Chapter 68: "I heard you've been in a relationship lately."

Senior year life is very different from the past, just from the atmosphere of the school building. In the past, the hallways of the building were always bustling with activity during class time, but now there are few people in the hallways during class time.

Every class had an extra countdown to the college entrance exam on the blackboard, and the atmosphere was depressing and uninspiring.

Zuo Kuan didn't used to understand why some of his very mixed-up friends suddenly went silent after their senior year of high school, but he kind of gets it now.

Every time he went to class 7 after class, he saw his two brothers lying on their backs doing problems, and he couldn't muster the energy to do it.

Yu Fan and Wang Luan were still sitting at a separate table, they didn't mention it to the teacher, and the teacher seemed to have forgotten about it.

"Don't study, relax." Zuo Kuan entered the classroom through the back door, sat down in the empty seat next to Wang Luan, "Playing soccer after school today?"

"No fight, I want to go home to make up for my lessons." Wang Luan worked on the problem without lifting his head.

Zuo Kuan: "Tutoring again? How many days a week do you make up? What's the point."

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"My dad said if I can get into a school, college will buy me a car. I'm working hard now so that we can have a better life in the future." Wang Luan said, "Think about it, you're picking up garbage on the side of a bridge, and your brother drives a big limousine to pick you up and take you to the disco, isn't that cool? Wouldn't you envy the other garbage collectors?"

"...... Fuck you, I'm not picking up trash!"

"Then why don't you hurry up and study?" Wang Luan said, "Yu Fan is fucking reformed, what qualifications do you have to hang around!"

Yu Fan was annoyed by a question, and was even more annoyed when he heard his name.

He leaned back in his chair and was about to curse when Zhang Xianjing suddenly turned his head and handed him a form: "Don't mind them, sign it. The school has asked every class to submit a voluntary enrollment form for remedial classes, which will be held every Saturday from now on. After you sign it, pass it to the next group."

Each entry on the form contains personal information about the student.

Yu Fan took the form, scribbled a few strokes on it, signed it, realized that there was Chen Jingshen's information underneath his own, moved down the page in his own free will, and wrote down Chen Jingshen's name---.

"Hey wait." Ke Ting also looked back and stopped him in a whisper, "The teacher transferred the wrong form when she printed it, students who have already switched classes don't have to sign it."

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Yu Fan's penny dropped as she snapped back to her senses.

He put down his pen, gave a very faint oh, and handed the form to Wang Luan.

Wang Luan took a look at it and marveled, "Holy shit, Yu Fan, how did your handwriting get better?"

"Yes?" Zhang Xianjing rested his elbows on Yu Fan's desk and glanced toward his sketchbook, "Isn't it still a ghost drawing?"

"The names are beautifully written, look at this 'Yu Fan' and 'Chen Jingshen'...... " Wang Luan paused, suddenly remembered something, shocked, "Yu Fan, you shouldn't have practiced those piles of outrageous characters sent by the school bully--"

Before he finished speaking, his chair was kicked lightly. Yu Fan stretched his legs and said without expression, "Is it possible? Hurry up and sign it and pass it on."

"Wow."

Wang Luan had just written his name when he suddenly spoke out again, "...... hey? It's the school bully's birthday soon?"

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Yu Fan turned his head to look at him.

"How do you know." Zuo Kuan asked.

"ID number, here, it's not written." Wang Luan pointed to the form.

"August 11th," Zuo Kuan peeked his head in, "Holy shit, isn't that this Friday?"

After being reminded by Wang Luan about the calligraphy posters, Zhang Xianjing stared straight at Yu Fan and didn't listen to what the two living treasures beside him were saying.

Yu Fan met her line of sight, and the movement of turning the pen gave a slight lurch, his heart staring a bit furtively.

Zhang Xianjing : "You ......"

"Yu Fan!" Gao Shi shouted from the classroom doorway, "Visit Qin wants you in the office!"

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Yu Fan was relieved and immediately got up and went out through the back door of the classroom.

There were not many people in the corridor, and Yu Fan wondered idly as he walked along, "What did Zhang Xianjing's eyes mean just now?

Come to think of it, when we went to the restaurant on the day of summer vacation, Zhang Xianjing seemed to be looking at him and Chen Jingshen in a strange way, could she have noticed something?

It's all Chen Jingshen's fault. He gets married all the time. How old are you?

As he thought about this, Yu Fan had just walked down the corridor of the catwalk connecting the school building to the office building, and he glanced up in the direction of the first class out of habit.

It was obviously time for class to end, but the sixth floor hallway was empty.

The first class teachers are strict, cell phones are seen to be confiscated, he has not contacted Chen Jingshen today.

Yu Fan originally thought that falling in love was easy. Classrooms, his house, Chen Jingshen's house, the laboratory building ...... wherever they could meet, but just one semester had passed and they suddenly had no place to go.

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Sometimes he wakes up from study hall, looks at the unoccupied seat next to him, and even goes into a trance like Wang Luan. Did Chen Jingshen really come to their class? Was there really someone sitting next to him? Were he and Chen Jingshen really in love?

These occasional moments of confusion would disappear when Chen Jingshen sat down next to him after school, carrying his papers.

Someone came out of the doorway of the first class, and Yu Fan immediately withdrew his gaze and turned into the office.

Yu Fan came out with the intention of avoiding Zhang Xianjing's line of sight, but he didn't realize that when he arrived at the office, there was just another person staring at him.

Zhuang Fangqin called the man in and then left it at that; she corrected her homework in silence, occasionally glancing up.

Yu Fan stood in front of her office seat for ten minutes until the bell rang and he said, "See you later, teacher."

"Stand!" Zhuang Fangqin slapped him, "Who said goodbye to you? You don't have to go back for the next study hall."

So Yu Fan leaned back lazily.

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Zhuang Fangqin This period of time is really tormented. She has taught for so many years and has seen a lot of early love, but for the first time she has seen two boys ......

She considered a number of options, the most common being to contact both parents, but she considered the family situation of the two men and immediately pushed the idea down; then there was the idea of contacting the school to deal with the situation, which wasn't good enough, and the parents would still have to be notified; and finally it came down to an interview.

Chen Jingshen wasn't in her class anymore, it was inconvenient, she had to find another one first.

She customarily made a lot of preparations before the interview, such as compiling some of the disadvantages of early love, and then criticizing them in conjunction with their performance, but she found that those faults that early love would trigger were actually not present at all between these two people.

Even they are moving in a good direction.

So this interview was much more difficult.

"I heard you've fallen in love recently." Zhuang Fangqin went straight to the point.

Sure enough, the man who had been wilting suddenly stood up straight and visibly tensed.

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"Is there such a thing?" Zhuang Fangqin asked, "Who is the other party? From our class?"

Yu Fan's heart hangs in his throat and drops back violently.

By the way, he once in the WeChat small group said this matter, inside the ten or so people, it is not possible to say who is quick to say a sentence, a pass ten ten pass a hundred, then spread to Zhuang Fangqin this.

His fists clenched and unclenched, his fingertips white, "Yes, not from the class, Indian."

"......"

Zhuang Fangqin was all about to be pissed off at him, and his head that had been hurting for a few days seemed to have gotten a little better, "Seriously, let's get down to business. I once bragged to the other teachers that you could do anything bad, just not fall in love early, now it's good, can't get off the stage."

"You can't count me out for your own bragging rights."

"Are you talking like a human being? When I was scolded by the leader because of you, what did I say?" Zhuang Fangqin picked up the roll and slapped him hard, "That's all said and done, you know what I've called you for, don't you?"

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"Know that I don't break up."

"......"

"I understand, you are now at the age of youthful budding, you do mistake some feelings between classmates or friends as like ......"

"That's right." Yu Fan interrupted her very faintly and said calmly with downcast eyes, "I can tell the difference."

"......"

Zhuang Fangqin took a sip from his teacup and took three deep breaths before saying, "You mean you're not breaking up, right?"

"No points."

"Let me tell you, Yu Fan, I've been teaching for so many years, and there aren't many pairs of students who fall in love early that can actually go all the way to the end, let alone in your situation, you--" she said, pausing raw, her face red with excitement.

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Yu Fan didn't know what she was thinking and quickly misinterpreted Zhuang Fangqin's meaning.

"I know, my situation kinda sucks." Yu Fan paused and said, "...... But it seems to be better now."

Senior fight a year, can get on the best of Jiangcheng, on not go he went to the next city, as usual and Chen Jingshen close to.

His mom has already left the country, and when he graduates, he will have nothing to do with Yu Kaiming. When he's independent, he'll be able to work for money, rent a room in Jiangcheng, and live his own life.

He seems to have gotten a little better, at least daring to think about his future.

"That's not what Mr. ...... meant."

Zhuang Fangqin was suddenly stymied. She had mixed feelings in her heart, and the pen in her hand drew a bunch of messy lines on the paper.

Two little people were pulling at her heart; spreading it out, she wasn't sure it would make the situation better; not saying anything, it would go against her duty as a teacher.

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"Did the school leaders know?" Yu Fan said, "I've already had two disciplinary actions taken against me, so it's okay to have another one, so don't worry."

"...... Shut up, don't be angry with me." Zhuang Fangqin's taut nerves were gently rattled, and she asked breathlessly, "Have you thought it through? Really think clearly?"

"Uh-huh."

"You're only a few years old, do you know ......" Zhuang Fangqin paused, "what being in a relationship means to you?"

"Know, understand, I'm not breaking up."

"......"

Zhuang Fangqin thought she was well-prepared, but she didn't realize that she'd run out of words when it came time for the interview. She couldn't say anything that would attack the students' sexual orientation, nor could she force them to break up. She snapped her pen and threw it on the table, "Fine, this is the path you chose for yourself, there's no way I can interfere with you, but Yu Fan, you have to listen to these words of mine."

"With your current grade and experience, there's no way to give each other any guarantees at all, there's a thousand difficulties ahead of the path you're taking, you just can't see them yet, and there's no way for me to tell you specifically. If you must persevere, you must be prepared for a certain amount of mental preparation, the outcome of being found out could be even worse than you expected, do you understand?"

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Yu Fan dropped his eyes in silence for a moment and said, "I understand."

"Go back." Zhuang Fangqin waved his hand wearily.

Yu Fan was just about to leave when he was grabbed by his clothes.

"And don't do something a student your age shouldn't do, do you know?" Zhuang Fangqin emphasized, "Not at all!!!"

"...... Oh."

Yu Fan turns around and gets caught back up.

"And," said Zhuang Fangqin, "absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely not to interfere with your studies! The day your grades go down, I'll make sure you're separated, okay?"

"Oh."

By the time he was caught for the third time, Yu Fan was getting a little impatient.

"And," Zhuang Fangqin lowered his eyebrows, "...... if anything happens in the future, come to your teacher first."

Yu Fan paused for a moment before saying after a long time, "I know."

After Yu Fan went out, the Class 8 teacher who had been listening next door for a long time couldn't help but stick her head out.

"Mr. Zhuang, it's quite normal to fall in love early, there's no need to make it so serious, right?" The other party said, "And didn't Yu Fan's grades skyrocket? If it were me, I'd just let him be."

"...... You don't understand."

Zhuang Fangqin drank a cup of tea to the bottom, looked out the window and sighed very heavily.

Yu Fan was already halfway through the study session when he left the office.

He was staring at the road under his feet, somewhat puzzled as to why Zhuang Fangqin had said that the road ahead of him would be difficult. He didn't really think there was anything hard about it. Studying was easy, and so was making money. He could share the rent with Chen Jingshen by working two jobs at random, as long as he made it through the year. ......

The cell phone in his pocket buzzed, and Yu Fan came back to his senses, absentmindedly pulling it out to read it.

[s: I won't be able to see you today.

Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.

Published at: 08/07/2024 08:00

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