Chapter 16: The Iron Head Divine Skill

Bai YuYang brushed aside the stray hairs on her forehead. Sure enough, a large bump had swollen there. Fortunately, the skin wasn’t broken.

“Hiss… Your coordination is truly terrible. Not only did you fall and scrape your wrist, but you had to hit your head too? Are you a pig or what?!”

“Who are you calling a pig?!”

“Whoever hit their head on a rock is a pig. Oh, my apologies, let me correct myself. At most, you’re a small piglet.”

“You!”

Lin QingYu felt an urge to hit him!

Bai YuYang must have been influenced by Bai YuXi; otherwise, how could he occasionally speak with such hidden malice?

In truth, Bai YuYang was merely trying to divert Lin QingYu’s attention.

This way, when he wiped her forehead with alcohol, the pain would be minimized as much as possible.

“Speaking of which… QingYu, should we go to the hospital for a CT scan? We can’t tell if there’s any problem with your head just by looking. You’re not exactly smart to begin with…”

“Oh, you don’t need to worry about that.” Lin QingYu spoke with newfound confidence. “I’ve hit my head more than once or twice. This is the strongest part of my entire body… Ah… Were you just nonchalantly calling me stupid?!”

“……”

See? She truly didn’t seem very bright.

Yet, jokes aside, Bai YuYang knew the bump on her head was likely not serious. Coincidentally, ever since she was a child, whenever Lin QingYu fell, she would always hit her head.

Over time, she had developed a unique ‘Iron Head Divine Skill’ exclusively for herself.

Whenever she charged forward to attack, she used a headbutt, and her combat power was quite impressive!

*Cough, cough…* Bai YuYang had, in fact, experienced that combat power countless times.

Only after sticking a small square gauze pad onto her forehead did Bai YuYang finally breathe a sigh of relief.

“Phew~ Mission accomplished. All right, QingYu, you’re free now.”

“Hmm? It’s over?”

She sounded as if she was still somewhat unsatisfied.

“Of course it’s over! Ah… Don’t tell me you’ve injured somewhere else? No way, no way, could someone really fall and injure more than three places?!”

“No! And stop being so sarcastic with me!”

“Alright, alright.”

Bai YuYang gathered the medicines, cleared the items from the table, and returned the useful ones to the shelf.

Then, he pointed towards the door. “If you’re fine, let’s go. Although class should have already started, if you feel unwell, you can lie down for a bit. I can pick you up after class.”

“I don’t have a cold or a fever, what’s there to lie down for? Let’s go! Back to class!”

The petite Lin QingYu hopped off the infirmary bed, her short legs dangling, her steps light and carefree, as if the person who had just stumbled on flat ground wasn’t her.

The sky had cleared, the rain had stopped, and she felt ready to conquer the world again.

“Walk properly! I’m genuinely scared watching you walk now.”

“Afraid I’ll fall again?” Lin QingYu didn’t rush to open the infirmary door. Instead, she turned back and joked, “If you’re afraid I’ll fall, why don’t you carry me on your back from now on, YuYang? Haha, I’m not heavy, right? That would be so easy for me; I wouldn’t even have to walk.”

Upon hearing this, Bai YuYang froze.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that Lin QingYu’s joke didn’t sound entirely like a joke.

Perhaps remembering the final choice he made in his previous life, Bai YuYang’s response carried a sudden, subdued tone.

“Even so, I can’t carry you forever. Someday, you’ll have to learn to walk steadily on your own.”

“Hmph!”

To his surprise, Lin QingYu merely grumbled, “Then I apologize! I don’t think I’ll ever be steady in this life, all because you and YuXi keep lecturing me! Enough talk! Let’s go!”

With that, Lin QingYu decisively opened the infirmary door and strode out with an air of utter disregard, leaving elegantly.

Fearing she might fall again, Bai YuYang quickly followed her.

As they exited, they coincidentally encountered the infirmary teacher returning from a meeting.

“Ah, Auntie Zhang, hello! I just borrowed some cotton balls from the infirmary. Just wanted to let you know. Class is starting, so I’ll be heading off now!”

“Hmm?”

Before Teacher Zhang could say anything, Bai YuYang rushed off to catch up with Lin QingYu.

Teacher Zhang gazed after them from a distance.

‘Was that Bai YuYang? The school’s celebrity.’

She had been puzzled when she saw the small girl storming out of the infirmary earlier.

Only when Bai YuYang chased after her did she finally understand.

“Oh, ho! I knew it! This Bai YuYang definitely has a little girlfriend, and Old Liu didn’t believe me! Oh, my~ Youth is truly wonderful~”

Bai YuYang could never have imagined that there was gossip about him circulating among the teachers’ circles.

***

When the two returned to the classroom, the first period of morning class had already begun.

Seeing that it was Bai YuYang who was late, the teacher didn’t ask many questions. He was the top student in his grade, after all; he certainly wouldn’t have run off to play.

So, after a call for ‘Report,’ the two of them returned to their respective seats.

Bai YuYang occasionally glanced towards Lin QingYu, a sense of vexation lingering within him.

To this day, he couldn’t ascertain whether Lin QingYu, or even Xiao Xi and Tang Qihuang, had truly been reborn.

He couldn’t just ask them directly, could he? Even asking directly would be useless.

At least from their current behavior, it seemed they didn’t possess any memories from their past lives.

That raised a question for Bai YuYang: if Lin QingYu hadn’t been reborn, then at this stage, what were her true feelings for him?

‘Could QingYu have liked me since sophomore year of high school?’

This conjecture arose because of the things she had said in the infirmary earlier, which forced Bai YuYang to consider the possibility.

‘Sigh… it seems I need to be more thorough in my considerations.’

This math class slowly drew to a close as Bai YuYang’s thoughts drifted far away.

Despite not listening to a single word of the lesson, the exercises and test papers beneath his hands had long been completed with exceptional quality.

Yes, this was the leisure of a top student.

Especially in mathematics, Bai YuYang’s high school scores in his previous life had consistently placed him first in his grade. Now, having experienced the college entrance examination once already, tests were even less of a challenge.

‘Huh? If that’s the case, will the questions for next year’s college entrance examination be the same as in my previous life?’

‘My score would definitely improve!’

‘Was I the top scorer in the college entrance examination in my previous life? Oh, then never mind.’

It was while he was pondering these random thoughts that the break between classes arrived.

Bai YuYang kept feeling a gaze upon him.

He put down his pen, looked up in surprise, and found several girls encircling his seat.

They were girls he wasn’t particularly familiar with in the class.

‘What are they doing?’

“Um… what is this?” Bai YuYang asked, puzzled.

The girls exchanged glances, seemingly discussing who should speak.

Not long after, a short-haired girl in the center stepped forward as their representative.

She was clearly shy speaking to Bai YuYang, even taking a deep breath first.

‘Just speak. Why are you all acting so formal?’

“Class monitor!” The student finally spoke. “We hope you won’t bully Lin QingYu! Be nicer to her. You two are childhood sweethearts, aren’t you? You should have some feelings for each other!”

“?”

Bai YuYang was utterly bewildered.

“Classmate Zhou Fan… right? Could you be more specific? How am I bullying Lin QingYu… *ahem*, Classmate Lin QingYu.”

“Class monitor, how can you have such an attitude! Even if you’re handsome, study well, and are good at everything, you can’t just do whatever you want!”

“???”

‘Are you here to praise me or scold me?!’

The girl circled around for a while before finally getting to the point:

“Look, Classmate Lin QingYu went out with you just now and came back covered in injuries. Didn’t you bully her? Although we don’t know what happened between you, you shouldn’t hit her! She’s so tiny, how could she possibly endure it?”

“……”

‘Oh, I get it.’

The clever Bai YuYang immediately understood.

Hadn’t he been rushing to bandage Lin QingYu’s wounds earlier? So, when he pulled her out, he was a bit rough, and because he was in a hurry and Lin QingYu wasn’t cooperating, he must have looked angry.

‘So you all thought I was bullying her?!’

‘It’s a misunderstanding! I’ve been wronged!’

‘It’s more likely she’d hit me. How would I dare hit her? That’s simply preposterous.’

‘Alright, since it’s come to this, I’ll explain things to you properly today.’