Jin Ming looked around the playground but couldn’t find Wen Ke’an. When she got back to the classroom with two bottles of water, she saw Wen Ke’an lying on her desk.
“An’an, where did you go? I already bought your water,” Jin Ming asked softly, taking her seat and glancing at Wen Ke’an.
“I don’t need it anymore,” Wen Ke’an said sullenly without looking up.
“What’s wrong?” Jin Ming noticed something was off with Wen Ke’an.
Wen Ke’an’s ears turned red, but she still didn’t raise her head. “It’s nothing.”
Wen Ke’an really wanted to punch Gu Ting at that moment.
Just a few minutes ago, he had cornered her under a big tree at school and kissed her.
The principal’s office wasn’t far away, and Wen Ke’an was nearly scared to tears.
But the more she cried, the more excited that beast became.
Later, Wen Ke’an felt her lips go numb. Without a mirror, she didn’t know if they were swollen.
Based on past experience, her lips were probably obviously swollen now. Afraid her classmates would notice something, Wen Ke’an had her head down in the classroom and didn’t dare to lift it.
Since Wen Ke’an wouldn’t say what happened, Jin Ming decided to ask other classmates for information.
“This afternoon, I think I saw Gu Ting dragging Wen Ke’an away,” said the class representative for Chinese.
The class rep had also been at the playground and happened to see Gu Ting pulling Wen Ke’an by the wrist.
Recalling the incident, the class rep looked excited. “It was such a beautiful scene, like something out of a TV drama!”
“Really?” The class rep’s desk mate chimed in. “But Gu Ting looked pretty angry at the time. We were all shocked!”
Jin Ming knew about Wen Ke’an and Gu Ting’s relationship, so she didn’t overthink it. She glanced towards Gu Ting’s seat. “But why isn’t Gu Ting back yet?”
As Jin Ming finished speaking, she turned and saw Gu Ting walking into the classroom.
The class rep watched for a moment and asked curiously, “Why does Gu Ting look pretty happy?”
The desk mate looked at Wen Ke’an, lying on her desk. “But Wen Ke’an doesn’t look happy at all.”
After a moment of silence, the desk mate concluded, “Could Gu Ting really be bullying a girl?”
“…”
Gu Ting knew he had gone overboard, but he couldn’t resist her charm, especially when thinking about her expressions and beautiful, watery eyes.
Seeing the girl lying on the desk, looking like she didn’t want to talk to him, Gu Ting quietly walked to Jin Ming’s seat, sat down beside her, and gently poked Wen Ke’an’s cheek.
“What do you want?” Wen Ke’an huffed angrily.
“My lips were bitten by you,” Gu Ting said softly, trying to hide his amusement and sounding a bit aggrieved.
Wen Ke’an buried her head deeper. “I don’t want to talk to you!”
“…”
Wen Ke’an thought if she had known Gu Ting would be so awful, she wouldn’t have looked forward to him coming to their school.
During class, Gu Ting sneakily tried to talk to Wen Ke’an.
Chu Han passed a note during class.
Wen Ke’an decided not to spoil him like this. If she was angry, she was angry! This time she would have a cold war for at least thirty minutes!
So, Wen Ke’an read the little note but didn’t reply even once.
No one else noticed their little actions, but Jin Ming saw everything clearly. Jin Ming finally couldn’t hold back and turned to Wen Ke’an, whispering, “What are you two doing?”
As he spoke, a large paper ball was thrown over from behind, landing right between Jin Ming and Wen Ke’an. Seeing that Wen Ke’an didn’t want to pick it up, Jin Ming hesitated for a moment, then picked up the paper ball and quietly asked, “Shall I open it?”
Wen Ke’an glanced at it and then nodded lightly.
After getting Wen Ke’an’s consent, Jin Ming slowly unfolded the paper ball. Seeing the words on it, Jin Ming was stunned for a moment, then smiled and put the paper on Wen Ke’an’s desk.
The entire page was filled with just three words, written repeatedly: “I’m sorry.”
Wen Ke’an: “……..”
As soon as class ended, Wen Ke’an left the classroom without speaking to Gu Ting.
Originally, Gu Ting thought Wen Ke’an had just gone to the bathroom, but less than five minutes later, he saw Wen Ke’an returning with a pile of water bottles.
Wen Ke’an walked over to Gu Ting, looking down at him from above.
The water bottles were heavy, so Gu Ting quickly stood up and took them from Wen Ke’an’s arms.
“These are for you,” Wen Ke’an said, handing all the water to Gu Ting.
Gu Ting pressed his lips together, trying to smile but not daring to.
“Are you happy?” Wen Ke’an asked softly, looking at him.
At an angle where no one else could see, Gu Ting reached out and held her small hand, smiling as he coaxed her, “Very happy.”
Recently, Wen Ke’an felt that people in the class were always glancing at her and Gu Ting. When she was alone before, she didn’t get this much attention.
At first, she thought it might be because of Gu Ting’s charm, but later she realized that wasn’t it.
After sharing her doubts with Jin Ming, she saw Jin Ming looking at her with a conflicted expression, “You don’t know?”
“Know what?” Wen Ke’an asked, confused.
“There’s a rumor in the class saying Gu Ting bullies you, that he’s treating you very badly.”
“………”
“He hasn’t bullied me,” Wen Ke’an said, not understanding where her classmates got that idea.
“Really?” Jin Ming asked curiously.
After a moment of silence, Wen Ke’an thought of something, looked up at Jin Ming, and softly said, “Well, maybe a little.”
“……….”
Not long after Gu Ting transferred in, Wen Ke’an’s class got another new student.
This person was someone Wen Ke’an found quite familiar—Xie Hongyi, who had been a witness to the marks of their love.
As soon as Xie Hongyi entered, Wen Ke’an remembered the embarrassing incident that happened not long ago.
She deliberately avoided looking at Xie Hongyi, but Xie Hongyi still happily greeted her in a low voice, “Hello, little sister-in-law!”
“………..”
Xie Hongyi was assigned to sit next to Ting Gu, becoming his deskmate.
After the homeroom teacher left, Ming Jin turned around to look at Xie Hongyi in disbelief and asked, “How did you end up here as well?”
“Did your family also donate a building to the school?”
“Special admission! Special admission!” Xie Hongyi emphasized to Ming Jin while packing his things.
“Do you know how hard it was for me to get into this top school? I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in days!” Xie Hongyi lamented.
For the past few months, he had been tormented by various private tutors in preparation for the entrance exam.
Xie Hongyi touched his hair and said, “Studying these past few days has made my hair fall out like crazy! I’m going bald.”
Ming Jin glanced at his hair and agreed, “Yeah, how can someone so young be balding already?”
“You don’t get it; this isn’t baldness, it’s the result of wisdom! The fruit of hard work!” Xie Hongyi loudly asserted.
After the class bell rang and a teacher had entered, Ming Jin dared not continue talking and quickly turned back around.
Seizing a moment when the teacher wasn’t paying attention, Xie Hongyi leaned closer to Ting Gu and whispered, “Brother Ting, I never expected you to be this talented. You scored ninety-eight on the special admission test out of a hundred?”
“Because of your unexpectedly high scores, my dad nearly scolded me to death, you know that?”
Xie Hongyi’s father and Ting Gu’s father were good friends, so Xie Hongyi did everything with Ting Gu from a young age. However, Ting Gu had always been smart and outstanding, and the only rebellious thing he did was attending vocational high school.
Back then, Xie Hongyi found it exciting and followed Ting Gu to vocational high school. As a result, both nearly got kicked out of their homes by their fathers.
Hearing what Xie Hongyi said, Ting Gu glanced at him sideways and said, “Study hard, or your dad will kill you.”
Xie Hongyi sighed, “Brother Ting is working hard now. I can’t be lazy alongside Brother Ting anymore.”
Recently, there was an academic competition being promoted in the school. This competition was at the provincial level, and the school was encouraging students to actively participate. Being bored, Ke’an Wen signed up for the competition, seeing it as a good opportunity to expand his knowledge.
The format of this competition was quite unique. The school had a quota of ten participants. Over a month, the school held an exam once a week. Each participant could take the exam four times, with their final score being their highest achieved score.
The competition questions were quite challenging, and Ke’an Wen wanted to achieve a good ranking, so he had been cramming knowledge and studying hard these days.
Gu Ting goes to school with Wen Ke’an every morning.
Wen Ke’an wakes up late and doesn’t like to eat breakfast. Every time, it’s Gu Ting who has to coax her into eating a little bit.
Without breakfast, she gets hungry by ten o’clock.
So, these days, Gu Ting has almost formed a habit of going to the supermarket to buy some snacks for Wen Ke’an during the break, and keeps them ready for her.
Sure enough, after the third period ended, Gu Ting saw the girl in front of him suddenly turn her head to look at him.
Seeing her expression, Gu Ting knew what was up. Stifling a laugh, he asked, “Hungry?”
“Mm.” Wen Ke’an nodded lightly.
Gu Ting took out the food he had prepared for her from under the desk and handed it over.
It was the little bread Wen Ke’an liked, along with a bottle of milk.
Wen Ke’an didn’t really like plain milk. After a few sips, she still found it unappealing and put it down.
“The supermarket ran out of yogurt, so I brought you hot milk this time,” Gu Ting gently coaxed, “Plain milk is nutritious too, can you drink it all?”
Wen Ke’an always felt that plain milk was tasteless and not very nice to drink.
She hesitated for a moment, then frowned and looked up at him, softly saying, “I don’t want to drink it.”
Seeing the milk would go to waste, Gu Ting said, “Give it to me then.”
“Here!” Wen Ke’an handed it over decisively.
After dealing with Wen Ke’an’s leftover milk, Gu Ting handed his homework notebook to Wen Ke’an: “Check it for me, will you?”
“Okay.”
In the afternoon, the results of the first competition exam were released.
Wen Ke’an had almost taken the exam without much preparation, so her results weren’t very good, ranking 30th in the entire grade.
However, Wen Ke’an had a good attitude and wasn’t agitated. She just glanced at the score sheet and then quietly started reviewing.
Gu Ting had thought about how to comfort her.
To his amusement, it wasn’t needed at all.
Jin Ming glanced at the score sheet and gently nudged Wen Ke’an’s arm, whispering: “An’an, Ji Xingran ranked third!”
Xie Hong, with keen ears, overheard this and instinctively asked, “Who’s Ji Xingran?”
Before Jin Ming could answer, Xie Hong suddenly remembered and mumbled, “Oh, I recall, isn’t he the early romance partner of our little sister-in-law?”
“”
As soon as Xie Hongyi finished speaking, he was met with the sharp gazes of Gu Ting and Jin Ming.
Xie Hongyi silently closed his mouth.
Gu Ting originally didn’t plan to participate in the competition, but one morning during study time, Xie Hongyi suddenly discovered Gu Ting looking at the competition problems.
“Are you going to join the competition too, Brother Ting?” Xie Hongyi asked, surprised.
“Yes,” Gu Ting replied.
“Then which place do you plan to get, Brother Ting?” Xie Hongyi asked with a smile.
“Second.”
“Why second place?” Xie Hongyi didn’t understand.
He knew that Gu Ting had a very competitive nature and would always aim for the first place.
Gu Ting paused for a moment, glanced at Wen Ke’an, then looked down, and softly said, “Because the first place is hers.”
“”
Author’s note: Xie Hongyi: Hiccup
I haven’t finished writing, there should be another update later.
Bro is telling I’m a single dog in 30 languages.