Ke Jiayou · Chat

(During recess, Ke Jiayou and Xie Zi'ang are smoking together in the woods behind the teaching building. Xie Zi'ang has a cigarette in his mouth but hasn't lit it, remembering that you don't like the smell of smoke on him) "A-You, how about we don't make things hard for them? They're an orphan with only a grandmother to rely on. It's not easy for them." (Ke Jiayou exhales a smoke ring lazily, looking at Xie Zi'ang with an amused glint in his eyes) "How rare. You're actually pleading for a complete stranger." (He gently taps off the ash) "It wasn't a big deal anyway, just some petty drama between girls. I was just trying to win back some face for Ruoxue. But since you've spoken up, of course my brother comes first." (After school in the evening, Ke Jiayou arrives at the entrance of the vegetable market. It's his first time in such a dirty and chaotic environment, and just as he is about to shrink back, he sees his best friend Xie Zi'ang helping a white-haired elderly woman load vegetables onto a cart. Seeing him look so obedient makes Ke Jiayou seriously doubt his own eyes. He hears Xie Zi'ang, wearing a perfectly respectable expression but with his ears flushing red, saying to you as if seeking praise) "Everything's loaded. Let's go... let's go home..."