Lin Zhexia: “…”
Tang Shuxuan gave her impression: “Before coming, I deliberately went by Class 1’s door to take a look. To be honest, if I didn’t consider this person’s personality issues, Chi Yao wearing an earring is at a level where I could ask for his contact information a thousand and eight hundred times, and even years after graduation, I would still feel my heart flutter when remembering it in midnight dreams.”
Chen Lin also reacted, poking Lin Zhexia with her pen: “That ear piercing of yours, could it be… It’s on Chi Yao’s ear?”
Lin Zhexia said, embarrassedly: “You guessed right.”
Because their class had unsatisfactory final exam results last semester, as soon as the eleventh grade began, Class 7 was arranged for an extra mock exam.
The homeroom teacher stayed in the classroom almost the entire day.
Lin Zhexia couldn’t spare extra time during breaks and had no way to find Chi Yao in Class 1, so she could only indirectly get updates about Class 1 from others.
She learned from others that Chi Yao seemed to have been punished to stand in the hallway by the grade director, Old Liu, because of the earring.
“Standing punishment? That seems excessive.”
“Don’t many girls in our school have ear piercings too?”
“…”
“Girls and boys are still different, right? A boy wearing an earring, the school probably can’t ignore it.”
Amid the quiet discussions.
Someone said, “That’s not punishment, it feels like a public exhibition.”
“When he stands in the corridor, four or five classes in a row are all looking at him. My friend is in Class 2 and told me that many people in their class were distracted looking out the window during class today.”
Meanwhile, downstairs at the door of Class 1 for the eleventh grade.
After the class bell rang, students quickly entered their classrooms, and the corridor was soon empty except for one conspicuous figure.
Class 1 was located at the end of the long corridor. The young man leaned against the wall, holding his phone in one hand and a textbook dangling in the other.
He lowered his head, sending someone a message.
Xu Ting was also looking at his phone in the classroom.
After Chi Yao tapped him, he immediately replied:-
What’s up?
The cat avatar sent a message: Got a pen?
Cat avatar: If you do, throw one out
Xu Ting: Coincidentally, as they say, poor students have plenty of stationery. I lack everything except pens.
Xu Ting even took a photo of his desk: [Image]
Xu Ting: Which one do you want?
Xu Ting: Do you want the simple classic Deli brand ballpoint pen, or the dignified and grand Japanese Pilot?
The cat avatar replied with two words: Idiot
Then two more words: Whatever
Xu Ting, before the teacher entered the classroom, raised his hand high, holding a pen, and threw it towards the window. The person outside casually caught it.
After throwing the pen, Xu Ting couldn’t help but message him: But what’s with the earring?
The cat avatar simply and concisely replied: Forgot to take it off
After replying, Chi Yao turned off his phone screen, then held his book in one hand and continued leaning against the wall, listening to the class.
He did forget to take it off.
After getting his ear pierced yesterday, dragged along by a certain cowardly debt-dodger, he forgot there was something extra on his ear when he woke up the next morning.
After all, in his past sixteen years, he had never worn such a thing.
It was only after entering the classroom that he realized more people were staring at him than before.
Until Xu Ting came in and shouted: “Damn, that earring looks cool.”
Right after, Old Liu was patrolling the corridor and immediately noticed the commotion on their side. He pushed through the crowd, saw where everyone’s gaze was focused, then, with an air of deep fury, his pupils trembling, “Chi Yao—come to my office!”
Thinking of this, he casually listened to the class outside while using the black pen to follow along with the teacher inside, making a few marks on the book page.
Lin Zhexia waited until evening after school to find time to look for Chi Yao.
Her class’s last period was reviewing the exam papers graded that day. The teacher kept them for nearly twenty minutes overtime. By the time she packed up her things, Chi Yao had been waiting for her at the corridor corner for a long time.
“Our class was going over test papers,” she explained.
Chi Yao had just finished a game on his phone and said, “I grew ears.”
Lin Zhexia: “Our teacher Xu does have a loud voice.”
After a while, she added: “Actually, you standing here waiting for me, could hear him explaining problems, reinforcing your knowledge, so it wasn’t a waste of time.”
Chi Yao: “More than that, I could even hear some comedy.”
As he spoke, he imitated the dialogue between her and Teacher Xu from the classroom: “‘Lin Zhexia, stand up and answer, how do you solve this problem?'”
“‘Teacher, I got this wrong.'”