Chapter 8: Confession of the Pet Church 3
"Silver College... Silver College..." I pushed the big black-framed glasses on my nose. In my hand, I held the information about Bai Xiaocong's previous school that I asked Lu Zhan to look up for me. I took A Baibai and sneaked like a thief to the Silver College, a private aristocratic school in Baoshi City that is as famous as Baoshi College.
Because I came here on the weekend, there didn't seem to be many people in the school at this time.
I sneaked into the school through the unguarded school gate and hid behind a tree.
"Xiaoduo, the library of Baiyin College is open to off-campus students on weekends. You don't need to disguise yourself like this and sneak in—" A Baibai rolled his eyes at me and shook his body in dissatisfaction.
"Shh - keep your voice down, we are not here to read books, we are here to investigate!" I said to Abaibai seriously, then took out a pen and notebook and tapped its head gently.
"Okay, we have successfully arrived at the Silver Academy, so our 'Sky Eye Project' has officially begun!" I said in a low voice.
"What is the 'Sky Eye Project'?" Abaibai asked again.
"It means to fully understand Bai Xiaocong's plan!" Looking at A Baibai who was totally out of form, I couldn't help but sigh - my teammates are totally useless!
I resigned myself to the fact that I had spent three cans of cat food and asked the "Cat Boss" of Baiyin College to "borrow" the campus map from the principal's office, and began to look for the class that Bai Xiaocong had attended that year.
According to the information Lu Zhan found, Bai Xiaocong should be studying in the academic master class of Baiyin College - although today is the weekend, I still want to see the classroom where Bai Xiaocong took classes back then. If I knew the seat he sat in before - hehehe -
"Xiaoduo, why are you drooling?" Abaibai stretched out his paw and pushed my hand.
"Ah, nothing, I have found the location of Bai Xiaocong's class!" I came to my senses, pointed to a location on the map and told A Baibai.
Before Abaibai asked again, I put away the map, covered its mouth, held it in my arms, and rushed to the destination.
In the empty teaching building, it was so quiet that only the sound of my footsteps could be heard.
“Pah, pah—”
Walking in such a place, my heart couldn't help but beat to the rhythm of my footsteps.
Bai Xiaocong's class should be in the northernmost classroom on the third floor of the teaching building. While looking at the map, I paid attention to the class number hanging on the classroom door.
"Class A ... Class A..." I muttered as I searched.
"Are you looking for someone from Class A?" a voice came from behind me.
"Ah——" I never thought that anyone would talk to me, so the moment I heard the voice behind me, I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my throat.
"Yes, I'm sorry..." the voice said timidly, "Because I saw that you have been looking for Class A, but you are going in the wrong direction, so I want to tell you..."
I looked up and saw a girl wearing a white shirt, a gray plaid skirt, pigtails and glasses, twisting her fingers and looking at me timidly.
"Ah, thank you..."
I actually met students from Silver College in the teaching building on the weekend! Should I say I am lucky or unlucky?
"You're welcome. I just happen to be going to the classroom as well."
The girl I met by chance took me around a corner, and Class A, which I had never been able to find before, suddenly appeared in front of me.
"Because the design of this building is quite unique, people who come here for the first time will get lost!" The girl pushed her glasses, smiled at me, and walked into the classroom.
"Ah——" I still have something to ask.
I reached out my hand to keep the girl, but as soon as I stepped into the classroom door, I suddenly felt a sense of time dislocation.
So I left the classroom, took out my cell phone, and looked at the time again: Sunday PM 14:23.
It is the weekend, right? Why is the classroom full of people at this time?
When I stepped into the classroom again, the students who were reading seriously looked up at me.
"Yes... sorry to bother you, please continue!" I stood awkwardly at the door and made an apologetic gesture to them.
As expected of a class of top students, they even come here to study on weekends...
"Bai Xiaocong...will he also study on weekends?"
"Huh, Bai Xiaocong is a genius, how could he study with us!" When a sour voice responded to me, I realized that I had said what I was thinking without realizing it.
I turned to look at the person who was talking. That person was sitting near the door. He must have just heard what I said and couldn't help but respond to me.
"Classmate, do you know Bai Xiaocong?" I put A Baibai aside and asked the male classmate with a "nerd face" who had just spoken.
"Who doesn't know the weirdo Bai Xiaocong? Not only our class, but everyone in the school knows him—" Hearing us discussing Bai Xiaocong, the classmate with the "nerd face" deskmate couldn't help but join us, "On the first day of school, he introduced himself by saying 'I need an opponent, not a low-IQ classmate. Don't discuss stupid issues with me'—Who does he think he is?"
"Ah?" I blinked and thought about the Bai Xiaocong standing on the podium and speaking domineeringly, and compared her with the soft Bai Xiaocong I knew, and found that I couldn't imagine it at all.
"That's fine, but I can't stand his self-righteous attitude! Every time the teacher finishes explaining the exercises at the podium, he looks sarcastic and gives more than 4 solutions - I know you're smart, but do you have to show off like this? It's as if all of us are idiots. The reason we can get into Class A is the result of our hard work every day!"
"Don't you think his eyes are super scary? It seems that no matter what you say to him, he knows it, as if there are no secrets in front of him at all!"
"Yes, yes, I feel the same way..."
"He is indeed very scary. Sometimes I feel like he is not even from Earth! Fortunately, he dropped out of school..."
"In his eyes, we never exist. It's as if we are just a prop around him!"
"As long as he participates in any competition, he will definitely win first place. Others have no chance at all..."
"I heard that he likes to tinker with some weird things..."
"So what if he's a genius? He has no emotional intelligence at all. If the teacher didn't think he was just a tool to win awards, he wouldn't be nice to him!"
"It was too stressful to be in the same class with him. Fortunately, he is no longer here..."
Originally it was just a discussion among a few people, I don't know when it became a public discussion. I just wanted to do a small survey, but I didn't expect it to become a "Bai Xiaocong Condemnation Meeting"...
how so?
The students around me were still discussing, but I didn't hear a word of what they said.
The buzzing sound of voices formed a web that bound my brain tightly and made it impossible for me to think about anything.
So...Bai Xiaocong dropped out of school?
Because he was not happy at all in this school.
Even though he was an excellent student, he did not enjoy the happiness of being an excellent student at all... Because he was too smart, too outstanding, and too sharp, to others he was a rival, an enemy, and a freak beyond ordinary people.
I suddenly thought of Lu Zhan again. He was also the top student in everyone's heart at the Gemological Academy, but the treatment he received was indeed completely different from Bai Xiaocong...
I don’t remember how I said goodbye . Anyway, when I came to my senses, I was already sitting by the pool in the center of Baiyin Academy. A Baibai was standing by my side, looking at me with a worried look on his face.
"I'm fine..." I tried hard to force a smile, touched Abaibai's head and comforted it.
My heart felt like it was being tightly gripped by a huge hand, making it hard for me to breathe.
The Bai Xiaocong in my mind who always wore cute animal pajamas, had a super cute personality, and had clean and clear eyes disappeared. Instead, a Bai Xiaocong with a pale face and a body that seemed to be covered with cold mist appeared in my mind.
Two shallots, but both shallots...
Bai Xiaocong, who is well aware of the weaknesses of human nature but unwilling to compromise, and is aloof and persistent, is unhappy because of this, right?
No one went home from school with him, no one greeted him, and no one was willing to share the octopus sausage in the lunch box with him...
"That's too much." I grabbed my clothes with one hand and muttered to myself, not knowing whether I was talking about Bai Xiaocong's classmates or myself.
Because, before today, I was still avoiding him because I was afraid that Bai Xiaocong would know my true feelings. At that time, Bai Xiaocong must have been sensitive enough to notice it, right? However, he didn't say anything...
What kind of mood was he in when he spoke to me so calmly?
"Xiaoduo, will you... still like Xiaocong after you know he is a freak?" Abaibai sat next to me, looking at me with her big watery eyes without blinking, shaking her body restlessly.
"How could it be--" I hastily denied, "How could I be--No, Bai Xiaocong is not a freak, he is just smarter than anyone else..."
"Everyone in the Huali family has superpowers that others don't have. Everyone thinks that they should be perfect, but... they are also human beings. As humans, they will feel joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. They will eat when they are hungry, laugh when they are happy, and cry when they are sad. Even if they are people with superpowers in the intelligent brain, they have their flaws. What I want to say is, if... you are not afraid to face Bai Xiaocong like that, try to accept him... I think Xiaocong likes you too..." A Baibai said in a low voice.
"Like... me? How is that possible?" I widened my eyes and shook my head, "I'm so ordinary..."
"Really, really..." Abaibai stood up, pressed his front paws on my legs, and his body trembled slightly with excitement. "I'm really not lying to you. Since Xiaocong met you, he has changed completely. He is no longer like before, stubbornly locking himself in the circle he drew. At least he is willing to step out of his world for you..."
As Abaibai spoke, his eyes glowed slightly red.
"I can't explain it with my mouth. I shared my memories with you. See for yourself!"
Abaibai's voice suddenly appeared in my mind, and then a series of pictures appeared in front of my eyes:
It turns out that every time I turn around, Bai Xiaocong will silently guard me from behind. Even when we are walking on the side of the road without cars, he will still stubbornly go around to the outside of me, as if he is always guarding me...
After helping a small animal, I smiled, and Bai Xiaocong would also look at me gently and smile knowingly...
When I help my parents feed and bathe the animals in the clinic, as long as Bai Xiaocong is there, the process is always very fast. I always thought it was because there was one more person. After reading A Baibai's memory, I realized that the reason why I was so fast was because Bai Xiaocong would carefully observe my needs every time and hand me the tools I needed before I even opened my mouth, saving me all the preparation time...
After seeing how happy I was after eating, he would quietly move all the things I liked to my side...
Under the desk lamp, he was making a pet robot with a smile on his face, painting it, and mumbling something like "I wonder if Xiaoduo will like it"...
All perspectives are seen from Abaibai's point of view. The white onion in its eyes is completely different from what I know...
Such white onions are gentle, careful, and tolerant.
He would look at me tenderly, accompany me to do what I wanted to do, carefully observe my needs, and silently guard me by my side. Even when I was making a fuss unreasonably, he would just silently guard me without saying a word.
He did so much for me, but he never told me.
Just like the snowflakes in winter, the early rains in spring, the cool breezes in summer and the fallen leaves in autumn, they moisten everything silently. Such selfless love given silently touches my heart more than a truckload of roses and a hundred passionate confessions.
"So...stupid..." I sniffed and couldn't help but cry.
"Ah Baibai, I've made up my mind," I took a deep breath and looked at Ah Baibai, "I...no matter what Bai Xiaocong thinks of me, I must confess to him!"
I, Xiao Xiaoduo, made such a big decision for the first time in my life.
