Qingsi County is a small county town nestled against mountains and by water. Although it has a long history and a beautiful environment, it cannot hide the fact that it is just a small, obscure place.
If it weren't for the recent rise in tourism in ancient towns, with Qingsi County following suit by building up its ancient town and developing tourism, gradually attracting many tourists, it would probably still be the same poor and desolate place it was in the past.
It is June now, on the eve of the college entrance examination. Qingsi County High School is small and has to make room for senior students in order to prepare for the exam. Therefore, other grades have been given a holiday.
Ji Baishu is currently a sophomore in high school, and he breathed a huge sigh of relief after receiving the holiday notice.
Ignoring the jeers from her classmates behind her back, she finally finished the classroom cleaning task assigned by the teacher. She hurriedly slung her heavy backpack full of textbooks over her shoulder and prepared to take the bus to a suburban area half an hour away from the school.
A new food stall has opened here, and Ji Baishu is washing dishes here.
High school sophomores don't get summer vacation until mid-July, and she still needs to pay for a month's worth of meals at school. Her aunt's family would never give her any money, so if she didn't want to go hungry at noon or night, she had to earn the money for meals as early as possible.
Qingsi No.1 Middle School follows a system that allows both day students and boarders to attend. My aunt's family seems to have just made a fortune and proudly bought a house in the school district next to the school. They asked her and her cousin Cheng Yuxuan to apply for day student status together.
However, unlike her cousin Cheng Yuxuan's gorgeous princess bedroom, Ji Baishu lived in a corner of the storage room.
The storage room was located at the corner of the building. The room had only a narrow window, about 20 or 30 centimeters wide, which barely allowed for ventilation. It was damp, gloomy, cold in winter and hot in summer.
Half of the room was filled with clutter, while the other side had a 90-centimeter-wide folding bed against the wall, along with a simple old table and chairs—that was her entire living space.
Squeezing onto the bus, and even luckily managing to snag a window seat, Bai Shu couldn't help but smile. She pulled out her math workbook from her bag and leaned against the back of the chair in front of her, slowly working on the problems. But before she could finish even one, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out from outside the window:
"Yuxuan, is your cheap older sister going out again? You said she doesn't come home every weekend night, tsk tsk tsk, what's she doing there?"
She suddenly looked up.
During the holiday, there was a traffic jam in front of the school. Before the bus had even left the block, Cheng Yuxuan, the only daughter of my aunt's family, was standing right by the roadside!
She was accompanied by a group of followers, her face was covered in makeup, her schoolbag was casually slung over one shoulder, and the hem of her school uniform T-shirt was tied in a knot in a way she thought was fashionable, showing off her ample chest and slender waist.
The surrounding parents all showed disdainful expressions, but the girls didn't care and even became more arrogant, glaring defiantly at Tong Su through the car window:
"I have no idea what she does every day, but she always comes back reeking of alcohol, it's awful! She never comes back until after midnight, who knows who she's messing around with!"
"Wow, I never would have guessed she was this kind of person. She reeks of alcohol... Hehehe, I've heard that some high school girls in Japan go out to drink with men to earn money, it's called something like 'compensated dating', is that what she's like?"
Boos and laughter erupted. Ji Baishu was so angry that she almost ground her teeth to powder. She clenched her workbook tightly, squeezing the pages until they were deformed, and glared at Cheng Yuxuan resentfully: "Shut up!"
Cheng Yuxuan was staring at Bai Shu's beautiful face, which couldn't be hidden even with its plain appearance, and her jealousy and hatred deepened. She grinned and said, "Tell me to shut up?"
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