Chapter 39 (Updated on 6.28)

Luo Huaizheng's father was a maintenance worker, and his mother opened a small store near their home. His family was very ordinary, but he had everything that other children had. His parents treated him as their most precious treasure, taking care of him meticulously and cultivating him with all their strength. So until the eve of the college entrance examination and before he was imprisoned, Luo Huaizheng had never suffered any hardship.

Luo Huaizheng has always been a hard-working person since he was young. He is smart, sensible and motivated. Except for the time when he was naughty in elementary school and ranked in the top ten in the class, after entering junior high school, he began his journey to dominate the grade.

As he grew older, Luo Huaizheng became more and more clear about where his future would lead him. He was the only hope to change the fate of his family and achieve a class leap. The young man hid his will and ambition, and with a more persevering attitude, he worked harder day after day than those who were far inferior to him, just to repay his parents' decades of hard work, just to live up to the talent and courage given to him by God.

But Luo Huaizheng is not a nerd. It can even be said that he is naturally smart and lively. It's just that he is too sensible and good at controlling himself, so the teachers and classmates around him think he is mature and stable. In addition to being the first in the grade, he has always served as the class monitor. He is calm and fair, gentle and kind, and can argue with the teacher for the legitimate interests of his classmates. In the class, everyone likes Luo Huaizheng. Everyone in the grade has heard of his great reputation. Even those troublemakers who don't read have to give him some face, because "Old Luo is upright and generous."

It can be said that before becoming Li Qingyao's desk mate, Luo Huaizheng only had "study, family and class matters" in his mind. Li Qingyao took the lead in calling him "male Bodhisattva" in the class.

In the first semester of their second year of high school, they unexpectedly became deskmates. Li Qingyao didn't know how the teacher arranged the seats, because no matter whether they were arranged by grades or by pairing good and bad students, they would never sit together. Maybe it was just random.

The two of them naturally became familiar with each other. It is naturally beneficial to sit at the same table with a genius. Li Qingyao is just a second-rate academic master. When she encounters a problem she doesn't know how to solve, she taps the pen next to her. Luo Huaizheng will immediately put down his pen and explain it to her. He can even provide five solutions at a time, which makes Li Qingyao very happy. But Bodhisattva is not a stereotyped person. When Li Qingyao encounters a class that she has mastered well, she stops listening and secretly reads novels. He even covers it up with a natural look, as if he has completely forgotten his identity as a class monitor.

They naturally teamed up for experiments, and they were both top-notch technicians with steady hands and careful minds. It often took others 2 hours to complete an experiment, but they finished it in 20 minutes. Then they took out the test paper and practiced the questions together as if no one was around. The same was true for exams. During that period, Li Qingyao was probably influenced too much by the academic god. In her words, it was the enlightenment of the Bodhisattva. She stopped playing around for the first time in her life, and even ranked second in the grade in the midterm exam. The head teacher was very happy - if I had known, I would have put you next to Luo Huaizheng earlier. You are so impressive when it comes to playing badly. You need to be bathed in the light of the academic god.

This incident caused a sensation in the whole grade at the time. After all, the boy was handsome and the girl was beautiful. Luo Huaizheng was well-known, and Li Qingyao was also a minor celebrity. The two of them were deskmates and spent all day together.

The rumor spread just like that.

However, there were too many people in the grade who had a crush on Luo Huaizheng. Some people who knew Li Qingyao stopped her after school and asked half-seriously, "Hey, Sister Yao, are you and Luo Huaizheng together?"

Li Qingyao did not answer directly, but asked: "Why are you asking this?"

The other party was vague: "It's widely spread in the grade, everyone wants to know. If he really has a girlfriend, and his girlfriend is you, some people will give up!"

Li Qingyao replied: "He and I are just ordinary classmates. I don't plan to fall in love too early, and I don't think he is ready to do so either."

The other party was still not giving up, or was not quite convinced, so he stopped her and asked, "Then, then do you like him?"

Li Qingyao looked him up and down and said, "Although Luo Huaizheng is not my type, what does it have to do with you? Get out of the way."

Li Qingyao is not afraid of offending people. After all, in a middle school society like high school, people envy and like strong people with distinct personalities, not weak and boring people who like to please others. Li Qingyao's nickname "Ren Woxing" is not groundless.

The only exception who is a good guy and still loved by others is Luo Huaizheng. After all, strictly speaking, he is no longer a human being, but a god.

Li Qingyao's words spread like wildfire throughout the grade.

During the class the next afternoon, Li Qingyao noticed that something was wrong with Luo Huaizheng. It was the first time that a genius student would be distracted in class. During the class, the teacher called him up to answer a difficult question, intending to announce the correct answer. Unexpectedly, Luo Huaizheng could not answer it, and stood there with a red face without saying a word. The teacher immediately tried to save face for both of them: "Did you study too late and didn't sleep well yesterday? Sit down and have some water. Look, he has top grades, but I still worry that he works too hard and doesn't balance work and rest. Oh, it's true, he will die of drought and he will die of flood! get out of class dismissed!"

During the break, Li Qingyao, out of revolutionary friendship, poked Luo Huaizheng's arm with the tip of his pen: "What's wrong with you? Haven't we encountered the same type of questions before?"

The boy was wearing a simple white T-shirt and blue jeans, with his long, lean arms showing through his sleeves. He sat very straight, with his eyelids drooping, not looking at her, but only staring at the arm she had poked. "I wasn't listening to the class just now," he replied.

"What happened?" Sixteen-year-old Li Qingyao opened his clear eyes and cared about his good friend from the bottom of his heart.

The male Bodhisattva raised his eyes slightly, and his fair face slowly turned red. He rubbed his slender fingers, so Li Qingyao's eyes subconsciously stared at his fingers, which were stained with ink and had slight marks left by the pen.

"I'm thinking." He said slowly, "I'm Luo Huaizheng. I have good grades, a good personality, good relationships with people, and I'm also said to be pretty good-looking. What's wrong with my type?"

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If Luo Huaizheng and Li Qingyao are both shining figures in the school, Xiang Siling is just a blade of grass, the most inconspicuous and unsophisticated one at that.

In fact, Xiang Siling's grades were not bad, she was in the top 150 in her grade, she was thin, white, tall, and good looking. But her family was poor, her parents didn't seem to care about her, she always wore ill-fitting, rustic clothes like an old lady. Her hair was cut by her mother, her bangs were thicker than the wall, and she wore the cheapest black plastic frame glasses. She was also introverted, taciturn, and always submissive in her dealings with others.

They are in a key high school, but some of the kids are in love, fighting, or scheming. In fact, even in the city's top high schools, soft and hard school violence cannot be completely eliminated. People like Xiang Siling are almost perfect examples of victims of school bullying.

But this phenomenon did not occur during Xiang Siling's high school career.

Because Luo Huaizheng is here.

He is really a frank, upright and charismatic person. If there is any sign of such behavior in the class, he will stop it. He is not afraid even if the other party is rich and powerful or a gangster. Not only Xiang Siling, many people in the class are grateful to Luo Huaizheng. Young people are the most easily infected. They are easily influenced by bad things and attracted by good things. Admiration for strength is a more passionate emotion than depravity. With Luo Huaizheng standing there firmly like a flag, their class is the most united in the whole high school.

It wasn't until the first semester of her senior year that Xiang Siling started to change. It was said that her mother found a way to open a shop to sell clothes, and her family's conditions improved. She also started to wear new clothes and had pocket money to buy snacks and drinks during breaks, which she shared with her classmates.

At that time, Xiang Siling's seat was in front of Luo Huaizheng, and she was one group away from Li Qingyao. Li Qingyao usually didn't pay much attention to her because she was always concentrating on doing the questions. Occasionally she would turn around and ask Luo Huaizheng a question, but her voice was so small that Li Qingyao would worry about her.

One afternoon before class, Li Qingyao came to the classroom, but Luo Huaizheng hadn't come yet. Xiang Siling was talking to two girls in their seats. One girl was surprised and said, "Wow, Siling, you look so good with your bangs combed up."

Another girl also agreed, saying that Xiang Siling actually had good facial features and fair skin.

Li Qingyao casually raised his head and looked over, and happened to meet Xiang Siling's eyes. But she seemed a little afraid of her, so she immediately lowered her head and said in a coy voice: "What's so good about me? I'm just like that. I, I don't have any temperament."

Li Qingyao smiled slightly, leaned over, picked up another hairpin they were fiddling with from the table, and stared at Xiang Siling for a few seconds. Xiang Siling was at a loss, but Li Qingyao gently pinned the hairpin on her short, dry and yellow hair: "They are right, Xiang Siling, show your face, it's pleasing to the eye, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. You are really beautiful."

The two girls laughed and said, Li Qingyao said so, don’t you believe it?
Xiang Siling looked up at Li Qingyao, her eyes a little red, and said thank you.

But after that, Xiang Siling was still the same. Although she wore new clothes, she still had thick bangs and messy hair, looking rustic. Li Qingyao thought that some people might just not want to attract attention and would feel uncomfortable. She was not familiar with her, so she didn't take it to heart.

But only Li Qingyao knew that Xiang Siling had a crush on Luo Huaizheng.

Ah, I haven't even finished writing my high school memories in this morning. So let it go. I need to relax. Relaxation is the only way to write good articles and avoid writer's block. It's the same for you. Relaxation is the most valuable quality these days. I'll write tomorrow.