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?

her earlier today, he

his driver take

driver who spoke to her, Yun

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

more convinced Yun Shifei

to him, "I happen to love meddling

Cheng

his expression

as it hovered above the textbook, stiffened slightly and

seat, Yun Shifei realized with alarm what

to the

had she become so

at Cheng Lie. The boy’s gaze remained

wouldn’t get angry,

also felt that she might

meddle. Wouldn’t it be

she hated trouble the

always being bullied,

she felt that their situations were somewhat

to take Yun Sisi’s place, so

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

sense, they were the same

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