When the bell rang, Yu Fan returned to the classroom with only one thought on his mind.
Today, he will go home and tear that love letter up.
When passing by the others, Wang Lu'an couldn't help but tug at his clothes, "What were you and Chen Jingshen chatting so happily about in the corridor just now?"
"With which eye of yours did you see me chatting with him?"
Excluding you two, all forty people in this class, and Fangqin included, eighty-two eyes saw it.
He took in Yu Fan's expression and didn't dare speak.
Yu Fan returned to his seat. The workbook with the copied solutions had already been placed back on his desk.
Because he was in too much of a hurry to hand it in this morning, he had scribbled his name on the front without checking the contents inside.
How well written could something written using your left hand be? Most people couldn't even write a single word with their left hand. Fangqin must have been looking at it very carefully to notice that it wasn't written by him.
Thinking this, Yu Fan opened the workbook.
"..." He then closed it again.
When Chen Jingshen returned to his seat and saw him holding the workbook, he glanced at his hand—— Bang.
Yu Fan quickly covered his name with his hand and roughly stuffed the workbook into his desk.
Zhang Xianjing happened to see this when she turned around.
"What are you doing? You startled me." She patted her chest and looked at Chen Jingshen, "Classmate Chen, I heard you got full marks in this exam again.
That's amazing."
Chen Jingshen leaned back and took out the workbook required for their next class, "Thank you."
"I got distracted for a moment during class and there was a problem on the paper that I couldn't understand. Could you explain it to me?"
Chen Jingshen, "Which one?"
Zhang Xianjing stretched out her hand and randomly pointed at one of them. Along the way, she revealed her cute pink coloured band-aid.
Chen Jingshen, "Your hand…."
"Ah." She shyly retracted that finger, "I had too many wrong answers and hurt it after copying the solutions out so many times last night. Although it's not a big deal, it really hurts. It would be great if someone could help copy it for m——" "It's in the way."
"..." Looking at Zhang Xianjing's expression, Yu Fan felt she might actually hit him before he did.
Chen Jingshen pulled out a scratch paper and briefly explained it to her.
Yu Fan didn't want to listen but because he was sitting so close, he could hear every word clearly.
Zhang Xianjing originally just wanted to find an excuse to strike up a conversation but she unexpectedly started to really understand the problem after hearing Chen Jingshen's explanation.
Chen Jingshen, "Got it?"
"Yes…..Thank you." Zhang Xianjing took back her exam paper and turned back.
A few seconds later, she snapped back to her senses.
Fuck! That wasn't her original intention!
Zhang Xianjing turned back again.
"Classmate Chen," Zhang Xianjing pushed up her black-rimmed glasses and asked, "Don't you like people who wear glasses?"
Yu Fan's act of playing on his phone paused. He could basically guess what was going to happen next.
He didn't like listening to gossip like this so he wondered if he should go out for a walk.
"I never said that." Chen Jingshen said.
"Then what do you like? Small eyes? Thick lips? Those who are small and skinny?"
"No."
Zhang Xianjing internally cursed at Wang Lu'an and then smiled, "Then what about those with pimples on their faces or braids?"
There was no sound from his end.
Yu Fan had a bad feeling. He put away his phone and got ready to get up and leave—— Chen Jingshen looked over at him.
His dark eyes calmly and directly travelled around his face.
Very quickly, Chen Jingshen retracted his gaze and said.
"Not that either."
Yu Fan, "...…" Before Zhang Xianjing could direct her suspicious gaze over, Yu Fan had already picked up his school jacket, covered his head with it, and laid down onto the desk, pretending to be dead.
-In the first week of each semester, Zhuang Fangqin would pick out several students who hadn't been performing well in the previous semester to have a chat with.
In the afternoon, when Wang Lu'an returned from the office, his eyes were red.
He sat backwards in the seat in front of Yu Fan, "Fangqin's words were too hurtful."
Yu Fan wasn't very good at comforting others. Seeing Wang Lu'an's expression, he felt troubled. He paused his Snake game, "She nags a bit but she's doing it for your own good…."
"She said that if I continue like this, I'll end up picking up garbage with you in the future."
"...."
Noticing that Chen Jingshen's act of writing had slowed down a little, Yu Fan snorted, "Shut up before I throw my phone at your face."
"I'm just kidding." Wang Lu'an sighed, "But I am really at a loss. Fangqin helped check what schools I could get into with my scores last semester and they were all vocational schools or technical colleges! There were no universities at all! If I get into a technical college, my dad's going to beat me to death..." "Fangqin also said that if I attended a technical college, my future path in life would be a lot narrower. I may end up helping people collect debts, have my hair dyed into ridiculous colours and have tattoos that even tattoo artists would shake their heads at the sight of. By then, my parents would be disappointed in me, my friends would leave me and beautiful girls won't pay attention to me——-" Yu Fan was almost about to fall asleep listening to him.
Wang Lu'an, "So I have decided to suffer a little now and study hard for the sake of my future."
"En." Yu Fan said, "Congratulations."
"I'll definitely do it, brother. If I become rich and famous in the future, I will definitely rescue you from the garbage——" Wang Lu'an clenched his fists and hit his chest twice, "I'm going to go study now. For both my future and yours."
Yu Fan waved his hand, signalling for him to get lost.
Before Wang Lu'an could take more than a few steps, he turned around again.
"Want to go to the internet cafe after school?"
"...." Yu Fan, "You don't want your future anymore?"
"A balance. Having a balance between work and play shouldn't be an issue.
What's more, today's Friday." Wang Lu'an said, "Let's go to that one behind the school called Cool Boy. It's closer."
Before leaving, Wang Lu'an knocked over a pen hanging on the edge of the desk.
He froze for a moment and bent down to pick it up, "Sorry Top Student, that was an accident."
Chen Jingshen lightly bent his fingers and received the pen, "It's okay."
-
'Cool Boy' was an illegal internet cafe located across the street from the back gates of their school.
The location was hidden and the storefront wasn't big but the environment and the set up was pretty good.
"I'm coming, I have Flash! Hit him, hit him, hit him ——- Nice!"
The person who had just said earlier this afternoon that he would start studying hard was sitting in the internet cafe at this moment, shouting more enthusiastically than when he participated in the military song competition.
When the game was over, Yu Fan couldn't help but take off his headphones, "You want to try raising your voice like that again?"
"I was just excited." Wang Lu'an took out his phone. "Wait a second. Zuo Kuan sent me a message asking for us to wait for them so that we could play 5v5."
Yu Fan put the headphones down and leaned back in the chair, He casually clicked open a live broadcast.
Their computers were to the left of the front desk so they would occasionally hear sounds coming from there.
"You're…..here to use the internet?" A voice could be heard from the front desk.
"En." A calm voice replied.
Yu Fan's eyelids twitched.
As he watched the live broadcast playing on his screen, he wondered how there could be another person in this world with that annoying voice.
"If you don't have an ID, you'll be charged more." The staff at the front desk confirmed again, "Scan the QR code to pay and then you can pick a seat on the left. Oh right —- The emergency exit is on the far left."
The other person didn't answer but from the sounds of it, he was heading their way.
The left side of the store originally wasn't very big. When Yu Fan heard someone walk closer, he didn't even look up.
Thud.
Something heavy fell onto the ground.
While chewing his gum, Yu Fan lazily looked down.
And saw a familiar black bag.
"...…" His act of chewing stopped.
"Top Student?!" Wang Lu'an next to him exclaimed in shock after looking up, "Why are you…..here?"
Chen Jingshen stopped in front of a computer, his eyes lingering momentarily on Yu Fan's screen.
A live broadcast was playing on the screen. The man in there had blue hair and appeared to be playing some sort of game. It clearly wasn't anything educational.
He retracted his gaze, "To use the internet."
Wang Lu'an, "...."
The top student would come to an illegal internet cafe behind the school to use the internet?
The people around them were all looking their way.
It wasn't because they haven't seen people come here in their school uniforms - Yu Fan and Wang Lu'an both wore their school uniforms - but it was their first time seeing someone like Chen Jingshen who wore the school uniform properly, with the buttons completely buttoned up to the top, appear in a place like this.
Yu Fan returned to his senses. Before Chen Jingshen could sit down, he kicked his chair.
Chen Jingshen paused and lowered his eyes, "You——-" Yu Fan had wanted to say 'you sit somewhere else' but another group of people just happened to walk in.
With very colourful hair, they were probably from the neighbouring school. They raised their chin at the front desk, walked straight in and sat down at the seats next to Chen Jingshen.
If you looked carefully, one of them was one of the delinquents who had tried to extort money from Chen Jingshen the other day.
"——-Swap seats with me." Yu Fan finished coldly.
Chen Jingshen's curled his index finger. He obediently moved away.
Wang Lu'an watched in confusion as the two changed seats.
His phone vibrated.
He lowered his head to check, "Yu Fan, Zuo Kuan said that someone on his end can't make it anymore. Let's play 4v4 instead."
"Anything's fine." After changing to his new seat, Yu Fan no longer looked at the person next to him, "Send me the invite."
Yu Fan reopened the game interface. Just as he was about to accept Wang Lu'an's invitation to join a team, a familiar face suddenly appeared on the computer screen next to him.
Yu Fan and Wang Lu'an's hearts reflexively skipped a beat. They both looked over with a frown.
A line of words just happened to appear on Chen Jingshen's screen——-[Famous Teacher's Online Lecture] The Concept of Sine and Cosine (Basic). Lecturer: Hu Pang.
Yu Fan, "...."
Wang Lu'an, "...."
Wang Lu'an's eyebrow twitched. He couldn't help but turn his head, "Top Student….."
Chen Jingshen, "?"
"You came to an internet cafe….to watch Hu Pang?"
"No, I came to play games." Chen Jingshen paused for a second, "But the other party cancelled on me last minute."
Even a dog wouldn't fall for your lies.
Wang Lu'an, "Are you serious?! What are you going to do now?"
Yu Fan, "….."
Chen Jingshen, "I'll watch a few online lectures."
Wang Lu'an internally begged him not to. You watching an online lecture is an act of torture for us.
And it was even Hu Pang's lecture. That's too fucking cursed.
He suddenly had an idea. Wang Lu'an slapped his thigh, "Why don't you play with us, Top Student? We just happen to need another person. Have you played League of Legends before?"
Chen Jingshen, "Haven't played it much."
"It's okay, we all know each other. We can carry you——" "Carry, my ass, I'm not carrying him." Yu Fan interrupted with a frown, "Just the four of us. Let's start the game."
Wang Lu'an was taken aback. He was about to say that he shouldn't be treating him like this, especially after the other party had helped you do your homework when—— "Okay." Chen Jingshen's tone was calm, "If you don't have the ability to carry me, it's better that I don't join."
A minute later.
Yu Fan snatched the mouse for the computer next to him, closed Hu Pang's lecture and opened League of Legends.
"See that 'register an account' right there?" Yu Fan said coldly, "Stop talking nonsense and create an account."