Chapter 117 Conflict
"Hey, do you think my earrings look good?"

Zhu Zhixue then walked happily to Li Zhuangsheng, lifted one side of her hair, revealing a pink flower-shaped earring.

"It looks good..." Li Zhuangsheng nodded instinctively in agreement. After realizing what was happening, his expression changed slightly. "Why did you get your earrings pierced?"

"I think it looks good." Zhu Zhixue blinked, a little surprised, "Is it not good-looking?"

"I don't think it looks good." Li Zhuangsheng took a deep breath and said in a slightly louder voice, "You look really ugly with earrings on!"

In an instant, Zhu Zhixue's face turned red, and the joy of sharing in her eyes disappeared, leaving only astonishment and uneasiness.

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's obviously very beautiful!" A good friend of Zhu Zhixue came over to speak up for her.

"Are you sick? What does it have to do with you whether it looks good or not?" another friend said angrily.

Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes and said heavily, "She asked me, so I told her the truth. I don't think it looks good. It's very ugly!"

Zhu Zhixue blushed, stretched out her hand to stop her friend from getting angry, forced a smile at Li Zhuangsheng, and stammered: "Well, maybe, it's really not suitable for me, I should wear earrings..."

Li Zhuangsheng clenched his fists, frowned and said coldly: "I hate leaving marks on my body. I think it is irresponsible to my body. You wear earrings today, are you going to get a tattoo tomorrow? Is this trendy and cool?"

Zhu Zhixue murmured aggrievedly: "I, I don't want to get a tattoo!"

"Just because you don't have earrings now doesn't mean you won't have them in the future. Didn't you have earrings before?"

"Li Zhuangsheng, are you sick? Why are you shouting so loudly?" At this time, a boy in the class slammed the table angrily and walked up to Li Zhuangsheng.

Li Zhuangsheng was a little surprised that it was Chen Zhongshi. Anger and jealousy flashed in his eyes, and Li Zhuangsheng seemed to understand something in an instant.

"I'm talking to her, do you need to interrupt?" Li Zhuangsheng said coldly.

So you really did it on purpose that day? Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself.

"I just can't stand it..." Chen Zhongshi was short of breath for a while, then he gritted his teeth and pointed at Li Zhuangsheng's face, with a threatening look in his eyes, "Watch your attitude when talking to girls!"

"What are you doing? Try pointing at another one!"

However, before Li Zhuangsheng could react, Zhu Zhixue had already stood in front of him and angrily scolded Chen Zhongshi.

"I……"

Chen Zhongshi's face flushed instantly, he felt guilty and angry. He didn't understand why the other party was protecting Li Zhuangsheng who was scolding her and pointing the gun at him when he was clearly speaking for Zhu Zhixue.

He felt very hurt, his face was burning with pain, and he felt indescribable sadness.

Li Zhuangsheng's anger suddenly subsided by half, and with an old grudge from ten years ago, he couldn't help but show contempt and ridicule to Chen Zhongshi.

In the future, Zhang Qixiang often said that Li Zhuangsheng's mentality was still the same as that of a high school student, but Li Zhuangsheng was, after all, an adult with above-average intelligence and basic judgment.

My EQ was too low back then and I didn’t realize that Chen Zhongshi actually liked Zhu Zhixue.

He originally thought that the video at the class reunion was just a coincidence, and Chen Zhongshi probably didn't know about it. After all, if it were him, he wouldn't think of watching the entire 20-minute video by himself.

It seems to have been planned for a long time.

But why the hell are you taking revenge on me? There are so many boys who are close to Zhu Zhixue. Who among those hooligans hasn't had a good relationship with her? The closest thing between her and me is our arm wrestling relationship. Why are you looking for trouble with me?

A rage was ignited in his heart, and Li Zhuangsheng rarely felt such pure anger.

"Tell me, do you look like the Joker now?" Li Zhuangsheng sneered as he stood behind Zhu Zhixue. "Go back to your Gotham City. Batman said he won't fight you anymore."

"Fuck you!"

Chen Zhongshi instantly became angry and pushed Zhu Zhixue away, grabbing Li Zhuangsheng by the collar. He also needed an outburst to cover up his embarrassment that made him want to crawl into the ground!
Zhu Zhixue stumbled and fell, but was caught in time by her friend. The classroom was instantly in chaos, and everyone stretched their necks to look curiously.

"What do you want to do? Let go!"

Lin Yuehua grabbed Chen Zhongshi's arm and scolded him coldly. She was quite authoritative in the class, and Chen Zhongshi shuddered when he heard her words, but at this moment he was completely out of control and still gritted his teeth and grabbed Li Zhuangsheng's clothes.

"Let me go, are you sick?" Zhu Zhixue was also really angry. "Okay, okay, stop making trouble, class will start soon."

Zhang Qixiang walked over, patted Chen Zhongshi on the shoulder, and signaled to Li Zhuangsheng with his eyes to stop talking.

Chen Zhongshi got a small step and finally let go of Li Zhuangsheng. He glared at him angrily and returned to his seat with a red face.

"Are you okay?" Zhu Zhixue reached out and straightened Li Zhuangsheng's collar.

"It's okay. Earrings don't suit you, so you'd better not wear them. I don't think this is personality." Li Zhuangsheng was still cold to Zhu Zhixue.

"Okay, okay... I'm just wearing it for fun. I'll take it off right away." Zhu Zhixue said softly.

"Class is about to start, go back to your seat."

Lin Yuehua spoke coldly, and Zhu Zhixue left silently without arguing with Lin Yuehua.

The farce finally ended, and Li Zhuangsheng sat in his seat to prepare the books and review outline for the class.

"You went a bit too far today." Lin Yuehua said.

"You said you had a quarrel with Chen Zhongshi?" Li Zhuangsheng asked.

"It's with Zhu Zhixue. You're too harsh."

"I never thought that one day you would say this to me. You are usually much more aggressive than me!"

Lin Yuehua raised her eyebrows: "When I speak aggressively, I have reasons. What about you? It's like you are angry at her for no reason."

Li Zhuangsheng was silent for a long time, then scratched his hair hard: "I do have a problem, and I'm a little anxious."

In fact, he has no prejudice against earrings themselves. The earrings of mature women characters are extremely attractive to him.

He just remembered that Zhu Zhixue also wore earrings, and asked him if it looked good. He said it was good. Then he went on the road of gangsterism and never looked back.

Perhaps there is no connection between the two, and Li Zhuangsheng is just overthinking it.

Maybe he still had some prejudice in his heart, thinking that high school students wearing earrings meant they were precocious and trouble-making. So he was extremely angry in an instant, thinking that Zhu Zhixue was going to repeat the same mistake, and he wanted to nip any trace of it in the bud.

"Let's go and apologize to them later." Lin Yuehua said.

"I won't." Li Zhuangsheng refused.

"Is it so difficult to lower your head? It's your fault in the first place."

"It's not a question of bowing my head... It's not that I don't want to apologize, but I'm afraid that my attitude will be ambiguous and she will learn bad things from it."

Lin Yuehua glanced at him and said, "Do you think getting your ears pierced is bad?"

Li Zhuangsheng smiled bitterly: "That's not right, but it's really not suitable for high school students..."

Lin Yuehua smiled faintly: "I also have pierced ears, am I a bad person?"

Li Zhuangsheng was startled: "You have pierced ears?"

"Here!"

Lin Yuehua pulled up her ear to show Li Zhuangsheng, and there was indeed a small hole.

“It’s the first time I know…”

Li Zhuangsheng was surprised, as this was something he had not known before.

"My grandma pierced my ears during the summer vacation." Lin Yuehua smiled, "Now that you know I also pierced my ears, do you hate me? Do you think I'm a bad student?"

　Sorry, there are only two chapters today. I can't hold on any longer.

　　
　
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