Ten-Year Loyal Dog’s Road to Chasing Her Wife (GL) - Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Usually, for no reason at all, when one holds no official position, no one wishes to be sought out by the head teacher. If you are sought out, it is certain that nothing good will come of it. Therefore, hearing the head teacher call Qiao Mo out now, the people around all cast sympathetic glances toward Qiao Mo in unison.

It was as if they were looking at Qiao Mo’s body which had already gone cold. “Safe travels.”

The person involved was quite calm, walking around the back of the classroom and exiting with a wooden face. Qiao Wan’s gaze followed her to the back before she turned her head back. Feeling a slight unease in her neck, Qiao Wan felt uncomfortable. Why was she paying attention to this desk mate whose ugliness was “beyond the horizon”?

…Perhaps it was because she had just explained a problem to her.

Qiao Wan found an excuse for herself and then lowered her head again to gnaw on the Physics textbook in front of her. She had to remember these formulas clearly; next time there was a problem to explain, she definitely could not lose face in front of Qiao Mo.

Heaven knows, it was as if she had never studied the subject of Physics before. She had kept her head down during the entire duration that the physics problem was being explained, completely not daring to look up at Qiao Mo’s expression; it was likely full of disdain.

She, Qiao Wan, could not allow anyone to look down on her.

Especially Qiao Mo.

Thinking of Qiao Mo, she looked up again at the clock on the wall; it was almost seven o’clock. Seven o’clock was the time for morning reading. Why hadn’t the head teacher let Qiao Mo come back yet? Turning her head to look at the back door, she happened to see Qiao Mo say something to the head teacher, then the head teacher frowned, and then Qiao Mo walked back with a calm face.

Once Qiao Mo sat in her seat, before Qiao Wan could speak, people from all around crowded over to ask: “What did the head teacher call you for?”

“Nothing much.” Qiao Mo casually flipped through her textbook. Seeing that the people around still had searching gazes, and even her desk mate Qiao Wan was casting secret and puzzled glances from time to time, she pursed her lips and said helplessly: “Really nothing much. She just asked me a bit about my situation in junior high, and then asked if I was willing to be her subject representative.”

“Do it,” the people around said. “The head teacher’s subject representative usually has a lot of power! Besides, although the representative’s tasks are diverse, there aren’t many of them. It’s a pretty good deal. If it were offered to me, I’d definitely do it.”

Looking at them, Qiao Mo smiled faintly and shook her head: “I refused. I don’t really want to take on these positions.”

She was by nature cold and quiet, disliking holding any office. Normally, she would even less want to participate in any high-profile activities. If possible, Qiao Mo only wanted to stay quietly in her seat, reading, writing, or even just doing practice problems.

In junior high, the teacher often printed her essays as models, but it was always someone else who read Qiao Mo’s essays. She didn’t like going on stage, even though her voice was not unpleasant.

“Read.” The head teacher had somehow crept up from the back of the classroom and knocked on everyone’s desk once. When she knocked on Qiao Mo’s desk, the force was much lighter than on others.

Qiao·did not speak·quiet as a chicken·yet was tragically collateral damage·Wan: “…”

“I hope you will consider it again,” the head teacher knocked lightly on Qiao Mo’s desktop and said in a low voice. “The third and fourth periods are my classes. I will be in the office the whole time. Just come to the office during the long break and let me know.”

Between the second and third periods, there was a long break of twenty-five minutes. Originally, this time was for going downstairs to do radio gymnastics, but now the Grade 10s had just started classes and hadn’t fully learned the movements yet, so the gymnastics were waived for Grade 10. The entire twenty-five minutes were left for the students to use freely.

Qiao Mo was just about to refuse decisively when the class bell rang. At this time, many people ran in just as the bell struck. The head teacher straightened up and walked away, scolding the unlucky ones who had rarely arrived just on time only to be caught by the head teacher: “Look at what time it is before you arrive? If you’re this lazy, what’s the point of studying? You might as well go home and farm the fields.”

“Such harsh words,” Qiao Wan whispered. Seeing her desk mate still sitting beside her, she realized her words had been heard and couldn’t help but feel a bit panicked: “Don’t tell the teacher, or else…”

She was actually just making a blustering threat to Qiao Mo, not daring to truly do anything.

But Qiao Mo smiled and said: “Why would I tell the teacher what classmates say in private?” Her expression was perfectly natural, appearing not forced at all, giving a sense of being upright and open.

In these few days of getting along, although they hadn’t spoken much, Qiao Wan could feel that Qiao Mo was actually a very easy person to get along with if you wanted to chat for a few words, she was happy to accompany you; if you didn’t want to chat and stayed quiet, she wouldn’t bother you further. Graceful, polite, and knowing when to advance or retreat this was the impression Qiao Mo left on Qiao Wan.

Qiao Wan had also asked why the skin on her face was so poor. Qiao Mo replied that it was because she had been very sick before, and the skin on her face was a side effect of the medication. Then Qiao Wan asked if it could recover: “I think you should have been quite good-looking originally. Right now, it really looks a bit ‘eye-stinging’ (painful to look at).”

This time, Qiao Mo was silent for a long while before saying: “I don’t know. It has been like this for a long time, and I don’t have any solution.”

As for exactly how long it had been, Qiao Wan asked those who had known Qiao Mo since junior high; they said Qiao Mo already looked very “eye-stinging” in junior high.

“To be able to survive is already quite good,” Qiao Mo said with a faint smile. “As for these things, I’d be very happy if they could get better; if they can’t, then whatever. At worst, in the future, I can open a Taobao shop at home.”

Qiao Wan didn’t know what Qiao Mo had gone through previously to be able to look at all the malice now with such light indifference.

Moving forward amidst people’s mockery must be very hard, right? But this wasn’t her fault.

Who would want to turn their own face into this?

The election of the English subject representative went quite smoothly. The teacher said she didn’t mind drawing lots to pick someone, so the English representative was truly chosen by drawing lots Yuan Tianci closed his eyes and randomly pointed at a person on the seating chart, and so that person became the English subject representative for Grade 10, Class 11. It could be described as arbitrary to a hair-raising degree; it didn’t even take ten minutes.

The new English representative, wearing a face that differed little from the head teacher’s, walked up with her book. Once she stood firm on the podium, she took a piece of white chalk, turned around, and wrote the two characters “Qi Jun”: “Since I’ve been chosen to be this English subject representative, then you must actively cooperate with my work. Qi Jun is my name; I sit at the third desk of the fourth group. If you have anything, you can come find me. I don’t dare say my grades are the best in the class, but at least in English, I dare say I won’t lose to anyone. Now take out your books, and let’s begin morning reading.”

She spoke in a very formal, stiff manner that sounded quite intimidating. However, the people sitting there were all “favored children of heaven” and didn’t buy into her act at all. They could only grumble in low voices: “She’s just a tiny subject representative? Look how impressive she thinks she is… don’t even know which mountain gully she crawled out of, yet she dares to boast that she’s so great she won’t lose to anyone. Did those of us from the Junior High division even open our mouths?”

“Alright, that’s enough talk. What if you’re from the Junior High division? So what if you’re ‘niu-bi’ (awesome)? If you’re so great, go take exams in Guangzhou. Among those sitting here, who isn’t about the same level? If you were really that great, would you be sitting in this classroom?”

“Shh, the teacher is coming.”

As soon as they heard the head teacher was coming, they all shut their mouths.

Provoke anyone, but don’t provoke the head teacher; you have to live under her hand for at least a year.

If you really angered her enough for her to complain to your family, who knows if the family would travel a thousand miles just to break their legs. Breaking legs might even be the better outcome; it wouldn’t be fun if they lost their minds and beat them to death.

With the head teacher keeping order, the class discipline soon returned to normal. Just as the sound of reading became slightly regular, a girl’s crisp voice came from the classroom door: “Reporting late!”

The voice was crisp and full of energy, as if being late was perfectly reasonable.

The entire class: “…”

Classmate, you are likely finished.

The girl at the door also looked a bit thick-headed, wearing a white round-neck T-shirt paired with a pair of orange-red shorts. Her legs, which were white and a bit plump, were exposed, looking like two thick radishes. She was generally on the chubby side, but the fat was distributed quite evenly, so it didn’t feel abrupt.

But she was truly plain-looking, to be fair.

“Xia Hanyin!” The head teacher was walking to the center of the classroom. Seeing her arrive late, her face became even gloomier. She took several quick steps forward: “Stand there and don’t move!”

The girl was dazed and said blankly: “I’m not moving.”

She tilted her head slightly; the strawberry hair clip pinned on her bangs appeared even more bright red. One rarely saw a girl wearing a hair clip with such a large ornament. After all, everyone was a high schooler now; usually, they wore pure black clips and wished they could be invisible.

Yuan Tianci also looked up at her, then said lazily: “Back to reading.”

“Don’t you think about going back to reading,” the head teacher said. “If I don’t lay the matters out clearly and explain them to you today, you’ll commit the same mistake again in the future.” The head teacher usually looked fierce but was actually quite easy to talk to; however, the chilling coldness in her tone now almost made people shiver in this still-summery weather.

Xia Hanyin didn’t know why she had made the teacher so unhappy. “It’s just being late; is it worth such a fuss? At worst, I’ll definitely pay attention tomorrow and strive to come a bit earlier.”

“Not being late is the most basic thing every student must do. What is this ‘strive’ about?” The head teacher’s voice became even colder, with a chill literally whooshing out. “Today is the fifth day of classes, and you’ve been late for five days. The latest was arriving in the classroom during the third period. If you really love sleeping that much, go home and sleep your fill.”

The third period, which was around ten in the morning, being late for more than three whole hours was truly too bold.

“Reflect on your behavior during this period properly! Go back to your seat and sit down. Your family didn’t spend money and use connections to get you into No. 1 just to sleep every day!”

Once this sentence came out, the entire classroom could no longer stay quiet.