Schools that offer quiet periods do not require students to hand in their cell phones.
However, this girl is quite self-disciplined and afraid of affecting her studies, so she gives her phone to her homeroom teacher after returning to school.
I'll bring it back on the day I have the holiday.
I heard that in the past, Chaogao High School used to have alternating weeks of alternating days, but the calming ceremony has been abolished in this year's session.
So by this time on Friday, the phone should have been returned to her.
Even so…
After taking out her phone, Ji Qingqian thought for a moment, but still couldn't figure out how to greet this younger sister.
So she handed the phone to her boyfriend.
Ji Qingqian liked Shen Jingyi quite a bit and knew that their relationship was pretty good.
But having only met once before, and now after a month apart, she didn't know how to start the conversation.
So please, my boyfriend…
She said it with her eyes.
Lu Yibei could only smile helplessly, take the phone, and make a WeChat call to his younger sister.
She answered very quickly.
It was still that quiet yet cheerful voice:
"Hey, Sister Qingqian~~"
In fact, Ji Qingqian didn't need to rack her brains to think about what to say as her first sentence. Shen Jingyi hadn't become estranged from her sister-in-law at all despite a month of no contact.
The greeting even carried a hint of coquettishness typical of a junior.
“A tranquilizer,” Lu Yibei said.
"Ah, it's you..."
The calming instrument's soft voice immediately turned stiff.
Ji Qingqian leaned close to Lu Yibei's ear to listen to his conversation with his sister.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei turned on the speakerphone and then lowered the volume of the speaker.
"Why are you calling me with Qingqian's phone? Where is Qingqian?" Shen Jingyi asked.
Ji Qingqian calmly replied, "I'm here."
"Sister Qingqian~"
Chen Jingyi shouted cheerfully again.
"Are you out of school?" Lu Yibei asked.
Chen Jingyi continued curtly, "Not yet."
"Chen Jingyi, I'll go tell your mother right away to make you drop out of school and send you to Sichuan to learn face-changing," Lu Yibei said calmly.
"You'd better be able to go!"
Chen Jingyi said with a hint of complaint, "This way I won't have to stay after school to listen to the exam explanation!!"
Lu Yibei hummed in response, then remembered that his younger sister had just said that school wasn't over yet.
He glanced at the screen, but it was already past 2 p.m.
"...Did you have extra lessons?" Lu Yibei asked.
"almost."
Chen Jingyi drew out her voice, sounding both quiet and resentful: "The midterm exam results are out, and the school stipulates that we can only have a break this week... We still have one more exam, so it will probably extend the class time by two or three periods... Ah!"
Ji Qingqian wanted to say something to comfort her, but the words caught in her throat, and she could only murmur:
"Hard."
"It's not hard work, it's just a miserable life!" Shen Jingyi gritted her teeth slightly.
Lu Yibei chuckled.
For her quiet and gentle younger sister to react with such indignation, Chao Gao is truly a heartless person.
His sister didn't dislike classes and studying; on the contrary, she was quite ambitious.
But anyone would complain about being suddenly given extra lessons.
"Then how did you get your phone back?" Lu Yibei asked.
At this point, the younger sister on the other end of the phone seemed to clench her teeth even tighter:
"Guess what? Hey, our homeroom teacher went on vacation first—before she left, she gave my phone back and said to me, 'Good luck, Jingyi'... I'm so angry! Our homeroom teacher is on vacation, but I'm still stuck in this lousy school! Ugh! I'm going crazy."
"Okay, okay, we're going home this week. We're almost on the bus. What time will you get out of school?" Lu Yibei asked.
"It'll probably be around five o'clock..."
Chen Jingyi seemed resigned to her fate, then became alert: "...You all manage to get home before me!"
Lu Yibei laughed and joked:
"Do you need your brother to pick you up?"
"...No need!"
Chen Jingyi coldly refused: "It's more convenient for me to take the intercity train."
“I’ll say that later,” Lu Yibei said.
Shen Jingyi sneered, "I knew it. When have you ever been so kind?"
The brother and sister bickered incessantly, but Ji Qingqian rolled her eyes:
"Let your brother come pick you up."
Lu Yibei: ?
Shen Jingyi was also taken aback, then smiled and said, "No need, it's really convenient to take the intercity train back, Sister Qingqian, you don't need to worry..."
"Don't you get out of school around dinnertime?"
Ji Qingqian said calmly, as if comforting the little girl who was getting impatient because of tutoring: "I'll take you to eat something delicious~"
There was a moment of silence on Chen Jingyi's end.
Reason told her that although Qingqian was older, she was still just a college student, and it didn't seem right to take advantage of her.
But her emotions told her that she was somewhat inclined to go.
It's not just the temptation of "eating delicious food," but also the small wish of high school seniors to go out and catch their breath after being tormented by exams.
"…May I?"
Although Shen Jingyi asked without specifying a subject, it was clear from her voice that she was asking her brother for instructions.
"nonsense."
Lu Yibei chuckled: "Your sister is telling you, if you want to go, say yes, if you don't want to go, say no."
"...Okay~"
After a long period of deliberation, Chen Jingyi finally answered in a joyful tone, as if she had made up her mind.
“Okay, then we’ll go home first, and then come back to find you. It should be about the same time,” Lu Yibei said.
Okay~
Shen Jingyi's reply was even more joyful. Although they were only two years apart in age, Lu Yibei couldn't help but sigh, "She's really just a child."
"Oh, right..."
Shen Jingyi added, "Brother, just tell my mom, she'll listen to you..."
Lu Yibei's sister's family is very strict, especially his aunt, who emphasizes "I'm doing this for your own good," so she devised a series of plans for Chen Jingyi, which are a bit suffocating.
Fortunately, his aunt had a good understanding: "Yi Bei, you've always been a good student, so you should mentor Jing Yi more."
So sometimes when Chen Jingyi was feeling down, Lu Yibei would go to his aunt's house for a stroll and bring his useless sister out for some fresh air.
"Okay, there's a lot to do..."
Lu Yibei made a sarcastic remark, then added, "Remember to pay attention in class."
I know—you're annoying!
Shen Jingyi complained, but it was clearly with a smile: "I have to go to class now. I'll wait for you at school. We'll talk later when we meet~"
"Um."
After Lu Yibei finished speaking, Shen Jingyi hung up the phone.
Lu Yibei returned the phone to Ji Qingqian, looking helpless again.
"You really spoil me, Asahi~"
"Are you jealous?" Ji Qingqian asked.
"yes."
"Then I'll spoil you too."
Ji Qingqian smiled sweetly at Lu Yibei and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll consider my darling's opinion first, and then we'll go pick up our little one together~"
She used an app to search for restaurants near Chaogao, then handed her phone to her boyfriend.
Lu Yibei glanced at it and thought for a moment.
I'm too lazy to think about it anymore, so I'll leave it to Shen Jingyi, who's a senior in high school and has a very sharp mind.
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