Chapter 2

Five minutes had passed since class started, but the teacher still hadn't arrived.

The students in the classroom have become a little uneasy from the initial noisy ones.

"Why hasn't the teacher come for so long?"

"Is this class still going to start?"

Wei Mo listened to the increasing number of doubtful voices in the class, and frowned slightly, "Don't be impatient. I'll go to the office and ask everyone."

Just as he was about to get up, he saw a middle-aged man approaching with a textbook in his hand. It was the teacher.

"Excuse me." The teacher came up to the stage, put down the textbook with both hands, and the eyes hidden behind the glasses were a little cunning. "Everyone, uh, I'm late."

The whole class: “…”

"Okay!" He suddenly shouted in a neither loud nor soft voice in the eerie silence, "Then let's hurry up and get going..."

"Report... Report to the teacher." With a swish, the half-closed classroom door was suddenly pushed open. A tall, thin girl with a ponytail came in panting, obviously in a hurry.

The teacher was interrupted just as he was about to finish his words. He first pretended not to hear and flipped through the textbook, then glanced at the other person unhappily.

"Where have you been?" There was obvious disgust in his voice.

"Teacher, I ate something bad this morning and have diarrhea..." The girl covered her stomach and looked at the teacher, her big eyes filled with pity.

The old teacher was silent for a long time, and after a while he managed to say, "What's your name?"

"My name is Lu Xiaoyue, teacher."

The teacher remained silent. Just when the whole class thought he was going to curse, he waved his hand impatiently, "Come in. Can you come earlier next time?"

"Okay," the girl replied, her big eyes immediately lighting up with a smile. She quickly crossed the podium, trotted all the way to her seat, and sat down next to He Xi.

The teacher on the podium opened the textbook and frowned, complaining to himself, "I thought I was late, but I didn't expect someone to be even later than me. Really."

After complaining, he sighed deeply and said seriously, "Go to class."

"Today we're going to study the second poem, 'Rainy Alley.'"

…

“…Wandering alone in the long, long/and lonely rain alley/I hope a girl like a lilac/with sorrow and resentment will pass by.”

In the quiet classroom, the sound of Su Pu, a dialect with rich emotion, is particularly piercing.

A middle-aged male teacher stood casually in the aisle of the classroom, holding a textbook in his hand with a serious expression.

After finishing reading a poem, he heaved a long sigh, feeling quite like a warrior sheathing his sword.

Wei Mo also let out a long sigh and lay on the table like a turtle.

Half-closed eyes.

Wandering.

One second, two seconds... I was almost asleep.

"Ahem...Wei Mo." The old teacher looked at him dimly, with an expression that seemed to be smiling.

Upon hearing this, Wei Mo sat up with a sluggish look on his face, "Hmm?"

The boy raised his eyes, his face full of innocence.

"Hmm? Hmm? What do you mean by hmm? Stop pretending to be ignorant when you know the truth!" The old teacher gave Wei Mo a glare.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the boy sitting upright next to him, writing furiously. The teacher, who had been about to let it go, started to exploit the situation, "Look at your deskmate, Lin Shenshen. Look how attentive he is in class!"

Wei Mo looked at his deskmate and saw that the other person was concentrating on... drawing an anime girl character.

She has long flowing hair, two big, bright eyes like light bulbs on her egg-sized face, and a skirt with complex patterns paired with a pair of high heels tied with bows.

It can be said to be quite vivid.

At this moment, his deskmate Lin Shenshen is drawing a pair of angel wings for the girl he is painting.

With just a few strokes, the plump wings were outlined.

The light fell on half of the boy's face. Under his fluffy hair, his eyebrows were curved and his crescent-shaped eyes were slightly drooping.

The whole person was as quiet as an oil painting.

Wei Mo was bored and stared at Lin Shenyuan's painting intently. "The straps on her clothes are so long—wouldn't she trip when she walks?"

"Won't."

The boy pursed his lips, then was stunned. He quickly hid the drawing paper in his textbook. After hiding it, he looked at him. His calm expression could not hide his panic.

"Oh——" Wei Mo pretended to be enlightened, turned his head to the side, and grinned wickedly.

This guy is truly peculiar. After being stared at for so long, he finally realized that he was almost as dull as the sloth in Zootopia!

The more Wei Mo thought about it, the more he wanted to laugh. He put his palm against his lips and laughed uncomfortably. He laughed and laughed until he stopped halfway, turned his head to look at Lin Shenyuan, and suddenly whispered, "Have we met somewhere before?"

Lin Shenshen was puzzled. He glanced at him from head to toe and shook his head. "I don't remember knowing you."

"Oh." Wei Mo was silent for a moment, muttering to himself, "That's right. We probably haven't met before."

The fan on the ceiling kept spinning, and the clock on the wall ticked around and around, over and over again.

With two minutes left before class ended, the teacher had already closed his textbook and was wandering around the classroom bored. Suddenly, his eyes caught sight of a group of students outside the window and he exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, class isn't over yet."

Then he raised his right hand and said hurriedly, "Go, everyone, hurry up and go ahead of Class 1... If not, we'll leave class three or four minutes early and line up in the cafeteria... I don't believe it..."

Before he finished speaking, the boarding students had already rushed out of the classroom.

Not long after they ran out, the bell for the end of get out of class rang, and a lyrical piano piece of music echoed melodiously in the sunny noon campus.

In the classroom, my deskmate Lu Xiaoyue was chatting happily with He Xi. "He Xi, you've made me wait so long... Military training and the start of school have been going on for so long, and I've been alone without anyone to accompany me. I'm dying of loneliness."

He Xi smiled awkwardly, and just as he was hesitating about how to respond, the other party dropped the feigned reproach on his face, changed the subject, and smiled warmly and friendly, "I was just joking, don't take it seriously. Since you're here, we're good friends. Please give me your guidance in the future."

"Oh, no, no." He Xi waved his hand and nodded, "Of course."

"That's great." Lu Xiaoyue smiled with her eyes curved. "He Xi, do you know that I liked you very much the moment we met—"

"Lu Xiaoyue, are you okay?" Several girls who had not left after class suddenly stopped chatting, and one of them looked in their direction.

Lu Xiaoyue, who was speaking, looked up and said angrily, "Right away. Chen Linlin, why are you in such a hurry?"

"I'm starving." Chen Linlin complained, holding her stomach.

"That's good." Lu Xiaoyue quickly packed up her things and said goodbye to He Xi with a bright face. "Then I'll be leaving first. You should go home early too. Bye."

"Bye-Bye."

He Xi waved her hand, and after Lu Xiaoyue and her group left, the smile on her face faded and she sighed dejectedly.

At noon, only a few scattered students came to the quiet and empty classroom, some studying, some sleeping, some chatting and playing.

Lu Xiaoyue sat with a few of her good friends during lunch break, enjoying the boring time. She browsed Taobao while listening to them talk about the latest gossip and interesting things in the class, occasionally joining in a few words.

The funny part was that several people were joking and laughing together.

Su Bai's fingers slid up and down the screen, tapping lightly, and swiping again. A hint of boredom gradually appeared on her eyebrows.

Lu Xiaoyue clicked her tongue twice and shook her head with a sullen expression. She casually clicked on the product details page of a top on Taobao and flipped through it mechanically.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she exclaimed in surprise. She placed her phone screen in the middle of the table and asked, "Look who this is?"

Everyone followed her gaze.

On the small mobile phone screen, a girl with a pair of pigtails greeted the camera warmly with a sweet smile.

The pink sleeveless embroidered puffy skirt makes her look energetic and cute on her with her good figure and good looks.

Turning down, she wears another black piece of the same style in a different makeup style and background, making it look sexy and erotic.

"Wow—so beautiful—" the short-haired girl exclaimed.

"Oh, I bought this dress! But I returned it later. The style and color are too difficult to control, and I can't wear it to the effect of the model's picture at all." The girl wearing thick glasses complained.

"Who is this?" Chen Linlin asked, staring at her phone in confusion. "Looks so familiar..."

"Look how stupid you all are. You clearly just met me not long ago." Lu Xiaoyue smiled and revealed the answer, "It's He Xi."

"Ah? It's her?" Chen Linlin stared at her phone in even greater confusion. "The girl who's as skinny as a bamboo pole?"

"Yeah." Lu Xiaoyue nodded.

Chen Linlin looked at the girl on the phone several times, but couldn't connect her with the one she met in the morning.

"Liu Xin, no wonder you returned the product. Who would be as thin as a bamboo pole?" She couldn't help but sigh after closing her phone.

"Being a model is so difficult. Who would have thought that the girl with a well-proportioned and slender figure in the camera would look like this in real life." The girl with short hair continued.

"If you want to look good in front of the camera, you have to be skinny in real life." Lu Xiaoyue sighed and concluded, "But He Xi is still very beautiful in real life. It's better to die skinny than fat, right?"

If she hadn't lost 30 kilograms during the summer vacation before the high school entrance examination, Lu Xiaoyue would probably still be called a fat woman like she was in junior high school.

"Pretty as hell." Chen Linlin rolled her eyes, speechless. "You'd better not think that way. She's almost unrecognizable after being so thin. How can she be pretty? If you don't believe me, just ask any boy in the class."

"Just ask." Lu Xiaoyue stuck out her tongue at her playfully, "I think our He Xi is still very beautiful."

She looked up and looked around the classroom, her eyes fixed on a boy in a blue jacket.

His hair was damp, as if he had just washed it. He tidied up the books on the seat, took off his coat, revealing his slender and powerful arms, and took out a cup of milk tea, inserted a straw, and drank it with relish.

"Bai Shu." Lu Xiaoyue called out his name. "Let me ask you a question. Do you think He Xi is beautiful?"

Ton, ton, ton. After just a few sips, one third of the cup of milk tea was left.

Hmm... almost reaching the bottom.

"Hmm?" Bai Shu, who was sipping milk tea, paused and looked at Lu Xiaoyue in confusion. "What does her beauty have to do with me?"

"Oh. I just want to ask you if she is pretty." The girl with thick glasses added.

After Bai Shu finished his last sip of milk tea, the image of the girl in the morning flashed through his mind.

He paused and said bluntly, "Not beautiful."

How can a person be so thin? She looks a bit sick, right?

"Look, let me tell you." Chen Linlin spread her hands, becoming more and more certain of her thoughts. "If you ask me, there's not a single boy in the class who thinks He Xi is pretty."

"Huh?" Lu Xiaoyue held her face with both hands and blinked her big grape-like eyes. "No way."

"Of course not—"

Lin Shenyuan, who had been sleeping, suddenly spoke up. His gentle voice was filled with determination as he said word by word, "I just think He Xi is beautiful."

"You like her." Chen Linlin asked unhappily.

Lin Shenshen pursed his thin lips in a look of displeasure, "No, we are friends."

Lu Xiaoyue, who originally thought she had lost the game, unexpectedly managed to pull it back. She said proudly, "Ha, there's a twist. Didn't expect that, Chen Linlin?"

As she spoke, she looked up and was about to give Lin Shenshen a tacit high-five, but she saw He Xi standing at the classroom door.

She was carrying a schoolbag, with a blank expression on her fair little face. It was unknown how long she had been standing there, and how much of the conversation she had just heard.

Chen Linlin and several other girls followed Lu Xiaoyue's dull gaze. After just one glance, they seemed to understand what was going on. They all made excuses and dispersed in a moment.

He Xi then walked into the classroom, sat down in his seat, and went about his own business, leaving Lu Xiaoyue alone with a changing expression on her face.