HPDBC Chapter 37: Surprised? Unexpected? [Please add to your favorites and read on!]
Chapter 37: Surprised? Unexpected? [Please add to your favorites and read on!]
The ward fell silent instantly.
The students who had been whispering just moments before all fell silent.
Especially after saying that Su Qianqian actually liked Chen Junrong, a mouthful of saliva got stuck in her throat and she couldn't swallow it.
A girl leaning against the windowsill lowered her head, twirling her hair with her fingers, too embarrassed to know where to look.
Chen Junrong's expression froze, his mouth still holding the curve of a smile he had been about to strike.
But there was no light left in his eyes.
He leaned against the pillow, his posture still frozen in the same position as when Su Qianqian came in.
But it's meaningless now.
This is completely different from what he imagined!
Su Qianqian came over only because they were classmates, not because she cared about him at all.
She wasn't there to agree to be his girlfriend; she was just there to go through the motions.
Moreover, Su Qianqian's final emphasis on "we're not familiar with each other" was a slap in the face to him.
In this moment of utter silence.
Suddenly, a crisp snapping sound came from the corner.
Lin Bei took a bite of the freshly peeled apple, chewed it casually a couple of times, frowned, and held the apple up to his eyes to examine it:
"Who bought these apples? They taste awful!"
"It's not only ugly, but it also tastes bad."
Old Gao, sitting next to Lin Bei, munched on his own craggy apple and mumbled in agreement: "Yeah, it's ugly, but it has pretty grand ideas."
In the ward, everyone's gaze instantly shifted from Su Qianqian to the boy sitting in the corner chair eating an apple.
Chen Junrong's face began to change from white to red, and then from red to green.
He whirled around and yelled at Lao Gao, "Gao Da, I've been putting up with you for way too long!"
"Stop talking so sarcastically. If you have any complaints about me, just say so. Why bring in outsiders to embarrass me?"
Old Gao took a bite of the apple, chewed it, and asked innocently, "What outsider?"
"Aren't all the people in this room classmates? Where did this outsider come from?"
Lin Bei placed the half-eaten apple on the bedside table and slowly stood up.
He took a step closer to Chen Junrong's hospital bed, and the light shone directly on his face.
Lin Bei looked at Chen Junrong, a slight smile playing on his lips: "What, you don't recognize me anymore just because I got a haircut?"
Chen Junrong frowned, staring intently at the face of the short-haired boy in front of him, examining him closely.
He felt that the face looked familiar, especially the brow bone, bridge of the nose, and chin.
"I'm your old classmate, Lin Bei." Lin Bei put his hands in his pockets and smiled slightly.
"What!" Chen Junrong was immediately dumbfounded.
He looked at it carefully a few more times and recognized that the other person was indeed Lin Bei.
How is that possible?
How did he suddenly become like this?
Lin Bei smiled again: "See how considerate I am? I'm usually so busy, but I still made time to come see you."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the ward erupted in chaos.
"Lin Bei?"
"Is he Lin Bei from our class?"
"That can't be right. Lin Bei's hair used to be like a broom, covering his eyes so much you couldn't see anything..."
"It really is Lin Bei. Listen to the way he talks, with that business-like tone."
"I haven't seen him today, what happened to him?"
"Did she get plastic surgery?"
"Are you stupid? It's only been a few days since the college entrance exam. Cosmetic surgery doesn't recover that quickly."
"That must be a hairstyle issue. Can a hairstyle really make such a big difference?"
"Of course, we only saw half of his face before, but now that his whole face is showing, it's normal that we can't recognize him."
Chen Junrong looked completely bewildered. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but nothing came out.
He leaned against the pillow, looking at Lin Bei who seemed like a completely different person, and the scene from that night at the KTV flashed through his mind.
Lin Bei, who originally had dyed his hair blonde and had his bangs covering half his face, slunk away after being rejected by Su Qianqian.
Lin Bei now sports a neat, short haircut, wears a white shirt, and exudes confidence.
This is completely unlike the same person!
Just a few days ago, he was secretly mocking Lin Bei for being incredibly unsophisticated, a poor loser who couldn't possibly be considered respectable.
Now, however, he has completely transformed into someone he admires.
Chen Junrong looked at Lin Bei in front of him, and a surge of jealousy flashed through his heart.
How could this happen?
Why should I?
What was Lin Bei like before?
He had a head full of messy yellow hair, his bangs covered half of his face, his school uniform was always wrinkled, and his grades were always among the worst in the class.
His family didn't have much money. His father was an ordinary worker, and his mother worked as a cashier at a supermarket.
Logically speaking, this kind of person should be inferior to him in every way.
But Su Qianqian preferred to be friends with Lin Bei and wouldn't even give him a second glance.
Now it's even better; Lin Beilian's looks and temperament have far surpassed his.
He was so unwilling to accept it!
His family background, appearance, and popularity, which he used to be so proud of...
Suddenly, nothing mattered to Lin Bei.
At this moment, Lin Bei placed the half-eaten apple core on the bedside table and took out a tissue to wipe his fingers.
Instead of walking towards the door like the others, he took another step closer to the bedside.
Lin Bei leaned down, brought his face close to Chen Junrong's ear, and whispered, "Actually, I already knew."
Ok? !
Chen Junrong looked at Lin Bei with a completely bewildered expression.
understood?
What does he know?
Lin Bei continued in a low voice, "Back when Zhang Qiang was stabbed in the internet cafe, it was you who hired someone to do it."
"You originally wanted to find someone to teach me a lesson, but you ended up finding the wrong person by mistake."
Am I right?
Chen Junrong's face turned pale instantly.
He subconsciously sank the back of his head into the pillow, wanting to get as far away from Lin Bei as possible.
"How...how did you know?"
Lin Bei straightened up and looked down at him. The curve of his lips was still there, but there was no smile in his eyes.
"You don't need to worry about that."
"However, there is one more thing I can tell you."
"Zhang Qiang came to you because I told him that you were the one who stabbed him."
Lin Bei watched Chen Junrong's expression change from fear to blankness, and then smiled again.
That's right, that's the expression!
He traveled all this way just to see Chen Junrong make this face.
"How is it?"
"Surprised? Unexpected?"
Chen Junrong was completely dumbfounded.
His mind went completely blank.
For the past few days, he has been unable to understand one thing.
It's impossible for Zhang Qiang to find out in such a short time that the person who stabbed him at the "Extreme Speed Internet Cafe" was someone he had hired.
Because he kept this matter very well hidden, even his henchmen didn't know that the scarred guy who stabbed someone that day was the person he contacted.
As a result, in less than a few days, Zhang Qiang not only found him, but also sent someone to retaliate.
Now he knows.
It turns out that Lin Bei was the one who tipped them off.
Lin Bei not only investigated the whole matter thoroughly from beginning to end.
He even revealed his trump card to Zhang Qiang.
He lay in bed for three days, in so much pain that he couldn't even turn over.
It turned out to be because of the person standing in front of him who was smiling at him.