Chapter 223: Through the park
Chapter 223: Through the park
"Good morning, Meifeng."
Hearing Lu Chen shouting at her, Feng Meifeng greets back, "Good morning to you as well."
"..." Silence took over. After greeting each other, the two didn't know what else to say to the other, leading to the silent awkwardness.
"Well, I'm going to go to school now. Later." Not wanting to stick around any longer in the situation, Lu Chen was about to run.
Before he could, Feng Meifeng pinched the ends of his uniform.
"Hmm? What is it?" Lu Chen was confused as to why she grabbed him.
"Let's walk to school together." The moment Feng Meifeng said this, Lu Chen looks at her with a frown.
"Why? If you still feel guilty about what happened to me, you don't need to worry about it. You've done more than enough for me." Getting tutored by her at the hospital was enough payment.
Actually, there wasn't a need for repayment from her.
When Feng Meifeng heard that, she frowns, "I'm not doing this out of payment."
'Then why?" Remembering what she said about how she needed to focus during this time, her asking to walk with him is the complete opposite.
"..." 'Why am I doing this?'
Hearing Lu Chen's question, Feng Meifeng doesn't seem to realize why she was doing this. Seeing the dumb expression Lu Chen has, she shouts,
"Because I want to! Got a problem with that?!" She doesn't understand but being questioned by Lu Chen like that made her heart feel flustered.
"..." Now it was Lu Chen's turn to be silent. He felt that he just heard the most BS excuse ever. It wasn't even an excuse. But it's enough to make Lu Chen's mouth clammed up.
'Whatever.' Lu Chen didn't say anything anymore. He was just going to go to school. However, as he walks, Feng Meifeng follows suit.
Lu Chen was too tired to say anything to her. He didn't want to start his day off with a bomb in his hands.
As the two of them walks to school, Feng Meifeng made a strange expression, "Why are you going this way?"
"What's wrong? Ain't this the usual way to get there?" Lu Chen tilts his head, wondering what's wrong with the route he usually took.
Feng Meifeng explains, "You're taking the longer route. No wonder you were late that day. You should know about the... Actually, never mind. Just follow me."
Remembering how Lu Chen comes from a wealthy family, then he definitely wouldn't know about the secret way.
Feng Meifeng drags Lu Chen through the opposite direction of the route, and when he saw the way Feng Meifeng brought him, he felt suspicious.
'Why did you bring me to such a sketchy place?' Lu Chen didn't need to look at it, as the smell coming off of the alleyway was hideous.
And looking at it, there was pure desolation of people, and there was a large amount of garbage everywhere.
Seeing the alleyway, Lu Chen remembers what Zhang Wenling had said to him a few minutes prior. Getting his guard up, Lu Chen's ready to punch anybody that jumps out at him.
However, Lu Chen never had the chance to punch somebody. Feng Meifeng continues to drag him, smoothly evading all the garbage around them. But when they came out of the alleyway, Lu Chen looked surprised.
"What the?" Between the alleyway, there was a park. Never did he expect that behind the alleyway, there's a park.
"Surprising, isn't it? When I first came to this place, I was just like you." Feng Meifeng laughs at his shocked face.
"Why is there a park here?" Seeing a park covered by a bunch of buildings messes with the industrial image it got.
"Apparently, the park was built way longer than the buildings. And from what I heard, the construction workers aren't allowed to destroy the park too."
Even though this park is hidden from sight, it was still well-maintained. Then Feng Meifeng points at the other side,
"Once we go through that alleyway, we would only be a few minutes away from the school." It was another alleyway. Dragging him, Feng Meifeng was going to help him evade the trash again.
"Who's that over there?" Lu Chen spots an old man lying down on a bench in the corner.
The old man sleeps on the bench without a care in the world.