Chapter 31: 29

Boom boom boom!

“Give me your answers so that I can copy them.” In the moments before the exam papers had to be turned in, the examinees in the last exam room were the most active. Taking advantage of the chaos, they copied down the answers to the last few questions. “Hurry up…you chose C for this question? You sure?” 

“I’m not, I guessed blindly.”

“Then what about this question?”

 

 

“I’m completely not sure about that one.”

“…” 

Shao Zhan acted like Xu Sheng had directed him to, sprawling over his desk after looking at Second-to-last’s answers and closing his eyes to rest.

 

Thunder kept sounding in his ear, and then his consciousness gradually sank along with the sound of thunder, sinking into chaos. His body was unusually heavy, but another part of his consciousness floated up little by little.

After the sounds of thunder receded, the originally calm sky began changing in a way that others couldn’t see—the sky shone with a brilliant, dazzling light, and the endless vault above their heads was like a giant light bulb.

“Student…”

 

“Student, it’s time to turn in your exam.”

Xu Sheng felt like he had just slept for a very long time, and the proctor teacher’s kindly voice sounded in his ear, urging him to quickly turn in his exam paper…wait a moment? Kindly? Wasn’t the first examination room’s proctor female, and the average ages of the two proctors not even over thirty?

Where did this kindness come from?

 

Logic told him that this was truly an old, benevolent voice; that voice was a little impatient after urging him for a while, and said sternly, “What happened, sleeping during the exam…” 

Xu Sheng subconsciously sensed that something wasn’t quite right and moved his fingers, finally breaking away from the chaos to open his eyes.

The desk entered his vision. Xu Sheng straightened up and discovered that his head was hurting extremely, and then he saw the scribbles on the exam paper under his arm. These characters were obviously not written by him, because although they were messy, they were messy in a way that was much more beautiful than his own handwriting.

The first examination room was not as loud, someone even thought that the proctor teacher wouldn’t hear them and loudly shouted, “How do you do the last problem, don’t move, any step I can copy is progress, save your brother.”

The proctor didn’t have the effort to deal with them. Seeing that someone was sleeping in front of him and arrogantly unable to wake up, he blew at his beard and said staringly, “You love sleeping this much, go sleep well at home, why did you come to take the test!” 

After saying this, the proctor grabbed Xu Sheng’s paper away.

In the moment the proctor teacher took away his test, Xu Sheng caught a glimpse of the two characters in the name section of the test: Xu Sheng

This was his own exam paper?

Xu Sheng was stunned for a while before lowering his head in delayed recognition. He was wearing a black T-shirt. 

After the exam paper was collected, an almost blank piece of scratch paper remained on the desk.

It was only then that he noticed the four words left in the middle of the scratch paper: Don’t Leave After Test

 

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Someone at the side finished turning in their exam paper  and enthusiastically cleaned up their things to get ready to welcome a happy weekend. When they passed by his desk, they shouted out, “Sheng ge!” 

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Xu Sheng didn’t say anything.

His head was currently full of: Changed back? Where’s Shao Zhan, did he go back yet. 

“Let’s go another day.” Xu Sheng grabbed his fountain pen and got up, walking out of the examination room. “I still have something to do.”

The exams in the first examination room had been collected faster. By the time Xu Sheng hurried over, most of the people had already left. He threaded his way through the crowd in the exam room and walked over to the back door, just managing to catch Shao Zhan leaving from the doorway.

There were many people discussing in low voices in the hallway. “I heard study god fell asleep during the test?”

“Right, the proctoring teacher had to call him for a really long time before he woke up.” 

“How could he fall asleep, study god has always taken tests very seriously.”

“Maybe this time’s test was way too easy for study god and he didn’t have anything to do after double checking his answers.” These students found a good excuse for Shao Zhan, completely making this a large-scale double standard scene, and said, “Although sleeping during a test is too cool!”

The character at the centre of their discussion was a handsome brother sleeping during a test and holding a piece of scratch paper in his hands, a single hand stuck in his pocket as he walked out of the first examination room. He looked as he had the first time Xu Sheng had met him; his formal school uniform, his entire body emitting a cold aura.

But now, this coldness was completely unable to faze Xu Sheng. “Deskmate, let’s  swap secret signs?” 

Shao Zhan, “swap what?”

“Aren’t those supernatural stories common?” Xu Sheng said, “Like one day, someone disappears, but the person who comes back isn’t actually the original person…”

Shao Zhan gave him the scratch paper covered in calculations in his hand. “If you have time to read these messy stories, why not memorise your formulas a few times. You didn’t get a single one correct when filling out the answers.”

“…” It seemed that the person who switched into this body was the right one. 

Shao Zhan had only taken a quick glance at the answer sheet, which was a miserable sight to behold. He had only taken a look at one of the blanks filled out, and none of the answers were correct. He couldn’t imagine how the other questions had been answered by Xu Sheng.

“Have we switched back?…How come it was right after the exam ended? “Xu Sheng thought of that mysterious thunder, and asked, “Did you hear thunder.”

 

Shao Zhan, “I did.”

Was thunder the key? 

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This time, they hadn’t jumped over the wall. Additionally, the two of them had switched back in a situation where they hadn’t even had any physical contact.

But what kind of relationship did this have with the monthly exam?

But no matter how much they thought about this, they couldn’t figure it out.

Inside Class Seven. 

Hou Jun and the others surrounded a computer, choosing songs. “Students, let’s listen to some music to relax, the class president here wishes everyone a happy weekend, enjoy the last happy moments before we get our results.”

After Hou Jun said this, he saw Shao Zhan and Xu Sheng come in, and his eyes brightened. “Zhan ge! How did you do on your exams? Do you want to pick a song? What do you want to listen to?”

Shao Zhan always used to be on his own, after Hou Jun spoke he took two seconds to react, before noticing that he was talking to him. “You go ahead and pick.”

Hou Jun hadn’t finished selecting Zhan ge‘s song before the school tyrant behind him said something. “Play a song for me, “The Heart is Ash”.” 

“Ah?”

Xu Sheng pulled out a chair, and after he sat down he said, “Or “The Heart is Cold”, “Mourning the Broken Heart”, something like that.”

Xu Sheng’s tone was so familiar, that Hou Jun didn’t know when he had become so close with the school tyrant. “Student Xu Sheng, today you… are in a bad mood?”

Xu Sheng finally remembered what his identity was, and forced himself to save his mistake. He rubbed his nose. “That, uh, didn’t I always want to become closer with the class?” 

“I’m slow on the uptake,” Xu Sheng frowned as he said. “I was too shy before.”

Hou Jun’s expression was one of pure shock.

“…” Shao Zhan said in a low voice, “Stop messing around.”

Xu Sheng fell silent. 

Hou Jun always thought that something was wrong, but he didn’t want to think too much on it. Meng Guowei handed out assignments as he taught, and also reminded everyone to stay safe as they went home over the weekend. “The exams are already over, you don’t need to worry about the class’ results – in my heart, you are all the best! Watch out for cars when you’re walking on the road.”

Xu Sheng didn’t have the habit of remembering homework assignments, and he still felt a little strange after they had switched back. Something was off somewhere, it was a feeling he couldn’t quite put his finger on. It was his own body after all…

 

“Don’t you feel strange?” Xu Sheng’s upper body was sprawled over his desk as he tilted his head to look at Shao Zhan. “Why do I feel more comfortable inside your body?”

Shao Zhan had finished recording down his homework, he let go of his pen and met Xu Sheng’s gaze. After they switched back, his cold and offensive nature was in full force now that he had his own face, the youth’s nose bridge was high and straight, his eyes cold and harsh. He glanced down and said coldly, “I certainly don’t want to be inside you again.” 

The two of them were just casually talking, and fell into a silence right after.

What kind of conversation was this!

Entering your body…this kind of phrase was really too…

Shao Zhan turned his face away. 

The tips of Xu Sheng’s ears immediately flared up.

He pretended to cough then pulled out his phone, expressionlessly opening WeChat. He tried to divert his attention to other things, but forgot that he and Shao Zhan had changed their accounts – He was logged into Shao Zhan’s WeChat.

There were a few messages left unread. Xu Sheng didn’t notice his fingers moving, his brain was too slow to realise before he had already tapped on them.

Then he realised that this contact person’s profile picture was even more dramatic than those blondies from the internet cafe, they looked like a social menace, with a cigarette lit in their picture, and there was an overwhelming feeling of a troublesome youth flowing from the screen. 

It was the kind of person who walked in a windy, rainy street with eighty or so lackeys following behind them.

This troublesome youth’s WeChat name was very unique: Brother Wolf of Society.

Brother Wolf of Society: Da ge.

Fuck. 

Big bro?

What type of message was this?

The student beside him had such complicated relationships with people?

Xu Sheng didn’t dare look at the contents of the messages that followed. He quickly swiped back to the contacts list. 

“Your account, log out of it.” Xu Sheng passed the phone over. “And… I accidentally opened a message.”

Shao Zhan took it, and after his finger paused shortly over the screen, he logged out of his account.

 

He hadn’t even opened his mouth before Xu Sheng was already switching the subject. He had already sat up straight, the upper half of his body leaning back, even swinging the chair back so that the front legs tilted up into the air, and he said casually, “What bus do you take home? Maybe the two of us take the same route.”

“We don’t.” 

Xu Sheng was about to say something.

“Nanping.” Shao Zhan loosened his collar and said, “You can certainly try and make it the same route.”

Xu Sheng almost immediately linked this Nanping to the contact person from Nanping from the first time he and Shao Zhan exchanged phones. Nanping was quite a few districts away from here, it was quite far, and hard to travel to.

Xu Sheng had just asked to get rid of the awkward atmosphere, not wanting the other person to make up some excuse for being called “Da ge”. He had no idea how to continue the conversation, and he logged back into his own account. 

Three unread messages.

Zhang Feng: Want to play basketball after the test? Basketball is fine right, you can’t keep rejecting me right.

Zhang Feng: Boss, no matter how much you love your studies, you need to also exercise. Only in this way can you develop your studies long-term; the better you study, the higher you’ll reach.

Xu Sheng responded: Fuck, what time. 

The other message was from “Mom”.

Mom: Come back this weekend, Mom will make food and wait for you.

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