Chapter 24 School Starts

The high school entrance exam in Tongcheng is finally here. The scorching sun shines on the asphalt road, and the black shadows and golden sunlight separate the teaching buildings.

After Ji Mian finished his second math exam, he was still thinking about the last multiple-choice question when he walked out of the classroom. He was a little unsure whether the question about the water container was a direct proportional function or a one-time function.

"Mianmian!" Su Luoyu stuck her head out of the window.

Ji Mian was startled, then came to his senses and muttered subconsciously: "Why are you calling me like that..."

Su Luoyu walked out of the classroom: "I saw your mother calling you like that last time. Can't I call you like that?"

Ji Mian paused: "No..."

It's not that you can't shout, it's just that it feels weird to be shouted at by the protagonist.

Usually only elders would call him by his nickname.

Su Luoyu asked, "How did you do on the math test?"

Ji Mian: "I'm not sure about the last multiple-choice question."

Su Luoyu: "I chose the one-time function."

Ji Mian choked: I...

He chose the direct proportional function.

Su Luoyu saw Ji Mian's face turn pale, and he mourned for him for a few seconds. Then, he asked, "Ji Mian, which high school are you planning to attend?"

Ji Mian was sick because of the lost points. "I'll go to Zhennan. I don't know if I can pass the exam."

Su Luoyu tilted her head and thought for a moment: "I thought we could go to high school together."

Ji Mian laughed dryly and thought to himself: Oh my God, how dare I do that?

But from what Su Luoyu said, he should be determined to stay in the headquarters.

Ji Mian breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Luoyu said, "But I really want to go to the same high school as you. After all, we went to kindergarten together. All the friends we grew up with have separated. And I heard that high school students have to live on campus, and I don't want to live with strangers."

Ji Mian silently complained: Actually, I’m not that familiar with you…

"Everything will be fine once you get to high school and meet new friends. There should be a lot of students who were directly admitted from junior high school. You are popular and have many friends." Ji Mian had just finished his voice change period, and his voice had become a clear minty sound. When he spoke softly, there was still a hint of baby voice that had not completely disappeared.

Su Luoyu laughed: "Those don't have the affection of growing up together."

He looked up at the leaves. The wind rustled through them, and there was a rustling sound in his ears. "You don't seem to like me very much. Is it because of Fu Chenyu?"

Ji Mian was shocked. He actually didn't dislike Su Luoyu.

As soon as he saw the protagonist suffering, he thought of his own miserable end in the future. This is the well-deserved male protagonist of "Stranger Tenderness". Even Li Jue can only be regarded as the second male lead at best. If Ji Mian wants to escape his fate, he will naturally stay away from him.

I didn't expect Su Luoyu to be so meticulous and able to notice such tiny details.

Su Luoyu curled her eyes and said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't mean to say anything bad about Fu Chenyu, don't take it to heart. But I envy him for having such a good friend like you."

Ji Mian smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to respond.

Su Luoyu said: "Is he quite cold towards you? Haha, just ignore what I said."

Ji Mian looked up and saw Fu Chenyu walking out of the examination room.

Su Luoyu waved to him: "Bye."

The first thing Ji Mian said when he saw Fu Chenyu was, "Fu Chenyu, what did you choose for the last multiple-choice question?"

Although Su Luoyu is very smart, the boss is a genius. Ji Mian did not give up and wanted to confirm it again.

"Linear function." Fu Chenyu withdrew his gaze from Su Luoyu's back, and Ji Mian's face was already shocked.

"Did you do something wrong?" Fu Chenyu frowned slightly.

Ji Mian sighed deeply: "If I get one question wrong, then the rest of the math must be correct."

Fu Chenyu pursed his lips and tried to speak several times to ask what he and Su Luoyu had just said, but in the end he chose to remain silent.

As friends, once the boundaries of concern are crossed, your thoughts will be exposed to the other person.

When they arrived at the garage, Ji Mian was the first to sit on the back seat of Fu Chenyu's bicycle. The bicycle shook a little, and he clasped his hands together: "Fu Chenyu, I lost my license plate. I'm going home in your car today. Please give me a ride."

The keys and license plate are lost, so why not the person as well?

When Fu Chenyu got on the bike, Ji Mian naturally put her arms around his waist.

The young man's thin waist tensed instantly. Ji Mian instantly noticed the change in Fu Chenyu, and remembered that in the original novel, the boss seemed to have mysophobia?

He turned a corner, took Fu Chenyu's schoolbag off, held it in his arms, and changed the subject casually: "Fu Chenyu, isn't it time to replace your bicycle? Why does it scream when I sit on it?"

"You ate too much." Fu Chenyu said sarcastically.

Ji Mian narrowed his eyes and ignored Fu Chenyu's sarcasm: "If you change your bicycle, can you also take one with a seat like this?"

It’s really cool to ride in the boss’s back seat!

Fu Chenyu was too lazy to pay attention to him and threw Ji Mian at the gate of the community and left him to fend for himself.

After the high school entrance examination, in order to encourage him, Lin Jianyi decided to reward Fu Chenyu with a computer with the latest configuration, and asked him if he wanted to change his bicycle.

Lin Jianyi is the secretary of the municipal party committee. Now he is about to be promoted. He must be honest and set a good example. Therefore, Fu Chenyu bought his bicycle on the first day of the new year and has never changed it.

When he got home from get off work, he saw high school students, all of them tall and strong, riding their handsome mountain bikes and whizzing past with their friends. Looking at them, Lin Jianyi also missed his youth.

As for boys, who doesn’t like mountain bikes? It only costs two or three thousand yuan, so you can buy one.

Fu Chenyu put down his schoolbag and washed his face: "Just like before, any one with a seat will do."

Lin Jianyi was a little surprised: "The styles with seats are a bit outdated."

Ji Mian, holding his schoolbag and sitting obediently on the back of the bicycle, appeared in front of him. Fu Chenyu's eyes were gloomy: "No need to change."

“It’s good to have a seat.”

In mid-August, the school called and told me that I could check my high school entrance exam results.

In 2009, the results of the high school entrance examination could be checked on the China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center. For this reason, Lin Minzhi sat in front of the computer early and helped Ji Mian check it as soon as it was past midnight.

Since becoming the boss's wife, Lin Minzhi is no longer satisfied with her primary school education. Whenever she has free time, she reads and studies. She also enrolled in a night university and learned computer science from the young people for fear of falling behind.

Not long ago, she graduated from night college and became a college student. Her relatives in her hometown were both jealous and complimentary towards her.

People say she is strong-willed. She can live so well without a man and raise her child alone.

She once said that no man wanted her, but then she changed her tone and said that Ji Weiguo had no vision and was not worthy of her.

Lin Minzhi just smiled and lowered her head to do the account book.

The Xuexin website froze for a minute before Ji Mian’s high school entrance exam results popped up:

Chinese 130 points, mathematics 147 points, foreign language 110 points, science 180.5 points, ideological and political education 70 points, total 637 points!

The admission score for Zhennan Middle School is 610 points, and Ji Mian’s grades are enough to get in!

Lin Minzhi was so happy that tears came to her eyes, and she hugged Ji Mian and rubbed him.

At this moment, she couldn't help but burst into tears. Who would have thought that her son, who was called mentally retarded when he was a child, could now be admitted to the best key high school in Tongcheng.

Ji Mian blushed with joy and couldn't help but call Fu Chenyu.

As soon as the person on the other end picked up the phone, he couldn't help but blurt out, "Guess what I got on the test!"

"Ji Mian?" Unexpectedly, it was Lin Xi who answered the phone.

Ji Mian was stunned for a moment: "Brother Lin."

Lin Xi smiled gently: "Ah Chen is talking to the principal of Zhennan in the living room. Are you here to share your results with him?"

Ji Mian nodded, then he remembered that Lin Xi couldn't see him nodding, so he changed it to "Yeah."

As Ji Mian grew up, the plot of "Stranger Tenderness" became clearer and clearer in his mind, and the characters became more complete.

It was not until the second year of junior high school that he found out that Lin Xi was actually one of the supporting male characters in this popular novel!

In the original novel, Lin Xi is handsome and gentle, with a graceful demeanor and gentlemanly manner. He is a good brother in Su Luoyu's life, helping him solve his problems and taking him in when he was heartbroken. At the same time, he is also the first male supporting role to be given the good guy card by Su Luoyu, saying "I'm sorry, I always treated you as a brother."

He and the boss are step-brothers and they are in love with the same person.

It's also very melodramatic, which fits the tone of "Stranger Tenderness".

Ji Mian kept his distance from Su Luoyu's men, so he also kept a distance from Lin Xi.

Thinking about it this way, Fu Chenyu was truly an accident in his life plan.

After the summer vacation, Lin Xi was in his third year of high school. He said gently, "Let me tell you. How did you do on the exam?"

Ji Mian: "I want to talk to Fu Chenyu myself, Brother Lin, I'll call you later."

There is no need to chat with the man who is the protagonist!

After saying this, Ji Mian decisively hung up the phone.

In the evening, Fu Chenyu shared the high school entrance examination results with Ji Mian.

Fu Chenyu was the top scorer in the 2009 Tongcheng high school entrance examination, with a total score of 702 points, including full marks in mathematics, English and science, with only some points deducted in Chinese and ideological and political education.

After hearing Fu Chenyu's results, Ji Mian felt complicated and instantly lost the desire to show off his results.

As expected, ordinary people can’t be friends with geniuses… Such a blow…

After talking about grades, Ji Mian started talking about things in Zhennan, the school cafeteria, school rules and mottos, school uniforms and teachers, as well as celebrities from the past. He fell asleep while talking.

Fu Chenyu sat in front of the computer, listening to Ji Mian's tired voice: "Fu Chenyu, can we be assigned to the same class in high school..."

Zhennan has an experimental class. Although Ji Mian has passed the score line, he may not be able to enter the experimental class.

Ji Mian stretched out on the bed, letting the air conditioning blow on his face. He was fair and clean, with plenty of flesh on his face, and full of childishness: "You will definitely be able to enter the experimental class."

The cotton rabbit was gnawing on Fu Chenyu's trouser legs on the ground. Fu Chenyu picked it up and put it on his lap.

Cotton Rabbit is already nine years old, and the rabbit is only fifteen years old, but it can still eat and sleep. When it was put on Fu Chenyu's legs, it began to chew Fu Chenyu's clothes.

Fu Chenyu gently stroked the rabbit's back with his hand.

Ji Mian turned over, the phone was pressed under his face, and his voice became lower and lower: "It doesn't matter, even if we are not in the same class, we can still live in the same dormitory..."

call……

Fu Chenyu put the phone to his ear and could only hear Ji Mian's breathing.

It sounded like he was already asleep, but he just kept his phone on next to his pillow and didn't hang up until dawn.

The summer vacation after the high school entrance examination ended in a flash. At the end of August, Zhennan's class schedule was out. Fu Chenyu was in the experimental class and Ji Mian was in Class 2. They were indeed not in the same class.

However, Zhennan High School is a day school, and the class members will change every half semester. The last few students in the experimental class will be transferred to Class 2, and the top few students in Class 2 can enter the experimental class.

Since they are not in the same class, they definitely cannot live in the same dormitory.

Fu Chenyu lives in Building 1 of the boys' dormitory, and Ji Mian lives in Building 4 of the boys' dormitory. They are both on the fourth floor, with their balconies facing each other.

It was Ji Mian's first time living in a dormitory on campus. Lin Minzhi was worried about this and that. She brought two suitcases to his dormitory for him and also gave snacks to the other three boys in the dormitory, which made Ji Mian blush.

As soon as Lin Minzhi left, three boys introduced themselves. They were all from Class 2, and were divided into groups according to age: the eldest, Tan Yan, the second oldest, Song Chengyi, the third oldest, Liao Hui, and Ji Mian, the youngest.

Tan Yan has a girlfriend. After just a few words with them, his girlfriend secretly ran to their dormitory while the registration was not supervised strictly.

The girl was an extrovert and quickly became friends with the boys in the dormitory. When she saw Ji Mian, her eyes widened: "Old Tan, your dormitory's feng shui is so good! Who is this little cutie!"

When Ji Mian feels embarrassed, his ears turn red.

The girl excitedly spoke again, "There are two handsome guys in our first year of high school. Do you know the top scorer in the high school entrance exam in Tongcheng? He's so handsome! Here's his photo. The forum has been flooded with posts about him today!"

The secretly photographed photos of Fu Chenyu appeared on the girl’s mobile phone screen.

Ji Mian looked at him secretly, feeling a little proud, thinking, of course he is handsome, the boss has been handsome since he was a child.

"I'll go get the quilt."

Ji Mian hid the smile on his face and walked out the door.

He didn't hear the girl's excited blushing chatter behind him: "Do you know that Tongwai has a transfer student too? He's super handsome! He transferred from Jianjing, dressed in black, riding a Harley, so cool and crazy! Should he be called Li Jue or Li Xue..."

In the photo, the sixteen-year-old boy is arrogant and conceited. He wears black fingerless gloves, a jacket, and a pair of black boots. His eyes are handsome and evil.

…

The toiletries and quilts at Zhennan High School were all distributed uniformly. Ji Mian was busy for a long time but still hadn’t gone to get them from his aunt.

As soon as he walked downstairs, he saw Fu Chenyu leaning against the locust tree in the dormitory building, playing with his mobile phone. The sunlight fell dappled on his face, and many girls around him were looking at him quietly.

Ji Mian was in a good mood and walked with ease.

By the time he was in high school, he was already half relieved that Fu Chenyu had not turned bad, had not killed anyone, had not fallen in love with Su Luoyu, and had not destroyed the government website.

He has excellent grades and a handsome face, and is a leader among his peers. Just as Ji Mian wrote in the message in the elementary school yearbook, time flies, years go by, and Fu Chenyu grows up well.

The only problem is that the boss likes men.

He is not the kind of straight man who is so confident that he thinks his friend will attack him just because his friend is gay.

If Fu Chenyu could like him, she would have liked him a long time ago. Can they still be innocent now?

Although Ji Mian thinks it's okay for men to like men, he has a bit of a hen mentality towards Fu Chenyu. He is also a straight man and always hopes that Fu Chenyu can find a gentle girl to start a family and spend the rest of his life with.

If he has a daughter by then, he can recognize Fu Chenyu as his godfather, strengthening their relationship and making their friendship everlasting!

And, more importantly, he is finally not in the same high school as the protagonist!

In the original novel, Su Luoyu met Li Jue, who came to Tongcheng for vacation from Jianjing, during the winter break of his senior year in high school. He still had three years of leisurely high school life. After finishing high school, he would be admitted to the police academy and take the civil service exam immediately after graduation. He didn't believe that a domineering president like Li Jue, with a distorted outlook on life, could seize a civil servant by force?

With the support of the Party Central Committee, Ji Mian was full of confidence and thought indignantly in his heart: If he dares to provoke me, I will hand him over to the country immediately!

Ji Mian raised his head, curled his eyes at Fu Chenyu, and waved: "Fu Chenyu, do you want to go get the quilt together?"

Li Jue never thought that he would have the chance to go back to high school. His grades in his previous life were average, and after his rebirth, all the knowledge he learned in junior high school became incomprehensible to him.

Mathematics and English are okay, but Ideological and political education relies on my memory, there's nothing I can do about it.

Fortunately, Tongcheng Foreign Language School is a private school, and you can get in with money. He couldn't wait to come to the city where Ji Mian grew up. As soon as he landed, his eyes were a little hot.

The scars on his back from being beaten with a stick by his father still hurt slightly. His father angrily scolded him for giving up a good elite education and coming to a small place to study, saying that he was simply mentally ill.

His father didn't understand at all. He didn't want to waste even a second. He had waited for too long. Decades of regret and despair tortured him every minute and every second. He really wanted to see Ji Mian, even if it was just a glimpse from afar.

But...will I be able to see him again?

How should I talk to him when I see him?

Li Jue, who had always been high and mighty, suddenly felt a sense of fear of being close to home.

Fortunately, Ji Mian's IQ seems to be insufficient, so the two will not meet at school.

He remembered that he had only studied until he graduated from junior high school. Where should he work in Tongcheng now?

Li Jue felt a pang of sadness when he thought of Ji Mian's pitiful behavior of serving tea and water for a salary of just over a thousand yuan. He knew that Ji Mian was soft-hearted, gentle, and spoke softly. He was easily frightened like a rabbit, and he would swallow any hardship to himself.

In his previous life, it was precisely because of this that he took Ji Mian's kindness and indulgence for granted, believing it to be inexhaustible. This ultimately led to a lifelong hatred.

If he could do it all over again, he would never let Ji Mian suffer any injustice again!