After showing concern for the students, Chen Jinghua began teaching.
Chemistry was Xiang Di’s weakness, so she had to listen carefully, and for once, she was finally well-behaved.
It was quiet at last.
“I’m leaving after this class, can you tell the teacher for me?” Bo Jiangxin said.
“Didn’t you just say your illness was completely gone? Now you’re leaving after one class again?” Ye Minjia was puzzled. “Even the top student in the grade shouldn’t act like this, right?”
Bo Jiangxin furrowed his brow, his tone slightly annoyed: “I’m acting?”
“Then who is?” Ye Minjia retorted.
Bo Jiangxin was momentarily speechless.
Forget it.
Not wanting to talk, Bo Jiangxin began to work on the chemistry test paper that had been handed out yesterday.
Ye Minjia didn’t understand.
What was wrong with this guy? He seemed exceptionally moody these past two days. Before, he was at least just aloof and didn’t bother with people, but now he seemed to be developing bipolar disorder.
Could it be pre-exam anxiety?
Ye Minjia couldn’t figure it out.
Since it was the homeroom teacher’s class, it wasn’t good to whisper, and as the class monitor, Ye Minjia had a duty to care about the psychological well-being of his classmates. Moreover, Bo Jiangxin was his good brother, so he had even more reason to care.
Ye Minjia decided to talk to Bo Jiangxin properly after class.
After one class, before he could even speak, Bo Jiangxin put down his pen and left.
Ye Minjia called out to him: “Hey, where are you going?”
Bo Jiangxin didn’t even turn his head: “To the restroom.”
Walking so fast, about to pee himself?
Ye Minjia pouted. He couldn’t possibly talk to someone in the men’s restroom. He’d just wait for him to come back.
He lowered his head to look for the papers he might need for the next class when suddenly someone approached him.
“Class monitor.”
Ye Minjia looked up, and the first thing he saw was a slightly flustered, oval-shaped face.
It was rare. Xiang Di actually came to him voluntarily.
Girls liked to do everything in groups, including coming to find the class monitor. Next to Xiang Di was Liang Qianqian, who had been in the same class as him since the first year of high school. Ye Minjia was more familiar with her.
So he looked at Liang Qianqian and asked, “Do you two need something?”
“Oh, didn’t the old teacher say there’s a lot of flu lately? Xiang Di heard from her mom that there’s a special flu medicine that works immediately. I was thinking, should we suggest to the old teacher to buy a few boxes with class funds to keep in the classroom?”
This was a good suggestion.
Anyway, their class had plenty of funds, and it was just sitting there, so it might as well be used to buy something useful.
“I didn’t realize you were so considerate.”
“It wasn’t me, it was Xiang Di’s idea,” Liang Qianqian said.
Xiang Di immediately explained: “I just heard the teacher say that Bo Jiangxin had the flu during class, and it just happened to remind me of this.”
Only she knew that it wasn’t a coincidence. She used the whole class as an excuse, just to make her concern for that one person less obvious.
That way, next time Bo Jiangxin got sick, she wouldn’t have to worry.
It wasn’t until the bell for the second class rang that Bo Jiangxin entered the classroom right on time.
“I thought you fell into the toilet,” Ye Minjia said.
“Come with me to the pharmacy at noon.”
Bo Jiangxin: “Are you sick?”
“You’re the one who’s sick. It’s to buy flu prevention medicine, okay?”
“No,” Bo Jiangxin directly refused.
Ye Minjia wasn’t surprised.
Usually, asking him to come with him to buy a milk tea was like inviting a lord, let alone buying medicine.
“You’re heartless, then don’t expect me to help you ask the old teacher for leave.”
At worst, he’d go buy it himself. He wasn’t a girl, needing someone to accompany him for everything.
“I think I forgot to ask what the medicine was called,” Ye Minjia suddenly remembered, shouting towards the front seats, “Xiang Di, Xiang…”
Bo Jiangxin subconsciously paused and looked up.
Xiang Di turned her head. Even though she clearly heard the class monitor calling her, she still couldn’t help but let her gaze linger on Bo Jiangxin for a moment after turning her head.
She didn’t dare to stay too long, fearing she would reveal her secret, and quickly moved her gaze away.
Ye Minjia asked: “What was the name of that flu medicine you recommended I buy?”
After answering the class monitor’s question, Xiang Di continued with her own business.
She really wanted him to know that she suggested buying the medicine for him, but she was also afraid that if he found out, her liking for him would have nowhere to hide.
[I like Bo Jiangxin.]
But confessing was impossible, not in this lifetime.
Just saying it in her heart made her feel very shy, let alone saying it in front of that person.
[Ahhh, how embarrassing!]
Xiang Di suddenly collapsed onto her desk, half her face buried in her arms, only her eyes showing. She picked up a pen and wrote the initials of a name on a scratch paper.
[BJX, I really like you.]
[…Even if you might never know in this lifetime.]
[There’s a type of love called ‘unsung,’ and that’s my love for you.]
Unsung?
It was clearly as loud as hell.
So loud that he didn’t forget for a single second that she liked him.
Looking at the bun-ponytail in the front row that flopped down with its owner’s movement of collapsing onto the desk, Bo Jiangxin tugged at his lips.
But what was the use of her shouting so loudly in her heart? She was still just a groundhog with a crush but no guts.
Bo Jiangxin suddenly said: “I’ll go with you to buy medicine at noon.”
Ye Minjia: “Huh?”
Bo Jiangxin repeated with rare patience: “I said I’ll go with you to buy medicine at noon.”
“Oh my god, the sun’s rising from the west!” Ye Minjia asked, “Are you still leaving later?”
“No,” Bo Jiangxin said faintly, “After all, there are still eight hundred test papers to write.”
Considering she indirectly cared about him, then a “study boost pill” it would be.
It was his way of thanking her for her concern.
Even though she wouldn’t know.
But soon, Bo Jiangxin regretted it.
Tonight’s evening self-study session was assigned to the biology teacher.
The biology teacher walked into the classroom holding a stack of test papers.
Everyone knew at a glance that tonight’s evening self-study was perfectly planned out again.
Before, when self-study classes were taken up for exams, they could complain like living humans.
Now that they’d endured this much, they were already numb.
The biology teacher rubbed his fingers and began to hand out the test papers.
“This class is for an exam. Students in the first row, pass the papers back. No answer sheets, just write directly on the paper.”
“Just test us, test us to death then,” Ye Minjia complained as he passed the papers, “Killed and set fires in my past life, preparing for the college entrance exam in this life.”
He then looked at Bo Jiangxin next to him, who had already started writing. The first two multiple-choice questions were already answered, he could even see the answers.
“Brother, can you have some human emotions?” Ye Minjia couldn’t help but ask, “Are you AI?”
“Just write quickly.”
Bo Jiangxin couldn’t be bothered with him.
Ye Minjia glanced at the test paper, and every cell in his body protested.
“I don’t want to write…” Ye Minjia said, covering his head.
“If this keeps up, I’m really going to hate studying.”
He wasn’t the only one who didn’t want to write; most people didn’t. They dragged their feet, and it took about seven or eight minutes just to pass the papers to the students in the last row.
The classroom finally fell silent.
Bo Jiangxin had already finished the last few multiple-choice questions. It wasn’t until then that he heard a half-dead voice.
Heh, the test had been going on for over ten minutes, and she was finally starting to read the questions.
[Which of the following descriptions of cell structure is incorrect? A. The cell membrane has selective permeability… hmm, correct. B. Mitochondria are the main site of aerobic respiration, hmm, also correct… C. Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis, damn, how is C also correct?]
[Choose D? So annoying, why do they put the correct option last? It makes me analyze all four options, wasting my time! Question two!]
[You chose D too?! The test setter must be crazy!]
So much resentment, just because two consecutive multiple-choice questions were D, the person sounded like she wanted to drag the test setter out and sell them.
[Question three is A, hmm, good performance. I hereby personally bestow upon multiple-choice question three the title of eldest legitimate question. The questions that follow better be sensible and mark their correct options for me, otherwise, they’ll all be demoted to concubine questions, banished to the cold palace of the mistake notebook, never to reappear!]
The ‘Legitimate and Concubine God Cult’ was beginning to invade the biology test.
Fortunately, there were no more consecutive D options afterward, so the subsequent multiple-choice questions escaped the fate of being demoted to concubine questions.
[In the cell cycle, when does DNA replication occur? What period was it again? Oh no, I forgot.]
Bo Jiangxin was a little speechless.
S, S, such a simple basic question. Where had all her knowledge points gone?
[It’s okay, let’s look at the options first and use elimination. G1 phase, S phase, M phase, hmm? S|M? How perverted.]
S is the DNA synthesis phase, and M is the mitosis phase. Clearly, it was her brain that was perverted.
As soon as she encountered a question she didn’t know, she started thinking about all this nonsense again.
Bo Jiangxin sighed.
However, Xiang Di finally finished the multiple-choice questions safely and smoothly moved on to the next type of question.
Fortunately, biology didn’t have many complicated calculation problems.
Although the person’s rambling was still quite frequent during the exam—complaining about how smart she was when facing simple questions, and blaming the test setter for being inconsiderate when facing difficult ones—it was still within Bo Jiangxin’s tolerance range.
After these few days, he had even grown a little accustomed to Xiang Di’s wild inner ramblings.
As long as she didn’t keep thinking about him.
During the exam, although she was resentful and talkative, Xiang Di was actually quite focused, until she came across a question about trait inheritance.
The original question was about two guinea pigs of different colors mating and calculating the probability of their offspring’s colors.
It wasn’t a difficult question. This time, she shouldn’t have any more tricks up her sleeve.
But Bo Jiangxin clearly underestimated Xiang Di’s ability to create trouble.
[Black guinea pigs are a dominant trait, and double eyelids are also a dominant trait. I have double eyelids Dd, and Bo Jiangxin also has double eyelids Dd, so the probability of our child having single eyelids dd is…]
She wasn’t going to be a groundhog, but a guinea pig, huh?
Pressing his temples, Bo Jiangxin mentally told himself to let it go; it was just a test question.
It proved that Bo Jiangxin had once again underestimated Xiang Di’s powerful associative ability.
[But if Bo Jiangxin and I were to have a child, then we’d have to first…]
Xiang Di lightly bit the tip of her pen, her gaze gradually unfocusing.
A moment later, she bit her lip to stifle a laugh and slapped her thigh hard.
Liang Qianqian next to her was startled and quietly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xiang Di snapped back: “Nothing.”
She guiltily glanced at the biology teacher on the podium, who was playing on his phone. Then she looked at the surrounding classmates; everyone was focused on writing their own test papers.
Xiang Di subtly turned her head again and looked back.
Bo Jiangxin was also focused on writing his test paper.
The biology teacher, who had been looking down at his phone, happened to look up and stretch his neck. He noticed a girl glancing around, cleared his throat, and subtly reminded, “Everyone, write your own test papers. Don’t look around. Can you look around during the college entrance exam?”
Xiang Di’s face flushed, and she immediately turned her head, staring intently at the test paper in front of her, no longer daring to glance around.
At the same time, she also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was just a fantasy; no one but herself would know.
No, she couldn’t keep thinking about it. She had to focus on the questions.
She reminded herself in her heart, but this kind of imagination was like a poison; once it started, it was hard to quit.
Imagination was a magical thing, capable of taking a person into a completely mental world, allowing them to experience a pleasure in their mind that they couldn’t get in reality.
Whenever she felt mentally stressed due to pressure, Xiang Di liked to think about all sorts of random things by herself, without restraint or control. This was her private act, and she could fully immerse herself in it and enjoy herself.
When the imagination ended, she would feel a special kind of satisfaction and then be full of energy to face real life again.
Even though she knew this kind of fantasy was very unrealistic.
But people just had to fantasize about unrealistic things, right? Anyway, it was just fantasizing.
What she was thinking in her head, no one would know, and she wasn’t afraid of being embarrassed.
Why not be bolder and fantasize about something big?
Like suddenly being found by her billionaire biological parents, or becoming a top celebrity everyone admired.
These were things that were basically impossible in real life and were worth fantasizing about. Otherwise, what would you call it?
Xiang Di bit the tip of her pen, and her legs under the desk quietly clamped together.
In the quiet classroom, the ceiling lights shone like daylight. The biology exam continued. Ye Minjia finally finished the first side. When he flipped it over, he casually glanced at Bo Jiangxin next to him.
His paper was still on the first side.
What was going on? He was so much faster than him at first, but now Ye Minjia had finished the first side, and Bo Jiangxin hadn’t?
Ye Minjia curiously leaned over to look.
What the heck, he hadn’t even finished the fill-in-the-blanks? It had been so long, this guy barely wrote anything.
Something was wrong. Ye Minjia shifted his gaze from the test paper to Bo Jiangxin’s face.
Bo Jiangxin’s complexion looked very wrong.
His lips were tightly pressed, his face pale, yet with a very unnatural flush, and even the skin on his ears and neck was red. His jaw was clenched; it felt like his teeth were about to break the inside of his lips.
It seemed like he was enduring something. Ye Minjia quietly asked, “What’s wrong with you? Do you need to pee?”
Bo Jiangxin closed his eyes heavily.
When he opened them again, his voice was a little hoarse, with an indescribable quality, almost as if he was gritting his teeth as he said, “I want to kill someone.”
Ye Minjia uttered an “Oh.”
Was this test paper that difficult?
Even Bo Jiangxin wanted to kill someone after doing it?