After braving the cold night Su Qingtang had to wake up early for school the next day. It really annoyed her to no ends. She seemed to have woken up on the wrong side of bed that day.
She grumbled under her breath as she got ready and pulled on a sweater and a bag. She pushed open her door only to come face to face with someone unexpected. She blinks in confusion.
"Big Sis." He greeted warmly a stark contast to the wind that hits her face from outside. Su Rui had tamed his hair a bit making him look handsome, mature and fresh, but his cheeks were a bit pale, most likely he had been standing outside for quite a while. Su Qingtang felt a bit uncomfortable when she thought that far.
Su Qingtang frowned at him and reached out to mess up his hair. She didn't really like the way he looked when he pretended to be mature. With his hair messed up a bit, he seemed to show more youthful charm. "Silly! Why are you out here, ah? Aren't you cold? I feel cold just seeing you here. Why didn't you ring the bell?"
She runs inside and gets a jacket for him. It was a grey sweater, a tad large for Su Qingtang so she stashed somewhere as she hadn't had time to get rid of it or something. Now it seemed to have found a use. "This is the only one I have that can probably fit you. Why did you even leave home without a sweater…"
Su Rui looked at Su Qingtang who was busy bustling around him with a warm smile in his eyes. It seemed that the time he had spent in the cold wondering whether to ring the bell was worth it somehow. To get her concern was worth it. It seemed he was wrong. His sister didn't hate him after all. He sighed. Wishing he hadn't left for boarding school or had come back earlier, then he could have spent more time with her mor maybe-
"Silly! Why are you standing around for let's go. You cant be late for your first day, can you?" His sister's voice snaps him out of his thoughts, he quickly catches up. His first day seemed to get off with a good start.
The siblings started walking towards their school Su Qingtang leading and Su Rui following closely behind her. Su Rui didn't ask why his sister decided to walk, he simply went along with her pace. He seemed to do this with a lot of things. Not that he'd care enough to notice. Even if he did he's probably say it was just right to follow in his sister's footstep. His elder sister was always right!
Su Qingtang took in her childish brother's actions in silence. A tiny smile blooms at the corner of her lips before she seems to sense something and looks up abruptly. Noticing this Su Rui looked at her questioningly.
A hint of coldness flashes in Su Qingtang's eyes but she masks it with a smile. "I thought I saw someone I know. It seems I was mistaken. Haha!"
Su Rui doubted that what she said was true, but he didn't contradict her. Since she didn't want to say he would never force her.
The two quickly hurried to school.
Su Qingtang watches Su Rui entering the office the coldness in her eyes intensifying.
"System."
"Yes, host?"
"Where is Rong Li?"
"He's at the basketball court."
In this weather?
Su Qingtang quickly made a turn and headed towards the court jogging to warm herself up. This body had zero tolerance towards the cold. It made her wonder how she even managed to survive this long.
She quickly spotted Rong Li's lonely figure sitting in the stands. He seemed to be waiting for someone.
"Rong Li."
He looks up. Noticing that it is just Su Qingtang he smiles his usual foxy smile. His eyes shining with mischief, really provoking to the already irked Su Qingtang. Having to deal with the cold and now him. Life surely wanted her to curse didn't it?
"Why the formalities? I thought we had already had a pretty nice relationship. Surely you don't take me for a mere acquaintance or a passerbye." His smile grew as he spoke. He seemed to be trying to get a reaction out of her. Noticing this Su Qingtang calms herself down.
"Don't involve my bother in your schemes." She directly said before turning to walk away. Why waste words on such a blockhead?
Rong Li startles for a while before his smile grows bright on his face. "Haha. I should have never underestimated your power of observation. You caught me!" He raised his hands in mock surrender.
Ever since their last encounter Su Qingtang had noticed that his team of people who were following her had withdrawn. All of a sudden, the day when Su Rui had come to her house they had reappeared. Even a dummy could figure out what was going on.
Even with this knowledge Su Qingtang did not think of attacking Rong Li, after all, she had the mental capacity of a much older person, it would be like retaliating against a baby in a cradle. He had not crossed her bottomline and hadn't done anything exept monitoring her, she would not be petty with him. However, what she would not stand for is him targeting people in her life to be a part of his game.
Yes, game. People like Rong Li treated every thing like some sort of game.
Su Qingtang returned to her classroom, only to bump into the last person she'd like to see. Song Meishi. She wanted to curse at her bad luck. She simply did not have the mental capacity to deal with Song Meishi, her childishness and her white lotus antics. All she wanted was to go to class.
"Tang Tang~ Are you upset with me?" She whined before reaching for Su Qingtang's arm which Su Qingtang easily avoided. "You seem to be avoiding me."
Su Qingtang felt a headache blooming with Song Meishi's annoying high pitched whining.
"Not now." Su Qingtang rubbed between her eyebrows, frowning heavily. Damn, can't I catch a break?
Song Meishi's eyes seemed to redden. "I don't-"
Su Qingtang couldn't take her fakeness. She gave up trying to handle Song Meishi. "Move."
The firmness in Su Qingtang's voice startles Song Meishi. She quickly scoots out of the way submissively.
Su Qingtang passes by her, not even sparing and extra glace or word at Song Meishi as she enters the classroom.
Song Meishi's face goes black.
Just you wait Su Qingtang. You'll pay for disregarding me.