My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

Su Zaixi smiled gently as he spoke, "I feel like I have misunderstood you in many ways. If possible, we can..."

She shut up before she finished her words because she realized that Xie Huinian might not be listening to her at all. His eyes passed her and looked out the window. From time to time, one or two birds would stop by the window sill, fluttering the window and chirping, and from time to time they would let out one or two sharp and long cries.

"Do you like these birds?" Su Zai Xi asked.

"I don't like it." Xie Huinian answered quickly this time, and soon added the reason why he didn't like it, "It's too noisy."

Su Zaixi blinked blankly, not knowing whether Xie Huinian was really talking about the birds outside the house or about her. Based on her limited understanding of Xie Huinian, she felt that it was very likely that Xie Huinian was making a double entendre, referring to both her and the birds.

Soon, Xie Huinian turned his head away from the flock of birds outside the window.

Su Zaixi took the opportunity to turn his gaze back to Xie Huanian's face, "Your birthday is coming soon, right? Do you have any plans? If not, can you agree to have dinner with me?"

Xie Huanian's birthday is on June 1st. He has a calm and cold personality and is serious, but the timing of his birthday is so childish that Su Zaixi finds it very interesting.

Hearing these questions, Xie Huinian's eyelashes drooped slightly. I don't know what he thought of, and then he suddenly answered:

"Have."

At the same time, the phone on the table suddenly vibrated, and messages kept coming in, lighting up the phone page. Su Zaixi subconsciously looked at the table and found that the name displayed on it was He Feng, which was very consistent with his style.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that she saw the photo that stayed on the screen of her mobile phone - it was a pair of eyes, very beautiful eyes, clear and bright, with the background of blue water and a fish fin exposed.

It's like a photo taken while standing in a huge surging school of fish, except that in this photo only part of the eyes are visible.

Su Zai Xi gently scratched the palm of his hand with his fingertips, and then saw Xie Huinian calmly picked up the phone. It seemed that he subconsciously looked at the photo for a few seconds before switching off and starting to reply to messages.

The messages were replied very quickly. He Feng sent more than a dozen messages intermittently, but he seemed to have only replied to a few of them, because within half a minute, Xie Huanian had put down his phone and held the screen upside down next to him.

Then he raised his head with extraordinary calmness and composure, and looked into Su Zaixi's eyes.

"Anything else?" he asked.

Without answering this question, Su Zaixi swallowed nervously, then asked after a moment's pause, "Is this the girl you like?"

Xie Huinian did not answer and became silent and quiet again.

There are too many things that can be summarized as "like", and they are too shallow. There are many feelings in this world that are more complex and profound than "like". We are always hesitant to express ourselves and it is difficult to say them out loud.

So Su Zai Xi stopped asking.

After school in the afternoon, Lu finished his homework in the classroom early before leaving. The setting sun enveloped the entire teaching building, and everything was covered with a furry warm halo.

As she stepped out of the teaching building and onto the sidewalk, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out and stood in front of her with a rogue look on his face, with a ruthless smile on his lips, which looked a little creepy even under the warm sunset.

It was Ji Siyuan. Lu Zao Zao held his breath in disgust and wanted to walk around him and go to the side.

Unexpectedly, the other party followed her and moved a few steps to the side, then opened his arms to stop her.

Lu Zaozao was quite tall, just over 1.7 meters tall, and Ji Siyuan didn't seem much taller than her, so Lu Zaozao raised her head slightly and looked at her speechlessly, and asked peacefully, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing." Ji Siyuan said, "It's just that last time you took the initiative to save that Xu Xingzhi, which led to all those things that happened later and embarrassed me. I thought about it and still couldn't bear it. What do you think we should do?"

I know that there are not many people blocking him after school, which doesn't look like a good thing. He will probably be embarrassed again when there are many people around.

Lu Zao Zao's tone was exceptionally calm, as if she was giving him advice sincerely. She looked at him and said slowly, "Then just be patient. If you are patient enough, you will get angry."

After saying that, he swiftly stepped to the side, walked around Ji Siyuan and walked forward.

Suddenly, a nervous laugh came from behind. Then, Lu Zaozao's wrist was grabbed and Ji Siyuan pulled her around. The two of them were face to face. Ji Siyuan looked Lu Zaozao up and down, and suddenly he sneered sharply, "You are Lu Aotian's daughter, right?"

A very firm affirmation.

"It's incredible. When I checked you before, I thought I had checked wrong. I confirmed it several times before I dared to believe it. I knew that besides Lu Qingwan, the Lu family had another child in this school, but I never found him. It turned out to be you."

As he spoke, Ji Siyuan sneered again, "But your explanation also makes sense. No wonder the outside world says that the Lu family hates this daughter so much that they are too lazy to acknowledge her, never let her appear in public news, and never go out with her or have dinner together. Tsk tsk tsk, you look so mediocre, no wonder you are hidden by the Lu family and left to fend for yourself like trash."

After Ji Siyuan finished speaking, he stared at Lu Zaozao. There was not a single fluctuation on that face that could be called ordinary and mediocre. It could even be described as calm and composed.

Those who don’t know would think it’s telling someone else’s story.

"Are you done? If saying these makes you feel accomplished, then you can say more. I don't mind. Anyway, your shattered self-esteem should only rely on this to maintain it."

This kind of thing, which had been confirmed thousands of times in Lu Zaozao's cognition and had already been memorized, could not arouse the slightest ripple in Lu Zaozao at all. It would be a waste of words for anyone to bring it up in different ways.

Ji Siyuan probably didn't expect Lu Zaozao to react like this. A hint of surprise appeared on his disdainful face, but it quickly passed. He clenched Lu Zaozao's shoulders, and his knuckles crackled, like a warning demonstration.

The shoulder blade was pinched and it hurts a lot. There will probably be a large bruise tomorrow. But it doesn't matter. Lu Zaozao's pain tolerance threshold has become very high due to the external and his own adjustments.

And if he doesn't let go, Ji Siyuan might be the one who will suffer more.

Ji Siyuan looked at her with a sinister smile, "What's the difference between a child who is not favored by the Lu family and an abandoned child? Even if I really did something to you today, do you think the Lu family would care about your life?"

"will not."

Lu Zao Zao answered very straightforwardly, but so what?