Chapter 108: If we can gang fight, why solo? (1/2)
And after three days, without any notice or sound, You Liangxing departed for Beijing. Coincidentally, the military training for the new students came to an end, and the typical scheduling for the new and old students merged, leading to the spread of mournful wails all over the web forum over the course of the next two to three days.
【Oh my god QAQ!!! You-xuezhang has left for his internship!!!】
【This is too much abuse! I just freaking entered the school! For the separation to come so quickly… it’s not worth living in this world〖Smile Disappearing Completely〗】
【New students please hold on, if you have to know, You-xuezhang will be graduating after another year! Once you think about that, don’t you feel much better?】
【……】
【It’s really too sudden, my heart feels empty and hollow. Although I don’t see him regularly, but knowing that You-xuezhang is around gives rise to a certain excitement, but now…】
【Broken-hearted and inconsolable.】
Once You Liangxing left, countless female students in A University went through an entire month of dismay and gloom. It did not matter if they were old or new students; as long as they had an aesthetic conception, they would let out a long, sorrowful sigh, and one of them among the new students in the Liberal Arts College of A University was Kang Shengzhe, who was the most dedicated exemplar of expressing his grief and lack of spirit.
He had no energy no matter what he did. Everything else he did could be disregarded first; the indolence he exhibited in having to sigh once every three minutes alone had the capability of evolving several ranks at every given opportunity.
Liang Chulin was about to die from irritation because of him and he could not resist smacking him with a book. “Kang Shengzhe, are you ill or something? The matter of Brother Liang Liang leaving isn’t something that happened a few days ago.”
Sullen, Kang Shengzhe replied. “My lovesickness has become a disease.”
Liang Chulin: “… For farts!” Your lovesickness might be hovering over you or agitating you, but why are you making me carry your consequences!
It’s quite obvious that you’re the one with an illness! If you have an illness, don’t blame it on others ya!
With how morose Kang Shengzhe looked with his long-term dispiritedness, it seemed as though the pair had been separated like Heaven and Earth… but in reality, they were not deprived of their communications in the least.
This was not an exaggeration but You Liangxing spent two hours at minimum talking to him every day.
However, such communications could not compare to having the real person around, and the longer Kang Shengzhe talked to him, the more he missed him, which led to his sighs becoming longer. As he continued to ruminate, he tapped open You Liangxing’s WeChat and typed:
— It has been 701 hours since Liang Liang left me, I miss him.
You Liangxing: ……
That was about enough, it was getting annoying.
When You Liangxing left school, Kang Shengzhe’s interest in anything lowered by more than half, but the time that should be passing has passed, one second and one minute at a time. And in every instant, Kang Shengzhe was constantly being watched as a new student who had just enrolled into school.
By virtue of his height and face value, there were a lot of societies and clubs who were interested in recruiting him during the military training phase. Whether it was tennis, football, ping pong, cosplay, cartoon, animation and even dance societies, all of them had asked him to join without exception. However, the reply that Kang Shengzhe gave to all of the above was: NO.
Not going, not joining, impossible.
It was improbable to make him move; he was not going to move in this lifetime.
When the wave of mass campaigning and recruitment ended, Liang Chulin had joined three clubs while Kang Shengzhe joined none in the end. Not only that, his daily life epitomised the style of ‘I am really lazy’ and in one month, everyone around him understood his personality and spared him whenever there was something that needed doing.
But some things were bound to happen, even by coincidence; he might have escaped the first day of the month but he could not escape the fifteenth. After school had opened for one month, the university decided to hold a basketball competition between different faculties. Once the information got out, everyone in the college immediately stared at Kang Shengzhe.
“Your results are excellent and the coursework is not heavy, why don’t you come and play basketball with us? The basketball competition doesn’t take up a lot of time; we’re just training for a dozen of days and playing seven to eight matches.”
The person who came to persuade him was a secretary from the student union. He was male, a school senior and a member of the basketball team. The moment his eyes landed on Kang Shengzhe, they brightened, and he had been following Liao Su and Kang Shengzhe from the classroom all the way to their dormitory, exuding a heartfelt sincerity as he spoke.
“Schoolmate, with your height, it’s really wasted if you don’t play basketball!”
“It’s really wasted! Look, once you raise your hand, the ball will go in directly and that’s a natural gift! Join our basketball team, our Liberal Arts College might even win!”
“Schoolmate, schoolmate?”
At the side, Liao Su offered his sympathies. “Stop talking, he’s already asleep.”
School senior: “……”
People who were fervent about sports had never been one to admit to defeat and the school senior encouraged himself as he said: “Then I’ll come back in the afternoon.”
“… That works too,” Liao Su smacked his lips together, and he could not stop feeling that the school senior was a little pitiful. According to what he knew, the sun would be rising from the west the day Kang Shengzhe agreed to participate.
And just as many would expect, Kang Shengzhe ran off without even leaving a shadow the moment he woke up and evaded that school senior ruthlessly. In the afternoon, he and Liang Chulin were indulging in cold drinks in the only store in school that sold such beverages.
“Green tea with orange and lime, iced.”
Kang Shengzhe looked at the beverage that Liang Chulin pushed towards him. “Where’s the straw?”
Liang Chulin: “Get it yourself.”
Kang Shengzhe was extremely disappointed. “Why are you so lazy?”
Liang Chulin: “……”
I’m lazy???
Go screw yourself!
In the month that You Liangxing had not been around, Liang Chulin had told himself that the further he stayed away from Kang Shengzhe the better, but the reality was that he was getting closer and closer to him. Presently, basically the entire school knew about the ‘凹凸 combination’.
“Forget it.”
Just as Liang Chulin assumed that Kang Shengzhe was about to stand up and get his own straw, Kang Shengzhe’s shoulders slumped forward and he lay on the table. “I was not really thirsty to begin with; I’m not drinking it anymore.”
When someone was lazy to this extent, Liang Chulin could only say: “You reprobate.”
Kang Shengzhe flipped open his WeChat only to realise that the message he sent to You Liangxing just now had went unanswered. After staring at it dumbly for a while, Kang Shengzhe sighed: “Is Liang Liang very exhausted or something?”
Viciously, Liang Chulin stabbed a straw into Kang Shengzhe’s icy beverage as he said: “He should be very exhausted, I heard that the internship for year three students can be rather stressful, especially if they are undertaking an independent project like Brother Liang Liang. Speaking of which, did Brother Liang Liang tell you what he was doing exactly?”
Kang Shengzhe thought about it, “He didn’t say.”