translator: daisy
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Xing Ye didn’t say a word and just stared at them blankly.
“…” The troubled Huang Mao, along with the others, all averted their eyes in silence.
Similarly, Cui Xiaoxiao quickly pretended that she didn’t say anything and turned around to play on her phone.
Only Jiang Jing was still looking at him.
“What’s the matter?” Xing Ye frowned slightly.
“Nothing. It’s just rare to see you wearing other people’s clothes.”
He nodded, “Something happened last night.”
“Huh?” Jiang Jing leaned onto the table, “Why, was it…auntie?”
Xing Ye didn’t speak.
The other pretended to sigh lightly in relief and patted his chest: “Hey, just so you know, if anything happens, you can tell us!”
Xing Ye didn’t agree explicitly but nodded to show that he knew.
Next to them, Huang Mao and the others’ debate surrounding who was whose father circled back to Xing Ye again.
Dong Qiu abruptly asked, “Hey Xing ge, are you going out tonight?”
“You’re all going to hang out tonight?” Xing Ye was a little surprised.
“Yup, at alley one today.” Dong Qiu knew what he was implying and explained with a smile, “When they called, it was my brother who picked up. He immediately cut them off by saying that he wasn’t free, and for them to call again when I actually beat up a teacher!”
Afterwards, he sighed contentedly, “That was so cool!”
“Fuck, your brother is so badass,” Huang Mao made a face, staring at the other enviously, “While I was enduring double attacks from both of my parents, his brother took him to an Internet cafe to play games! This idiot here even posted on WeChat to show off, so you can treat us today!”
As he spoke, he took out his phone to show to Xing Ye, and asked, “What about you? Did auntie scold you yesterday?”
“My mom said that she heard a bunch of loud noises.” Dong Qiu glanced at him worriedly, “And the sound of things smashing.”
Lu Zhaohua: “Were you with Sheng Renxing last night because of this?”
Xing Ye frowned slightly, “Yeah.”
He didn’t say that he purposely ran away from home. If he did, the others would definitely ask questions to get to the bottom of things, and Xing Ye didn’t want to reveal so much at the moment.
They were silent for a while. All of them had met his mother before and didn’t know what to say.
Suddenly, Huang Mao managed to break the delicate atmosphere and cried out strangely: “Oh, so it’s you!”
Everyone turned to stare at him.
He glanced at Xing Ye with his phone in hand and a complicated expression on his face, “Xing ge, I didn’t even realize!”
“?”
The person in question stretched out his hand.
Huang Mao turned the phone around and handed it to him, all the while cackling bizarrely.
The phone was touch-sensitive, and Xing Ye could see his QQ post wall being displayed.
In one particular post, it was a photo of Sheng Renxing’s hand holding up a very familiar sweater. A corner of Xing Ye’s shirt also made it in the photo.
The caption: [Snail gege]
It had only been posted this morning, yet the number of likes had already passed one hundred.
Xing Ye: “…”
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If this post had been uploaded by a girl, they would’ve made a gigantic fuss, but since they didn’t know Sheng Renxing very well, the trouble they created was significantly minimized.
After monkeying around for a while, Dong Qiu asked him: “So, are you going tonight?”
Jiang Jing also jumped in, “You should go, Huang Mao wants us to see the thirty-first time he gets rejected.”
“Fuck you!” Wan Guanxi stepped on the table to beat him up.
“Ah, my desk!” Dong Qiu grabbed his pants from behind.
The three people flew into a flurry of blows.
Lu Zhaohua looked at them and smiled, “Shall we ask Sheng Renxing to come with us?”
Xing Ye was taken aback by the inquiry; the alley they were going to today had a barbecue shop. It was a place of gathering for many rascals, and the overall environment was very poor.
He subconsciously felt that Sheng Renxing wouldn’t want to go.
But he didn’t refuse and replied, “I’ll ask him.”
Since the back door was locked, and the teacher had yet to come to class, Sheng Renxing entered through the front door when a girl with a ponytail and glasses suddenly stopped him: “Sheng Renxing?”
He turned to look at her.
The girl dodged his gaze and covered her mouth with her hand shyly, “The teacher called for you.”
“Okay, thank you.” After speaking, he continued to walk towards his seat.
He put down his schoolbag first, and Chen Ying, who couldn’t wait any longer, blurted out: “Did you hang out with your uncle yesterday?”
“Huh?” Sheng Renxing tidied up his desk area and noticed that the seat next to him had been moved, “Yeah. Also, did he come back to class?” He pointed to the table next to him.
“Ah, his dad thought that he had stayed at home for too long, so he made a fuss with the teacher and managed to send him back.” He finished casually and continued, “Oh, I was planning to go as well! This way, we can eat together! By the way, does uncle know about your fight?”
“Oh.” Sheng Renxing peered inside the desk to check up on his deskmate’s toys and smiled at Chen Ying, “He knows, thanks to you.”
“Huh?!”
“Your posts, my uncle saw it.”
“!” Chen Ying was horrified, “Fuck, didn’t I block him?!”
The fat student next to him also glared at him in terror: “Did you not block Uncle Wei!!!”
Chen Ying immediately took out his mobile phone to check, and forcibly removed his hand that was strangling his own neck, “Don’t worry! Uncle won’t tell your dad! He’s very tight-lipped!”
Sheng Renxing studied them, and asked in confusion, “Then how did I find out?”
“?” The two of them were taken aback, and Chen Ying looked at him incredulously, unable to look him in the eyes.
The fat student immediately let out a piggish squeal and cried out, “Chen Ying! Laozi is going to kill you!”
Sheng Renxing pocketed his phone and strolled away towards the teacher’s office.
He knocked on the door twice.
“Come in.”
Several staff members were gathered around Teacher Yu’s desk. After seeing his arrival, they all regarded him with animated expressions; a male teacher looked particularly excited as if he wanted to beat Sheng Renxing up.
Heading into this scene, Sheng Renxing was stunned stiff. He quickly counted the number of people and walked in without even closing the door.
Teacher Yu greeted him warmly, but nothing could be perceived from her facial expressions, “Come here! Come here!”
Sheng Renxing walked over and glanced down at the table.
Upon seeing his test papers, he immediately understood the situation and managed to breathe a furtive sigh of relief.
Sure enough, within the next second, Teacher Yu announced, “Your exams have been marked!” As she spoke, she pushed the papers across the table and regarded him with an eager expression.
Sheng Renxing: “Mn.” He flipped through his own papers and glanced at the questions he got wrong.
No one spoke for a while. Teacher Yu couldn’t help but add, “Your grades…”
Sheng Renxing’s eyes lingered on the parts he lost marks on, and “tsk-ed”.
The male teacher who looked like he wanted to beat up Sheng Renxing said loudly, “You did an okay job on the exam!”
Even if they had never seen anyone at this school receive this sort of grade before, the teachers would still say “good” and “okay” subconsciously, instead of “very good.”
Next to him, the female teacher who smelled like perfume glared at her colleague and smiled at Sheng Renxing, “If you hadn’t misspelled a word in your writing composition, it would be the highest score in this monthly test!”
“Really?” Sheng Renxing flipped to the composition and answered in the way the male teacher did, “It’s okay, not too good.”
Male teacher: “…”
The teachers didn’t expect him to give such a disinterested reaction and stared at him in shock.
The female teacher managed to recover first and fixed a smile on her face, “I like your temperament!” Her expression was a bit exaggerated when she added, “It’s not too good? Do you know what rank your scores add up to? First place!”
“Didn’t you deduct 20% off my overall mark?” In truth, Sheng Renxing wasn’t surprised by the ranking; just the matter of the deduction, “Did you not implement it?”
Teacher Yu pondered on how to respond for a while, but didn’t lie to him in the end, “Even after the deduction, you’re still in first place.”
“…?” Sheng Renxing couldn’t believe it, “How many points did the first ranking student get last time?”
“The student who always got first place took some time off this month. “The male teacher coughed and quickly changed the topic, “Anyways, your score is rarely seen!”
Teacher Yu interrupted him and glanced at Sheng Renxing: “After your grades came out, we went to ask Director Li about your previous marks. I believe that this is where you are at academically!”
Sheng Renxing frowned slightly. If this was his usual academic level, he would have been taunted by Sheng Qiong from the South Pole all the way to the North Pole.
However, after thinking about how he was able to achieve first place even after the mark deduction, he didn’t say anything.
It would sound like a taunt anyways.
He nodded and waited for Teacher Yu to continue.
“However, your grades… let’s just put it this way, our school has never seen it before!” She sounded solemn and serious, “And considering that this is your make-up attempt, if it is announced so hastily, we think it may cause some students to have some bad ideas!”
Sheng Renxing raised his eyebrows.
“We absolutely believe you! But those students who work hard might be greatly impacted by the news. Moreover, we’re not far from the second monthly exam, so I’m afraid that some students will be knocked off balance.” Teacher Yu subconsciously tapped on the table, “So we have decided to record your scores, but hold off on announcing it.”
“Of course, it’ll only apply for this exam. For the next monthly exam, you’ll take it with everyone else, so no one would dare say anything about the results! What do you think?”
Sheng Renxing was silent for a while as he worked hard to find meaning within the pile of nonsense she just said.
So, Teacher Yu was afraid that his grades were so good that it would raise suspicions? And she wouldn’t be announcing them in order to protect the mental health of students with poor academic performance?
This teacher speaks too circumspectly.
However, Sheng Rexning didn’t really want the results to be announced anyways.
After all, whenever he thought about how Sheng Qiong would react to the results, he would feel uncomfortable all over.
In the end, Sheng Renxing nodded, “That’s fine.”
Compared with this, he was much more concerned about another thing: “Can I see the results of everyone during the last monthly test?”
“Huh?” The teachers didn’t expect him to ask this and were stunned stiff for the third time in a row.
Teacher Yu pulled out a folder, “Yes.” She then added: “Even the principal is invested in your score! He also praised you and suggested that you chat with him later. We will also send your grades to your parents.”
“Ah, thank you.” Sheng Renxing nodded without a hint of surprise or panic flashing across his face. He lowered his head and started from the first page, running his finger across the names.
“…” He was so focused that the teachers didn’t know what to say, and they all watched him look at the list.
“Whose grades are you looking for?”
Teacher Yu stretched out her hand and pointed to a name: “This student has always been first place, but since he also took a make-up exam, he fell behind due to the deduction.”
“Not him.” After encountering a lot of difficulty in locating the other, he asked for help, “I’m looking for Xing Ye.”
“?”
Teacher Yu stared at him silently.
“Why are you looking for him? Also, if you search for it like this, how long is it going to take?”
She flipped to the last page.
Sheng Renxing: “?”
He stared at Xing Ye’s name for a long time before taking out his phone to snap a picture.
After walking out of the office, he logged onto QQ and attached a photo of his test papers.
X: [/Shy]
Sheng Renxing chose an emoticon at random and sent it to Xing Ye.
After a while, 18: [Your grades?]
Sheng Renxing smiled.
X: [First place! /Hug /Hug /Hug]
While chatting with Xing Ye, he especially liked to use emoticons instead of the emotes that came with QQ.
The last time Sheng Renxing talked to Qiu Datou, he used an emoticon, but the other filled his screen with question marks.
18: [Are you still in the office?]
X: [Just came out, why?]
He was typing while walking up the stairs, and after passing the corner, he spied Xing Ye leaning against the wall of the corridor.
Sheng Renxing widened his eyes, “What are you doing here? Don’t tell me you’re skipping class?” He swept his eyes over the area but didn’t see Xing Ye’s friends.
Xing Ye shook his head: “I was looking for you.”
Only then did Sheng Renxing realize that the other was laughing the entire time.
“Oh no, it’s over. Didn’t I say that you’ll beat me up out of jealousy?” Sheng Renxing took a step back in horror but started grinning all the same.
Xing Ye really stepped forward and raised his hand—
To give him a hug.
One that was particularly tight.
Sheng Renxing could feel Xing Ye’s excitement.
He froze for a second, but snapped out of it to return the hug, a smile evident in his voice: “What are you doing!”
Xing Ye let go. He didn’t actually know what he was doing exactly; just that he was extremely happy, his mood rising like the carbonated bubbles in soda.
The kind of happiness that was able to wipe away the persistent melancholy from yesterday.
In lieu of explaining that, Xing Ye grinned, “Didn’t you say that you’ll let me hold you?”
“Huh?” Sheng Renxing frowned in confusion.
“The emoticon.”
“Ah.” He nodded his head with a thoughtful expression.
Xing Ye pursed his lips slightly, feeling like he acted in an impulsive manner. He was a little embarrassed now that he felt more clear headed, “Come on, let’s go back to class.”
However, the other took a step sideways to stop him.
“What?”
Sheng Renxing smiled at him and opened his arms: “I remember that I sent three emoticons, right? You still owe me two more hugs!”
Too cute!! Omg! I’m smiling at my phone like an idiot but I don’t care!
Thanks for the sugar! <3
they’re too cute!!!! i should’ve known from the title how sweet it’ll be ahhhh!!
thank you <3
At this point, it’s isn’t unintentionally or being hidden. They’re straight up flirting.
😭 too much! Flirting x10000
Cute!! This is too sweet!
Thanks for the chapter!
They are so precious 😭❤️ Thank you for the update!
I’m silently eating my lemons 🍋🙃☺️
I think I need a notebook, start taking notes cause these two are seriously setting the bar for flirting. I love how Xing Ye doesn’t quite realise his special feelings for Shen Renxing while Shen Renxing is aware of his crush.
So cute!!
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡
I’m ✨devastated ✨
HOW ARE THEY THIS CUTE! I thought this will be an angsty novel (and there is a bit of angst i guess) but nope! This is a novel full of dog food! It’s feeding us single dogs to the brim…
Ty for the chap!!💜💜💜