{"id":3691,"date":"2026-05-28T04:21:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/summer-night-breeze-23\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:21:09","slug":"summer-night-breeze-23","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/chapter\/summer-night-breeze-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Night Breeze 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 23: My Fierce Desk Mate

He looked at Chen Ciyi, “Anyway, I owe you for this. I won\u2019t bother you again in the future. If there\u2019s anything you need from me, just say the word, I…”

Li Wei paused, looking somewhat worried. But Chen Ciyi seemed fine, without a single scratch on his face. Yet, those guys had looked so vicious earlier\u2014they\u2019d even hit him in the face with his own wallet. It didn\u2019t seem likely they\u2019d just let Chen Ciyi off without any trouble later. “What exactly happened last night… Did they hit you? You…”

Chen Ciyi finally lifted his face from his arms and looked at Li Wei. “Ah, I just lay on the ground and told them not to hit my face.” Done here? If we\u2019re done, I\u2019m leaving.

Li Wei hesitated for a moment. He could tell Chen Ciyi didn\u2019t want to talk to him much\u2014and honestly, he couldn\u2019t blame him, considering what he\u2019d done. Shedding his usual cocky big-brother demeanor, Li Wei squeezed out an awkward “sorry” from the back of his throat before shuffling back to his seat.

But the truth was, Chen Ciyi really didn\u2019t want to deal with Li Wei\u2014simply because he found him annoying and didn\u2019t want to bother, not because of all the convoluted reasons Li Wei imagined. After all, it was just a fight, nothing major.

After class, Xu Yannuo still went to the restroom with Zhao Ying and Zhang Qi as usual. The hallway was crowded and noisy, and although she occasionally heard passing girls glancing behind them, sometimes even letting out excited squeals like, “Wow, he’s so handsome,” Xu Yannuo didn’t think much of it. After all, there were plenty of idle, lovestruck girls at school who were prone to such behavior.

Sometimes she would browse the school forum, but there was hardly anything useful there. Discussions about academics were practically nonexistent\u2014after all, very few students genuinely loved studying, and those who were truly top-performing scholars didn\u2019t have time to waste on idle chatter in forums. Besides, most academic achievers weren\u2019t exactly easy on the eyes, so there wasn\u2019t much to talk about anyway. As a result, the forum was mostly filled with a small portion of gossip, a small portion of confession posts, and a large portion of threads sharing information and photos of handsome guys from various classes. Still, she usually just skimmed the titles, never bothering to click into those pointless discussions.

But as she came out of the women’s restroom, she unexpectedly spotted Chen Ciyi standing in the hallway. He was already looking at her, and when their eyes met, he curled his lips into a smile. Instantly, the girls who had exited the restroom behind her erupted into waves of excited screams.

“Did he just smile, did he?”

“Yes, yes, yes. This is actually the first time I’ve seen him smile. He usually never smiles.”

Xu Yannuo immediately sensed something ominous. Sure enough, after finishing his laugh\u2014he had been leaning against the wall with his hands casually tucked into his school uniform pants pockets, standing there lazily as if waiting for someone\u2014the moment he saw her come out, he promptly straightened up and followed her.

But after taking a few steps, Xu Yannuo didn’t hear anyone calling her from behind, nor did Chen Ciyi come up to walk beside her and engage in idle chatter.

So, perhaps he wasn’t deliberately following her. He might have just been heading back to the classroom or going to the small shop at the back building\u2014after all, it was all in the same direction.

But after walking some distance down the hallway toward the classroom, Xu Yannuo still couldn’t resist glancing back\u2014Chen Chuyi was actually still following her, about a meter behind.

Though maybe he was just heading back to class too.

Xu Yannuo ignored him, but by the second class break, the third class break, lunchtime… whenever she left the classroom, no matter where she went, if she turned around, she would always see Chen Chuyi trailing about a meter behind her.

It wasn’t until the afternoon’s first class break that Xu Yannuo finally couldn’t take it anymore. The moment the bell rang, she stood up\u2014immediately, Chen Chuyi beside her stood up too. Xu Yannuo sat back down, and Chen Chuyi followed suit. This repeated twice.

After sitting down, Xu Yannuo finally couldn’t help but look directly at him and asked through gritted teeth in a low voice, “Chen Chiyi, are you sick? What are you trying to do today?”

Opposite her, Chen Chiyi smiled, “Deskmate, you said it last night, have you forgotten so soon?”

Xu Yannuo was a bit confused, “What did I say last night?” Damn it, I just went to help you out of kindness, how did I end up messing up your brain?

Chen Chiyi raised an eyebrow to remind her, “You said if I followed you again, you’d beat me to death!” After saying this, Chen Chiyi looked at her with great interest. Xu Yannuo seemed to be in a better mood today, unlike last night.

So now at school, let’s fight!

Looking at Chen Ciyi’s punchable expression and the question he had been persistently asking and probing\u2014why was she so different at school compared to outside?

Xu Yannuo was truly speechless!

How could there be such a boring person in this world? Is this guy really the top student the principal worked so hard to recruit? The principal must be blind!

Don’t top students need to study?

Xu Yannuo sighed and muttered, “How boring.” After that, he ignored him and sat down to read.

Anyway, with this kind of boring person, as long as you ignore them, they’ll eventually get tired of it and move on after a while.

But clearly, Xu Yannuo overthought it. After that, during the next break, Chen Ciyi didn\u2019t follow Xu Yannuo out again. Instead, he was hunched over his phone, tapping away at the screen with his long, elegant fingers\u2014probably typing something!

Xu Yannuo thought he had finally gotten bored and stopped bothering her, focusing on his own thing. But when she returned from the restroom and sat back down, just as she was about to check her phone for any messages from Cheng Yun, Chen Ciyi slid his phone right in front of her.

But the phone screen just happened to go black.

Xu Yannuo frowned and glanced at him. Chen Ciyi also noticed the black screen and immediately withdrew his hand, unlocked it with a password, then handed it back to her.

Xu Yannuo looked puzzled at the large portion of the phone screen revealed above his slender fingers. What did he want to show her?

The screen displayed his WeChat Moments feed, with the background image being a photo of his own back. It showed him standing against the light in a sunset, raising his hand as if to shield his eyes from the sun. Though only his head was visible, it was instantly recognizable as an exceptionally handsome one.

How narcissistic!

Below the background image is a post he just shared on his Moments.

Xu Yannuo frowned slightly and glanced at it.

Checking the time, this content was created when she had just stepped out earlier. He hadn’t followed her this time, but instead remained seated, continuously tapping away on his phone screen.

The text read: My Fierce Desk Mate!

Xu Yannuo was startled and immediately looked at the accompanying image below the text.

The picture was pitch black, almost impossible to make out anything, but if you looked closely…

It was the same alley where they first met, and it wasn’t something he went back to photograph later\u2014the image was from that very night.

Xu Yannuo saw himself in the darkness.<\/p>","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"novel":[],"class_list":["post-3691","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3691\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"novel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/es_co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novel?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}