Being punished to stand wasn't so frightening.
An Yeran glanced left and right. The hallway was empty with hardly anyone around. She took her cell phone out from her trouser pocket and started a new game.
Occasionally, the sound of footsteps passed. An Yeran's reaction was swift, hiding her phone behind her back and appearing serious about her punishment.
As soon as the teacher supervising her left, she would resume her game. However, after a few rounds of this, she suddenly found herself reported for being afk(absent from keyboard) and acting.
"..."
She shutdown the game expressionlessly and stashed her phone back.
After the first class, the language arts teacher finally allowed An Yeran to return to the classroom because the class representatives needed to collect homework.
When they reached her, An Yeran simply said, "I didn't do it. Go ahead and collect others' homework."
The representatives were taken aback. They had never seen anyone brazenly admit they hadn't done their homework!
"Are you joking?" the math class representative asked.
An Yeran took out her math workbook and said, "I really didn't do it, you see, I didn't even write my name... huh?!"
She was speechless.
On the clean workbook, there were three neatly written characters— An Yeran.
She opened the workbook and confirmed that all the exercises that the teacher had set the previous day had been completed.
What the heck?!
A ghostly occurrence?!
Without waiting for her to finish browsing, the math representative collected the workbook, "An, you did it, didn't you? You were just pulling our legs!"
No... no!
Listen to her explanation!
An Yeran in disbelief, opened her language arts book, and all the teacher-required sentences had been copied.
Moreover, the handwriting was neatly done, a stark contrast to her usual scribbles!
The English reading and close passages were even translated in the margins which was densely packed and headache-inducing to look at.
At that moment, An Yeran realized.
Someone had finished all her homework for her.
Yesterday evening, only Cinderella had come to her room.
"Wow, your handwriting is so beautiful." The language arts representative casually flipped through, then placed her workbook on top of the homework pile.
An Yeran gave an awkward smile, without replying.
Why did she feel guilty?
After handing in her homework, she went to class 1.
Class 1 was across a courtyard from Class 3. An Yeran could see the handsome side profile of the boy through the floor-to-ceiling window.
He was seriously sorting out his lecture notes. Occasionally, a girl who wanted to talk to him would stand next to him, but often ignored by him, his attitude was icy cold.
An Yeran frowned. She remembered that Lu Xiu in the original novel was a timid and soft-spoken person but he never treated girls this coldly.
She arrived at the entrance of class 1, smiled, and said to a girl near the door, "Hello, could you please call Lu Xiu for me?"
The girl hesitated, assuming she was another admirer wanting to talk to Lu Xiu, she said reluctantly, "I can, but he doesn't like talking to people. Whether he will come out or not, I couldn't say..."
After saying this, the girl took a deep breath as if in order to gather her courage, her face turned slightly red, seemingly nervous.
An Yeran instantly understood. It seems this young girl had a crush on Lu Xiu.
Having realized this, she couldn't help sighing internally.
Today's youngsters are so precocious.
She leaned against the wall outside the classroom and waited quietly.
Girls who passed by the doorway saw another person here for Lu Xiu, couldn't help but sneer inside. Most girls looking for Lu Xiu of class 1 were scared away crying by his icy attitude.
After moving a few steps forward, they stopped at some distance wanting to gloat over her misery.
"You think Lu will come out?"
"I bet he won't even show his face."
"Maybe this girl will run away crying in a while, hahaha."
An Yeran's hearing was good, she caught every single word.
Run away crying?
She had never cried and run off in her entire life, usually she was the one who made others cry an ocean.
Lu Xiu, having written his last note, was about to close his notebook when someone said, "Lu... Lu Xiu, a girl outside is looking for you."
Lu Xiu raised his eyes and glanced coldly at the door. Just as he was about to tell her to scram, he caught sight of the smiling face by the door and halted!
The girl, her hair pitched into a ponytail, was pretty and her eyes shone brightly. She was currently waving at him.
Lu Xiu's coffee-colored eyes constricted sharply, little astonished that she would actually come to him.
Seeing Lu Xiu had made no move, the girl who delivered the message was about to go back and tell An Yeran that Lu Xiu probably wouldn't pay her any heed. Suddenly, the boy at the desk stood up abruptly. A thawing smile replaced the ice-cold look on his face. His coffee-colored eyes lit up with delight. Before they knew it, the boy had bolted to the doorway!