Chapter 96 She's too good
When the preparatory bell rang, Shi Leyao and Sun Qianyu returned to their seats, and Jiang Wan also pulled out her chair and sat down.
As I was tidying up the papers on the table, I suddenly noticed that Zhang Chi in front of me was looking up, staring intently to the right front, unusually quiet.
She leaned forward halfway, followed Zhang Chi's gaze, turned her head, and saw Shi Leyao's back as she walked back.
She recalled how Zhang Chi had carefully borrowed the notebook that Shi Leyao had given her on her birthday dinner day, and had looked through it carefully and attentively.
After the dinner, Zhang Chi returned the ledger to Jiang Wan in private. The look in his eyes when he looked at the ledger back then was very similar to the look in his eyes now.
Jiang Wan figured she probably understood, so she stopped looking and turned away, preparing to pack her things and go to study.
Just then, the preparatory bell stopped, and Zhang Chi, seemingly afraid of being noticed, promptly looked away.
When she turned around, she saw Jiang Wan leaning on the table as he sat back down. As he leaned back, her gaze swept over him in an arc.
For some reason, the moment their eyes met, Zhang Chi suddenly felt that Jiang Wan understood everything.
That look seemed to see right through him.
Jiang Wan was also stunned. She didn't expect that even though she didn't plan to look any further, Zhang Chi would still accidentally discover her.
"that……"
Jiang Wan spoke somewhat guiltily, not yet having figured out how to excuse herself, when she heard Zhang Chi suddenly say, "Shi Leyao is a very good person, right?"
Jiang Wan paused for a moment, then slowly nodded, "Yes, she's fine."
“I also think she’s great.” Zhang Chi’s tone became very serious. “Not only is she excellent in her studies, but she also has a great personality. She always works hard on her own, and even if she isn’t recognized by others, she never complains. She takes life very seriously.”
Zhang Chi suddenly smiled, a somewhat shy smile.
Yes, shyness, an emotion Jiang Wan rarely saw on Zhang Chi's face.
Zhang Chi lowered his eyes. "But in the past, apart from me, very few people could see her good qualities."
Hearing this, Zhou Chong also raised his head and glanced at Zhang Chi hesitantly.
Jiang Wan opened her mouth, wanting to ask a question, but unsure whether she should ask it aloud.
Zhang Chi looked up and saw Zhou Chong looking at him. He paused for a moment, but quickly smiled. "But things are different now. You've all discovered her good qualities. More and more people are seeing her, which is great."
Jiang Wan looked at the smile on Zhang Chi's face, which could perhaps be described as gentle, hesitated for a long time, and finally asked the question that was on her mind, "Zhang Chi, do you like...?"
Zhou Chong suddenly nudged Jiang Wan's elbow, which was resting on the edge of the table. Jiang Wan paused, bit her lip, and glanced back at him.
Zhang Chi wasn't too surprised or flustered. Instead, he laughed frankly, "Yeah, when we changed seats last semester, I wanted to ask to sit with Shi Leyao, but Lao Fan rejected me, haha."
Hearing him say that, Li Yang, who was sitting next to him, turned his head to look at him, then looked at Jiang Wan and Zhou Chong, thought for a moment, and turned back without saying anything.
Jiang Wan pursed her lips, unsure of what to say.
This was something she had already guessed, but hearing Zhang Chi say it himself now gave her a strange, inexplicable feeling.
Does Shi Leyao know that Zhang Chi likes her?
They probably don't know.
Seeing the two of them fall silent in unison, Zhang Chi suddenly chuckled, "Do you both think I'm overestimating myself? But when I wanted to be her deskmate, it was simply because I wanted to learn from her, nothing more. Old Fan is just worrying unnecessarily..."
“I believe you,” Jiang Wan suddenly spoke up. “We all believe what you said, and we don’t think you’re overestimating yourself, but…”
Jiang Wan paused, exchanged a glance with Zhou Chong, and asked hesitantly, "But have you thought about telling her?"
Zhang Chi paused for a moment, no more than two seconds, before firmly shaking his head.
"Why not?" Jiang Wan pressed. "What about later? After the college entrance exam, don't you want to tell her either?"
“I don’t want to.” Zhang Chi still shook his head. “After the college entrance examination, she will go to Peking University. That is her new future. As for me, I will just watch her and watch her go further and further away. That will be enough.”
"Why..." Jiang Wan didn't understand Zhang Chi's thoughts and wanted to say something more, but Zhou Chong stopped her.
Just before the official bell rang for self-study, Zhang Chi turned to look at Shi Leyao again, smiling very easily, "She's so great, I don't want to burden her at all, not even a little bit."
After saying that, he turned to look at Jiang Wan and Zhou Chong, "So, you two shouldn't tell her either. I can be honest with you, but with her kind personality, she'll definitely be upset if she finds out."
Jiang Wan and Zhou Chong both nodded in agreement.
The bell rang, and Zhang Chi turned around, picked up his pen, and continued working on his test paper.
Jiang Wan silently prepared the exam paper, spread it out in front of her, and before she started writing, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Zhou Chong.
Zhou Chong was unaware that she liked him.
But she wanted to tell him, though not now.
Let's focus on preparing for the college entrance exam first, at least until she and he go to Tsinghua University together.
Jiang Wan withdrew her gaze, calmed herself down, and began to work on the questions.
Zhou Chong noticed her gaze leave, and slowly turned his head, silently watching Jiang Wan's profile.
"She's so wonderful, I don't want to burden her in any way, not even the slightest bit."
Zhang Chi's words were still echoing in my ears.
Zhou Chong thought he could understand him.
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May has passed by in a hurry.
The final three rounds of review, though called review, actually consisted of a series of full-length mock exams of varying sizes.
Looking back, Jiang Wan realized that apart from the daily exams, she seemed to remember nothing else from that period.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the overhead fan is whirring loudly, mixed with the increasingly noisy chirping of cicadas outside the window.
It wasn't exactly a quiet environment, and it was summer, a season that easily makes people restless.
But everyone in the classroom seemed oblivious, the scribbling of pens on paper blending perfectly into the noise.
A life of monotonous repetition always seems to pass by quickly.
During a break in self-study, Jiang Wan looked up and was suddenly surprised to find that the countdown to the college entrance examination on the blackboard had dwindled to single digits.
This time next week, she should be sitting in the exam hall taking math tests.
That's great, it's math, which is her best subject.
Thinking of this, Jiang Wan felt an unprecedented sense of relief.
With her right hand still holding a pen, the tip hovering over the exam paper, she smiled as she looked at the blackboard.
Zhou Chong turned to look at her, raised his eyebrows, and silently asked her what she was laughing at.
Jiang Wan pursed her lips, turned around, and gave Zhou Chong an even brighter smile. "The college entrance exam is next week. Aren't you happy?"
Zhou Chong looked at her, puzzled.
With the college entrance examination just around the corner, most students are feeling nervous. Although their homeroom teacher, Mr. Fan, emphasizes to everyone before evening self-study every day not to be overly anxious, but to adjust their state and take the exam with a calm mind.
But listening to something is one thing, being able to do it is another.
Zhou Chong wasn't particularly nervous, but he wasn't exactly happy either.
He didn't quite understand what Jiang Wan was happy about.
Jiang Wan gave him a deep look, then smiled and said, "We won't be high school students anymore soon."
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