Free Web NovelChapter 1084: Chapter 1084: Smitten
After the period ended, while Zhou Chengchen was still spacing out, Zhang Lei’s voice came from the podium: "Zhou Chengchen, come out for a moment."
Zhou Chengchen practically jumped up from her seat at once, making the people around her all look over.
Xi Siyan had already stood up to let her out. The moment the two brushed past each other sideways, Zhou Chengchen felt the lemon scent in her nose grow even stronger.
A bit dazed, she walked out and followed Zhang Lei into the office.
"Zhou Chengchen, although I promised you before that you could have a desk to yourself, now you’ve seen it too, there’s really no way to fit in another desk in the classroom, so..."
Before Zhang Lei finished, Zhou Chengchen had already raised her hand: "Teacher, I don’t mind."
Zhang Lei frowned and gave her a look. Zhou Chengchen’s brain spun fast, and she hurried to say, "Before, I didn’t want a deskmate because I was afraid they’d affect my studies. You know, a lot of people don’t behave in class. I’m determined to study hard and improve every day, so I didn’t want to be distracted. But the new deskmate is very quiet, so I don’t mind."
As a student, as long as you pin everything on "studying," there will basically never be a problem.
Sure enough, even though Zhang Lei knew full well she was talking nonsense with a straight face, he was still pleased. Zhou Chengchen might give teachers headaches, but her grades were indeed good.
In a school era where grades are everything, as long as your grades are good, all those little rule-bending antics can be overlooked.
Zhang Lei nodded. "That’s for the best. You can go back now."
"Yes."
Back at the classroom door, Zhou Chengchen took a deep breath and stepped inside. Her seat was by the window in the second-to-last row, visible as soon as you came in from the back door.
At this moment, Xi Siyan was holding a pen, head down, seemingly working on problems. The winter sunlight, barely warm, streamed in from the window and fell across the side of his face. Zhou Chengchen swallowed again. Damn, he was so freaking handsome.
She calmed herself down and walked over. "Xi... Xi, Xi, Xi, could you move a bit, please?"
Xi Siyan calmly stood up to let her in. Zhou Chengchen sat down, took a deep breath, and turned her head. "Xi, the teacher just called me out to say that there’s no room for extra desks in the class, so from now on we’re deskmates. Please take care of me."
"Mm."
Zhou Chengchen held out her hand to Xi Siyan, but he didn’t even look at her, his eyes still fixed on the exercises on the desk.
Naturally, he completely ignored the hand she was holding out.
In front, Xiao Rou turned around and saw this scene, and instantly observed a moment of silence for the new classmate. But to Xiao Rou’s surprise, not only did Zhou Chengchen not get mad, she even grinned and said, "Xi, you’re really dedicated, huh."
The only response she got was silence.
Xiao Rou choked on a mouthful of bread right in her throat.
She looked at Xi Siyan, then at Zhou Chengchen.
This was truly one for the "never thought I’d live to see this" archives...
The whole morning passed quickly. Zhou Chengchen tried countless times to strike up a conversation with Xi Siyan, but he basically didn’t respond. During the long break, maybe because he thought she was too noisy, he actually took out a pair of earphones from his bag and put them on.
No one had ever dared disrespect her, Zhou Chengchen, like this. But bizarrely, she didn’t feel annoyed at all. On the contrary, she felt that the person in front of her was just too full of character—seriously, explosively cool.
After the last period, as she was packing her books, Zhou Chengchen hesitated and spoke up again: "Xi, you’re new here, so you probably don’t know what’s good at the cafeteria, right? Let’s go together, I can show you around?"
