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And with that single sentence, Xing Ye was struck silent. Sheng Renxing had sold out his friend to make Xing Baosi laugh and he looked at him with a little apprehension after he was finished talking.
Xing Ye lowered his head to look at his phone. Displayed onscreen was the current chat history of the two people: “No Need.” He was silent for a while, before turning off the phone and passing it back to Sheng Renxing.
However, Sheng Renxing didn’t accept it. He stuck out his hand: “No, you must say that you aren’t angry at me anymore.” He glanced down at the phone: “If you don’t say it, then the phone will be put up as collateral.”
Xing Ye pursed his lips together, stuffing the phone into his pocket: “Then today you must pay attention in class.”
“?”
Sheng Renxing stared blankly at him, in disbelief over his ruthlessness.
Taking advantage of the moment, Xing Ye turned to look at him: “You don’t want to?”
“… …” The corners of Sheng Renxing’s mouth twitched: “Whatever makes you happy.”
Sheng Renxing was silent on the walk, though it seemed like he had something to say. Xing Ye got to the classroom first and he watched as Xing Ye walked with deliberate efficiency.
He even had his phone with him.
“… …”
In the classroom, Chen Ying still didn’t know about the catastrophe that was about to befall: “How come you’ve come back so quickly?”
Sheng Renxing laughed at him: “Too urgent, we rushed back.” I’ll walk you to the door.
“Oh,” Chen Ying, this ignorant person, fearlessly brought up the topic of the unboil-ed water kettle: “I was just saying, you didn’t reply to any of the messages I sent at the end.”
“Do you want to know why?” Sheng Renxing was smiling more and more kindly.
“… …” Chen Ying’s danger radar suddenly started pinging, prompting him to cautiously probe the circumstances: “What if I say I don’t want to?”
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Sheng Renxing narrowed his eyes at him, but before he could even get his next sentence out, the class president had sprinted over: “Sheng Renxing, the teacher is looking for you.” It was the girl who was so shy while talking to him her cheeks got so red and she didn’t dare to look at him.
Sheng Renxing wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, “What does she want with me?”
“I don’t know, “ the class president said, shaking her head, her voice as thin as a mosquito’s: “You’ll know when you go.”
“Oh, “ Sheng Renxing thought about it for a second, then figured it must be something to do with his grades. As he spoke, he started to make his way over to the teacher’s office, giving a profound look towards Chen Ying a he stood up.
Chen Ying: “… …” After Sheng Renxing left, he whispered to Fatty: “Don’t you think there’s something not quite right with Sheng Renxing?”
“What’s not right?” Fatty was currently using the front camera of his phone to check over his reflection, alternating between parting his hair in the middle and to one side, absentmindedly replying to Chen Ying’s words.
“He’s just not quite right, who knows why he’s moody.” Chen Ying wrinkled his eyebrows and stuck out his butt to slide closer to Fatty: “Do you think it’s because he’s dating somebody?”
Meanwhile, Sheng Renxing had arrived at the teacher’s office and knocked on the door, but hadn’t gone in yet. From beside him, the class president had been building up courage the whole way and had now amassed enough to say, in a quiet and fast voice: “Congratulations! Your test scores were the highest in the class!”
After she finished speaking, without even waiting for his reply, she turned around and sprinted away like a hungry wolf was chasing her.
Sheng Renxing stared blankly at her retreating figure for a moment before he could process what it was that she had just said, wrinkling his forehead slightly, murmuring to himself: “What is there to congratulate?”
Unbothered, he entered the room.
He finally left after all most half the class had passed. Lao Lu was in fact there to discuss his number one ranking with him, barely touching on how he skipped class in the morning. Even the way she warned him against skipping class in the future sounded like she was praising him.
Also, she looked very happy and her voice was many times louder than he had ever heard it before so that everyone in the office must have heard it, to the point where it could almost penetrate all the surrounding floors, leaving the neighbouring class’s stupid homeroom teacher in awe.
She even almost gave her basic math problem bank to him as a reward, with Sheng Renxing refusing immediately, citing how he was preparing for the upcoming math contest as the reason.
Lao Lu didn’t force him to take it either, instead immediately moving onto a different topic.
Because the piano performance he gave last time was too stunning, the school had decided to let him perform again at the upcoming New Year’s celebration. It was a duet to be performed with the second rank student in the grade. It was to showcase how the students in the school excelled at both morals and studies with well-rounded development.
On one side, Sheng Renxing thought about how it would be impossible to showcase something that didn’t exist and on the other, he thought about how to decline.
But in the next sentence, Lao Lu told him that it was the principal’s decision, blocking the excuse that he had come up with.
There was no need for him to agree, but he did so anyway and, as soon as he left the office, he thought that he needed to tell Xing Ye about it. However, when he checked in his pocket, he remembered that his phone was not with him.
“… …”
Turning around, he went down the stairs. Two boys were walking in the opposite direction, laughing and cussing a storm, but when he walked by they lifted their hands and waved to him.
Sheng Renxing shot them a glance, but then felt like these two weren’t in his class and so just ignored them as he passed.
Sheng-ge is so grand, not just anyone’s greeting can be acknowledged.
He walked all the way to Xing Ye’s classroom door. Inside, the teacher was in the middle of teaching and, when he looked at the blackboard, he could see the topic for the monthly test.
This teacher’s temper seemed very good as not a single student was actually paying attention, all of them doing their own things, and everything looked fairly neat and organized upon first glance.
Xing Ye’s class also switched places, but the last few rows were their group’s permanent seats, never changing.
From the backdoor, Lu Zhaohua had his head bowed, playing games on his phone. He immediately noticed Sheng Renxing.
“Come to find Xing Ye?” He leaned back in his chair, asking Sheng Renxing. He pointed at the corner furthest inward: “Right there.”
As he spoke, he moved to let Sheng Renxing through.
Since class was currently going on, Sheng Renxing originally just wanted to wave to him while passing by and maybe get his phone back before getting back to class. He wasn’t prepared to sit in this class, but Lu Zhaohua was very eager to make room for him and Xing Ye was currently lying on top of his desk, fast asleep.
Sheng Renxing thought about it for two seconds and nodded towards Lu Zhaohua, moving into the classroom behind him.
On the way there, Huang Mao and the others very naturally made way for him. They made quite a bit of noise, but luckily the classroom was very noisy in general, and his presence didn’t arouse the teacher’s notice.
Or the teacher did notice and just didn’t care.
Xing Ye was sitting in the last row beside the windows, in the most hidden part of the whole classroom, as if he knew that he needed quiet to sleep. He had no immediate deskmates and there was an empty space all around him and even the students who were seated around him talked in quiet tones.
It really did fit his new gang leader persona.
Acceptable.
Sheng Renxing sat down beside him, but after he sat down he had a little bit of regret. Xing Ye was sleeping. What did he even come here for, to watch him sleep?
He turned around to stare at the way out, but it had already been blocked up by Huang Mao and the others already. Jian g Jing, after he had been staring for a long time, suddenly pointed to where he was sitting: “That’s my seat.” His expression read “relax”.
“?” Sheng Renxing turned around.
After sitting there for a while, he suddenly remembered that Xing Ye had put his phone in his right pocket in the morning.
Sheng Renxing leaned back in his chair, looking to reach for the pocket on that side.
If he put his phone back before Xing Ye woke up, then that would be alright, right?
As soon as he thought of it, he got to work.
Sheng Renxing bit the inside of his cheek, reaching his hand in the space between Xing Ye’s stomach and the desk drawer, trying to feel for the phone in his pocket.
But right at this moment, the teacher at the front of the room spoke in a loud voice: “For this question, let the student was ranked first on this month’s test explain it for us personally.”
The whole class went silent. From the back, it looked like a paddy of rice as all of their heads lifted at once.
Sheng Renxing’s figure went stiff, freezing him in place where he was.
After a few seconds, after no one responded, the teacher stared rigidly at Xing Ye’s corner: “Why is no one talking, I just saw the number one ranked student enter my classroom.” He looked at Sheng Renxing: “Don’t be shy, explain to everyone how you solved this problem.” Everyone turned to look at him in unison.
At the same moment, Xing Ye pinned down the hand that was currently resting between his legs, his eyes full of the confusion of just being woken up: “What are you doing?” He paused for a moment, his expression gaining a layer of complexity: “We’re in the classroom.”
Sheng Renxing: “… …”
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