Chapter 1 - School Idol (1/2)

Chapter 1: School Idol

Summer vacation had just passed but the summer heat had not yet dispersed. The bright sun shone from high above in the sky scorching the earth below.

The students were still immersed in their vacation craze and, spiritedly, in this tropical weather…….they madly did their homework.

“Hey, why did you choose C for this question?”

“Do you even have to ask? Of course it’s because C is the longest.”

Makes sense.

When there are three long options and one short option, choose the short one; and when there are three short options and one long option, choose the long one. If the lengths are all not the same, choose B; if the difference between them is the same, choose D. If they’re all long, choose A; and if they’re all short, choose C.

This was the secret weapon for conquering a test. Although no one knew who proposed this but it had been unknowingly passed on by word of mouth and there are almost no students who did not know about it.

Amongst the rowdy noises inside the classroom, there was a sound of the door being pushed open. A tall, slender male figure walked in with a bag slung across his shoulder. His handsome features, pale and clear skin, and the hint of coldness in his eyes made him seem difficult to get close to. The moment he walked in, someone noticed his arrival and waved while greeting him.

“Brother Xu, you’re here early.”

Class was about to start but he was indeed early. Everyone had long become accustomed to seeing the school idol stepping into the classroom the moment class started. Qin Xu’s eyes were darker than usual and his face as usual was expressionless and cold. It was as if someone had angered him and he was in a bad mood. However, his buddies knew that it was probably because he played games last night and ended up sleeping too late. He was probably a little moody from having to get up so early in the morning.

And so, Qin Xu only raised his eyes slightly and coldly said one word, “Morning.” Xie Zhe also didn’t find that response strange.

The arts and science majors had just been separated and they had not yet been allocated their seats. They naturally took their seats randomly with the first arrivals taking their seats and the later arrivals filling in the remaining spots. Xie Zhe occupied the seat in the last row and also helped reserve the seat next to him for Qin Xu.

Xie Zhe is very popular in the class. With a pair of smiling peach eyes, he not only could get along with boys, even girls loved talking to him. However, his habit of changing girlfriends was also very fast causing many boys to feel both jealous and helpless.

He casually sat onto the table while supporting himself with his hands on the edges and kicked his legs in the air as he scanned his eyes around the classroom. “Since it is a science class, I was a little worried about the serious imbalance between men and women but seeing this today it looks like there are quite a few girls in our class. The talk about females being bad at science is all nonsense. If you look at the top ranking students, the number of men and women is quite similar.”

As he said this, he supported his chin and, in a good mood, he squinted his eyes. Although his words may have sounded good but, to put it bluntly, the main point of it was: There are quite a lot of girls in this class. Very good. Very happy.

Next, he started paying attention to other things. After sweeping his gaze across the classmates he said to Qin Xu: “I realised that there are also a few of our classmates from first year, Xu Ting Ting, Zeng Yu, Tang Ling Ling, Xiao Yuxing, Huang Shao….Oh, there’s also Jiang Yang.”

He deliberately mentioned that person’s name at the end and even placed an emphasis on it while grinning.

As expected, Qin Xu who was sprawled across the table reacted. His eyelids quivered as if he would open his eyes the next second but, after a waiting for a while, that was it. Qin Xu continued to catch up on his sleep and remained motionless as if he hadn’t heard anything.

Xie Zhe shrugged in disappointment. He was hoping to witness a scene of conflict on the first day back to school. What a pity.

The relationship between Jiang Yang and Qin Xu isn’t great. Their hatred for each other was something that everyone in second year knew about. Last year, the two of them had just entered first year of high school and were both handsome and fit. If they just stood there unmoving, they could easily ruin the futures of several other men. They also happened to be assigned to the same class. For the girls who saw these two handsome faces almost daily, they couldn’t help but gossip over who is more handsome and the true school idol. During military training, they were able to be on par with the strict instructor when doing chin-ups and they even represented the school and won the city-wide high school basketball competition. Their accomplishments captured the hearts of both high school boys and girls and their reputation eventually travelled throughout the school resulting in many senior sisters finding excuses to come and take a peek.

Just from this, the two should have been able to become good brothers. At first, this was the case. When these two heroic teenagers met, it was as if they were finally able to meet their chess opponent and they felt some comradery. However, after getting to know each other for a while, they realised that there were a lot of similarities between them. Although this may sound good, it was actually more problematic.

Huang Shao who had been with Jiang Yang since junior high school thought for a long time for a phrase that could describe their relationship. It could actually be considered as a little literary in style —— Humans get along with each other like puzzle pieces. Everyone has their tabs and their blanks but if their tab and blanks are exactly the same then they cannot be pieced together.

Huang Shao felt that the two of them are too similar leading to these subtle mismatches. When they deal with others together it’s okay but when they aren’t, their competitiveness will rear its head and they would compete in almost everything. Because their personality is so similar, it wasn’t a surprise that they also liked the same things. They would clash over the same shirt, the same game character and even over the last remaining braised fish at the cafeteria.

Even the girl that they liked is the same.