translator: daisy
“Brother Xing, I’m really sorry!” Standing on the aisle, the blond student named Wan Guanxi screeched loudly at Xing Ye, akin to having a cesarean section.
The group of students stood in a row against the hallway’s wall, where Director Li’s stern utterances could be heard from the classroom behind them.
“Where are your books? It’s been so long since class started and you still haven’t taken out your books! Are you even here to learn?”
“I’m here to serve my sentence.” Someone in the aisle quietly whispered.
Xing Ye stood at the very side, and he was the only one amongst the row of unscrupulous teenagers who wore a school uniform jacket with the zipper pulled to the top. He lowered his head slightly and covered the tip of his nose with the collar.
After a while, Director Li came out and stared at them with his hands behind his back.
With eyes as sharp as knives, he sternly cut down the still budding youths until they were left with hanging heads.
Director Li distressingly spat out: “You all tell me what you did! Instead of staying inside the classroom during lessons, you run around in the hallways! Looks like even the school bell is ineffective now!”
“Wan Guanxi, it started because of you, so don’t laugh!” He pointed his finger at the blond student and said righteously, “I don’t care if you don’t go to class, but now you go negatively influencing others to follow the same path!”
As he was talking, the teacher in the next classroom came out: “Director, please keep your voice down. We are in class right now!”
Director Li: “…”
The students: “…pfft hahaha.”
“Shut up!” He bellowed at the students. Beckoning to the teacher, Director Li opened his mouth to say something, but the words suddenly got stuck.
When interrupted by the teacher just now, he forgot what he was about to say.
Jiang Jing took the opportunity to announce loudly: “Teacher, we promise to not do this next time!”
The blond student next to him joined in and said even louder: “We promise! We will never randomly wander the corridor again in the future!”
Director Li: “…Don’t fucking use dirty words!” After he finished hollering, Director Li felt that the end of the lecture was still a little bland for his tastes, so he added “Go back, write a 2000-word apology essay and hand it in tomorrow!”
He beckoned to the students, muttering “Go, go, go back to work.”
Ignoring the wailing sounds, he pointed at Wan Guanxi: “You! Go and call your teacher over to come to class!”
With a flick of his finger, he then pointed to Xing Ye: “And you, follow me.”
However, Xing Ye didn’t move, and instead looked up at him, asking “What’s the matter?”
Director Li became extremely irritated by this indifferent glance: “This is your attitude towards your teacher?!”
His voice had startled the lectures within the next classroom to a halt.
“Come here!” After Director Li finished speaking, he walked out with his hands behind his back.
Behind him, as the students looked at each other, Xing Ye furrowed his brows for a moment, as if to exercise his restraint. Then, he followed Director Li.
When they arrived at the office, Director Li did not speak first. Instead, he took a sip from the nearby thermos cup to suppress his anger before finally looking up at Xing Ye.
“You…”
Xing Ye’s head lifted so quickly that one could hear a ‘ka’ sound coming from his neck.
Within the next moment, Director Li suddenly saw Xing Ye standing next to the desk, looking down at him. From this perspective, Xing Ye really looked too tall.
“Stand further!”
Xing Ye took two steps back obediently.
Director Li knocked on the table a few times: “Do you not know why I called you here?!”
Seeing how Xing Ye shook his head calmly, Director Li was about to have a heart attack, “You tell yourself, how many times have you skipped class this semester?! Ah?”
Director Li landed another blow: “I can hardly remember what you look like!”
Xing Ye looked up at him and said nothing.
“You refuse to obey me?!” Director Li switched to banging the table instead, “Your teacher has almost forgotten that she has a student like you!”
Xing Ye’s eyebrows moved slightly, and he said, “They came to class? I thought I was enrolled in a self-study course.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“However! I don’t want you to bring the bad habits you learned from that part of society into here!”
Xing Ye suddenly raised his head and stared at him with a gloomy look in his eyes.
Director Li remained unperturbed: “What’s the matter? Do you want to beat me up next?”
Xing Ye averted his glance.
“It’s not that you need to greet your teachers with a smile every time.” Director Li finished speaking, but after a pause, he felt that the phrasing was weird.
Nonetheless, he continued on, “But at the very least you must respect your teachers! You need to play the part of a student.”
After Director Li rambled a whole bunch of nonsense, Xing Ye finally realized the purpose of today’s discussion: “Wang Dahai came to file a complaint?”
Director Li coughed awkwardly, and then became angry again: “You think you’re in the right? You locked the teacher out of the class! If it wasn’t for me, you’d be undergoing disciplinary action yet again!”
As he talked, he gradually became angrier: “I wanted to talk to you last week, but I couldn’t even find you! Looks like your schedule is quite full?!”
“Know your station next time, do you hear!”
Xing Ye lowered his head quietly with a thoughtful expression, and listened to Director Li’s words with a perfunctory “um”.
Director Li thought he finally persuaded Xing Ye, so he calmly drank a sip of tea, swishing a goji berry around in his mouth, and asked vaguely: “Did he look for you recently?”
“No.” Xing Ye was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, “The time has not come yet.”
Director Li nodded, then followed Xing Ye into silence. Sighing for a long time, he said: “You still have to study well!”
After speaking, he looked up and stared at Xing Ye with a depressed air.
Xing Ye: “…”
He didn’t know what Director Li was thinking to say such a phrase, so he wasn’t sure how to continue the discussion.
Fortunately, the bell abruptly rang, interrupting the conversation between the two.
Xing Ye glanced outside: “I’m going back.”
“Huh?” Director Li hurriedly interrupted him, “Why are you in such a rush! I haven’t finished speaking yet!”
Xing Ye frowned: “…”
“You don’t think learning is important, right? Your attitude…” Director Li ignored him and prattled on about it by himself.
Just as he was speaking, there was a knock on the office door, and a teacher barged in, panting a little: “Director, it’s not good! The transfer student had a fight with his classmates!”
“What?!” Director Li was taken aback for a moment. After reacting, he immediately stood up, unsure if it was him who heard the teacher wrong, “Who?!”
“The transfer student! Had a fight with his classmates!” The teacher repeated again.
Xing Ye was indifferent. After all, fighting was not an uncommon occurrence in No. 13 High School. This teacher’s hurried attitude was more problematic.
But… after hearing a certain word, Xing Ye’s eyebrows twitched, and found himself unknowingly following Director Li, who quickly ran out, to join in the fun.
___________
After class, Sheng Renxing knocked on Chen Ying’s shoulder in front of him with the spine of his book.
Chen Ying felt like he was electrocuted. Collapsing his shoulders, he turned around quickly: “Brother Sheng, what’s the matter?”
Sheng Renxing leaned back and moved away from him if nothing had happened: “Returning this to you.”
Chen Ying waved his hand: “Not needed, the next class will still need this material!”
Sheng Renxing nodded and withdrew his hand.
As he spoke, the fat student who had already sat back in his seat turned his head curiously: “Brother, when you were introducing yourself to Teacher Yu, pretending to be handsome worked out so well!”
Sheng Renxing was currently skimming through No. 13 High School’s textbooks. Hearing the chubby student’s voice, he raised his head and asked, “What?”
“Fuck!” The fat student did a thumbs-up, “You’re pretty handsome!”
“?”
Sheng Renxing opened his mouth and then closed it. Feeling like the ability of the people here to give compliments was really awful, he only smiled perfunctorily.
“You don’t know shit!” Sheng Renxing didn’t say a thing, but Chen Ying couldn’t help but speak for him, “My brother Sheng doesn’t need to pretend!”
The fat student gave him a nudge: “You two know each other?”
Chen Ying suddenly faltered, stuttering and muttering this and that before looking towards Sheng Rexing with a blush.
“…” said Sheng Rexing “Through relatives.”
He glanced at Chen Ying’s desk, where a locomotive pendant was hanging on his pencil case.
Sheng Renxing did not take Chen Ying’s excessive enthusiasm seriously either.
After all, to put it bluntly, there were quite a few people here who admired Sheng Renxing.
His eyes swept from Chen Ying’s desk to the entire class.
There were curious, inquiring, and doubtful looks all around…
It was unsurprising, as it was rare for a student to transfer schools midway into the semester.
Sheng Renxing pretended to have not seen any of it, and cast down his gaze to look at the book in his hand.
The textbooks here had simpler material compared to his old school, although the overall course work was the same.
But the learning atmosphere was very different.
In the class just now, while the teacher was speaking, one could see the students doing literally everything else, with only a few focused on reading.
With the teaching progress lagging behind, if a student asked a question, the teacher could end up speaking for over half an hour.
The classroom atmosphere was relaxed, and the lecture pace was also sedated and slow.
Sheng Renxing flipped to the end of the textbook, and wondered if they could even cover all the material by the end of the semester.
It was like a sudden change from sitting in an airplane to walking. He looked at the destination on the map and counted the remaining days with a flustered panic.
Sheng Renxing clenched the page tightly and turned it absently, when a piece of paper fell from it.
Caught up in these thoughts, he momentarily did not notice that anything was amiss.
He only saw that it said “Cui Xiaoxiao! When I was in class, I was so despondent that I could not pay attention, so I turned to looking up at the sky. The clouds in the sky are like your face. When I look at the clouds, they are very close. However, when I look at you, they are very far away!”
“…”
Sheng Renxing went from being panicked to being absolutely horrified.
He silently pushed the note away.
Sheng Renxing couldn’t help but lift his head to look at the male lead.
The male lead was currently laughing with the fat student, clattering as spit flew around.
So in the last class, when he was nodding his head, it wasn’t because of fatigue, but rather because he was feeling melancholic?
So Sheng Renxing was the one to not understand high school love affairs?
He clipped the note back into the book again when he heard someone yelling: “Cui Xiaoxiao!”
He sat close to the window, and could see people walking around outside.
At this moment, a group of people passed by, one of which was the girl Sheng Renxing saw in front of the mala hotpot restaurant last time.
The girl turned her head, with surprise in her eyes.
Then she walked over.
Sheng Renxing also happened to know the group of boys walking with her.
It was the idiots who were screeching “Baldy Li” in the morning.
They could all hear Director Li’s loud hollering during class. Although they couldn’t hear what he was shouting, they knew it couldn’t be praise.
Although both the group of boys and Chen Ying did not wear a uniform, one could easily see the difference in temperament between them.
The group of boys had a mature look that came with being street smart.
As soon as they came over, the boys in the class who had been making a lot of noise quieted down.
The blond student among them also saw him and said, “Ah, so you are the transfer student?”
It was as if the blond student had heard of him somewhere long ago. He spoke in a daunting tone, leaning on the window frame and looking at Sheng Renxing condescendingly.
Sheng Renxing glanced at him, and resisted the urge to ask if he was an idiot.
However, thinking that today was the first day he transferred to a new school, Sheng Renxing had to be mature and couldn’t ruin his image because of some moron.
So after shooting the glance, Sheng Renxing lowered his head to read again.
“Oh, so he’s quite quite arrogant.” The blond student and the others were taken aback by this attitude. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Sheng Renxing, curling his mouth, “And without a handsome appearance to boot.”
As he spoke, the blond student reached out to touch Sheng Renxing’s hair: “Your hair…”
Wan Guanxi had just stretched out his arm, but before he could touch a single strand of hair, he felt a sharp pain—Sheng Renxing shut the window closed on his forearm!
“Fuck, you little bastard…”
The window was pushed back before the words were finished.
Then he saw Sheng Renxing propping himself up on the window frame. Using it as a springboard, he leapt up into the air and harshly kicked Wan Guanxi.
So much force was used that the blond student had taken several steps back from the momentum of the hit, before falling to the ground unsteadily.
The incident happened in an instant, and no one around him had reacted yet. Only then did someone finally come to their senses.
They loudly screamed: “Ahhhhhhhhhh! Fuck fuck fuck!”
By the time Director Li arrived, the scene was beyond control.
“What are you all doing!!!” Director Li shouted, and the crowd of observers quickly parted.
However, the ones currently in the thick of the fight could not hear the warning at all.
The blond student was being beaten to death, so naturally his friends couldn’t just watch.
Especially if their brother was the one being crushed onto the ground and hit repeatedly.
After they joined, Chen Ying also felt that he couldn’t only watch anymore, so he hot-headedly rushed into the fray.
There were also those attempting to stop the fight, and those who initially wanted to stop the fight but ending up joining themselves…
The scene was extremely chaotic.
When the students heard the words “the teacher is coming”, the sane ones withdrew from the battle circle. In the end, only four people from the blond student’s side and three from Sheng Renxing were left. There was also a fat student…
“Everyone stop!!!” Director Li yelled again, “Pull them apart! This isn’t remotely entertaining!!!”
But they fought so fiercely that the bystanders didn’t dare to make any attempts.
Therefore, the group of students, along with the teacher, and the director, watched the students fight together.
This spectacle really was an eye-opening experience.
Director Li was so angry that his wig was about to fall off. He wanted to roll up his sleeves and enter the chaos himself, when there was suddenly a gust of wind around him.
Xing Ye ran over.
Director Li and the people present were stunned for a moment, when they remembered that one of them was Xing Ye’s brother.
Oh fuck!
The melon-loving student craned his neck in excitement: Everyone present had heard of Xing Ye’s “prestige”, but they had never actually seen him fight.
They couldn’t help but cry in their hearts: Fight! Fight!
Director Li couldn’t even get a word in before he saw Xing Ye lunge into the battle. With one elbow block and one push, he parried Jiang Jing’s fist, and pushed him into another person.
Then he grabbed onto Sheng Renxing.
Jiang Jing still wanted to rush over, but Xing Ye turned around, pointing his fingers at him with sharp eyes.
Xing Ye looked around and immediately calmed down. Walking to the pair that was still viciously going at it, he called out, “Stop fighting!”
The other onlookers who hadn’t reacted for a while now also dared to help break up the fight.
Over there, Sheng Renxing was still fighting fiercely, and was unwilling to let the issue go.
Xing Ye snorted. Hugging him tightly, he whispered in Sheng Renxing’s ear: “The teacher is here.”
Xing Ye’s breath flew into his ears.
Sheng Renxing’s figure paused, and the blood in his brain receded. He quickly turned his head and righted his posture.
Xing Ye thought he was going to fight again, and held onto him even tighter.
Sheng Renxing said weakly, “…I understand.”
Xing Ye saw the look of understanding, and since it really didn’t look like Sheng Renxing would go and beat people up again, he let go.
Sheng Renxing immediately moved a few steps away from him, raised his hand and rubbed his ears.
After that encounter, his ears were red.
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stares shamefully at my lvl 60 xq with no artifacts…let’s cry together 😥 xingqiu supremacy who 😔
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Looking forward to see how Director Li will react to Xing Ye actually STOPPING a fight~~
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Ooh, isn’t it a bit too early to catch the feels~
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