Chapter 44

"real?"

"real."

"Wow, that's great! We'll be best friends for life!" Xu Feifei exclaimed excitedly after receiving her reply!

Upon hearing the word "best friend," Lin Yuan's tender and doting gaze vanished completely, and her heart sank.

After a long silence, he slowly said, "The future is long, and the changes that may occur along the way are beyond our control."

"But no matter what changes happen in the future, I firmly believe that our friendship will never waver." Xu Feifei looked at her earnestly and seriously.

In this Mary Sue novel world, Xu Feifei always felt that meeting Lin Yuan was the greatest luck in the world. Lin Yuan was the bond that held her together in this world.

In this alternate world, only a sense of belonging makes you truly belong. This bond might be love, friendship, or even yourself. But because this world is illusory, Xu Feifei places her only sense of belonging on others, so she doesn't feel insignificant or nonexistent.

But if she dies in this Mary Sue world, she doesn't know what will happen to her in the real world, whether she will suffer brain death. Having lived in this world for so many days, sometimes she almost can't distinguish between reality and illusion, which is a very dangerous sign.

Looking at her earnest and serious face, Lin Yuan seemed to feel relieved about something, and then smiled and said, "Yes. No matter how the future changes, the feelings between us will always be deep. I firmly believe in this idea."

"Yes, yes!"

The bell rang for morning reading. At first, a few students stood up and read their textbooks quietly. Gradually, everyone in the class stood up, and the reading voices grew louder.

Xu Feifei stood up dejectedly, her reading voice weak and listless. After the male protagonist's antics, the time allotted for finishing her homework this morning was drastically reduced. It seemed like today would be another day she wouldn't be able to hand in her homework on time.

Xu Feifei observed her surroundings and noticed that the teacher had not yet come to the classroom to stand guard.

"Lin Yuan, can I switch seats with you?"

"What's wrong?"

"I want to catch up on my homework for a while. Can you stand in my spot and shield me from view?" Xu Feifei pleaded sweetly.

"Um."

The classroom was quite crowded, and the desks were large double desks, with boys paired up and girls paired up. Although they were double desks, there was still plenty of space.

There are four groups in total. Because the first and second groups will reflect light from behind, the first and third groups have two fewer rows than the second group.

Xu Feifei and Lin Yuan sat in the third group by the window, in the last row.

Lin Yuan took a few steps back, and Xu Feifei happily moved to her spot.

"Lin Yuan, remember to keep an eye on things for me!" After saying that, she started rushing to finish her homework.

After Lin Yuan sat down, she adjusted her posture. Turning her head to look out into the corridor, she saw only a few students reading. No teachers were passing by.

The classrooms were air-conditioned, with the windows and doors closed. Some students felt stuffy in the classrooms, so they would come out to the corridor to read. Because it was a high floor, the corridor was cooler, and they could also see the scenery in the distance.

Therefore, students often go off to study elsewhere.

Xu Feifei was lucky today; the teacher didn't come to patrol, and she narrowly escaped disaster.

As soon as the bell rang for morning reading, the Chinese language representative called out, "Group leaders, please collect your Chinese homework and hand it in to me!"

"Give me my math homework!"

"Please collect the biology homework too!"

......

Each class representative was shouting for homework to be handed in, and those urging voices were like death knells to Xu Feifei.

Xu Feifei's hand was practically flying as she wrote, and the characters followed suit, becoming crooked and slanted. Her hand ached terribly from writing, but she dared not stop for even a moment.

When Lin Yuan handed in her homework, she also handed in Xu Feifei's other assignments.

"Feifei, you're the only one in our group who hasn't handed in your Chinese homework!" Lu Ren shouted.

"Right away! Just a minute!"

Lin Yuan frowned as she watched her daughter frantically rushing to finish her homework. Recalling the events of the previous night, she secretly resolved to be even stricter with her daughter's studies in the future.

"Who in your group hasn't handed in their homework yet?" The Chinese language representative came over with a notebook to collect the assignments.

"Wait, you take the others' first. I'll bring them to you later," Lu Ren said.

"OK."

After Lu Ren and the other class representatives had walked away, he couldn't help but urge them again, "Feifei, are you done yet?"

Xu Feifei didn't say anything. At this moment, she was gritting her teeth and her hand was about to cramp from writing. Her energy to finish her homework was no different from the final sprint of the national standard 800-meter race.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's so sad that you didn't finish your homework!" Nangong Ye said gloatingly as he passed by.

"How dare you say that when you don't do your homework?" Gao Anxuan rolled her eyes at Nangong Ye.

"I'm indirectly encouraging her, you don't understand!" Nangong Ye said this and left.

"Feifei, hurry up..."

Lin Yuan interrupted, "Don't rush her."

"Okay." Lu Ren shut his mouth, decisively stopped urging them, and silently watched them.

When the class representative came again, he asked once more, "Where's your group's homework?"

Immediately! Immediately!

At this critical moment, Xu Feifei finally wrote the last character, "晚" (wan, meaning evening). The final stroke of the character "晚" had a long, upturned hook. That hook was twice the length of a normal character, and this long stroke not only represented the completion of Xu Feifei's goal, but also her victory.

After the class representative finished counting, he left satisfied.

After handing in her Chinese homework, Xu Feifei felt as if all her strength had been drained away; she was instantly breathless. Exhausted, more tired than a dog, she slumped onto the table, motionless. She was alive, but her heart was dead; she had been tortured to death by her homework.

After a while, Xu Feifei said listlessly to Lin Yuan, "Next time I must finish my homework on time! You have to keep an eye on me!"

Yes, it will.

"Um."

She then added, "I'm so exhausted! My hands are cramping up. By the end, I felt like they weren't even mine anymore. It was so hard!"

Xu Feifei weakly showed her hands to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan noticed that the area where Xu Feifei held the pen was red, and there were indented red marks on her fingers. She frowned slightly, then took Xu Feifei's hand and gently pressed it down.

The pressure was just right, relieving the soreness. Xu Feifei didn't pull her hand away and continued massaging Lin Yuan.

“Actually, you don’t have to pay!” Gao Anxuan said, turning her head.

"Really?" Xu Feifei sat up abruptly and asked in surprise.

"That's right! Your family donated a building to the school and got special privileges, have you forgotten?"

"Then forget it!" Xu Feifei sighed and slumped back onto the table.

"Why?" Lu Ren asked, puzzled.

“Because I don’t want to use my privileges,” Xu Feifei said with an “righteous” expression, and Lin Yuan’s lips curled up slightly.

Gao Anxuan and Lu Ren looked at Xu Feifei with admiration!

Can we say it's because she's too bad at the game? Being last in the class and not doing homework? She's going to be incredibly arrogant! The teacher is paying extra attention to her now!

Besides, she's getting free tutoring from Lin Yuan, the academic genius, in this world! If she doesn't learn now, how many more opportunities like this will she have? When she goes back, she can't take anything else with her, except knowledge! When she returns to her own world and takes the exam, her results will definitely amaze everyone.

At the end of the second period, the long break began.

Zeng Hao glanced at Xu Feifei from his seat, then pretended to cough a few times, trying to get her attention.

After a while, seeing that Xu Feifei still hadn't looked this way, he intensified his coughing. Unexpectedly, he choked on a mouthful of water and coughed violently, even louder than before, his face turning red and his ears turning red as well.

This time, Xu Feifei was also drawn to the earth-shattering cough.

Zeng Hao's deskmate, Li Li, patted him on the back and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

"You don't have tuberculosis, do you?" Nangong Ye asked disdainfully, fanning Zeng Hao with a book.

Zeng Hao waved his hand at them to indicate that he didn't.

Nangong Ye took out the English competition test paper and left the classroom.

"Cough... It's nothing, it's nothing. I just choked on some water. I'll be fine after a sip." After Zeng Hao stopped coughing, he took a sip of water from his cup to relieve the pain.

After Li Li recovered, he asked, "Okay, want to go play ball together?"

Zeng Hao glanced at Xu Feifei and noticed that she was looking at him, so he quickly gave her a wink.

"Are you going or not?" Li Li asked again.

"No, you guys go first!" Zeng Hao waved his hand.

Xu Feifei looked at Zeng Hao with a face full of questions, not knowing what he meant.

"Okay." Li Li left after receiving the response.

Xu Feifei watched Zeng Hao wink and make many gestures she didn't understand. The more she looked, the more confused she became, completely baffled and unable to grasp what he meant.

Zeng Hao looked at her bewildered expression, sighed silently, patted his forehead, and suddenly remembered something, making a photo-taking gesture.

Xu Feifei saw the photo-taking gesture and instantly understood what he meant, then gave him an OK sign.

Turning my head to look at Lin Yuan, I saw that she was looking at her exercises, her right hand unconsciously fiddling with the pen in her hand.

According to Xu Feifei's long-term observation, Lin Yuan likes to twirl her pen when she's thinking about a problem. She usually spins the pen twice before starting to write.

Sure enough, Lin Yuan turned it around a couple of times and then started writing down the answers.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan asked, stopping her pen as she felt the gaze.

"Uh..." For a moment, Xu Feifei didn't know how to start the conversation.

"Um?"

"It's Zeng Hao..."

Upon hearing the name, Lin Yuan looked in his direction. Zeng Hao, seeing his goddess looking in his direction, was caught red-handed and quickly sat up straight, "attentively" looking at the blackboard.

"He was also participating in that photography event. Coincidentally, he found out we were participating and wanted to join us, so he asked if we could?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan frowned and looked over with displeasure.

"Did you agree?"

"Ah, I...I'm fine with anything."

"Fine, I disagree."

After finishing her sentence, Lin Yuan continued to do her homework with her head down.

Whether it was the sunlight or the lamplight, Lin Yuan's long eyelashes cast shadows, and her slightly forward-leaning neck made her appear exceptionally aloof.

Xu Feifei sensed her displeasure and stopped speaking. She turned to look at Zeng Hao, waved her hand, and indicated that it wouldn't work.

Zeng Hao already knew that the chances of success were slim, but after receiving a definite rejection, he still felt very sad and dejected.

Xu Feifei glanced at him sympathetically and silently offered her blessings. She decided to wait until Lin Yuan left and was out of the classroom before asking Zeng Hao about Nangong Ye's secret.