Chapter 0008 Registration
After leaving the milk tea shop, Cheng Jue couldn't help but look at Chen Yan again and again.
Others might not know, but how could he not? He could tell something was going on between the two of them before the Lunar New Year holiday.
On the one hand, he understood Chen Yan; from childhood to adulthood, he had never failed to get whatever he set his sights on.
On the other hand, during winter break, I invited him to go snorkeling in Tahiti. When we weren't in the water, he was always holding his phone, his expressions ranging from happy to angry, full of signs of a young man's budding romantic feelings.
Another time, a group of friends went swimming together. When they were changing clothes, Chen Yan casually stuffed his pants into the closet. Suddenly, something fell down and was picked up by Cheng Jue. It was a small trinket wrapped in aluminum foil.
Cheng Jue had suffered quite a few losses at this guy's hands when they were young. Upholding the mischievous spirit of a friend who loves to watch the drama unfold, he joked, "Oh, are you angry? You only got his body, but not his heart?"
Chen Yan's expression was gloomy, and he sneered: "Do I care? As long as she behaves herself, that's enough."
Cheng Jue thought to herself, "Of course! Open your phone's front camera and see how vulnerable you are." She casually asked, "When did you start liking green grape lemon drinks? I just saw that...that guy seems to like them too..."
Before the words were even finished, the light green beverage cup flew in a parabolic arc and landed in the trash can.
"Shut up, you seem to have bad breath."
Cheng Jue was practically dying of laughter.
Chen Yan was vengeful, and one day not long after, he seized an opportunity to lure Ruyi to a hotel. He held her by the thighs, making her almost dangling in the air, and then forcefully pounded into her, forcing her to cry out in trembling sobs. The water that flowed out soaked his abs and chest.
Amidst the ambiguous sounds of water and increasingly rapid thrusting, Chen Yan kept pressing, "Is it good? Is it good?"
"You still dare to say you don't like it?"
"You little slut, I'll fuck you to death..."
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Every year from April to May is a major event at the school. First, there is the Spring Sports Meet in mid-April, followed by the Arts Festival in early May, which is a grand stage for students from grades 10 to 12 to showcase their artistic talents. The two events are very close together, making it the busiest period for teachers and students, apart from the college entrance examination and final exams.
The homeroom teacher of Class 11 assigned the mobilization tasks for the sports meet and the arts festival to the sports committee member and the arts committee member, respectively.
The sports committee member was a tall, strong man with plenty of energy, but not very bright. After working hard for a long time and talking himself hoarse, he only managed to recruit a small group of people, which was still two-thirds short of the school's target.
The reasons for refusal are varied.
"I've been drained of energy by math problems. If the sports committee doesn't contact the education bureau and cancel the math section of the college entrance exam, I'll go run 3 kilometers."
"Sports are nothing compared to games, I'm not going!"
"I'm so short, you want me to jump high? Just say you want to mock me..." The helpless sports committee member, holding a pitifully small registration list and a thick stack of application forms, asked class monitor Hao Jing for help.
"Class monitor, please help me..."
At that moment, Hao Jing was chatting with Ruyi while eating a lollipop. Upon hearing this, she took the list, glanced at it, and an idea came to her mind. "I'll take care of it! But it won't be for nothing. You have to go easy on us in the next physical test."
After the sports committee member nodded, she stuffed the registration form into Ruyi's arms and dragged her to become the mobilization ambassador.
When a beautiful woman takes charge, the results are extraordinary.
Ruyi is naturally quiet and talks more with girls, but she rarely initiates conversations with boys for fear of causing misunderstandings. As a result, even though she has already passed more than half of her first year of high school, many boys in her class still don't know her very well, and their impression of her is limited to that of a top student, a quiet and reserved girl.
Unlike other classes, where there are always one or two students who are high-profile and flamboyant, practically wearing "I like Xu Ruyi from Class 11" on their sleeves, they wouldn't feel so awkward even if they were rejected because of the distance. If they did that and were rejected, sitting in the same classroom, constantly seeing each other, would be so uncomfortable.
They only dared to keep their budding affections hidden in their hearts, regarding Ruyi as a distant and untouchable goddess in the clouds.
But at this moment, the goddess descended to earth, gently urging them to sign up and fight for the collective honor. They were instantly overwhelmed and lost all sense of place. The reasons for their refusal were stuck in their throats, and they only knew that they didn't want to see the disappointed expressions on the faces of the people in front of them.
The registration forms that couldn't be handed out were almost all gone within five minutes.
Chen Yan leaned lazily against the back of his chair, swaying back and forth with his right foot as a fulcrum. He watched this comical scene and found these ugly men extremely funny.
Ruyi deliberately ignored him, but he immediately sat up straight and, with lightning speed, stretched out his leg to block the passage.
Although he was blocking Ruyi, he looked at Hao Jing behind him with an innocent expression and said, "Class monitor, why didn't you give it to me? Are you targeting me?"
Hao Jing was not in a position to accept this hat, so she flatly denied it, then laughed and said, "You want to participate too? Why didn't you say so earlier! With your qualifications, you could win so many first places for our class!"
"Ruyi, do you have any more? Give one to Chen Yan."
A thin form gently fell onto the table. Ruyi handed it over and was about to leave when Chen Yan called her back.
"Wait, what are all these? I don't know how to fill them in, teach me." The words were written clearly in black and white, and the format was also very clear. Even a second-grade elementary school student could understand them, yet he shamelessly said in front of the whole class that he couldn't understand them. It was blatant mockery.
Ruyi gazed at him silently. In their eye contact, there was an undercurrent of tension and struggle that only they could understand.
But in just a moment, Ruyi was defeated. Chen Yan's shamelessness far surpassed hers. If she didn't go along with him, with his unparalleled madness, who knows what outrageous things he might do.
"Enter your name here, check the items you are interested in, and finally enter the date."
"But I'm not really interested in any of them."
"Then don't make things difficult for yourself, it's not mandatory."
Which one do you think I should apply for?
I think you'd be better off rolling from the third floor to the first floor, then rolling out of the school gate, the farther the better, and never appearing in my sight again—of course, Ruyi only dared to think this in her heart, but on the surface, she pretended to think it over seriously, pointed to the most tiring 3000 meters and 1500 meters, and said, "I think these two are more suitable." Run you to death, you scumbag.
Chen Yan laughed: "I think so too. It seems you also think I have good physical strength. You have good taste."
He made an ordinary sentence sound like flirting, and when he and Ruyi did certain unspeakable things, he shamelessly boasted about his stamina. Ruyi's ears turned bright red instantly, and she forced herself to ask him, "Excuse me, could you move aside?"
Chen Yan retracted his long leg in a very good mood.
Once the boys' registration was settled, the girls' registration was easy. Hao Jing herself was very influential among the girls. She could persuade a few promising ones and grab a few more to make up the numbers, and the task would be completed.
Ruyi was also forced into participating in the standing long jump and women's 100-meter races.
Another week passed, and the arts and culture representative put together a script. Before evening self-study, she officially announced that Class 11 would be putting on an adapted version of a creative fairy tale for this arts festival performance. She gave a general description of the plot and asked who was interested in participating.
Apart from a few close friends of the Cultural Committee, very few people responded.
One student said, "Literature Committee member, it's not that I don't want to support your work, it's just that I've already signed up for the sports meet, and I'm training on the playground every day after school. I really don't have the extra energy to put on a performance."
"Yes, we already have missions. Let's find those who don't have missions!"
"Exactly! You can't just keep fleecing one sheep! What if you fleece it all? Bald heads look awful!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
The cultural committee member was somewhat helpless, but still unwilling to give up, and tried to mobilize everyone: "Please help out, it's very interesting, and there's still a month and a half left, so it won't be a waste of much time if we spread it out..."
Ruyi felt that Wenwei looked somewhat isolated and helpless on the stage. After looking around, she slowly raised her right hand.
Wenwei's eyes lit up; the female protagonist of the story she admired was Xu Ruyi.
With Ruyi joining in, Hao Jing followed suit, and then eight or nine boys in the back row raised their hands.
The cultural committee member was overjoyed and promptly stopped those restless hands, saying with satisfaction, "That's enough, that's enough. There are only 11 characters and 1 narrator in total, so we don't need that many people. We'll have to do it next time!"
On the first night of rehearsals, the boys from Class 11 were dumbfounded when they received the script. The number of male and female characters didn't match up! The literature committee member cleared his throat and said, "One of the highlights of my creation is that some characters are played by men and women to create comedic effect. You've already had the barbecue I treated you to, so don't regret it!"
The men wailed, "How treacherous!" and then a heated debate ensued over who should play the role of a normal man...
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