Chapter 3

All the school teachers and students were gathered on the school field. The place was filled with people.

Hearing the commotion, several students nearby sneaked glances at them.

Yu Fan didn't actually care where he stood. If Zhuang Fangqin wanted to, he had no problem with standing at the very front of the line.

If it was anyone else, he would have moved forward without raising his head.

Yu Fan stared at him, "With which eye of yours do you see that I'm shorter than you?"

Chen Jingshen lowered his eyes and then raised them again, "With both."

Seeing him examine him again, Yu Fan nodded, "Pick a time and I'll help you check——" "Check? Check what?" A stern female voice sounded from behind and Yu Fan was patted on the back, "What could be better looking than the principal?

Look towards the front!"

Hearing that familiar voice, Yu Fan flattened his lips and did as he was told.

Zhuang Fangqin was dressed in black today with a purple scarf. Her hair was meticulously tied to the back of her head and she held a folder in her hand as she frowned at the person before her.

Because she wore glasses for a long time, her eyes were a little small and she had slight buck teeth. Her overall appearance was very stern.

The moment Zhuang Fangqin appeared, Chen Jingshen could feel the person in front of him suddenly relax. The hostility from earlier was gone and he returned to his earlier lazy demeanour.

"Those injuries on your face. Come to my office later and give me an explanation." Zhuang Fangqin lowered her head and took in his black hoodie.

Her expression turned bad, "Where's your uniform?"

"Forgot it."

"Why don't you also forget about school starting?" Zhuang Fangqin said, "Look at yourself. Everyone else is wearing their uniform except for you!

When the student union comes later, they will be deducting points from our class because of you!"

The homeroom teacher of the class next to them joked, "The heads came today too. Thanks to you, your homeroom teacher would be reprimanded on her first day back to school."

Yu Fan didn't care at first but his fingers curled up when he heard this, "Then I'll go hide?"

"Shut your mouth." Zhuang Fangqin's head hurt. She raised a finger, "Borrow a uniform jacket from a classmate."

Yu Fan raised his head and looked ahead, "Wang Lu'an."

"Stop calling for him. He also only wore his school jacket today." Zhuang Fangqin was puzzled, "Can't you just borrow from this classmate next to you?"

The classmate next to him?

Yu Fan didn't even turn to look at the person next to him, "It might not be good borrowing from someone from a different class?"

"What different class?" Zhuang Fangqin said, "He's your classmate."

"?"

"Newly transferred. He will be in our class from now on." After Zhuang Fangqin finished saying that, she looked at Chen Jingshen inquiringly, "Student Chen, can you lend him your uniform jacket for a while? It's okay if you don't want to, you don't have to force yourself."

Yu Fan frowned. The person borrowing looked more disgusted than the person lending the uniform.

Yu Fan, "I don't want….."

"Okay." Chen Jingshen glanced at him, "If he doesn't mind it being too big."

Yu Fan, "Take it off right now."

Half a minute later, Yu Fan received the jacket and put it on roughly. After wearing it, he lowered his head to double check.

Not too big, just right. It's probably the same size as his own uniform.

"It's a little short." He raised his head and said, "I'll return it to you when it's over."

Yu Fan's hoodie had a skull printed on it that was partly peeling off.

Alongside his black pants and the crooked bandaids on his face, the neat uniform on him looked odd.

Chen Jingshen took in the bruises that were still visible at the edges of the bandaids and suddenly raised his hand.

Yu Fan reflexively slapped it away, "What do you want?"

After taking off his jacket, Chen Jingshen was still wearing a school shirt underneath that was buttoned all the way to the top. He was practically a model student.

Chen Jingshen's hand paused in mid-air before naturally falling by his side, "The collar."

Yu Fan wanted to say that it's none of his business but, remembering that it was the other person's uniform, he roughly fixed it up.

Zhuang Fangqin who saw this was satisfied, "Alright, wear it properly now, don't get it dirty. Remember to return it to him later."

A while later, she felt that something else wasn't right.

She then realised what was wrong. She used her folder to poke the two of them, "Wait a minute. You should be lining up according to height. You two change places."

Yu Fan, "...."

Two seconds later, he stiffly gave up struggling and gave up his precious spot at the end of the line.

The flag raising song finally came to an end. After the flag was raised, the principal cleared his throat and began his passionate speech.

Normally at a time like this, Yu Fan would have already fallen asleep while standing but today he resisted the urge and just stared blankly at the principals receding hairline.

The microphones were much louder than usual, making it impossible for him to sleep.

The principal had come prepared this time, speaking eloquently for half an hour in one go. Yu Fan was beginning to get impatient. He habitually stuffed his hand into his pocket——-and came into contact with something.

It was thin and smooth, with a sharp edge.

He was so sleepy, he wasn't thinking straight. He reflexively took it out.

Seeing the item in his hand, Yu Fan froze for a moment.

It was a pink envelope. There was no writing on it but based on how it felt, there was probably a letter inside.

There was even a small red heart-shaped sticker sealing the letter shut. Just like the envelope itself, it was enough for one to tell what the letter was.

This is…..a love letter?

When was it put in here?

Yu Fan frowned in thought for a while. He couldn't recall where this letter came from.

Just as he was deep in thought, he suddenly caught sight of the uniform that was too clean to be his.

Fuck.

Yu Fan returned to his senses —- He is currently wearing Chen Jingshen's jacket.

This letter belongs to Chen Jingshen.

Yu Fan quickly reacted and stuffed the letter back into the pocket. He subconsciously glanced back.

Chen Jingshen was still looking ahead. It was unknown if he was paying attention, but he looked like he was.

The school photography department liked students like him. Serious and upright, like a nerd.

A nerd like this would actually be involved with dating at an early age?

Sensing his gaze, Chen Jingshen lowered his eyes slightly, "What is it?"

From the looks of it, the other party hadn't noticed his actions just now.

Yu Fan quickly turned his head back, "Nothing."

The moment the opening ceremony was over, Yu Fan took off his jacket and threw it into the arms of the person behind him, "Here."

Chen Jingshen held the uniform and waited for a few seconds before saying, "You're welcome."

"...."

As soon as Wang Lu'an looked back, he saw the leaving figure of his good friend.

He hurriedly caught up, "The hell, why are you walking so quickly? Didn't you say that you're not coming to the flag raising ceremony?"

Wang Lu'an would always make the class have points deducted during the ceremonies because he talked too much. Zhuang Fangqin had given him a stern warning this morning, saying that one word spoken would equal one extra set of homework to do, so he had no choice but to hold it in the entire time.

Yu Fan, "Fat Tiger caught me."

"That unlucky?" Wang Lu'an glanced at the stairs to the classrooms that were filled with people, "Damn, it's so crowded….Why don't we go to the cafeteria first? I happened to not have had enough for breakfast this morning."

"Not going." Yu Fan didn't even look back, "Sleepy. I'm going back to sleep."

-As soon as Zhuang Fangqin entered the classroom, she saw a head resting on the desk in the last row.

She threw her folder onto the podium and then said in a voice that often received complaints from teachers next door, "Students who are sleepy should go to the bathroom and wash their faces. Hurry up. We still have our class meeting to do."

Yu Fan slowly sat up. His temples pounded from his sudden movement.

He rubbed his face, frowned and stood up.

"Yu Fan, stay right there."

Yu Fan stopped in place. He raised a brow —— Why?

"Would you come back if you went?" Zhuang Fangqin pointed at the board, "Stand at the back if you're sleepy. You'll be awake soon enough."

Yu Fan thought for a moment before sitting back down.

He sat in a lazy posture, his head hanging low, looking very listless.

Zhuang Fangqin held back her anger. She bent down to plug in a USB drive into the computer, "Before the class meeting, I would like to say two things."

"Firstly, we have two new students in our class. Chen Jingshen, Wu Si, they were both transferred to our class from class one. I won't talk too much about this, you can get to know them more after class. These two students have excellent grades and a good attitude towards learning. You should all learn from them."

"Secondly," Zhuang Fangqin clicked open an Excel sheet titled 'Class 2-7 Semester Ranking', "This was your individual rankings in the last semester."

The class immediately wailed.

Yu Fan wasn't interested in the rankings at all. He took a cursory glance at it and saw the name at the very top."

"Chen Jingshen, 150 in mathematics, 110 in Chinese, 148 in English, as for science….the fuck? Full marks?" Wang Lu'an was shocked, "Yu Fan, you can't get this score even if you copied the answers!"

Yu Fan, "You should fucking use yourself as a comparison."

"Damn." The person sitting in front of them turned around, "This guy is scary. Apart from Chinese, he has no other weaknesses."

Wang Lu'an nodded in understanding, "Looks like even top students don't like to memorise texts."

"That's not it." The other party thought about it, "I heard from a friend in class one that he often goes off topic in his essays."

"...…" This time, the student in first place, Chen Jingshen, is in our class.

After saying this, even Zhuang Fangqin herself found it unreal, "I roughly looked through his papers. Except for going off topic in his Chinese exam, causing him to lose most of his marks, there are no issues with his other subjects. Before your teachers go through the exam problems, you can take a look at his paper first."

After saying that, the people in the class couldn't help but turn and look at the seat on the third row, fourth column.

Chen Jingshen didn't even raise his head. With a pen in his hand, he was busy working on a problems. He didn't appear interested in the thing projected on the screen.

So pretentious.

Yu Fan looked away.

"The other students performed rather averagely. The average score in our class wasn't even as high as the average in the previous exam. I hope you can all reflect on this. What university would you be able to get into with this score?"

Someone muttered, "If the college entrance examination is as difficult as the exam this time, I'll just move bricks."

"I can't understand the problem itself while other people can get full marks."

"There are also a small number of students…." Zhuang Fangqin dragged the sheet down to the bottom and the mouse stopped on a certain name.

She looked at the number 9 under the mathematics column and tried to restrain herself but failed, "Yu Fan, do you plan to pick up garbage for a living in the future?"

"Haven't thought about it." Yu Fan thought for a while, "But I can consider it."

Zhuang Fangqin skilfully grabbed a piece of chalk and threw it at his head.