The Beautiful Top Student Dodges Whenever He is Touched - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Piercing Through Your Lie, Yet You Claim It Is Care…

The morning exams ended. Tong Ze packed up his things, walked out of the classroom, and lifted his eyes only to see Xie Yi currently standing opposite looking at him, wearing an expression that signaled the two of them to leave together.

Tong Ze was somewhat surprised.

For the first time someone was waiting for him, it was hard to avoid being surprised.

Xie Yi, seeing Tong Ze freeze for an instant, asked: “Is it that you didn’t expect I would wait for you?”

This person can read minds? But then again, his expression just now was a bit obvious.

“It is quite surprising.” Tong Ze confessed honestly.

“Usually I see that you are always by yourself, coming and going alone.” Xie Yi said.

“Yeah, right, not used to waiting for people, and also not used to being waited for.” Tong Ze said.

“Isolating yourself outside of the class and classmates?” Xie Yi inquired.

“No one regulates that, aside from the physical body, my thoughts and soul must also fuse into the class and classmates, right!” Tong Ze asked back in response.

“Hearing you speak this way, it seemingly possesses a bit of logic.” Xie Yi said.

“…” Tong Ze didn’t speak words.

“But, many times the physical body and the soul don’t divide that openly, you know!” Xie Yi captured the keyword Tong Ze spoke.

Tong Ze didn’t want to continue this bizarre topic again; chatting about this with Xie Yi would get more and more crooked.

Xie Yi smiled as he looked at him, waiting for his answer.

“Because, I don’t want to waste time on inconsequential matters.” Tong Ze said.

“Damn.” Xie Yi lowered his head and smiled: “Have you never had a time when you followed your heart’s desires?”

Hearing Xie Yi ask this way, Tong Ze’s heart gave a thump.

Following one’s heart’s desires.

Inadvertently, he recalled that scene inside the woods during the second year of junior high.

Following one’s heart’s desires, in many instances, manufactured consequences that were difficult for him to bear.

“Everyone in the world is incapable of following their heart’s desires, even a three-year-old child can’t do it, not to mention us.” Tong Ze said.

Xie Yi smiled a bit, “Fine, then! Whatever you say contains logic.”

Xie Yi discovered that Tong Ze looked like he lived very tiringly, yet he seemingly didn’t feel himself to be tired. He wrapped invisible shackles onto his own body, a whole pile of rules and frameworks, and even took it upon himself to think that this was very normal.

Simply failing to discover that he himself had already lost the spirit and vitality a youth ought to possess.

Different from all the other people he had seen around his body. Too strange.

Exactly what kind of reason manufactured this kind of marginalized character of Tong Ze’s.

Xie Yi looked at Tong Ze, who arrived at the doorway of Class 9 and took the first step to walk into the classroom, becoming increasingly curious.

Tong Ze’s appearance was like adding a bit of amusement to Xie Yi’s thoroughly bored life, leading him to habitually observe Tong Ze whether he had a matter or not.

However, once this kind of seed of curiosity sprouted within the bottom of the heart, it would continuously germinate and grow large, and by the end, it might even pry into more secrets not known to people.

When that time came, how to wrap up the scene, even the god-tier student Xie Yi hadn’t considered it.

After the self-study class was dismissed for more than ten minutes, Xie Yi saw Tong Ze stand up his body and walk out alone; he ought to be going to the canteen to eat a meal.

Sure enough, coming and going alone.

Xie Yi opened WeChat, transferred twenty yuan to Xu Jie, and then sent a voice note: “Help me buy a portion of steak rice, the one on the second floor of the canteen.”

Outside was too hot. He was too lazy to go out.

Regarding the afternoon English and physics-chemistry, Tong Ze felt his testing was still not bad; as long as he did all the problems he knew how to do, there was basically no problem.

When school was dismissed, Tong Ze still unchangeably went to the bike shed, unlocked, pushed out of the school gate, and rode home.

What he didn’t know was that his series of movements had already completely been seen in the eyes of Xie Yi before the window of the second floor.

“Looking at what? Brother Yi, so focused.” Yan Chao, who frequently met up to play ball together, saw Xie Yi currently looking out the window thoroughly lost in thought.

“A person worth observing.” Xie Yi said.

“The school beauty?” Yan Chao asked.

“I possess no interest toward the school beauty.” Xie Yi said.

“Fuck, just how high must my Brother Yi’s vision be, to not even think highly of the school beauty.” After Yan Chao finished speaking, he shouted a line into the classroom again: “Xu Jie, hurry it up, sweep faster.”

“Don’t you fucking rush me, don’t I have to finish sweeping? Still one row left.” Xu Jie was sweeping the floor in a rush and bustle.

“Is it my fucking self rushing you? The ones appointed are the people from Class 5, they went early, and have already rushed me twice.” Yan Chao said urgently.

“Right away, right away.” Xu Jie with a couple of strokes finished scraping the floor surface, threw the broom, said something to the fellow group student on duty, and then ran out, “Alright, matter finished, let’s go.”

A crowd of people walked toward the basketball court.

The teachers of No. 1 High School were all very dedicated to their work, working overtime and adding points to mark the exam papers; that speed was called fast.

The following morning, one after another, the grades of several subjects all emerged.

During the recess after morning self-study was dismissed, Tong Ze happened to go to the restroom, and Xie Yi and several boys were propped up in the corridor chatting largely.

“Distributing exam papers.” The mathematical subject representative raised his voice volume to shout a line, placing a stack of exam papers onto the lecture desk. The exam papers were arranged according to grades from high to low. He first took the two perfect-score exam papers to the side, and instantly there were classmates surrounding over.

“I rely, Xie Yi perfect score, Tong Ze also perfect score.”

“Heard this time the diagnostic examination’s topics were quite difficult, the majority combined the test questions on the exam paper of the Attached High School’s final exam last semester, at that time their school didn’t even have a few perfect scores.”

“Defying heaven, defying heaven.”

“I merely just passed, fortunately my mom didn’t know about this diagnostic examination, she only knows about midterms and finals, haha.”

“Come, come, come, you guys yield a bit first, I’ll hurriedly distribute the exam papers down.” The mathematical subject representative gathered up the exam papers and pushed them away, like an industrious little honeybee weaving through the entire classroom, one person finishing distributing all the exam papers.

Xie Yi walked into the classroom. Without needing to think, he also knew everyone was currently discussing the grades.

After he sat down, he cast a glance at his own exam paper. Not escaping what was expected, it was a perfect score. Before the diagnostic examination, he had considered that when testing mathematics, he would intentionally do several problems wrong, because he wanted to take this opportunity to confront his parents once. But thinking about it later, Tong Ze seemingly highly liked science subjects and English, and contending and countervailing against Tong Ze in mathematics-physics-chemistry and English would possess more of a sense of achievement, so that’s why he displayed normal strength to test into these subjects, intentionally dropping points onto Chinese.

His goal this time wasn’t to fight for first place with Tong Ze, but rather to intentionally obtain second place.

A single super-rebellious second place.

He knew all the knowledge; he merely wanted to use actions to tell his mom that not every single ranking was that important. They forced him too tightly. It was bound to achieve the opposite of the desired effect. He could go toward the absolute best to test, and he could also obtain first place time after time. But it wasn’t that they wanted it, rather it was he himself who wanted it.

Xie Yi didn’t look at the mathematics paper again, rolling it up and directly throwing it into his desk drawer.

When he lowered his head, he saw there was an exam paper on the ground. Picking it up to look, it was Tong Ze’s; sure enough, it was also a perfect score.

Matched in strength, truly. Possessing Tong Ze as an opponent, attending class, learning, taking exams and such, indeed weren’t that boring anymore.

Suddenly he again recalled the conversation between the two of them after he waited for Tong Ze to come out after finishing the exam yesterday at noon.

“I’m not used to waiting for people, and also not used to being waited for.”

“I don’t want to waste time on inconsequential matters.”

School had started for a week already. Because Xie Yi was Tong Ze’s rear desk, regarding every single action and move of the front desk during class and after class, he saw them completely in his eyes. Tong Ze and his deskmate, a shy and introverted girl named Lu Qi, had virtually just never spoken words. Tong Ze was too cold and detached, and Lu Qi was too timid.

Xie Yi highly wanted to look at the appearance of Tong Ze and his deskmate breaking the ice to exchange. Highly wanted to. He truly was sufficiently bored.

Xie Yi again looked at Tong Ze’s paper in his hand, and after folding it, tucked it into the mathematics book. Just right, the next period was precisely mathematics class; the teacher inevitably would explain the paper.

After Tong Ze entered the class, he went straightly toward his own seat; he still didn’t know about the matter of having already distributed the mathematics exam papers.

“Alright, we start class, ah, today we won’t shout to stand up, one period of class has to explain completely the entire exam paper, save time.” The mathematics teacher Old Wu was consistently swift and decisive, “Come, pull out the exam paper, look at the multiple-choice questions first.”

Even if Tong Ze was calm again, upon hearing the teacher was about to explain the exam paper yet he failed to find the paper, he would also be anxious.

He searched on his own desktop and inside his desk drawer for less than ten seconds, then confirmed the exam paper definitely wasn’t here with him.

Old Wu seeing Tong Ze lift his right hand, asked: “Tong Ze, what’s wrong?”

Tong Ze stood up and said: “Teacher, there is no mathematics exam paper of mine.”

Although Tong Ze usually spoke words not many, being heavy-hearted and cold, during class when it was time to lift his hand to answer questions or have a matter to ask the teacher or what, he wasn’t ambiguous a single bit at all. He could be said to possess all the qualities a good student ought to possess.

Old Wu looked toward the mathematics subject representative, asking: “Did the subject representative not distribute it?”

The subject representative was also a face of doubt, “Distributed it, ah, I just placed it onto Tong Ze’s desk.”

“Then it might be dropped somewhere, like this, Tong Ze you first look at it together with your deskmate, we continue, let’s look at the second question.” After Old Wu finished speaking, he shifted his sight back onto the exam paper again.

Xie Yi looked at this series of performances of Tong Ze’s; it truly completely didn’t escape what he expected, and immediately following, he again continued to stare at Tong Ze’s every single action and move.

Tong Ze after sitting down possessed no other method. He hesitated for a bit, just wanting to propose to his deskmate to look at the exam paper together, but as a result, discovered he actually didn’t even know what the name of the deskmate he sat together with for a whole week was.

This was a bit awkward. He could only omit the words of addressing her.

“Hello, can I…” Before Tong Ze’s words finished speaking, he then saw the deskmate’s exam paper being slowly pushed over.

“Let’s… look together.” Lu Qi’s cheeks were faintly red, speaking in a small voice.

“Sure, thank you.” Tong Ze said.

Xie Yi’s posture was lazy, yet his gaze was focused. His palm was propping his chin, and beneath his arm was Tong Ze’s exam paper.

He captured that instant of hesitation of Tong Ze’s just now. He probably didn’t know what his deskmate was called. But fortunately, the two people successfully broke the ice. It originally just ought to be this way, ah! How could one always think of resolving all matters completely by oneself.

Xie Yi continued to observe. Tong Ze, for the sake of avoiding his elbow touching Lu Qi’s, intentionally maintained a distance of several centimeters. He could even further see that Tong Ze, for the sake of maintaining that posture, his body clearly was already a bit stiff.

Disliking having physical contact with people, another characteristic. Xie Yi discovered that observing Tong Ze was a very interesting matter.

“Ding…” The bell to dismiss class rang.

Tong Ze pushed the paper to Lu Qi, and once more expressed thanks.

“Tong Ze.” Xie Yi called out.

“Doing what?” Tong Ze turned his body around and asked.

“Here, your mathematics exam paper.” Xie Yi looked at him with an expression that deserved a beating.

“Why is it over there with you?” Tong Ze knitted his brows and asked, clearly being a bit not too happy.

“During recess it dropped beneath my feet, I picked it up, took it as my own, and casually threw it into my desk drawer, and then went out for a trip. Returning, I discovered my own exam paper was on the desk, and even thought it dropped out from the desk drawer and then was picked up by someone else and placed on the desktop again. Not until class was dismissed did I discover that what was picked up at the very beginning was your exam paper, and the one on the desktop later was distributed down by the subject representative.” Xie Yi manufactured lies one set after another, further wearing an expression of being very sincere.

I believe your ghost, Tong Ze thought in his mind.

“Would you be that kind of person who picks up an exam paper from the ground and without even looking takes it as your own paper?” Tong Ze asked back in response.

“How could I not be, of course I would, any person is completely possible of making out a matter that doesn’t correspond with their ordinary habits.” Xie Yi spoke with logic and evidence, “It’s merely a small probability event, that’s all, incapable of being completely ruled out, why must you be that earnest.”

“You went out for a trip in the middle, went out for how long?” Tong Ze gazed into his eyes and asked.

“Two or three minutes, propped up at the doorway for a bit.” When Xie Yi spoke, his eyeballs turned for a bit and looked at him again.

“According to what you say this way, my exam paper was distributed down first, dropped beneath your feet and you picked it up, you went out for a trip and returned, and the subject representative again distributed your exam paper and placed it on the desk.” Tong Ze analyzed and said, “The meaning is precisely to say the exam papers of the two of us were distributed separately, at least separated by a while of time, one or two minutes like this.”

Seeing Xie Yi seemingly wanting to explain, Tong Ze supplemented again: “Are you wanting to say, just as you exited the classroom, the subject representative distributed your exam paper?”

“That’s right.” Xie Yi picked his brow, feeling the lie was fast being pierced through. Tong Ze wasn’t that easy to fool.

“But my exam paper is also possible of being distributed dozens of seconds or several minutes before you went out, so the circumstance you spoke of still will possess a time difference. Under general circumstances, after the teacher marks the papers, for the sake of facilitating the school ranking, normally they arrange the papers according to the high and low scores, and furthermore the two of us are both perfect scores, so if no accident escapes, the papers of the two of us are adjacent, and the seats are also adjacent. The subject representative distributing the papers ten to one will consecutively distribute the papers of the two of us.” Tong Ze gave a rare occurrence of his words being this many, “Therefore, under the circumstance that your paper was originally right on your desk, wanting to fail to see it is difficult instead, so at this time picking up my paper from the ground again, wanting to mistakenly recognize it as your own? Not too possible, right!”

Xie Yi gazed at Tong Ze, who was expressionless yet extremely certain, losing his thought for a temporary time, and not until he finished speaking did he return to his senses.

“You also said it, if no accident escapes the papers of the two of us are adjacent, what if they didn’t happen to be adjacent? What if the subject representative let someone else help distribute? These are not without possibility.” Xie Yi continued to enforce twisted reasoning.

“Not that many what-ifs.” Tong Ze stared into Xie Yi’s eyes, “Xie Yi, do you dare or not dare to go look for the subject representative together with me to confront?”

Xie Yi was silent for a brief moment, letting out a scoff, before he then said: “Tong Ze, I thought you wouldn’t care about this kind of small matter. I remember you said before, disliking wasting time on inconsequential matters.”

He shifted the topic and said again: “Besides, the mathematics paper has already finished being explained, hasn’t it? The topics on top you know how to do all of them, it was nothing more than letting you and your deskmate look at the paper for one period of class, that’s all. Holding onto it right now and not letting go, it’s a bit unlike the usual you.”

“What is an inconsequential matter, I possess my own standard. But you are shifting the topic, you just said: ‘it was nothing more than letting me and my deskmate look at the paper for one period of class, that’s all,’ this is precisely your purpose, right?” Tong Ze grabbed the key point within Xie Yi’s words. He knew his own un-gregarious character had aroused his attention and curiosity.

Xie Yi looked in opposition with him, speaking no words.

Tong Ze is indeed very smart, super smart, Xie Yi thought in his mind. And furthermore his alertness level was very high. He was careless this time. Words of explanation truly were not suitable to be too many. Tsk.

Xie Yi hesitated for a brief moment, lowered his head and smiled, and afterwards lifted his eyes to look at him, saying: “Fine, I admit, I was intentional. But the exam paper indeed dropped beneath my feet, I picked it up and looked at it for one period of class, your character writing is very good-looking, my character writing is too ugly, I’m tired of looking at it.”

Tong Ze looked in opposition with him, for a good while speaking no words; he discovered the key point when Xie Yi spoke always jumped here and there, inexplicably.

“Hey, how come you don’t ask me why? Why wanting to watch you and your deskmate look at a single exam paper, um?” Xie Yi grabbed Tong Ze’s arm and asked.

“Take your hand away.” Seeing Xie Yi didn’t move, Tong Ze scraped it away with his other hand.

“Fine, fine, I take it away.” Xie Yi leaned backward, his expression slightly showing innocence, “I possessed no other meaning, just wanted to pull you, fearing you would turn your head back around. Look at you, you’ve already discovered my purpose, yet don’t ask me the reason, playing the cards too much not according to common logic, I originally completely thought up a reason to reply to you.”

Tong Ze again discovered a characteristic of Xie Yi’s, and that was that this person sometimes truly was very deserving of a thrashing. And even cocky, no matter doing what or speaking what it was one set after another, particularly deserving of a thrashing.

Tong Ze pinched his own palm.

He didn’t need to ask to be able to roughly guess it out. The reason why Xie Yi would do that, wasn’t it just being incapable of looking comfortably at him always being that solitary and that cold and detached.

He actually had always known, during the first year of high school in Class 15 he was also this way, unless other people actively looked for him, under general circumstances he wouldn’t go to actively look for other people. As time pushed on, it left people with the impression of being solitary, high-cold, and not good to contact.

He himself possessed no feelings, and other people merely occasionally discussed it a bit, which for him didn’t itch or pain, because what those people discussed was merely the surface appearance, and wouldn’t be bored to the point of going to explore his inner heart. And along with the shifting of time, everyone had already become accustomed to the classroom possessing a single existence like this, and afterwards took it as a custom as well.

But Xie Yi was different—his IQ and EQ were both high, his curiosity was further exceptionally strong, and looking at people, one look was a precise hit. Other people in his eyes were just like failing to wear clothes, he could see through a person’s inner heart. And he himself just happened to be divided into Class 9, becoming a target worth observing and researching when he was bored.

Just what on earth was he wanting to do? Was it truly merely boredom? He said he had already thought up a reason to reply to himself, could it be that aside from boredom and curiosity, he still possessed some other reason?

Tong Ze cast a glance at Xie Yi who had consistently been smiling very deservingly of a thrashing, and said: “Also fine, you speak!”

The corner of Xie Yi’s mouth split even larger by a bit.

“Me, I indeed quite wanted to know what kind of appearance it would be for you and your deskmate to look at the paper together. Don’t blame me for being curious, you guys have been deskmates for more than a week already yet haven’t even spoken a line of words, those who didn’t know would think you were cold-shouldering her! I merely used a special and possibly not too suitable method to let the two of you break the ice to speak, that’s all. Didn’t you see your deskmate was frozen by you to the point that she didn’t even dare to speak words with you? You have to know you possess an aura, the invincible aura of a high-cold top-student, intimidating your timid deskmate to always be restless, it’s merely that you didn’t discover it, that’s all.” Xie Yi used his gaze to signal Lu Qi.

“…” Tong Ze pursed his lips. This point he truly hadn’t thought of.

“And also, don’t you think about resolving everything completely by yourself. Although humans are independent individual entities, that’s right, but life and learning inevitably encounter matters one is incapable of resolving by oneself. When it’s time to look for someone to help a favor or what, actively look for someone to help you. Of course, helping favors are all mutual, everyone is relaxed, otherwise you live too tiringly by yourself. Being too strong-willed and too independent is not a good matter, that way you will get more and more tired.” Xie Yi gave a rare occurrence of earnestly gazing into Tong Ze’s eyes, “And also, I said it before, don’t think of every single person as that bad, say no bytes people are currently caring about you? For example, me.”

Tong Ze’s throat swallowed for a bit, shifting away his gaze.

He hadn’t expected Xie Yi’s reasons would be this many, and furthermore listening to them they all still were quite full of logic.

What was quite leading to his surprise was Xie Yi’s delicate mind; regarding many aspect details, he himself was also a person involved who was confused, incapable of realizing them.

“Hey, what’s wrong? Thinking about what?” Xie Yi saw him consistently losing his thoughts.

“Nothing, it’s time for class.” After speaking, Tong Ze then turned his body back around.

Xie Yi, just what kind of person is he on earth? A god-tier student, capable of taking high scores without wasting a blowing of dust. Arrogant and conceited? Seemingly again displayed not that obviously. Too one-sided.

What else? He discovered his own understanding toward Xie Yi in the past truly was few among the few. Having gotten along for more than a week only to discover, Xie Yi was far from being that simple as he looked on the surface. As soon as his eyes narrowed, it was just as if he could insightfully observe everything. And further always possessing a look of being loose and dangling yet thoroughly bored, carelessly holding and manipulating every single person and matter around his body.

And furthermore Xie Yi’s intuition ought to be exceptionally precise. Regarding this point, Tong Ze himself couldn’t clarify why he would possess this kind of feeling.

Even, Xie Yi further told him not to live too tiringly. Even his closest mother, Tong Qinyuan, hadn’t spoken this kind of words.

Tiring? Maybe!

The conversation of the two people every time was this way. No matter what Xie Yi’s purpose for initially picking up the topic was, by the end it always would return to that he was caring about himself.

How could there be this kind of strange person. Care? Really? Heh… From where came that much care without cause and without reason.

Tong Ze let out a long breath, curling the corner of his mouth un-noticeably.

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