The Useless Stepmom Brings Her Kids to Reality TV Shows to Photograph Them

Chapter 237: Hello, I’m Li Zexuan

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Xie Wanyu ran very fast. Her grandma had told her that no one would be able to recognize her if she wore glasses and transferred schools. Now, she had broken her glasses, and somebody had seen her!

In her second year of high school, Xie Wanyu chose Yun Xi High school. She knew that only rich brats came to this school. Anybody who studied here got into the Top 100 best universities in the country. Besides, this school had boarding facilities and was quite safe.

Xie Wanyu looked almost identical to her mother. Her grandma had told her that her mother was a famous beauty when she was young.

Her glasses weren’t prescriptive. She was only wearing them as a disguise.

Li Zexuan followed behind. He was a little worried. He was afraid that the girl had bad eyesight and he had broken her glasses. She was running too fast. She might not see where she is going and might fall again.

Xie Wanyu stopped under the wisteria frame behind one of the buildings. She looked around and saw that no one was around. She sat down on the wooden bench and tried to fix her glasses.

Lu Wenqian was disappointed. Li Zexuan had left the moment he arrived. They hadn’t even reached the court! She wanted to follow him, but he had disappeared.

Sun Mingtao tried to console her. “Don’t be sad. I think the crowd was too much for him. I will ask him out tomorrow again, and we can all hang out.” “Alright. I am going back to my dorm,” said Lu Wenqian sadly.

Now only Sun Mingtao was left behind with a few people who jeered at Lu Wenqian as she left.

“Did we offend Li Zexuan?” whispered one of the students. “If it weren’t for Sun Mingtao’s promises, I wouldn’t have done this. I don’t want to offend a big star.”

“Xuanxuan isn’t that petty. He was just scared of the crowd. Let’s disband.” Sun Mingtao also returned to the dormitory.

Sun Mingtao was worried too. He thought Li Zexuan might never hang out with him again. He wanted to apologize immediately.

The moonlight filtered through the wisteria flower rack, leaving spots of light on Xie Wanyu’s face. Her glasses had snapped clean in the middle. She sighed.

Li Zexuan saw a girl in a school uniform, seated on a wooden bench, under the flower rack. “Hey,” he said with a friendly smile.

Xie Wanyu looked up in shock and saw him.

He was tall and tmn, wearmg a wmte smrt. He 100Ked very tamlllar. Xle wanyu was a little nervous. She had not made any friends in her new school.

Li Zexuan sat a few paces away from her on the bench and reached out a hand. “Let me take a look,” he said. “Is it broken very badly?”

Xie Wanyu was awkward. She didn’t know what to say. She handed him her glasses.

“Oh no,” he said. “It has snapped into two. Can you see without them? I can take a leave from school first thing tomorrow morning and buy you a new pair. What’s the power?” He examined the glasses. It was unsalvageable. It had snapped into two and the lens was scratched.

“That’s alright. There is no need. I will get them myself.”

She was anxious that he would figure out her glasses weren’t prescriptive.

“Ah… it’s my fault they are broken. I should be paying for the damage done,” he said. He could sense her distress, but he didn’t know what made her so scared.

“There’s really no need,” she said.

“Well, I would really like to. My name is Li Zexuan, by the way,” he said. “Which class are you from? I can drop it off at your class when I buy a new pair.”

‘Li Zexuan?’ Xie Wanyu froze. ‘The celebrity?’ It was no wonder he looked a little familiar. When she was searching for this school, she had seen his picture on the website.

She lowered her head. She then got up and kept walking.

Li Zexuan followed. “Look, please don’t be so afraid. I am not a creep, I promise. But I feel bad for breaking your glasses. Please allow me to buy you a new pair, or at least pay for it.”

Xie Wanyu saw that he was following her. She stopped. “There is really no need. I have an extra pair in my dorm. It’s fine.”

“Then just let me pay for the old one. How much was it?” Li Zexuan fumbled in his pocket for his wallet.

“Please, there is really no need,” she said. “You didn’t break it deliberately.” She tried to walk away.

He stepped in front of her. “But… at least tell me your name. Which class are you in? If my father finds out I broke someone’s property and didn’t even compensate for it, he will definitely beat me up,” he said jokingly.

“Your father doesn’t need to find out,” she said awkwardly.

“Sun Mingtao is a chatterbox. He must have seen it. He will run his mouth for sure. Do you want me to be beaten up?” Xie Wanyu was still in a dilemma.

“Xie Wanyu!” Someone shouted.

“You’re Xie Wanyu?” Li Zexuan said in surprise.

“Oh my god! Li Zexuan is meeting with Xie Wanyu!” The girl covered her mouth in shock.

“I don’t know him!” said Xie Wanyu frantically to the girl. “I just bumped into him here. I was heading back too. Can we go together?”

“He is a big star! So many people surround him hoping to talk to him, but he never entertains them. He seems like he is blocking your path!” Luan Rongrong was baffled.

“No!” said Xie Wanyu, trying to clarify. Her face was red. “As I said, I just bumped into him like this. We were heading our own way. Let’s just go back.”

Li Zexuan stepped aside. He sat down on the wooden bench alone. ‘Xie Wanyu… why was she so scared? Do I look like a creep?’

Luan Rongrong held Xie Wanyu’s arm. “Wanyu, it’s alright. He is Li Zexuan. He is famous around here, but he is not a bad person.”

“Oh, okay.” Xie Wanyu remembered his face. He had smiled at her and talked to her first. But according to what Luan Rongrong said, he was supposed to be a rude person who doesn’t talk much. Why had he talked to her so warmly and even stopped her just now?

‘Maybe he is polite and not at all like how he is rumored to be,’ thought Xie Wanyu. ‘Perhaps his family is indeed very strict. Would his father really beat him up?’

Xie Wanyu was a little worried. Luan Rongrong was the only person she was close to. They shared the same dorm, so it was impossible for her not to talk to her.

Xie Wanyu didn’t want to get close to anyone else. Her grandmother said she was the kindest and purest child, and her father was the most righteous and loyal man. But her grandmother never told her why he was taken away by the police. He had been taken away and had never come back. It had been ten years.

Xie Wanyu felt that maybe her neighbor was right. Maybe her father was a criminal and the police had arrested him because he committed a heinous crime. Even her mother was dragged down by what had happened.

“The children of bad people always harbor bad things in life.” That was what Xie Wanyu always heard from people around her.

Luan Rongrong was good to her, but she still did not dare to open her heart fully to her. In her eyes, Luan Rongrong was her roommate, that was all. But if Li Zexuan was beaten up because of a pair of glasses, she would feel terrible..