By that time, he had already learned the ways of early romance and strutted around the school every day with a girl on his arm, and after school, he'd hang out at bars with a pack of rowdy friends, paying no further attention to her.
Until the spring of his ninth-grade graduation, he went to a bar with Ji Liunian, Xia Fanhua, and their gang. As soon as they entered, they saw a girl being harassed. Such things were not unusual in bars, but if you happened to come across it, you'd still watch the drama unfold for a while.
The girl was quite pretty, wearing a short dress and hanging her head low, letting people take liberties with her without daring to resist, clearly at a loss.
After looking twice, he felt particularly disinterested and was about to leave with Ji Liunian and Xia Fanhua, when suddenly, a glass came flying from the side and smashed onto the head of the man who was harassing the girl with a loud "bang."
