Can I still be saved? [Transmigration] - Chapter 26
Su Yunjing had thought Fu Hanzhou had no friends at school. But to his surprise, two boys were sitting with him.
The tables in the east cafeteria seated four people, and there was only one seat left at their table.
Su Yunjing walked over and placed his tray down. “Can I sit here?”
The boy sitting across from Fu Hanzhou looked fierce, clearly not the studious type.
He looked up with sharp eyes, and said rudely, “Who are you?”
“I’m his classmate,” Su Yunjing said, pointing at Fu Hanzhou who was eating.
Hearing this, Fu Hanzhou lifted his eyelids slightly and glanced at Su Yunjing.
He said nothing and continued eating.
Tang Wei wasn’t sure what Fu Hanzhou meant. He looked Su Yunjing up and down.
In the end, he moved his drink aside to make room.
Su Yunjing thanked him and sat down.
Tang Wei poked at the sweet and sour pork on his tray and asked, squinting, “How come I haven’t seen you in Class 5?”
Su Yunjing: “I just transferred to Nanzhong today.”
So that means he’s not close to Brother Fu?
Tang Wei nodded in understanding and raised his brow with the arrogance of a school thug. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Su Yunjing place a piece of sweet and sour fish into Fu Hanzhou’s tray.
Tang Wei: “…”
Lin Lie: “…”
In Su Yunjing’s memory, Fu Hanzhou liked fish.
He didn’t know why the little tsundere didn’t get any today, but he still habitually put fish in his tray when he saw it.
Worried it might seem too abrupt, Su Yunjing also gave a piece each to Tang Wei and Lin Lie, making sure everyone got a share.
Su Yunjing explained, “This fish is pretty good. Try it.”
Fu Hanzhou’s lips flattened, and for a moment, his expression turned gloomy. He picked up that piece of fish and threw it back into Su Yunjing’s tray.
The chef in the East Canteen was very skilled. The sauce for the sweet and sour fish was very thick, and Fu Hanzhou’s rice was soaked in the sauce.
He pushed the rice aside and got up, carrying his tray away.
Su Yunjing: “…”
So, we are back to square one.
The little cool cub was still the same, always ready to claw at “strangers” who were trying to be kind.
Before Su Yunjing arrived, they were nearly done eating.
Now that Fu Hanzhou had left, Tang Wei lost all restraint and said to Lie Lie.
“You know who he is? Clinging to his leg like that? You think our Brother Fu’s thigh is so good…”
Before he finished, Su Yunjing interrupted, “We’re neighbors.”
“Huh?” Tang Wei deflated immediately.
“My relatives are close with Fu Hanzhou’s dad. We ride to and from school in the same car.”
Other students were bound to notice, so there was no point hiding it.
Tang Wei was stunned.
He had never even ridden in Brother Fu’s car.
He didn’t even know where Brother Fu lived!!!
Lin Lie, a bit more composed, asked, “So you and Brother Fu knew each other for a long time?”
Su Yunjing didn’t want to answer that directly. “Our families are close.”
“Are you kidding?” Tang Wei glared. “From how Brother Fu acted, it’s like you two are enemies, not friends!”
Su Yunjing half-joked, “Well, how should I put it? A few days ago, I made him angry because of something.”
Thanks to Su Yunjing’s misleading words, Tang Wei and Lin Lie thought he used to get along with Fu Hanzhou, but they’d recently had a falling out.
Su Yunjing tried to learn more about Fu Hanzhou’s social life. “Are you two his friends?”
“Of course!” Tang Wei raised his eyebrows proudly. “What we have with Brother Fu is a brotherhood between men, you get it?”
Su Yunjing: I didn’t get it.
Among guys, a ‘brotherhood’ usually meant sharing classrooms and fighting battles together.
Tang Wei meant they’d literally fought together.
Su Yunjing’s heart sank a little. “I heard Fu Hanzhou broke someone’s leg. Is that true?”
“More than a broken leg!” Tang Wei said with pride.
It was their moment of glory, and it was worth bragging about for half a life.
Tang Wei enthusiastically launched into the story, describing the whole fight as full of twists and turns, packed with drama and excitement.
Luckily, Su Yunjing had a good filter. He cut off the exaggerated boasting and pieced together the real story.
It started when the school beauty with a few girls went to an internet cafe to play ‘Audition’, only to run into some local thugs.
At that time, Tang Wei was also playing World of Warcraft in the Internet cafe.
Seeing the girl he liked getting harassed, he rallied some students to scare the guys off with numbers.
But a few days later, the gang came back with reinforcements and cornered Tang Wei and Lin Lie.
The two of them saw that the situation was not good, so they didn’t force it and ran away directly, but they were eventually blocked in an alley outside the school.
From beginning to end, nothing had anything to do with Fu Hanzhou.
It just happened that he was smoking in the same alley.
When Tang Wei mentioned smoking, Su Yunjing twitched. The little cool cub learned to smoke now?
Tang Wei: “You didn’t see how awesome Brother Fu was at that time. That punk told Brother Fu to scram. But Brother Fu didn’t even flinch and kept playing on his phone.”
At that time, Tang Wei didn’t know Fu Hanzhou well. He’d only heard rumors.
With long hair, his face is more beautiful than the school beauty Qin Zhenzhen.
It is said that his family is very rich, and his dad casually donated an entire lab building to the school.
That’s why Tang Wei couldn’t figure it out. Why would such a top-tier rich kid be using one of the oldest models of Nokia?
The thing was so outdated it didn’t even have a camera, not to mention games like Tetris. Even scrap collectors would probably turn their noses up at it.
The gang didn’t like being ignored, so they smashed Fu Hanzhou’s phone.
Tang Wei still got chills remembering what happened next, and was very glad he’d never messed with Fu Hanzhou before.
The moment that Nokia hit the ground and shattered, Fu Hanzhou turned into something like a demon from hell.
His high, arched brows cast a heavy shadow over his face, which filled with a cruel, violent glare.
Fu Hanzhou picked up a stick expressionlessly, and started hitting the guy who broke his phone again and again.
He was so ruthless that no one else dared move.
In the end, Shen Nianyun paid money to settle the matter privately
But not long after, the country launched a major crackdown on gangs and crime, and that group of thugs were sent to prison.
The most notorious one among them was said to have been sentenced to more than ten years.
The ordinary gang members, with all their charges combined, got at least over two years each.
Su Yunjing: …All this, just because of a cell phone? A bloodbath over a phone.
That Nokia must’ve been the one he gave Fu Hanzhou.
Ten years have passed, and the phone can still be used. He had to say that Nokia was really durable.
He’d died of illness in his last identity, and the little cool cub had been so attached to him, that reaction made sense.
Su Yunjing couldn’t help but sigh.
…
In the afternoon, Fu Hanzhou didn’t sleep. He played Tetris on an old handheld.
It was a very old handheld game console, and its appearance was a bit like the beeping machine in the 1980s.
It had a black shell, two large and small buttons on the right, and four round buttons below.
Su Yunjing remembered teaching him games like Tetris and Snake on Song Wenqian’s phone back then to help with cognitive development.
After playing half a class, maybe from eye strain, Fu Hanzhou put the handheld away into the table, put a white earbuds, and stared out the window.
The teacher in class seemed to be used to it and didn’t pay any attention to Fu Hanzhou.
Watching him with drooped eyelids, so detached, Su Yunjing frowned slightly.
He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that little cool cub had sunk into a state of apathy, like someone just coasting through life.
And considering how Fu Hanzhou treated him now, Su Yunjing felt a headache coming on.
Sigh.
Now the most urgent thing is to mend his relationship with the little cool cub.
…
Last class was P.E.
The P.E teacher started with 1000-meter interval runs, then gave them free time.
Just after running a lap, Su Yunjing was sweating all over. Even Fu Hanzhou had a thin layer of sweat on his temples.
Su Yunjing wiped the sweat off his face and went to the canteen to buy two bottles of water.
When he came back after buying the water , Fu Hanzhou was gone.
The school’s sports field was huge. Just the basketball courts alone had six areas alone, separated by green fencing.
There were five games going on. Besides Class 5, there was also a Grade 12 class.
There were five groups of students playing basketball on the basketball court. In addition to Class 5, there was also a class of senior 3.
When a senior student was grabbing a rebound, he hit the basketball over the fence with too much force.
The ball bounced heavily on the ground, and then rolled more than two meters away.
Finally, it stopped at the feet of a teenager.
The teenager had phoenix eyes and thin lips.
His long hair was like ink and his skin was white.
He wore white earphones in his ears, and his eyes were cold and indifferent, like he was separated from the noisy playground.
“Hey classmate, can you pass the ball?” someone shouted from the playground.
Fu Hanzhou seemed not to hear it, and didn’t look at the ball. He walked away without looking sideways.
The Grade 12 student frowned, about to say something when a slim figure jogged over.
Su Yunjing picked up the ball and tossed it back.
The senior student caught the ball steadily and said , “Thanks, brother.”
Su Yunjing waved and quickly caught up with Fu Hanzhou, who was walking ahead.
He quietly followed Fu Hanzhou and placed the cold bottle against the back of Fu Hanzhou’s neck.
The bottle was slightly chilled and damp from condensation.
Fu Hanzhou’s fingers twitched, then he slapped it away, visibly annoyed.
Seeing that little cool cub was upset, Su Yunjing laughed. “Angry? I was just kidding.”
Fu Hanzhou ignored him and kept walking toward the classroom.
Su Yunjing didn’t give up and followed behind.
“I was wrong about the cafeteria. I just want us to get along. After all, we’re… well, you know. Since things are like this, we might as well be brothers.”
He quickened his pace, turning to face Fu Hanzhou. “What do you think?”
For a moment, Fu Hanzhou’s dark eyes seemed to look deep… or maybe not.
In the end, he simply said, “Oh.”
Su Yunjing was stunned. He hadn’t expected the little cool cub to agree so easily.
While he stood there frozen, Fu Hanzhou walked past him with long stride.
Su Yunjing looked at his tall and slender back, feeling complicated for a moment.
That’s it?
Something didn’t feel right.