Inside Honours Class 1, most people quietly sat in their seats and did the exercises and homework for every subject given today.
There were still twenty minutes left until nighttime self-study ended. Fu Songhua finally massaged his wrist and put down his pen.
“Damn, Qu-jie has gone mad. After doing a round of her math papers, I’m always tired to death.”
The Math teacher for the Honours Class had the surname Qu. She always talked energetically and ruthlessly arranged their homework; the students both felt respectful and terrified of her.
The boy beside him asked enviously, “Have you finished? I haven’t finished it yet.”
Fu Songhu triumphantly showed off. “Of course. My speed of solving questions has been ranked top ten in the grade and top five in our class.”
He turned his head, reached out his hand, and grabbed the homework on Qin Yuan’s desk. “This first rank student in the grade, please let me check the answers.”
He didn’t need to look to know that this person had already finished earlier.
Qin Yuan didn’t raise his head and looked down, the phone screen in his hand brightly lit.
Fu Songhua glanced over, feeling it a bit strange. “Hey. Boss, are you looking at the QQ group? You usually don’t like to look at this, ah.”
Qin Yuan flipped his hand and quickly turned over the phone, indifferently answering, “Just casually looking at it.”
Fu Songhua didn’t overthink and picked up the homework to check. He pondered over the few questions with different answers for a while before changing them.
He was still engrossed in checking the answers when a boy behind suddenly shouted in a soft voice. “Aiyo, that soft balsa wood has caused trouble again!”
Fu Songhua was stunned and turned around. “Can’t he stop for a while?”
A few boys asked successively, “What happened? What happened? What is that trash from Class 9 up to again?”
Last time, that guy had upset a lot of people in the big group. Class 1 had always been united; regardless of gender, all supported their class monitor and disliked this underachiever from another class.
The boy looked at the bustling scene with great interest and shouted, “Class 9 just held a class meeting. He came up and ran for sports representative, forcing Liu Jun down.”
“Fuck, so disruptive? How did he do that?!”
“They say he stood up on the spot and battled Liu Jun, saying, ‘choose me if you’re annoyed by him or choose him if you’re annoyed by me’– Fuck, so unyielding! Afterward, their class anonymously voted on the spot and he won with a high number of votes.”
Fu Songhua was startled and hastily asked, “Why?! What is he capable of?”
Class 1’s boys were all flabbergasted. “Yes, ah. For a disabled person becoming a sports representative, has Class 9 gone crazy?”
“I don’t know whether the people in their class are crazy or not, but I reckon that Liu Jun must’ve been gone mad from anger. It must be hard for him to be robbed of the class representative position. It would be absurd if he could accept it.”
During the last minute of the nighttime self-study, everyone’s enthusiasm for gossip was ignited, and they passionately gathered together to discuss it.
All kinds of gossip gradually spread around after a while.
“Aiya, it’s super awesome! They read the ballots on the spot. Liu Jun only got eight votes while Ruan Qingmu got thirty or so votes!”
“Yes, that’s right. When they wrote the votes on the blackboard, Liu Jun’s face turned green as he watched Ruan Qingmu’s votes steadily rose.”
One girl suddenly held her phone and said in a whisper, “Wow! A girl from their class secretly took a short video!”
The girls beside her curiously moved closer. “What video?”
The speaker was playing the audio, but the sound was still considered low. The surrounding girls watched for a while and suddenly let out simultaneous gasps of surprise.
“Wow, it’s a bit cool!”
“I don’t seem to hate him that much anymore. Hahaha.”
Fu Songhua felt an itch in his heart and loudly shouted at the other side. “Hey, hey, what is it? You girls should also send it for us to see.”
That girl pursed her lips and smiled, sending the short video to the class group chat.
The majority of Honours Class 1’s students were obedient, so most of them didn’t bring their phones during the self-study. They gathered together now and curiously clicked open the video.
The angle was very slanted, and it could be seen that this was secretly filmed with a glance. The camera was directed at the podium, and a slender boy stood at it. It was Ruan Qingmu!
And behind him were the already called out voting numbers; the thirty-one votes were especially prominent and conspicuous.
He stood there without a slight consciousness of being an underachiever and looked down with a lazy expression.
Qin Yuan, quietly sitting alone, silently opened the class QQ group at the side.
In the video, a loud shout came from Liu Jun’s comrade behind. “We refuse to accept it! How can a cripple become a sports representative? Shouldn’t we choose someone who is good at sports?”
Ruan Qingmu on the podium indifferently raised his head and looked over there. “Oh, I was limp before, but I’m almost healed now.”
“Good legs don’t mean that he’s also good at sports!”
Ruan Qingmu smiled a bit carelessly. “I won’t say more in my inauguration speech; only a sentence– whoever isn’t convinced can still come here to fight me.”
The camera zoomed in. Obviously, the secretly filming girl quietly moved the camera’s focus.
The youth in front of the podium lowered his head, looked for red chalk on the podium, and slowly smeared it on the fingers of his right hand.
The watching Class 1’s students felt a little confused. “What is he going to do?”
Just as everyone was baffled, the youth with delicate eyebrows and soft black hair turned his body around.
He suddenly leaped up under everyone’s gazes.
The highly jumping figure was like a sharp lightning bolt, stretching his slender arm, jumping high past the edge of the blackboard and slapping his palm!
A few dark red fingerprints appeared on the white wall as he raised his fair-white palm.
The chalk crumbs fell one after another, tiny but apparent.
In the video, the youth turned around with a faint smile. “People like me have always convinced people with virtue and won’t go for fighting and killing. Come. To whomever can get a millimetre higher than me, I will yield without any objections.”
There was a commotion and yelling coming from the video, and a series of whispers were also recorded on the speaker.
“So high! How did he jump?”
“Ahhhhh, it’s super cool, ah…..”
The video stopped.
In the self-study room of Class 1, the gathering boys were all stunned. They seemed to raise their heads in unison and look at their own class’ blackboard.