"Keep your phones away and shut your mouths, there's a new addition to the class." Han Zixuan announced, sitting on his desk, one leg casually flung over the other.
He had on a woolen grey vest draped over his short sleeved white shirt, and beige cargo pants underneath. His brown hair fell forward into a thick crop, it's wavy tip covering up to half of his right eyebrow, showcasing his silky hair and strikingly good looks. Although he was a teacher, there was this youthful charm that radiated off him.
Luó Xiang who had seen a lot of handsome men abroad was particularly smitten by his looks, but couldn't say the same for his personality. To him, any man who'd make such forward advances towards a girl was nothing more than human scum.
"This is your new classmate, she just returned from the states and will be with the class for the rest of the semester." he said, Luó Xiang bowed curtly to them, wondering why this teacher was the one giving his introduction.
"Student Luó, feel free to pick any seat you'd like." Han Zixuan added, pointing at the empty seats in the first two rows.
The young master twisted his lips, but nonetheless picked the seat in the middle of the second row, hanging his purple bag over his seat.
'This is fine.' he thought to himself, stealing glances at the rest of the class from the corner of his eyes.
"After all, some people are suited to being alone." he mumbled to himself, keeping his eyes pointed at the table.
He could hear the rest of the class talk about him, not just that, he could feel their stares burning into his back. His fingers instinctively curled into a nervous fist, his nails scratched at the surface of the desk.
The young master was on the verge of standing up and retreating to the restroom, when the sound of a chair being pulled back pulled him out of his thoughts.
"Is this seat taken?"
He looked above to see a black haired girl with a high ponytail and a blue ribbon staring warmly at him.
"Don't know." he answered, trying his hardest not to sound too masculine while he spoke, and also not to look people in the eye for longer than two seconds.
The girl however chuckled softly, and helped herself to the seat, "you're right, let's be desk mates then." she offered, placing her maths textbook on his desk.
He raised a brow as to why she felt the need to try and socialize with him, wasn't it too much of a hassle?
"What's your name?" she asked, "aren't you supposed to introduce yourself first?" he sharply interjected, wanting the conversation to end swiftly.
The girl blinked twice, then lowered her head to catch a proper glimpse of his face. When she did, she found herself gasping out loud.
Luó Xiang felt his heart tighten.
Did she find out already? Would she raise an alarm? His whole life would change depending on what this girl would say.
"Oh man! You're really handsome up close...no wait I mean to say you have beautiful eyes, and delicate skin that would make for a pretty boy, but in your case, a handsome girl?" She pinched her chin, having trouble getting her point across.
Luó Xiang gave her a plain look, "are you some sort of idiot?" he accidentally blurted out, not meaning for his words to sound offensive.
"Hahaha!" she laughed out loud, forgetting that all eyes were on both 'girls' sitting in second row.
Luó Xiang wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole, "my big brother always says I'm an idiot, it's nice to see someone who feels the same." she explained.
Luó Xiang didn't understand how this and that were related but nodded nonetheless, "I'm Shaiming, Huang Shaiming." she introduced, stretching out her hand to the other girl.
"Luó Xia." the young master said and shook her hand.
*Gym*
Chen Fenhua returned from the nurse's office during third period, which happened to be sports. In his company was Feng Yi and Gu Ai, covered in bandaids.
"Look over there! It's Chen Fenhua!" a girl squealed at the top of her lungs, alerting everyone of the school prince's presence.
"Tsk! How come you get all the girl's attention." Gu Ai whined, pulling out his hairs in frustration.
"True, ever since Fenhua joined the school, our success rate of finding a girlfriend have drastically lowered." Feng Yi concurred in low spirits.
Sports was the only class whereby all the arms under class 2 participated together, hence all the guys from the grade hated it most.
However, the girls would soon begin to despite the class as well.
Chen Fenhua looked around for the beauty from earlier, he located where his class girls were standing but couldn't find her in their midst.
"Who are you looking for?" Feng Yi asked, Chen Fenhua sighed "no one." he answered, storming off to where the rest of the boys where stationed.
Gu Ai and Feng Yi exchanged confused glances with each other, but followed closely behind, wondering who had put Chen Fenhua in such a bad mood.
*Classroom*
Huang Shaiming had just left, she spent the past five minutes trying to convince Luó Xiang into coming to sports, insisting she would need the extra marks.
However, the young master persisted, he even went as far as to lie it was that time of the month, just to get out of doing sports.
There was no one aside himself inside, hence Luó Xiang felt he could relax, he pulled out his gaming console from his bag and logged in. He started to play the trending online game that most people his age had gotten hooked on.
His rank in the entire world was currently number twenty four, and this was after only playing for four months!
He was so engrossed in what he was doing, that he didn't hear someone walk into the class and shut the door behind them.
Luó Xiang continued to pour his full concentration into the game, but due to a slight glitch arising from a disruption in his WiFi, he ended up not being able to slay the final boss.
He bit hard on his lip caging the rage inside him, whenever something as trivial as this caused him an important game, he would become depressed for days and sulk in his room.
"Did you lose?" A familiar voice piped up from above.
Luó Xiang pensively looked up, the first thing his eyes caught sight of, was the mole underneath Han Zixuan's left eye. Their faces were merely inches apart, a slight tip could bridge the distance between them.
"Shaiming was right, up close you really are good looking..." he gently reached out and caged Luó Xiang's chin with his long fingers.
"Student Luó." he teased, placing stress on the word student.
Angry at his conduct, Luó Xiang slapped his hand away, "don't you think getting this close with a young girl is perverted..." he paused and hardened his stare at the man who found the animosity in his eyes amusing.
"Teacher Han."