Chapter 101: 101 Transfer Student Ye Xun
On Monday morning, Ye Xun stood on the second floor of the high school teaching building, in the teacher’s office. Facing the homeroom teacher’s stern gaze, the young girl couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
This was an ordinary public middle school, ranked in the middle to upper range in Rongdu. After her father returned to Lin City last week, he quickly arranged for the transfer procedures through connections—compared to the chaotic company and debt, this was really much simpler.
It was just that arriving at the new school today, Ye Xun could only be alone. Moreover, it was foreseeable that her future high school life probably wouldn’t have anyone accompanying her, so the young girl could only force herself to be strong.
In front of her was the homeroom teacher of Class 7, Grade 2, Teacher Yu wearing thick glasses.
She stared at Ye Xun, her gaze shooting out from behind the lenses like the whip that spins a top, making one not dare to relax. Even Ye Xun, meeting her for the first time, knew this teacher definitely wouldn’t be too friendly, and… the teacher’s first impression of her seemed not good?
After a moment of silence, Teacher Yu finally spoke, her speech fast and tone even sterner: “What are you doing with that hair? Little delinquent? Where did you go to school before that let you dye your hair?”
“Sorry, I used to be at…”
Ye Xun hurriedly tried to explain, but Teacher Yu had no intention of letting her explain, directly instructing: “I don’t care what aristocratic school you went to before, once you’re in my class you have to follow the rules, our school has school rules, school rules! Regardless of boys or girls, no dyeing hair, no perming, that front bangs not allowed to reach the eyebrows. Also, absolutely no makeup, understand?”
The young girl was stunned for a moment.
Teacher Yu frowned and said: “Do you understand!”
Ye Xun hurriedly said: “Got it, got it.”
Teacher Yu adjusted her glasses: “I’ll give you two choices, either go to the barbershop, or take scissors here and cut it off yourself. Luckily you only dyed your ponytail, otherwise you’d have to dye it back, troublesome.”
Ye Xun hesitated for two seconds and said weakly: “Teacher, my bangs are okay, right? If the bangs don’t need cutting, then I’ll do it here…”
“A bit long,” Teacher Yu frowned again, “Forget it, just like this for now. Cut the dyed part first, bangs next time when there’s a chance.”
Ye Xun nodded obediently: “I understand, Teacher.”
Then, Teacher Yu took out a pair of scissors from the drawer, pointed at the mirror on the cabinet door, and said: “Cut it.”
Ye Xun: “Right here?”
Teacher Yu unceremoniously countered: “Where else do you think?”
Ye Xun didn’t dare say more, silently took the scissors. She glanced at them and saw two long hairs still clamped in the middle—this pair of scissors must be very accustomed to cutting girls’ hair.
The young girl turned to face the mirror, grabbed her fiery ponytail, and placed it in the middle of the scissors.
After hesitating for a moment, she still cut it off.
The ponytail at the back of her head was instantly left with just a small section the length of her fingers.
Teacher Yu asked again: “You didn’t put on makeup, right?”
Ye Xun suddenly felt a bit relieved; luckily she hadn’t even applied foundation today, so she could answer without guilt: “No.”
“Alright, follow me to the next class.”
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The bell for the second period of the morning had already rung; this class was Teacher Yu’s English class.
The stern-faced, unsmiling middle-aged female teacher pushed open the door, and the noisy classroom instantly quieted down. She walked to the lectern and beckoned back.
Ye Xun braced herself and followed into the classroom, arriving beside the lectern.
Among the classmates, there was a faint sound of gasps—is it surprise? Admiration? Ye Xun had no time to carefully distinguish at this moment.
Teacher Yu slapped the lectern hard with the blackboard eraser: “Our class has a new transfer student, everyone should unite and work hard, study together. No need for extra words, new student, give a self-introduction.”
Ye Xun asked softly: “Teacher, should I write my name on the blackboard?”
Teacher Yu glanced at her: “Write it.”
Ye Xun nodded obediently, picked up the chalk, and carefully wrote ‘Ye Xun’ on the blackboard. Although she had practiced calligraphy with a pen before, her chalk writing was still eye-catching, with neat structure revealing a touch of elegance.
After writing, she turned around, faced the more than fifty classmates in the class, and said loudly: “Hello classmates, my name is Ye Xun, I used to study in Lin City…”
Then what to say next?
Judging by the teacher’s demeanor, interests and hobbies definitely weren’t as important as studying, and might even be a deduction in the teacher’s mind. But about studying, what was there to say?
The private middle school she attended before had different course settings from here, and Ye Xun wasn’t sure if she could adapt. She didn’t even know if in the next exam, she would be above or below the average score.
At that moment, Teacher Yu interrupted: “Alright, Ye Xun, sit here.”
Following the direction Teacher Yu pointed, Ye Xun saw… the empty seat to the left of the lectern.
No matter how forward other classmates sat, it was at most the first row. This position was to the left of the lectern, the only seat level with the lectern, the class’s unique zero row.
Ye Xun didn’t dare ask the teacher why she was arranged here and obediently sat down.
The teacher erased the two words ‘Ye Xun’ from the blackboard and began lecturing, starting from summarizing the grammar knowledge points of the previous unit.
In her previous upscale private middle school, students’ goals weren’t the Gaokao but studying abroad, so the English requirements were quite high. To Ye Xun, who had done plenty of IELTS questions, the knowledge points Teacher Yu taught had no difficulty. In comparison, the next math class worried her more.
However, as the class continued, Ye Xun became increasingly uncomfortable.
Perhaps because she was sitting in the classroom’s zero row, she vaguely felt… from behind, quite a few classmates were staring at her?
Taking advantage of Teacher Yu writing on the blackboard, Ye Xun quietly turned her head to look. Sure enough, quite a few people were staring at her! These gazes included boys and girls, full of curiosity.
Upon meeting the young girl’s gaze, the staring classmates quickly looked away. And Ye Xun, afraid of being discovered by the teacher, also quickly turned back.
Just like that, after about half an hour, the class finally ended.
Teacher Yu only overstayed by two minutes, finished explaining the differences in certain subcategories of attributive clauses, said “Class dismissed,” and left.
Once this rigid and stern homeroom teacher left, Ye Xun breathed a sigh of relief. But immediately after, the surrounding classmates made her slightly tense again.
The ones surrounding her were all girls; quite a few boys were curiously looking over but didn’t come closer.
“Ye Xun, you studied in Lin City before?” The girl who approached first tried to strike up a conversation.
Ye Xun smiled at the classmate and said: “Yeah.”
Another girl asked: “You look so pretty, no makeup?”
“Thanks for the compliment,” Ye Xun kept her smile, “No makeup, school doesn’t allow it…”
“Your skin is so good!”
It seemed the classmates were all quite friendly. Her new high school life shouldn’t be too bad, right?
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