Chapter 23 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was nearly six in the morning when Zhao Youyue was done with the remorse letter. In the process of copying the letter, she realized that the standard of Han Leng’s writing was spectacular. Not only he did not insert any ostentatious elements, but the entire remorse letter was full of sincerity. With that, Mr Qiu could easily believe that she would no longer scroll her phone during the morning reading class.

To validate its novelty, Zhao Youyue randomly picked a sentence and searched for it online. Sure enough, Han Leng was not that indolent to copy something from the internet. In other words, these 3,000 words were all composed by Han Leng himself. He had stayed up late and typed the whole thing word by word on his phone…

Zhao Youyue was pretty much impressed by Han Leng. If it was for her, she would not think on her own about what was available on the internet; in fact, copying online could already be bothersome for her. Simply because one could not copy exactly from a single source, instead, the contents had to be copied from a variety of other sources.

Such annoyance! She had assumed that Han Leng could have copied it from somewhere. Unbelievably, he wrote it all on his own. It was no wonder for him to become a web novelist, as he had such a remarkable talent.

Well, remember when Mr. Qiu requested a 3,000-word remorse letter from Youyue, she would rather give up her phone than writing it….

An unusual happiness rose upon her in today’s morning reading class, as expected, Mr. Qiu recalled that he had confiscated Youyue’s phone.

Ever since Zhao Youyue lost her phone, her vigilance had been rather high. She was like a humanoid radar. Anytime would Mr.Qiu cunningly enter the class from the backdoor, despite not making any sound, Youyue had already kept her new phone in a split second. She would then pretend to be reciting “An Exhortation to Learning” by Xun Zi, a Chinese philosopher. Sitting square with a solemn expression and in a laudable demeanour, she turned over her book against the table, and began reciting.

“The gentleman says, ‘Learning must never stop. Blue dye is gotten from the indigo plant, and yet it is bluer than the plant. Ice comes from water, and yet it is colder than water. Through steaming and bending, you can make wood straight as a plumb line into a wheel. And after its curve conforms to the compass, even when parched under the sun it will not become straight again, because the steaming and bending have made it a certain way. Likewise, when wood comes under the ink-line, it becomes straight…’ ”

Her deskmate, Zhou Fang gazed at her in amazement, and thought, this girl had always played with her phone whenever she was free. Be it language class or English morning reading class, as long as the teacher was not around; and today, Youyue, who had never taken any initiative to flip a book, was adopting a new style. It was incredulous to Zhou Fang that she was able to recite “An Exhortation to Learning” so fluently. Zhou Fang could yet to even read it smoothly, not to mention, it was not taught in class before!

This is so unscientific!

Of course, Zhou Fang would not know that Zhao Youyue was a hardcore scholar inside her “dreams”. With that, she had been drifting around lately without paying much attention to her studies during daytime. Appearing to be a rather quack student, it was rather worrisome to the rest that during examination, she might plunge from her chronicle middle ranking to the very bottom.

Just as Zhou Fang could not bear her curiosity further and was about to consult Youyue, a familiar figure had stood aside, it was the class teacher Mr Qiu!

Growing anxious all of a sudden, Zhou Fang stumbled over “An Exhortation to Learning”. What an embarrassment, she could not believe that Youyue continued to recite it beside her, articulately. She seemed to know more than a stanza. Wait, she had literally memorized the whole poem!

That was preposterous!