Chapter 4: He Was So Fierce!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

The gaze that Huo Hannian gave her before he left was full of hostility.

Wen Ruan stood still and puffed out her cheeks.

He was so fierce!

But slowly she recalled all the things that she had done to him after he joined Class 10, and her face became all scrunched up.

The evil we brought on ourselves was the hardest to bear!

All this was done by her.

Wen Ruan didn’t return to the classroom after the bell rang. Instead, she went to the teachers’ building.

There were five levels in that building. It would probably take her a whole afternoon to clean all the windows.

Wen Ruan started cleaning the panes from the 5th floor and accidentally ran into Huo Jingxiu on the 3rd floor. He had just come back after representing the school in the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ preliminary competition.

Huo Jingxiu had a refined look and always sported a comforting gentle smile on his handsome face.

Compared to Huo Hannian, who was full of hostility, he looked like an angel on Earth.

Wen Ruan had been fooled by precisely this fake appearance of Huo Jingxiu in her previous life.

He had pretended to have feelings for her, but the truth was that he was cruel and cold-blooded. He had only been good to her because he wanted the Wen Family’s fortune.

In the end, he collaborated with Ye Wanwan to murder her father and grandma and stole the Wen Corporation. He had caused her to lose all her family members and their hard-earned fortune!

Wen Ruan became so angry that she started trembling when she saw him.

“What are you doing here, Ruanruan?”

Wen Ruan suppressed her raging emotions and rubbed her fair wrists. In a sweet, coy voice, she said, “I have been punished by the discipline master to clean the windows. I have been trying to scrub them for over an hour and my wrists hurt already!”

“Maybe I can help you do it?” Huo Jingxiu was great at pretending to care for her.

In actuality, he knew that Wen Ruan was a dimwit who would suffer silently rather than let him suffer.

But much to his shock, Wen Ruan passed the rag to him and smiled innocently. “Alright.”

Huo Jingxiu looked at the dirty rag in his hand and frowned. With effort, he suppressed his annoyance.

Wen Ruan brought around a stool and sat down. Huo Jingxiu said gently, “Ruanruan, I have milk and banana in my bag. Feel free to take them.”

Wen Ruan nodded with a smile in reply.

When Huo Jingxiu finished cleaning a window and was about to jump down from the chair, Wen Ruan skinned a banana and threw the peel with precision.

“Oww…”

Huo Jingxiu slipped and fell badly.

Wen Ruan immediately got up and ran toward Huo Jingxiu, looking innocent and flustered. “I’m sorry. I meant to throw it into the waste bin. I didn’t expect to miss it. Are you okay?”

Huo Jingxiu felt that he had almost broken his tailbone.

But looking at Wen Ruan’s doe-like eyes, he couldn’t really scold her. Shaking his head, he gritted his teeth and said, “I’m okay.”

“That’s great. I’ll help you up!”

Wen Ruan reached out to pull Huo Jingxiu up, but before she could do so, she lost her balance and Huo Jingxiu fell back to the floor again. To make the matters worse, Wen Ruan’s elbow slammed hard into his ‘fragile’ part.

“Ah…”

Wen Ruan looked at Huo Jingxiu with an aggrieved expression. His face was twisted in acute pain and his eyes had teared up. She said with guilt and heartache in her voice, “Jingxiu, I didn’t mean to do this. I don’t know how I slipped. Are you okay? Let me help you up again…”

Huo Jingxiu didn’t dare let Wen Ruan come near him again. He was in so much pain that he wanted to strangle Wen Ruan. But he couldn’t afford to offend this useless missy, and forced himself to get up on his own.

Wen Ruan squatted on the floor and hid her face in her arms. Her thin shoulders were trembling.

Huo Jingxiu thought Wen Ruan was crying, so he reached out to pat her shoulders despite his pain and anger. “Ruanruan, I knew you didn’t mean to hurt me. I won’t blame you for it.”

“Jingxiu, I feel so bad that I injured you. Are you really okay?” Wen Ruan raised her teary eyes and looked at Huo Jingxiu.

“I am really okay.”

“That’s great. Then, please continue to help me clean the windows while I go buy your favorite lime tea drink.”

Before Huo Jingxiu could say anything, Wen Ruan left the place with a guilty expression.

However, she had only reached the corner of the corridor when she saw Huo Hannian coming up the stairs. He had both his hands stuffed in his pockets and there was a gloomy expression on his face.