Chapter 10
Luo Huaizheng's father is a maintenance worker and his mother runs a small store near their home. His family background is very ordinary, but he has everything that most children have. His parents treat him as their treasure, taking care of him meticulously and nurturing him with all their efforts. So until the eve of the college entrance examination and before he was imprisoned, Luo Huaizheng had never suffered any hardship.
Luo Huaizheng has been a hardworking person since he was young. He is smart, sensible and motivated. Except for the time when he was naughty in elementary school and ranked in the top ten in the class, after entering junior high school, he began his journey of dominating the grade.
As he grows older, Luo Huaizheng becomes increasingly clear about where his future lies. He is the only hope to change the fate of his family and achieve class transition. The young boy hid his arrogance and ambition, and with a more persevering attitude, day after day, he worked harder than those who were far less capable than him, just to repay his parents for decades of hard work, and to live up to the talent and courage bestowed on him by God.
But Luo Huaizheng is not a nerd. It can even be said that he is naturally smart and lively. It's just that he is too sensible and good at controlling himself, so the teachers and classmates around him think he is mature and steady. In addition to being the undisputed top student in the grade, he has also always served as the class monitor. He is calm and fair, gentle and kind, and can argue with the teacher for the legitimate interests of his classmates. In the class, everyone likes Luo Huaizheng. Everyone in the grade has heard of his great reputation. Even those illiterate troublemakers had to give him some respect, because "Lao Luo is an upright and generous person."
It can be said that before becoming Li Qingyao's desk mate, Luo Huaizheng only had "study, family and class matters" in his mind. Li Qingyao took the lead in calling him "male Bodhisattva" in the class.
In the first year of high school, they unexpectedly became deskmates. Li Qingyao didn't know how the teacher arranged the seats, because no matter whether they were arranged by grades or by pairing good and poor students, the two of them would not have a turn together. Maybe it's just random.
The two people naturally became familiar with each other. There are certainly benefits to sitting next to a genius student. Li Qingyao was just a second-rate academic. Whenever she encountered a problem she didn't know how to solve, she would tap on the wall with her pen. Luo Huaizheng would immediately put down his pen and explain it to her. He could even provide five solutions at a time, which made Li Qingyao very happy. But Bodhisattva is not a rigid person. When Li Qingyao encountered a class that he had mastered well, he stopped listening and secretly read novels. He even covered it up with a natural expression, as if he had completely forgotten his law enforcement identity as the squad leader.
They naturally worked together to do experiments, and it turned out that both of them were top-notch technical experts with steady hands and careful minds. Often, an experiment that others would take 2 hours to complete would only take them 20 minutes. Then they would take out the test papers together and practice the questions as if no one was around. The same thing happened with exams. During that period, Li Qingyao was probably too much influenced by the academic genius. In her words, it was the enlightenment of the Bodhisattva after all. She stopped playing around for the first time in her life and even ranked second in the grade in the mid-term exams. The head teacher was very happy - if I had known this, I would have put you next to Luo Huaizheng sooner. When it comes to playing badly, you are so impressive that you need to bask in the light of the academic god.
This incident caused a sensation in the whole grade at the time. After all, the boy was handsome and the girl was beautiful. Luo Huaizheng was well-known, and Li Qingyao was also a minor celebrity. The two of them were deskmates and spent all day together.
The rumor spread like this.
However, there were too many people in the grade who had a crush on Luo Huaizheng. Some people who knew Li Qingyao stopped her after school and asked half-seriously, "Hey, Sister Yao, are you and Luo Huaizheng together?"
Li Qingyao did not answer directly, but asked: "Why are you asking this?"★
The other party was vague: "It's widely spread in the grade, everyone wants to know. If he really has a girlfriend, and his girlfriend is you, some people will give up!"
Li Qingyao replied: "He and I are just ordinary classmates. I don't plan to fall in love too early, and I don't think he is ready to do so either."
The other party was still not giving up, or was not quite convinced, so he stopped her and asked, "Then, then do you like him?"
Li Qingyao looked him up and down and said, "Although Luo Huaizheng is not my type, what does it have to do with you? Get out of the way."
Li Qingyao is not afraid of offending people. After all, in a small society like high school, what people envy and like are not the cowardly and boring people who like to please others, but the strong people with distinct personalities. Li Qingyao's nickname "Ren Woxing" is not groundless.
The only exception who is a good guy and still loved by others is Luo Huaizheng. After all, strictly speaking, he is no longer a human being, but a god.
Li Qingyao's words spread like wildfire throughout the grade.
During class the next afternoon, Li Qingyao noticed that something was wrong with Luo Huaizheng. It was the first time in the history of the world that even a genius student would be distracted in class. During the period, the teacher also called him to answer a difficult question, intending to announce the correct answer. Unexpectedly, Luo Huaizheng couldn't answer the question. He just stood there with a red face and remained silent. The teacher immediately saved their faces: "Did you study too late and didn't sleep well yesterday? Sit down and drink some water. Look, he has top grades, but I still worry that he works too hard and doesn't have a good balance between work and rest. Oh, it's really like, if you don't work hard, you will die of drought, and if you don't work hard, you will die of flood! get out of class dismissed!"
During the break, Li Qingyao, out of revolutionary friendship, poked Luo Huaizheng's arm with the tip of his pen: "What's wrong with you? Haven't we encountered the same type of questions before?"
The boy was wearing the simplest white T-shirt and blue jeans, with his long and thin arms exposed from the sleeves. He sat very straight with his eyelids drooped, not looking at her but only staring at the arm she had poked.
"I wasn't listening to the class just now." he replied.
"What happened?" Sixteen-year-old Li Qingyao opened his clear eyes and cared about his good friend from the bottom of his heart.
The male Bodhisattva raised his eyes slightly, and his fair face slowly turned red. He rubbed his slender fingers, so Li Qingyao's eyes subconsciously stared at his fingers, which were stained with ink and had slight marks left by the pen.
"I'm thinking." He said slowly, "I'm Luo Huaizheng. I have good grades, a good personality, good relationships with people, and I'm said to be pretty good looking. What's wrong with my type?"
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If Luo Huaizheng and Li Qingyao are both shining figures in the school, Xiang Siling is just a blade of grass, the most inconspicuous and unsophisticated one at that.
In fact, Xiang Siling's grades were pretty good, and she was in the top 150 in her grade. She was thin, white, tall, and good-looking. But her family was poor, and her parents didn't seem to care about her. She always wore ill-fitting, tacky clothes that looked like an old lady's. Her hair was cut by her mother, her bangs were thicker than the wall, and she wore glasses with the cheapest black plastic frames. Moreover, she is introverted, taciturn, and always behaves submissively in her dealings with others.
They are in a key high school, but some of the children are in love, fighting or scheming against each other. In fact, even in the top high schools in the city, soft and hard school violence cannot be completely eliminated. People like Xiang Siling are almost the perfect examples of victims of school bullying.
But this phenomenon did not occur during Xiang Siling's high school career.
Because Luo Huaizheng is here.
He is truly an open, upright and charismatic person. If there is any sign of this in the class, he will stop it. He is not afraid even if the other party is rich and powerful or a gangster. Not only Xiang Siling, many people in the class were grateful to Luo Huaizheng. Young people are the most easily infected. They are easily influenced by bad things and attracted by good things. Admiration for the strong is a more intense emotion than depravity. With Luo Huaizheng standing there firmly like a flag, their class is the most united in the entire high school.
It was not until the first semester of senior year that Xiang Siling began to change. It is said that her mother found a way to buy a shop to sell clothes, and the family's conditions improved. She also started wearing new clothes and had pocket money to buy snacks and drinks during breaks, which she shared with her classmates.
At that time, Xiang Siling's seat was diagonally in front of Luo Huaizheng, and was separated from Li Qingyao by a group. Li Qingyao usually didn't pay much attention to her because she was always concentrating on doing her homework. Occasionally she turned around to ask Luo Huaizheng a question, and her voice was so soft that Li Qingyao felt anxious for her.
One afternoon before class, Li Qingyao came to the classroom, but Luo Huaizheng was not there yet. Xiang Siling was talking to two girls in their seats. One girl was surprised and said, "Wow, Si Ling, you look so good with your bangs combed up."
Another girl also agreed, saying that Xiang Siling actually had good facial features and fair skin.
Li Qingyao looked up casually and met Xiang Siling's gaze. But she seemed a little afraid of her, and immediately lowered her head and said in a coy voice: "What's so good about me? I'm just like that. I, I don't have any temperament."
Li Qingyao smiled slightly, leaned over, picked up another hairpin they were fiddling with from the table, and stared at Xiang Siling for a few seconds. Xiang Siling was at a loss, but Li Qingyao gently pinned the hairpin on her short, dry and yellow hair: "They are right, Xiang Siling, show your face, it's pleasing to the eye, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. You are really beautiful."
The two girls laughed and said, Li Qingyao said so, don’t you believe it?
Xiang Siling looked up at Li Qingyao, her eyes a little red, and said thank you.
But after that, Xiang Siling was still the same. Although she wore new clothes, she still had thick bangs, her hair was messy, and she still looked rustic. Li Qingyao thought that some people might just not want to attract attention and would feel uncomfortable. She was not familiar with her, so she didn't take it to heart.
But only Li Qingyao knew that Xiang Siling had a crush on Luo Huaizheng.
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