"Excuse me, my name is Zhang Xinyu, Zhang Xinyu as in 'a long bow and an arrow for fragrance'."

"My name is Chen Bing."

“Yes, I know.” Zhang Xinyu’s smile remained unchanged. After acknowledging that she knew Chen Bing’s name, she continued, “I saw that you are a day student, so I wanted to ask you if it’s tight with your time each day and how you applied for it.”

The girl's pretty, fair face swayed in front of Chen Bing, and her bright, large eyes seemed to speak volumes, vividly explaining her thoughts to Chen Bing in sync with her voice.

As mentioned before, due to Zhang Xinyu's good family background and relatively mature personality, her every smile and gesture has a huge impact on first-year junior high school boys.

However, this refers to a first-year junior high school boy.

After hearing her words, Chen Bing acted quite enthusiastically and casually pointed to Shang Yunmiao, who was looking over from time to time, and said, "Shang Yunmiao and I commute together. Since we're both girls, she should be more thoughtful than me. I'll go and call her over to ask her."

This statement can be seen as a polite way of asking the other party to leave, but it also gives them a graceful way out. And this is precisely what a mature adult would do.

"No need, I'll go and say hello myself. Thank you, Chen Bing. Here, have this chocolate."

After accepting the chocolate from Zhang Xinyu, Chen Bing saw the other woman get up decisively and walk towards Shang Yunmiao. A moment later, the two girls started chatting and laughing, and everything seemed normal.

Hmm... this girl is really something. Just from that short conversation, Chen Bing has a pretty good impression of her. No wonder she was able to date a handsome academic star from the 2018 cohort in her past life. With such great conversation skills, how many junior high boys could resist her?

After shaking his head inwardly, Chen Bing withdrew his gaze.

...

The time Shang Yunmiao spent sitting in her seat just now was arguably her darkest moment. Faced with the fact that her Chen Bing had been approached by another girl for a chat, she dared not go over to see what was going on, nor did she dare to keep staring at the two of them.

Perhaps out of trust in Chen Bing, or perhaps simply out of cowardice, Shang Yunmiao only dared to turn her head to glance at him from time to time while the two were talking.

Shang Yunmiao didn't know what the point of this behavior was, and even if she saw the two of them making any moves, what would she dare to do?

Fortunately, as Zhang Xinyu got up and came over, these sudden thoughts dissipated.

From Zhang Xinyu, Shang Yunmiao learned the purpose of her visit to Chen Bing, and her slightly anxious heart calmed down. Reassured, Shang Yunmiao spoke frankly and openly about her experiences commuting to school, afraid that her answers might be incomplete and cause Zhang Xinyu to have to go back to Chen Bing.

The cute little mouth kept chattering until Fang Anmin suddenly burst into the classroom, at which point it gradually quieted down.

"Chen Bing, come to my office with Yunmiao." After saying this, Fang Anmin noticed that Zhang Xinyu was chatting with Shang Yunmiao. Didn't this girl go to eat breakfast either?

After a moment's thought, he waved to Zhang Xinyu and said, "Xinyu, come too."

The three of them got up and followed their homeroom teacher to the office. They watched as he kindly poured them and their two companions a cup of tea, and then heard him say in a gentle tone, "Children, please sit down. I just wanted to have a chat with you."

After Chen Bing took the lead and sat down, the other two also sat down one after another.

"Well, I've seen the class committee voting results from yesterday. Your three names appeared very frequently, so it seems the students trust you quite a bit. So, how about it? Are you interested in being a class committee member?"

Fang Anmin's gaze first fell on Shang Yunmiao, only to find that the other was staring at Chen Bing. So, he turned his gaze to Chen Bing.

"Teacher, I still think studying is more important. I really don't feel capable of managing the class."

This statement sounded somewhat formal, but it was precisely this serious tone that emphasized Chen Bing's thoughts, making it inconvenient for Fang Anmin to say anything more.

He nodded and then looked at Shang Yunmiao.

"I, I think so too."

"Alright, alright, I won't force you. Now that you're in junior high, the workload is quite heavy. I'll be satisfied if you study hard and make progress every day." After saying some polite words to Shang Yunmiao, Fang Anmin looked at Zhang Xinyu and asked, "Xinyu, what do you think? Is there any position you'd like to hold? I see many classmates have nominated you to be class monitor. What do you think? Are you interested?"

To Chen Bing, Fang Anmin's words were a clear indication that he wanted Zhang Xinyu to be the class monitor.

This was partly because the other girl was generous and methodical, and many classmates supported her. On the other hand, although her grades were good, they weren't as good as Chen Bing's. This subconsciously led Fang Anmin to believe that he didn't need her to be number one in the grade, and that her good grades could also improve the class's academic atmosphere.

This can be described as a mutual openness. Zhang Xinyu had originally wanted to be the class monitor, and now that Fang Anmin had suggested it, she didn't refuse too much and quickly agreed.

Fang Anmin looked at his newly appointed squad leader and nodded with great satisfaction.

"Alright, I'll have to trouble you with this in the future. Okay, if there's nothing else, you three can go back to the classroom and study. Oh, and Xinyu, could you call a few classmates to my office for me..."

After taking Shang Yunmiao back to the classroom, Chen Bing sat in Ma Lele's seat and chatted with her for a while. He didn't leave until the seat's owner returned.

In the ten or twenty minutes before the first class started, Chen Bing saw Zhang Xinyu get up from time to time and walk up to some classmates, telling them that the homeroom teacher wanted to talk to them, including Chen Bing's deskmate Cai Kunnan.

Within minutes of being called away, Cai Kunnan returned to his seat with the gait of a monkey being born.

"Bing-ge! Our homeroom teacher made me the discipline monitor!"

Congratulations!

Throughout the classroom, the class committee members took up their posts one after another, and the atmosphere in the classroom was filled with joy and celebration.

However, this did not include Ma Shaolong. Although the homeroom teacher had told him to go to the office, Zhang Xinyu was unable to notify him in time because he had gone to play basketball with a group of boys after breakfast.

And so, at eight o'clock in the morning, the first middle school class of more than forty children began in this classroom.