Chapter 8 (2/2)

Chen Haoran was a boarding student. His home was located in a farming village to the south of the provincial city. Since young, he had learnt to be assiduous. He was especially weak in arts subjects, but still, his level of mastery was more than sufficient to enter this school. Well, for Zhao Yaoyue to be granted entry on the other hand, tens of thousands had to be donated to the school for school construction. Not to mention, the higher-ups in the school had to be treated meals.

After lights-out at the male dormitory, there will always be all sorts of empty chatter. School has just reopened and the teacher in charge of the class rarely conducted dorm room spot checks. This was the reason why everyone was unusually happily chatting the night away. Because of this, the following morning reading session will usually be used to catch up on sleep.

The subject of the boys’ chatter will inevitably shift towards the female classmates. Terms that appear a lot in novels like “prettiest girl in the class” or “prettiest girl in the school” were in fact seldom mentioned in real life. It was as if these terms were indescribably associated with being pretentious or delusional [1]. However if a girl’s name came up a lot in boys’ discussions, she could already be considered the de facto prettiest girl in the class.

Obviously, Zhao Youyue was never mentioned. As members of Chen Haoran’s dormitory discussed about the pretty girls in class, Jiang Qing, the arts and literature committee member was mentioned the most. She had a cheerful and easy-going personality and a face that always carried a smile. Once during military training, she even performed solo in a song that was the most popular hit at that time. That left a very strong impression among the boys. But of course, the most important factor may have been that she had really big breasts… Nevertheless, Chen Haoran felt that Jiang Qing was not as beautiful as Zhao Youyue.

The military training was held a week before the school started. It was also on a “voluntary” basis. Zhao Youyue did not participate as she was on vacation abroad. In truth, even if she had not gone on a vacation, she would not participate. She could not handle the agony of having to perform military training on such a hot day.

“It’s alright.” Zhao Youyue said nonchalantly while smiling.

Carrying Zhao Youyue’s homework, Chen Haoran returned to his seat. He felt that Zhao Youyue was very attractive when she smiled earlier on.

After passing up her homework, Zhao Youyue was overcome with boredom. Classmates around her had mostly started their morning reading. Her desk mate Zhou Fang, for example, was already deeply engrossed in reading even though Qiu Yingchun, the class teacher cum language teacher has yet to arrive.

Since the teacher was not yet here, why start morning reading already? Isn’t that such a waste?

That is right, Zhao Youyue is the kind of student that will only put up an appearance of being hardworking in front of the teacher. It had to be said, this was very much in line with the majority. As in the schooling days, there will be quite a number of students who has exactly the same characteristics as her.

Zhao Youyue took out her cellphone sneakily, ready to surf Qidian manga website to enjoy the web-based manga “Pure Romance”. While she was at it, she planned to tip the mangaka another Sect Master so that she can establish a relationship with the mangaka. Well, she had plenty of money anyway.

However, after only a little while of browsing the manga website, the class teacher Qiu Yingchun unexpectedly entered the classroom from the back door stealthily. The sound of the students’ reading also concealed his footsteps. He caught Zhao Youyue who was reading manga on her cellphone red-handed. Her cellphone was then confiscated on the spot.

For once, Zhao Youyue received the one thing that she had yearned desperately – the entire class’ attention. Her sense of presence surged, but she felt extremely embarrassed… Meanwhile, she remembered that the Fruit Phone seemed to have launched its eighth generation. This will be the perfect time for her to change to a new phone. Yes, this is exactly the characteristic of a stereotypical fair, rich and beautiful girl.

Translation note:

[1] Original text “中二羞耻”. Literally translated to “eighth grader shame”. This is a popular internet slang/insult originating from Japan (the abbreviated form “中二” is more widely used). It is used to describe the delusional, childish, pretentious and know-it-all attitude of teenagers in their adolescent age.