Chapter 28
Chinese language class.
"Fool!"
Lin Li sat blankly in her seat, her mind filled with Tong Yao's reproachful words during the break.
Then he remembered the blush on Tong Yao's face when he suddenly woke her up.
"Hehe!" So cute.
As Lin Li thought about it, she chuckled.
The sound was quite loud, and the previously quiet classroom suddenly began to rustle.
Teacher Fu on the podium stopped writing on the blackboard and turned around to ask the question she had wanted to ask Lin Li since she saw her:
"Lin Li, why aren't you wearing your glasses today?"
Upon hearing this, Tong Yao also turned her head to look at Lin Li.
The boy's black-rimmed glasses had been removed at some point, replaced by a silly grin.
Of course she knew what had happened, but she turned away as if she knew nothing.
"It broke, so I didn't bring it," Lin Li replied without changing her expression.
"Never mind," Teacher Fu sighed, "You answer what thoughts and feelings the author of this text expressed."
Lin Li quickly glanced at the text in her hand and blurted out:
"It expresses the author's deep longing for home!"
The title is simply "Nostalgia," and the formula is applied without any thought.
"Anything else?" Teacher Fu asked, leaning on the lectern.
"And there is also the desire for the reunification of the motherland."
This poem is very famous, and even after so long, he can still answer it without thinking. Lin Li said it almost without thinking.
"Correct answer. If I catch you daydreaming in class again, you'll have to stand at the back."
It seems Teacher Liu was right; in just a few days, everything has returned to normal!
Teacher Fu sighed and turned back to write on the blackboard.
Having successfully answered the teacher's questions, Lin Li rested her chin on her hand, her gaze fixed intently on Tong Yao's profile, as if it were a tangible object.
Tong Yao felt uncomfortable being stared at, and silently moved her stool a few inches to the side.
Seeing that he still wouldn't stop, she simply raised her left hand to support her forehead, creating a "physical barrier" that completely blocked the left side of her face.
Seeing this, Lin Li pouted in dissatisfaction. Since the barrier was ineffective, he switched to a "physical attack"—extending his finger and carefully poking Tong Yao's arm.
Tong Yao remained completely still.
She ignored him twice.
Three, four, five... the attacks continued unabated.
"Tsk."
Tong Yao finally lost her patience and let out a clear click of her tongue.
Then, she did something that left Lin Li speechless—she picked up her desk and, with a "rip," moved it a large distance to the right.
Lin Li turned her head and saw that Tong Yao's seat was almost a stand-alone column, which seemed out of place with the layout of the entire classroom.
He immediately felt guilty and touched his nose repeatedly.
Who told her to ignore me...
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After class, Tong Yao was called to the teacher's office, and Lin Li wanted to follow, but was blocked at the classroom door by Tang Yue and her group.
"Oh, why did you change back?" Tang Yue stopped him with a grin, looking like she wanted to see him embarrassed.
"Change to what?" Lin Li asked, hands in her pockets, feigning ignorance.
"Stop pretending!" Tang Yue leaned closer. "Where did that aloof, studious air go? Why aren't you cosplaying anymore?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Li's lips curled into a smile, but he immediately straightened his face and lowered his voice: "To be honest, I have a dual personality. One is a sunny and cheerful young man, and the other is a rigorous and aloof academic genius."
Before he finished speaking, he calmly pulled out his signature black-rimmed glasses from his pocket, put them on, and raised an eyebrow as he asked, "How about it? Pretty handsome, right? Don't you have a bit of a refined scoundrel vibe?"
Tang Yue suppressed a laugh, examined the glasses carefully for a moment, and asked the crucial question: "When did you get your glasses made?"
Lin Li casually took off her glasses and handed them to her: "Reading glasses, bought for three yuan at the convenience store."
Chen Yan, who was standing nearby, snatched the lenses and put them on, exclaiming in surprise, "I thought your lenses were clearer, but looking at them now, there aren't any lenses at all!"
"The school store sells reading glasses?" Tang Yue asked in surprise.
"I don't have presbyopia, of course I'll take off the lenses," Lin Li said, gently removing the glasses from Chen Yan's face and putting them back in her pocket.
"I never expected the convenience store to sell even this."
"I'm not talking to you anymore." Lin Li nimbly slipped between the two of them and quickly left.
Chen Yan watched his retreating figure and couldn't help but mutter, "He claims to have a dual personality, but he confessed everything before I even asked him properly."
Tang Yue chuckled and patted her shoulder: "This silly girl, she just changes the subject and tells us everything."
Eighteen-year-old Lin Li was still so naive, taking the bait so easily, Tang Yue thought to herself.
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Lin Li walked into the office and stopped when she heard laughter coming from inside.
Through the crack in the door.
I saw that our homeroom teacher, Ms. Liu, and several other teachers, including Ms. Fu, were there.
I don't know what they're talking about, but they all seem so happy.
"Oh dear, I still miss Lin Li's old self a little," Teacher Fu said with a smile, opening her thermos and taking a sip.
What were they saying? Lin Li didn't understand.
"Tong Yao, did Lin Li disturb your studies?"
Teacher Liu smiled and handed the teaching materials for the next class to Tong Yao.
"It's alright," Tong Yao replied calmly.
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Tong Yao came out of the office with her study materials.
Then I saw someone leaning against the door, looking sullen.
"Are you talking badly about me?" Lin Li asked angrily.
"No," Tong Yao thought Lin Li looked quite cute, and of course, her aloof demeanor was also quite charming.
"Then why did you ask me if I disturbed your studies?"
Naturally, it was because Teacher Liu, who was on patrol, had seen clearly from the window how someone had harassed Tong Yao in the previous class.
Tong Yao didn't choose to explain, but instead patted Lin Li's head.
"What are you doing?" Lin Li asked, puzzled.
"It's nothing," Tong Yao put her hand down and started walking forward, "I just think you look cute like this?"
Looking at her with pleading eyes and a slightly aggrieved expression, she couldn't resist patting her head to comfort her.
"Cute?" The word made Lin Li freeze in place, and she turned to look at her reflection in the glass.
Then he nodded in satisfaction.
It seems this woman has fallen for him.
Thinking it over, Lin Li quickly caught up with him.
"Hey, Tong Yao." Lin Li followed behind with small, quick steps.
"Hmm?" Tong Yao responded coldly.
"Have you fallen for me?" Lin Li asked with a smile that curved her eyes.
"No." Tong Yao refused without hesitation.
Lin Li's face froze instantly: "Then why did you just say I was cute? Did you try to kiss me during break earlier—"
Before he could finish saying the last "I", Tong Yao interrupted him.
"Class has started, I'm going back."
Holding her book, Tong Yao quickly moved away from Lin Li, taking one or two steps at a time.
Lin Li followed behind at a leisurely pace.
You clearly like me, Tong Yao. I've seen through you. You're just a hypocrite!
In the classroom.
Ignoring Tong Yao's resistance, Lin Li used all her strength to pull her desk back to hers, pressing it tightly against her own.
Looking at Tong Yao, who was still stubbornly sitting on the outer bench, a sly smile crept across his lips. He reached out and grabbed the edge of her bench, then suddenly pulled hard—
People and seats were instantly pulled back to their original positions.
Startled by the sudden commotion, Tong Yao quickly grabbed the edge of the table to steady herself. She turned and glared at Lin Li, deciding to ignore this childish guy and lower her head to continue reading her book.
Just then, Teacher Liu walked into the classroom with a small bee in her hand.
"Class, turn to page 72. Today we're going to talk about..."
After class started, Lin Li managed to concentrate for a while, but soon his attention, like a kite with a broken string, began to drift aimlessly in the air.
The kite spun around in the sky several times before finally landing squarely on Tong Yao.
His fingers began to stir, wanting to poke her like before. But just as his fingers were halfway in, Tong Yao, as if she had eyes, caught them precisely.
Lin Li broke free with a little effort, but he reached out again, only to be firmly grabbed by Tong Yao once more.
However, this time, he didn't struggle.
Because he suddenly realized that Tong Yao's hands were also very beautiful.
Slender, delicate, and fair-skinned!
A bold yet naive idea popped into Lin Li's head. She quietly propped up the English book on the table, creating a small barrier.
He glanced quickly at Tong Yao, who was engrossed in her book, and then, taking advantage of her momentary lapse in attention, swiftly looked down—
I gently licked the back of her hand!
Tong Yao was instantly jolted as if by lightning, her eyes widening in disbelief, and she abruptly pulled her hand back.
Seeing that the culprit was still acting as if nothing had happened, she was furious and immediately wanted to move her stool to the right to get away from him.
As a result, Lin Li, who was prepared, firmly held down the bench.
Just as the two were locked in a fierce battle of wits, neither willing to back down, Teacher Liu on the podium turned her gaze and looked over.
"Lin Li, where are your glasses?"
Lin Li panicked and quickly let go of the pen, pretending to pick it up from the ground. Then she sat up straight and replied, "Teacher, it's broken."
"Oh," Teacher Liu replied.
Just when Lin Li thought she had gotten away with it, Teacher Liu calmly continued:
"In that case, the teacher is worried that you can't see the blackboard clearly, so please move to this seat next to the podium."
"Huh?" Lin Li was dumbfounded.
He tried to find an excuse to refuse, but Mr. Liu's expression was serious, not at all like he was joking. He could only move his desk and chair to the "VIP seat" next to the podium, looking wronged and under the gaze of the whole class.
After class, Teacher Liu arranged for Xu Feng to sit in the empty seat next to Tong Yao.
Lin Li could only sit alone by the podium, watching with envy as Xu Feng and Tong Yao became new deskmates.
Tang Yue curiously leaned closer and asked, "Lin Li, what did you just do?"
Lin Li was incredibly guilty and dared not tell the truth, so she had to put on her aloof demeanor again, cleared her throat, and said:
"I applied voluntarily in order to... to study better."
The air was silent for a second.
Tang Yue asked suspiciously, "Xu Feng likes Tong Yao, have you forgotten?"
"What?" Lin Li exclaimed in shock.
He started reminiscing wildly. It seemed like there were a few boys in junior high who were trying to get close to Tong Yao, but he was basically sleeping most of the time and didn't pay any attention to who they were.
"Sigh, what a disappointment, giving up such a good position to someone else," Tang Yue sighed, shaking her head with a hopeless expression.
"Never mind, children and grandchildren have their own blessings."
Tang Yue left, leaving only the petrified Lin Li sitting on the podium.
Xu Feng, male, age and appearance unknown. Lin Li is somewhat face-blind, although she has seen him many times before.
Looking at his former seat, now empty, he thought, "Xu Feng was the physics class representative, right? Tong Yao was also the physics class representative, wasn't she?"
These two just went to the physics department office together to get exam papers...
Lin Li leaned against the classroom door frame, gazing aimlessly at the empty corridor, looking exactly like a "waiting-for-wife stone".
After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the figure he had been hoping for finally appeared at the end of the corridor. But the next second, his face darkened—Tong Yao was accompanied by a boy wearing glasses. The two walked along, talking in hushed tones, seemingly getting along very well.
Tong Yao looked up and saw Lin Li blocking the doorway. She immediately remembered his previous "perverted" behavior. Without frowning, she said coldly, "Get out of the way."
Lin Li seemed to be frozen instantly, stiffly stepping aside to make way.
Xu Feng followed Tong Yao into the classroom, and as he passed Lin Li, he gave him a meaningful smile.
Is this a sarcastic remark? (Actually, it's a friendly smile)
Lin Li returned to her new seat without a word—the lonely "VIP seat" next to the podium.
The school bell rang, and Physics Teacher Xu strode onto the podium.
"Let's begin. This test is very difficult. If you don't finish it in this class, it will be your homework."
examination paper?
Lin Li glanced at the empty desktop, then turned to look at the others.
"Teacher Xu, I don't have the test paper." Lin Li had no choice but to report to his "new deskmate"—Teacher Xu himself.
Upon hearing this, Teacher Xu searched the podium for a while and found that there were indeed no extras.
"Go to the office and get one."
Lin Li said "Oh" and got up to leave the classroom.
Halfway there, he suddenly stopped. He suddenly remembered that in his previous life, because his physics grades were terrible, Mr. Xu practically ignored him, and he didn't even know which way the physics office door faced.
With no other option, he had to bite the bullet and go back, reappearing at the classroom door.
"Professor Xu," he began somewhat awkwardly, "where is the physics office...?"
Teacher Xu adjusted her glasses, her brows furrowed, her expression clearly saying: "You're already in the third year of junior high, and you still don't know where the office is?"
In the midst of the awkward silence, Tong Yao stood up: "Teacher Xu, I'll take him there."
After receiving Ms. Xu's nod of approval, Tong Yao quietly walked out of the classroom, and Lin Li quickly followed.
The physics office was small, with only three teachers working there. At that moment, all the other teachers were teaching classes, and the office was empty.
Lin Li watched Tong Yao remain silent as she skillfully searched for blank test papers on Teacher Xu's desk.
He hesitated for a moment, then cautiously reached out and gently tugged at the hem of her dress.
Tong Yao simply turned her head and gave him a cold glance.
"abnormal!"
Lin Li recoiled as if burned, instantly pulling her hand back.
Okay, I admit defeat. He silently confessed to himself—who could blame him when her hands were so beautiful? He must have been completely bewitched...
When did I develop this quirk?
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