After the Chinese New Year, the weather is getting warmer day by day, the winter vacation is gradually fading away, and the spring semester is approaching.
Quanxin High School has ushered in a new wave of major changes. After the final exams of the last semester, the classes were re-divided in the second year of high school. Most of the students in the original Class 2 (5) stayed in the new Class 2 (1).
Since entering her second year of high school, the academic workload has gradually increased. Bai Zhiye was scowling over her math workbook—trigonometric functions filled the page like a mystery, and the sin and cos symbols twisted into mocking grimaces in her eyes.
"Nako, I really think the school is driving us crazy." Her deskmate poked her arm and lowered her voice to a whisper. "I counted the papers handed out yesterday. There were twenty-seven! Twenty-seven!"
She gestured exaggeratedly at the thickness of the paper and said, "This isn't winter vacation homework, this is building a grave for us!"
Bai Zhiye was staring blankly at the pen cap. Hearing the complaints, she shrugged helplessly: "Trigonometry? I can't even understand the questions."
Suddenly, her deskmate's eyes lit up and he leaned close to her ear and said, "Don't you have a walking question bank? Go to the library after school and ask him to teach you!"
Bai Zhiye's ears instantly turned red. She knew who she was referring to—Ye Qingliu, the eternal top student in the second year of high school, her boyfriend.
Inside the library, soft light falls gently, interweaving with the sunlight slanting in from the window to create a warm and peaceful space.
Tall bookshelves surround the area, and each shelf is filled with books. They are silent, yet seem to be whispering the secrets of knowledge.
Ye Qingliu didn't wear his school uniform jacket today. The sleeves of his white shirt were rolled up to his elbows, revealing his well-defined forearms.
He was deduce a formula on a piece of scratch paper with a pencil, and the tip of the pen made a rustling sound as it rubbed against the paper.
"Let's look at the conditions in the question first." His voice was very soft, like a feather brushing across the eardrum, "When x∈(0,π/2), this function expression can be transformed into..." His slender fingers drew a graceful trajectory on the paper, and his handwriting was as neat as printed text.
Bai Zhiye held his cheek, but his eyes quietly shifted away from the math problem.
When Ye Qingliu was solving problems, he would unconsciously tap his index finger on the table, a rhythm like some kind of Morse code. His nails were neatly trimmed, the joints barely visible beneath the skin, and when he gripped a pen, a beautiful tendon bulged out from the back of his hand.
"...So the maximum value appears at this critical point." Ye Qingliu suddenly stopped writing. "Do you understand?"
"Huh?" Bai Zhiye snapped back to reality, realizing the man was looking at her with a half-smile. She frantically reached for her eraser, but accidentally knocked over her pencil case. The colored highlighters rolled across the table, a few landing directly on Ye Qingliu's side.
"Yes, I'm sorry!" She tried to pick it up in a hurry, but her head bumped into Ye Qingliu who was leaning over at the same time.
They both froze at the same time - his nose was only three centimeters away from hers, and he could smell the faint scent of laundry detergent on her school uniform.
Ye Qingliu suddenly smiled. When he wasn't wearing glasses, his phoenix eyes would droop slightly, and his eyelashes would cast tiny shadows under the light.
"What were you looking at just now?" He lowered his voice, and his fingertips casually played with her scattered hair.
"Window, outside the window!" Bai Zhiye pointed to the French window, "That sparrow... yes, it's pecking at the cherry blossoms!"
"Is that so?" Ye Qingliu suddenly leaned closer, his warm breath blowing against her ear. "I thought..." his voice was filled with a mischievous smile, "someone was peeping at my boyfriend."
Bai Zhiye's earlobes instantly turned red as if they were about to bleed. She opened her mouth, but the words hidden deep in her heart slipped out: "Qingliu...what should I do? I like you more and more."
She regretted it the moment she said it. This is a library! And—
"Shh." Ye Qingliu suddenly pressed his index finger against her lips. His fingertips were slightly cool and smelled of pencil sawdust.
"Such words..." He suddenly grabbed her hand and pressed it against his chest. Bai Zhiye immediately felt her rapid heartbeat under his palm. "You have to say this to me alone."
"Bang--"
The heavy "Introduction to Astrophysics" fell from the shelf, making a startling noise in the quiet library. Mu Xinrong frantically tried to catch it, but his movements were so rough that he knocked over several other books beside it.
"Shh! Keep your voice down!" Chao Youye grabbed her boyfriend's wrist and warned him in a low voice.
Mu Xinrong stuck out his tongue and whispered, "I, I didn't mean it..."
The two of them squatted behind the bookshelf, and through the gaps between the books, they could just see the interaction between Ye Qingliu and Bai Zhiye not far away.
Mu Xinrong's eyes widened, as if he had discovered some shocking secret.
"Oh my god..." He excitedly grabbed Chao Youye's sleeve, "Qingliu actually showed that kind of expression!"
Chao Youye looked at her boyfriend's excited expression helplessly, reaching out to ruffle his fluffy chestnut hair: "Why are you so excited?"
"You don't understand!" Mu Xinrong lowered his voice, but his eyes sparkled, "That's Ye Qingliu! Ye Qingliu who usually never even smiles! Now he actually..." He made a "sweet to the point of falling out" expression.
Chao Youye couldn't help but chuckle at Mu Xinrong's exaggerated performance. He reached out and pinched his boyfriend's cheek: "You're even more excited than the person involved."
"Oh, don't you think they're a good match?" Mu Xinrong leaned on Chao Youye's shoulder and whispered, "A cool and arrogant academic like Qingliu should be paired with a lively and cute Nazi..."
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