Chapter 9: 9

After a brief moment of silence, Shao Zhan tried to explain. “Actually…” Actually it’s like this.

Meng Guowei interrupted loudly, “I already told you guys to relax! Am I, Meng Guowei, the kind of teacher who doesn’t respect the wishes of his students? What kind of person do you guys take me for! 

“…”

“I said I won’t let you two become seatmates, so I definitely won’t let you guys switch seats!”

 

 

Meng Guowei had long since lost the ambitious attitude he had a few days ago. His plan had been strangled by Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan. There had been a teacher from yesterday who had worried about the implementation of his plan and came over to ask, “The one-on-one that you planned on doing last time, how is it going?”

Meng Guowei had sighed. “It’s not good, the two of them don’t seem to wish to follow it.” 

The teacher next door said, “Really? I thought this line of reasoning of yours was pretty good…”

 

Meng Guowei shook his head and didn’t want to bring up things from the past. “Especially Xu Sheng–– It’s like wanting him to change seatmates is going to kill him, saying something about it not being compatible, the more he talked the more ridiculous it was. In the end, he even talked about tough melons. Tell me, is this being tough, I was just negotiating with them.”

After listening, even the teacher next door thought it was surprising.

Although Meng Guowei was regretful, he quickly adjusted his direction. He had to guide them well and make long-term considerations. If a one-on-one couldn’t solve the problem, then let him as a teacher ignite himself as a beacon to be this lost boy’s light!

 

Although he didn’t know at this moment, that lost boy was hoping hard in his heart that Meng Guowei would persist more, to not respect the student’s wishes so much, and to be tough when it was time to be tough.

Meng Guowei finished organising the lesson materials, and when he raised his head, noticed that the two of them were still standing by his office table. Xu Sheng, who was usually unconventional and unrestrained, had an expression as cold as ice. He thought inwardly that Xu Sheng seemed to be talking less today, was his mood not good?

Shao Zhan did look rather, um, a lot easier to approach…

 

Judging from both of their expressions, they seemed to have the same complex emotions. 

Meng Guowei put his pen down. “Do you guys need anything else?”

Shao Zhan really wanted to turn around and leave.

Remembering the ‘I’d rather die than submit’ attitude he had last time in the office, even Xu Sheng couldn’t really continue with this.

The face slap had come too quickly. 

The harsher their words had been back then, the more their face hurt right now.

If they could restart their lives, he would want to return to the day that Meng Guowei had arranged for him and Shao Zhan to be deskmates, and then say these words to Meng Guowei: Teacher, I’m willing.

But no matter if their faces hurt or not, they really couldn’t dodge the issue of being deskmates.

Shao Zhan lowered his voice, and tilted his head to say haltingly into Xu Sheng’s ear, “The hole that you dug, fill it in yourself.” 

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Xu Sheng reminded, “Right now you’re Xu Sheng.”

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Meng Guowei had started to count the number of homework assignments from the class. The office was constantly filled with noise, and Shao Zhan’s words had been cold, but it made Meng Guowei suddenly forget the number he had counted to. “Ah, deskmates, okay… Hold on, what did you say?!”

After Meng Guowei regained his senses, he was shocked. “You two want to be deskmates?”

After crossing the hurdle in his heart, the words that followed weren’t as hard to say. Shao Zhan repeated, “The two of us want to change seats.” 

Meng Guowei bolted upright in his seat, suspecting he had heard things wrong. “Didn’t you say it was incompatible the last time?”

Shao Zhan said expressionlessly, “Compatible.”

“What about the affinity between people?”

“Affinity is here.” 

Meng Guowei, “Tough melons won’t be sweet?”

“Tough melons,” the embarrassment from this sentence was too much, and Shao Zhan proceeded to speak haltingly, “if you don’t try them, how would you know if they’re sweet or not.”

Meng Guowei continued to speak, “Forcing students’ camaraderie.”

Shao Zhan interrupted. “It’s not forcing.” 

“…”

Meng Guowei looked at the students coming and going from the office. The teacher next door was talking with their class representative and saying “Next time if they still don’t hand in their work after reminders, then don’t waste your time either, don’t collect their assignment. Tell them to come and find me directly. What kind of attitude is this, I’ll teach them a proper lesson”. Only then did Meng Guowei return to reality. “You’re serious? You really want to become seatmates?”

They couldn’t be any more serious.

Those few sentences that Shao Zhan had just expressed were already his extreme limits. He looked down, his hand made its way behind Xu Sheng, and in a place that Meng Guowei couldn’t see, he pinched him through the layer of his school uniform. 

Xu Sheng’s heart wasn’t as burdened. After the embarrassment was over, he even felt that this situation was indescribably hilarious. He wasn’t standing properly as he listened to Meng Guowei and Shao Zhan’s back and forth, he was half-leaning against the wall.

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When he was suddenly pinched, he let out a ‘fuck’, and stood up straight to take over. “Teacher, the two of us really aren’t being forced. I’ve also thought about it. Xu Sheng’s academic journey really does need help from an excellent student like me.”

 

Meng Guowei’s last remaining shred of logic still remembered that Shao Zhan had said it was ‘troublesome’ the last time. “You don’t think it’s troublesome anymore?”

Xu Sheng, “It’s not troublesome.” 

Xu Sheng continued, “How could it be troublesome, isn’t it a given that students should help each other and progress together?”

Meng Guowei was slightly confused by these two, but he also noticed that somehow, the one-on-one plan was progressing just like that. He originally intended for the both of them to be seatmates anyway, so now he of course had no reason to reject it. “You two have thought about it… Okay.”

He ripped down the seating arrangement paper that had been stuck on the wall, took a pen and made changes to the first and second row. “Then Li Mingyong and Gao Zhibo will sit together.”

After Xu Sheng had finished speaking, he once again leaned back against the wall, thinking that Shao Zhan’s seatmate’s name was Gao Zhibo. 

Meng Guowei finished making the changes and asked again, “When will you two change seats?”

Meng Guowei meant that if the two of them weren’t in a rush, then they could use their afternoon break to change seats. Class was just about to start, and it wasn’t convenient to change, however, the two of them were actually very eager and said, “We’ll change now.”

Second year Class Seven group chat.

[Student A]: Super big news. 

[Student A]: I’ve gone crazy, I just went to the office to hand in assignments, why must this happen to me, I heard that the school tyrant and study god requested for seat changes in the teacher’s office.

The students of Class Seven knew of those two’s incompatibility through the lollipop incident, never mind the “fight” from yesterday night where they were both knocked unconscious, although this matter hadn’t been publicly announced, the information had already been spread privately throughout the grade.

[Student B]: Understandable, their emotions and choice now are very understandable to me. According to the school tyrant’s and study god’s current situation, even the gap across the aisle is too close for them.

[Student C]: That’s true, fire and water don’t mix, this aisle does seem too narrow. 

[Student D]: Did they want to sit on extreme opposite ends of the class, one at the front and one at the back?

[Student A]: No… They requested to sit together, together!!!

[Student B]: ??? Brave warrior, do you know what’s going on? @LiMingYong

[Li Mingyong]: … I don’t know. 

[Li Mingyong]: Is it true, there’s such good news? Am I about to see the hope of living?

No matter how heated the discussion in the class group got, the two people involved were completely unaware.

 

When Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan entered the class, there was only the sound of book pages turning.

Gao Zhibo had already heard the news about the seat changes, and that shy expectation in his eyes was quickly replaced with disappointment. 

Xu Sheng went over to pack his things–– Actually, there wasn’t much to pack. Shao Zhan’s seat was organised to the point of compulsiveness. Each subject’s material and test papers had been sorted by category and placed on top of his desk. Other than the slight mess caused by Xu Sheng trying to find the English vocabulary manual in the morning, the rest was overly neat.

Gao Zhibo never thought that they would be separated after being seatmates with the study god for only two days. His only memorabilia was the paper with the solution steps that the study god had written and given to him that morning. He mustered up his courage and called to Xu Sheng, “… Study god.”

Xu Sheng was frightened when he heard Gao Zhibo say those two words, worried that he would pull out another book of questions from behind his back, taking this last opportunity to ask another question that he couldn’t even understand.

Xu Sheng put the vocabulary manual back, pondered for a moment, then raised his hand to clap Gao Zhibo on the shoulder. “There is no never-ending feast in this world. After I leave, you must study well.” 

Gao Zhibo was reluctant. Actually, he also didn’t know what he had called Shao Zhan to say. When he heard that, he nodded.

Xu Sheng, “Remember to think independently.”

Independent thinking. This was the most important studying method he had learned this year–– Gao Zhibo once again nodded his head seriously.

Xu Sheng’s chatterbox mouth couldn’t be closed once it was opened. Due to his status as the school tyrant, no one other than that Zhang Feng fellow dared to look for him. It was still okay in the first year, but after splitting classes, he basically had no one to talk to anymore. 

He tapped his fingers against the table, planning to say some more bullshit, when the back of his neck suddenly felt cold.

Shao Zhan was behind him, and his expression was not very good. He stretched out a hand and hooked onto Xu Sheng’s school collar, dragging his entire body backwards, an impatient look in his eyes. “Don’t talk nonsense.”

Xu Sheng stuffed back his remaining words. “… Ok.”

This image, in everyone else’s eyes, couldn’t be any weirder. 

The class group chat that had finally quietened down with much difficulty once again blew up.

[Student A]: ???!

[Student A]: I choked.

[Student C]: Let me say something, something that I’ve wanted to say for a very long time. I don’t know if it’s my own hallucination, but the school tyrant looks more terrifying today… 

Xu Sheng was that “bad” kind of ostentatious. He seemed to not care about anything. Halfway through the class, he would wake up, scratch his head and lean back. When the teacher digressed during class and spoke about something fun, he would also laugh along. But after Shao Zhan turned into “Xu Sheng”, it was like he had carved the words “Do not enter” in a half-metre area around him.

Compared to Gao Zhibo’s reluctance, Li Mingyong’s actions when packing up his things were neat and quick.

 

Xu Sheng hadn’t even finished moving all his things when Li Mingyong had already put on his backpack, books in his arms as he waited. This pose was like one running towards happiness and a joyful life, he might as well buy a gong and drum and knock them on the spot to invite good fortune!

The bell for class rang. 

Cael: lmao li mingyong yeeted out at maximum velocity

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