He finished eating quickly, and the plate in front of him was clean.

But that cup of oatmeal latte - adhering to the basic courtesy of eating the food prepared by the host when visiting someone's home, Shi Yan, who didn't like sweets very much, drank most of the cup, letting the greasy sweet feeling spread in his mouth.

Sheng Yuan hadn't finished eating yet. She ate very politely, with her head slightly lowered, taking small bites of food.

Shi Yan raised his black watch.

The morning reading class is at 7:30, and it is now 6:45.

He sat quietly in his seat waiting for Sheng Yuan.

It's seven o'clock.

Sheng Yuan ate the last piece of spinach and poked half a piece of whole wheat bread with her fork. She was obviously full, but she had no intention of getting up.

Shi Yan glanced at the half of the food left on her plate and reminded her, "You're going to be late."

The main reason is that it is more than 20 minutes’ drive from here to the school.

Sheng Yuan put down her fork.

The chef poked his head out and said, "Miss Sheng, are you leaving?"

Sheng Yuan jumped off the stool and said, "Yes."

"Okay, take care, come back for dinner when you have time," the chef said amiably, "I'll make you your favorite raspberry pistachio basque."

Sheng Yuan responded: "Okay."

* On the way back, although the driver drove much faster than on the way there, he still couldn't handle the traffic jam during the morning rush hour, and all his time was wasted waiting for traffic lights.

And then, unsurprisingly, I was late.

As Sheng Yuan and Shi Yan stepped into Qingfeng's school gate, the bell for morning reading class rang.

The teacher on duty for the morning reading class today was not Li Yinghui, but she was used to making surprise visits and liked to run into the classroom to catch students doing their morning reading.

As she was about to reach the classroom door, she saw a slender figure appearing at the corner. After seeing who it was, her expression suddenly darkened.

It's this exchange student again! Li Yinghui was already holding back her anger. Yesterday, this student named Sheng Yuan dared to skip class in broad daylight, causing such a bad influence in her class.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Now she saw Sheng Yuan being late, and her accumulated dissatisfaction with Sheng Yuan suddenly soared. She didn't care about the principal's "instructions".

"It's already this late, and you're still walking so leisurely. Don't you know that the morning reading class has already started?!" Li Yinghui looked stern and made up her mind to discipline this student who had no regard for school rules today. She said to Sheng Yuan mercilessly, "According to the class rules of our class 1, students who are late must stand in the corridor until the morning reading class is over!"

Just as she finished speaking, the next second, Li Yinghui saw the tall figure of Qing Jun appearing behind Sheng Yuan, and she froze in her spot for an instant, "Shi Yan?!"

She caught a glimpse of the schoolbag behind Shi Yan——

Shi Yan is late too?! Li Yinghui couldn't believe it, but she had already said that those who were late would be punished by standing. She couldn't take it back. Her face was very ugly. She gritted her teeth at Sheng Yuan and Shi Yan and said, "You two! Stand here until the end of class!"

The noise in the corridor was transmitted into the classroom. Class 1 was immediately in an uproar and everyone was talking about it. They couldn't believe that the genius student would be late.

"What's going on?!" Li Yinghui slammed the classroom door with force, her eyes intimidated: "You have memorized the knowledge points by heart, right? Then I will come to check in the first class. Those who can't memorize it must copy it fifty times!"

All the students dared not act rashly and lowered their heads to recite their books.

Outside the corridor.

Sheng Yuan didn't look guilty at all, and stood casually. She turned her head to look at Shi Yan, and thinking of the noise she had just heard in the classroom, she asked with interest, "Hey, good student, is this the first time you've been punished by the teacher?"

A taciturn person and a good student.

Shi Yan's cold brows slightly knitted together, "I have a name."

After a pause, he did not get angry because the main reason for his lateness was that he had to have breakfast with Sheng Yuan, nor was he upset because his good impression in the teacher's eyes was broken.

The boy's eyelashes were dark, and his voice was low and clear. He said, "I'm just late, it's not a big deal."

Hearing this, Sheng Yuan raised her eyebrows, "Oh."

The sun had risen completely by this time, and the golden light poured into the corridor, shining on the two of them.

Sheng Yuan squinted her eyes because of the sunlight. She hated being exposed to the sun, so she glanced behind Shi Yan. He was tall and thin, and his shadow was also broad.

Sheng Yuan took a step back without thinking and shrank into his shadow.

Shi Yan noticed her small movement towards him, his body tensed slightly for a second, but he did not move, still standing there with a cold face, even the punishment of standing was so polite.

Perhaps the fact that the top student in the grade was punished by standing was too "big news". During the morning reading class, the student union cadres came to check the class hygiene and saw Shi Yan outside the corridor of Class 1. They all widened their eyes in surprise, with the word "damn" written all over their faces.

Afterwards, bad news spread far and wide - three waves of student union cadres had passed by the door of Class 1 with ulterior motives.

One of the more daring boys, with a red silk cloth with the words "Duty" on his arm, came over curiously and asked Shi Yan in a low voice: "Boss, what's going on? Your teacher is willing to make you stand in the corner as punishment?"

Shi Yan didn't say anything.

The boy knew that Shi Yan had a cold personality and didn't expect Shi Yan to respond to him. He was just too shocked.

After he tried to strike up a conversation to no avail, he was about to leave, but he found that a male classmate who came with him was still standing there stupidly. He bumped into him and said, "What are you standing there for? Let's go. The head teacher of Class 1 will find out later."

The male classmate came to his senses and followed him away. After taking two steps, he turned back and glanced with red ears at the girl who was standing behind Shi Yan, lazily hiding from the sun.

* Perhaps she anticipated that when other classes saw Shi Yan being punished to stand after class, it would cause an uproar. So three minutes before the end of the morning reading class, Li Yinghui gave a verbal lecture and asked the two people who were punished to stand to return to the classroom early.

Shi Yan and Sheng Yuan walked into the classroom one after the other, under the gaze of the whole class.

Unfortunately, the two people who were punished to stand were at the same table, and everyone looked in the same direction and saluted them.

Yan Qingyue was unable to concentrate during the entire morning reading session. When she heard Shi Yan being punished to stand, she could not hold back. She waited anxiously for the bell to ring for the end of the morning reading session and when Li Yinghui left the classroom, she could not wait to run to Shi Yan's seat, her tone full of worry.

"Shi Yan, what happened? Why are you late today?"

Shi Yan took out the exercise book and spread it out to do the exercises.

His voice was calm, "It's okay."

But if nothing happened, how could I be late? Yan Qingyue bit her lip.

She looked at Sheng Yuan who was playing with her mobile phone in the seat next to her. She learned from her father that it was Sheng Yuan who helped Shi Yan solve the problem. She had a lot of questions to ask Shi Yan, but the current situation was not convenient, so she had to give up for the time being.

Thanks to Yu Xing, Shu Yu, Xun, Qing Yu, and Hua Qi baby for their monthly tickets