Chapter 36: 34

Xu Sheng felt great pity for his sudden on-the-spur imagination and translation abilities. They were completely not showing any respect to the soul of an incredible genius!

At this moment, the sound of footsteps from far away were steadily approaching the entrance of the stairs. 

The movement wasn’t very noticeable. All the students in their class had already gone to gym class. Seeing the degree of preciousness gym class was to them, it wasn’t a big possibility that it was someone from their class.

“We haven’t had a gym class in so long.” At the entrance of the stairs, Hou Jun hopped up the stairs in two’s and three’s. “I even forgot to take my exercise shoes!”

 

 

Hou Jun had just finished speaking when he saw the sign for the classroom, and pushed open the door.

Xu Sheng was in the process of moving his wrist around, saying, “Can you let go? You’re making it hurt a bit.” 

Hou Jun didn’t hear much of the first part, but he heard the second part very clearly.

 

“…You’re making it hurt a bit.”

Xu Sheng’s tone was leisurely and the ends of his words dragged out. Along with the fact that he was currently being covered by Shao Zhan, if one looked back from the entrance of the classroom, they would only see half of Xu Sheng’s slightly tilted face, his black t-shirt, and his imprisoned wrist.

It was at this moment Xu Sheng heard the classroom door open, and looked up.

 

Hou Jun and Tan Kai felt like they had mistakenly stumbled upon the same exact scene present in countless novels: everyone knew study god was cold and aloof, solitary, and never got close with anyone. But but but somehow they had accidently witnessed study god press school tyrant against the wall—

And school tyrant had even said, you’re making it hurt. What kind of a disastrous script was this?

The four of them froze together.

 

Xu Sheng said lowly, “I told you not to get physical.” 

“This counts as being physical?” Shao Zhan glanced at him, then released his hand. “Perhaps you haven’t truly experienced what it’s like to be physical.”

“…”

Xu Sheng thought to himself, how much more physical do you want to be.

It took Hou Jun a while to find his voice again. “I, that uh, I came back to change into my exercise shoes.” 

“It’s been too long since we had a gym class and studying has muddled my head.” Tan Kai immediately followed up with an explanation of why he was there. “I forgot I was on the sports committee, so I came back for the attendance sheet.”

This was a pretty irregular thing to forget.

Shao Zhan let go. Xu Sheng coughed, and tried to explain. “We…”

The other two didn’t understand. They thought to themselves, no need to explain, we really understand, Zhan Without No Sheng is real, we’ve been shouting ourselves into exhaustion for a while. 

Hou Jun proactively followed up. “Let’s go together in a bit?”

Xu Sheng realised that this scenario couldn’t be clearly explained, and decided to just give up.

 

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The Sixth High field was crowded with people. The blazing sun shone upon the grass turf and rubber track, the thick, viscous smell of grass and rubber continuously arising. There were several lines of people standing by class and grade on the track. The gathering wasn’t complete yet; there were many people sitting and chatting around in a circle.

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The student scooted over and left some space for him.

Xu Sheng sat down casually. Propping himself up with his hand against the rubber track, he turned around to look at Shao Zhan. He saw that Shao Zhan was obviously trying to walk past them. “You’re not sitting?” 

Shao Zhan didn’t usually participate in group activities. He wanted to say “You guys go ahead and chat”, but Xu Sheng directly reached his hand out. The youth’s usually not prominent collarbones curved at this angle. He clutched at the corner of his school uniform, his voice carrying a hint of amusement as he smiled and said, “Sit down and chat with us, Classmate Shao.”

Shao Zhan’s expression didn’t change, but the coldness in his eyes subconsciously faded a bit.

Study god was infamously known for not being close with others.

Other than Hou Jun and a few others who had glimpsed another side of study god during the evening self study, and had developed a relationship of friends who would play games together, the other students in Class Seven had a very shallow understanding of Shao Zhan. 

Unattainable, daunting.

And then everyone watched as study god was pulled by school tyrant to sit down.

The students in Class Seven: …!

Xu Sheng asked, “What are you guys chatting about?” 

Only then did they react and think of the gossip they had only half finished just now. “Ah, we were chatting about how gym class was snatched away.”

Class Seven had two teachers who were fiends for snatching classes. They were infamous in their grade for loving to snatch up the time meant for gym class. They made all of the students lament over the fact that every gym class time was merely a front. However, now that exams were over, there were now many more gym classes than in the past two weeks, thus resuming their normal schedule.

That student continued spilling the tea. “Do you guys know the story behind this class today? Apparently the gym teacher really couldn’t handle it anymore, quite a few teachers were arguing until they made a group chat, and they pulled him in to ask who he wanted to give the class time to. The gym teacher bellowed in anger, ‘I have exams too, are gym teachers not people too, do gym classes not deserve respect?’ All of the teachers were stunned by the scolding.”

When he mentioned bellowing, he enthusiastically performed the scenario at that time. 

Tan Kai leisurely followed up with, “And then before class started, he realised his sports committee representative had forgotten he was the representative for his class, and had forgotten the attendance sheet…”

The crowd laughed their heads off.

 

Xu Sheng also laughed. Pushing aside his reputation as the school tyrant and this person’s various misdeeds, the ostentatious aura he carried with him was actually quite capable of captivating others. It wasn’t hard to understand that he actually had been pretty close with his classmates and teachers in their first year, like he had claimed.

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There were several of Xu Sheng’s ex-classmates at the track. The girl who had called for him while draped over the windowsill last time was also there. She and a few other female students were chatting and laughing when she noticed someone who wasn’t wearing his school uniform on the track at a glance. “Xu Sheng.” 

Xu Sheng smiled as he raised his hand, waving at Zhang Tong from afar.

He really was the type of person who could, after doing something wrong, stand by one’s side and make a few jokes so one couldn’t remain angry at him.

And his head was completely full of thoughts that ordinary people didn’t have.

After Tan Kai revealed everything, they changed the subject. The topic sometimes included the two words, “Zhan ge.” 

Hou Jun, “I know, that game updated yesterday and the new season was too fierce. I was almost oppressed to the point of ending myself. I’ll wait for my Zhan ge to carry me tonight…”

Shao Zhan’s scalp began heating up from the burning sun.

He glanced at that corner of his shirt Xu Sheng had just clutched at. At that moment, he had seemed to be imbued with some mystical force.

The sounds by his ear solidified; the background noises and clamour rushed in. Compared to the exam papers completely covered in red marks, the things happening in front of him were truly the biggest surprise. 

The gym teacher just then came out of the equipment shed with a whistle. He blew the whistle a few times, and shouted, “Class Seven, attention—”

“Let’s first test your five hundred metre run in this class. After testing, it’s free activity time. If you want to borrow equipment, go find Tan Kai, and he’ll bring it for you.” After everyone lined up, the gym teacher finished discussing the goals of the class period, then said, “Tan Kai, if you forget your identity again next time, you’ll have to resign, okay. I snatched some class time for you all with a lot of difficulty, and immediately noticed that the class representative was missing.”

Tan Kai said, “It’s a mistake, it really was a mistake, I definitely won’t forget who I am next time!”

The male students tested first for the five hundred metre run. After the test, they ran in droves towards the basketball court, as if they were hurrying to be reincarnated. 

The male students in Class Seven formed two lines.

Tan Kai also had to help the female students get badminton gear and could not carry that much at once. Xu Sheng finished his test as Tan Kai was carrying the net towards him, the ball almost falling out of the net. Xu Sheng did not stop after he ran across the finish line, and  ran straight ahead a while more to catch the basketball that was about to fall out.

“Thanks.” Tan Kai said, “Right, I didn’t get to finish talking when the teacher came. Are you and Zhan ge free tonight?”

Xu Sheng asked as he held the ball, “Tonight?” 

Tan Kai said, “Hou Zi secretly brought back a tablet from home last weekend. Tonight he’s planning on watching something stimulating. How about it, are you coming?”

As long as it wasn’t studying, Xu Sheng would never reject these kinds of activities that had nothing to do with studying. “Okay, but I don’t know whether Zhan ge will come or not.”

 

At this mention, Tan Kai had an epiphany. “Do you think Zhan ge will come? Although Zhan ge has never tasted defeat in exams…”

Xu Sheng silently added to himself, he tasted it after the monthly exam. 

Tan Kai continued, “But his life can’t only be all about studying, right.”

Xu Sheng understood his meaning, and clearly understood the hidden intention behind his words. “You want him to come?”

Tan Kai nodded.

Xu Sheng. “You want me to bring him along?” 

Tan Kai nodded again.

Xu Sheng laughed and dribbled the basketball on the ground. When it bounced back up he continued, “Why can’t you just ask him directly, will he want to come if I ask him?”

Of course.

What kind of relationship do the two of you have. 

But Tan Kai didn’t say this out loud.

To tell the truth, Tan Kai had a vague feeling that something wasn’t quite right. Before, he had clearly felt that Zhan ge was friendlier. Accordingly, he should have been able to directly ask without feeling any burden or barriers. On the other hand, he had always been distant with school tyrant.

But a person’s instinct was truly a mystical thing. Now he didn’t really dare speak with Shao Zhan and could say anything to Xu Sheng.

Tan Kai scratched his head. He himself couldn’t understand why. 

Hou Jun planned his activity for after when the lights went out, preparing something stimulating. Xu Sheng didn’t know what this “stimulating” actually meant. He decided to go back to the dorm later before asking Shao Zhan if he had time tonight.

After gym class, the teachers for each subject had already compiled the scores for the monthly exams and the exam papers were distributed.

Shao Zhan’s exam scores spread across the entire grade.

The news shook the heavens and earth. When they heard the news, everyone took a long time to return to their senses. 

“I saw the rankings list. There’s a piece of news that will make anyone who hears it go crazy. Study god placed second to last in the entire grade this time around.”

“Are you sick, is today April Fool’s? I don’t believe it. Even if you told me it was second place overall I wouldn’t dare to believe it. How can the eternal second place do better than study god? This time’s monthly exam wasn’t even difficult.”

 

“Right, it’s not even possible for him to be second place from the top.”

“If I’m lying to you I’m not a person. The rankings list is in the office. If you don’t believe it then go take a look yourself.” 

More and more people saw the rankings list, and the voices saying “don’t believe” faded away, because that failing grade in English of study god’s, that only had thirty something points, had blinded everyone’s eyes.

“Really from last place? Last place school tyrant, second to last study god? I’m going crazy.”

Shao Zhan’s exam scores were quickly brought up in the school forums. The forums also went crazy. Only the Zhang Without No Sheng supporters were filled with an eerie, quiet and tranquil atmosphere.

1986th comment: Have you found the reasoning behind this. 

1987th comment: Found it.

1988th comment: …Tested second to last place for love?

nao:

sz: i don’t want to
xs: here’s my collarbones
sz: …ok i’ll do it 

hj & tk: we’ve never seen a couple who loves denying they’re a couple so much

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