Chapter 220: Study Tour ①
Li Kai, who hadn’t yet left the crowd, turned around and looked towards the position of eighty-eighth place. As expected, he saw his name. It turned out that because the notice board was filled with rows and rows of dense names and overall scores, Li Kai was too anxious and his eyes blurred as he scanned them one by one, so he couldn’t find his name even after looking twice.
After confirming his rank in the entire grade was eighty-eighth, Li Kai stared at that spot, blinked, and blinked again. Realizing it wasn’t an illusion, he suddenly jumped up and charged out of the crowd with the momentum of a thousand troops, rushing towards Nie Qiu.
He scooped Nie Qiu up, “Nie Qiu, I’m eighty-eighth, I’m eighty-eighth! I’m in eighty-eighth place!” His joy and happiness were uncontrollable.
Nie Qiu smiled and nodded, “Eighty-eighth place, that’s great!”
Li Kai looked at Nie Qiu silently for a moment, suppressing the joy in his heart, “Nie Qiu, from now on, I’m your boyfriend.”
Nie Qiu nodded, “Yes, Li Kai, you are my boyfriend now.”
Receiving Nie Qiu’s answer, the joy suppressed in Li Kai’s heart instantly erupted, making him somewhat lose control of his emotions. He smiled, picked Nie Qiu up, and spun around in place.
Nie Qiu was caught off guard, “Ah!” she screamed. Huang Yan, startled, stepped aside, watching Li Kai holding Nie Qiu and spinning, spinning, and spinning in the sports field. She suddenly felt a bit envious. Although everyone in the class knew about her relationship with Zhang Haiyang, they never dared to be so unrestrained outside the classroom, not even holding hands.
Li Kai holding Nie Qiu attracted a lot of attention. When Li Kai stopped, Nie Qiu noticed many schoolmates gathered around them, and quite a few people were taking pictures with their mobile phones. Li Kai naturally noticed this too, and immediately pulled Nie Qiu and ran into the teaching building, returning to their classroom.
Zhang Haiyang walked over to Huang Yan with a smile and extended his hand, “Huang Yan, congratulations, fifty-ninth place.”
Huang Yan was very happy to hear her score. She looked around at her classmates, slowly extended her hand, and placed it in Zhang Haiyang’s palm. For the first time on campus, she walked into the classroom holding hands with Zhang Haiyang. In the past, they would immediately let go as soon as they left the classroom, and every time, she was the one who let go first. Zhang Haiyang also cared about her; although he was dissatisfied each time, he still let go.
There weren’t many people left in front of the notice board anymore; they had all gone to watch Li Kai and the others. Peng Yu Yang, standing in front of the notice board, felt a pang in his eyes. Second place in the class, fiftieth place in the entire grade – it was a very good result, truly very good. He had never imagined he would achieve this score, nor had he ever thought he could reach fiftieth place in the entire grade. However, he couldn’t feel happy because the two people who had helped him improve his grades were no longer by his side. Li Kai had pulled Nie Qiu back to the classroom, and Zhang Haiyang and Huang Yan had gone upstairs hand in hand. He felt very uncomfortable, extremely uncomfortable. The person he liked was with someone else, and the person who liked him was also with someone else. It felt like the whole sky was gloomy and he felt very uncomfortable.
“That’s great, Peng Yu Yang, you got fiftieth place in the entire grade!” The girl standing next to Peng Yu Yang jumped up happily. She looked at Peng Yu Yang and saw him looking down the corridor at the receding figures of Nie Qiu and Li Kai, as well as Huang Yan and Zhang Haiyang disappearing around the corner. She quieted down and looked at Peng Yu Yang with some concern, asking cautiously, “Peng Yu Yang, are you okay?”
She had known before that Huang Yan and Nie Qiu were both good friends of Peng Yu Yang. They often ate together, studied together, and went home together after school. Because Huang Yan was now dating Zhang Haiyang, Huang Yan spent class time and lunch with Zhang Haiyang, which was understandable. But if Nie Qiu also started dating Li Kai, Peng Yu Yang would definitely be sad.
Peng Yu Yang shook his head and asked, “An Su, what was your rank?”
The girl named An Su smiled upon hearing this and replied, “I didn’t do as well as you, but I didn’t drag our class down either. I’m one hundred and twenty-third.” In her opinion, since their class was third in the entire grade, as long as one was within the top one hundred and fifty, they weren’t dragging the class down.
After hearing An Su’s answer, Peng Yu Yang nodded, “Oh, that’s not bad. Let’s go! Let’s head back to the classroom. We need to discuss going out to play as a group and also do a thorough cleaning.”
An Su nodded and followed behind Peng Yu Yang, returning to the classroom with him. In the classroom, all the classmates had returned, with only the two of them missing. The classroom was buzzing with discussions about the class’s exam scores and their ranks in the entire grade. Peng Yu Yang and An Su saw Zhang Haiyang and Nie Qiu standing on the lectern and quickly returned to their seats.
Seeing that everyone in the class had returned, Zhang Haiyang began, “Today, our class has five happy events.” As soon as Zhang Haiyang finished speaking, Nie Qiu, standing beside him, pinched the back of his hand.
Zhang Haiyang wasn’t afraid and endured the pain while smiling, though his smile was a bit contorted. But he still had to say, “First! Our grade’s first place is from our Class 10! Second! Our class’s overall score is third in the entire grade! Third place!”
As soon as Zhang Haiyang finished speaking, Nie Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and stopped pinching him. She had originally thought Zhang Haiyang would talk about her and Li Kai.
“Third, of course, is… Li Kai finally got Nie Qiu! After school, we must have Li Kai treat us to something good! And… ahh!” Before he could finish speaking, Nie Qiu’s hand pinched Zhang Haiyang’s hand again. The caught-off-guard Zhang Haiyang couldn’t help but let out several ‘ahh’ sounds. Those who heard Zhang Haiyang’s voice looked at Nie Qiu, who was standing beside him with a flushed face, and they all understood what was happening. They all burst into laughter.
“Don’t laugh, don’t laugh, hiss… I’m speaking seriously.” Zhang Haiyang said while hissing, “The fourth thing! Naturally, it’s… Luo Xu and Bai Ya from our class are together. Today is truly a good, hiss… day!”
As soon as this was said, the classmates in the classroom fell silent. Bai Ya lowered her head and said nothing.
Luo Xu stood up and said, “Fellow classmates, after this semester, we will only have one semester left to study and live together. I hope everyone can put aside past grievances and get along well for the remaining more than half a year. Perhaps, this will be the happiest time of our lives, and we will smile when we think back to it after entering society.”
Huang Yan also stood up and said to Nie Qiu, “Nie Qiu, stop pinching Zhang Haiyang!” Zhang Haiyang was grimacing, which made Huang Yan feel a bit heartache.
Nie Qiu shot Zhang Haiyang a glare and released her hand. Huang Yan then said to the classmates, “I have the same thoughts as everyone else. I don’t like Bai Ya either, but I also think Luo Xu is right. There are thousands of people in this world, and we have come together to form a class. This is a hard-won fate. Whether it’s love or hate, like or dislike, happy or sad, experiencing three years of various things together will be a beautiful memory.”
The classmates in the class remained silent. Everyone understood this principle; who wouldn’t understand it? But the reason they are called humans is because humans have flesh and blood, and they have their own emotions, and naturally, they also have their own reason. The existence of the words “sentimental” and “reason” in this world probably refers to this principle.
