Crumbled Image (I)

"If she couldn't, then could you?" Su Luoshui glanced at Xu Tingting with indifference. 

Xu Tingting's lips stiffened.

Su Luoshui walked past her and came to the desk behind Fu Huihui. All eyes were on them, and skeptically so.

Not a moment later, she moved Fu Ting's desk and chair next to hers.

Fu Ting was astonished.

As she met the little girl's lost gaze, Su Luoshui curved her lips. "Didn't you say you'd protect me? If you don't sit next to me, how can you help me the moment Fu Pei strikes at me?"

"Oh."

Fu Ting nodded and sat next to Su Luoshui with uncertainty.

Fu Huihui and Xu Tingting were speechless.

After a half-day of hustle, these two had become two loving deskmates. 

Everyone was in awe.

What power did this new transfer student have that even the tomboy was so willing to support her?

…

The two following classes were mathematics. Fu Ting crossed her hands on the desk like a regular studious student as she looked down every now and then to write down notes.

The Su Luoshui who always napped in classes was so focused for the first time at the look of how this little girl was writing her notes. Her heart was restless.

She had a secret obsession.

An addiction cuteness. 

She could not resist anything cute. 

The first time she saw Fu Ting, she could only remember the ragdoll cats she had at her home. 

"Luoshui, why aren't you taking down any notes?" Fu Ting looked at Su Luoshi's blank notebook in concern. Fu Ting then pushed her notebook over to her as she tilted her head with a smile. She bore the look of a docile child. "If you want to, you can copy mine."

Ahhhhhhhhh!

What an utterly adorable cutie!

Su Luoshui could no longer manage her own image and could only put up an overly strict face.

The hoodie she wore had a big pocket at the front which exposed her chocolate bar.

Fu Ting peeked at it a few times.

"This is for you." Su Luoshui took out her chocolate bar and indifferently added, "I don't like to eat this."

"Thank you." Fu Ting's eyes curved into crescents as she joyfully opened the packaging and took a small bite of the chocolate. It was so sweet that her eyes squinted like a feasting kitten.

Su Luoshui's breaths became heavier; she wished to give chocolates from all over the world to Fu Ting!

'This little kid is so cute. How can I not buy anything good for her?'

At the same time, there were two girls at the back who were enjoying their own snacks. Su Luoshui took out two hundred yuan and placed it in front of them. "Give me all the snacks you have."

After getting a big bag of snacks, Su Luoshui pushed them toward Fu Ting. "These are all for you. Dig in."

"This is too much! This costs a fortune, right?" Fu Ting was too embarrassed to take them. She liked to eat snacks, but she and her father did not have a lot of money to afford these. 

"Eat more to grow some muscles." Su Luoshui noticed Fu Ting's thin arm as her heart trembled with pain, yet she put up a stern facade and said, "I have a lot of money. You'll only be responsible to finish these off."

'Ahhhh, this little kid is too thin... I want to buy more for her. She can't starve.'

"Wait until I'm rich. I'll buy you some, too." Fu Ting promised her as she raised her head.

'Damn,' Su Luoshui mused to herself, 'someone killed me with cuteness.'

Su Luoshui could not help but reach for Fu Ting's hair and caressed it. 

The gentle texture eased Su Luoshui's restless heart.

So soft!

Soothing!

Let me touch it again!

Su Luoshui could not help but touch her hair a few times, and it turned Fu Ting's hair into a chicken coop. There was also a strand of straight hair that coiled up.

When she looked into the little girl's innocent eyes, she tidied up Fu Ting's hair without a shift in her emotion.

Their interaction made Fu Huihui angry. What made Su Luoshui treat Fu Ting so differently?

…

Fu Pei came back from the last period of class, with Xie Tiao and Tiger walking ahead of him.

When these two shaved heads walked together, everyone tried to hold back their laughter. Where did these two prisoners come from?

Once Fu Pei's rebellious face appeared, their grin turned into what could be said as awe-struck. They would have shouted at the top of their lungs if it were not for the ongoing class session.

There were notes passing around in the class.

'Brother Fu has changed his hairstyle, he's so good-looking.'

'His look doesn't seem like a bully at all; he looks like a good student instead.'

'What's this hairstyle? I'd like to have the same haircut.'

Because of Fu Pei's new hairstyle, the captivated girls were fangirling over him at the school forum page. 

The other guys were so tempted that they ran to the hair salon and requested for the same hairstyle as Fu Pei. 

After more and more people tried it, the hairdressers named this hairstyle as 'the high school cut' which was popularized by Fu Pei.

Fu Ting called it the power of an influential actor. 

Of course, those were to be mentioned later on. 

…

At this moment, Su Luoshui saw Fu Pei walking in while Fu Ting turned her head several times to look at him.