Chapter 22
On November 26, 2023, Du Xiwei was completely training and no longer going to school, and Jiang Qiuxu was so bored that he was about to get moldy.
Maybe it was because he had been in contact with Xie Yusheng more frequently in the past few days, or maybe it was because he had too much fun chatting with Du Xi on WeChat about drawing cards last night, Jiang Qiuxu actually took the initiative to chat about games with Xie Yusheng during his free time when there was no one around. He didn't pass notes, but spoke.
Jiang Qiuxu's heart was filled with anxiety and curiosity. Finally, she found a time when Xie Yusheng wasn't working on his homework and asked, "There seems to be a forging material in the new pool of Luochuan that you've been wanting for a long time. Did you get it?"
Xie Yusheng paused in packing his things, thought for a moment, and replied, "If I can't draw forty, I'll draw one."
This type of conversation was so common between "Mist Gradually Rises" and "X" that Jiang Qiuxu suddenly felt that talking to Xie Yusheng wasn't such a big deal. It was at that moment that Jiang Qiuxu realized that Xie Yusheng had already been treating "Mist Gradually Rises" and "Jiang Qiuxu" as the same person the day she was exposed. It was she who had been treating "X" and "Xie Yusheng" separately, thus preventing them from communicating normally. Having figured this out, Jiang Qiuxu completely relaxed.
"You are as lucky as ever..." Jiang Qiuxu sighed softly while continuing to fiddle with the homework in his hand, ending his brief exchange with Xie Yusheng.
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Today it was the turn of the two people from the back group to be on office duty together with Jiang Qiuxu's group. It just so happened that Du Xiwei was away at training and couldn't sweep the floor with Jiang Qiuxu. So after some discussion, they swapped Du Xiwei and Xie Yusheng's jobs, and now Jiang Qiuxu and Xie Yusheng were sweeping the floor together.
After the first evening get out of class, Jiang Qiuxu looked at Xie Yusheng's motionless appearance and sighed. Finally, he had to get up and get a broom and garbage shovel before urging Xie Yusheng to get up.
The two of them walked side by side on the way to the office, holding their things. Although nothing had happened, Jiang Qiuxu felt inexplicably embarrassed. After thinking for a moment, she attributed this to her discomfort with having no experience of acting alone with the opposite sex other than her family. In a few seconds, Jiang Qiuxu put this embarrassment behind her.
After sweeping the floor uneventfully, Jiang Qiuxu returned to the classroom, took out his diary, and wrote down some of the things that happened today as usual.
On November 27, 2023, the joint entrance exam was approaching, and the whole world was busy preparing for it. However, Jiang Qiuxu had become less focused and was more distracted. Today was Xie Yusheng's turn to clean the blackboard. It should have been an ordinary day, but for some reason, Jiang Qiuxu remembered the blackboard Xie Yusheng had wiped long ago. She was deeply impressed because Xie Yusheng had wiped it carelessly and abruptly turned the blackboard into a "blank slate", which Wu Lin had complained about. Jiang Qiuxu happened to be on duty that day, and this farce happened next to her. So, Jiang Qiuxu looked at the blackboard with special care, but got an unexpected result - Xie Yusheng hadn't wiped the blackboard into a "blank slate"?
Soon the head teacher started the class formally. Jiang Qiuxu didn't dare to be distracted anymore. He hurriedly wrote a few words in his diary and forced himself to listen to the class carefully.
In the evening class, Jiang Qiuxu finished her homework in no time. It was rare for her to feel interested in reviewing when the joint entrance examination was approaching. She put away the novel she was about to open and took out her English weekly.
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