Zhang Jiye

On September 1st, Xu Chuwan got up very early. She quickly brushed her teeth, washed her face, and went out to buy breakfast. She got up early because the school was a bit far from home, requiring a half-hour bus ride. To avoid being late, she got up forty minutes early.

She sat on the bus, listening to JJ Lin's "Always Online" with her headphones on. She loved listening to JJ Lin's songs, and this was her favorite.

"It doesn't matter if the wind stops, just because you always say that."

"Everything will be okay"

"I'm ready, three, two, one."

I'm always online.

"With you, one-on-one, love begins to spread."

"We have connected through time."

"Sky Milky Way Oh"

"Start counting down: three, two, one"

"Delete my loneliness"

"More and more, the more profound."

"Love has brightened and smiles have returned."

I'm always online.

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She scrolled through the comments under the song, and one of them said: "Unrequited love is punishment, punishing you for only daring to secretly like them."

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Xu Chuwan didn't take it seriously at the time. She firmly believed that she could never fall in love with anyone or do anything for anyone else.

But this became the biggest foreshadowing of her defeat.

Years later, she would think that her actions back in her second year of high school were a bit naive, because she had a crush on Zhang Jiye.

When they arrived at the station, Xu Chuwan slung her backpack over her shoulder, dragged her luggage, and got off the train.

She walked into this unfamiliar campus. Her original school was the affiliated high school, but they had moved. Her father's company moved, so they had to move too. Her father was so engrossed in that company because he was a manager and could make a lot of money, so they moved. Xu Chuwan transferred to the No. 1 High School. Since her home was a bit far from the school, her mother wasn't comfortable with her living alone at school, so she insisted she go home at night and rest in the dormitory during the day.

Xu Chuwan went to the dormitory first, put her luggage down, and greeted the three remaining people in the dormitory: "Hello, my name is Xu Chuwan, please take care of me in the future."

Her three roommates introduced themselves one after another. One was named Shen Yan, another Xia Yi, and the third Su Ruan. Xu Chuwan quickly struck up a conversation with the three of them.

After chatting for a few minutes, they hurried to the classroom. Xu Chuwan was in the same class as them.

Class One is the best class. Xu Chuwan was basically in the top ten in her previous school, so she was naturally assigned to Class One.

The four of them were still late, but the teacher didn't hold it against them. Because Xu Chuwan was a transfer student, she had to go on stage to introduce herself.

Xu Chuwan stepped onto the podium and said, "My name is Xu Chuwan, and I hope to make progress together with everyone."

Xu Chuwan always thought she looked pretty ordinary, but actually she looked anything but ordinary.

With her big, bright eyes, bangs, high ponytail, and innocent face, she looks both well-behaved and gentle.

She was assigned by the teacher to the second-to-last row of the third group, with no one sitting next to her.

Xu Chuwan breathed a sigh of relief. She really disliked sitting with boys. In her previous school, teachers were afraid that boys would talk to each other if they sat together, so boys always sat with girls. Her male deskmate in her old school was quite annoying; he would either copy her homework or play with her pen.

Just when Xu Chuwan thought she was alone, a boy suddenly burst into the classroom.

The boy said to the teacher with a carefree grin, "Teacher, I'm sorry, I'm late."

The teacher asked him, "Why were you late?"

The boy told the teacher, "I was late because my dad overslept."

The teacher said, "What does your lateness have to do with your dad!"

The boy scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Because I sleep very soundly, the alarm clock can't wake me up, so my dad usually wakes me up, but he overslept today. Teacher, you can only blame my dad."

"..."

The classroom, which was originally quiet, started laughing because some boys were laughing, so the whole class joined in. Some people laughed until their stomachs hurt.

The laughter stopped when the teacher called out "Quiet!"

The teacher said, "Zhang Jiye, you can sit in the second row of the third group."

Zhang Jiye walked to that spot and said to Xu Chuwan, "Excuse me, classmate, could you please come over here for a moment?"

Xu Chuwan moved the stool forward to let him in.

Zhang Jiye was a very outgoing person, and he casually said to her, "My name is Zhang Jiye, classmate, what's yours?"

Xu Chuwan said, "Xu Chuwan."

Zhang Jiye said, "Your name is quite nice."

They didn't talk much in the morning, but during the afternoon self-study period, Zhang Jiye, with a big smile on his face, rattled off a bunch of things to her:

"Xu Chuwan, can I borrow your English notes from this morning?"

"Xu Chuwan, I heard you're a transfer student. Which school did you go to before?"

"Xu Chuwan, are your grades very good?"

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He asked a lot of questions. Does Xu Chuwan have a hundred thousand whys?

Xu Chuwan patiently replied, and Zhang Jiye, who was next to her, finally quieted down for a while.

As Xu Chuwan did her practice problems, she silently thought to herself: Why is this person so annoying?