No One Else Will Do But You - Chapter 40

The weather in deep winter wasn’t as cold as it had been at the start, and the thick layer of snow on the ground was slowly melting under the sun’s rays.

The weather could still be cold when the snow was melting.

However, everyone had begun to shed their heavy coats and started wearing lighter sweaters and jackets.

Especially the girls—they began wearing skirts again, ready to meet people looking pretty and elegant.

Recently, Teacher Su Jing Feng had become extremely popular at school. Some people saw him driving a Ferrari to school to teach.

“Teacher Su is genuinely super handsome! I heard he’s a rich man!”

“How do you know that?”

“Didn’t you know that Teacher Zhong Su Ting is married to the CEO of Hengyao Group? Teacher Su is the young master of the Group, which is why he’s helping to substitute teach for his sister-in-law. How leisurely!”

Indeed, girls were a bunch of gossip experts!

The guy biting an ice cream stick, feeling the chilling sensation, heard a lot of girls talking as he passed through the corridor and was utterly speechless.

“Hey, Shu Luo, that’s enough, you rascal! Eating an ice cream stick while wearing a sweater? You must be very warm!”

“Cough, cough—” Shu Luo suddenly turned his face to look at this “bear kid.” Didn’t you see I was eating? Charging at me is looking for death!

Zhang Fei Yang quickly patted his back. “Aiya, aiya, don’t get so agitated! I know you missed me too much. Don’t rush to express yourself. You can finish eating first.”

Shu Luo rolled his eyes. “Who gave you that confidence, kid!”

“You’re smaller than me, yet you dare call me ‘kid.’ It’s good enough that I haven’t made you call me ‘Brother.’ You haven’t called me ‘Brother’ in so many years. Go on, call me a couple of times and let me hear it.”

Shu Luo blinked uncomfortably. Calling you ‘Brother’ would be my death sentence.

Just then, someone walked over.

The instigator, still unaware, urged him, “Will calling me ‘Brother’ make you lose face?”

Shu Luo directly shoved the remaining half of the ice cream stick into his mouth. “Alright, alright, we’re so familiar! Here, here, take the ice cream, I have to go now!” After saying that, he darted away in a flash.

Zhang Fei Yang licked the ice cream stick a couple of times, confused. “Why was he in such a hurry?”

Someone looked at the half-eaten ice cream stick with a dark expression. He hasn’t even had that treatment!

“Hey, Teacher Su, what are you busy with?”

Entering the office, Shu Luo found the subject of the gossip leisurely adjusting the cactus on his desk.

Su Jing Feng slightly raised his head, saw the person who came in, and smiled. “You’re here. Have a seat. I need you to do me a favor later.”

After sitting down, Shu Luo casually looked around the office. Su Jing Feng had been here for more than half a month, and the treatment of having a private office was exceptionally good—even their former Teacher Zhong didn’t have this privilege.

However, the decorations inside were simple. The clean white desk was covered with documents, and there was that cactus. On the walls, two symmetrical landscape paintings hung. Looking at his white shirt and dark blue woolen overcoat today, ai ya, Shu Luo had to admit he was handsome, gentle, polite, and possessed the demeanor of a gentleman.

Seemingly sensing the observation, Su Jing Feng raised his head again, a smile playing on his lips. “What, is there a flower on my face?”

“Uh… no.” Shu Luo hadn’t expected him to suddenly look up, but then he remembered his blatant staring. Aiya.

Seeing Shu Luo’s momentary surprise, Su Jing Feng felt this child was truly adorable. If only he wasn’t so young.

“You seem to have grown taller since we last met two years ago.”

Shu Luo hadn’t expected the topic to shift to him. “I have! I’ve been playing basketball. I’m almost 1.7 meters.”

“Is that so?” Su Jing Feng pretended to examine him but maintained a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.

Seeing that he looked unconvinced, Shu Luo stood up. “See? Haven’t I grown?”

The handsome and delicate face carried a hint of persistence. Wearing the school’s dark blue uniform, his figure was thin yet straight, and his clear, bright eyes looked at him. This guy was truly innocent in some aspects.

“Mm, you’ve grown taller. Alright, come over. I’ll hand the things over to you, and you can give them to the subject representative. This is the grouping list for your next lab session.”

Shu Luo was a little confused. “Why don’t you just call the subject representative directly?”

A flicker of light seemed to pass beneath Su Jing Feng’s glasses. Shu Luo heard him say, “Didn’t I just happen to see you? And you’re the Class Monitor. Helping the teacher is normal, isn’t it?”

Indeed, he had just seen Su Jing Feng preparing to return to the office when he went to the head teacher’s office.

Shu Luo figured that was right and didn’t overthink it. He took the list and prepared to leave.

“Do you like sweets?”

Su Jing Feng suddenly asked.

“Huh? Y-Yes?” But why ask that?

Su Jing Feng pulled open a drawer and took out a square little box. “Then this is for you. I don’t eat sweets.”

Shu Luo curiously took it. Oh? Isn’t this Ferrero Rocher? Delicious!

Seeing Shu Luo’s eyes light up, the curve of Su Jing Feng’s smile deepened. “Go back quickly. Don’t let anyone see it, or they might mistake it for a gift from a girl.”

Shu Luo immediately stuffed the item into his pocket and excitedly went back.

He walked two steps, then turned back, leaned in the doorway, and smiled. “Brother Feng, thanks! But don’t tell Jiang Mu.” He had promised Jiang Mu not to call anyone else ‘Brother,’ but Su Jing Feng was genuinely a good person, even giving him food.

This guy…

Su Jing Feng shook his head helplessly. Even he didn’t realize the hint of doting affection quietly rising in his eyes.

The Chemistry lab session was about the reaction between Magnesium and Carbon Dioxide.

Since they didn’t have a lab session in the first semester, Su Jing Feng only taught the courses that required experiments, personally observing the chemical changes.

“The small groups of four people have been assigned. Everyone cooperates, and performs the experiment according to the steps. I did a demonstration in class last time. Now it’s your turn. Be precise and careful when conducting the experiment, and be sure not to get hurt. Begin.”

Then Su Jing Feng rotated around to each desk to check on the students.

Student Shu Luo was still silently identifying the necessary equipment.

“Gas collecting bottle, glass plate, crucible tongs, alcohol lamp, dilute hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, magnesium strip, sandpaper, tweezers, medicine spoon… Brother, is that everything?” Shu Luo looked up and asked Jiang Mu, who was standing opposite him.

Jiang Mu nodded.

Shu Luo smiled proudly.

“Look how pleased you are,” Wang Kai poured a basin of cold water on him from the side.

Jiang Mu first put calcium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate into the gas collecting bottle, and then poured in dilute hydrochloric acid.

Then he looked up at Shu Luo and said, “Come and check it.”

Shu Luo quickly picked up a lighter and lit a wooden splint. He needed to check if the gas collecting bottle was full of carbon dioxide. But his hand unexpectedly shook, and a spark from the wooden splint splashed onto the back of his hand.

“Hiss—” Shu Luo winced in pain and quickly extinguished the fire on the wooden splint.

Jiang Mu immediately grabbed his hand and put it under the running tap water.

“Why weren’t you careful?” Jiang Mu’s voice was a little anxious. He frowned, looking at the redness that appeared on the fair skin of the back of his hand from the burn.

Shu Luo looked distressed. “My hand shook. Aiya, the back of my hand is a little disfigured.”

“Does it hurt?” Jiang Mu asked softly. The burned spot did look a bit jarring.

“It feels a little hot and spicy.”

“We don’t have any burn ointment in our dorm, do we?” Wang Kai didn’t know what to do either.

“I do.” Li Zixin said quietly from the side.

Wang Kai: “…” This guy truly has everything. Last time his pants ripped, Li Zixin sewed them for him.

Su Jing Feng heard the commotion and walked over. He frowned when he saw Shu Luo’s hand was burned.

“What’s wrong? Got burned?”

“I’m fine, really. It doesn’t hurt anymore.” Shu Luo looked at the initially red spot, which had now swelled up to the size of a yellow bean.

Jiang Mu’s eyes darkened when he saw Su Jing Feng approach.

“Jiang Mu, take Shu Luo to the infirmary now. Quickly put on some ointment to avoid scarring.”

“Mm.” Jiang Mu replied lukewarmly, then took Shu Luo out of the laboratory.

His hand was already freezing from being rinsed with cold water. When they got outside, the cold made his hand so numb that he couldn’t feel the coldness anymore.

Feeling Shu Luo’s hand tremble, Jiang Mu put his hand into his own jacket pocket. However, his peripheral vision accidentally caught sight of the box in Shu Luo’s pocket, and his eyes deepened.

“Nervousness made your hand shake?”

“No, the cold.”

“…”

The infirmary was very quiet.

“Alright, just put on the ointment, and you’ll be fine. If you have burn ointment in the dorm, apply it every day, and it will disappear in a week. It’s not serious, thankfully. Last time, a student burned the back of his hand with the alcohol lamp, and it was all red and swollen. That one will probably leave a mark. You must be careful during lab sessions. Carelessness…” The teacher was a middle-aged woman who kept nagging about precautions.

Shu Luo could only nod silently.

There were few people walking in the corridor since most were in class. Their footsteps could be heard clearly.

“We haven’t finished the experiment yet,” Shu Luo said regretfully.

“Did someone give you something?”

“Huh?” Jiang Mu asked abruptly. Shu Luo suddenly remembered the chocolate in his pocket. Um… how should I explain this?

Seeing Shu Luo speechless, Jiang Mu suddenly felt uncomfortable. “Su Jing Feng?”

He saw the box in the pocket.

Oh dear, don’t let him find out!

“Uh… well, Teacher Su said he doesn’t like sweets, and then…”

“An excuse.”

Shu Luo was cut off by Jiang Mu’s single word and could only swallow the rest of his explanation.

“Don’t eat things from strangers.” Jiang Mu directly took the chocolate out of his pocket and added, “If you want to eat, I’ll buy it for you.”

“…” Ai, what should he do now? It’s not appropriate for him to always exude that CEO aura! How is he supposed to surpass that!

In the end, he could only watch the chocolate being thrown away with longing eyes. What a waste.