SEBLS Chapter 5

Finally, he acquiesced to Zhuang Wu going to the cafeteria with him. As he expected, this breakfast was particularly uncomfortable. Zhuang Wu kept looking at him. Later, Zhuang Wu might have realized that this would make it difficult for Qin Qiyue to eat, so he restrained the gaze that he always wanted to cast over, but Qin Qiyue still couldn’t feel at ease.

Zhuang Wu didn’t study very seriously when he was in high school. He only learned some knowledge in his last year of high school because he was influenced by the atmosphere around him. So even now that he has returned to high school, Zhuang Wu still doesn’t know much about that knowledge.

He has already survived high school, so asking him to study again was just trying to tire him to death. Even if he didn’t study, he could still get similar grades as in his previous life. Zhuang Wu originally wanted to just get into a university like before and then enter the entertainment industry.

But today, Qin Qiyue has changed his mind.

His seat was too far away from Qin Qiyue’s. He was on the far left and Qin Qiyue was on the far right. It was not easy for him to sneak a peek at Qin Qiyue during class.

How can one not look at the person they like anytime and anywhere? Zhuang Wu was lying in his seat feeling worried. At this time, he heard Hu Jianlong’s voice. He asked Qin Qiyue to share last week’s math test, and then walked up to the podium and started speaking.

“Everyone, be quiet for a moment. Let me tell you something.” Hu Jianlong’s voice was not very loud at first, but a few students continued to talk about their own things as if they didn’t hear him. He suddenly became angry and knocked on the table with a ruler. “Shut up, you guys. If you make any more noise, stand outside the classroom for a day!”

The classroom finally quieted down, and Hu Jianlong continued, “There will be a monthly exam from next Wednesday to next Friday. Just like before, seats will be changed after the results come out. You can choose according to your ranking. I will seriously visit the homes of those who have fallen behind. Don’t let me catch you with your cell phone on the exam day, otherwise it will not be returned to you before graduation.”

After hearing this, Zhuang Wu remembered that the class had always arranged seats according to grades. The first place student chooses their seat first, followed by the second place student, and so on. So as long as his exam ranking was next to Qin Qiyue’s, wouldn’t he be able to sit at the same table with Qin Qiyue?!

Zhuang Wu couldn’t help but get excited for a moment, but before he could be happy for long, he suddenly realized the gap between himself and Qin Qiyue. There were only a few days left. How could he suddenly reach the level of being on par with Qin Qiyue? Qin Qiyue had never fallen out of the top three…

Is that just the way it is?

But this is the only way to get closer to Qin Qiyue. After some thought, Zhuang Wu thought that even if he couldn’t rank himself close to Qin Qiyue right from the start, he could still improve a little bit each time. As his ranking slowly rose, he could get closer and closer to Qin Qiyue’s position.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Wu instantly became motivated again. He would work hard to improve his grades and strive to become deskmates with Qin Qiyue as soon as possible!

Therefore, Zhuang Wu changed from being aimlessly in a daze at the beginning to starting to listen to the lectures seriously. However, because he had not studied well before and his foundation was not solid enough, he found it a bit difficult to listen to the lectures, but was too embarrassed to ask questions in class.

Even though he didn’t do much exercise, his brain was really busy during class. By the time school was over in the evening, Zhuang Wu’s brain power was nearly exhausted.

Seeing Qin Qiyue packing his bag and preparing to leave the classroom, Zhuang Wu also hurriedly packed up and followed him, but Qin Qiyue walked very fast along the way, as if he didn’t want him to catch up.

Zhuang Wu finally managed to choke out his words, “Gege, don’t walk so fast, wait for me.”

Qin Qiyue felt a headache when she heard Zhuang Wu’s voice, “You’ve been too idle lately, coming to see me all the time.”

“I’m not idle. If I didn’t like you, would I come to you?” Zhuang Wu muttered, “When will you stop speaking so harshly to me… can’t you be more gentle?”

Qin Qiyue snorted coldly. “Let’s see how long you can pretend to like me.”

Zhuang Wu paused for a moment, and then stopped walking. “Do you still think that I am pretending to like you?”

“If not?”

“That’s not it.” After thinking for a while, Zhuang Wu shook his head and retorted, “You don’t disbelieve it, you just don’t want to believe it.”

“…You may think so, I don’t deny it.” Qin Qiyue’s tone was cold.

He would rather accept that Qin Qiyue really didn’t believe it than accept that Qin Qiyue didn’t believe it because he didn’t want to believe it. It really wasn’t just his whim, he really liked Qin Qiyue.

But it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter if Qin Qiyue didn’t want to believe him for a while. After all, it has only been a few days since he expressed his feelings. If Qin Qiyue was willing to accept him in such a short time, it would be too frivolous. When he started to pester Qin Qiyue in his previous life, Qin Qiyue looked indifferent but still fell in love with him.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Wu suddenly became enlightened, and the depression in his heart disappeared. He smiled and said to Qin Qiyue, “Gege, I just like you like this.”

“……”

Before Qin Qiyue could confront him, Zhuang Wu suddenly came over and spoke first, “Let’s make a bet. Let’s bet on how long you can endure. Let’s bet on how long it will take for you to fall in love with me.”

The distance between the two of them was shortened in an instant to the point where they might touch each other with any movement. Qin Qiyue lowered his eyebrows and his eyes fell on Zhuang Wu’s face. They just stared at each other while Qin Qiyue seemed to be able to feel Zhuang Wu’s burning gaze.

Under normal circumstances, Qin Qiyue would ignore such meaningless words, but at this moment, it was like he was competing with Zhuang Wu. “Okay, then I’ll bet on how long you can keep pretending.”

Zhuang Wu stared at him, his eyes flickering, “If you insist on saying that I am pretending to like you, then, Gege, I might just pretend for the rest of my life.”

………

After arriving home, Zhuang Wu took out his test paper and stared at the questions as if he wanted to stare a hole through them. However, no matter how hard he stared, his mind still had no ideas.

After a TV series’ protagonist was reborn, he knew everything and was proficient in everything. He also vowed to get everything that belonged to him. As for him, not only did he know nothing after his rebirth, he was even stuck with a high school math problem.

What was the point of his rebirth?

After making sure that it was impossible for him to solve the problems, Zhuang Wu took out his mobile phone and switched to the chat box with Qin Qiyue. It seemed that he and Qin Qiyue had not chatted much on the phone. After looking through their chat history, he found that their last interaction was three months ago.

Zhuang Wu entered a text in the dialog box and sent it out after completing the input.

[Winning an Oscar sooner or later: Gege, I don’t know how to do a question, can you teach me~]

After sending it out, Zhuang Wu saw his nickname, which was too embarrassing. He quickly went to his personal page and changed his name: Haze.

Switching back to the chat box, Qin Qiyue replied.

[1: Go to sleep, get lost.]

[Haze: Gege is so ruthless wuwu TAT! 】

After replying to the message, Zhuang Wu put the phone aside and continued to think about the problem. He knew that Qin Qiyue would not agree, so he did not hope. However, he still felt very unhappy after being rejected.

Qin Qiyue, even if you don’t like me, it won’t be a problem if you teach me a question!

The phone vibrated, Zhuang Wu clicked it and found that Qin Qiyue had replied again, but… looking at the message sent by Qin Qiyue, Zhuang Wu felt that it would be better not to reply.

[1:……]

In the next few days, apart from the time he spent with Qin Qiyue, Zhuang Wu spent almost all of the rest of his time doing exercises and attending classes.

It was right for Zhuang Wu to want to sit at the same table with Qin Qiyue, but that was not entirely his intention. He mainly wanted to work harder to be worthy of Qin Qiyue…

The day before the monthly exam, Hu Jianlong stood on the podium and read out the exam room numbers. Zhuang Wu listened carefully, afraid that he would miss one. His ranking was low, so his exam room was also low. After reading out the names of many students, his name was finally called.

After learning of his examination room, Zhuang Wu lay down. My gosh! Were his grades so bad before? There was an insurmountable gap between him and Qin Qiyue’s examination room!

How long would it take him to learn so that he could sit not too far away from Qin Qiyue’s examination room during the exam? Zhuang Wu was about to collapse.

There was supposed to be a physical education class today, but because there was an exam tomorrow, Hu Jianlong informed them to study in the classroom instead. The students in the class have become accustomed to it. In fact, they would rather do homework in the classroom than go down to the physical education class. The physical education teacher was a devil. Their legs would hurt for several days after each physical education class.

Zhuang Wu’s pen moved for a long time. When he stopped, he couldn’t help but look in the direction of Qin Qiyue’s seat. Although it was not easy to see him, it couldn’t stop Zhuang Wu. He had to see Qin Qiyue no matter what.

After just a few seconds of looking, Qin Qiyue must have felt his direct gaze causing him to turn his head slightly. Their eyes met in the air.

Seeing Qin Qiyue also looking at him, Zhuang Wu smiled at him and made a heart shape with his hands.

Qin Qiyue was stunned, glared at him fiercely, then quickly looked away, ears turning red.

He seemed angry, but Zhuang Wu was amused by his appearance and smiled even more. So cute, Qin Qiyue. After looking at him for a while, Zhuang Wu continued to focus on the questions.

After making eye contact with Zhuang Wu, Qin Qiyue felt inexplicably irritated and had difficulty concentrating on his homework.

No, is Zhuang Wu sick… Qin Qiyue forced himself to concentrate on the questions.

He had almost forgotten about Zhuang Wu giving him a heart, but as soon as class was over, Zhuang Wu came to find him again.

How dare he come here? Isn’t he afraid that I will scold him?

“My examination room is far away from you. I’m not happy.” Zhuang Wu did not mention what happened during the self-study class.

Qin Qiyue had no expression. “I’m quite happy.”

Zhuang Wu choked. In order not to provoke a conflict, he had to change the subject. “Gege, can we go together after school?”

“If I say no, you will still follow me anyway.” Qin Qiyue said coldly, “It’s quite annoying.”

“……”

Ahhhh, why is this person so difficult to communicate with!

If it wasn’t for the fact that he liked him, Zhuang Wu would have walked away long ago if someone else had spoken to him like that.

He forced a smile. “Then I’ll take that as a yes.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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