With the thick clothes, Quan Zhisui was no longer cold, and her mood improved significantly. She not only ignored Zuo Zichen but also Wei Shixu.
When he spoke to her, she put on noise-canceling earplugs.
When he brought her things, she casually placed them on the seat next to her.
When he ssaged her, she didn’t even glance at it.
Quan Zhisui demonstrated the pinnacle of revenge through sheer indifference!
She acted as if he didn’t exist, treating him like air.
This was not only torturous but also utterly disheartening, leaving Wei Shixu completely helpless.
She had completely cut him out of her life!
At lunchti, Ling Ruoyun ca to find her.
The long-distance runner often visited Class 1 to hang out with Quan Zhisui and frequently ate als with her at school.
Both of them had high energy expenditure and ate a lot, so neither judged the other. They were the perfect al companions.
“I’m going for training camp, ten days!” Ling Ruoyun said between bites.
Quan Zhisui cheered her on: “Do your best! Next ti, try to outrun .”
Ling Ruoyun laughed: “Haha, that’s a bit difficult!”
She was soone who knew her limits.
Quan Zhisui asked, “When are you leaving?”
Ling Ruoyun: “This afternoon, after packing up. Ugh, it’s so annoying. When I co back, I’ll have to catch up on academic classes. Why is everything so annoying!”
Quan Zhisui joined in the complaint: “I’m annoyed too. I have to catch up on all of second-year content while keeping up with third-year classes.”
Ling Ruoyun was surprised: “The regular classes have already started teaching third-year material?”
Quan Zhisui: “Exactly. They’ve finished the first sester of third year and are now teaching the second sester. It’s like they want to cram the entire high school curriculum into the first sester of second year.”
Ling Ruoyun expressed deep sympathy: “Well, good luck to you too.”
Quan Zhisui high-fived her. They both had to shine in their respective fields!
After the first class in the afternoon.
Senior Zi Yin checked out of the hotel and ca to Liang High School to say goodbye. She brought the clothes she had bought for Quan Zhisui and placed them in the corner by her seat in the last row. She also slipped her two thousand yuan.
Quan Zhisui reluctantly walked Zi Yin to the school gate.
“Go back now. I’ll visit you again when I have ti,” Zi Yin said, patting her head.
Quan Zhisui’s eyes turned red, but she didn’t say anything. She knew this was just a comforting remark. Zi Yin was her master’s prized disciple and had her own family and daughter. The responsibilities and pressures of adulthood were different from the academic stress of a student.
Zi Yin patted her back again and said, “The master has a ssage for you.”
“What is it?” Quan Zhisui’s eyes lit up.
Zi Yin smiled: “Cultivate in the secular world, the diamond path, no breakthrough without destruction.”
Quan Zhisui was stunned. Her master already knew about her situation.
She hadn’t said a word.
Had her master divined it?
Zi Yin gently stroked her cheek: “Zhisui, Wudang Mountain will always be your ho.”
Quan Zhisui blinked hard, trying to hold back her tears.
Her senior left, carrying her guqin and sword.
The mont Quan Zhisui turned around, large tears began to fall.
The class bell had already rung, but she didn’t return to the classroom. Instead, she sat on a bench under the teaching building, lost in thought.
The past two days and one night felt like a dream. Her senior’s warmth had been so fleeting!
In the classroom.
It was math class, and Qian Ya was enthusiastically teaching from the third-year textbook, getting more excited the harder the problems beca.
She had no idea that the students below were on the verge of passing out.
The high school math in Jiangsu Province was notoriously difficult, practically incomprehensible!
Wei Shixu wasn’t paying attention. He had already mastered all the high school curriculum. Instead, he gazed out the window, looking at the bench below the teaching building.
The cold wind was blowing outside, but she wasn’t cold anymore, wearing the sweater her senior had bought for her.
She seed so lost, sitting on the bench for a long ti.
Finally, her shoulders trembled slightly, and she raised her hand to wipe her face with her sleeve.
“This formula! Everyone, pay attention! You must morize this formula!” Qian Ya was emphatically highlighting key points on the blackboard.
Wei Shixu suddenly stood up and walked out.
Qian Ya’s excited expression faded as she asked in surprise, “Wei Shixu, where are you going?”
“I’m not feeling well,” he said, already disappearing into the hallway.
Qian Ya continued teaching but couldn’t help wondering.
Wei Shixu was sowhat special at Liang High. He didn’t do howork or pay much attention in class, but his grades were exceptionally good, so the teachers left him alone.
However, he seed to have a peculiar attachnt to the school. Even though he didn’t need to study, he showed up on ti every day, sitting through every class as if it were a formality.
He rarely left the classroom during class. This was only the second ti it had happened.
Kong Mingze, who had been sleeping in the back row, suddenly opened his eyes, looking around with concern.
Zhuge Ying, sitting in the front row, turned around and glanced at the empty seat in the last row.
……
On the bench.
Quan Zhisui’s face was scrunched up as she cried. This was the second ti she had cried since coming to Liangxi.
The last ti was because she was hungry.
She wasn’t afraid of hardship or the bullying from the Zuo family, but her senior’s brief visit and departure had left her heartbroken.
And she missed her master.
She longed to return to the small forest behind Wudang Mountain, to the modest and sowhat dilapidated Martial Arts School. She had planted so many Sedum lineare and Sedum spectabile in the backyard, making the small courtyard especially beautiful!
She wondered if her fellow disciples had been watering her little plants in her absence.
At this thought, Quan Zhisui raised her sleeve to wipe her tears again.
Suddenly, a shadow fell beside her, and a hand holding a tissue appeared.
“Using your sleeve? That’s not very hygienic.”
Wei Shixu didn’t sit down. He just stood there, watching her cry until her sleeve was soaked from wiping her tears.
Quan Zhisui quickly wiped her face with her sleeve, stood up, and walked away without looking at him.
She would never accept a tissue from Wei Shixu!
Wei Shixu looked up at the trees above the bench. Their yellow leaves fluttered down with the gentle breeze.
Damn it, he felt like crying too!
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Two days later.
Another transfer student arrived at Liang High. She was a sports student nad Lu Qin, assigned to Class 8.
Lu Qin beca famous almost imdiately. On her first day, during the first break, she walked from one end of the U-shaped teaching building to the farthest end, reaching Class 1.
“Hi, I’m looking for Wei Shixu,” she said with a smile, asking a classmate by the window to relay the ssage.
At that mont, Quan Zhisui, Zhuge Ying, and Kong Mingze were eating snacks in a corner of the hallway. Hearing this, Kong Mingze and Zhuge Ying imdiately turned to look.
Only Quan Zhisui showed no reaction, opening another pack of crackers.
Crunch, crunch!
The classmate by the window was surprised. It had been a long ti since any girl had co looking for Wei Shixu, ever since Quan Zhisui had appeared.
But the classmate still turned toward the front corner and called out, “Wei Shixu! Soone’s here to see you!”
Wei Shixu glanced outside, waved his hand, and went back to watching a movie.
The classmate shrugged at Lu Qin: “Sorry, he’s busy. Haha.”
But Lu Qin remained calm and composed. She smiled and said, “Could you tell him that I have sothing I’d like him to pass on to Old Mr. Wei Jingsan?”
The classmate was taken aback. This ti, he didn’t shout. Instead, he walked over to Wei Shixu’s seat to relay the ssage.
Not long after, Wei Shixu stepped out of the classroom.
He stood two ters away, sizing up Lu Qin, and asked, “You have sothing for my grandfather?”
This was certainly unusual.
Lu Qin didn’t move, maintaining the safe distance Wei Shixu had established. She took out a small wooden box, about the size of a phone, and handed it to him.
“Hello, Wei Shixu. My na is Lu Qin. Twelve years ago, there was an accident at my kindergarten. Your grandfather’s private rescue team was the first to arrive and pulled from the rubble. He saved my life.”
“Now that I’ve grown up, I found out that we’re in the sa school and the sa grade. I was so happy!”
“Could you please pass this small gift on to your grandfather for ?”
As she spoke, many people by the window leaned out to watch.
Hearing this, everyone was visibly surprised.
A girl saved by Wei Shixu’s grandfather twelve years ago had transferred to his school, and now they were eting to pass on a gift.
It felt like fate!
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