Monthly exam
"Do you know why I called you here?" Cen Man was fiddling with something while moving the mouse.
"It's either a good thing or a bad thing." Chen Can tried to cover it up, but it only made it more obvious.
Cen Man turned the computer around so that Chen Can and Ou Ranyu could see it more clearly.
Chen Can on the computer had his back to Ou Ranyu, with only the upper half of his face showing opposite him. Because of the angle, it looked like Chen Can was forcibly kissing Ou Ranyu.
High-definition, full-screen execution.
If Chen Can had water in his mouth at this moment, he would definitely spray it all over the computer.
"Isn't the camera installed somewhere here? The angle is so... strange." Chen Can felt powerless.
"It's you two, right? What are you doing there?" Cen Man asked.
"Teacher, please listen to our explanation. This is purely a matter of perspective. We are just talking there." Chen Can tried to explain while winking at Ou Ranyu.
"Yes, we were just talking." Ou Ranyu added in the explanation.
"Really?" Cen Man swiped to the next picture.
In the picture, Chen Can looked nonchalant, talking very closely to Ou Ranyu, with his head almost resting on Ou Ranyu's shoulder.
Chen Can didn’t feel how close they were at the time, so why did the photo look so... ambiguous?
It must be a matter of angle.
"Tell me the truth, teacher, you really aren't talking?" Cen Man asked soulfully.
Chen Can seemed to be struck by lightning, and spoke incoherently: "No, no, no, how can we talk? What should we talk about? How can we talk about it? We are not talking!"
"Teacher, I swear everything I said is true. We are at a critical juncture in our lives now. Studying hard and acquiring knowledge are our main tasks. Falling in love at this time and affecting our studies will only make us regret it for the rest of our lives."
"Right, Ou Ranyu." Chen Can winked at Ou Ranyu.
"Yes, teacher, what Chen Can said is right." Ou Ranyu said.
"Since that's the case, let me offer you a few more words of advice. You're in the prime of your lives, and it's normal to have these stirrings of youth. There's nothing wrong with that. You still have a long way to go. I hope you can make the right decisions, strive to become an excellent person, and not be swayed by temporary pleasures. True love isn't just about falling for each other, it's about learning and growing from each other."
“Only by working hard to become an excellent person can you continue on the path you have chosen.”
Cen Man talked on and on for twenty minutes, and Chen Can at least listened to her. Ou Ranyu stood quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Finally, there will be a monthly exam next Tuesday. Don't ask your classmates to help you copy homework." Cen Man reminded.
"Thank you, teacher. Good night, teacher."
After bidding farewell to Cen Man, Chen Can and Ou Ranyu walked down the alley on their way home.
Chen Can looked up at the sky. The sky was high and the earth was vast, and there was no moon in the deep sky.
The streetlights made passers-by dizzy.
"What kind of person do you think you will become in the future?" Chen Can asked Ou Ranyu with his head raised.
Ou Ranyu did not answer him for a long time, and seemed to be thinking about this question seriously.
"A person who I don't think is that great, but others think is very powerful." Ou Ranyu replied.
Chen Can looked at the only star in the sky and said, "Don't set such high standards for yourself. You have already reached a height that many people cannot reach."
"Be careful where you step." Ou Ranyu held Chen Can's arm.
"Thanks, I actually knew there was something under my feet."
Chen Can stepped over the bricks under his feet.
"Oh." Ou Ranyu let go of Chen Can, still paying attention to his feet.
"Then what kind of person do you think I will become?" Chen Can asked again.
"A person that everyone looks up to." This time Ou Ranyu didn't think for long.
"Then he would become a god." Chen Can lowered his head and smiled brightly, "But I think so too."
Under the streetlight, the boy was covered in a layer of light, even the stars seemed dazzling.
"Do you want to come to my house?" Chen Can asked.
Ou Ranyu was stunned, obviously not expecting him to ask this.
"Not suitable, see you tomorrow."
Appropriately
Appropriately
Chen Can opened the English book, glanced at the meaning of the word, then closed the book and wrote it down.
Although the exam is tomorrow, it doesn’t stop Chen Can from working hard today.
This is called returning to the right path and returning as a prodigal son.
When Zhu Baifeng passed by the window, Chen Can was still writing furiously.
Zhu Baifeng, who was passing by, stood there for a long time, his expression changing from shock to calmness.
When Ou Ranyu returned to his seat with his homework, he put some warm water on Chen Can's desk. Chen Can complained when he saw the steaming water, and then he turned around and noticed Zhu Baifeng watching outside.
Zhu Baifeng's expression changed unpredictably.
"What are you standing here looking at?" Chen Can asked as he opened the window.
"Do you know you have an exam tomorrow? Why don't you go and review?" Chen Can's soul traveled to Cen Man.
Zhu Baifeng said, "You're talking as if you can get into the top ten on the test tomorrow if you read two more pages today."
Ou Ranyu took Chen Can's dictation book and revised it.
It was normal, but in Zhu Baifeng's eyes, it had a different interpretation.
"Could the rumors be true?" Zhu Baifeng whispered.
"What is true?" Chen Can asked.
"It's nothing, go review your studies." Zhu Baifeng trotted away.
"Like a bullied cat." Chen Can was speechless.
Chen Can took the dictation book back from Ou Ranyu's hand.
Half wrong.
Half of the correct answers were copied.
Ou Ranyu has helped him correct all of them.
Ou Ranyu said: "If you can't remember it, then forget it. Don't worry."
Chen Can slumped over the table, feeling deflated. He said, "You don't have to be anxious, but I have to be anxious. Can you please issue an imperial decree to cancel tomorrow's monthly exam?"
"If you don't want to take the exam, then don't take it."
Ou Ranyu said that there would be no test, but he took out a book of exercises to look at.
"If you don't take the exam, you'll be baptized by Cen Man's office."
Although Chen Can leaves early, comes late, climbs over walls, sleeps in class, copies homework, and doesn't pay attention in lectures, he has never missed an exam since he started high school. Wouldn't it be strange for him to suddenly miss an exam?
Chen Can was considering it.
"As long as you don't want to, no one can force you." Ou Ranyu said without raising his head.
"Who said I don't want to? A mere monthly exam can't shake my will!" Chen Can didn't know if he was stimulated by Ou Ranyu, but he chose to do the opposite.
"You are not allowed to take the test alone!" Chen Can snatched the exercise that Ou Ranyu was looking at. He was shocked when he saw it.
The page that Ou Ranyu had just read, which was also the page that Chen Can was reading now, had a picture of a shriveled corpse pasted on it. The corpse's tongue and eyeballs were half hanging, and the torso was nailed to a wooden stake in a twisted posture.
Chen Can felt nauseous and closed the book immediately. The cover was printed with the words "Frequently Exam Question Types" in a righteous manner. Chen Can flipped through the front of the book again.
Long time no see, white notebook.
"The new cover is nice." Chen Can laughed dryly and pushed the notebook to Ou Ranyu.
"There are cameras here, and people are coming and going." Chen Can pointed at the camera and scanned the noisy environment.
"I know." Ou Ranyu continued to flip through the notebook.
Maybe others can't see it?
Chen Can guessed.
"Whose...is this?" Chen Can couldn't help but ask again.
"I don't know." Ou Ranyu replied, "'They' haven't appeared for a long time."
"Maybe 'they' don't exist," Chen Can pointed out. "Who knows?"
The noise seemed to stop and time seemed to freeze.
Chen Can couldn't hear, but Ou Ranyu put down his notebook and listened to him intently with his clear black and white eyes.
"No. It's because of you. 'They're' afraid of you."
Because of you.
Afraid of you.
Because of these two sentences, Chen Can had nightmares all night. When he fell out of bed that morning, he felt like hitting someone and even wanted to skip the exam.
Ou Ranyu definitely did it on purpose.
Chen Can went to school with the intention of beating up Ou Ranyu. However, Ou Ranyu didn't show up until the exam was about to start. It was Cen Man who told him that Ou Ranyu had an emergency the previous night and had taken a leave of absence and would not be taking the exam.
Well, you are the King of Europe, you are so brave, you can issue the imperial decree as soon as it is said.
It’s just a pity for ordinary people like Chen Can who have to continue to be oppressed.
The exam begins.
The exam is over.
After Chen Can came out of the examination room, he was like a liberated serf singing a song.
We must get a private room to celebrate.
Just kidding, Chen Can’s current wallet doesn’t allow him to do that.
Chen Can could only make do with Zhu Baifeng by going to a hot pot restaurant.
Li Yachang has been waiting for you for a long time, and the clearness cannot be concealed even through the white mist.
Maybe he's hungry.
"Why don't you come over here?" Li Yachang said to the two people from a distance.
"Your eyes are dim and you make me sad." Chen Can said as soon as he came up.
Li Yachang was shocked: "Did you take the wrong medicine? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Chen Can said: "It's time for the monthly exam."
Zhu Baifeng was no longer surprised: "Ignore him, he's possessed by a demon."
When talking about the exam, Li Yachang asked again: "Why didn't Ou Ranyu come?"
The two people had different expressions.
Zhu Baifeng was speechless just hearing the name "Ou Ranyu".
Chen Can said sarcastically, "Do you really want him to come? Go find him."
"I thought you wanted him to come." Li Yachang had no idea at all.
After hearing this, Zhu Baifeng could no longer bear it.
"Why don't you two go and have a meal with him now? Whoever doesn't go will be a grandson." Zhu Baifeng said.
Chen Can was also angry: "Who will go to find him? You go?"
"Did you have a fight?" Li Yachang hinted.
"Ask him and see if he will tell you." Zhu Baifeng said unhappily.
"He's been gone for three days, and he's given me nightmares for three days." Chen Can sighed, "That's all, let's eat."
"Sure enough." Li Yachang seemed to have realized something.
Zhu Baifeng bumped Li Yachang's thigh hard, took out his cell phone and started typing.
【Quanluo】Do you know something?
【Quanlu】Are you guys colluding to hide this from me?
【十串】What do I know?
[Shichuan] You are in the same school, shouldn’t you know more than me?
Chen Can ate while watching them arguing with their phones.
If you want to know, just ask him.
Zhu Baifeng also wanted to ask, but how should he ask?
Why don't you ask?
【全卤】Do you know how hard it is to ask?
[Shikuran] It's not like I want to know... [Smile]
Zhu Baifeng gave up questioning Li Yachang and stared at the toe of the shoe with a complicated expression.
Halfway through the hot pot, Zhu Baifeng hesitated and suddenly asked Chen Can, "Are you in love?"
"With Ou Ranyu."
Chen Can was a little confused after hearing the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half, he spat out the Coke in his mouth.
Chen Can coughed violently for a while, and after calming down a little, he asked uncertainly: "Say it again, with whom?"
Zhu Baifeng didn't dare to speak, for fear that Chen Can would get excited and push him into the pot.
"No, we didn't talk about it. Understand?" Chen Can tried his best to look calm.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I thought..." Zhu Baifeng was relieved. "Forget it, it's all because of those crazy things the school said, like 'bad students fighting for love', and something even more outrageous. I forgot."
"Oh, listen less to rumors in the future." Chen Can drank a sip of Coke calmly.
Tsk.
Ou Ranyu.
Why does everyone in the world think he has an affair with him!?
This is not right.
Chen Can was reflecting on his way home until he saw a figure at the door.
Ou Ranyu.
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