Until July, Ye Kai's time was occupied by exam preparation. He signed up for the SAT in Singapore in May, and took a leave after the school anniversary. He spent a month of closed training under the guidance of a tutor. After the SAT, he began to catch up on his homework under the "friendly" eyes of the teachers of various subjects. Pizza Hut was afraid that he would not be able to keep the throne of the first grade at the end of the semester, so they approached him and other teachers to ask him many times.
Although Ye Kai had finished the course ahead of time, he would become rusty if he didn't practice questions for a long time. He had been staying up all night for two weeks in a row. When Shi Yi got up to go to the bathroom, he found that Ye Kai's small desk lamp was still on, and the desk was piled with various difficult extension exercises by famous teachers. "You work so hard." He leaned on the railing sleepily. For some reason, looking at Ye Kai's thin and upright back, he actually felt a little lonely.
Ye Kai took off his glasses, closed his eyes and rubbed his brows, "Did I disturb you?"
"No, no, no, no." Shi Yi waved his hands. "I just think you're so tired. You have to compete, take the SAT, TOEFL, and take the final exam and the college entrance exam." He poured Ye Kai a glass of water. "You are using the time of an ordinary high school student to challenge the college entrance examination system in China and the United States, and you have to get the best score?"
Ye Kai took the cup of water, whispered "thank you", smiled, and said, "I want to go to Tsinghua University."
"Oh my god," Shi Yi was completely convinced, "Excuse me, do you still need to apply to Harvard?"
"I won't apply." Ye Kai glanced at Shi Yi. His tired eyes were clear after staying up all night. He raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Don't tell anyone."
"You mean... you want to stay in China to go to college?" Shi Yi was completely alert. He dragged a chair over and sat down next to Ye Kai. "Are you crazy? Your family won't agree!"
Ye Kai was silent for a few seconds, and the gel pen spun a circle on his fingertips: "So I must be admitted to Tsinghua University."
Province G is a province with a large number of college entrance examination candidates, and the competition is extremely fierce. The scores set by famous schools in other provinces are ridiculously high. The quotas for independent enrollment, recommendation, and competition admission are given readily. Ye Kai is qualified to take any of these shortcuts, but he can't. Otherwise, he can immigrate through the college entrance examination and take advantage of loopholes. For Ye Kai's identity and background, this is effortless, but he still can't do it.
The snow-capped peaks of the distant mountains ahead are shining, and the mountain wind is cold.
He is destined to face it alone and move forward.
Shi Yi asked directly: "Is it for your boyfriend?"
Pah. The tip of the pen hit the table, Ye Kai raised his eyes, smiling: "You know?"
"...I half-guessed and half-estimated it. If I hadn't apologized." Shi Yi lowered his eyes guiltily, "Well, I saw you being pushed into the corner by him in the study room last weekend."
The atmosphere was very awkward for a while
Chen Youhan originally thought that Ye Kai would spare a weekend to accompany him after taking the SAT, but Ye Kai did not go home on weekends for two consecutive weeks. He spent the whole day either in the library or in the study room, so he had to go to Tianyi in person to wait for him.
Few people stayed in school on weekends, and the entire corridor on the fourth floor was quiet. I passed through the locked grade group office, and the empty Class 1 and Class 2, which only had two or three people, stopped in front of Class 3. Through the narrow gap, I saw Ye Kai sitting in the middle of the classroom, concentrating on writing something.
His bangs were too long, so he used a small folder to clip them into a bunch on his head. The color was Tiffany blue, and the hair fell back cutely.
Chen Youhan couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips and walked in lightly.
A shadow was cast in front of him. Ye Kai thought it was a classmate from another class who came to visit. When he looked up, he saw Chen Youhan half-sitting on the desk in front of him with his legs crossed, his arms folded, looking down at him with a smile on his face.
"Why are you here?"
Chen Youhan didn't answer, but raised his hand to push back his bangs: "My classmate, you look cute like this."
Ye Kai was startled, and hurriedly pulled off the clip. Because he was too panicked, the hair got stuck in the gap and was pulled off violently, causing him to utter a soft "ah" in pain. The hand that was still holding the clip honestly covered it, and looked at Chen Youhan with a wronged and complaining look.
Chen Youhan felt both distressed and amused. He rubbed her like he was coaxing a child and asked, "After three months of dating, are you tired of me or have you become indifferent? Do you want to avoid me and not even go home?"
"I call you every day..." Ye Kaixin was guilty but stubborn. The WeChat chat records were so ambiguous that he didn't dare to look back. After each chat, he felt embarrassed and wanted to destroy the records quickly, but he couldn't bear to do so. He saved messages here and there, and occasionally took a screenshot. The traces of their passionate love were faithfully exposed in the favorites.
"A phone call is enough?" Chen Youhan approached, "Who are you looking down on? Huh?"
"Brother Youhan!" Ye Kai stood up nervously, "I, I'll take you around the school!"
Chen Youhan helped him to smooth his bangs, and said "OK" with a smile.
High school life is a distant and vague memory for Chen Youhan. He followed Ye Kai lazily with his hands in his trouser pockets, and heard him say: "This is the Q&A room, this is the big office of the science teaching and research group for Grade 2, and this is the corridor for Grade 11. This year, the enrollment has been expanded, and there are a total of 18 classes. Shi Yi happens to be in Class 18." When he mentioned Shi Yi, he stopped and looked at Chen Youhan.
"What's wrong?"
"Don't you have any questions? He has good grades, is very good at English, is very smart and lively--"
Chen Youhan interrupted him: "Skip it."
"Oh. His deskmate is also very good. He ranked first in the city in this year's high school entrance examination..."
"Qiao Yichu?"
Ye Kai raised his head suddenly: "Do you know him?"
"Qiao Chu's son." Chen Youhan smiled and shook his head, "The parent-child relationship is a mess."
Chatting intermittently, we walked through the corridor of Grade 1, crossed the open-air garden stairs, and entered the first teaching building through the connected corridors: "This is Grade 3 and the large audio-visual lecture hall, the painting studio, the music room, and the dance room."
Building 1 is older, it was built when Tianyi was first established, while Building 2 was newly built seven or eight years ago. As soon as he entered Building 1, the old smell of the building awakened Chen Youhan's memory. He looked up at the paint-chipped slogan in the hall: "When I was in school, it said 'Study Hard and Practice Hard'."
Now it has been changed to "God rewards hard work", and next to it is an electronic countdown screen. The college entrance examination is over. Ye Kai suddenly felt a little nervous when he saw this bulletin board.
"It was here. After playing basketball in the free time class that day, Ye Jin found me and said," Chen Youhan took Ye Kai's hand, "My brother's first birthday party will be tomorrow. You must not be late."
It was just a very ordinary first Friday afternoon in his life. He played a half-game of basketball with the boys from the next class. On the way, he passed by the canteen and bought a bottle of iced sports drink. The sun shone through the tall lobby at around 4 o'clock, interweaving with the light of the corridor behind him to form a warm patch. A girl he was not interested in, a piece of news that had nothing to do with him, a boring invitation to a banquet - if he knew that in the future he would hold Ye Kai's hand and put him in the most solemn place in his life, he would definitely try harder to remember the light, smell and temperature of that afternoon, remember his score in that game, remember the name of that bottle of delisted beverage and the taste of it at the moment of sipping it.
"Brother Youhan." Ye Kai held his hand tightly.
The memories of high school, which were sixteen years apart, intersect in a strange way because of love. The long-deposited pictures begin to come alive.
"After coming out, I had a fight with my classmates here. The atrium corridor from the first floor to the fifth floor was full of people. The dean of studies came to break up the fight, but I kicked him by mistake, causing gastric bleeding. Because of this, I was almost beaten to death by Chen Fei." Chen Youhan held his hand and walked slowly. He was not a nostalgic person. If it weren't for official business and Ye Kai, he would hardly set foot on campus again.
The senior students had already moved out, and all the classrooms were empty, having been cleaned from inside to outside by the cleaning staff. Some classrooms had blackboards that had not been wiped clean. On the blackboard in front of the classroom was written "Good luck on the college entrance examination", and on the blackboard in the back of the classroom was written "See you later", with dozens of signatures written on it. Walking through the classrooms, Chen Youhan stopped at the last one at the end of the corridor, "My classroom when I was a freshman in high school."
It has become a study and question-answering room.
I just raised my hand and pushed it lightly out of habit. The door creaked open a crack. It was not locked. Unlike the classroom, there were only a few large desks here. Teachers of various subjects would be on duty here during evening self-study. Students would come here to ask for help with their homework. There were still two math problems left on the blackboard. Two heavy and powerful underlines were drawn under the important questions. It seemed as if I could see the teacher patting the blackboard and saying "Must-take exam this year!" Chen Youhan gently wiped the desk, leaving a thin layer of dust.
"I'm ashamed," Chen Youhan couldn't help curling his lips, "When I came in, all I could think about were fighting, reading nonsense books in class, throwing bottles at the trash can as a basket, being called up by the homeroom teacher as punishment, and the 40-point physics test."
"Forty points?" Ye Kai was shocked. "I have never seen a paper with a score of forty points."
They were all top students in their class. If they scored less than 80 points, they would be so ashamed that they would want to face the wall. 40 points? They would have to kneel down to see Bi Sheng.
"It's all dark history. Why am I telling you this?" Chen Youhan laughed at himself. "I didn't study hard, but I never had a romantic relationship. I didn't even have anyone to miss during my student days."
Ye Kai felt uneasy when he started this. Sure enough, Chen Youhan continued, "Other people hold hands and walk around the playground after evening self-study, hug their girlfriends on the windowsill and kiss them, get teased by classmates when they run into each other in the corridor, and sneak out for dates during physical education class. I—" He stopped talking abruptly. He leaned over and approached him, bending his waist backwards, and slowly made an excuse to bully him: "Make up for my regret?"
Before Ye Kai could answer, he was forced into a corner.
Chen Youhan supported the wall with one hand, trapping him in the cramped space between his body and the wall.
"Classmate, I want to kiss you."
Ye Kai swallowed nervously.
"The teacher will see us." He answered half-truthfully. It was a play, it was reality, it was sixteen years ago, and it is now.
Chen Youhan chuckled softly and leaned closer to him: "But I can't help it."
Ye Kai honestly put his arms around his neck, closed his eyes, and stood on tiptoe.
There were strange flowers blooming on the bushes. In June in Ning City, all kinds of flowers would bloom and anything could happen.
After they separated breathlessly, Ye Kai blinked dazedly and said, "Senior, it's okay to fall in love early, but not with a score of 40. Otherwise, I will go to Tsinghua University in the future, and you won't be able to afford me."
Chen Youhan laughed muffledly and pinched his lower back: "I forgot to tell you, senior's family has a mine worth 120 billion to inherit."
Ye Kai: “…”
"Sorry," Shi Yi scratched his face, "I didn't mean to see it."
"What are you going to do in the first church?"
"...To be honest, I just happened to be revisiting school life with Du Tang that day."
Ye Kai: "...Is Teacher Du here too?"
"...Here." After Shi Yi finished speaking, he saw Ye Kai holding his forehead in a miserable state.
Du Tang showed no emotion at all, but he was walking normally when he suddenly stopped outside the classroom window, and his back looked a little stiff. Shi Yi leaned out from behind him to take a look, and just as he was about to speak, he quickly covered his eyes with his hands.
"Ye——" He had just uttered half a syllable when his mouth was covered by someone coldly.
"Teacher Du, he..." Ye Kai couldn't ask.
Shi Yi understood very well and answered sympathetically, "I didn't see it clearly. Du Tang said not to look at or say anything inappropriate." He patted Ye Kai's shoulder and said, "Your boyfriend seems to be a good kisser."
Snap! The clip of the pen cap was broken off.
Shi Yi stopped when he saw that he was ahead and hurried to the bathroom. When he came out, Ye Kai had already collected the papers and was ready to go to bed. He still couldn't help but ask, "Is it worth it? I can't imagine the pressure you're under."
Ye Kai paused, "There is no such thing as worth it or not. I just know that he is the same as me, and he is with me."
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