Chapter 299 Butterfly Net (Part )

"This..." Hu Mengdie hesitated for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "Because I've seen your grades before. You're in Class 26 in the first year of high school, right? When I went to your teacher's office once, I saw your class's monthly exam report card on Teacher Chen's desk. I took a look and saw yours."

"How do you know I'm from Class 26? We're... not very familiar with each other, right?" Li Zhuangsheng pressed on, trying to find any flaws in Hu Mengdie's report card. "You took a look at the report card and happened to see mine?"

Zhu Zhixue slowly clenched her fists, gently patted Li Zhuangsheng's arm, and smiled stiffly: "What are you doing? Why are you asking so many detailed questions..."

Li Zhuangsheng did not answer, but stared at Hu Mengdie in silence, his face slightly red with excitement. He felt that he had found a loophole in Hu Mengdie's words and was about to expose her lies!

However, in the eyes of others, they had no idea what Li Zhuangsheng was feeling at the moment. They only saw that Li Zhuangsheng, with a red face, was asking Hu Mengdie why she knew him so well based on a very small matter...as if he wanted to prove that Hu Mengdie had always cared about him.

Hu Mengdie looked at Zhu Zhixue, whose eyes were red, and her face became more and more embarrassed. After thinking it over again and again, she sighed as if she had accepted her fate: "Actually, I wanted to see your grades on purpose, because... our two names are always joked about by our friends. Didn't I tell you about this before when I was in the hospital? Sometimes when they see your class, they will point and say random things, so they are a little concerned about you..."

Hu Mengdie waved her hands quickly and said, "Oh, please don't misunderstand me. I was just teased too many times, so I was a little concerned. At that time, I was just a little curious about your grades, so I took a look!"

Li Zhuangsheng reacted immediately. She herself used to care about Hu Mengdie because of jokes among classmates. What Hu Mengdie said was reasonable. She had mentioned it in the ward, and she also cared about herself in the past.

Afterwards, Li Zhuangsheng further realized that his reaction just now was too extreme and must have caused misunderstanding to others.

He wanted too much to prove Hu Mengdie's disguise, or rather, he hoped too much that the familiar Hu Mengdie had not disappeared.

“Ah, so that’s how it is, hahahaha…” Li Zhuangsheng’s expression froze for a few seconds, then he touched his head and looked at Zhu Zhixue with a silly smile, “She has lost her memory, so she shouldn’t remember me… I thought her memory had recovered a little bit!”

"Oh, so that's the case. Thank you for your concern, but it's a pity that it's not the case."

Hu Mengdie nodded in agreement, although her smile became increasingly awkward. This explanation was too pale now, and I was afraid that no one would believe it except Li Zhuangsheng himself.

Zhu Zhixue pursed her lips and her body trembled slightly. Li Zhuangsheng felt a pain in his heart. He gently held her hand and remained silent with guilt.

"Oh...it's okay." Zhu Zhixue forced a smile on her face, "I also hope that classmate Hu Mengdie can recover soon."

"Your names are indeed coincidental, Zhuangzi Mengdie. I often hear my classmates mention it in front of me, and joke with me about brother and sister-in-law." Li Xiuyu chuckled and added.

Li Zhuangsheng's forehead bulged slightly, and he was furious. "Can you please stop making trouble at this time?" Also, why didn't I hear about this from you before?
Zhu Zhixue kept a stiff smile on her face, her eyes were bloodshot, and her cheeks were burning hot, as if she had been slapped several times in public.

Li Zhuangsheng, Hu Mengdie, Zhuangsheng dreamed of a butterfly in the morning... Zhuangzi and the butterfly seemed to be entangled together forever, inseparable.

Thinking of these two people's names, Zhu Zhixue felt as if he was suffocated by the pressure of a mountain. Besides, Hu Mengdie was his first love, and they had the closest relationship... Zhu Zhixue once again felt like the hero and heroine in the story.

Everyone else is just a substitute female supporting role, just a whetstone for sharpening the protagonist's emotions.

No, she is definitely not a grindstone!
"Don't believe in this kind of mysterious feudal superstition." Li Zhuangsheng gave Li Xiuyu a gentle slap. "Zhuangsheng dreaming of a butterfly is just a very common phrase. There are not so many interpretations. So you science students should study Chinese well. Zhuangsheng is a noun, and dreaming of a butterfly is a verb plus a noun phrase. They are not of the same type at all!"

"Say more!" Li Zhuangsheng held Zhu Zhixue's hand, "Considering the context, I wonder if Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly, or if the butterfly dreamed of being Zhou? There must be a difference between Zhou and the butterfly. People clearly said that there is a difference between Zhuang Zhou and the butterfly. Moreover, Zhuang Zhou not only dreamed of butterflies, he also dreamed of being a bird and soaring into the sky, and dreamed of being a fish and drowning in the abyss. He can dream of birds, and he can also dream of fish. So there is nothing special about butterflies. Don't spread this kind of stuff anymore in the future, it's very uncultured. Besides, forget about me, your brother, but isn't it embarrassing for Hu Mengdie to hear it?" His voice was a little serious. Under his gaze, Li Xiuyu had to lower his head honestly and agreed weakly.

Hu Mengdie lowered her eyes, picked up the soup bowl, lowered her head to hide all her expressions, and smiled lightly: "As expected of you, you are the campus idol. You know so much."

"Li Zhuangsheng." Zhu Zhixue said suddenly.

"What?" Hu Mengdie seemed to be unresponsive.

"His name is Li Zhuangsheng." Zhu Zhixue stared at her solemnly.

"Oh... sorry, sorry!" Hu Mengdie apologized quickly.

"Well, it's okay." Li Zhuangsheng smiled.

He could understand Hu Mengdie's intention. After all, they had just discussed their names. At this moment, he naturally wanted to avoid calling her by her name to avoid further embarrassment.

But I didn't expect that Zhu Zhixue seemed to be angry.

He looked at Zhu Zhixue's face, and she seemed a little dazed again. But he couldn't do anything now, so he could only hold her hand and stand firmly by her side.

Li Xiuyu was somewhat unhappy after being tactfully reprimanded by Li Zhuangsheng, but after all, he was in the wrong and indeed suspected of instigating others, so he could not say anything more and continued chatting with Hu Mengdie as if nothing had happened.

Li Zhuangsheng listened silently, hardly interrupting. Zhu Zhixue lowered her head and ate in silence, seemingly turning a deaf ear to their conversation.

"Thief."

"What did you say?"

Zhu Zhixue raised her head in shame and anger and glared at Hu Mengdie fiercely.

Everyone present was stunned for a moment. Hu Mengdie was the first to react and innocently repeated what she had just said: "I was chatting with Xiu Yu. I said that a thief met us downstairs during the Chinese New Year... He took advantage of the owner's absence and broke into the house and stole all the valuables."

"Yeah, why did you suddenly yell so loudly? You scared me!" Li Xiuyu frowned in dissatisfaction.

"It's okay, she might have heard it wrong." Li Zhuangsheng chuckled and patted Zhu Zhixue on the back, "You guys eat your food, don't mind it."

"I'm full, let's go back to class first..." Li Zhuangsheng smiled gently at Zhu Zhixue.

(End of this chapter)