Just in Time Chapter 56
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 56 Recognize Relatives
Recently, Yun Fang had been too hard on himself, not to mention his hand, he wouldn’t even let Yi Chenliang touch the corner of his clothes.
Yi Chenliang was extremely frustrated, and his gaze towards Yun Fang was full of resentment.
What Yun Fang had said was this: “If you don’t recover to your original level by the next midterm exam, let’s talk about love after the college entrance examination.”
Listen, was this something a human would say!
It was the first time Yi Chenliang had heard that love could be paused, this wasn’t a game.
He listened attentively in class, did his homework diligently after class, and crazily reviewed the knowledge he had learned haphazardly during the previous period during evening self-study. Every day was like living in purgatory.
When you don’t study hard, it’s a very painful thing to make up for it. Yun Fang was even worse off than him. He had to go to the competition class at night, and remedial classes could only be moved to midnight and noon breaks. He had lost a lot of weight.
During the big break, Yun Fang couldn’t solve a chemistry problem, and he didn’t quite understand it even after looking at the answer, so he asked Yi Chenliang for help.
Yi Chenliang couldn’t solve half of it, and he didn’t understand it even after looking at the answer. He took the test paper and ran to ask Ji Shumo.
Ji Shumo was flattered. His grades were average, and the best time was just touching the edge of 600 points. He took the question and studied it carefully for a long time, and then explained it to Yi Chenliang.
Yi Chenliang suddenly realized, patted his shoulder, and said, “Thanks!”
“No, no, no, I dare not.” Ji Shumo said he dared not, but his eyes were shining, “I didn’t expect to hear my Brother Yi say thank you in my lifetime!”
Yi Chenliang didn’t hear his muttering, he ran back without going in, put the test paper in front of Yun Fang, propped one hand on the table and bent over to explain the problem to him.
Yun Fang listened and wrote on the draft paper, and finally turned that corner in his mind, and he was so happy that he chuckled.
Yi Chenliang pointed to the test paper and asked, “Is this the homework assigned by the chemistry teacher today?”
“Um.” Yun Fang nodded and wrote down the answer.
“Darn, you’ve finished already.” Yi Chenliang went in and took out his chemistry test paper, and started working on it with his head down.
“Have you finished your English?” Yun Fang pulled out the English paper from under his arm and looked at it.
“I just finished, I was thinking about going to play some ball.” Yi Chenliang buried his head in his work.
“You don’t need to be so nervous, it’s important to balance work and rest.” Yun Fang checked his English answers and found that he had two multiple-choice questions wrong, so he circled them with a pencil.
“No way.” Yi Chenliang said seriously, “I have to keep up with you at all times.”
“Can you show some ambition?” Yun Fang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “If you have the ability, you can pull me down by twenty or thirty points.”
“No, I want to go to the same university as you.” Yi Chenliang turned his head, his expression extremely serious, “After graduating from university, I will marry you.”
Yun Fang was stunned for a moment, then laughed, “You’re thinking quite far ahead.”
Yi Chenliang asked him back, “Don’t you want to marry me?”
Yun Fang reached out and turned his head away, “You finish this chemistry test paper first.”
Shen Zhouzhou, who was passing by to get water, almost screamed out loud when she overheard their conversation. She held her thermos cup and walked forward, only to hear Yun Fang call out to her, “Shen Zhouzhou.”
Shen Zhouzhou turned around and looked at him calmly, her dead fish eyes as lifeless as ever, “What is it?”
“Hand in the math homework.” Yun Fang handed her two math test papers, “These are mine and Yi Chenliang’s.”
Shen Zhouzhou took the test papers with an expressionless face and turned around and left.
Even if the math teacher came today, she wouldn’t dream of separating these two math test papers!!!
She carefully placed the two test papers on the table, and before she could finish sighing in her heart, a hand reached out and pulled away the test paper on top that belonged to Yi Chenliang.
Su Qingbai laughed, “Yi Chenliang’s test paper?”
Shen Zhouzhou looked at him as if she was looking at a dead person.
Su Qingbai silently put the test paper back, and curled his lips, “You really like him.”
Shen Zhouzhou sneered.
Every day, Yun Fang had to go to the laboratory building for the competition class during evening self-study, which ended ten minutes later than Yi Chenliang’s class. After school in the evening, Yi Chenliang would usually wait for him in the square in front of the laboratory building. This area was rarely passed by boarding students or commuting students. Yi Chenliang habitually stood under the corner street lamp to memorize words.
“Yi Chenliang.”
Yi Chenliang looked up, and Su Qingbai was standing a few steps away, smiling at him. “What’s up?”
“You grew up in Qiushan Orphanage when you were a child, didn’t you?” Although Su Qingbai asked a question, the meaning in his words was very certain.
Yi Chenliang frowned.
“Don’t you think we look quite alike?” Su Qingbai hinted.
Yi Chenliang closed his vocabulary book, “What do you mean?”
“When we were young, our family situation was not very good. Out of desperation, my parents sent my newly born younger brother to Qiushan Orphanage.” Su Qingbai said, “My parents have always felt guilty about that child. They have been looking for him in Wu City for several years, but the Qiushan Orphanage was demolished that year, and many adoption records were lost.”
“But they still found you, and for you, they moved their home here.” There was a faint mockery in Su Qingbai’s eyes, “They also worry that you are reluctant to leave your foster parents and are unwilling to come back, so they made a lot of effort to let me transfer to Class 10 to develop a relationship with you in advance… But now it seems that you are not living well in your foster parents’ home.”
“They want to see you tomorrow.” Su Qingbai smiled, “You must also want to see your biological parents, right?”
The bell for the end of class in the laboratory building rang, and Su Qingbai looked at him with a smile that was not quite a smile, “Of course, I’m not that welcoming for you to come back.”
Yi Chenliang glanced at him lightly, “Move aside, you’re blocking the way.”
Not seeing the incredulity and angry questioning he had expected, Su Qingbai was a bit upset and was about to speak, when a classmate’s voice came from behind, “What’s going on?”
Yun Fang walked up to Yi Chenliang and handed him a box of milk.
Yi Chenliang calmly said, “He suddenly came over to recognize relatives.”
(TL: to recognize relatives who have not seen each other for a long time; claim a family connection)
“Recognize relatives?” Yun Fang glanced at Su Qingbai, “Recognize what realtives?”
Su Qingbai smiled, “Yi Chenliang is my long-lost younger brother.”
Although he didn’t like Yi Chenliang, seeing him with Yun Fang every day was quite annoying.
Yun Fang laughed, “Interesting, it’s like a TV drama.”
“Even TV dramas don’t play out like this.” Yi Chenliang joked, “At least there should be a luxury car and a butler saying ‘Young Master, I’m here to take you home.’”
Yun Fang helplessly said, “I’ve told you to watch less of those messy TV dramas.”
The two of them talked as if no one else was present, which made Su Qingbai’s face turn a bit dark, “Do you know how much hardship our parents went through to find you? And you still have the nerve to laugh?”
Yi Chenliang didn’t even give him a glance. Even if Song Lili and Yi Mingzhi were not good people, they had at least raised him for eight years. Now, listening to Su Qingbai’s complaints here, he was utterly baffled.
Yun Fang put his arm around his shoulder, “Let’s go.”
“Yi Chenliang!” Su Qingbai shouted at him under the streetlamp, “No matter what you think, the blood ties are unbreakable.”
Yi Chenliang didn’t even turn his head.
Su Qingbai’s expression suddenly darkened.