translator: daisy
“You don’t really look like a transfer student.” Huang Mao gulped another mouthful of beer and started babbling to the other out of boredom.
“Do transfer students have a template for behavior that I was previously unaware of?”, asked Sheng Renxing curiously.
Huang Map rubbed his arms with a smile while replying, “It’s just that your wild personality is rather rare.”
Sheng Renxing nodded: “Mn, I agree.”
He really stood out from the crowd.
As their conversation wrapped up, the dishes they ordered arrived.
These hotblooded teenagers just engaged in a round of strenuous exercise and were extremely hungry. As such, everyone kept their heads down and focused on stuffing their stomachs full.
They sat at two long tables dragged together. Xing Ye and Sheng Renxing were next to each other and Jiang Jing was on the latter’s left side.
After feeling slightly more full, Jiang Jing turned to Sheng Renxing, “Aren’t you afraid of being punished?” Or was it that the other party’s curiosity was so strong that he could rush into the fray unheeding of the aftermath?
Sheng Renxing chewed on some fish balls and puffed up his cheeks. In all honesty, he wasn’t really afraid.
After pondering for a suitable response, he pointed to Xing Ye: “He said that he wouldn’t let me get caught.”
Jiang Jing turned towards Xing Ye, who nodded. Jiang Jing widened his eyes in shock at the blatant agreement.
It was just that Xing Ye was always afraid of bothersome tasks like these, so how could he have taken on such an errand?
Jiang Jing grinned at Sheng Renxing: “By the way, how do you guys know each other?”
However, it ended up being Xing Ye who spoke first: “We met when I first acted out of righteousness.”
“?” Sheng Renxing and Jiang Jing peered at him with a baffled expression.
Xing Ye stared at them as if to say, “Didn’t I?”
Sheng Renxing was speechless as he recalled the first time he saw that facial paralysis boss Xing Ye. Using their way of expressing agreement, he raised his cup and wordlessly clinked it with Xing Ye.
The others also overheard their conversation.
Huang Mao, who didn’t even bother swallowing his mouthful of food, mumbled out a reply: “But it should be okay even if you’re caught. Didn’t your family donate a building or something? How could Wang Dahai be more valuable than that?”
“?” Sheng Renxing caught a glimpse of the others raising their glasses in agreement. Xing Ye also held up his, and Sheng Renxing was unsure of whether he agreed to the fact that he would be okay if caught, or that Wang Dahai was inferior to the building.
As the main party involved, he was stunned: “Who said that my family donated a building?”
“?” Now it was the others’ turn to be shocked, “Ah?”
“It wasn’t donated by your family?”
Jiang Jing’s cup was still in the air, and he inputted matter of factly, “That’s what it said on the forum.”
Sheng Renxing was speechless: “That must be fake, my family didn’t donate such a thing.”
The entire notion was a little ridiculous. Did he have no other uses for his money to spend it on something like this? As if he was so worried that it would rot in their bank accounts if it wasn’t spent immediately?
They didn’t eat for long. At this time of day, there were many people waiting to be seated and the boss was rushing patrons as quickly as he could. On average, a clerk would come to their table every five minutes to ask their status and sweep the floor.
Jiang Jing wiped his mouth and grabbed Wan Guanxi’s arm, who was still unwilling to yield their table: “Let’s go. I don’t want to be an eyesore for any longer.”
On the next day, their guesses came true.
Wang Dahai reported the incident to the principal.
The Director, the homeroom teacher of class nine, and some other teachers were all pulled into his office.
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He then asked for Xing Ye and the others to come down.
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A teacher stood in front of Xing Ye and the others, and another followed behind, as if they were security guards escorting prisoners.
Two of the prisoners were still eating breakfast.
Sheng Renxing was extremely gleeful looking at the scene.
He didn’t know if it was telepathy, but as soon as he laughed loudly in his head, it immediately alerted Xing Ye.
The other was walking normally when he suddenly turned around and glanced at the very window Sheng Renxing was looking out of.
After squinting muzzily for a while, Xing Ye pinpointed Sheng Renxing and made eye contact with him.
Sheng Renxing greeted him in his heart, and thinking that his supernatural abilities were quite useful, silently asked the other a question.
Xing Ye probably had a bad signal down there and did not respond.
He then mouthed the following words: “Have, you, eaten, breakfast, yet?”
Five stories down, he saw Xing Ye shake his head and then say something.
Sheng Renxing paused for a moment. Does that mean he hadn’t yet?
In the hallway, the other just finished replying: “It’s none of your business.”
Seeing that Xing Ye was just standing there, the accompanying teacher questioned him, “Who are you talking to? Hurry up.”
Xing Ye turned around and continued walking, looking like a criminal being escorted away.
Sheng Renxing continued staring outside amusedly until the invigilator came over and knocked on the desk: “Please take the exam seriously.”
He then retracted his gaze and started playing with the pen in his hand.
Suddenly, a thumping sound could be heard from above.
Sheng Renxing lifted his gaze, just in time to see the invigilator frowning and shaking her head disapprovingly while staring at Xing Ye’s back.
After half an hour, Sheng Renxing handed in the paper.
The proctor glanced at the time, yet did not say that he still had ten more minutes left. Instead, she just asked “Do you want to continue the test later?”
“I’ll finish it during the third period.” Sheng Renxing shook his head.
“Okay.” She put the test paper away, “Then you should go back to class.”
As always, back in the classroom, while the teacher was lecturing, the students were off doing their own thing.
It was rather quiet compared to yesterday, as most of them were catching up on sleep.
However, Sheng Renxing didn’t enter in favor of standing outside to knock on Chen Ying’s window: “Can you help me buy breakfast?”
“Ah? You didn’t have any?” Chen Ying was currently eating, and got spooked by the other. He immediately agreed and asked, “What do you want to eat?”
Sheng Renxing looked at the jianbing guozi in his hand and replied: “What you’re having is good.” He then took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to the other.
Taking the money, Cheng Ying asked, “Anything else?”
Sheng Renxing pondered the question for a bit before replying: “Is there soy milk?”
After he left, the fat student came up to Chen Ying, “Hey, what’s going on? Is Sheng Renxing skipping class again or something?”
“He’s going to use the bathroom.” Chen Ying shrugged and lowered his head to send a message to the vendor.
The fat student was currently watching the school forum broadcast information in real time: “Hey, hey, someone said he heard them getting scolded!”
“Really?” Chen Ying was typing, and replied perfunctorily, “Well, that’s not a surprise; they’re hardly going to get complimented now, aren they?”
The other refreshed the page again.
“Huh?” The fat student paused and turned around to face Chen Ying, “Someone said they saw your Sheng ge?”
“?” Chen Ying lifted his head, “Ah?”
Sheng Renxing had strolled all the way to the principal’s office.
The room was on the fifth floor, and by the time he rounded the corridor, the screaming and scolding could already be heard.
“Speak! Who was the other one!”, the table was slammed, and a man’s deep voice could be heard.
Then Huang Mao’s impatient response: “Go ask the ones who beat him, why are you interrogating us?”
“Don’t even bother with this act!” Next, a tenor shouted angrily .
“…”
There was silence for a while.
“Okay, so you all think it’s us, so why are you even asking?”
“Don’t fucking talk back! I asked you, who was the other participant?!”
“Do you not know how to count? Let me help you: one, two , three, four, five, so according to you, weren’t there five people involved?” In the face of their undeniable wrath, Wan Guanxi still sounded bored and indifferent.
“You’re lying!” Wang Dahai’s voice filtered in, hoarse and a little broken from the screaming he did yesterday, “I saw! There were six people!”
Huang Mao “ah-ed”: “If you’ve been beaten to this state, how could you have seen clearly?”
“Bang!” The table was slammed again. “Do you think I don’t dare do anything to you?! Tell me, do you even act like a student? Those scummy rascals from Yanjiang Street are more polite than you lot!”
“You’re more polite than me?! I couldn’t tell.”
Then came a deafening noise, mixed with all sorts of shouting and scolding.
The teacher’s roar was particularly loud: “These fucking bastards want to hit me? Come on! Do it! You think that it’s okay to use these sorts of tricks to deal with an old man like me! I’ll expel all of you! Get out! These maggots in society want to get a diploma?!”
“That’s enough!” Another man’s voice boomed throughout the room.
Sheng Renxing had heard this voice, as it belonged to the principal, “Xiao Zheng! You’re going too far.”
Then came all sorts of racket as everyone butted in to express their opinion on the matter.
“Yes, Director Zheng should try to calm down.”
“Mn, please don’t say these words out of anger. But Wan Guanxi, you should step out and apologize! How can you talk to a teacher like this!”
“Hey, hey…”
Sheng Renxing then heard Xing Ye, whose quiet voice belied his warning tone: “Wan Guanxi!”
Gradually, the commotion subsided.
Someone coughed: “Okay…”
Walking forward, Sheng Renxing raised his hand and knocked on the door loudly.
Everyone fell silent as the door was opened, and Sheng Renxing was met with an unknown face.
Judging by their surprised expression, the owner of that face seemed to know him.
Behind them, the office was in absolute chaos. The tables and chairs were roughly shoved aside, and a panting, red faced man was standing by several others.
It looked more like a battle scene instead of a questioning session.
Sheng Renxing quickly swept his eyes around the room and caught sight of Xing Ye’s group. They were standing on the opposite side and wore tense expressions.
When Xing Ye saw him, his face paled even further.
“Sheng Renxing? What are you doing here?” The despondent looking Director Li wore an incredulous expression at his sudden appearance.
Sheng Renxing nodded slightly at the crowd: “Good morning everyone,” he glanced at the principal who was still sitting, “I thought you were looking for me.”
“…”
Following his declaration, one could hear a pin drop within the office.
Everyone instantly regarded him differently, especially Wang Dahai, who stared at him probingly and fiercely. If looks could burn, Sheng Renxing would have a hole in him by now.
The principal did not speak, instead considering the other with a contemplative expression. He smiled kindly: “The wrong message must’ve been passed as we weren’t looking for you. Go back to class.”
Director Li walked over to him: “Yes, classmate Sheng, please go back to class. It seems that someone is messing about, there’s an entirely different matter occurring right now.”
Sheng Renxing turned sideways to avoid his hand and did not leave. Instead, he pointed at Xing Ye and the others: “They didn’t beat the teacher.”
The male tenor opened his mouth as if wanting to say something, but was forcibly suppressed by the teachers standing next to him.
“How do you know?” The principal asked him with an unchanging expression.
“I was with them yesterday, and I can testify.” Sheng Renxing answered in a straightforward manner.
He said it so sincerely that even Xing Ye and the others were taken aback.
When Wan Guanxi and Jiang Jing made eye contact, the latter shook his head.
After leaving the principal’s office, Wan Guanxi couldn’t help but blurt out: “Fuck, why are you so awesome! You just said that one sentence and we were all saved!”
Next to him, Jiang Jing retorted primly: “But they’re still going to call our parents.”
Not because of Wang Dahai, but because they were disrespectful to their teachers and had fully intended to go through with it.
Wan Guanxi shrank his neck: “I really didn’t mean it, that dog kept irritating me…”
“Their intention was to provoke a confession out of us.” Xing Ye glanced at him sideways with an angry expression.
Wan Guanxi was blown away by the sharp look in his eyes, and instantly swallowed everything back to say: “It was my fault, my fault!”
Feeling as if he made Xing Ye even angier, he didn’t dare say anymore. Instead, he turned to Sheng Renxing: “How did you do it?! Your words hold so much power?!”
Sheng Renxing: “…”
Jiang Jing replied, “Idiot. They obviously didn’t believe it at all.”
“Huh?” Wan Guanxi looked at Sheng Renxing with wide eyes: “I don’t believe that building wasn’t donated by your family anymore!”
“…it’s not because of that.”
Jiang Jing rebuked him again: “Our principal doesn’t seem like that kind of person. It’s said that he only came to our school to further his political achievements. I once heard that when a local tyrant’s son made trouble, and the dad offered money to smooth things over, it didn’t even work on him.”
“Where did you hear so much gossip from!” Wan Guanxi thought for a while, “Maybe it wasn’t enough money? And this whole ‘coming to our school to complete political achievements’? You might as well say that he’s greedy for money!”
“It’s not because of that!”
As everyone looked at him, Wan Guanxi asked: “Then what?”
“Because I’m an excellent student.”
“?”
daisy: hehe srx saves the day!
Bow down to the good student.
Sheng Renxing: “Not bragging, just stating a fact. smirks
Thank you for the chapter! Looking forward to how will they react to Renxing’s excellence~~
thanks for the chapter <3
Sheng Renxing got so used to getting his way lmao. Kinda adorable.
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡