Chapter 4

Tao Luanxi is usually the first one to arrive in class. He stayed up too late last night doing exercises, so when he hurried to class today, most of the students in Class A had already arrived.

By now, all the copied homework has been done. Tao Luanxi feels a little regretful that he missed out on the pleasure of having everyone around him to do his homework. It's all because of that idiot Qiu Yi!

Tao Luanxi walked to his seat with his head down, glancing at Qiu Yi's seat behind him. This guy usually slept through the first two classes in the morning without fail, and if he turned his head slightly, he could see his arm resting on the desk.

But today——

Tao Luanxi turned around and saw that the desk was empty, without even a book.

Qiu Yi didn’t come?

Tao Luanxi blinked and moved his eyes to the seat behind Qiu Yi. Yan Hai had just finished copying the homework, threw away his pen and prepared to hand in the paper, but when he looked up, he saw Tao Luanxi looking at him with an ambiguous expression.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Yan Hai felt a little nervous for some reason.

"It's okay, it's just..." Tao Luanxi glanced at Qiu Yi's desk, thought about it and still didn't ask.

Qiu Yi hadn't come for several days. A lot of papers were piled up on the empty desk. The strong wind blew and the papers were about to fall to the ground. Tao Luanxi happened to pass by and quickly pressed them down. Qiu Yi's desk was empty and there was nothing pressing it down. Tao Luanxi had no choice but to hold the messy stack of papers, take out a small book clip from her desk, clip it up randomly, and throw it back.

Tao Luanxi's deskmate was the monitor of Class A. He secretly glanced at the commuting records a few times, but did not see Qiu Yi's leave request.

Tao Luanxi secretly glanced at the back of the class, where Yan Han and a few other boys were gathered together, talking and laughing.

As the league secretary of the class, it should be okay to ask about the situation of students who have not attended class for a few days, right?

Tao Luanxi thought so and walked over with her lips pursed. When Yan Hai turned his head, he saw Tao Luanxi standing in front of him. He asked in confusion, "What's the matter?"

"Qiu Yi...hasn't been to school for several days."

Yan Hai turned his head and glanced at Qiu Yi's empty seat, then shook his head: "When we were playing basketball the other day, I seemed to hear him say that something happened at home. I wonder if it's because of this."

"Oh." Tao Luanxi felt a little regretful. She wondered whether this guy had studied hard at home these days and whether he could take part in this monthly exam.

A boy put his arm around Yan Hai's shoulder, glanced sideways and saw the papers on Qiu Yi's desk that had been sorted out. He blew into his mask and teased, "You care so much about Qiu Yi that you've sorted out the papers for him?"

After hearing this, Tao Luanxi wanted to smear the stack of papers on this person's face.

Tao Luanxi showed her signature smile and said, "I just care about my classmates!" Then she turned and left.

The people behind burst into laughter. Yan Han was still in a daze. He frowned slightly and said, "He is so shy. Why do you have to make fun of him?"

The boy blinked his eyes, looking unbelieving: "You don't know yet?"

"Don't know what?"

The boy took out his phone and clicked a few times: "I'll find it for you."

As we were talking, the bell rang, and the nearly 40-year-old female English teacher walked into the classroom on time. She cleared her throat with a stern face and said, "Hurry up and go back to your seats. Don't you just play around all day? Don't you know what level you are at? Those people gathered in the back are talking about you!"

Yan Hai lowered his head and returned to his seat. The teacher began to hand out yesterday's test papers. Someone poked him on the back a few times. Yan Hai reached under the table, took the phone and hid it under the table. While the teacher turned his head to write on the blackboard, he glanced at the content on the screen.

"Fuck!"

Yan Hai's hands shook and the phone fell to the ground with a thud.

This operation attracted the attention of the class. The English teacher pushed up his glasses, glanced at the phone on the ground, and said expressionlessly: "Are you going to find your homeroom teacher yourself, or will you come with me after class?"

…

"I'll go, I'll go, I'll go now."

Yan Hai picked up his phone dejectedly, and when he looked up, he met Tao Luanxi's eyes. He remembered the content on his phone just now and turned his head away in embarrassment.

This subtle movement was still noticed by Tao Luanxi. Tao Luanxi watched him all the way out of the classroom, and Yan Hai did not dare to look up the whole way.

Tao Luanxi frowned, not understanding what was going on. What was this guy feeling guilty about?

As a result, before noon, Tao Luanxi saw similar expressions on countless people's faces.

Anyone who passed by Tao Luanxi blushed and lowered their heads and walked away quickly, leaving Tao Luanxi puzzled. After scaring off another group of people in the men's restroom, Tao Luanxi took out the small mirror she carried with her and carefully checked her face and body, but there was nothing.

As soon as he returned to the classroom, most of the students' eyes were fixed on Tao Luanxi. Even the class monitor who sat next to him frowned and stared at him meaningfully, opening his mouth from time to time as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Excuse me, is there something on my face?"

"No, it's great." Wei Yuan rolled his glasses, looking like he wanted to ask something but didn't dare to. The people in the back seat had stopped talking and were looking at the back of Tao Luanxi's head with great interest.

"Just tell me what you want to say." Tao Luanxi frowned and smiled: "Why do I feel that something is not right in the class?"

"Hey! Who are you staring at?" Class teacher Shen Tan was shocked when he came in. It was rare that this group of crazy students didn't make a fuss during break time.

Shen Tan knocked on the desk with the file board in his hand: "Okay, okay, it's time to sit down. I want to tell you something."

Shen Tan was only in his twenties. He was a math teacher by profession. He became the head teacher of Class A after only a few years at No. 1 Middle School. He was quite capable. However, he was young and easy-going, so even if students were casual with him, he never got angry.

The burning gazes behind him disappeared, and Wei Yuan hurriedly pulled Tao Luanxi's arm, lowered his head and whispered: "Do you like Qiu Yi?"

ha???

Shen Tan's smiling eyes fell on Wei Yuan, and his voice was gentle but made people feel cold all over: "What are you talking about? I can't speak anymore, right?"

Tao Luanxi had no choice but to shut up and listen to Shen Tan quietly.

Shen Tan cleared his throat and said, "Before the last monthly exam, I promised you guys to choose seats according to your rankings. The sports meet a few days ago delayed me. Today, we have time, so let's arrange the seats first, so you don't have to accuse me of being untrustworthy."

"You all know the rules. You can choose your seats freely starting from the first seat in our class. You all can go out later. Don't rush to move your things. Qiu Yi will come in first."

A student shouted, "Teacher, Qiu Yi hasn't been here for a few days."

"Not coming again?" Shen Tan frowned and muttered in a low voice: "This kid is becoming more and more unruly!"

Qiu Yi's family has a strong background. In order for him to study well in No. 1 Middle School, his family donated a large sum of money to the school before the school started. The amount was large enough to buy most of the school. Because of this relationship, few people in the school dared to say anything bad about Qiu Yi, except Shen Tan, who was not afraid of death and never missed a punishment or scolding.

"Alright, since Qiu Yi is not here, even if he voluntarily gave up his rights, let's start with the second place! Get out!"

Forty students came out and filled up most of the corridor. Tao Luanxi was the first to go in. He had always sat in the fourth row in the middle before, but after getting used to it, he didn't want to move anymore, so he returned to his seat.

Wei Yuan, the deskmate, ranked fifth. After entering, he sat back in the same place as Tao Luanxi. Tao Luanxi smiled at him, but before he could greet his deskmate, several boys outside started to make a noise and yell, "Be more self-aware! Is that seat reserved for you?"

Before Tao Luanxi understood what was going on, Wei Yuan's face had already turned red. He sighed softly, stood up, and sat behind Tao Luanxi. After sitting down, he said with a look of regret: "I still want to sit next to you."

???

Then why don't you just sit down?

Tao Luanxi was quite satisfied with his deskmate, who never made any noise and was even given the title of class monitor.

Students came in one after another, but no one chose the seat next to Tao Luanxi. Many of them even smiled secretly when they saw that the seat next to Tao Luanxi was empty. Tao Luanxi squinted his eyes and took a closer look. The one who laughed the loudest was the guy who had just made a fuss outside, Zhang Zhi.

After the ranking was over, the seat next to Tao Luanxi was still empty. Shen Tan came in last and was slightly surprised when he saw the result: "The seat next to Tao Luanxi is empty? That kid Qiu Yi got it for free."

Zhang Zhi laughed in the back: "It's not cheap, we are just trying to help others!"

"Get lost!" Shen Tan laughed and scolded, "You just know how to be stingy? Why didn't you think about making your head teacher look good during the exam?"

Shen Tan didn't pay any attention to this sentence and went on to talk about the study arrangements for the next month. Tao Luanxi sat below but didn't hear a word he said.

After Shen Tan finally left, Tao Luanxi immediately turned around and asked, "What did you mean by that just now?"

Wei Yuan was startled, frowned in embarrassment, took out his cell phone from his schoolbag, opened the school forum and handed it to Tao Luanxi: "Look for yourself!"

At the top of the forum, the post with the word "hot" on top is particularly eye-catching - "Scholar x Campus Prince, isn't this a great couple?"

Tao Luanxi basically never went to the school forum. The only time she saw it was the ranking of the school idols of No. 1 Middle School. When she clicked on the post, she saw that it was full of pictures. The poster described himself in the first person, and between the lines hinted that he was a top student named Tao from No. 1 Middle School. He claimed that he had a crush on the school idol Qiu Yi for a long time, and he also wrote a lot of ambiguous interactions half-truthfully, and even had two boat scenes.

Tao Luanxi looked at the screen full of "Qiu Yi lying on the desk/on the grass behind the school, making sounds of "hmmmm" and "ahh ...

"You all think I wrote this?!"

"…You slide down."

Tao Luanxi scrolled down a few pages. The original poster said that this was a screenshot of an article on a Weibo account of Banyun. At the bottom was the Weibo ID - sweet honeyed pottery. Apart from this article, there were only a few recent photos of Tao Luanxi on Weibo. It couldn't be more obvious.

Tao Luanxi's scalp exploded. Who the hell made up this rumor? !

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