translator: daisy
proofreader: jay
Xing Ye’s expression remained the same, yet his gaze was dark and inscrutable as if all his emotions were forcibly suppressed, “So?”
The student pushed up his glasses and laughed: “You are really crazy.” He then pretentiously straightened his clothes, “Yes, I know you don’t want to fight. So how about we play a game? On the basketball court at noon?”
“If you lose, just kneel down and apologize to us. Remember to bring your friends as well.” Afterwards, he turned to Sheng Renxing, “This matter has nothing to do with you. The boss won’t hurt innocent people. So don’t worry.”
“…” Sheng Renxing’s attitude changed from “what idiot is asking for trouble” to “what idiot” by the end of the student’s tirade. Even his anger had dissipated as he imitated the other’s broken speech, “I’m only in primary school. Can I? Play?”
The student gave him a cold glare, and turned towards Xing Ye: “So how’s the deal?”
“Sure.” Xing Ye nodded and thought for a while, “If you lose though, then—”
He couldn’t think of a suitable penalty for them.
Sheng Renxing glanced at Xing Ye’s expression and helpfully added, “If you lose, you’ll run ten laps on the track field, while topless and holding up an ‘I’m an idiot’ sign.”
“…” The bespectacled student’s callous stare momentarily faltered.
“I agree!” Before his friend could get in a word, the student with his hair styled in a middle-part had already answered, regarding them with his chin held high, “You’d better not run away when the time comes!”
Xing Ye reacted to their threat by walking away with Sheng Renxing.
On the way, Sheng Renxing couldn’t help but blurt out, “I thought they were going to skip the small talk and move straight into the action! Who knew that making appointments is so civilized these days!?”
Seeing that Xing Ye’s expression wasn’t so good, he leaned closer and bumped into the other’s shoulder gently, “How are your basketball skills?”
Only then did Xing Ye seem to come back to his senses: “They’re okay.”
Sheng Renxing nodded, smiling as he pointed to himself, “I was the captain of the school basketball team.”
Xing Ye followed his example and smiled, but then shook his head, “Don’t play.”
“?” Sheng Renxing frowned, “Why not?”
“I have exactly five members, you don’t need to participate.”
“Are you deciding for them?” Sheng Renxing was a little upset, and nodded blankly, “Right. The five of you often fight together.”
Xing Ye glanced at him and pursed his lips, “No. That’s not it.” He then added, “This match is different from the basketball games you play.”
“It’s going to be dirty?” Sheng Renxing raised his eyebrows, “I was the one who agreed to the bet just now!”
Xing Ye thought for a while, and raised his hand to pat the other’s hair, “Then you can be a substitute.”
“Stop daydreaming, I’ve never been benched before!” He tilted his head and slapped Xing Ye’s hand away with an impatient glare. “Do you only see me as…Never mind, don’t touch my head.”
Sheng Renxing then lifted his hand to take off Xing Ye’s hat and fastened it on his own head: “Don’t cry if you lose.”
After that, he quickly walked away.
It took Xing Ye a moment to come to his senses. He then quickly yanked on the other’s shirt, “I’ve always considered you as a friend.”
Sheng Renxing whirled around in surprise, “What kind of friend requires a special announcement? Do you also need to complete the statement with a stamp?”
He harshly shook away the other’s hand.
Xing Ye didn’t chase after him again.
After Sheng Renxing returned to the classroom, a boy sitting alongside the aisle row of seats was tilting his chair upwards to chat with Chen Ying and the others.
“Please excuse me.” Unless he was mistaken, that should be the captain of the handgun team.
The student was taken aback for a moment and moved aside to let Sheng Renxing sit down.
Chen Ying gave Sheng Renxing a sad look; after he left, the fat student had beaten him black and blue.
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“Hello.” The person in question focused some of his attention on Zheng Xiao and nodded, “Sheng Renxing.”
The captain smirked and whispered to Chen Ying, “The transfer student is so cool.”
Chen Ying glared at him: “Of course.”
After exchanging a few words, the teacher came.
The teacher swept his gaze around the classroom and focused on Sheng Renxing.
After all, he was now well-known in the world of teachers.
“Hey! New classmate, why are you wearing a hat?”
Sheng Renxing turned his head, took off his baseball cap, and met the teacher’s eyes.
The teacher was stunned: “Sheng Renxing, right? Are you not feeling well? Your complexion doesn’t look that good.”
Sheng Renxing inhaled and subtly adjusted his expression, “I’m okay.”
Today, his textbooks had arrived.
It was Chen Ying and the others who had accompanied him to get them.
Within the pile of reading materials, he took out a few books that he wouldn’t be needing, as well as a few of the textbooks that the school helped buy.
And threw them all in the trash can.
Chen Ying and the others just stared at him, dumbfounded, “Are you just throwing them away like that?”
“Did you want them? Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
He looked back at the trash bin.
“Fuck, I don’t want it!” Chen Ying waved his hand quickly.
Sheng Renxing nodded and lowered his eyes slightly, “They were an eyesore.”
The captain whispered to Chen Ying again: “His personality is so…unique!”
“Don’t talk rubbish.” Chen Ying turned to him and thought for a while, “If you ever watch porn next to him, he’s the type to smash your phone down several stories.”
“…” The captain stared at him in horror.
He couldn’t help but retort weakly: “That’s not pornography! It’s art!”
The fat man looked at him pitifully, “Unfortunately, not many understand the truth of the matter.”
“…”
At noon, the teacher was still lecturing when the bell rang. Upon hearing the ringing sound, some students had already rushed out before they were dismissed.
The teacher was only halfway through the question, but looking at the scene below, he slightly shook his head with a smile and ended the class.
If they were at his old school, this kind of scene would simply be impossible.
Sheng Renxing watched them coldly and sat in his seat without moving.
Chen Ying turned around excitedly, “Xing Ye and the others are going to play against Shabi at noon?!”
“Was that posted on the forum?” The other wrinkled his brows slightly.
“Yeah! Shabi and the others said it was a war post!” Chen Ying turned towards the group with excitement in his eyes, “Everyone is betting on who will win.”
Sheng Renxing thought, “Do I even need to say it, if that idiot ends up winning, you should chop off your head and present it to me.”
Chen Ying cackled darkly, “Do you want to eat together? I’ll find a place for us! Otherwise, all the seats will be gone by the time we come back!”
Sheng Renxing paused, glancing over the hat on the table, and hesitated…
Before he finished thinking, Chen Ying added eagerly: “By the way, will you play?!”
“…” Sheng Renxing asked coldly, “Why would I participate?”
“Ah?” Chen Ying scratched his head, “Don’t you have a good relationship with Xing Ye and the others? You were with them the night before as well. I thought you would go.” He muttered, “If you play, I’ll definitely bet on Xing Ye!”
Sheng Renxing immediately glared at him, “Were you going to bet on those idiots?”
The fat student carefully studied each student and then shoved Chen Ying away, “Oh I see, you actually wanted to bet on those idiots!” He looked at Sheng Renxing, “I will definitely buy yours. The others, they’re not even worth mentioning!”
“?” Chen Ying, “Fatty! We fucking discussed this together!”
The captain regarded the chaotic scene and smiled gently, “I will also bet on Xing Ye and the others. One hundred.”
“?” Chen Ying, “Where did you get that much money?”
At the same time, another student rushed towards them in a hurried frenzy. Unable to brake in time, she almost fell into Sheng Renxing’s arms.
Sheng Renxing frowned and took a step aside.
The student raised her head; it was the same girl who told him that Teacher Yu was looking for him in the morning.
The ponytail girl didn’t even think that she’d end up causing such a huge fuss. Blushing and covering her mouth, she cried out, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
“It’s okay.” Sheng Renxing reluctantly unfurrowed his eyebrows and took another step aside.
Chen Ying and the others: “Yo”.
The ponytail student’s face turned even pinker, “The teacher is looking for you!”
“Who?” Sheng Renxing didn’t hear it clearly.
“Teacher Yu is looking for you!”
Sheng Renxing’s eyebrows couldn’t catch a rest before he frowned again, “Why is she looking for me again?”
The girl glanced at him from the corner of her eyes before her daze quickly darted away again: “I, I don’t know!”
“Okay, thank you.” Sheng Renxing turned around to pack up.
Still a little anxious, her voice was tinny like a mosquito as she explained, “The teacher wants to see you straightaway, you don’t need to tidy up.”
Sheng Renxing paused: “Okay.” Letting go of the bags, he pulled out five one hundred dollar bills, and gave them to Chen Ying, “Lunch is on me, please bring me back a portion.”
Chen Ying let out an ear screeching “fuck,” “We can’t use up all that money!”
The other continued, “The rest will be used to wager on Xing Ye.”
“Fuck!”
Chen Ying and the fat student were stunned into silence, and then sighed, looking at him and Zheng Xian: “You two are really big buyers!”
The fat student rapidly made an attempt to grab the money in his hand, “I’ll come! To help you bet on him!”
Chen Ying kicked him, “Get out of my way!”
Sheng Renxing visited the office for the second time in one day, but this time around, only Teacher Yu was present.
After seeing him, she smiled and got up, “Let’s go.”
“Where to?” Sheng Renxing frowned.
“The principal is looking for you.” Teacher Yu walked with him to the other’s office.
“Please enter.”
The principal smiled and beckoned to Sheng Renxing, “You’ve come.” Then to Teacher Yu: “Xiao Yu, thank you for your hard work.”
“That’s no problem.” Teacher Yu smiled with an amiable expression, “Then I’ll go mark my test papers now.”
“Go ahead, go ahead.” The principal waved his arm in a shooing motion.
After she left, the principal looked at Sheng Renxing and tapped his finger on the exam papers spread out on the table: “You’ve done well on these.”
Sheng Renxing glanced at the papers, “I did okay.”
The principal laughed a few times and then said, “But I reviewed your past exams, come here.”
He frowned and stepped forward.
“Was it because of silly mistakes? You spelled these characters wrong.” He pointed to a sentence within his Chinese composition essay.
Sheng Renxing nodded: “Mn, I think so?” He didn’t know what the other was getting at.
The principal then took out his English essays, “Here, you also misspelled this character. Did you forget, or was it just an accident in the heat of the moment?”
“The latter.” With the flying dragons and dancing phoenixes across the paper, Sheng Renxing was rather impressed that the principal could single out the typo like that.
The principal nodded and took out the math papers.
“For this question, after the following step, you made a miscalculation. Did you not know how to complete it?”
“Yes.”
The principal asked several questions in succession.
It was about his mistakes, where most of them were careless.
In the end, the principal was still smiling, while Sheng Renxing’s eyebrows were sore from his constant wrinkling.
The principal folded the examination papers and stacked them together while smiling at Sheng Renxing: “Did you think that the exams were easy, so you completed it without putting much effort into it?”
“Was it not easy?”
“Then have you obtained the score you want?”
“What do you mean?” Sheng Renxing was already in a bad mood, and by now, he couldn’t hold in his impatience any longer.
He thought, “Why on earth do the teachers here all talk in such a roundabout way?”
Does it show your prowess or something?
The principal looked at him: “Do you know how many students in our city scored higher than you?”
Sheng Renxing was stunned, but quickly realized the point he was trying to express.
He returned the stare, unsure of what expression he was wearing.
But the principal immediately returned to smiling after he finished asking: “I just think that you could do better. Now that you’ve come to our school, your grades can’t keep declining, you know.”
“I’ve only taken one exam.” Where did the ‘keep declining come from?
“Yes, yes,” said the principal, “So you’ll do even better next time?”
Sheng Renxing looked at the papers in front of him: ‘I can’t guarantee that.”
“When you transferred to this school, did you actually mean for our rankings to overtake the others?” The principal continued to laugh.
He was talking about No.2 High School and Xuanzhong in Xuancheng.
“?” Sheng Renxing stared at him, suspecting that he was dreaming, “I’m only one person!”
For the monthly examinations, did you want him to take it for the entire school?
Even if he obtained a perfect score for himself, that would still be useless!
daisy: the inazuma update and this chapter being late have absolutely no connection 
big thank you to jay
The principal is quite weird… 😬
Thank you for the chapter!! ♥♥
🖤🖤💜
I have also been spending too much time in Inazuma, lol. So many chests.
And same, Sheng Renxing. I can’t stand it when teachers don’t give it to me straight, you’re wasting all of our time.
Thanks for the chapter!
thanks for the chapter <3
Fr, some teachers are just so vague and it’s so annoying. Like why do you talk in riddles? To show how you’re in authority or something? It’s stupid.
Ty for the chapter!💜💜💜