"Mm," Xia Xiaoxiao's displeasure finally dissipated quite a bit.
Soon, Wu Lingyu's class assignment came out as well, Grade 10 of the first year.
The registration teacher watched the six people leave and envied Xu Qingfan enormously while reminiscing about the past.
[If I had five female classmates accompany me to school during high school, would I have ended up marrying that tigress!]
Today was the school's open day, and after registering, the six of them didn't go straight home but chose to wander around the campus instead.
Last time they were in a hurry and didn't get to see the academic buildings, now they could go and scout out everyone's classes.
The senior students had already started school early, so from time to time, they saw classmates in uniforms on the paths.
"It's just like in our elementary school, huh, where one grade had one academic building," the six arrived at the foot of the third academic building, Xiao Ruawen looked up, and said loudly.
"We were in the same class in elementary school!" Lin Wanning pouted her lips; she had been in the same class as Brother Qing Fan for six years in elementary, adding the three years in middle school that totalled nine years, yet in high school, they said to split up and they split up.
This feeling was like you and your best friend had been collecting sparks for thousands of days, and then one day you forgot to keep it going.
Xia Xiaoxiao had even more to say, [I've been his desk mate since kindergarten!]
In short, it was Xu Qingfan's shenanigans that made several of the girls unhappy all at once, Xiao Ruawen was also unhappy because she couldn't stick close to Xiao Xiao in class anymore!
Xu Qingfan noticed that the looks the girls gave him were not very friendly, and he grabbed Wu Lingyu as a shield: "Yu wasn't in our class since elementary school."
Seeing everyone looking at her, Wu Lingyu apologetically shrank her neck.
The four girls rolled their eyes at Xu Qingfan and turned to go upstairs.
"Yu is the best behaved after all," Xu Qingfan ruffled Wu Lingyu's hair and also took her hand to go upstairs.
"I also wanted to be in the same class as Brother Fan," Wu Lingyu whispered softly.
"Hm? Yu, what did you say?" Xu Qingfan didn't hear her clearly and turned his head to ask.
Wu Lingyu tugged on his clothes and gathered the courage to say again, "I also wanted to be in the same class as Brother Fan."
Xu Qingfan suddenly felt as if his heart had been struck by Cupid's arrow because he knew that Yu wouldn't express her own wishes unless she truly longed for it day and night.
Eventually, he softened his heart and promised softly next to the girl's ear, "After we split into arts and sciences in our second year, I'll ask the teacher to put us in the same class."
Wu Lingyu incredulously widened her eyes, her small hand tugging on Xu Qingfan's clothes and forgetting to let go.
She knew that Brother Fan would never go back on his word, so there was no need to ask stupid questions like "Really?"
"Okay!" she looked straight into Xu Qingfan's eyes and nodded seriously.
"The second little secret," Xu Qingfan ruffled the girl's hair again.
"Mm!" Wu Lingyu's smile blossomed in an instant.
"Brother Fan, Yu, why are you still on the first floor?" Xiao Ruawen's urging voice came from upstairs.
The two of them exchanged a glance, seeing smiles in each other's eyes.
[Just endure for one more year!]
Wu Lingyu's eyes regained their color.
"One floor has five classes, so class sixteen would be on the fifth floor, isn't that diagonally opposite from Xiao Xiao?" After the two regrouped, they heard Xiao Ruawen complaining.
"Yes, the class arrangement is indeed a serpentine pattern, class sixteen is definitely diagonal to class one," Xu Qingfan instantly transformed into a know-it-all again.
"It really is! Wuu~" Xiao Ruawen hugged Xia Xiaoxiao and cried.
"So Yu's class ten is right above us, huh?" Lin Wanning pointed to the ceiling and asked.
"Yes, right above. If you encounter questions Xiao Xiao can't answer, you can run up to ask Yu," Xu Qingfan pinched Lin Wanning's cheek.
"I could have just asked directly." Lin Wanning continued to sullenly vent her dissatisfaction, "At least I can ask Yiyi directly!"
He and Zhang Yiyi's gazes met just then, and the girl gave him an apologetic smile as if apologizing on behalf of her thoughtless little sister.
The more Zhang Yiyi did this, the more Xu Qingfan felt guilt.
Just because of his own sordid thoughts, he had to forcefully break up the small collective of five girls and then fictitiously claim it was for their own good, when in fact, he was just covering up his own guilty conscience.
[Maybe I really made a mistake...]
Xia Xiaoxiao didn't feel a sense of belonging to the new class, more precisely, to any class without Xu Qingfan in it, she felt no belonging.
[I must deliberately do badly when we split into arts and sciences in the second year!]
She had already thought it through, skipping an essay might be too obvious, but it was okay to deliberately smudge the test number!
"Let's go," Xia Xiaoxiao said after looking around class one for a few minutes.
The layout of each class was the same, and since there was no one there yet, there really wasn't much to see.
The six of them roamed more casually, and soon they reached class sixteen where he and Xiao Ruawen would be.
It had been more than two months since the previous class had left school, and the classroom was covered in dust, with a light scrape of a finger on the desks and chairs revealing a thick layer of grime.
The girls, who had once wanted to experience being Xu Qingfan's deskmate, instantly lost that desire.
After leaving the classroom, the five stood in front of the corridor railing, and from this vantage point, on a clear day, they could see the high-rise buildings of their new residential area.
"Watching the sunset from here in the evening must be so beautiful," Lin Wanning looked enviously at Xiao Ruawen, feeling a bit gloomy as she leaned on the railing and spaced out.
Zhang Yiyi noticed the loudspeakers hanging overhead and suddenly had an interesting idea.