Zhong Siji soon saw Class 5’s long-missing PE teacher on the field.
She was a tall, striking woman with a dashing short haircut and wheat-colored skin all over, a bright and handsome type.
The moment she appeared, waves of low whispers rose from the boys’ line.
Most of them were praises for this dashing PE teacher.
Even Zheng Zipan grabbed Zhong Siji’s arm and shook it twice, saying in a fangirl-struck voice, “Siji, look quick. Our PE teacher is way too handsome!”
Zhong Siji lightly shook his hand.
When he found he couldn’t shake her off he let it be, and could only silently chant in his heart that this was all normal while casually brushing it off.
“Mm. She looks like someone from a training family.”
“Ehh~~ for real? Siji, that’s the part you focus on?”
Zheng Zipan looked toward Shen Shengsheng and the others behind her, only to find they were also shaking their heads helplessly.
It seemed Siji’s radical makeover plan still had a long and heavy road ahead.
Before long, this long-absent handsome female PE teacher of Class 5 stood in front of them.
She didn’t say anything, only silently swept her gaze across the crowd.
It was just that when her gaze swept over Zhong Siji, it paused for a little longer.
“First of all, I’m very sorry for missing the first few weeks of class.”
Her voice actually sounded extremely gentle.
It wasn’t rough like the stereotypical image of a PE teacher.
It was more like a refined arts teacher.
This also lit a hope in the boys’ hearts.
A teacher with such a gentle voice shouldn’t torment them for too long, right?
She wouldn’t make this group of delicate boys expose themselves under the vicious sun, right?
But very quickly their fantasy turned to bubbles.
“My name is Chen Guoguo. If nothing unexpected happens I will continue serving as your PE teacher. Let’s get along well.”
Polite words, a handsome and dashing appearance, and a sunny smile all stabbed straight into the hearts of Class 5’s students, making them spontaneously start applauding.
But in the very next moment the brilliant sunshine turned into violent thunderclouds.
Chen Guoguo suddenly changed tack. “You thought I would say that! Although missing class was my fault, I will not apologize!”
No, didn’t you just apologize?
“Look at what’s going on with you all! The girls one after another look so weak they can barely stand! The boys look even more like they’ll fall over if the wind blows! Except for that tall boy, every last one of you is no good! No good! No good!”
“This thing called youth! Is about shedding sweat! Is about burning your body! Only then can you train a healthy body! Only then can you pass through your entire youth without regrets! Do you understand!”
The entire field was quiet.
That was only natural, right?
Anyone who saw a refined, scholarly-looking handsome woman instantly change faces into a hot-blooded idiot would be too shocked to speak.
Seeing that not a single person answered, Chen Guoguo shook her head.
“Sure enough. Your youth still hasn’t started burning.”
“But it doesn’t matter! Teacher will help you burn! Where is the class monitor!”
“…Teacher, I… I’m here.” Zheng Zipan weakly raised her hand.
“Your class hasn’t chosen a PE committee member yet, right?”
“N-no.”
So that was what Teacher Wu Di had meant by, “Let me see who your PE teacher is… forget it, don’t choose a PE committee member. She’ll replace them anyway when the time comes.”
“Very good! The tall boy next to the class monitor, what’s your name?”
“Me?” Zhong Siji pointed at himself uncertainly.
“Does your class have any boy taller than you? What’s your name?”
“Zhong Siji.”
“Very good! Siji! From now on you are Class 5’s PE committee member!”
“Eh? Siji as PE committee member?” Zheng Zipan was a little unable to believe it.
Generally speaking, wasn’t the PE committee member always a girl?
It wasn’t just her.
The whole of Class 5 grew noisy.
The girls’ reactions were even more intense.
After all, letting a boy be PE committee member, if word got out wouldn’t it lose face for all the girls of Class 5?
“Stop making noise! If you all weren’t such trash, would I have needed to pick him?”
Chen Guoguo put on an expression of hating iron for not becoming steel.
Zhong Siji frowned.
Was this teacher deliberately fanning the flames?
Sure enough, after she said that, a relatively sturdy girl immediately exploded and shouted unconvinced, “Teacher! We haven’t even competed! How do you know Classmate Siji is stronger than us?”
Seeing someone step up for all the girls of Class 5, Chen Guoguo nodded in satisfaction.
“Not bad… Siji, this classmate isn’t convinced by you. Why don’t you compete with her and make them lose until they’re sincerely convinced.”
Zhong Siji frowned.
Although he didn’t know why this Teacher Chen had so much confidence in him when it was clearly their first meeting, she was obviously fanning flames between him and the girls.
No matter what her goal was, Zhong Siji didn’t like this feeling.
And being PE committee member looked like a troublesome job at a glance.
“Teacher, let’s forget about competing. Compared to me, this classmate is more suited to being PE committee member.”
Chen Guoguo was a little surprised.
Could it be he wasn’t confident enough in himself? “Siji, are you sure you won’t even try?”
Zhong Siji only shook his head, indicating he had no such intention.
“This… this classmate?”
What Zhong Siji hadn’t expected was that his reply would deal a huge blow to the girl who had asked the question.
School had already been in session for several weeks.
He had clearly even remembered the name of someone like Xu Runhui…
Yet he hadn’t even remembered her name?
Was… was her name that hard to remember!
The boy she cared about actually didn’t even know her name.
For any adolescent high school girl, this was a fatal blow to her self-esteem.
Her face instantly turned bright red, and it was unclear whether it was from anger or shame.
In order to salvage her wounded self-esteem that no one had noticed, she suddenly blurted out, “Teacher, no need to ask! How could a boy possibly compare to a girl! And even if we do compete, I’m sure to win.”
The moment the words left her mouth, she felt a chill at her back, as if countless pairs of eyes were staring at her from behind.
She slowly turned around and saw that the boys were all looking at her with unkind expressions.
Some things, even if you really thought them in your heart, shouldn’t be said out loud.
This one sentence of hers had already stripped her of her mate-selection rights for three years of high school.
At least in Class 5 she could forget about it.
And what chilled her heart the most was that even Zhong Siji, the boy she cared about, was looking at her with an unkind gaze.
A trace of regret rose in her heart.
She regretted being egged on by her sisters to fight for this PE committee member position.
But a boast already made couldn’t be taken back.
She could only brace herself and keep going.
Girls of this age valued face more than anything.
What she didn’t know was that Zhong Siji’s gaze was not aimed at her.
He had only suddenly remembered the words of that thug who had extorted Xu Runhui.
What they said wasn’t wrong.
After the world changed, the girls had become stronger and more enduring than the boys.
That was a fact no one could refute.
But as the fish that had slipped through the net of the world change, hearing these words just felt grating to his ears.
Zhong Siji suddenly changed his mind.
“Teacher, I changed my mind. Please let me compete with this classmate.”