Lin Weixia quickly understood what Ban Sheng was referring to. He was the one who ran into Lin Weixia helping Liu Sijia deliver a letter, but thought she was the one who came to keep an appointment. She wanted to explain, but many people came into the classroom at that time, and she missed the best time to explain.
It was useless to say anything now, so Lin Weixia immediately said, "I'm sorry."
"As Scarlett's friend, I hope you can go and apologize to her." Lin Weixia looked at him with a serious tone.
She doesn't want her friend to get hurt.
Ban Sheng took a step forward, his tall and thin shadow looming over him, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his lips:
"Why don't you go tell your friends to stop following so closely."
Lin Weixia was silent, and paused: "Everyone has their own independent consciousness and will, I have no right to interfere. I only judge right and wrong. It's your fault for breaking the appointment. Please go find her."
"What good will it be if I look for it?" Ban Sheng leaned forward, his brows suppressing some emotion that was about to burst out.
Lin Weixia was stunned, pursed her lips and stopped talking. Ban Sheng slowly straightened up, said something and left, as if hinting:
"Think about it yourself."
Liu Sijia took three days off, and Lin Weixia basically went to the basketball club alone during her absence. Before Thursday, she finally received a message from Liu Sijia.
+: [Sorry Weixia, I made you worry. The weather has turned cold these days and I caught a bad cold. Plus, my work stood me up, so I was in a bad mood, so I didn’t go to school and didn’t reply to you.]
Lin Weixia typed in the dialog box and sent it out: [It’s okay, are you feeling better now? ]
+: [Well, much better, but still a little weak. In fact, I didn't get into his swimming pool that day, and I even went to his house by pretending to meet him by chance. I secretly took a photo of him and posted it on Weibo. In addition to vanity, I also wanted to use momentum and rumors to claim sovereignty. ]
[Heh, but he doesn't care what I do.]
Just as Lin Weixia was about to type something to comfort her, Liu Sijia sent another long message:
[He stood me up and rejected me in various ways. I have never been hurt since I was a child, so I felt ashamed and chose to escape. But he took the initiative to send me a message this afternoon and apologized to me.]
[While apologizing, he also told me to stop thinking about him. How could that be possible? I would not give up. Because I really like him, like a drug addict, I just want him.]
Lin Weixia was stunned after reading the last sentence. The dark blue light on her cell phone screen reflected a face that was indifferent and absent-minded.
Ban Sheng is a man who really has the ability to make people try drugs, and after they become addicted, they want to try it again.
She typed back: [OK. When will you come to class? ]
The next morning, Lin Weixia was busy in the kitchen all morning. She was almost late for school when she arrived with her schoolbag on her back and a thermos in her hand.
Lin Weixia sat in her seat, panting. A strand of hair stuck to her cherry-red lips, which she pushed away with her hand, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Liu Sijia.
Still with long curly hair and a white mother-of-pearl bracelet, Liu Sijia sat in her seat, surrounded by many girls, smiling and saying:
"So you were sick. We were worried sick."
"It turns out that Ban Sheng broke the appointment because of something, and he even explained it to you."
"Yes, Scarlett, there are a lot of outrageous rumors in school when you are not here." A girl continued.
Ning Chao, who happened to be on duty, smiled sarcastically. He really couldn't understand these girls. They were clearly making fun of Miss Liu a few days ago, and now they came to flatter her again.
It's so fake.
How could someone as smart as Liu Sijia not know this? She raised her eyebrows and pretended to be enthusiastic: "Really? It's a pity that I didn't hear it."
Liu Sijia twirled the pen in her hand, and then said that she would treat them to dinner at the weekend, and they could choose any place. All the girls smiled brightly.
Her actions quickly dispelled the rumors.
Ning Chao finished cleaning and quickly returned to his seat. He whistled while looking for a book. His eyes glanced at Lin Weixia's face again, with a look of shock on his face:
"What did you do last night?"
Lin Weixia looked like she had been up all night. Her complexion didn't look very good, her eyes were red, and the bottom of her eyes were dark blue under her long eyelashes.
Ning Chao moved his eyes to the thermos bucket beside the table. The aroma had already seeped out through the seam. He asked with a smile, "Is this for brother?"
A slender white hand grabbed the thermos first. Lin Weixia shook her head and said, "It's for Scarlett. She's not fully recovered yet."
Even though Liu Sijia sent her a message very late last night, Lin Weixia still got up and cooked a pot of delicious soup after knowing that Sijia was sick.
After finishing the morning reading, Lin Weixia handed the blue thermos bucket to Liu Sijia, who lost all her cold aura. Liu Sijia said in surprise:
"Thanks, my mother would be ashamed to death if she saw you."
During the break time, the radio played the prelude in a loop, and the class teachers kept whistling to ask the students to go downstairs and gather quickly without delay.
The students still looked lazy. The girl sat in the classroom and took out a small mirror to comb her bangs; the boy walked slower than a snail, and halfway through the walk he became competitive and jumped up to see who could touch the pillar higher. As a result, the teacher behind them rewarded each of them with a chestnut.
This caused a group of boys to run down the stairs with their heads in their hands.
Lin Weixia didn't go downstairs to do the exercises. She went to the office to help the Chinese teacher sort the test papers. After sorting them, she went to the toilet. There were basically no people in the toilet. There were a few girls who were lazy and didn't do the exercises or had stomach discomfort.
When Lin Weixia reached out and grasped the handle and was about to leave, several familiar voices rang out from the bathroom. A girl was fixing her hair in front of the mirror, and her tone was mocking:
"Hey, do you think the new transfer student F is quite capable? That Lin Weixia, she made some soup and coaxed Liu Sijia to be close to her. Does she still have any self-respect?"
"She is also very good at pretending to be innocent in front of boys. She acts like a goddess all day long, haha."
Another girl turned on the faucet and said in a high and condescending tone: "I don't like her either. Have you seen the schoolbag Scarlett gave her? I guess Scarlett gave it to her because she felt sorry for her because she was always ridiculed for carrying that schoolbag full of threads."
Lin Weixia stood there with her eyes downcast, her hand still holding the revolving door handle. She waited until the noise outside completely disappeared before she went out to wash her hands.
The mirror reflected a cold, distant and calm face.
After the rumors about Ban Sheng and Liu Sijia died down, Lin Weixia found the WeChat account with the nickname Ban from the WeChat list and sent a message to him:
What do you want
She should have paid back what she owed him long ago.
It was unknown whether Ban Sheng was deliberately keeping her hanging or had forgotten about it, but he never replied to her. Lin Weixia didn't put too much energy on this matter because their first midterm exam was coming.
A week before the midterm exam, the class atmosphere changed. Except for the two major exams, the midterm and the final, the scores of other exams were not included in the grading system.
Facing this exam, the atmosphere in the class was not very good. Most people regard each exam as a summary of their own stage, not to mention that for some people who are on the edge of their grades, a big exam is a time to reshuffle or accidentally fall into the F grade.
Student A restrained his usual carelessness and relaxed attitude and started to review intentionally, while Student F was more serious and tense than usual. This group of people usually arrived at school in the gray mornings and were also the last to leave.
Lin Weixia thought that she was one of the students who studied very hard, but every time she finished her homework and looked up to see the backs of people in front of her who were buried in their studies with their shoulder blades bulging, she felt a little inferior.
After the midterm exam, the results came out in about two days.
Ban Sheng still sits firmly at the top of the grade. Except for the low score in Chinese, he got excellent results in other subjects, especially physics. The teacher wanted to frame his physics results and algorithm ideas and hang them in the center for his classmates to study and learn.
Qiu Minghua said cunningly: "Don't worry, teacher, my master is still breathing."
Ban Sheng held the test paper in his hand and put it aside without even looking at it. He then calmly kicked the stool in front of him. Qiu Minghua's chair shook and fell to the ground with a thump.
The whole class burst into laughter. Old Li stood on the stage and laughed. He called out the name directly: "Qiu Minghua, you laughed the loudest in the class. I was embarrassed to say anything to you. How did you do the physics multiple-choice questions? You didn't even get a single one right!"
This time the laughter was even louder.
After the mid-term results came out, Lin Weixia surpassed all the A students and replaced Liu Sijia to rank third. The second place was their class monitor.
Liu Sijia didn't know why her grades dropped to ninth place. Throughout the morning, Liu Sijia was called to the office by countless teachers. Every teacher mentioned Lin Weixia when talking about her decline this time, saying that she had a talent for learning and her learning ability was improving day by day. Later, Liu Sijia became impatient. She crossed her arms and looked defensive, listening to the teacher's instructions coldly, and glanced at the list of A students.
Seeing this, the head teacher sighed, waved his hand and let her go back.
Liu Sijia came back without talking to anyone.
Fang Mo congratulated Lin Weixia and thought she was amazing. What she didn't know was that Lin Weixia could easily get first place in her previous school, but in Shenzhen High School, she had to work harder. A students do have a high starting point, quick thinking, and are smart.
The Ning Dynasty’s achievements cannot be described as tragic.
The head teacher set up a mutual help group based on the academic performance of the students in the class. Ning Chao became the key support target, and this task fell on Lin Weixia.
Lin Weixia planned to use the after-school time to give Ning Chao extra lessons, but Ning Chao didn't really want to learn. He touched his crew cut and said in a casual tone:
"Thanks, I don't want to waste time studying."
Liu Sijia stopped by and raised her eyebrows. "You really can't waste time studying. If you wait until school is over to go home and eat barbecue, you will inherit the food stall business in the future."
Ning Chao was not angry at all for Liu Sijia's open arrogance and ridicule. His family was indeed poor, his family ran a food stall, and his mother was a disabled person. But he did not feel ashamed.
Ning Chao showed his white teeth: "Yeah, unlike you, you dress up all day long and think about marrying a rich man in the future. I don't know which old baby is so unlucky."
"You—you bastard!" Liu Sijia's neck started to turn red with anger.
It didn't take more than a minute for Ning Chao to piss off Liu Sijia. Lin Weixia sighed as she looked at the test paper. These two people looked down on each other and liked to tease each other.
"Then I'll explain the questions to you during the last evening self-study class." Lin Weixia negotiated.
Lin Weixia didn't necessarily have to care about Ning Chao's grades, but there were one-on-one help groups in the class, and the teacher specifically told her about it, so she couldn't just turn a blind eye.
In the last evening self-study class, Lin Weixia finished her homework and went over to explain the monthly exam paper to Ning Chao, who was quite cooperative. The lights in the classroom were as bright as day, casting shadows on the books spread out on each table.
The classroom was relatively quiet, with only the sounds of people discussing in low voices or asking questions. Ban Sheng had one foot on the horizontal bar, twirling his pen intermittently, studying a problem.
But the voice next to him came through clearly. Ban Sheng looked at the question and substituted the numbers into the formula. The voice fell into his eardrum, like an echo, getting louder and louder:
"Ning Chao, are you listening?"
"Yes, your brother I just feel like taking a nap."
Then a light laugh sounded, and Ban Sheng felt an inexplicable irritation in his heart. But at this moment, Qiu Minghua turned around and asked:
"Ban Ye, you are free this weekend, let's go to your house and play games. The VR panoramic equipment in your house is really cool, the experience is really fucking amazing, that's my happy time."
"I love your family so much, can I marry into your family?"
Ban Sheng raised his eyelids and looked over. The two heads were very close to each other. Lin Weixia tilted her head, revealing a piece of white skin on her neck. Her elbows were bent and supported on Ning Chao's desk. A strand of her long hair stuck to his wheat-colored forearm. Ning Chao yawned and glanced at her from time to time.
The more I look at it, the more it displeases me.
Qiu Minghua was immersed in his gaming experience when he shouted, "Ban Ye? Ban Ye?"
Ban Sheng lowered his head and took out his phone, not knowing what he was doing. After a while, he looked up and said two words: "Something happened."
At the same time, Lin Weixia received a message reminder on her mobile phone. She clicked it and saw that it was a message from Ban Sheng. He had sent it last Wednesday, but he just replied now.
Xia: [What do you want? ]
Ban: [Spend a day with me on the weekend. ]