Chapter 42.2: I will be responsible.

There was dead silence in the classroom. The morning self-study teacher wasn’t there and everyone had been doing their own thing, but now everyone was looking at the door with a range of odd looks on their faces.

Wang Yiyang sat in Lin Yujing’s chair talking to Li Lin with his back to the front of the classroom. He’d turned his head to look at the door, and now looked at them apathetically.

“…”

Lin Yujing felt a little awkward. She turned her head to look at the person present next to her, and silently opened her mouth.

Shen Juan grabbed her wrist. Pulling her out into the corridor, he closed the classroom door with one hand, then turned and lowered his eyes to look at her.

He sighed heavily. “Why do you have to say everything that comes into your head, little girl?”

“I didn’t notice… Besides, I didn’t mean anything by it, you just took advantage of me,” Lin Yujing mumbled disapprovingly, “Don’t call me a little girl.”

Shen Juan stared at her, from her unnaturally pursed, bright red lips to the tips of her ears that were a little blushed from embarrassment [1].

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In short, few girls dared to chase him.

Still, whether to chase or not is one thing; whether to like him or not is another.

There were always a lot of people who liked Shen Juan. There was an anonymous confession thread in the school forum, and people were even now using it to confess their love for Shen Juan.

Classmate Shen’s feelings had always been the subject of attention.

Then, after the incident in the exam room during the last monthly exam, Lin Yujing’s name popped up. Subsequently the trendy pair, Shen Lin, was broken up by an impressively strong cabinet kissing photo [2] from a local convenience store. After a while, the names “Lin Yujing” and “Shen Juan” were never tied together again.

The students in the other classes didn’t know much about it, but the people in Class 10 stayed quiet as chicks, able to see but pretending to be blind to it.

They saw nothing.

The boss and his Classmate Lin are so close to each other in class every day, chatting so much they almost 

seemed glued together. No one saw anything.

“You bring me breakfast today, I bring you soy milk tomorrow.” The two people were close and very affectionate [3], sometimes coming to school together. No one saw anything.

Classmate Lin was covered by the boss’s oversized coat and slept with her head buried in it. Sometimes the class got a bit loud and Classmate Lin couldn’t sleep well, so the boss would pat her on the back like he was coaxing a child or something.

——This is also too inconspicuous! Who can see it! It is invisible!!

But you two are standing at the door to the classroom, discussing taking advantage or not in front of the whole class, and flirting with each other, isn’t it a bit too damn much?!

No one dared to speak, even Li Lin was as quiet as a chick. In the end, the melon-eating crowd [4] sent their brave Classmate Wang Yiyang.

It didn’t take Wang Yiyang three days to get along well with everyone in class, so with an enthusiastic demeanor, he went to ask Shen Juan about the situation. During break Lin Yujing wasn’t there, so he turned around and leaned on Shen Juan’s desk. “Daddy, you and our Classmate Lin—eh? You two left for ten minutes during morning self-study— Eh eh eh?”

Shen Juan looked up. “Speak human words.”

“Why did you two go out this morning?” Wang Yiyang whispered, “Master Shen, Classmate Lin is underage, and her birthday is a few months after mine. You’ll need to drive stick-shift [5] for another two years.” 

“…”

Shen Juan looked at him silently, and asked in a calm voice, “Do you want to die now, or ten seconds from now?”

Wang Yiyang held up his hands and quickly replied, “I choose to be barely living for ten seconds.”

Shen Juan said, “Didn’t you see that we were called out by the teacher?”

Wang Yiyang looked blank. “I didn’t see it. I hadn’t come in yet. I really didn’t know. They told me that you two went out.”

Shen Juan leaned back, narrowed his eyes, and continued, “So you’re saying I’d only last ten minutes?”

“…”

Wang Yiyang felt relieved, shook his head wildly, and flattered like crazy. “Daddy, I think it will take you two hours no matter what.”

Shen Juan: “…”

Wang Yiyang: “… Two hours is not enough? Three… four, five, or six hours?”

“…”

Shen Juan gave a “tsk” and casually threw the books spread out on the table towards Wang Yiyang, who was hit straight on the face and yelled, “Master Juan!! I was wrong!!!”

Shen Juan stood up with the desk between them, pulled the collar of Wang Yiyang’s school uniform jacket up over his head, and pushed him on the table, slapping him on the back of the head. “In a little while you can go and explain for Daddy that whoever f*cking keeps talking nonsense can come speak to me at my desk, and I’ll show you all in one second how to turn someone into a vegetable.”

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[1] “不好意思” – means shy or embarressed, or to be sorry for inconveniencing someone.

[2] “cabinet kissing photo” – refers to the act of pushing someone against a cabinet or wall in a romantic or playful manner.

[3] “相亲相爱” – means two people who are very close and bound by deep affection, who are kind to and love each other.

[4] “melon-eating crowd” – means people who passively observe or spectate social events or controversies and gossip without actively participating or getting involved. No actual melons are harmed.

[5] “drive stick-shift” – This is a very high-brow masturbation joke.