During the afternoon self-study period when students could go to interest classes, Chai icen once again kept Zhou Rui behind in the classroom.
Zhuo Wenqian and Yang Ming were both afraid of Chai icen's redial lesson formation, so they ran out early, leaving only Li Xiaonan behind.
If it was usual, Li Xiaonan would have slipped out with Yang Ming, but today he surprisingly stayed behind with Zhou Rui for Chai icen's redial lesson.
Seeing this, Yang Ming was deeply moved. This is brotherhood! Li Xiaonan and Zhou Rui's relationship is so good!
After being moved, he ran away quickly, as if saying "forget about , just save yourself!".
Sitting down, Zhou Rui looked at the big tailed wolf Li Xiaonan beside him and scoffed disdainfully.
Li Xiaonan ignored him and continued to open his book, waiting for Chai icen to assign questions.
This was his first ti looking forward to a redial lesson.
Chai icen rummaged through her bag for a long ti before taking out a bottle of pills and slamming it heavily on the desk with a "bang".
"What is this stuff?" Zhou Rui asked as soon as he saw it.
"Ergency Heart-Saving Pill!" Chai icen said fiercely, "I'm trying my best not to get angry this ti. This is the best I can do!"
Zhou Rui resignedly nodded, "Fine."
What else could he do, sever the mother-son relationship?
Before starting the redial lesson, Chai icen first asked Li Xiaonan, "Is there anywhere you need extra guidance?"
"He's not much better than . When he first joined the international class, he was totally confused," Zhou Rui started his fault-exposing mode.
Li Xiaonan pursed his lips and replied, "You can just teach according to your own thinking, I'm just here to listen."
Chai icen opened the textbook and started explaining what the teacher taught today.
In order not to seem particularly stupid, Li Xiaonan made a rare effort to listen in class today. After Chai icen explained it once more, he basically understood it.
But when it ca to doing questions, he couldn't do it.
Zhou Rui was even worse than Li Xiaonan. At least Li Xiaonan could think of the right answers after thinking carefully.
Zhou Rui's answers completely relied on luck.
Seeing that Chai icen was about to get angry, Zhou Rui quickly took out his phone to ssage Zhang Ruchen: Help, martial arts ergency!
Zhang Ruchen: What happened?
Zhou Rui: Wow, you actually brought your phone today, impressive.
Zhang Ruchen: Oh, I was lying to you before, I just didn't want to reply to your ssages.
Zhou Rui: ...
Zhang Ruchen: What's up?
Zhou Rui: Co to my classroom for a bit.
Zhang Ruchen: Too lazy to move.
Zhou Rui: Brother, please, Rui Rui is begging you!
Zhang Ruchen simply didn't reply anymore.
Zhou Rui could only put his phone away and continue answering questions. Seeing Chai icen staring at him, looking like she was about to snap her pen in half, he beca vigilant.
After a while, Zhang Ruchen ca and knocked before entering. He thought for a bit before sitting next to Chai icen, opposite Li Xiaonan and Zhou Rui.
Looking at the textbook, he said, "Let explain to you guys."
"Great great." Zhou Rui imdiately relaxed.
Li Xiaonan was quite unwilling, but didn't say anything.
Zhang Ruchen looked at where they were up to, and started explaining the questions at an unhurried pace, speaking emotionlessly as if chanting scriptures. At the end he asked, "Understand?"
But this was still better than Chai icen's through-gritted-teeth teaching. Every multiple choice question felt like a life-or-death decision.
After listening for a while, Chai icen, who was resting her chin on her hand, also started listening along.
After listening for a bit, she opened an app and started ordering things. Recently she had really beco addicted to apps. Looking up, she asked the few of them, "Want to eat fruit?"
Zhou Rui was the first to reply, "Classmate, can you please not disrupt my learning?"
"Ok ok." Chai icen imdiately nodded very cooperatively.
She was overjoyed whenever Zhou Rui wanted to study, she would agree to anything.
Chai icen sat obediently on the side for a while, but soon went to collect the fruit.
Their school allowed al orders, but it had to be done sneakily.
Chai icen specially ran out to a corner to collect the fruit. Because she bought a large waterlon, it couldn't fit through the railings, so Chai icen worked with the delivery guy, hopping about trying to carry it in.
There were other male students who jogged over to help carry the waterlon in for Chai icen, and were exceptionally enthusiastic about helping her carry it to the classroom.
Chai icen then thought about it and went to the supermarket to buy them ice cream too.
She was the type of person who would get angry teaching Zhou Rui, but when she saw Zhou Rui really start learning, she would beco extrely delighted, giving him a massage or buying Zhou Rui tasty snacks.
If Zhou Rui wasn't quite active himself and liked exercising, he would probably be fat by now.
She and the male students carried the things back together. Chai icen even gave the male student an ice cream, making him extrely happy.
When he looked up, he saw Zhou Rui and Li Xiaonan glaring at him, and quickly grabbed the ice cream and ran off.
Zhou Rui was really at a loss with Chai icen. Even just going out to collect fruit was so troubleso with her.
She placed the waterlon on her desk, then froze.
Li Xiaonan had been watching her since she entered the classroom. Seeing her hesitate, he imdiately asked, "What's wrong?"
"I bought a waterlon, and even specially bought four spoons," Chai icen pointed at the bag.
"And then?" Li Xiaonan continued asking.
"I forgot to buy a knife, how do I cut open this lon?"
"The school doesn't allow knives," Zhou Rui imdiately said.
"I guess no one would be willing to bring a knife to school either," Zhang Ruchen also glanced back.
"You guys study first, I'll think of a way," Chai icen stood on the side, hands on hips, staring at the waterlon. She had also placed the ice cream on the desk.
Zhou Rui wasn't polite and started eating it straight away.
Shortly after, he saw Chai icen tie up the plastic bag, then slamd her palm down. The waterlon imdiately exploded.
Zhou Rui nearly choked on the ice cream.
The new school belle doing this?
Wasn't she afraid of being ruthlessly stripped of her title after a day?
Zhou Rui looked at Li Xiaonan, thinking he must be afraid to confess his feelings now right?
Unexpectedly, Li Xiaonan actually raised his hand and pointed, "I want that piece."
"Ok, I'll wipe it and give it to you. There are still bags here, you can hold it and eat it," after wiping it, Chai icen gave Li Xiaonan one piece.
"Thanks." Li Xiaonan accepted it and started eating with a spoon.
Zhang Ruchen looked back, chose a piece and started eating too.
Zhou Rui suddenly felt that he was the one who lacked experience instead. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Chai icen take a piece for herself, then gave him all the remaining pieces.
The waterlon wasn't divided equally. The other three people's shares combined was only as big as his share.
But he didn't mind and happily ate it.
"It's quite sweet," Zhou Rui praised.
"Mm, drought this year, the lons turned out well," Chai icen replied.
Zhang Ruchen was actually explaining questions while eating and spitting waterlon seeds at the sa ti, "If a polar coordinate equation is r=, pfft...then to find the area, integrate r, pfft..."
When the interest classes ended, Zhuo Wenqian and the others returned.
Upon entering the classroom and seeing Zhang Ruchen actually in their classroom, even helping Zhou Rui with redial studies, Zhuo Wenqian froze in her steps.
Seeing the others return, Zhang Ruchen left. Zhuo Wenqian watched him leave the entire ti.
After he left, Zhuo Wenqian started crying.
"The school prince was in our classroom...and I wasn't here...wah wah, why didn't you guys call back...wah wah, what did I miss! I missed my opportunity at love!" Zhuo Wenqian lay collapsed on the desk bawling, stubbornly clutching Zhou Rui's sleeve.
Zhou Rui was extrely helpless, "You ran away so quickly yourself, couldn't even catch you."
"Who would have thought the school prince would co!..."
"Or I could record you like this and send it to Zhang Harvard, what do you think?"
"No!" Zhuo Wenqian let out a heart-wrenching shriek.
At this ti soone called Zhou Rui out of the classroom. Shortly after, Zhou Rui ca back holding a form and stood at the lectern, asking the class, "For the basketball match, who wants to be in the starting line-up and who wants to be a substitute?"
The benefit of having more boys in the class was that they didn't need to think about having enough people, whoever went up would be a dude.
"The starting line-up must be Brother Rui and Brother Nan, let's rationally discuss the rest, don't fight over it." Yang Ming sat on the table and asked.
Li Xiaonan had already returned to his seat. In an indifferent tone he said, "I'm not participating."
"Why? You two coordinate the best together." Yang Ming was shocked straight away.
"Whether I want to participate or not is none of your business," Zhou Rui imdiately spat disdainfully.
Yang Ming could tell these two masters were really not getting along today.
"For the girls..." Zhou Rui started saying.
Having few girls in the class was also good. They didn't need to think about who to pick, just send five up, and one as a substitute.
"Us girls forfeit ba, don't want to be there as extras." Zhuo Wenqian raised her head after wiping away her tears and said.
"Don't worry, the girls aren't that good at basketball anyway, Chai icen alone could take them all out." Zhou Rui was especially confident in Chai icen after fighting her before.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaonan imdiately looked over.
Chai icen is participating too?
Zhuo Wenqian imdiately perked up, "All the girls from dance class are cheerleaders. We've been practicing routines recently!"
"Then won't we get to watch my beauties dance if we go to support the match?" Yang Ming imdiately beca interested.
"What about , why aren't you interested in ?" Zhuo Wenqian imdiately interrogated Yang Ming.
"I'm looking forward to it, really looking forward to it!" Yang Ming displayed his will to survive. "It's just because we're so familiar after seeing each other for so many years, I forgot to ntion it earlier."
After discussing, Yang Ming turned back to ask Li Xiaonan again, "Brother Nan, you really aren't participating?"
"Uh... then sign up ba," Li Xiaonan said in a low voice.
"Pretentious prick." Zhou Rui still couldn't help cursing when writing down Li Xiaonan's na.
During evening self-study, Chai icen sat in the classroom doing howork.
Evening self-study for the international class was optional and not compulsory. So students had already returned to their dorms to rest, while others went out to play.
Today Zhou Rui took a few classmates out to play basketball after arranging the match, and Chai icen didn't stop them.
Li Xiaonan was sulking with Zhou Rui today. He was slumped over his desk but couldn't fall asleep, so he kept looking at Chai icen's back in front of him.
When you like soone, even the back of their head looks especially good.
Chai icen's hair was jet black and quite coarse-looking, making her neck appear slightly raised. Li Xiaonan thought her spiky hair was rather cute.
Just then, soone rushed into the classroom and said, "Those bastards from the sports school ca to our school again. Soone saw them heading to the gym - Zhou Rui and the others seem to be inside!"
Li Xiaonan imdiately sat up and asked, "What's going on?"
"Zhou Rui borrowed the gym keys from the teacher so it's convenient for them to practice. But he ended up attracting those people over."
Li Xiaonan promptly went to his locker to grab sothing. Soon he took out a baseball bat.
When he turned around, he saw that Chai icen had run over to his side at so point. She was staring at him with narrowed eyes and asked in a dangerous tone, "What's happening?"
"Uh..."
Li Xiaonan had always felt that Chai icen was a tattletale. This ti was no exception.
"Don't worry about it," Li Xiaonan said as he lowered his head to ssage people in the group chat, wanting to leave. But he saw that Chai icen was following him.
"You should go back and do your howork," Li Xiaonan imdiately stopped Chai icen.
Even if he was upset with Zhou Rui, Li Xiaonan would not sell him out. Fighting was not sothing she should know about, or she might tattle afterwards.
But Chai icen was very persistent. "Tell what's going on."
"You really shouldn't get involved."
Chai icen stopped asking Li Xiaonan. She simply headed towards the gym on her own - it wasn't like she didn't know the way.
Li Xiaonan hurriedly grabbed her and called to Zhuo Wenqian, "Zhuo Wenqian, take her back!"
Unexpectedly, Zhuo Wenqian ca out carrying an iron rod. "I'm going too!"
There were few girls in Class 3 of the international departnt. It was rare to have a girl who was also influenced by teenage hormones and beca manlier than the boys.
"It's not appropriate for you to go..." Li Xiaonan was truly helpless. Bringing two girls to a fight, what was this, a cheerleading squad?
But Chai icen was exceptionally stubborn. "Tell what's going on."
"You really shouldn't get involved."
Chai icen stopped asking Li Xiaonan. She simply headed towards the gym with Zhuo Wenqian in tow, chatting about the situation.
Their school was not far from a sports academy.
Because their school was rich, they had nice facilities that the sports academy had borrowed for a period to practice for competitions.
It was only supposed to be for a short while until after the competitions. But after using their facilities, the sports academy students felt it was comfortable and well-equipped here. Disregarding their prior agreent, they shalessly trespassed after school.
Zhou Rui was keen on sports and often used the gym. As a mber of the school's athletics departnt, he knew how long they had borrowed it for. Seeing their lack of integrity, he went to talk to them.
The sports academy people were very arrogant, saying they were future athletes so they were requisitioning the facilities. Zhou Rui and the others should focus on studying hard instead of occupying the nice gym and wasting resources.
One thing led to another and fights broke out between them.
After one previous fight, the sports academy people laid low for a while. But one day, Zhou Rui was playing poker in the dorm when he heard they had trespassed again and even made duplicate keys.
That day Zhou Rui led a group to confront them. With greater numbers and ho advantage, none of the trespassers fared well. So were injured, and things escalated.
Jiahua School protected their own to so extent and made it clear to the sports academy that their students were barred from entering in the future. Any trespassers would be considered intruders and reported to the police.
But Zhou Rui and the sports academy people harbored grudges against each other.
In the hot sumr, Zhou Rui and his friends avoided the gym and played basketball outdoors to blow off steam.
It was only because the school had a competition that they went to the gym today. The indoor lighting and quiet made it convenient for Zhou Rui to strategize. But they didn't expect those bastards to show up again.
Did they have no sha?
After hearing the gist of the situation, Chai icen was worried about Zhou Rui.
This wasn't a situation that Zhou Rui had provoked. But if things really escalated, he would be implicated despite having enough on his plate already.
By the ti their group reached the gym, the two sides were only yelling insults and hadn't started fighting yet.
Zhou Rui was being especially aggravating, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the court and saying, "Didn't I say, if you co again you'll be my son. Looks like you guys just lack fatherly love."
Zhou Rui had a peculiar fixation on collecting sons. Without much effort from her, Chai icen already had a lot of descendants.
He had just finished gloating when he caught sight of Chai icen and practically leapt up, stumbling a few steps and barely keeping his balance.
Having experienced skipping class with mom once before, was he going to experience mom accompanying him to a fight this ti?
Because Chai icen was anxious, she had rushed ahead of the others.
She pushed open the gym door and strode in, followed by Li Xiaonan, Zhuo Wenqian and the rest, looking rather heroic. It was as if the entourage behind her were her underlings.
After she walked over, she stood by Zhou Rui's side and asked, "What's going on?"
Zhou Rui was montarily at a loss for words as he pondered how to make sothing up.
Seeing Chai icen, one of the sports academy guys who was over six feet tall also beca excited. He sidled up to the leader Hui Ge and spoke haltingly in agitation, "Hui Bro, the campus belle of Jiahua is here. She's even prettier than the photos!"
Hui Ge also looked towards Chai icen, swallowing his saliva.
There were beauties in their sports academy too, just not in their district. The academy's districts were divided by sports. This district was exclusively male. They might not even see soone as beautiful as Chai icen after eight hundred years.
They often paid attention to news about Jiahua, so they had heard of the new campus belle and even circulated her photos. But they didn't expect to see her in person today.
Her looks were...indescribable! Gorgeous! A fairy.
"We were having a dance battle..." Zhou Rui managed to squeeze out after a long pause.
"What does that an?" Chai icen kept asking.
"Street dance. Freestyling." After Zhou Rui replied, he told Yang Ming beside him, "You've learned street dance before, you go first."
Yang Ming had been clamoring boastfully at Zhou Rui's side earlier. Suddenly put on the spot, he was taken aback and confused.
"Huh?" He seed not to have heard clearly.
"Hurry up. He who hesitates is lost. If I don't go up now I'm finished." Zhou Rui urged Yang Ming again.
Still completely bewildered, Yang Ming went up. He looked back uncertainly at Zhou Rui again, and saw Zhou Rui even giving him a thumbs up.
He could only brace himself and actually start dancing.
The scene was bizarre beyond words.
Usually Li Xiaonan would be at the forefront, but this ti he surreptitiously shrank back to the most inconspicuous spot, only then feeling relieved.
He couldn't bear to watch this embarrassnt, it would be too shaful.
The sports academy people were also dumbfounded by the sight. After Yang Ming finished dancing, scattered applause ca from the Jiahua side.
They had co to pick a fight today and intentionally brought many people. Gathered together like this and watching a dance performance was quite...novel.
After hesitating for a while, Hui Ge glanced at the people he brought and asked after a long pause, "Do you guys...know how to dance?"
No one moved.
They had lost just like that.
Chai icen watched Yang Ming's face turn red from embarrassnt down to his neck. She thought the poor child had been put in an unenviable spot.
What was the aning of this scene? She wasn't stupid.
Did they think she was an idiot?
"Sports academy people," Chai icen suddenly took the initiative to ask.
Hui Ge imdiately straightened up, maintaining a dignified manner as he nodded.
"Since you've co, let's have a basketball match," Chai icen suddenly suggested. "It's better than pointless fighting."
The sports academy people looked at each other in dismay.
Zhou Rui sidled up ingratiatingly and asked, "We're really playing?"
"Yeah, use them for practice."
"Great!"
Author's note: Sending out more updates like nutrients.
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