Chapter 5 Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai
In the early morning of Shanghai, the sky was slightly bright, and the bustling city had already awakened. The streets and alleys were filled with the aroma of breakfast, and the air was mixed with a little damp chill. In an ordinary residential building in Xuhui District, the alarm clock rang on time, and the harsh ringing echoed in the small room.
"Ah..." Chen Li opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling sleepily. Today is another new day, and she sighed silently in her heart.
She has gotten used to it. Every day will not go smoothly. Even the simplest things will always have various problems.
The first thing she did when she got up was to step on a piece of soap that had fallen to the ground at some point. She slipped and fell to the floor.
"Hiss--" She took a breath of cold air, and her forehead hit the corner of the bed heavily. She reached out and touched it, and it hurt.
"Lili, what's wrong with you?" Mom heard the noise in the kitchen and hurriedly stuck her head out.
"It's okay... I just..." Chen Li sat up helplessly. Before she could stand still, the closet door beside her suddenly opened by itself, and a pile of clothes fell on her head, burying her completely.
Looking at this scene, her mother couldn't help but frown, but sighed helplessly. Her daughter was always so unlucky.
"Hurry up and wash up and eat, don't be late." She reminded, and turned to the kitchen to busy herself.
Chen Li struggled out of the pile of clothes, sighed, picked up a school uniform and put it on, and then went to the bathroom to wash up. In the mirror, her face was delicate and beautiful, and her long black and smooth hair fell on her shoulders. Although she had just experienced a "morning disaster", it still couldn't hide her beauty.
If only there were no such bad luck... she thought to herself.
After breakfast, Chen Li put on her schoolbag and prepared to go to school. Just as she reached the door, her shoelaces suddenly broke. She barely managed to hop to the elevator, but the elevator was broken, so she had to go down the stairs. When she finally set foot on the road to school, she was already somewhat doubtful about her life.
Shanghai No. 12 Middle School, Junior 3 (2) Class.
The moment Chen Li pushed open the classroom door, the sound in the classroom seemed to be paused, and all the classmates' eyes fell on her.
Then, many people subconsciously shrank back, and some even quietly moved their chairs away, as if she was a disaster.
"The jinx is coming..." someone whispered.
Chen Li had long been accustomed to such scenes, and she didn't even frown. She walked to her seat quietly and sat down.
Her seat was a table in the corner of the class, and there were almost no people around. The students who originally sat near her either asked the teacher to change their seats or preferred to stand to listen to the class rather than get close to her.
How did she get this bad reputation?
Speaking of which, it all started when she was a child.
She was a genius girl. She was in the first grade of junior high school at the age of six, and she was good at math and physics. However, one day she was frightened too much. Since then, her intelligence seemed to be drained away, her grades plummeted, and she even made mistakes in the most basic arithmetic.
What's more terrible is that her luck seemed to have completely collapsed with that fright, and she seemed to be haunted by bad luck.
On the way to school, she could step into the gap of the sewer cover and get her shoes stuck; when she went to the cafeteria to buy food, the people in front of her could buy hot dishes, but when it was her turn, the food was just sold out; when she sat in the classroom, her desk drawer would always fall off for no reason, and even the chalk heads would fall accurately into her schoolbag...
More importantly, the people around her would always encounter inexplicable bad luck.
For example, some time ago, a naughty boy in the class insisted on talking to her. As a result, just after he said a few words to her, the leg of his chair suddenly broke and he fell to the ground. Another time, a female classmate accidentally touched her and was hit in the face by the blackboard eraser.
As time went on, everyone began to avoid her, and even gave her a nickname behind her back - "jinx".
The class that day was still boring. After finally getting through the get out of class, she sighed and lay on the table with her eyes closed.
However, bad luck still came to her.
Her deskmate, the only girl in the class who dared to sit next to her - Zhou Min, suddenly screamed and fell to the ground with her chair.
"What happened?" someone asked in surprise.
Zhou Min got up and looked at Chen Li with a pale face, her lips trembling: "No, nothing... I just suddenly felt the chair slipped..." Chen Li's mouth twitched, and she felt helpless.
She really did nothing!
She was used to this situation and was too lazy to explain. She continued to lie on the table in a daze.
At this time, there was a commotion outside the window.
She turned her head and found a group of students gathered at the school gate. It seemed that something was happening.
She got up and walked to the window. She saw several bad boys surrounding a thin boy, as if they were bullying and extorting him.
She frowned.
Although she was extremely unlucky, she was still a kind person and could not stand such bullying.
So she decided to go down and take a look.
When she walked in front of the group of people, everyone stopped and looked at her in confusion.
"What are you doing?" Chen Li asked seriously.
The bad boys were stunned for a moment, and then someone recognized her, and their faces instantly became terrified.
"It's... it's a jinx!"
The next second, the blackmailing student ran away, and even the bullied boy ran away in fear.
Chen Li stood there, looking confused. Is she...doing something good?