Chapter 25. Which Beautiful Sister Did You Date?

The day they returned to school after the holiday was the first day of the week, and they started to make up for the classes from the previous Friday. It just so happened that Friday was the easiest day, with only two classes in the afternoon and only one evening study session. The school had probably arranged this to give the students a buffer.

  

The exception to this was Class 1. Although in principle, there were no key classes now, what school could really be fair? In particular, one of the top secondary schools in the city, where the reputation of “getting into the first class of the secondary school is a foot in the door to Qingbei [1]” has been known for years. There were countless pairs of parents’ eyes watching from inside and outside the class. There was the only class in each year that kicked people out at the end of the year, and it was useless to cry out or do donations.

  

Some of the alumni of the first secondary school were among the most famous and wealthy people in the world, and the scholarships were so generous that they were ridiculous. The laboratories were often equipped with all sorts of weird and expensive equipment.

  

From the first year to the third year, the class with the name Class 1 on it was like an enchantment. The blue background and white characters separated the boundaries from other classes. As soon as they entered the classroom, the students of Class 1 consciously placed a thick pile of exercise papers on the top left corner of their desks. They put down their school bags, picked up their books, and started reading. When the bell rang, the class teacher appeared at the door and checked the work one by one, starting with the first group and the first row. There were only rows in front of and behind each other, and there were no shared desks.

  

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“Tlu, Ubld Pw,” Nkd Wldt vwadle yaswde yde okdjle yv bkx clbkde vbl nzypp vlynbla’p cynj, “obknb ralvvu tkaz yal usw eyvkdt?”

  

Ubld Pw eked’v aykpl bkp lulzkep, “Mwad yaswde.”

  

“Mpj, ps pvkdtu. Zsw’al pvkzz nshlakdt wr ps vktbvzu okvb xl obld uswa cweeu oyp akpjkdt bkp zkql vs nshla qsa usw.” Nkd Wldt psqvldle bkp cwvv, obknb bye yzxspv clld poszzld cu bkp qyvbla, hlau ekppyvkpqkle.

  

“Mbydjp.”

  

“Just thanks?”

  

“……” Chen Du took a box of snacks from his bag and gave it to him.

  

“Pocky? Why do you like this all of a sudden? Girls are the ones who love it… Ooh,” he suddenly came to his senses, “I can see that our male god, Chen Du, is still a warm man.”

  

“Don’t eat it. Give it back to me.”

  

“Eh-I’ll eat, I’ll eat, I’ll eat,” he said. Lin Feng put his hand back and gladly smiled, raising an eyebrow, “Your girlfriend gave you this?”

  

“Do I need to give you a horn to shout louder?” Chen Du did not deny it. He spread out the brick-like competition question bank. His left hand had the question bank, and his right hand quickly drafted the formula.

  

“Damn, I do not dare. In case Zhuo Tingting heard, she does not dare to annoy you, so she would annoy me.” Lin Feng glanced towards the front of the third group. Zhuo Tingting was carrying the text, and, as if sensing something, cast a suspicious look over.

  

He waved his hand at her and withdrew his gaze, smiling, and half joked, half reminded him, “The school is such a big place with so many people. If you engage in activities or you’re spending time together, don’t meet on campus. Be careful of being seen because they’ll turn around and post you to the forum.”

  

Chen Du’s fingers holding the pen gave a slight beat, nodded his head and said indifferently, “Hm.”

  

“What are you doing! You don’t memorise your books in the morning, and instead chat here to disturb your classmates?” The teacher smashed a chestnut on Lin Feng’s head, and he let out a scream of pain. His eyes felt like they were not his eyes and his nose was not his nose.

  

The class teacher also had a headache. Lin Feng, the little devil, had been restless since the first day of school. He was folding aeroplanes and passing notes in class to make trouble. His brain was quick to turn and his grades were good enough to not be at the occasional bottom of the class. He couldn’t sit still all day long, and he was a problem student among the top students. The head teacher had thought about it while arranging the seats and finally placed him in front of Chen Du. 

  

Chen Du entered the city’s top spot student in the entrance exams, and his score was so scary that it refreshed the record of the attached high school and also brushed off the jaws of the school’s forum melon eaters. Then, he pulled out his bullish [2] family background and even more bullish resume, and many students and teachers mentioned Chen Du behind his back as “the prodigy of year one”.

  

Xu Shiyuan, as the class teacher of the first class, felt that the word “prodigy” was not really appropriate.

  

Xu Shiyuan casually swept the homework on Chen Du’s desk and immediately turned to the last big question in mathematics to read.

  

The answer process for his other questions was extremely concise, basically a few lines. The calculation was basically done in his brain, but the last question became pyramidal. Three solutions were written, one more than the reference answer. The coordinate system was established directly on the circle and the geometric interior angle was transformed into a plane function, so a lot of theorem proving angle calculations were solved directly in a few steps of formula derivation, just a few lines of light and sharp.

  

Xu Shiyuan was first surprised, and then smiled heartily. He did not say anything. He just took his maths paper away, and left for class later.

  

Lin Feng received a head-banging reward from the class teacher, so he became honest and opened his English book to memorise the words with a sad face. His voice instantly blended into the positive sound of reading around him.

  

Chen Du was the only one in the class who didn’t have a mouth to feed in the morning reading, but no one would ever say anything about him. After all, compared to the Olympic competition, the things that had to be memorised in books were really trivial. The head teacher who came to patrol the morning reading looked at the last row of the class and was relieved to see that Chen Du was not reading and was writing with his head down.

  

He was still in the same position as he was reading earlier, the tip of his pen brushing against his notebook. He was the tallest and had good eyesight, so he volunteered to sit in the last row. As the teachers boasted, it was not for the sake of the other students, but simply for the sake of clarity. There were too many girls in front of him and too much chalk dust, which was a bit much for him.

  

After finishing two pages of training on the topic of mass-centered movement, Chen Du felt a little thirsty and went to the corner of the table to get water, but his hand was empty. He raised his eyes to look at the empty corner of the table and suddenly remembered that he had left his water cup in the car.

  

He greeted Xu Shiyuan and said he was going to the toilet. Xu Shiyuan nodded and let him go, glaring at Lin Feng, who was also trying to run, and he retreated like a gopher.

  

The kiosk was not far away. The corridor of the school building was clean and empty with a few day students on patrol. Their eyes glanced at him, but Chen Du’s face was cold. He walked all the way down the stairs without any obstruction, and his long legs trotted all the way. In the blink of an eye, he reached the kiosk.

  

He pulled open the ice chest at the door to take out a bottle of mineral water, turned around, and bumped into someone head-on.

  

“Excuse me ……” He apologised first. The words slipped out most of the way, and then he fixed his eyes on Chen Jiashu, standing in front of him.

  

A beam of sunlight fell from the sky into his eyes, and the greyish point of view became bright and vivid.

  

“You… you came to buy water?” He was doubly surprised, and the surprise in his eyes was more than enough to diffuse it, raising a smile that he didn’t even notice.

  

“Hmm.” Chen Jiashu pulled the freezer door he had just closed open again and took a bottle of milk out.

  

“This milk is too cold. Isn’t it better to drink it hot?” He held her wrist and took two bottles of milk out of the nearby insulated cabinet.

  

“Okay.” Chen Jiashu shrugged and agreed, putting back the milk she had just taken.

  

The freezer door opened again and the cold air blew over at a low temperature, but Chen Du was a little sweaty and hot. Her heart was still slowing down from that bump just now, fluttering like she was carrying a rabbit.

  

“Have you had breakfast yet?” He pulled Chen Jiashu straight inside and took a number of snacks from the shelves in lieu of meals, jelly plum pieces and bang bang candy. “Do you eat preserved pork?”

  

“…… Are you feeding the pigs?” The pigs couldn’t eat this much in one breakfast. Chen Jiashu suspected she would have to eat this big pile until the end of the year, “No need for these. I have to go to class, so you can put them back.”

  

Chen Jiashu must have just woken up. Her school uniform was zipped up in a hurry, and her hair was not tied up properly. It was loosely tied at the back of her head and pulled up in a tug. When she got close, he could see a ring of sweat on the tip of her nose, and her cheeks were flushed from running.

  

Obviously, she hadn’t eaten breakfast and was in a hurry to buy a bottle of milk on her way to class, so he wondered if she usually coped with this kind of meal.

  

Chen Du obediently put the dried pork back on the shelf and replaced it with a more filling bun and put it in the shopping basket, dragging her to the front desk to settle the bill. A boy walked in, saw Chen Jiashu’s back, and greeted her warmly, “Jiashu, are you here to buy breakfast too?”

  

He seemed surprised. His eyes lit up, and just as his greeting hand was halfway up, he suddenly ran into a pair of cold, unfeeling eyes.

  

A large, plucky teenager at the counter turned his head in tandem with Chen Chia-shu, his eyes directed straight towards him, narrowing slightly with a little downward gaze. He held his hand in mid-air, frozen in place with suspicion.

  

“Fifty-nine dollars and eight cents. I’ll sweep you up. Do you want a bag?”

  

“I want one.” Chen Du turned back with little expression and took his phone out of his front pocket, unlocking it and putting it up in front of the scanner.

  

Zhou Yansheng woke up in a flash and recognised him. Wasn’t this the same Chen Du from year one? How did he suddenly walk with Chen Jiashu?

  

His eyes fell to the two holding hands and he suddenly stiffened. His tone became arduous and hesitant, “You ……” A pause, looking at Chen Jiashu, pulled the corner of his mouth, “This is you ……”

  

Chen Du ignored the situation behind him, taking the packed shopping bag in one hand and carrying it in his hand. The other hand was still holding Chen Jia Shu without letting go, just holding it openly.

  

Chen Jiashu also smiled and said, “My brother.”

[1] Qingbei is a nickname for Tsinghua University, which is ranked the number 1 university in Asia, and the number 10 university worldwide. It has a less than 2% acceptance rate because of the difficulty in getting in, so for that class to have the reputation of having one foot in means that they are exceptional. 

[2] It’s the same as calling someone a school bully. It means his family background is exceptional.