You Are My Constant Thought and Unforgettable Love - Chapter 8

The matter had caused a huge stir; not only did the student body know that Shen Xin was going to fight the “Big Sister” of Z High at the peak of the final exams, but even the faculty had found out.

Upon learning the lineups of both sides, many who stood on Shen Xin’s side showed looks of regret and couldn’t help but sigh, “Who doesn’t know that the worst grades in Class One belong to Lu Nian and Lin Fei? Shen-jie just arrived and hasn’t experienced a mock exam yet, so she isn’t clear about the details, but Lu Nian’s grades are truly bad. Why did Shen-jie choose her? Choosing me would have been fine.”

Exactly how bad were Lu Nian’s grades? They were so bad that the entire grade level knew it in their hearts.

After the morning assembly dismissed and morning reading time began, some people quietly took their mobile phones out from their desks and built “high-rise” threads in the school forum.

From now on, I’m going to call the new student ‘Jie’ Sister.

As expected of your Shen-jie, she really dared to speak.

I want to know the area of the shadow in the principal’s heart at that moment.

Compared to the principal, I want to know the area of the shadow in Lu Nian’s heart even more. She and Lin Fei are truly neck and neck; they’ve occupied the bottom two spots in the grade several times. I can’t believe these two are actually issuing battle cries over studying?

It makes a bit of sense for Lin Fei’s grades to be bad, but Lu Nian is really diligent. I’ve passed by Class One several times and seen her doing problems, but her grades just won’t go up. How tragic.

What’s tragic about it? That’s just what happens when people are stupid; they have no talent, so no matter how hard they work, they can’t test well.

Speaking of which, is Lu Nian a real mute or a fake mute?

Shen Xin felt angry as she watched; with a “dong” sound, she threw her phone into the drawer. Turning her head, she saw the person being discussed fervently in the forum was still quietly reading a book.

Beautiful and quiet, like a mannequin, even her skin was porcelain white. Only a small red mole on the side of her neck broke the harmony, standing out abruptly like a vermilion rose blooming within a white epiphyllum.

“Do you look at the school forum?” Shen Xin leaned over and lowered her voice amidst the sound of reading.

Lu Nian shook her head slightly and continued writing the problem-solving process in her notebook with indifference.

“It’s good that you don’t look.” Shen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Nian gave her a suspicious glance, not knowing what this person was thinking.

Shen Xin propped up her textbook, coughed in a formal manner, and then, unable to hold back, fished her phone out of the drawer again and clicked into the forum to take a look.

The thread had been discussed for several hundred floors, and later, people even started betting. What were they betting on? They were betting on whether her team or Lin Fei’s team would score better, and some people were even strongly suggesting that she swap Lu Nian out.

Lu Nian really won’t do; she’s just a pretty vase. Shen-jie, look at me, okay? I can definitely lead you to the championship.

It would have been better not to look, but having seen it, the anger in Shen Xin’s heart surged up again. Although she hadn’t known Lu Nian for long, she simply could not stand hearing others speak ill of her.

Steadying the propped-up textbook with one hand, she held her phone with the other and began typing.

Isn’t it a bit bad for you all to talk about Lu Nian like this?

Someone replied quickly below:

But she really is no good.

The phone was just pulled out only to be stuffed back into the drawer again; it would not see the light of day for a short time.

Shen Xin took a deep breath and turned her head to look at her beautiful desk mate, her eyes carrying a slight sense of “resenting that iron cannot become steel.”

No matter how steadily Lu Nian sat like a mountain, she could not ignore this warm gaze. Her hand holding the pen paused; the fine white fingertips no longer left red marks, as the posture for holding the pen seemed to have been corrected.

But the person beside her did not withdraw her gaze; she even looked more fervently.

She turned her head and glanced at Shen Xin, indeed meeting the fellow’s line of sight.

Shen Xin said slowly, “Do you think your study method is wrong? Even with rote memorization, you shouldn’t only score this much. Do you want me to teach you?”

Lu Nian’s eyes lowered as she pulled out the scratchpad pressed under the book, flipped to a random page, and wrote: “No.”

This one word was concise and blunt, but Shen Xin pretended not to understand, “Is the study method really wrong? Then do you want to try my way?”

Lu Nian was silent for a while and drew six dots on the paper: “……”

Shen Xin saying she would fight Lin Fei at the peak of the finals was not just talk; she really became serious. Not only did she not doze off in class, but she even took the initiative to write her homework.

Teacher Zeng was very moved; she had originally suspected Shen Xin was just causing trouble, but this time she truly believed she was working hard to prepare for the exams.

That Lin Fei, having obtained Shen Xin’s number from who-knows-where, sent several text messages in a row.

The phone Shen Xin had placed in her drawer buzzed incessantly, as if she were keeping a nest of bees. She was very annoyed and turned it off without even looking, immersing herself wholeheartedly in the ocean of knowledge.

Lu Nian glanced at her and, without a trace, cast a look with an inexplicable expression, as if looking at a fool. The moment Shen Xin turned her head, she quickly lowered her own head, resuming a look of being very serious and completely unfazed.

However, just as she lowered her eyes, the phone in her own drawer also began to vibrate.

One after another, it buzzed without stopping.

Lu Nian: ……

Shen Xin raised an eyebrow; she knew who was causing trouble without needing to think twice. She turned her head to look into the distance and indeed saw Lin Fei playing with her phone blatantly.

Originally, she could have turned a blind eye, but this was already bullying her little desk mate; how could she swallow this insult?

She leaned over and said in a low voice, “Little desk mate, take out your phone and let me see it. Mine is turned off.”

Lu Nian didn’t really want to pay attention to her; her hand holding the pen paused for a moment and then continued writing.

But Shen Xin was relentless and kept talking; that voice was pressed low, as if coming from the depths of her throat. She could even imagine the slight vibration of Shen Xin’s chest when she spoke.

Clearly, the voice wasn’t sweet and the words weren’t slick enough, yet it was very much like acting spoiled.

Lu Nian listened for a good while, nearly throwing the pen in her hand away.

Shen Xin: “Good desk mate, just let me see.”

“Just one look will do; I want to see what that person named Lin sent you.”

“If I don’t take a look, I really won’t be able to concentrate on studying. It’s very worrying.”

“Good student, let me see? It’s not like looking will do anything to you. It takes too long to turn mine back on; I can’t wait.”

Lu Nian criticized inwardly: was it possible that by the time she took her phone out, she could wait?

Shen Xin’s body was very hot, and she was leaning close, like a human heater ceaselessly radiating warmth.

Lu Nian wrote for a good while, and only after finishing the equation did she finally take out the phone that had been vibrating non-stop in the drawer.

Shen Xin smiled and leaned into her ear again, saying, “My desk mate is truly good.”

Lu Nian gave her a glance, her face showing no expression like an exquisite doll, but the area near her ear turned a bit pink, perhaps flushed by the warmth of Shen Xin’s breath.

After getting the phone in her hand, Shen Xin scanned it quickly. She behaved herself and only looked at the messages sent by Lin Fei. She suddenly discovered that this person named Lin was truly being excessive, actually sending threatening messages every day.

She turned her head to peek at Lu Nian; seeing that Lu Nian was doing problems, she grew bold and slid her finger upward, sliding all the way to the top.

The previous messages seemed to have been deleted, and it was unknown what the origin was, but Lin Fei had started cursing people just like that.

Her eyes darted around, and while Lu Nian wasn’t noticing, she slid the messages back to the bottom.

Did you tell Shen Xin? I’m warning you, if you dare tell anyone else, I’ll make it so you can’t survive in this school.

Compare grades my ass. If I pay any attention to you two, I’m a dog.

Fuck, do you dare reply to me once?

Is there any use in you studying so seriously, you idiot? You’re still going to be the one at the bottom for me.

Being stupid is really quite tragic; even studying is twice the effort for half the result.

If you and Shen Xin dare to make me lose face again, don’t blame me for being impolite.

Shen Xin pulled the messages to the bottom and finished reading with raised eyebrows. She sighed, not expecting that even in high school, one would still receive this kind of primary school warning. She didn’t know on what basis Lin Fei managed to become this “Big Sister.”

She suddenly felt that attending this school was quite interesting; not only were there primary school classmates, but there was also a beautiful desk mate.

The beautiful desk mate turned to look at her and then wrote a line of words on the paper: “Are you finished looking?”

Shen Xin handed the phone back. “Aren’t you angry that she says such things about you?”

Lu Nian didn’t write anything, nor did she give her a look.

“How can you not have even a bit of a temper?” Shen Xin pressed further.

Lu Nian withdrew the scratchpad used for communication and turned her back away.

Shen Xin suddenly felt that her question was a bit redundant; this little desk mate clearly still had a bit of a temper, and it was only directed at her.

She shifted and asked, “Why are you getting angry now? When I mentioned your name on the stage, I didn’t see you with a cold face.”

The beautiful desk mate didn’t turn her head and even felt she was a bit annoying; she casually took a book out from the drawer and blocked it by her ear.

Shen Xin: ……

“Do you know how a certain line of poetry goes?”

Lu Nian didn’t move.

Shen Xin leaned over and said of her own accord, “I originally offered my heart to the bright moon, but alas, the bright moon shines upon the drainage ditch.” After saying it, she felt she actually had a bit of culture.

Lu Nian turned her head, a pair of eyes on her plain white face staring straight at her.

Being stared at like this, Shen Xin laughed instead. “Doesn’t Lin Fei love to bully you? Mentioning you on the speech platform was to help you regain your ground.”

These words sounded a bit too much like “society” talk, even regaining ground…

Lu Nian felt this desk mate must be a fool. She silently stared at the person for a while and then wrote on the paper, “But what if I don’t test well?”

Shen Xin revealed an expression of a successful conspiracy; clearly, Lu Nian’s words played right into her hands. “It’s fine. Isn’t there still some time before the final exams? We will support each other and work together with one heart. I will definitely not let you be at the bottom.”

Lu Nian opened her lips; the labial tubercle was rounded and lovely, yet she still did not speak. She turned her head, flipped the exercises to a new page, and started calculating a new problem, deciding it was better not to pay attention to this new desk mate.

Although Shen Xin didn’t listen much in class, she understood what needed to be understood, acting willfully by relying on having a bit of talent.

Seeing that Lu Nian had started calculating problems again, she propped her elbow over, leaning on Lu Nian’s side of the desk, and watched blatantly as this little desk mate set up the equations.

The equation was correct, and the method looked very simple, but Lu Nian’s hand holding the pen paused for a moment how did she calculate it wrong?!

Shen Xin was dumbfounded, feeling that this mistake was a bit too outrageous, as if it were intentional. She lowered her voice and asked, “Did you not learn primary school math well? Can you recite the multiplication table?”

The tip of the pen under Lu Nian’s hand moved, and a line of words immediately appeared on the paper…

“Didn’t learn it well, can’t recite it.”

Shen Xin laughed; this little desk mate was actually throwing a fit of pique with her.

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