Because he found preschool boring and considered attending a waste of life, he had his mother delay his enrollment and instead brought these materials, hoping to skip grades and quickly move on to more advanced knowledge. But now...
Gu Zhihan once again glanced at the little girl clinging tightly to him. Her eyelashes were still wet with tears, and the fear on her face hadn't completely faded. In the end, he no longer hesitated, softly crumpled the two filled-out forms, and straightforwardly tossed them into the trash.
Forget it, he might as well just attend preschool with her. He couldn't rest easy if she attended alone, and even with parents dropping off and picking up, he still wouldn't feel at ease...
As spring turned to summer and little pre-K was nearly over, Gu's mother suddenly remarked, "Hanhan, didn't you say that after little pre-K, you want to skip to elementary school? I have already found someone for you..."
Before Gu's mother could finish, Gu Zhihan interrupted her, lifting his ink-dark eyes to look at her, "No need, I no longer want to skip grades."
"Why though?" Gu's mother was happy that her son and daughter-in-law could continue school together, but she was still curious as to why her son suddenly changed his mind.
When it was initially discussed, she almost exhausted herself trying to convince him, but had failed to change his mind.
Now, he had changed his mind on his own accord.
"There are not so many whys," Gu Zhihan said, stealing a glance at Mengmeng who came to his house for a meal, then quickly averted his gaze as if afraid of being discovered, and said with an awkward face.
"I know! My husband must not be able to part with me, that's why he's not skipping grades!" Mengmeng, who had already noticed him looking at her, lifted her face from her bowl, cheeks smeared with rice grains, and spoke.
"Don't flatter yourself!" Gu Zhihan's face flushed with a suspicious hint of red, insisting hard, "I just think that it's better to take learning step by step, just like building a house, I want to build a solid foundation first."
Gu's mother was suddenly speechless. Are you kidding me, what kind of foundation could a preschool that teaches singing, dancing, and playing games every day possibly provide for your studies?
However, because Gu Zhihan was not skipping grades, they moved up together to junior class, and then to middle class.
By the time they reached middle class, the kindergarten had switched from private to public.
The good news was... the addition of nap beds and a cafeteria.
The bad news was... tuition had doubled.
Come noon, the children who used to go home for lunch now ate at the kindergarten, and their nap time took place at school as well.
After lunch, Teacher Tao began to arrange the beds for the children.
"... Luo Mengmeng, bed number 5; Gu Zhihan, bed number 7." Teacher Tao started calling out names, assigning beds one by one.
"Teacher, can I sleep with my husband Gu Zhihan? At home, I always sleep with him. Without him, I will have insomnia!" After all the names were called, and while other kids had already climbed into their beds to lie down, including Gu Zhihan, only Luo Mengmeng, pouting and batting her big eyes, approached the teacher.
"This..." Teacher Tao hesitated momentarily. Of course, she didn't want to separate the little couple, and the beds were spacious enough to accommodate two small children, so she turned to Gu Zhihan to ask, "Little friend Gu Zhihan, would you like to sleep with your wife?"
Since the two little ones were childhood sweethearts, the teachers often teased them like this at kindergarten.
"I don't want to!" Gu Zhihan refused without a second thought. At home, he had to comply with his mother's tyranny and share his sleep begrudgingly, but at school, there was no way he was going to babysit her anymore!