2. Phone Number

A guy smaller than them blocked their way. He was wearing glasses and his hair was slick and neatly combed to the back. It even shone from the sunlight and made Wei Wuxian think the student used a shoe polish.

He chuckled from his own thoughts. The student guard frowned at him, misunderstanding his light laugh into ridicule, but Wei Wuxian simply waved his hand to dismiss the misunderstanding. 

He was about to open his mouth to say that they were transfer students and that they hadn't received their school IDs yet.

However, Jiang Wanyin spoke first.

"One moment, please." He answered politely while rummaging through his bag.

Furrowing his brows in his foster brother's actions, Wei Wuxian gaped at him, "We have IDs already?!"

Jiang Wanyin, "Huh?"

His face was confused, looking at Wei Wuxian.

"And why would you not have? Are you not a student in the Cloud Recesses Academy?" The student guard asked seriously. The lens of his eyeglasses glinted as if showing his strictness and deadly aura.

"We just transferred here. And today is our first day." Wei Wuxian answered, ignoring the hostility in the student's tone.

"Then, you must have received your own ID by now." The student guard answered indifferently.

Wei Wuxian, "Huh? No, we don't."

Jiang Wanyin looked up to him with bewilderment in his eyes. "What do you mean 'we don't'? We already have an ID. Here!"

Jiang Wanyin waved the blue card with a blue and white lanyard on Wei Wuxian's face.

"What?! Why don't I have mine?" Wei Wuxian asked the latter nervously. He scratched his temple and tried to remember if he really received something back then. But to his dismay, his memory was no help at all. He couldn't even remember how the uniform came to him!

"You! Did you check your bag?!" Jiang Wanyin shouted with bulging eyes.

Wei Wuxian frantically opened his bag and rummaged inside. He flipped his notebooks and snacks he stashed before leaving but after opening all the zippers in his backpack, he still failed to find his school ID.

"Where the hell did you even put it?" Jiang Wanyin yelled again, snatching his backpack and searching it on his own.

"I don't know?" He answered, scratching his head. Jiang Wanyin glared at him for answering vaguely, "I really don't know! I didn't even know we had them already!"

"It was given with the school uniform, inside the plastic. Mother specifically hung it on the hanger with your uniform after ironing it so you'd see it immediately! Did you not notice something?!"

Wei Wuxian, "I…did not?"

Jiang Wanyin, "You…!" He awkwardly looked at the student guard and was ready to ask to spare his companion just this once, but the student guard slightly shook his head at him and spoke.

"I'm sorry but this school is strictly implementing the rule 'No ID, No entry'. I suggest you go back home and get your school ID then come back to school."

"But our house is a twenty-minute drive away from here. He'll be late if he goes back." Jiang Wanyin grumbled.

"That's not my problem." The student guard answered coldly.

"Can you let me in just this time? I promise to not forget the ID next time!" Wei Wuxian used his beautiful puppy eyes to the student, but the latter only grimaced at him and even acted like his going to vomit. Wei Wuxian tried harder, he read the name on the student's ID aloud, "Please, handsome brother, Senior Jin!"

The student guard named Jin Zixuan frowned greatly at the two younger students, he saw his classmate Jiang Yanli arrive with them, and from the name on the ID of one of the boys, he could tell they were Jiang Yanli's relative.

Hearing them call him 'brother' annoyed him big time, though he couldn't tell why. He clicked his tongue and fixed his glasses by using his middle finger, pushing it up in the middle.

"I can't. Rules are rules. Go back home."

Wei Wuxian's eyebrow twitched after seeing the way the senior student fixed his glasses.

"You there," Jin Zixuan pointed at Jiang Wanyin, "If you got your ID then wear it properly and enter. If you don't want to, then get lost, you two are blocking the gate."

"What? You—

Wei Wuxian tugged on Jiang Wanyin's collar and dragged him a few steps away from the gate. "Are you trying to throw a punch? Are you nuts?"

Jiang Wanyin spat, "Tsk! Did you not see the shithead fix his glasses? Whatever did we do? You only forget your ID and he's picking a fight already?!"

"I got it, I got it. You should enter now or you will be late." He fixed the collar he tugged and patted it a few times before letting him go. 

Jiang Wanyin pulled his clothes down unconsciously and wore his bag properly while glaring at the direction of the entrance gate where the senior student continued to filter the students.

"And how about you?" He asked afterward.

"What do you mean 'how about me?" Wei Wuxian patted Jiang Wanyin's shoulder and continued, "Of course, I'll go back home and get my ID. If I go back now, I would still be able to come in afternoon classes, right?"

Jiang Wanyin nodded, "Alright. You do that. I'll go inside and wait."

"Sure, sure."

Wei Wuxian gestured for him to enter now while waving. As soon as the retreating image of his foster brother disappeared from his sight, his eyes landed on Jin Zixuan who turned his head at him and raised his brows.

Wei Wuxian smiled widely and waved at him too, before whirling away. His hand suspended in the air folded four fingers and left the middle one standing before he walked away. How he wished the latter saw his farewell.

But in fact, Wei Wuxian had no plans of going back. Why would he go back home just because he forgot his ID and couldn't enter? Is that gate the only way of entry? Surely, he can find another way to enter without going back home!

He scanned the vicinity. The school walls weren't so impossible to climb. Though there weren't ledges to step into, there were trees with large branches protruding above the wall, giving him a chance to swiftly climb over by pulling a branch.

Wei Wuxian lifted his lean body easily and managed to jump on the top of the wall with only a hand's width. His black sneakers settled on the top of the wall before he jumped down. Luckily, there was no one in the area, or else, he might visit the disciplinary room on his first day of school.

"Oh, yeah! Lucky!" He punched the air and fixed his attire, "Gah!"

Just when he turned around, he was welcomed with sharp eyes and light-colored irises glaring at him. Wei Wuxian stumbled down in shock. His butt hit the grassy ground and his backpack was pushed to the wall.

Looking up, the student's visage became even more terrifying in his eyes. He was looking down at him, lips pressed in thin lines but not making any sound at all.

Despite the perilous situation that Wei Wuxian had gone into, he couldn't help but admire the beauty in front of him. His face was like an art perfectly sculpted by the gods! How could such a man exist?

His eyebrows were drawn perfectly as though it was a stroke from an artist's brush. Thin lips that look sweet yet dangerous, eyes shining like the golden hour, and perfectly defined jawline. Even his hair looks silky and soft!

The unknown student took a small notepad and a pen in his shirt's pocket and spoke coldly.

"Name."

Wei Wuxian, still dazed from being caught by such a beauty, answered, "001-XXXX-XXXX."