“‘I know you got it wrong, that’s why I’m calling on you, come on, tell us.'”
“‘But… teacher, I got it wrong because I don’t know how to do it.'”
Finally, he commented: “Quite entertaining, definitely not a waste of time.”
Lin Zhexia: “…”
She couldn’t be bothered to argue with him about this, and almost instinctively, looked at Chi Yao’s right ear.
The earring on his ear had been removed, now there was only a slightly reddish, not fully healed piercing.
She asked: “Did Old Liu scold you?”
Chi Yao made an “ah” sound, not caring much: “He just said a few words to me.”
She had always felt that Chi Yao’s role as a top student was very unconventional.
The necessary conditions of a good student and some “bad student” characteristics had an extremely subtle fusion in him.
Lin Zhexia: “Where’s your earring?”
Chi Yao: “Took it off.”
Then he added, “Old Liu doesn’t allow wearing it.”
As expected.
She casually said as she walked down the stairs with her backpack: “It’s a bit of a shame, now we won’t be able to see it anymore. That earring looked good on you.”
Because Chi Yao was punished for wearing the earring, Lin Zhexia felt somewhat guilty, so after school, she voluntarily took some extra money from her allowance and spent a “fortune” to treat Chi Yao to an iced latte.
On the bus ride home, the two weren’t sitting together, but one in front of the other.
Lin Zhexia felt a bit bored sitting alone. Looking at the scenery outside the window, she suddenly remembered the website Chen Lin had shared with her when they first entered high school.
With a feeling she couldn’t quite explain, she dug out the forum website from her chat history.
She didn’t need to specifically search for keywords.
After opening it, the school forum homepage was full of discussion threads about Chi Yao.
Even though they had already advanced to eleventh grade, this person’s discussion level in the school only increased, never decreased.
The thread with the most replies, pushed to the top, was about the “earring.”
1L: [Is there anyone who doesn’t know? Chi Yao came to school wearing an earring today.
2L: [Probably everyone knows by now]
3L: [Just found out, thanks, rushing to pretend to go to the office to ask teachers questions after class, but passing by Class 1 to take a look]
4L: [Those who want to see, hurry up, Old Liu will be coming to inspect soon.]
…
Lin Zhexia’s finger touched the phone screen, slowly scrolling down.
The discussion content quickly changed from “hurry to see” to “standing punishment.”
Someone had even secretly taken a blurry photo of the punishment.
Lin Zhexia opened it to see the school building’s long corridor. At the end of the corridor, a tall figure could vaguely be seen. Even though it was blurred into pixels, it was still obvious that this person must be very good-looking.
Lin Zhexia looked at this photo for a while, then secretly pressed the save image option.
She operated very quickly, as if afraid someone would discover her.
After saving it, she continued browsing the forum.
The later discussion content had much less.
146L: [Let’s disperse, the earring is gone, the punishment is over, all that’s left is me, who kept getting distracted in class today]
147L: [Distracted in class +1]
The remaining content surprisingly matched her thoughts.
148L: [But I didn’t see enough, the earring appeared too briefly]
149L: [Why does Old Liu have such good eyesight? I hate it.]
150L: [Will we never see it again?]
151L: [Definitely won’t see it again, Old Liu already talked with him, he won’t wear it again]
…
After finishing browsing the forum, she lowered her head and took a sip of her milk tea-
The next day was the weekend.
Lin Zhexia slept in and only got up at noon.
When she woke up, Lin He and Wei Ping were already gone.
After a simple meal, she planned to do her homework.
But after doing just a few problems, she found this math assignment was a bit difficult.