn her head. A check was already handed to Hong Deliang. “Is this enough?”

Hong Deliang’s mouth twitched at the five zeros behind the number. In the end, he painfully refused. “Student Song, in this world, there are many things that money can’t buy. I’ve already talked to this student. It’s a critical time for her in her senior year, and her time is precious.”

Song Zhi: “I understand. To not disturb my classmate, I just won’t stay in the dorms.”

Hong Deliang: “Hey, hey, hey, that won’t do…”

Song Zhi turned around and smiled. “It won’t do? It should, shouldn’t it?”

Hong Deliang had no choice but to shut up.

Hong Deliang was still thinking of a way to salvage the situation. After all, the school’s old rules couldn’t be broken for one person. “Student Shen is a very good person. Why don’t you two try to get along? You’ll definitely get along very well.”

He was about to give Song Zhi examples of how great she was, but he saw Song Zhi finally turn to look at him.

“Shen?”

Mentioning his soon-to-be star student, Hong Deliang’s tone became much more proud. “Shen Ying. The top scorer in the college entrance exam, ranked first in her major for all four years of university, and the only student chosen for the government scholarship to study abroad for her graduate degree.”

This was the second time she had heard that name.

It really gave her the illusion that the person was everywhere.

Song Zhi had a habit that no one knew about.

She disliked strangers who appeared in front of her all the time, even their names.

Her previous psychologist said it was because she had strong personal boundaries and lacked a sense of security.

Lacked a sense of security? Her?

She felt that was wrong, so she switched to another doctor. In the second doctor’s report, she no longer had those strange issues.

That’s right. She just disliked people getting too close to her. How could that be a problem?

So when she heard the name for the second time, a feeling of disgust uncontrollably welled up in her heart.

But thankfully, she was a generous person. She would only silently dislike them in her heart, not showing it at all on the surface. She just smiled slightly. “She really is an excellent person.”

Hong Deliang thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed. He didn’t speak for a long time.

Song Zhi was happy that he had shut up.

After a while, he seemed to remember something and said, “Student Song, Mr. Song told me that you just returned to the country and the curriculum is different. You don’t have to come to school for military training and the first month of the semester. You can catch up on your studies at home and then come back.”

Song Guan’s message was clear: Don’t embarrass me. This was a compromise for both of them.

Song Zhi enjoyed anything that made Song Guan unhappy, but she wouldn’t play around with her own reputation. So, unfortunately, she could only be first in the final exam.

The car followed them closely. As soon as Song Zhi came down from the office building, the car door opened and stopped in front of her.

What she didn’t know was that the moment she got into the car, Hong Deliang, with a bad expression, picked up his phone and composed a message to a recent contact.

Back in the car, the bodyguard carefully took out some candy from a cooler box and handed it to her. “Miss, you haven’t eaten since yesterday. According to the doctor’s report, you’ll faint from low blood sugar in two hours.”

Song Zhi glanced at the candy in her hand half-heartedly. What came to mind was an indescribable plastic taste. That was her only impression of this candy. As for the low-sugar chocolate next to it, the first thing she thought of was a fishy, earthy taste, not sweetness.

Her expression changed. Just as she was about to tell the bodyguard to take it away, she suddenly remembered something. She grabbed the candy and put it in her small bag.

“I’ll eat it later. Driver, go to the store from yesterday.”

Bodyguard: “You have to go home now. The store will send the bill to the Song family.”

Song Zhi sneered. “You might as well get Song Guan to adopt you. At least you’re more obedient than me.”

The bodyguard immediately lowered his head. “I wouldn’t dare.”

The driver was from the Song family, but he also didn’t dare to disobey Song Zhi, because he was right there when Song Zhi threw the ashtray the day before yesterday.

Even now, the young master was still in a private hospital.

The moment the bodyguard lowered his head, the driver immediately turned the steering wheel.

The car’s speed was not high. On the way from the school to the Louis Vuitton store, Song Zhi was able to lean against the window and watch the scenery go by.

Although she had to lean past the bodyguard.

But even this brief moment of seeing the outside world made her very happy.

Although she had been transferred to a private school abroad since middle school, she was surrounded by a group of bodyguards and servants who were there for “protection” but were actually for “imprisonment.”

From her going-out times and her friends at school, to her elective courses, her chosen teachers, and schools, everything was controlled by a single, airtight hand.

In contrast, she felt much freer during her few days in the country. Firstly, the port city was not like a foreign country. If she went crazy on the street, Song Guan’s reputation, which he cared about most, would be ruined. Secondly, the public safety in the port city was simply better than abroad.

Song Guan didn’t dare to be too strict with her now.

Before, even the curtains in the car from the villa to the school were pulled shut.

Humans are creatures who, once they have one thing, want a second. Song Zhi was no exception. As she looked at the misty rain outside the car window, an idea suddenly came to her mind.

Song Zhi said in a cold voice, “Stop the car.”

The driver instinctively hit the brakes. The car, with its excellent braking system, stopped with a screech. The driver turned to look at the person whose face had turned cold. “Miss, what…”

“Bang!”

A loud sound immediately exploded at the back of the car. The car, which had just stopped, was pushed forward a big step.

Inside the car, everyone except Song Zhi, who was protected by the bodyguards, was thrown forward by the force of the collision and then pulled back hard by their seatbelts.

The bodyguard, who had regained his composure, immediately dialed the internal channel. When Song Zhi left today, she didn’t want to make a big deal of it, so besides the three people in the car, she didn’t have anyone follow them.

And just now, the driver had taken a so-called shortcut from Song Zhi’s mouth and was now on a small road with very little traffic.

The bodyguard suddenly thought of something. “Miss, is this your doing…?”

Song Zhi gave a swift and decisive eye-roll. “With that imagination of yours, why don’t you go write a novel?”

The bodyguard was still hesitant. “But…”

Song Zhi: “Would I joke about my own life?”

The large car behind them had already started to back up.

The car they were in today was extremely comfortable, but its protection was mediocre. If the car behind them hit it a few more times, it would probably be totaled.

With this stance, if she didn’t think they were coming for her, she would only think that person was dreaming.

Song Zhi looked at the car in the rearview mirror, which was already preparing to move forward, and ordered, “Drive!”

The driver immediately stepped on the gas.

Song Zhi looked at the car behind them, which was reacting quickly and was right on their tail, and said calmly, “Find a busy intersection up ahead and drop me off.”

The driver, who had never seen a scene like this before, looked at the car behind them, which was recklessly charging forward, and his hands were trembling in panic. “Who, who are these people?”

Song Zhi: “Don’t shake. They’re not after you. What are you panicking about?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the car behind them floored the gas and slammed into their back again with a loud bang.

Song Zhi: “Damn, the insurance company is going to be mad when we get back.”

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