Chapter 21: Warning – Don’t Underestimate a Man’s Jealousy

They spent a night by the hot spring pool. The next day, before returning, students and teachers gathered to enjoy delicious cuisine. At the long low table, boys and girls sat on opposite sides.

“After we return, students must work twice as hard, especially those at the bottom. If you pay a little more attention in class, you won’t drag the class down!” Teacher Song’s face was flushed, her eyes bright, with a hint of intoxication.

However, few people on the scene were listening to her, each playing their own games.

As the teacher’s speech continued, Xu Muzhou glanced at her indifferently, then turned his gaze towards Fang Chuning sitting diagonally to his left. Jiang Luoyu, facing her, was smiling and saying something to her, not hiding his affection at all.

“Look at that Jiang guy, I’ve never seen such a shameless man, almost sticking to someone’s bosom,” Qin Shaoqing’s face showed disdain, very contemptuous of such a man who didn’t know how to be reserved and threw himself at others.

Xu Muzhou shifted his gaze, looking down at the food in front of him. Besides the exquisitely presented Japanese cuisine, there was also a pudding dessert. Both its appearance and the sweet aroma of caramel could stimulate one’s appetite.

He picked up the pudding and used a small spoon to scoop out small pieces to eat.

“Muzhou, why are you only eating this? The sashimi is so fresh, try a piece.”

Xu Muzhou shook his head slightly, “I don’t have much appetite.”

“Even if you don’t have an appetite, you should eat something, otherwise you’ll be hungry later in the car.”

Qin Shaoqing felt that his friend had been a bit strange these two days, seeming a bit absent-minded, and rarely seeing him smile.

After finishing their last meal here, everyone packed their luggage and prepared to board the bus. Xu Muzhou was at the very back, his hand against the wall, head slightly lowered. At first, no one noticed anything wrong with him, until they started counting people.

“Xu, what’s wrong?” the monitor asked with concern.

The crowd about to board the bus all looked over. The young man’s frail body seemed unable to withstand a blow, his bangs covering his brows and eyes, only half of his pale face visible, his lips without a hint of color.

Noticing something was wrong, Fang Chuning quickly went over to search for medicine on him, “Where’s your medicine?”

Xu Muzhou weakly raised his eyes, his voice faint: “In… in the bag…”

Fang Chuning searched his backpack, but couldn’t find it even after checking every hidden pocket. Seeing the young man breathing more out than in, she became a bit flustered, “Where’s Teacher Song?”

The onlookers were at a loss, trying not to get too close to give him enough space to breathe fresh air. Hearing this, a female student stepped forward, “Teacher Song went to the bathroom.”

“Go find her, Teacher Song has spare medicine!”

“Oh, okay!” The girl nodded repeatedly and hurried out.

Jiang Luoyu stood among the crowd, looking at the dying person in the girl’s arms, with a bad feeling in his heart.

Fortunately, the teacher arrived in time with the medicine, avoiding any incident. The return journey could only be delayed. Everyone didn’t mind, more concerned about the young man’s condition.

The frequent attacks seemed a bit suspicious.

Finally, after the doctor’s diagnosis, Xu Muzhou’s attack this time was attributed to allergy-induced asthma, more severe than last time.

“Allergy?” Qin Shaoqing looked at Xu Muzhou, who had slowly recovered but was still weak, “He didn’t seem to eat much at the table.” After a pause, he added: “Just ate some pudding.”

Her student having such a big incident made Teacher Song feel bad. She sat by the bed, habitually placing the back of her hand on the young man’s forehead, “Feeling any better?”

Xu Muzhou weakly smiled and nodded, “I’m sorry to worry you, teacher. I’m fine.”

Teacher Song felt even more distressed. This child had always been the most obedient and least troublesome in the class, yet such a good child had so many ailments.

Xu Muzhou docilely listened to the teacher’s concerned instructions, his gaze occasionally drifting towards Fang Chuning standing by the bed. He lightly bit his lip, his beautiful brows and eyes filled with apology, “I’m sorry, I’ve delayed everyone’s return to school.”

Qin Shaoqing comforted him: “You don’t need to feel guilty, they don’t have to go back to school and can play here for a few more days, who knows how happy they are!”

Teacher Song frowned, “Is that what Qin thinks?”

Qin Shaoqing, who had accidentally spoken his mind, secretly made a face.

Xu Muzhou lowered his eyes, unconsciously gripping the blanket. After a while, he heard the girl’s slightly deep voice from above: “I’ve reminded you many times to bring your medicine, do you not care about your own health?”

The heartbeat in his chest gradually accelerated as the girl spoke. Xu Muzhou’s eyelashes trembled slightly, “I did bring it, it was in the bag.”

“It wasn’t in the bag.”

The girl’s voice suddenly raised, startling the young man. His eyes welled up with tears, but he still insisted, “The medicine was in the first hidden compartment, I don’t know why it’s not there now…”

Qin Shaoqing also chimed in: “I can testify! I helped him pack the medicine, and it wasn’t taken out in between, how could it disappear!”

But the fact was, there really was no medicine in the bag.

Fang Chuning and Teacher Song exchanged a glance, feeling that this matter seemed a bit unusual. She asked again: “Who entered your room when you came back to rest yesterday?”

The young man’s expression was natural, “Just Qin and Teacher Song.”

Hearing this, Qin Shaoqing was a bit surprised, looked at him and opened his mouth, but finally didn’t say anything.

Fang Chuning chose to check the surveillance footage, and finally discovered that besides the two of them, Jiang Luoyu had also entered his room, and from the footage, Jiang Luoyu had hesitated at the door for quite a while before pushing it open.

Fang Chuning found it a bit hard to believe, she didn’t think Jiang Luoyu would do such a thing, but when the asthma medicine and half a bottle of mango juice were found in Jiang Luoyu’s bag, she was a bit speechless.

She vaguely remembered that Xu Muzhou was allergic to mangoes. Add to that the missing medicine and the pudding he ate before the attack, the whole incident seemed to naturally connect together.

Others didn’t know about the mango juice, but seeing the medicine found in his bag, Teacher Song frowned deeply, “Jiang, how do you explain this?”

Jiang Luoyu shook his head in disbelief: “I didn’t! I didn’t take his medicine!”

“Then why is the medicine in your bag?”

Jiang Luoyu didn’t know how to explain, his helpless gaze turned to the young girl, “I really didn’t…”

“Xu called me over yesterday, after talking I left immediately, I didn’t take anything!”

The young man tilted his head, looking confused, “But I went back to the room and slept early yesterday.”

Jiang Luoyu gritted his teeth, not expecting him to deny it.

There weren’t many people in the room, besides the teacher, there was Fang Chuning, Xu Muzhou, and Qin Shaoqing who hadn’t said a word from beginning to end. Usually, Qin Shaoqing, who was so protective of Xu Muzhou, would definitely jump out and loudly accuse at this time, but he hadn’t made a sound, his eyes even seemed a bit dazed.

Fang Chuning’s gaze swept across their faces, her brows slightly furrowed without saying anything.

Teacher Song, “Jiang…”

“Teacher Song”

Her words were interrupted as soon as she started speaking.

The young man on the bed, his face fair and flawless, showed a hint of pity. The sun crawling in from the window greedily kissed his soft, sickly face, “Perhaps this matter should be handled more carefully, after all, we can’t wrongly accuse someone of such a thing, and, if Jiang really took the medicine, he wouldn’t have put it in his own bag exposing himself.”

Jiang Luoyu knew this was a warning, desperately wanting to tell everyone the true face of this seemingly gentle and kind young man, but he knew that not only would no one believe these words, it might even implicate his own family.

He suddenly realized, there was no so-called fair competition, as long as Xu Muzhou wanted, he could make him fall into hell.

Such a matter was indeed serious and couldn’t casually wrong someone. Before figuring it out clearly, they couldn’t talk about this matter, otherwise Jiang Luoyu might not be able to stay at Xinxing anymore.

Because of Xu Muzhou’s physical condition, they had to stay here for one more day. During this time, Fang Chuning talked to Jiang Luoyu alone, but he just wouldn’t say anything. Even checking the surveillance footage outside his room revealed nothing.

She mentioned this matter to Gao Qiong, but Gao Qiong had another guess, “It’s also possible that someone particularly hates both of them, and took the opportunity to frame and take revenge on both at once.”

Fang Chuning, “Who would be so vicious.”

Gao Qiong crossed her legs, saying carelessly: “It’s hard to say, never underestimate a man’s jealousy, it can destroy heaven and earth.”

Fang Chuning: ……

…

A day later, they finally successfully boarded the bus back to Z city. Fang Chuning, who originally planned to return to the Liang family as usual, was blocked by a familiar luxury car. The rear seat window slowly rolled down, Hong, dressed formally, with solemn brows and eyes: “Let’s go back together.”

“Back to the Liang family?”

The woman frowned, “Back to the Fang family.”

“…Oh.”

Only after returning to the Fang family did she realize that the couple had reconciled, although she didn’t know how the reconciliation process went, but this was a cause for celebration.

At dinner time, the Fang family dining table was rarely complete. Father Fang gently inquired about her spring tour, ignoring Hong at the main seat.

When dinner was almost over, Hong suddenly asked her: “What are your plans for this year’s summer vacation?”

Fang Chuning was puzzled, “It’s still early, I haven’t thought about it, why?”

“In that case, come help at the company during the summer vacation.”

“……” Fang Chuning almost choked on her soup, her expression pained, “Why? I don’t want to go!”

Hong gave her an indifferent look.

“Mom, I’m not even an adult yet, aren’t you rushing things?” Fang Chuning was very annoyed, especially since Father Fang wasn’t speaking up for her at this moment.

“I’m just telling you, not asking for your opinion.”

“……” Fang Chuning felt that the two must have discussed something before reconciling, at least for her, this was definitely not a good thing!

…

The next day at school, there was a big change in the class seating arrangement. In the teacher’s words, because the girls sat together in class and chatted privately without paying attention to the lecture, it was decided to separate the girls, adjusting the seats to boy-girl pairs, arranged according to grades.

As soon as this was said, there were dissatisfied wails in the classroom, but this couldn’t change anything, the seats still had to be changed.

But strangely, this seat change seemed too hurried. In the past, they would tell her before changing seats, she would adjust the seating list and then change uniformly.

“Why suddenly change seats! If I can’t sit next to you, what’s the point of coming to Xinxing!” Gao Qiong, like a little man, grabbed her arm and shook it.

On the platform, the teacher began to read names and adjust positions. When Fang Chuning learned who her new deskmate was, her expression was very odd.

According to grades… could the two of them be deskmates?!