Chapter 17: Chapter 17 She’s Just a Poor Little Thing

Yun Shifei turned her head to look at Cheng Lie.

Meeting those pitch-black, deep eyes.

Cold, harsh, sinister, with not a trace of light.

Was it Cheng Lie who just spoke?

"You told me not to meddle in other people’s business?" Yun Shifei couldn’t help but murmur as she repeated his words.

She was genuinely surprised, as she had never heard him speak before.

Cheng Lie, however, said nothing else. He pressed his lips together and lowered his gaze to the textbook.

It shouldn’t be a hallucination, right?

But then again, it made sense. Cheng Lie’s condition wasn’t particularly severe, and autism didn’t mean he was mute. Why couldn’t he talk?

But the first words he chose to say were to tell her not to meddle?

In that moment, Yun Shifei felt an indescribable heaviness in her heart.

This boy was like a hedgehog, wrapping himself in sharp quills, defending against the world outside.

He wasn’t truly hostile; he was just trying to protect himself, wasn’t he?

saw her earlier today, he

his driver take her to the

process, it was the driver who spoke to her, Yun Shifei wasn’t ignorant of the rules in

Lie’s tacit approval, how could the driver possibly have

thought about it, the more convinced

Lie and said to him,

for Cheng Lie’s reaction and immediately

and his expression remained as stoic as

above the textbook, stiffened slightly and didn’t turn the page for

seat, Yun Shifei realized with alarm what she

spoken to the future Great Demon King like

she

glance at Cheng

probably wouldn’t get angry,

that she

meddle. Wouldn’t it be easier for her

all, she hated trouble the

how he was always being bullied, she couldn’t resist

was because she felt that their situations were

assumed she was here to take Yun Sisi’s place, so no one welcomed her. After being here for

treated him well—was just as lonely inside, as if he

a sense, they were the same kind

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