I thought for a while, then reached out and took his hand.
"I'm Lin Xiye, nice to meet you."
Zheng Yuanhan smiled brightly, his smile so bright that it dazzled the person opposite:
"Me too."
From that day on, I don't know why, whether it was during or after class, he would always come to talk to me. The topics ranged from lessons to… the neighbor's cat being stolen. I just listened silently, occasionally saying "um" for the sake of formality. It felt annoying, but I couldn't bear to chase him away, perhaps because of his smile, which was always strangely carefree.
Towards the end of class, the teacher suddenly said:
"Now, each good student should choose a weak student to tutor."
I was about to continue writing when a shy girl came over, her voice tiny:
"You... you can tutor me-"
Before I could finish, Trinh Vien Han's voice interrupted:
"No. Classmate Lam said he would tutor me."
The whole class looked at us. The girl trembled slightly, having heard of his reputation for being "easily angry" in school, so she quickly stammered an apology and ran away.
I looked at him in a daze:
"When did I say I would tutor you?"
He smiled again, innocently as if nothing had happened:
"You are my friend, from now on you are my person. So, tutoring me... of course you will be my person."
I glanced at him, thinking to myself:
" But... I prefer to be A Hanh's person..."
On the surface, I just said:
"You're a child."
He was a little stunned, then started to "make a fuss":
"Hey, why are you saying I'm a kid? Are you listening?"
I found it too noisy, so I pushed the book to his face, and said calmly:
"Focus on the lecture."
He "humphed" a few times, then stopped. He was holding the book in his hand, but his eyes kept sneaking glances at me.
I frowned a little uncomfortably and said: "Don't look at me like that."
Trinh Vien Han pouted slightly and tried to deny:
"I… I wasn't looking."
Seeing that, I glanced down at the book he was holding and calmly asked:
"So what are you reading?"
Trinh Vien Han fumbled to see what he was reading:
"That I… I…"
I sighed, pointed at his book and said:
"Can you read it upside down?"
He quickly turned the book back around, his face red all the way to his ears. I was about to say more when the bell rang to signal the end of class.
The teacher just walked out and said:
"If you have found a tutor, then go home and do the group work tonight."
Before I could react, Trinh Vien Han turned around, his eyes shining:
"Then tonight, Lam Da, come to my house to study in a group."
I just said "uh" without any expression.
Trinh Vien Han saw me so indifferent and said unhappily:
"Hey, did you hear that?"
I still calmly put the book in my bag and walked to the front of the classroom. Not seeing him following me, I turned around and said:
"Aren't you going to lead the way?"
He was stunned, then as if he suddenly woke up, he grinned and pulled my hand out.
When I brought the bike out of the shed, he frowned and pointed at the bike:
"Are you taking... this to school?"
My face did not change expression and replied indifferently:
"Yes, is there a problem?"
Before I could hear the answer, a middle-aged man's voice rang out from behind Trinh Vien Han:
"Miss you, where have you been? I've been looking for you for a while."
I looked for a while and realized it was Trinh Vien Han's butler.
Trinh Vien Han glanced at me, then leaned over and whispered something to him. The butler hesitated for a moment, then nodded as if reluctantly agreeing.
He happily ran towards me:
"Okay! Let's go, I'll show you the way myself."
I frowned:
"Then you go ahead and lead the way, I'll follow."
Trinh Vien Han grinned and walked behind my car with some intention and said:
"No need, I'll sit in the back."
Before I could protest, he had already sat down on the back seat, his two hands still hugging my waist, I frowned slightly and said with a look that seemed like I wanted to stab him a few times:
"Let go of your hand, if you still don't let go, do you believe I will chase you off the car?"
He pouted, but still let go of his hand, his expression extremely satisfied, clearly having achieved something.
On the way, he talked a lot, all nonsense, and I just hummed and hawed.
Arriving at Trinh Vien Han's house, I was a bit stunned by the large and spacious house in front of me and only now did I know that his father was a big businessman with a serious demeanor and sharp eyes. While we were doing homework, he stopped by, smiled gently and asked a few questions.
"A Han's classmate? Thank you for helping him study."
I nodded slightly, my eyes calm. When Yuan Han left to get water as I asked, I gently said:
"I can help you find the spy."
The smile on his lips paused for a moment, then he half smiled and half didn't answer:
"Little boy… do you know what you're saying?"
I looked straight at him, my voice neither fast nor slow:
"Isn't it that my company is having some trouble…because someone leaked the company's confidential information?"
He frowned, his expression became serious for a moment but he didn't show too much and replied:
"What are you talking about, I don't understand what you're saying."
But in his heart, he secretly thought: "This kid…"
I just smiledA faint smile passed by:
"If you don't want the company to soon perish in the hands of a villain, then… stop that large-scale investigation immediately."
The man's eyes gradually became cautious.
"What do you want to do by saying these things to me?"
His heart was secretly pondering: "Who is this brat…? Was he sent by someone?"
I looked at him as if I could guess what he was thinking and slightly raised my lips in a half-true, half-false smile as I said:
"You don't need to think about who sent me…because wouldn't that be more troublesome?"
I finished speaking and looked up at the slightly confused and guilty face of the person in front of me, secretly happy because it seemed like I had achieved the goal I wanted... then I put my hand to my mouth to make a sound of silence and then spoke in a slightly mocking and provocative tone towards the person in front of me: "If you have time, you should investigate... your little lover... there will be a surprise"
He heard my words and was a bit surprised, about to open his mouth to say something...
At that moment, Trinh Vien Han turned back, in his hand was the glass of water I asked him to get. I quickly changed my expression, took the glass of water, nodded slightly to thank him, then took a few sips for formality, then stood up to clean up my things and said:
"I'll take my leave first."
Although he still had many questions he wanted to ask, he nodded, his eyes still following me, his gaze full of thought.
When Yuan Han saw me off at the gate, inside the living room, the man squinted his eyes as he watched my figure disappear into the yard. After Zheng Yuan Han returned to his room, he asked in a low voice:
"That kid... you mean, what's his friend's name?"
Zheng Yuan Han didn't understand why his father asked that, but he still replied:
"Lin Xiye. The valedictorian of my school. He's a bit cold, but he's a good person!"
The man was silent for a moment, his hand unconsciously rubbing his hand. His eyes gradually grew colder as if he was thinking about something.
"This kid... isn't ordinary. But should I believe him or not?"