Elder Li looked at his crutches and stopped the admonishment for being late that was coming.
“Fine, fine, you can sit as you wish.” She stood on the podium and began speaking proudly. “Every student who comes into our class has the thought of getting an award in the Olympiad. This is very good.”
All thirty or so students were honours students. When they concentrated on listening to the lectures, it was frighteningly quiet. She stayed on the podium in satisfaction. “I have taught physics for thirty years and led every batch of students that participated in the Physics Olympiad. I have the confidence that I can continue teaching many students in our class to get the awards. How about we welcome this period with a good start?
The blood of the top students below was boiling with excitement with her words. “Okay! A good start!”
“What is the provincial award? We want to get the national award!”
Ruan Qingmu looked at the excited faces around him and then at his completely empty desk. He moved his body closer to the window curtains and quietly hid half of his body.
It was too easy to get sleepy during the first class in the afternoon.
He had just closed his eyes when a low voice sounded in his ears; the voice was both pleasant and cold. “Where is your textbook?”
Ruan Qingmu opened his eyes and looked at the familiar face of his new neighboring deskmate.
With his sword brows and phoenix eyes, the light in his eyes was sharp and clear, and when he looked at people, it always carried the usual politeness of good upbringing but was also cold and distant.
Tch, he was still the same as in his previous life. As if he would be blackened and damage his chivalrous reputation if he exchanged a few more words with someone from the evil sect like him.
“Gone.” He let out a big yawn.
Qin Yuan frowned at him.
Elder Li’s voice was loud and clear. “In my opinion, we should finish all the content from this semester’s teaching material by the end of the tenth month. Then settle all the knowledge points for the college entrance examination in the eleventh month. For the following, we will train and prepare for the Olympiad…..”
Qin Yuan sat upright, and his gaze looked straight at the teacher on the podium. But for the first time, he was absent-minded during a lesson.
The people from Class 9 said that Ruan Qingmu’s textbooks had been torn in the big span of class group chat; it seemed to be true?
The scene at noon suddenly appeared in his mind. That meal plate that was so vegetarian, like a monk’s food bowl, swayed in front of his eyes, causing people to be disturbed for no reason.
So, this person had no money to buy the new textbooks?
He suddenly stretched his hand and threw his physics textbook at Ruan Qingmu’s desk, saying in a small voice, “Use this book first.”
His voice was small, but the textbook was quite heavy. It fell to Ruan Qingmu’s desk with a heavy bang sound. The sound was apparent inside the quiet classroom.
On the podium, Elder Li’s attention was attracted to him. She saw Ruan Qingmu raise his head with a sleepy dazed look and loudly shout. “You, what are you playing at? The sound is so loud!”
Ruan Qingmu was confused. “?”
Elder Li imposingly shouted, “Come, give me an answer. How to solve the second half of this question?”
“You should listen if you don’t know!” Elder Li was disappointed that iron did not turn into steel5. “If you won’t study, at least be a little quieter. Don’t make any strange noises again!”
Ruan Qingmu: “Oh, okay, teacher.”
As the elderly woman turned around to write on the blackboard, he looked down and tore a small piece of paper. He carelessly wrote a few words on the note, placed it between the physics textbook, and quickly threw it to Qin Yuan’s desk.
Qin Yuan coldly glanced at him and opened the note.
“I won’t listen to the lesson. No need to waste your textbook.”
Qin Yuan’s brows slightly twitched a few times. He replied under the note and returned the textbook with a cold face.
The Class 2 study representative, Li Jianquan, secretly glanced at both of them and felt like a little mouse was scratching in his heart6: What were his idol top student Qin and that underachiever from Class 9 doing?!
Why didn’t Boss Qin listen to the lecture during class? Did he like to pass notes?
The problem was that what could be discussed with an underachiever? Couldn’t it be said after the class?
Ruan Qingmu speechlessly opened the note and looked at the line on it: “What are you doing coming here if you don’t listen to the lecture??”
The handwriting was sharp and beautiful. Although it was written carelessly, it possessed a vague sense of the strength of character and was clearly visible.
Ruan Qingmu attentively looked at that handwriting for a while and suddenly smiled.
He had only seen this man’s handwriting once in his previous life, and it was even on the sealed battle invitation letter.
It was also like this; the strokes were sharp as a knife and awe-inspiring.
He casually took out the note from the textbook and stuffed it in his pants pocket, then turned his head.
The sun shone brightly on the side of his fair, almost translucent face, and there was a faint hint of golden light shining on the youth’s hair.
Why was he coming here if he wasn’t listening to the lecture?
The corners of his mouth were lifted, like a smile yet not a smile, and he replied silently using a mouth movement.
Although there was no sound, Qin Yuan could still clearly understand the words because he spoke very slowly.
“Come to see you, ah.”
……
Footnote:
5 Disappointed that iron did not turn into steel (idiom): describes being dissatisfied with the person you expect is not up to your expectations, and eager to hope that he will get better.
6 Mouse was scratching in his heart: Feels uncomfortable