Chapter 2: Darkness of the Rainfall (2)
Chu Zihang stood in front of the glass window, staring outside in a daze.

In fact, Liu Miaomiao had been standing at the door for a long time before Lu Mingfei came.

She peeked at Chu Zihang several times, but all she saw was his back standing in front of the glass window, his hands in his pockets, wrapped in a Diesel blouse and a Burberry plaid scarf.

She thought Chu Zihang was looking at the rain, or at the scenery outside the window. But on a rainy day like this, you can't see anything outside the window.

The rain completely isolated him from the world, making everything distorted as if he were nearsighted. He was simply in a daze.

He likes to empty his mind so that he doesn't have to think about many things or make choices.

The silver Motorola Razr V3 spun, stopped, and spun again in Chu Zihang's palm.

"Brother Chu? What a coincidence, you haven't gone back yet either."

The boy stood at the door with his head drooped, wearing the junior high school uniform of Shilan Middle School, and smiled at her with a complicated look.

Next to the boy, a pretty girl with long hair poked her head in curiously. The moment she saw Chu Zihang turning around, she lowered her eyes and her delicate face flushed slightly.

Chu Zihang recognized the girl, Liu Miaomiao, who was quite famous in both the junior high school and the high school. She had passed the tenth level of piano in the third year of junior high school. She was pretty and came from a well-off family.

Every year at the Shilan Middle School Gala, her performances were always the most popular among the boys. Even in Chu Zihang's class, there were several boys vying for her.

But Chu Zihang called out the boy's name first.

"Lu...Mingfei?"

He actually had no interactions with boys, and the only reason he knew Lu Mingfei's name was because he had a good memory.

Part of the high school and junior high school departments of Shilan Middle School share the same teaching building. Chu Zihang would occasionally see the boy walking slowly and alone among the crowd of people going to and from school like a stray dog. When someone called his name a few times, he would remember it.

Although he said it was just a coincidence, Chu Zihang actually did use some snacks.

He didn't know why he cared so much about a stranger, but he had an inexplicable feeling that the stranger was the same kind of person as himself.

"Well, I haven't gone home yet, what do you want?"

Lu Mingfei was also stunned for a moment, thinking that Senior Brother Chu had known me for so long.

He originally thought that given his senior brother's personality, even if he didn't know him yet, it wouldn't be difficult to borrow his phone to make a call.

But how could I have deserved the impression left on Senior Brother Chu when I was in junior high school?
After returning to this world, Lu Mingfei had seen Chu Zihang many times in school. In fact, it was hard not to see him because Chu Zihang stood out in the crowd. But Lu Mingfei never went up to say hello.

After all, in the current timeline, Chu Zihang had not yet joined Kassel College and did not know him. If Lu Mingfei approached Chu Zihang for no reason, it would probably only make the other party feel confused.

It would be much more convenient if you knew me... Lu Mingfei scratched the back of his head and asked, "Brother Chu, do you have a cell phone? It's raining so hard, I want to call home."

Chu Zihang was stunned.

"Take it and hit it."

Chu Zihang took out his cell phone and handed it to Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei immediately recognized that it was Motorola's V3, a classic among classics.

At that time, it was sold for six or seven thousand yuan in the official store, and in fact it was sold for nearly ten thousand yuan. It was much more expensive than the Nokia N96 that Zhao Menghua always wore on his waist, and its popularity was about the same as that of a certain Porsche in later generations.

Lu Mingfei carefully opened his cell phone and dialed the number. The call was connected after more than a dozen beeps, and then his aunt's loudspeaker-like voice came out of the receiver.

"Mingfei? You haven't got home yet? Are you still in school? What took you so long? Your uncle and Mingze are already back! It's raining heavily, so you should find a way to get back. You can take a taxi, but remember to ask the driver for a receipt! If you don't have a receipt, you won't be reimbursed!"

The conversation lasted only two or three sentences before my aunt hung up the phone impatiently.

The white noise of the raindrops was very loud, but Aunt Lu Mingfei's voice was even louder, so loud that Chu Zihang could hear what was going on in the conversation.

He watched Lu Mingfei close the phone and return it to him. When he reached out to take it, he couldn't help but remind him, "I guess you can't get a taxi now."

"If you can't get a taxi, just wait a little longer and see if the rain stops..."

"Yes, or why don't we go together? The rain won't stop. The weather forecast says it's a typhoon, and the Meteorological Bureau has issued a warning... Brother Chu, are you coming with us?"

Liu Miaomiao, who had been peeking out secretly, mustered up the courage to stand at the door. She pretended to be looking at Lu Mingfei, but she was secretly paying attention to Chu Zihang's direction.

"Do you know me... My name is Liu Miaomiao..." Liu Miaomiao didn't get an answer, so she lowered her head, and her voice became smaller and smaller, like the hum of a mosquito.

Chu Zihang was ready to refuse immediately. Of course, he didn't need to take a ride from others. He just needed to call "Dad" and "Dad" would ask the driver to pick him up in the top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz S500.

But he suddenly thought that maybe Lu Mingfei really needed a ride with her, so he hesitated.

"Which direction do you live in?" Chu Zihang asked softly.

After waiting for a while, Liu Miaomiao suddenly realized that Chu Zihang seemed to be talking to her. Her heart began to pound, and she raised her head, her eyes suddenly filled with stars.

"Me?" she asked.

"Yeah." "I live in the west side of the city, in the California community..."

Chu Zihang knew California Community, which was one of the most upscale communities in the city, on the same level as Peacock Residence where he lived. However, Peacock Residence was in the east of the city, in the opposite direction of Liu Miaomiao's home.

"Then my home is in a different direction from yours." Chu Zihang said, "I'll go by myself, you can just send my classmate down the road."

The starlight in Liu Miaomiao's eyes suddenly disappeared again. She actually just wanted to find an excuse to send Chu Zihang off, and Lu Mingfei was just a by-product.

But the words had already been spoken. She couldn't reject Lu Mingfei just because Chu Zihang rejected her, right?
Fortunately, Lu Mingfei was considerate for once: "Liu Miaomiao, go by yourself. My home is not in the same direction as yours."

Lu Mingfei knew that Liu Miaomiao only offered to give him a ride in order to get closer to Chu Zihang.

Since the paralyzed senior brother had refused, it would be boring for him to stay in the same room with the beautiful piano girl Liu Miaomiao.

Um... the driver doesn't count.

Lu Mingfei recognizes himself clearly in his current state.

For some reason, Liu Miaomiao suddenly felt that Lu Mingfei seemed a little strange today. In the past, Lu Mingfei would definitely beg her to give him a ride. But today, he took the initiative to offer not to do so.

Lu Mingfei's active refusal made Liu Miaomiao feel a little guilty.

Of course she had heard about Lu Mingfei's family situation, and knew that Lu Mingfei was now living under someone else's roof, with a difficult aunt and an overbearing cousin, neither of whom treated him very well. He was even always late for parent-teacher meetings.

It was a rainy day and everyone in the class was picked up by their parents or drivers, except Lu Mingfei, who was waiting for the rain to stop.

She suddenly thought, why not give Lu Mingfei a ride? After all, it wouldn't take much time to drive around the city.

"Otherwise, you should take my car back. The rain won't stop for a while, and I don't know how long you'll have to wait here." Liu Miaomiao spoke softly, "The weather is so cold, it's easy to catch a cold if you get caught in the rain."

Lu Mingfei didn’t expect Liu Miaomiao to offer to take him there. He was stunned for a moment. “But the California community is quite far from my home…”

"It's okay. It doesn't take long to go around."

"Lu Mingfei, come back with me." Chu Zihang suddenly said, "Our homes are in the same direction. I can give him a ride."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Lu Mingfei: "Is everything ok?"

In fact, he was asking, is it okay to ruin your chance to be alone with Liu Miaomiao? Liu Miaomiao is pretty and many boys like her, but he couldn't tell whether Lu Mingfei liked her or not.

He felt that Lu Mingfei probably didn't have the kind of romantic feelings for Liu Miaomiao, otherwise why would he refuse to ride in Liu Miaomiao's car?

But he wasn't completely sure, so he asked this.

But Lu Mingfei didn't know what Chu Zihang was thinking, he just nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, yes." He thought to himself, Senior Brother Chu, you have personally invited me, how can I not be willing?
There are so many girls in Shilan Middle School who want to ride in your car, Mr. Chu. Liu Miaomiao is the one who wants to ride the most.

"Oh, then I'll go first." Liu Miaomiao answered softly, pulling the strap of her schoolbag, and her shadow shrank back from the door.

Through the glass window with crisscrossing rain lines, Lu Mingfei saw Liu Miaomiao's driver holding a huge black umbrella for her in the rain. Liu Miaomiao took off her sandals and put on rain boots.

The "angel eyes" of the black BMW sedan turned its head in the rain, and the roaring engine shattered the white noise of the rainstorm, cutting through the accumulated water and driving away.

"The rain is getting heavier?" Lu Mingfei suddenly said as he watched Liu Miaomiao leave.

"It seems so." Although Chu Zihang answered like this, he didn't even look at the sky, "I'll send a text message."

He suddenly grabbed the Motorola V3 in his pocket, as if he had finally made a decision, opened it, and tapped a number.

"It's raining heavily. Can you come pick me up now?" Chu Zihang typed these words.

During the minute of waiting for a reply, Chu Zihang felt his heart beating wildly, thump-thump-thump-thump.

A minute later, the phone beeped and a text message came in: "Okay, okay, no problem, wait for me at school, I'll be there soon." Only then did something in his heart settle down.

The tone of the reply was as nonchalant as usual... Chu Zihang could almost imagine the man's tone and expression when he said this.

Chu Zihang read the text message several times, then calmly pressed a few times on the keyboard and deleted it.

Although "Dad" is a good man who is very tolerant of me and my mom, and is not dissatisfied or anything like that because I contact him, Chu Zihang still knows that it is best not to let "Dad" see these things.

"My family will be here soon. Please wait a moment. I'll erase the blackboard."

"I, I, I will help you wipe it."

Lu Mingfei rushed forward impatiently, grabbed the blackboard brush covered with dust and rubbed it hard on the clean blackboard.

Chu Zihang looked at the blackboard which was becoming whiter and whiter, then glanced at the bucket under his feet, and thought that he would wipe it again after he finished wiping it this time.

　The first seven chapters mainly use "The Darkness of the Rainfall" to lay the groundwork for the plot. Chapter 8 officially begins the original chapter of how to capture girls. If you find the previous chapters too long-winded, you can simply scan the first seven chapters and then jump to Chapter 8.

　　
　
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