“I have a little donkey, which I never ride. One day, on a whim, I rode it to the market. I held a small leather whip in my hand, and I was feeling quite pleased with myself…” Jiang Hua listened to her alarm clock ringing for a long time, and still struggled for a long time. She kept her head under the covers, and when her alarm clock rang again after five minutes, Jiang Hua still hesitated and couldn’t get up. She opened the covers, closed her eyes, and made a final struggle.
"Xiao Hua...! Hurry up and turn off the alarm clock, you have to get up too, we still have early classes! Look, those two have already left a long time ago." Xu Lili's voice suddenly exploded in Jiang Hua's ears.
"What?! They've all left?" Jiang Hua suddenly stood up and scratched her hair.
"Yes, they went out at eight o'clock, saying they were going to the library to borrow a book," Xu Lili replied while packing her things.
"What time is it now?"
"It's 9:30! We have class at 10:00, big sister!" Xu Lili said in her usual exasperated tone.
Jiang Hua didn't have time to argue. She picked up her phone and looked at the time. The 9:32 mark clearly displayed on the lit screen shattered Jiang Hua's beautiful dream.
"No way! Oh no, this is terrible! I should have known better than to play games with Yi Gu so late last night." Jiang Hua was practically in tears, but who could she blame? She had been playing games with the gaming god Yi Gu so enthusiastically last night!
Last night, a senior student even said to her, "Don't you need to sleep? It's so late." She nonchalantly replied that it was fine, and that she had plenty of free time the next morning. "I... how was I supposed to know that last week's class was changed to today..."
"Why didn't you wake me up? I'm about to cry." Jiang Hua quickly climbed out of bed and looked at Xu Lili, who was already up early in the dormitory and had memorized several pages of vocabulary and written several articles. She felt like crying but had no tears in her heart.
"Hey, don't blame me. Heaven knows, I did wake you up. I woke you at nine o'clock, your alarm went off so many times, but you just wouldn't wake up..." Xu Lili kept nagging Jiang Hua like a mother hen. Jiang Hua quickly brushed her teeth, hurriedly changed into a dress in the closet, put on a pair of slip-on shoes, and quickly tied her hair into a ponytail. Seeing Xu Lili about to leave, Jiang Hua hurriedly asked, "What class do we have this time?"
Xu Lili flicked the textbook in her hand, "Current Affairs and Policies".
"Okay, okay, I've got it. Let's hurry up and go!" Jiang Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief. She glanced at her phone discreetly. Thank goodness, it was only 45. "Looks like I'm pretty quick." Jiang Hua was somewhat smug about her speed.
"That's all you're good for. Why do you love sleeping in so much? It's a good thing you don't wear makeup, otherwise if you were like Kexin, you would have been late eight hundred times over." Xu Lili poked Jiang Hua's forehead with her index finger and said.
"Hehehe, that's because I'm naturally beautiful and can't hide it." Jiang Hua was no longer as worried as before, and laughed and joked with Xu Lili.
"With your attitude, I should make you late a few times so the teacher can punish you and you'll learn your lesson!"
"Lili, you know what, I was actually late quite a few times in high school, and I got really badly punished by the teachers!" Jiang Hua said, tucking her hair behind her ear as she reminisced about the past.
"Really? What's the punishment?" Xu Lili asked helplessly. It turned out that Jiang Hua's habit of being late wasn't something she developed after starting university.
"It was a punishment to copy something, but luckily my deskmate helped me," Jiang Hua replied with an upright and righteous expression.
Although Jiang Hua had good grades in high school, and her teachers all liked this sweet-smiling, diligent, and hardworking girl, they were helpless against her persistent habit of being late. Every morning, a girl with a single ponytail, wearing a blue and white school uniform, could be seen sneaking into the classroom through the back door. Occasionally, when the teacher wasn't there, the girl would happily run to her seat, and the class representative would give her a helpless look, pretending not to know anything. Even when the teacher was present, they couldn't do anything about Jiang Hua and could only try to downplay the situation. However, occasionally, when Jiang Hua was late too many times, the teacher had to punish her, otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to the other students.
So the teacher chose the most basic punishment—copying.
This was tough on Jiang Hua, as she hated being punished by copying texts, but she had no choice but to obediently copy them.
But there are so many, she can't possibly copy them all by herself...
Jiang Hua rolled her eyes and looked at her deskmate, Gu Yiming.
"Hey? Gu Yiming... are you free?" Jiang Hua softened her voice and looked at Gu Yiming pitifully.
Gu Yiming glanced at her. "I wasn't the one the teacher punished by making me copy." Gu Yiming always said this to Jiang Hua at first. Even after he said it many times, Jiang Hua never gave up. Every time, she would look at Gu Yiming pitifully in class. What could she do but beg him? After all, she sat in the first row, there was no one in front of her, and people in the back were sleeping. She could only beg Gu Yiming.
"Give it to me." This is what Gu Yiming said to Jiang Hua every time she was punished.
When Gu Yiming saw her standing there in a daze, he would simply take the copybook from Jiang Hua's hand with a blank expression and write it for her stroke by stroke. Jiang Hua would watch him with great joy and would diligently fetch him hot water and bring him snacks. This eventually became a habit.
So, even after the teacher got tired and stopped making Jiang Hua copy texts as punishment, Jiang Hua would still share some snacks with Gu Yiming every day after she breathed a sigh of relief. As she gave him more, she gradually became familiar with his tastes; he preferred lighter flavors and often enjoyed small cakes. So, little by little, Gu Yiming stopped being so cold towards Jiang Hua, occasionally explaining problems to her and offering guidance.
When Jiang Hua and Yang Lili ran over, the teacher had already entered the classroom and was operating the computer to open the courseware. So Jiang Hua and Yang Lili hurriedly ran into the classroom and saw their other two roommates in the middle and back rows. The two of them said "Excuse me, could you please move aside?" and sat down next to the other two.
"Why are you two so late? If you had been even a minute later, the teacher would have called your names," Xu Meng whispered to the two of them.
"Needless to say, Xiaohua must have overslept," Ji Kexin said to Xu Meng, glancing at her newly done nails.
"Oh, I know, there won't be a next time," Jiang Hua said with a smile.
"You... I don't know how many next times there will be!" Yang Lili said helplessly, propping her head up.
Jiang Hua smiled, her eyes crinkling, and tilted her head, sticking out her tongue.
"There won't be a next time! Absolutely not!"
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