Chapter 46: Invitation

As their figures disappeared at the door, the half-open back door was gently closed by the wind with a “click”, as if closing the curtain for the drama that was about to be performed.
There were a few students in the classroom who were busy eating or doing homework.
An invisible low pressure slowly spread from the back of the classroom.
Lin Xiaomei lay on her desk, motionless, like a dozing wild beast.
But her legs under the table began to kick the back of the chair of the classmate in the front row impatiently.
The boy who was kicked was angry but dared not say anything.
He could only eat faster, wishing he could swallow the whole lunch box immediately.
“Student Lin Xiaomei,”
The squad leader pushed the thick glasses on her nose, without turning her head, and just said to the air:
“Please be quiet and don’t disturb other students’ lunch break.”
“Hey, class monitor,” Lin Xiaomei sneered, “Why, I didn’t kick your chair, so why do you want to intervene?”
“This is a public space.” The monitor closed her exercise book and finally turned around. “Your behavior constitutes harassment.”
“Harassment?”
Lin Xiaomei stood up, walked to the monitor, and tapped her desk with her fingers.
“Then would you like me to help you move your desk out so you can study more quietly?”
The monitor looked at Lin Xiaomei’s unreasonable look and stopped arguing meaninglessly.
Her gaze passed Lin Xiaomei and looked toward the corner.
Yu Yuhui never looked up at this side from beginning to end, as if this conflict was just a cicada chirping outside the window and had nothing to do with her.
The squad leader sighed inwardly.
She silently closed all the books, picked up her water cup, and calmly walked out of the classroom.
“How stupid.”
The remaining innocent students, seeing that even the class monitor had retreated, fled from this dangerous place as quickly as possible.
In the end, there were only two people left in the huge classroom.
Lin Xiaomei stood in the middle of the classroom, exuding a murderous aura.
And Yu Yuhui, who was in the corner at the other end of the classroom, immersed in her own world and reading silently from beginning to end.
The air was eerily quiet.
Lin Xiaomei did not step forward immediately.
She walked to Xiahou Ming’s seat and gently brushed her fingers across the empty table.
Then, she pulled out a chair and sat down.
“Hey,” she said, “aren’t you bored being all alone?”
Yu Yuhui turned the pages of the book without any pause.
“Sometimes, I really don’t understand people like you.”
“You seem… like you don’t care about anything.”
“I have no friends, and I don’t talk to anyone… What’s the point of living?”
“Unlike us.” She traced a scratch on the tabletop with her fingertips. “People like us always have so many things… that we can’t let go.”
She stood up and walked toward Yu Yuhui step by step.
“So, I’m very curious.” She walked up to Yu Yuhui and looked down at her. “What do you think of her?”
“A more interesting book? Or a… more obedient toy?”
Yu Yuhui finally closed the book.
She slowly raised her head, and in her dark eyes there was a hint of pity.
“Lin Xiaomei,” she said, “you seem to have made a mistake.”
“It’s not that I treat her like a toy.”
“She wanted to be my toy willingly.”
These words, like a thunderbolt, struck Lin Xiaomei’s heart hard.
After the initial shock that almost suffocated her, an even stronger anger, like magma, suddenly erupted from the bottom of her heart.
She smiled.
“Willingly?” she repeated. “What the hell do you know about willingly?”
There was no longer simple anger in her eyes, but a kind of proud contempt.
She stretched out her index finger and poked her chest hard.
“I!”
“I’ve been followin’ her for a whole year! Since the third day of my freshman year!”
“She asked me to throw Wen Xuelan’s schoolbag into the toilet, and I did! She asked me to grab the playground from the next class, and I did! She glared at me, and I knew which disobedient dog to bite!”
Her voice became hoarse with excitement.
“That’s f*ckin’ voluntary! Do you understand?!”
“What about you?” She pointed at Yu Yuhui, her eyes filled with contempt. “Who do you think you are?”
“You just took advantage of her… confused mind and took advantage of the opportunity!”
“You think you won?”
“You’re just a thief… takin’ advantage of others’ misfortune!”
Yu Yuhui looked at the girl in front of her whose face was distorted by jealousy and loyalty, and her calm expression, which had remained unchanged for years, showed a slight fluctuation.
“But, Lin Xiaomei,” her voice was soft, yet like ice, it easily froze all of Lin Xiaomei’s roars, “you don’t even qualify to be a stolen toy.”
She looked at Lin Xiaomei’s face, which turned pale in an instant, and chuckled.
“What you want,” she stretched out her hand and gently brushed Lin Xiaomei’s clenched fist with her cold fingertips, “is to be completely destroyed by someone stronger, usin’ a more brutal method.”
“You’ve been lookin’ forward to this, haven’t you?”
These words mercilessly dissected the deepest part of Lin Xiaomei’s heart, revealin’ those dirty desires that even she herself dared not look directly at.
Her body, uncontrollably, took half a step back.
“But…” Yu Yuhui withdrew her hand, an apologetic smile on her face, “Unfortunately, I’m not interested in toys like yours.”
“So, just follow your original script.”
Yu Yuhui looked toward the tightly closed back door of the classroom.
“She’s been gone a long time.”
“Aren’t you… comin’ to me because you have somethin’?”
These two sentences turned all of Lin Xiaomei’s momentum, her carefully accumulated anger, and her self-righteous script into a one-man show that had been spoiled in advance.
“Stop playin’ tricks on me!”
“Who do you think you are!?”
Lin Xiaomei lost all her rationality and let out a series of roars.
She grabbed Yu Yuhui’s collar and pulled her up roughly.
“Follow me!”
Yu Yuhui looked at her timid appearance with eyes full of boredom and contempt.
She knew that her words had already planted a poison called “truth” in the heart of this wild dog.
That’s enough.
She no longer resisted and let Lin Xiaomei drag her to the execution ground that had already been prepared.
She even cooperated deliberately to prevent the other party from gettin’ discouraged prematurely due to frustration.
What she wanted was for this play to be performed completely for the real protagonist.