Compared to the cool and mature appearance he had when he was thirty, this face was still very soft and immature, but for Song Xiao, who had interacted with him for ten years, he definitely would not recognise wrongly.
Right at that moment, the recess bell rang, Teacher Jia turned and left the classroom, and the classroom immediately became lively.
โWow, no way, he actually sat next to the class monitorโฆโ The students of Special Class One were whispering quietly.
โGuess how long itโll take before heโs beaten up?โ
โOh my gosh, the monitor is moving!โ
A group of boys gathered to watch a good show while the girls feared for Song Xiao.
Song Xiao watched the person before him slowly sit up. He put a hand on the back of his chair, a pair of dark eyes staring at him aggressively. Song Xiao only felt the bottom of his heart shaking, swallowed his saliva and enunciated his words as he said, โHello, my name is Song Xiao, whatโs your name?โ
This sentence was taught by Si Dashu while they were on the way to school, who said that when he met his classmates he had to ask in this way, only then could he be friends with them.
The dark pupils shrunk for a second, his thin lips pursed into a line.
โMy name is Liu Lu, your name is Song Xiao, right?โ A cheerful female voice sounded out. Song Xiao turned around and saw the girl who sat in front of him had turned her head and was smiling at him. This girl was very cute, and when she smiled there was a pair of dimples on her cheeks.
โIโm Qian Jiahui,โ the boy sitting next to Liu Lu also turned around to join in on the fun, โBrother, your name sounds really familiar ah, hehe, congratulations, youโve chosen to sit next to our monitorโฆโ
Qian Jiahuiโs incessant chatter stopped abruptly, the hand that had just extended suddenly shrunk back, and he made a gesture of pulling a zipper over his lips.
โYu Tang,โ the monitor withdrew the gaze he had given Qian Jiahui, slowly turned around and continued looking at Song Xiao. โMy name is Yu Tang.โ
His voice was low and pleasant, along with the clear and brightness that only youths had.
Song Xiaoโs hands clenched under the table, but his face did not change, curving his eyes and said to Yu Tang, โItโs very nice to meet you.โ
Yu Tang stared at Song Xiao for a while, let out a low hum through his nose, then didnโt continue speaking. His hand was on the table, two fingers tapping on the table.
This was the habit of the Jingyuan emperor. He had always used two fingers to tap against the armrest of the imperial throne. Song Xiao watched the two slender fingers move back and forth, as if it was knocking against his heart, striking against the weak hope within his chest.
Suddenly, Yu Tang stood up, stuck one hand in his pants pocket, gave him an overbearing look then turned to leave. The boy behind Yu Tang also stood up, following after him to leave the classroom with a lowered head.
Song Xiao felt a little dazed. He didnโt know what just happened.
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The reason why the girl was called Hua jie wasnโt because her surname was Hua, but because she was easily infatuated. She hadnโt let off any males in class who were the slightest bit handsome, except for the class monitor, whom she darenโt entangle with.
Hua jie saw Song Xiao looking at him, and immediately formed a heart shape with her hands, she walked over swaying her hips, a face full of complaint, saying, โAiya, Song Xiao, how come you didnโt sit next to me? Class monitorโs temper isnโt good, sitting with himโฆโ
Before she finished speaking, she felt a chill from behind her. Hua jie immediately froze. Slowly turning her head, she saw that the class monitor had left and returned. Before she knew what was going on, she had already reflexively gave way.
Yu Tang ignored the surrounding people, grabbed Song Xiaoโs wrist and dragged him out.ย
โWah, thereโs going to be a good play!โ The boys of the class basically plastered themselves to the window side, waiting to see Song Xiao be taught a lesson.
โEmp- Yu Tang, why are you dragging me out?โ Song Xiao was stumbling after being grabbed by Yu Tang, staggering his way out of the classroom.
โTo receive student tags.โ Yu Tang turned his head and looked at him expressionlessly.
Song Xiao blinked, then heard an announcement, the form teacherโs powerful voice bellowing, โFirst year classโs monitors, immediately go to the general office to receive student tags.โ
โUmโฆโ Song Xiao opened his mouth. This kind of matter, simply picking a student was enough. The two of them had seats in the middle of the classroom, this guy didnโt need to walk such a big round just to get him, right?
โA deskmate is someone who helps with the odd jobs.โ Yu Tang seemed to be in a good mood, the corner of his lips slightly lifted, with a hand still on his wrist, pulling him along.
Song Xiao hurried to catch up, and turned to look at the boy not far away from them.ย
This boy wasnโt as tall as Yu Tang, his head slightly lowered. His breathing was very soft, if he hadnโt known that this boy was following along, he really wouldnโt have realised.ย
The boy saw him looking over yet didnโt have the slightest intention of greeting him, only keeping his head lowered and never further than three steps away from Yu Tang.
โHis name is Dugu An.โ Yu Tang said a strange-sounding name, then didnโt let Song Xiao turn his head back anymore, making him keep his head turned forward, walking properly.
Sheng Mengโs main teaching block was five connected buildings, each floor between each building was exquisitely built walkways. The general office was on the third floor in front of the common building, so they could walk straight there.
The general office already had a lot of people standing there, each classโs monitor holding a printed name list, checking the engraved name tags they had received seriously. After all, they had just become the class monitor, this was also regarded as a major matter, so all the class monitors were especially careful.
โSpecial Class One,โ Yu Tang went to the teacher issuing name tags, reported his class name, then received a small cardboard box.
There was only one large table in the general office, and every class monitor had already completely surrounded it. Yu Tang looked at Dugu An. The boy with a lowered head rapidly scuttled into the crowd. Before Song Xiao had even properly seen whatโs going on, there was already a large area of space cleared out.
Yu Tang put the cardboard on the desk and handed a name list to Song Xiao, indicating for him to check the name tags.
Song Xiao looked at the other monitors. They all had brought a classmate with them, but one was reading out the namelist while the other was looking at the name tags. Wasnโt this person amazing, passing over everything to him. He curled his lips, lowered his head to attentively look over the name list once, then threw it aside to sort out one by one.
These student tags were all made of metal, with the school emblem and the abbreviation โS-Mโ, below it was the student number and name.
Song Xiao checked the number of nametags first, after confirming that the total count was correct, he checked the names one by one, but never looked at the name list again.
Yu Tang stood on one side, looking at him with dark eyes.
โThere are seventy two flowers here, below every flower there is a line of poetry. Youโve all seen it, so in a moment, zhen will pick one out, you guys will answer with the poem. The one who answers the most will win, and this emperor will reward you handsomely.โ The radiance of spring was strong during the Lu Ming banquet, the previous emperor had smiled without restraint, picking up a peony.
โThere are beauties in the south, like peaches and plums.โ Without waiting for the others to react, the young number one scholar had already responded.
The poems under the flowers didnโt have any relation with the flowers itself, so it was extremely hard to remember. Several scholars who had the idea to be in the limelight had a head full of sweat, while that seventeen year old champion was calm and composed. Every one of his answers were correct, and with every correct answer, that pair of beautiful eyes would curve up.
โOld seven, you pick one too,โ His fatherโs voice rang out from beside his ear, waking up Yu Jintang who had been staring in rapture.
โYes, father emperor,โ He lifted a hand to pick up a begonia, and directly handed it over to Song Xiao.
The champion with smiling eyes was surprised, both hands receiving that beautiful begonia flower, using a clear and pleasant voice to smilingly say, โUnknown where the person went, the peach blossom still smiled at the spring breeze.โย
Unknown where the person went, the peach blossom still smiled at the spring breezeโฆ
โDone.โ The curved smiling eyes appeared in front of his eyes, a metal name tag was handed over, โThis is yours.”
Yu Tang took the metal name tag that had his name on it. โWhereโs yours?โ
โHere.โ Song Xiao laughed and took his out. He loved these kinds of memorizing games, so when the monitor ordered him to do everything by himself just now, he wasnโt the slightest bit unhappy.
Yu Tang reached out and took the tag with โSong Xiaoโ engraved on it. In two or three seconds, he had ripped open the plastic packaging, opened the pin on its back and pinned it on the left breast of Song Xiaoโs school uniform.
Because the distance was very close, the light peppermint fragrance could be smelt very clearly. Song Xiao was frozen still.
โDonโt move.โ Yu Tang said. He seemed to have done this kind of thing very rarely, trying multiple times to pin it before he managed to do it correctly, then put the โYu Tangโ tag in Song Xiaoโs hands.
โAh?โ Song Xiao looked up at him in confusion.
Yu Tang frowned, โWhat are you being all dazed for, pin this on forโฆ me.โ
The author has something to say
Little theater
Xiaoxiao: Your Majesty, why did you put this on for me
Fish Tang: Putting on a dog collar, so you are zhenโs
Xiaoxiao: …Then I canโt put it on for you, itโs too disrespectful
Fish Tang: …Woof!
Translator’s note
You’re as subtle as a brick, Yu Tang. Also, an extra update since I didn’t update yesterday.
Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^
thanks for reading!!
Thanks for the chapter. ๐
thanks for reading! ๐
OMG!!!
I’m crying! crying here!!!!
Finally, I could read what’s this chapter about, esp the first 2 paragraph XD
Moving on.
Dugu An, so Dugu is his family name?
That last sentence by Yu Tang, I had the distinct intuition, he wanted to say Zhen XD
This Dugu An is quite suspicious.. was he reborn too? Or a bad guy? Or what?
also, answering that would be spoilers! so you just have to wait and see ๐
yep, he definitely wanted to say zhen
yeah, i think so
thanks for reading!
thanks for subbing! someone else was kind enough to mtl it but reading through those translations were giving me a killer headache so to read this really well done translation makes me so happy~~~
thanks for thinking it’s good! I really appreciate that. Thanks for reading!
I remember reading this but dropped it because I couldn’t understand the translation (it was an MTL, I believe). Thank you for picking this one. Totally lost it at the woof part ๐
isn’t he just ridiculous? thanks for reading!
I am so happy cause i just realized that it is side story from another novel (I have an amnesia don’t be noisy ). I really wanted to read about them
Thank you for this chapter
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A side story from another novel?
Whaat did you mean?
they mean that there’s another novel set in the same universe, i have amnesia don’t be noisy. these characters appear in that novel
SKSKSK I THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS JUST SAYING SHE DIDN’T REMEMBER THE NAME AND NOT TO BOTHER HER ABT IT!! I’M DECEASED ๐ I DIDN’T THINK THAT WAS THE NAME OF THE NOVEL
Wow….so the same author!
Are they appearing there after the setting in this novel done?
Which chapter XD I wanna read now XD
Wait really?!! I haven’t finished reading that novel and just randomly chosed a new novel yo read. Didn’t expect it to be a side novel from that nov
My interpretation: “Unknown where the person went, the peach blossom still smiled at the spring breeze…” and then we have Xiaoxiao smiling, so right now, recalling this memory, Fish Tang feels Xiaoxiao is like those innocent peach blossoms, living on happily (instead of being sad and wilting) even though the beloved is long gone ( he also doesn’t know Xiaoxiao died right after him and perhaps feels nostalgic about how Xiaoxiao’s life would’ve been without him, in both lives).
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Thank you for the translation ๐
i do like this interpretation! do read and find out more about them ๐ thanks for reading!!!
It was a flashback memory. Yu Tang was simply reminiscing about how he first met SX when they played the poetry game. Meaning that SX was more beautiful than the flower as YT kept staring at him, and trying to figure out if SX was also reincarnated.
Lmao he’s so overbearing! xD
Thanks for the chapters! ๐
like a president lol
thanks for reading!!
And so their adventure begins xDD
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thx for reading~~~
Thank you for the chapter!
ML actually remembers MC?
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Thanks for the chapter! Lol, possessive Empy, at least they’re having fun.
A fish doesn’t need a collar ba
so cute so adorable so sweet………………
Little theatre is so funny๐คฃ
Thank you very much for the chapter โคโคโคโค
I love dog food (^o^)๏ผ
Pin this on for Zhen…. lol
i guess that Dugu An is the one who betrayed the ML on his past life and now reborn as his aid in the 21st century
Oh he really did love the emperor, he even noticed his little habits. I was worried he saw him as a friend and that the emperor’s love was one sided. The pinning was cute, a little moment of intimacy.
Awwwโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
OMG ๐ฅบ
Thank you for the chapter!