ommander didn’t show any kindness, and only logically said, “Then you can do his share.”

Chu Mian didn’t hesitate, and directly leaned over on the ground, thinking about the number in his heart.

Seeing the anxious expression on Yu Ran’s eyes, the company commander ordered him: “Don’t you like to stick to him? Go and sit on his back.”

Yu Ran was taken aback, and curses immediately came to his mouth. Fortunately, Chu Mian spoke in time to draw his attention back: “Yu Ran, listen to the company commander.”

Yu Ran reluctantly stood up and walked to Chu Mian’s side. He didn’t sit down directly, but kept a slight distance from Chu Mian’s back, to avoid putting his weight on the other party.

But his foul play was very obvious to the bystanders. In order to prevent the two of them from being punished more, the instructor simply came over and sternly advised Yu Ran: “If you want to release his burden, you should be well-behaved and listen to your superior. He told you to sit down, so you should just sit down!”

Yu Ran remained silent and straightened his neck. Chu Mian felt his rebellious mood and had to call him softly, “Yu Ran, sit down.”

Only then did the young man’s expression ease. He endured his irritability, and pressed down his body weight.

Chu Mian usually exercised a lot at home, but since he was afraid of accidents during military training, he didn’t bother to train with everyone. With his arm strength and waist strength, he could do standard push-ups even if he was bearing Yu Ran’s weight, but he knew that Yu Ran was worried about him, so he also became restless.

“Stop!” A few minutes later, the company commander finally gave the order.

Just as Yu Ran was about to get up, Chu Mian propped up on the ground, and reminded him again: “Don’t move, he didn’t tell us to get up.”

The company commander paced around them, warning them loudly and at the same time letting everyone hear: “In the army, discipline is above all else! Military orders must be obeyed and cannot be resisted! Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards..”

He admonished all the students present about the importance of discipline articulately. Yu Ran listened absently, his eyes all focused on Chu Mian, and he didn’t even notice that the company commander had already arrived in front of him.

“You,” a loud voice resounded above his head, “You’re a student in the experimental class, and you must play an exemplary role! Don’t let others think that you can only study!”

Yu Ran raised his head in surprise. “I don’t know how to, ah.”

Chu Mian frowned, “Don’t talk back.”

Yu Ran immediately closed his mouth and looked directly into the company commander’s eyes.

When the company commander finished speaking, his anger subsided, and the two of them were finally able to get off and stand up, but they were punished with writing two thousand words of review. They needed to go back and write it now and hand it in tonight.

After leaving the sight of the leaders, Yu Ran rushed up and asked Chu Mian with concern: “Does your back hurt?”

“It doesn’t.”

“And does it hurt when you bend over?”

“No.”

“Okay.” Yu Ran put his mind at ease, grabbed Chu Mian’s wrist, and said with a smile on his face, “Then, let’s go steal some vegetables.”

“..” Chu Mian was speechless and turned his head to stare at Yu Ran in surprise.

“Why are you staring at me? Didn’t I say yesterday that I wanted to eat hot pot?”

“You—” Chu Mian was rendered speechless by his innocent reaction, and nearly collapsed suddenly from weakness in his limbs. “Yu Ran, is it your hobby to court death?”

“My hobby is to eat hot pot.”

“Let’s eat when we go back, I’ll take you to eat.”

“No,” Yu Ran giggled, “It’s exciting to eat in the dormitory.”

Chu Mian really wanted to punch him right now.

Today, the sky was clear, the wildflowers on the roadside had long decayed, and the withered grass swayed in the wind, waiting for the rebirth of spring.

On the way to the field, Yu Ran chattered endlessly: “Look at you, always like this. Your mouth says no, but your body sure is damn honest. You obviously want to eat hot pot, but I still have to beg you to come along.”

Chu Mian was no longer in the mood to care about him, and secretly planned to beat up Yu Ran one day, but Yu Ran’s physique was too resistant to being beaten, and it was very likely that Yu Ran would even enjoy getting beaten at the same time.

In short, the other party was a troublesome Muggle.

When they reached the vegetable shed near the base, Yu Ran stopped. He let Chu Mian stay in the same place to act as a lookout, and went in to poke around by himself.

Chu Mian came along because he was worried that Yu Ran would cause trouble if he went by himself, but no matter what he didn’t want to do anything like stealing, so he was okay with helping him by keeping an eye on things.

After Yu Ran went in, Chu Mian squatted on the ground alone to pick up some stems.

He picked up two stems and linked them like the way chain links were linked together. In one hand, he held both ends of one stem and in the other hand, he did the same with the other stem. Then, he exerted force outwards. When one of them got broken, he went to find a new one, and repeated this again and again, to verify which stem was the most invincible of them all.

After breaking dozens of stems, pressure marks had appeared on his fingers. He looked up and finally saw Yu Ran leisurely walking towards him.

..leading a donkey by the reins.

Chu Mian put the stems into his pocket, strode forward and slapped Yu Ran’s hand holding the reins, and yelled at him with a cold expression: “Let’s hurry back.”

“Donkey meat is delicious!” Yu Ran deliberately licked his lips.

Seeing Chu Mian’s handsome face gradually showing anger and irritation, Yu Ran was afraid that the other party would be offended, and quickly told the truth: “Oh, don’t be angry, this donkey was lent to me by the vegetable growing uncle. He let it carry meat and vegetables. Look—”

Yu Ran turned around and lifted the cloth on the back of the black donkey. “He also sent me some condiments. Do you eat coriander?”

Chu Mian turned his face away, and Yu Ran picked up a cabbage and stuffed it into his arms. “Carry this.”

The two hurriedly returned to the vicinity of the dormitory building, and Yu Ran asked Chu Mian to go upstairs with all the ingredients, while he went back by himself to return the donkey.

Chu Mian went up the steps of the building and looked around to check for any instructor or teacher, but suddenly noticed a familiar figure on the other side of the perimeter wall.

This was the male dormitory, and girls were not allowed to enter and leave. Offenders would be punished with at least 50 squats. When Chu Mian saw that Cui He seemed to be arguing with someone, he hesitated for a few seconds before walking over to confirm the situation.

“At any rate, shouldn’t you at least pay fucking attention to proceeding step by step in a relationship? We confirmed our relationship just yesterday and have yet to hold hands, but you want to use your mouth already?” Cui He stroked her hair impatiently, and squinted at the boy in front of her.

Cai Hanchuan smiled crookedly, grabbed her slender wrist hard, and spoke in a low voice: “You mean like this? Baby, come over and open your mouth.”

“Don’t touch me.” Cui He shook him off. “We’re breaking up, I don’t want to talk to you.”

Cai Hanchuan’s expression turned dark. He clasped Cui He’s jaw with his palm, and forced her to look at him: “Fuck, we’ve only been together for less than 24 hours, are you playing with me?”

Feeling that he was going to force himself upon her, Cui He was a little out of breath and stared at him with wide eyes: “You, you have to follow a process for falling in love! So much intimacy in the beginning of a relationship, which girl can stand it—”

Before she could finish her sentence, the pain in her jaw abruptly decreased, and Cai Hanchuan’s hand suddenly broke away from her. Something flashed across her eyes, and then she heard a “bang”. When she looked up, she saw Cai Hanchuan’s head being held down and slammed straight into the red brick wall once again.

Debris fell from the wall rapidly, making a rustling sound.

Cai Hanchuan saw stars and couldn’t react to what had happened for a long time, until he heard Cui He calling “Chu Mian” from behind.

Cai Hanchuan had some impression of this name.

He had also acknowledged many girls in his grade as his younger sisters. From the beginning of school year to the present, they had successively sent confession letters to a boy in senior year one, but all the love letters were like stones dropped into the sea — there was no response at all. Cai Hanchuan had originally wanted to help them teach this kind of pretentious junior a lesson but later, because of a conflict with Yu Ran, a group of teachers stared at him every day. He had no chance to stroll around the first year students, so he had to give up.

“So it’s fucking you.” Cai Hanchuan’s anger had reached its peak, which he tried his best to suppress. He looked up and stared dead at Chu Mian.

“You know me?” Chu Mian didn’t let go of his hand, he just raised an eyebrow at him.

Cai Hanchuan sneered: “Why wouldn’t I know? You’re in the first year experimental class, a classmate of Yu Ran, that trash.”

He clenched his fists, ready to do his best to smash Chu Mian’s delicate face in the next second. However, before the corners of his mouth were raised, the other party had already pulled his hair and ruthlessly slammed his head against the wall again.

Cai Hanchuan instantly lost his voice.

When his ears were ringing, Cai Hanchuan felt the boy leaning towards his ears and saying slowly: “I don’t have a problem with you calling Yu Ran a trash, but don’t compare him with me.”

Cui He glanced nervously at Chu Mian’s face from the side, and couldn’t help but persuade him: “Chu Mian, forget it, pay attention to your emotions.”

“It’s okay.” Chu Mian glanced at her. “I’m in a pretty good mood right now, I haven’t vented in a long time.”

Cui He’s heart sank and she sighed deeply.

She knew that Chu Mian was not someone who liked violence, and he was usually well-behaved. Ever since he suffered from narcolepsy, he always forced himself to maintain a peaceful state of mind — he avoided getting angry, and didn’t easily express joy and sorrow, so as not to aggravate the symptoms.

But being calm on the surface did not mean that he could completely digest his negative emotions. Once these energies accumulated to a critical point in the teenager’s body, they would be ignited and get out of control. Until it got cleared, his state of mind wouldn’t get better.

Today, Chu Mian was angry with Yu Ran many times, and he was worried that he didn’t have a sandbag to vent himself with during military training.

But he didn’t want to hurt Cai Hanchuan too much, so he pulled the other party’s hair, pressed him firmly to the ground, and calmly discussed: “In the future, it’s better not to bully the first years. What do you say, senior?”

Cai Hanchuan felt a chill down his spine. His heart was palpitating, and the pain of his Adam’s apple against the ground made him want to vomit.

“Yu Ran told me that he didn’t fight back because of his belief. It’s stupid, right? I know you think so, because I think so too.”

Chu Mian looked down at Cai Hanchuan, and added weight to his palms, causing the other party’s face to grind over the rough gravel on the ground. “Obviously there’s only one reason why he didn’t fight back.. that is, he can’t beat you.”

Cui He tilted her head to the side, unable to look at the scene, but she could still hear Cai Hanchuan’s groans of pain.

After a while, she said cautiously: “Chu Mian.. I think it’s time to stop.”

“Yeah.” The teenager stood up, took out a tissue to wipe the dirt on his palms, and commented on her boyfriend-selection criteria in passing: “You always have such bad taste.”

Cui He stared at Chu Mian intently, and tentatively asked, “What were you laughing at when you hit him just now?”

Chu Mian paused, and replied in confusion, “I didn’t laugh.”

Cui He was stunned, suspecting that she might have seen it wrong.

Chu Mian picked up a few plastic bags on the ground, held a cabbage, and said, “I’m going back first. I still have to write a two thousand word review.”

“Oh,” Cui He nodded, “What are you holding in your hand?”

“Hot pot ingredients.”

“Huh?” Cui He was puzzled. “Ea-eating hot pot in the military training dormitory?”

Chu Mian coughed. “Yu Ran came up with the idea, it has nothing to do with me.”

“..”

Cui He looked at Chu Mian’s clearly expectant expression. She couldn’t believe that he would do such a rebellious thing.

— It was so out of mind that it could be included in the ten wonders of the world.