Chapter 4: Can you afford it?!

  "Who says I'm fine? Look at my arm and knee!" Cheng Xiaoyou showed him the scars from when she was knocked to the ground.

  "Wow! It's really serious!" The mockery in Shangguan Yao's eyes grew thicker, wasn't it just a scratch? He could easily peel off the skin and make it worse.

  "What's your attitude! It's wrong to hit someone with a car in the first place, let alone you're still underage, how can you drive?!" Cheng Xiaoyou said, getting angrier and angrier.

  "Why can't I drive? Don't you know that some people are born with privileges?! " Xiang Yu's chin was raised high, looking down at the girl who looked like a roadside stall spokesperson: "I'm already fed up with you girls!"

  Cheng Xiaoyou was infuriated by him, her blood pressure soaring, and she didn't understand what he wanted to say next. Was he trying to intimidate her? Intimidate her about what?

  "From primary school to middle school, it's been a recurring scene of fainting in front of cars. Aren't you tired of it?! However, Saint Feather, you're the first one! " Officer Yao looked at Cheng Xiaoyou with disdain, shaking his head in disgust.

  "I'm not!" Ching Siu-yau hastily shook her head, just now being cold-eyed and hotly ridiculed by those people, and now being said like this by this boy, she was about to vomit blood!

  "If not, why write on my car? Isn't it to attract attention?" Director Yao looked at his windshield and felt heartache, wanting to tear the girl in front of him into pieces!

  Cheng Xiaoyou's chest was suddenly blocked by his words, and her breathing became short. Is he so arrogant? But that really is what she wrote, and she was caught red-handed: "Can't I just compensate you?!"

  "Compensate me? You must be joking, can you afford it?! " The words of Shangguan Yao were filled with disdain, he pointed to his car: "This is a custom-made two-seater sports car! Have you ever seen a two-seater sports car?! All the parts are hand-polished, do you know how much money was spent just designing the lines of this car?!"

  "Sorry!" Cheng Xiaoyou said with a lowered head, feeling very guilty. Regardless of anything, those things had nothing to do with the boy in front of her, yet she had ruined his expensive car!

  Grandma said that if you do something wrong, you have to bear the consequences yourself.

  She thought for a moment, then looked up at Shangguan Yao and said seriously: "Even if I can't afford it now, I'll take responsibility for my own actions. I'll save up slowly to pay you back! I'll also repay the installment payment!"

  "You said you weren't that kind of girl! You make me go to you every month for just a little money, and yet you say it's not because you have ulterior motives!" Shangguan Yao shouted back, having caught another meaning in her words.

  Is this boy's brain filled with grass?!

  Cheng Xiaoyou suppressed her anger and looked at him, asking: "Then what should we do? I really am sincere in wanting to apologize!"

  "If apologizing is useful, then what's the point of having police?! If you want to apologize, go run 100 laps on the playground first!" Officer Yao said angrily: "Don't think that I, Young Master, will take you in as a maid to pay off your debt like those trashy TV dramas, and then you'll use the opportunity to get close to me!"

  "A hundred rounds, that's it? Really? Is that all it takes?" Cheng Xiaoyou found the students here to be utterly unreasonable, thinking they were so noble that others would fawn over them. If she listened to him any longer, she'd definitely go crazy!

  "That's a hundred laps, oh!" Officer Yao didn't expect her to react like this. He hated running laps the most. So when he was angry, his favorite thing to say was "Go run a hundred laps on the playground first, then come talk to me! And if you dare to speak nonsense again, I'll throw you into the sea to feed the sharks!"

  For the first time, someone asked him if what he said was true? !

  He didn't know how to continue the conversation!

  "Where is the playground?" Cheng Xiaoyou asked again, her heart racing with the mention of compensation. If he really accepted the money, she had no idea how she would pay him back.

  After all, what she lacks most now is money!

  "Go straight and turn right through the garden!" Shangguan Yao responded dully, won't she really do it?!

  "Alright! If you need supervision, just follow me!"

  Cheng Xiaoyou finished speaking and, fearing that Shangguan Yao would change his mind again and make her pay more money, quickly ran in the direction of the playground.

  Her feet were like pedaling a wind and fire wheel, disappearing from Upper Official Yao's line of sight in the blink of an eye.

  Did she really go for a run?

  Shangguan Yao's eyes widened as he stood in place, using his fingers to count, only to find that ten fingers were far from enough. That was, one hundred rounds!

  The sight of those ugly words on the car made me angry again!

  Let her run 100 laps, so be it, serves her right!

  Following the direction of Shangguan Yao's finger, Cheng Xiaoyou walked through the long garden and saw a playground surrounded by fences in their school.

  This shouldn't be the school's main track, the all-plastic runway looks very short, probably one of those 200 meters. Cheng Xiaoyou let out a long sigh, if it's 200 meters, then 100 laps would be 20,000 meters.

  Before that, she had even participated in a marathon within the city, so running 100 laps didn't seem that scary.

  It was already past noon, the hottest time of the day, not suitable for running. Thinking about the possibly sky-high compensation fee, Little You moved her wrists and ankles, preparing to run the first 100 laps of her life.

  When it comes to long-distance running, you must maintain a steady pace and can't rush. Every step that Cheng Xiaoyu takes is like a calculated one, with equal distance, neither fast nor slow, very rhythmic.

  But even so, the sun at noon in late summer still casts a shadow over one's head, and after just one circle, one is already drenched in sweat.

  It's unclear whether the welcoming ceremony has ended or not, but the school's broadcast started playing music, as if to inform everyone that recess time had arrived.

  The empty and deserted school playground was still running desperately by Cheng Xiaoyou.

  In her abdominal cavity, it was as if there were clusters of fire burning, and her lungs were entirely in a crematorium, even the breath she exhaled was scorching hot.

  The Eighth Circle...

  The Ninth Circle...

  Shangguan Yao didn't come to check on us, nor did any of our classmates pass by.

  Cheng Xiaoyou still maintained the uniform speed from earlier, counting the laps and taking deep breaths.

  Since you've said it, you must do it! Grandma said that as a person, the least one should do is to be true to their own conscience. If she did something wrong, she would take responsibility for it herself.

  If there's no money for compensation, then she must make him run a hundred laps as he said.

  The Eleventh Circle...

  The Twelfth Circle...

  At this time, Shangguan Yao had already forgotten her existence and was standing in front of his car, hastily asking on the phone: "Really? Are you sure this doesn't need to be returned to the factory for repair?! Does my windshield really not need to be replaced entirely?"

  "Are you sure that's correction fluid on the glass?" The voice in the receiver remained as cold as ever, completely ignoring how anxious he was on this end.

  "It's the correction fluid that's wrong, isn't it? It's all because of your mistake that my car has become like this!" Shangguan Yao complained discontentedly. How could he not tell the difference between correction fluids?! Did they think he was an idiot?!

  "What's wrong with me?" The voice on the phone suddenly dropped a few degrees: "I helped you pick up the car as soon as I got back from the airport, is this the rhythm of breaking off relations?!"