A Young Woman's Heart

"I have to go."

"What's it to you? Why do you care so much?" He was a little unhappy, thinking that it was effeminate for a man to go to the infirmary for such a minor injury.

"It can cause infection and inflammation."

"Why are you so concerned about me? You haven't fallen in love with me, have you?" Liu Xiaowei was unusually confident today, and even had the mood to tease Li Wanyan.

If this were a scene from a cheap novel, Li Wanyan might blush and express her secret crush on him, the 'protagonist'.

However, this is the reality. As the class monitor, Li Wanyan could not possibly fall in love with him; she was only concerned about her classmates out of a sense of responsibility.

Li Wanyan stared at him coldly, then turned and left the classroom.

"Ha, why are you putting on that poker face? Seriously." He waved his hand. "A little injury and you have to go to the infirmary? No man would go there, okay?"

Liu Xiaowei felt that he was quite manly at that moment, just as handsome as a tough guy protagonist in a movie.

However, before he could immerse himself in this feeling for long, he heard his homeroom teacher's voice.

"Liu Xiaowei, what happened? Did a dog bite your hand?"

"I told you it was a small matter, why did you have to go to the teacher? Seriously, is it really necessary?" Liu Xiaowei said exaggeratedly, "It's just a tiny opening!"

"Go to the infirmary to get checked out. What if that dog has rabies? You might have to get a rabies vaccine, or at the very least, a tetanus shot."

"No way—it's nothing." Liu Xiaowei definitely wouldn't get a rabies vaccine because he'd heard it was very expensive, and his family certainly couldn't afford it.

As for tetanus, that's even less of a concern. He's had countless wounds since he was a child, and he's never needed a tetanus shot.

"Go ahead." Ye Wen smiled. "Alright, you don't have to act like a tough guy. At least disinfect and bandage it, right?"

"Tsk, alright." After all, the other party was his homeroom teacher, so no matter how much Liu Xiaowei tried to be strong, he could only go along with her wishes. However, he still put on a very reluctant expression.

This was his first time visiting the infirmary.

The infirmary teacher was a petite and gentle woman—or rather, a young woman, since she didn't look much older than the students.

In his entire life, not even his mother had ever been so gentle with him.

Liu Xiaowei was somewhat flattered by this.

"How are you feeling? Does it hurt? Did the dog run away, or did it keep chasing you?"

"They ran away..."

"It shouldn't be rabies, but it's best to get a shot. Let me give you a tetanus shot first." Ms. Su from the medical office gently patted the back of his hand, then carefully and gently inserted the needle. "Does it hurt?"

"Of course it doesn't hurt!"

"Whoosh—" Teacher Su blew a breath onto the back of his hand, looked up and smiled, "Okay, here's a band-aid for you. If anything seems wrong, you must go to the hospital, such as if you have a stomachache, dizziness, or feel nauseous after drinking water."

"Oh, okay..." Liu Xiaowei has always been someone who responds better to gentle persuasion than force. Under the teacher's soft words, he felt a little lost.

After finishing his business, not long after, he went to the ping-pong area on the playground, where some early-arriving students were already playing.

Cha Li walked around with her ping-pong paddle, seemingly unable to find anyone to play with.

Clearly, she came alone.

"Oh my, Chali, you can play ping pong too?"

"I know a lot more~!" Cha Li said, half-jokingly and half-seriously. "There aren't any extra people, do you want to play?"

"Hey, you only chose me because you had no other choice, huh?"

"Not bad, at least I'll still choose you." Cha Li was already used to his sarcastic way of speaking. "But if you were the only man left in the world, I definitely wouldn't choose you."

She was just as sarcastic and unsettling as anyone else.

"You think you can beat me?" Liu Xiaowei waved his racket. "Come on, let's see how I crush you!"

"Showing off." She glanced at him sideways, stood on the ping-pong table, and then served a ball over to him.

Liu Xiaowei is not tall, but that gives him an advantage in playing table tennis because it makes him more agile.

And his table tennis skills are indeed quite good.

"Hey, you're not bad, are you?" Liu Xiaowei, having missed the ball, praised him sarcastically to cover up his embarrassment.

"I can still beat you up, no problem." Cha Li blinked. "Hurry up, continue."

"Come on, I'm getting serious now!"

Liu Xiaowei has never given in to girls.

That was indeed a warm-up. As his touch improved, Cha Li on the other side found it increasingly difficult to receive his ball. For more than ten minutes, she didn't win a single point.

"Hahaha! You want to beat me? Wait another hundred years!" he laughed triumphantly. "On the ping-pong table, I'm practically unbeatable!"

"Tsk tsk." Cha Li wasn't angry at all. "You've got some skills."

"It's not as simple as just a few moves, hey."

"Alright, alright, time to go back to the classroom—" She stretched and picked up the ping-pong ball from the floor. "Aren't you going back?"

"...It seems like no one's here anymore." He looked around and saw that the number of people playing ball had decreased from four tables to three.

There were still about twenty minutes until eight o'clock, but everyone was used to going back to the classroom early, since they needed to sit down and rest.

—There are morning runs in winter.

"Liu Xiaowei, were you bitten by a dog this morning?"

"You know again?"

"I heard it from Xiaxia." Cha Li glanced at him sideways and teased, "Why did you get into a fight with a dog?"

"Oh, if a dog bites me, shouldn't I fight back?"

"That person definitely can't stoop to the level of a dog."

"Hey, so I can't even hit it?" he retorted. "Then I'll bite you, and you can just ignore me, okay?"

"Hahaha, no way, Liu Xiaowei, why are you treating yourself like a dog?" Cha Li laughed heartily. "Did you get bitten by a dog and go crazy?"

“Anyway, you guys usually call me ‘little dog,’ so it’s fine to be a dog. That way, next time someone calls me shameless, I can just say, ‘Anyway, I’m a dog.’”

Cha Li's laughter subsided, and then she gave a thumbs up with great appreciation: "What you said has a bit of the King of Chu's feel to it."

The King of Chu once said: "I am a barbarian."

This is similar in meaning to what Liu Xiaowei said.

"Definitely. Someone like me, in the past, would have been a ruthless and powerful figure!"

"You even know how to pronounce the character '枭' in '枭雄' (a powerful and ruthless figure).

"Do you think I'm an idiot?"

"No, I just thought—oh, you already admitted it, lol."

"Ah, Principal!" Liu Xiaowei suddenly shouted behind Cha Li. The latter quickly turned around to look behind him, only to find his hair instantly ruffled and messed up. Then, like a toad that had succeeded in its scheme, he ran away with a sly laugh, "Hahaha, ribbit ribbit—"

"You bastard Liu Xiaowei!" Cha Li laughed in anger. "Just you wait, I'll beat you up right now!"

"Ha ha--"

His laughter echoed through the campus. Perhaps at that moment, he felt like a chivalrous hero from a Jin Yong novel, roaming the world freely and unrestrainedly.

Mo Xueyao was peering out of the band room window and couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Why is that idiot Liu Xiaowei yelling so loudly?"

"Little Yao Yao! Look, I put the flowers in the vase!" Hua Yinyin was so happy that her little face almost scrunched up, making one wonder if she would develop serious laugh lines in the future...

"Hmm...it's quite pretty."

"Right, right! Just put it on the table..."

"Hurry up, we have to go to the classroom for morning practice!" Mo Zhuyou shouted from the door of the band room.

"Coming, coming—" The girls skipped and hopped like happy rabbits as they ran out of the classroom.

Another ordinary day on campus has begun.

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Chapter 201 You're in Charge of Both the Protagonist and the Script

As the class's entertainment committee member, I'm always busier than the class monitor at the end of the year.

Because not only do we have to draw the blackboard newspaper well, but we also have to come up with the program for the New Year's Day cultural performance, and there are many things that need to be planned in the process of coming up with the program.

The three stories were submitted to the homeroom teacher, Ye Wen.

Actually, it's fine for her to make the selection directly, as long as it doesn't violate any rules.

However, since the friends around me were arguing about it, I simply wrote a simple story outline for each of the three proposals, and then the homeroom teacher made the choice.

"Um...hey." She nudged Qiu Yi, who was dozing off at the desk next to her. "Which story do you think is better?"

"What story?" He rubbed his hair in a daze. There weren't many art classes this semester, and he had very little to do. He was probably the most relaxed teacher in the whole school. So he spent his days leisurely playing with the cat and taking a nap. Although his salary was a little less than other teachers, he had the advantage of being relaxed and happy.

"Here, these are the three stories that Mo Xueyao gave me."

"Hmm... let me see..."

The story outline wasn't long, but Qiu Yi read it repeatedly for a full ten minutes: "Uh, I like this."

"This one?" Ye Wen looked at the story outline again.

This is a story written by Hua Yinyin, a story with a strong fantasy element.

The story is about a girl who wakes up to find that the people around her can't see her at all—no matter what she does.

Later, she discovered that those people seemed to be projections from another world, because she couldn't touch them or cause them any trouble.

She lives in a world where she is all alone.

You can't affect anything in that world; you can only destroy things in your own.

Finally, unable to bear this intangible loneliness any longer, she chose to commit suicide by poisoning herself.

"Yes, isn't this a good thing?"

"But... the ending isn't good, will it pass censorship?"