Jiang Yue stared in disbelief at Ye Wangxing, who had just sat down at his seat. Trembling, she said: “…I feel like it’s infinitely close to zero.”

Li Jun and Zhang Le, who were beside her, nodded in agreement, looking utterly stunned.

Although they had noticed something was off last night—since the two big shots didn’t return to the dorm—they were still shocked when they saw Ye Wangxing this morning. The sunny and cheerful boy they knew had now transformed into a flushed, delicate figure with a face as red as a peach blossom, a hint of redness on his cheeks, and faint marks on his neck. This hit the two straight guys hard.

“Ye Wangxing didn’t suddenly awaken as an omega! Damn, he just looks like he didn’t sleep well, and his neck has a few more hickeys!”

Zhao Xiaxia, while brainstorming, rolled her eyes at the two clueless straight guys beside her.

The rest of the classmates didn’t know as much as they did, so they were still stunned.

Most had already heard about last night’s events from the boarding students this morning.

Initially, they were still talking about Zhou Mu and Su Qing. Ye Wangxing’s incident was only briefly discussed, and they made a few jokes about it, calling it like a scene straight out of an idol drama. They then shifted their attention back to how Zhou Mu and Su Qing got together.

Some even remembered that Zhou Mu and Su Qing had come back from outside during the bathroom incident a few days ago.

Su Qing had never gone out during lunch break before.

Another couple in love, hearts racing, love like fire—crazy and wild!

The classmates were discussing excitedly, but the two main characters of the conversation didn’t respond at all.

They were indeed a couple. Su Qing buried her head in her arms as soon as she entered the class, her shoulders shaking as if she were crying. When someone approached her, she looked up with a resentful glare that made them quickly back away.

Zhou Mu was different. He wasn’t crying, he just gave everyone that indifferent look, like he couldn’t care less but was about to explode any second.

“No brains and no happiness.” Li Jun nailed it with a simple observation.

However, as soon as Ye Wangxing entered the class, everyone’s attention shifted away from Zhou Mu and Su Qing.

—Please, it’s just early love. How could it compare to Ye Wangxing, who came back after disappearing for an entire night, with his neck full of red marks and a staggered gait?

Especially with the two people walking in behind him, satisfaction written all over their faces.

When the three of them sat down, things got even weirder.

Nan Jiu, who usually looked fierce, now looked much gentler. Yan Yi’s face wasn’t as cold as usual either. Both of them were radiating energy and even nodded to the class monitor who was collecting assignments!

What was this? This was proof! This was undeniable evidence!

At that moment, the students started whispering again.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to ask Ye Wangxing what had happened.

It was that, even though those two had already sat down at their seats, they were still paying close attention to Ye Wangxing.

It was almost as if they had eyes on the back of their heads. Even when their backs were turned to Ye Wangxing, they could still sense who was trying to get near him.

Anyone who tried to approach Ye Wangxing immediately felt like they were being eyed by a fierce predator and didn’t dare to move any closer.

And no one dared to ask what had happened between the three of them, which made the atmosphere in the class all the more strange.

Ye Wangxing didn’t seem to notice. He looked exhausted, his head resting on the desk. He seemed to be on the verge of falling asleep during class, being called on multiple times by the teacher.

This only made the students more certain about what had happened, and the gossip never stopped.

The two other main characters, who should have been the focus, hadn’t appeared in any of the students’ conversations anymore.

By common sense, what happened last night should have been embarrassing enough that no one would want to talk to them about it, which should have been a good thing. But for some reason, both of them felt a bit unsettled.

They were afraid the students might ask about what happened last night, but when the students didn’t, they felt a sense of loss.

Su Qing’s response was to bury her face even more in her arms, looking angrier.

As for Zhou Mu, he acted as if he didn’t care, loudly chatting with his friends during the break. However, no one responded to him, not even looking in his direction.

Even during the break, when Zhou Mu and Su Qing stepped outside to talk, not many people noticed.

Everyone was too busy discussing how Yan Yi and Nan Jiu had taken care of the drowsy Ye Wangxing, offering him meticulous care during the break.

Even though Zhou Mu was talking loudly, all he got was a “shh” from the students nearby, and then everyone quickly turned their attention back to the three of them.

This continued until the lunch break ended.

It wasn’t that they had settled down.

—It was because their tears had dried and their mouths were sour. They were about to be called in by their parents.

Principal Zheng had contacted their parents the night before, asking them to come to school at 1:00 PM to discuss their children’s situation.

Since the kids still had classes in the afternoon, the only time available was at noon.

Zhou Mu, though already accustomed to the worst, still felt his heart tremble when he heard that his uncle was coming.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of his uncle. If he were afraid, he wouldn’t be chasing the sunset on his motorcycle every day.

He was purely scared, he said it was because of the look in their eyes that seemed to say he was hopeless, and the way they treated him as if he had already been taken to the police station.

—In some ways, he was almost like a prophet.

Usually, petty thieves wouldn’t enjoy the privilege of being personally arrested by the deputy captain of the public security bureau.

Su Qing, on the other hand, was a bit calmer, though her tears still couldn’t stop falling.

Although it was Su Yi who had been called this time, her parents were never been summoned before.

In her eyes, this was the treatment reserved for bad students. Su Qing felt that, even though she had run off with Zhou Mu several times, she was still not a bad student.

At most, she had lied to her parents, and she hadn’t even skipped class—boarding students didn’t have evening study sessions.

But she couldn’t understand why Principal Zheng had to call her parents over for something as trivial as early romance. Wasn’t writing an apology enough?

It was 3019, why did early romance still require parents to be called in?

As she walked to the principal’s office, crying with confusion, she looked like a delicate flower in the rain, as if the whole world could feel her helplessness.

Zhou Mu, standing beside her, was suddenly filled with a sense of responsibility as a boyfriend. He immediately reached out and held Su Qing’s hand.

Su Qing slowly looked up, and Zhou Mu, with an indifferent expression, stood beside her, but his hand firmly gripped hers, saying: “Alright, stop crying, I’m here with you. As long as we’re holding hands, you won’t be afraid.”

Su Qing, feeling the strength in Zhou Mu’s hand, looked at his jawline and suddenly became more determined. Courage filled her heart, and she looked at him and nodded.

“Yeah! As long as we’re holding hands, I won’t be scared. Zhou Mu, you will always stand by me, right?”

Su Qing said seriously.

Zhou Mu tightened his jawline, nodded, and casually replied: “As long as you, the good student, don’t run away, what do I have to be afraid of?”

He lifted their joined hands, raised an eyebrow at his little brothers behind him, and they immediately gave a thumbs-up.

The two of them looked like the protagonists of a youth novel or movie, and the background music seemed to switch to “Hand in hand, we walk together.”

Ten minutes later.

“Uncle! Stop hitting, Uncle! I’ll definitely break up with her!”

Su Yi felt like something had been off since the night before.

He had been working tirelessly at the office after school until 7 PM. He had just closed his computer, planning to relax by scrolling through his phone and looking at the beautiful landscapes of the country, when he received a call from Su Qing.

His heart raced, fearing that his younger sister had suffered some injustice during evening self-study at school.

—Then he heard his well-behaved, diligent, and upright sister, who always advocated for good behavior and excellent study habits, had lied to her family about attending evening self-study and had gone out with that “yellow-haired boy” to ride dirt bikes. She had even been caught by the deputy captain of the nearby police station.

Su Yi, after hearing this, immediately pulled his phone away from his ear and glanced at it, even picking up the spinning top on his desk to confirm he wasn’t in a dream. After confirming he wasn’t in a dream, he wearily arranged a time with the principal to pick up his sister.

Since it was too late last night and his sister still had over ten assignments to complete, at Su Qing’s request, Su Yi hadn’t told their parents about the incident and had agreed to come to school in place of their parents.

However, considering that “yellow-haired boy,” Su Yi still reminded Su Qing not to get too involved with him, not just because of the difference in their family conditions, but also because of the dangers of early romance.

Simply put, that “yellow-haired boy” was a young man riding dirt bikes, and Su Yi almost heard the terrifying words in his ear: “Hey old man, is it alright to park my dirt bike here?”

At that time, Su Qing had promised well, but when Su Yi finally managed to find time in the afternoon to come to the school, he sat in the principal’s office for 10 minutes, watching other students sincerely admit their mistakes, write deep apologies, and even show respectful father-son moments.

However, the scene that appeared before him was not the image of Su Qing and that yellow-haired boy severing ties and parting ways, as he had imagined.

—Instead, Su Qing and that yellow-haired boy, hand in hand, walked proudly into the principal’s office, as if they were ready to fight against Ouyang Ke like Guo Jing and Huang Rong*.

(Quote refering to a time in the Jin Yong novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes)

Su Yi almost passed out.

Physically.

The man sitting next to him, who was probably that yellow-haired boy’s uncle, was sent flying out. His jacket just happened to cover Su Yi’s eyes.

When Su Yi regained his sight, he saw the man kick the yellow-haired boy, and then it turned into a spectacular display of a one-on-one fight.

However, that yellow-haired boy clearly wasn’t as tough as Guo Jing, and the fight lasted less than five minutes before the yellow-haired boy began shouting that he wanted to break up.

After all, his height-increasing insoles had been beaten out of him.

Su Qing, on the other hand, seemed stunned and stood there, watching the yellow-haired boy getting beaten.

In the end, it was Principal Zheng who stepped out to control the situation and pacify the angry yellow-haired boy’s uncle—though the yellow-haired boy’s hair wasn’t actually yellow, and his uncle was a proper firefighter, not someone who dyed his hair.

But Su Yi still instinctively shouted “Yellow-haired boy.”

Perhaps it was because Zhou Mu’s arrogant yet cowardly demeanor seemed too familiar.

After Principal Zheng calmed the people down, he first sent the father and son from the Ye family, who were well-behaved and their offense wasn’t serious, out of the office, telling them that writing an apology was enough.

However, before they left, both father and son turned around and looked back at the principal’s office with longing expressions.

Unfortunately, Principal Zheng still cruelly kept them outside the gate, and advised the father and child to go home and rest properly. She told them they didn’t need to attend the afternoon classes, after all, they hadn’t slept all night.

Then he began his ideological education for the young couple and Su Yi’s parents.

After that, time flew by, and the gears of the day kept turning—in short, by the time they left the principal’s office, it was already dark outside.

This was not really Principal Zheng’s fault. Ever since Head Teacher Li had taken over her ideological education work, he hadn’t spoken so kindly with students’ parents in a long time.

‘It really is more comfortable and pleasant to deal with students’ parents. Talking to those leaders is such a pain,’ Principal Zheng thought, sipping his tea with relief.

Su Yi and Zhou Mu’s uncle looked completely dazed.

By the time they finally left, the students had already been dismissed, so the two of them parted ways at the school gate. Zhou Mu had to return to the dorm to write his self-criticism, which would be announced school-wide on Monday, and Su Qing also had to write hers at home.

Su Yi finally snapped out of Principal Zheng’s endless lecturing and got into the car with the silent Su Qing. But before they even drove away from the school gate, they erupted into a fierce argument.

“…Zhou Mu is different. He took me on a drive, brought me to places I’ve never been. We are in love!”

Su Qing looked like she was radiating invincible true love, which made Su Yi feel like he urgently needed a heart medicine.

“You’re in love? Where? How is he different? He walked into the principal’s office, and within five minutes, before Principal Zheng even spoke, he said he wanted to break up with you!”

Su Yi slammed on the brakes, stopped the car at the roadside, and focused on arguing with Su Qing.

“That was because his uncle coerced him. If he really didn’t agree to break up, he would have been beaten to death. I trust him, he wouldn’t make me sad!”

Su Qing also shouted loudly.

Su Yi and Su Qing argued back and forth several times, and eventually Su Yi got so angry that he got out of the car, planning to smoke a cigarette by the roadside to calm down before taking her back.

However, as soon as he got out of the car, without even taking out his cigarette, he saw a massive, spherical inflatable mascot slowly fall in front of his car in the drunken concubine pose.

Looking at the mascot stretch out its short, chubby arms, trying to hold its head like it was drunk, a thought suddenly popped into Su Yi’s mind: This… was a staged accident?

 

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