To Burn On Touch

lled the homeroom teacher.

Chu Mian didn’t care and continued to focus on his own affairs.
He didn’t expect to hear Zhou Weixi immediately mention Yu Ran’s name, and it directly attracted his attention.

After Zhou Weixi hung up the call, he turned his head and found that Chu Mian had already stood up. 

Chu Mian asked: “Where’s Yu Ran?”

“I don’t know, I directly came here to tell the teacher after he left.”

Chu Mian didn’t ask more, and immediately left the classroom.

He knew the school structure fairly well, and remembered some of the blind spots of the cameras.
After looking for them one by one, only the inconspicuous old equipment room was left.
The door was usually locked here, but now there were two boys wandering around, as if they were on the lookout. 

Chu Mian walked over and was unexpectedly not stopped by the two of them.
After that, he opened the door without thinking, and a damp smell wafted to his face.

The people inside subconsciously turned their heads and looked over.
When their eyes met, both sides were taken aback.

 

Seeing Yu Ran standing there safe and sound, Chu Mian was relieved for the time being.
But Yu Ran hadn’t expected Chu Mian to show up.
He didn’t know how to react for a while, so he only whispered to him: “Hurry up and leave.”

Cai Hanchuan and Huang Feng were even more surprised than Yu Ran.
They were just wondering how to make Yu Ran call Chu Mian, but Chu Mian directly came to the right place.
Cai Hanchuan asked Yu Ran in surprise: “Fuck, how did you call him, telepathy?” 

Chu Mian looked at Cai Hanchuan.
His voice didn’t have any inflections: “Is there something wrong, senior?”

Cai Hanchuan made a gesture to his fellow attendants, and several of them immediately pressed Yu Ran’s arms and shoulders to keep him from moving.

“You started a conflict that time and left me with a concussion.” Cai Hanchuan pointed to his head.
“If you fucking obediently give in today, we’ll put everything behind us and let bygones be bygones.”

Chu Mian glanced at them coldly and said, “I don’t think that this has anything to do with Yu Ran.” 

Without waiting for Cai Hanchuan to respond, Yu Ran directly cursed at them.
He wanted to continue to say something, but his mouth was directly covered by several people around him, and he was pushed to a corner and pressed against a shelf.

Huang Feng was still fiddling with his lighter.
He tore off a page of the sketchbook and set it on fire, and that page quickly turned to ashes.

Chu Mian didn’t notice him at first.
After smelling the burning smell, he was shocked to discover that all the objects scattered on the ground were all Yu Ran’s, including the sketchbook in Huang Feng’s hands.

It turned out that Yu Ran had brought the sketchbook today… It was just that he himself was unable to make it in time to take a look at it. 

Chu Mian was startled, and blurted out: “Don’t touch his things.”

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Huang Feng raised his eyebrows, then his head, and finally raised the sketchbook in his hand, “This?”

Chu Mian knew that it was something that carried Yu Ran’s dream.

— He had made a promise with me to realize the dream together. 

His chest was a little stuffy.
He tried his best to endure the anger that was rising at the moment, and said gloomily: “Don’t touch it.”

“Okay, you just need to be well-behaved and let our Brother Han blow off his steam, and I won’t burn the rest.” Huang Feng lifted his thumb from the lighter, and his eyes moved to Yu Ran in the corner.
“Yu Ran, just watch it well.”

Chu Mian stood in place and didn’t speak.
Cai Hanchuan regarded this as him acquiescing to the negotiation condition.
He smiled and moved his wrist before getting up and walking towards Chu Mian.

Yu Ran was held in the corner by a few seniors and he tried to break them away with all his strength.
His brain had long lost the ability to think anything else, and the only thought he had was “I can’t let anyone hurt Chu Mian”.
Just hearing the tone of Huang Feng threatening Chu Mian, his anger spread rapidly through his internal organs. 

He opened his eyes wide when he saw Cai Hanchuan’s fist swinging straight towards Chu Mian’s profile—

There was a muffled “bam”, and everyone in the equipment room couldn’t help but freeze.

 

Cai Hanchuan instinctively opened his mouth wide to breathe.
His nose was suddenly painful, and his vision blurred.
He tasted a strong bloody taste in his mouth.
Blood seemed to be gushing out from his nose and falling to the floor one after another.

Yu Ran instantly forgot to struggle and stared at Chu Mian intently, watching him kick Cai Hanchuan’s knee, causing the opponent to half-kneel on the ground. 

“Fuck, you’re fucking looking for death.” Huang Feng glared at him and stood up.
The sketchbook in his hand had been forgotten by him and slipped from his hand.

Chu Mian did not speak.
He also did not have time to respond.
The other party took this as an opportunity to punch him in the belly.
The pain was tolerable for the time being and Chu Mian did not flinch.
He raised his elbow neatly and hit Huang Feng’s throat below his Adam’s apple, making him retch and his eyes water.

Chu Mian held his breath to avoid inhaling too much bacteria in this room.
He stepped forward and grabbed Huang Feng’s collar, relied on inertia to make the opponent take a few steps back, then raised his leg to attack the location of the hip bone.

It was not that Huang Feng didn’t try to fight back, but it was just that not only was Chu Mian able to withstand the pain, he was also able to attack critical points of the human body in the next second without reserve.
Especially when places such as the throat and stomach were in pain, it would affect a person’s ability to put strength into their arm.
Huang Feng had only let down his guard slightly and Chu Min grasped the opportunity to press his head onto the ground. 

He opened his eyes and saw the gloomy expression of the young man.

In order to keep his emotions from fluctuating too much, Chu Mian now had no choice but to let his mind go blank to avoid a cataplectic attack.
He pinched Huang Feng’s neck with his five slender fingers, and then slowly said, “Don’t touch Yu Ran’s belongings.
Also, don’t threaten me.”

Chu Mian’s voice was so low that it was almost hoarse, and even Yu Ran almost couldn’t tell that it was him.

The few people who had restrained Yu Ran had already unknowingly eased their strength.
Some people hadn’t even reacted to the fact that two people, Cai Hanchuan and Huang Feng, had actually lost so easily to a seemingly well-mannered boy in front of them. 

Chu Mian stood up and walked to the side, bent over and hurriedly stuffed Yu Ran’s things back into his school bag, then turned to look at him.

The two looked at each other silently.

It was completely dark, the students had long gone home one after another, and there was no one on the playground.

Several parents gathered in the bright office, and even the director who was off work rushed back to the school to investigate the situation with the parties involved. 

When Chu Heng found Chu Mian, he was sitting in the stairwell with another boy next to him.
She walked over worriedly, put a hand on Chu Mian, and took a close look at his exposed skin.
“Miēmiē, are you hurt anywhere?”

“I’m fine.”

“Where’s your director’s office, Miēmiē?” Chu Heng covered her forehead anxiously.
“Is the student you hit okay? Has he been taken to the hospital?”

“Yeah.” Chu Mian nodded.
“It shouldn’t be too serious… Don’t worry.” 

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Chu Heng didn’t even have time to gasp for breath, she immediately went to the director’s office.

Chu Mian sat down again next to Yu Ran, and the two continued to look through the sketchbook.

 

Chu Mian squeezed the thickness of the sketchbook.
It had about two hundred pages, and was full of drawings.
There were drawings of many anime characters as well as pure scenery.
Although not every drawing was refined, the lines and colors were complete.

The last page of the sketchbook was a scene of a school under the blue sky and white clouds, surrounded by lush green trees.
The drawing was rich in colors but not flamboyant, and it looked very refreshing. 

Chu Mian asked, “Is this a drawing of your junior high school?”

“The location of the school building is, but the others aren’t,” Yu Ran said, “There weren’t so many trees in my junior high school, the walls weren’t clean, a lot of glass on the building was broken, and the sky was always cloudy.”

“I don’t think cloudy days have anything to do with your school.
It’s not like it was cursed.”

Yu Ran straightened up immediately, and with a serious expression, he said, “Really, now that I recall junior high school, the image is all cloudy and rainy, very strange!” 

After he finished speaking, he lowered his shoulders, looked at the school he drew, and told Chu Mian: “My ideal school is like this.
There are no exams, no homework, and I can be happy every day.”

Chu Mian glanced at him.
“You have homework and exams now.
Are you unhappy every day?”

“I’m happy, because I can play with everyone,” Yu Ran replied sincerely, “It’s also because I go to the cafeteria every morning.
It doesn’t matter whether I finish my homework or not.
I’m in a good mood when I see my friends in the morning.”

Chu Mian continued to flip the pages and saw the missing page, with only a row of narrow jagged edges remaining. 

“What was drawn on this page before, do you remember?”

“Hmm… No impression,” Yu Ran shrugged and said relaxedly, “Anyway, I drew this whole sketchbook casually.
One missing page is just one missing page, it doesn’t matter.”

The more Chu Mian thought about it, the more he regretted it.
It would have been good if he had reminded Yu Ran to give him the sketchbook as soon as he had arrived this morning.
That way, that one page wouldn’t have been burned and trampled on by others.

After his mind became clear at this point, the accumulated anger in his chest finally took shape. 

His fingers turned soft, and with his last ounce of strength, he fell on Yu Ran’s shoulder.

Yu Ran hugged him and asked anxiously, “What’s the matter?”

“Nothing really.” Chu Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s just a cataplectic attack, I’m a little tired.”

Yu Ran realized that Chu Mian’s hair was a bit messy, so he reached out to help him smooth it out.
“Will your aunt scold you when you return home?” 

“No, she has always been gentle to me since I was young.” Chu Mian’s mouth was very close to Yu Ran’s ears, so he softened his voice.
“Painting is very important to her as well.
If she knew that others had torn your work casually, she’ll only blame me for not hitting them hard enough.”

Yu Ran nodded and asked, “Does she usually like animals?”

 

“The snakes I keep have to be 20 meters away from her, and she seems to be quite scared of other animals too.”

Yu Ran felt puzzled: “Then why does she always say ‘Miēmiē‘ like a sheep to you?” 

Chu Mian was dumbfounded, and a quick blush of shame overran his face.

In order to prevent Yu Ran from realizing that Miēmiē was his nickname, Chu Mian quickly found a reason: “She…loves to act young.”