Chapter 436 - The First Song of Qin (9) (2/2)

He frowned. “The person who helped someone else answer, stand up.”

The student called Zhou Wu was very innocent—he hadn’t been helping someone else answer.

Shi Sheng was seated towards the back. Chen Xi was beside her, struggling to contain his laughter. ‘Professor always just continues to the next name whenever he reads hers, because he knows she won’t come. Yet, now she suddenly shows up!’

Shi Sheng kicked Chen Xi under the table before standing up. “Professor Qin, I didn’t help anyone answer.”

Qin Ge thought he was seeing things. The ardent class skipper was actually attending his class?!

“Who’s this girl? How come I’ve never seen her before?”

“Who else could it be? Qiao Chu, the only one who dares to skip Professor Qin’s class.”

“I bow to this awesome person.”

These people had already learned first-hand just how scary Qin Ge could be—the slightest mistake could cause him to ask you to re-do an entire assignment.

He was simply a late-stage Virgo[1] if you asked them.

“Sit down.” Qin Ge continued conducting roll call. When he finished, he started teaching.

His gaze would occasionally sweep over Shi Sheng.

Shi Sheng mostly had her down, looking at her phone. She hadn’t even brought her books, much less listen to his class.

‘She actually dares to not hand her phone over!’

Shi Sheng felt like attending class was truly a form of torture—time seemed to have been pinned down by someone, for it didn’t seem to budge at all.

After arduously enduring till the end of class, Qin Ge finally dismissed them. The students all rushed out of the classroom as fast as they could, as though they were afraid Qin Ge would call them back.

“C’mon, Chu-Chu.” Chen Xi packed up his things and called Shi Sheng, who was still in her seat.

“You go first. I have something I need to do.”

Chen Xi asked her curiously. “What?”

It was already a miracle that she’d come today, and he still hadn’t had the time to ask her why yet.

“I’ll tell you later. Go on without me.”

“Chen Xi, hurry up!” Someone outside the classroom called out to him.

“Okay, then. Remember to eat. I’ll be heading off now.”

The classroom soon emptied out. Qin Ge was still unhurriedly packing his stuff.

Shi Sheng got up and walked down the steps to him.

Qin Ge just happened to finish packing up and was blocked by Shi Sheng. She asked him with a smile, “Prof, you free?”

“No.” Qin Ge circled around her.

Shi Sheng, “…”

‘I just knew it! Feng Ci, you damned tsun! After what happened last time, I knew he definitely wouldn’t act nice to me!’

Shi Sheng chased him. “Prof, didn’t you say you wanted to gimme a 1-on-1 class? I’ve reconsidered it, and now I’m fine with it. What say you?”

Qin Ge’s expression remained unchanged as he replied, “With your grades, you don’t need it.”

Her grades last term barely scraped by. He specially went to check her answer script. She hadn’t filled out a lot of the questions. And as for the coding part, she used the simplest methods possible, without a single line of extraneous code.

So he just allowed her to fail.

“You don’t need to attend my classes. I have nothing to teach you.” Qin Ge said before walking off, quickly vanishing from Shi Sheng’s view.

Shi Sheng, “…”

As the saying goes, you don’t treasure what’s yours until you lose it. All humans were like that.

Show-off Sheng turned into Desperate Sheng.

Shi Sheng secretly pondered on how to court her beast—Pei!— Professor Qin back.

“Xiaochu.”

Shi Sheng looked up to see Qiao Qian’qian, who had appeared not far from her at some point.

Qiao Qian’qian made her way over in a few steps and spoke in a slightly distant tone, “Where’ve you been lately? Mum’s been worried about you. You should go home to visit her.”

Qiao Qian’qian was merely here to pass along the message, so she didn’t linger after she’d accomplished her task. “I have something to do, so I’ll be leaving first.”

Would Qiao-mu be worried about Qiao Chu? Maybe, maybe not.

[1] For those who don’t know, the Virgo sign is associated with perfectionist, OCD-like behaviour. Which is mostly bollocks since I’m a Virgo and I like to think I’m pretty chill.