Chapter 9

“Ah, don’t you have any paper to write the timetable?”

“Do you have any paper to write the schedule?” Mo Xueyao shook her head blankly. “Can’t you just tear up a piece of homework paper, write on it, and then paste it?”

“Hey…that’s not pretty! Hey, I’ll give you one.” Wang Jiale said and took out a small stack of sticky notes specially used as curriculum schedules from his pencil case, then tore one off lightly and handed it to Mo Xueyao.

“Thank you…” Mo Xueyao thanked the other person stiffly and took the note very carefully to avoid touching the other person’s hand.

Wang Jiale’s scent seemed to linger on the note paper.

It smelled like lavender.

Mo Xueyao’s thoughts drifted away again, and she almost copied the wrong content.

When she finished copying the schedule, the class bell rang just in time.

Today is quite a special day because it is the first day after the National Day holiday. There will be a morning meeting similar to Monday, but since it is Friday, classes will still follow the Friday schedule.

In other words, there will be two classes fewer than usual, so school will dismiss earlier.

The first class in the morning is math.

This is a subject that Mo Xueyao is not particularly good at.

Relatively speaking, she is better at liberal arts…

Soon, a young teacher walked into the classroom as the bell rang.

She placed the lesson plan she was holding on the podium and then glanced at the students in the audience.

Although she doesn’t appear tall, she exudes an imposing presence and… a hint of hostility.

Perhaps it’s because of her sharp gaze.

“This is our math teacher, Jingdie. She’s super strict, Xiaoyao, don’t mess with her.” Wang Jiale kindly explained, although it might just be her penchant for sharing gossip with others.

After making sure that all the students were seated, the math teacher, Jingdie, spoke in a mezzo-soprano voice, “Okay, now open your math books to the first page…”

Mo Xueyao was lost in thought.

Because this petite teacher’s voice doesn’t match her appearance.

To be honest, if she didn’t look so serious, she would seem cute.

“Today’s topic is solving one-dimensional inequalities…”

Due to her preparation and the fact that the content of the freshman year of high school is not difficult, Mo Xueyao easily followed the teaching progress and even felt that these topics were too simple.

She rubbed her head and thought, “It must be because after the surgery, my body started developing and my brain became smarter, right?”

Seems like it’s possible…

After all, during development, the brain also undergoes development, although not to a high degree.

But there’s still some impact.

“Gao Yuan!” Suddenly, during class, the math teacher Jingdie threw a piece of chalk at Gao Yuan’s forehead, who was lying on the desk, and sternly said, “Stand up!”

The stern voice made people hesitate, and Gao Yuan, who was still half-asleep, instinctively stood up, although he seemed a little dazed.

“Sleeping in the first class, is it that easy to fall asleep? Didn’t you sleep last night?” Jingdie narrowed her eyes and walked to Gao Yuan’s side. Despite being shorter in height compared to the not-so-tall Gao Yuan, her powerful aura made her seem taller, raising her height invisibly.

“Uh…didn’t sleep much…” Gao Yuan replied seriously, as if he didn’t understand the situation.

“Why didn’t you sleep? Do you fall asleep every time during math class? Is my class that boring?”

It’s not boring; it’s just intimidating, Mo Xueyao thought to herself.

In other words, this math class really doesn’t allow people to relax.

“Teacher Jing… you’re too strict…” Gao Yuan muttered, feeling wronged.

“And yet you still dare to sleep?”

“It’s a self-defence mechanism!”

“Do you think you’re an ostrich?” Jingdie’s stern tone carried a hint of a smile.

So, it turns out it was all an act of strictness.

Maybe it’s because she’s not very tall, and she wants to impose her presence on the students.

But in reality, it’s not necessary at all.

Mo Xueyao thought.

After all, Jingdie looks quite cute when she smiles.

“I guess…”

“Stand and listen to the class.” Jingdie took a deep breath, suppressed her smile, and became stern once again.

Overall, the math class feels a bit oppressive.

As the forty-minute class came to an end, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Gao Yuan, who was on the verge of falling asleep while standing earlier, seemed to have completely shed his sleepiness after class. He immediately ran off energetically to play with other students.

It made people wonder if his drowsiness earlier was just an act.

“Phew, math class is always the most painful.” Wang Jiale let out a long breath. “The teachers in other classes are much better, especially our Chinese class with the homeroom teacher. It’s much easier.”

“The homeroom teacher?” Mo Xueyao thought of the young teacher wearing white knee socks in the morning and suddenly became suspicious. “Hey, there are quite a lot of young teachers in our school?”

“Well, there are some new teachers who came with the new principal. Previously, this high school didn’t have enough teachers. Now these new teachers are responsible for teaching the first-year students. Our class is considered lucky to have a young new teacher.” Wang Jiale suddenly chuckled mischievously. “There are so many young and beautiful teachers. I wonder if any of them are having an affair with the principal?”

Mo Xueyao paused, realizing that she was supposed to be a girl. She looked at Wang Jiale from head to toe, wondering if those words had come from a girl’s mouth.

“What’s wrong? Do I have something on my face?”

“It’s nothing…” She shook her head in confusion, as if it was her first time interacting with a girl.

Come to think of it, maybe it really was her first genuine interaction with another girl.

After all, girls tend to show different sides of themselves in the presence of the opposite sex and the same sex.

“Going to the bathroom?” Wang Jiale asked again.

“Didn’t we just attend the morning meeting?”

“Just in case. It wouldn’t be good if you need to go during the Chinese class later.”

Mo Xueyao scratched her head awkwardly. She hadn’t used a public women’s restroom before…

There was a slight resistance in her heart.

“I… not now… forget it?” She scratched her head, unsure of what reason to come up with.

But Wang Jiale acted nonchalantly, saying, “Oh, okay,” and went to find someone else.

“Xiao Xue, do you want to go to the bathroom?”

“Okay.” The girl sitting behind Mo Xueyao responded cheerfully.

She had black hair cascading down like a waterfall, and she was the only girl in the class who didn’t braid her hair.

She wasn’t stunningly beautiful, but she had a pleasant appearance and a friendly demeanor, like the older sister next door.

She stood up and followed Wang Jiale towards the classroom exit. She also called another girl who looked very similar to her, with braided hair and a mole between her eyebrows.

The two of them appeared to be twins.

It was the first time Mo Xueyao had seen twins in her life.

Perhaps it was because they had distinctive features that they were easily recognizable without causing any confusion.

The back of the classroom was the unofficial domain of the boys. After class, they would gather together to chat or take out various gadgets to play with.

Some of them were even playing with magnets.

This made Mo Xueyao’s hands itch.

These flat, round magnets could be played with as long as there was enough space. The game involved flicking the magnets with your fingers and attempting to capture or “eat” the other players’ magnets.

If your magnet was on top, it would be “eaten,” but if it was on the bottom, you would “eat” the other person’s magnet instead.

Once you became skilled, you could even utilize the principles of magnetism, turning it into a simple yet captivating game of strategy, full of surprises.

Indeed, boys loved these kinds of competitive games.

A few boys at the back of the classroom were squatting in an open space, engrossed in their game. They would also invite others to join them.

“Xiao Xue, want to play?” One of the boys called out to another boy.

In that moment, Mo Xueyao even thought that he was calling out to her.

Her former friends used to call her that as a joke, given that her name contained the word “Xue,” which means “snow.”

However, it wasn’t Mo Xueyao who was being called, but the last boy in Mo Xueyao’s row who didn’t even have a desk mate.

He had a gentle and refined demeanor, resembling the type of writer Mo Xueyao often imagined.

Although he was just a high school student, he exuded a writer-like temperament.

And his name was also quite intriguing, also containing the word “snow” like her.

This piqued Mo Xueyao’s curiosity about him.

“Well, not today. Thanks,” the boy replied with a smile, his eyes fixed on the extracurricular books in front of him.

The book he was reading had an English cover. Judging from the title, it appeared to be a science fiction novel involving time paradoxes.

“You’re reading this kind of book again? It’s all in English. Aren’t you tired of reading it?”

“It’s fine.”

“Tsk tsk, it looks like our Xiao Xue is going to become a scientist in the future,” someone commented with a hint of envy.

But the boy named Xiao Xue just smiled, seemingly unfazed. He took everyone’s words as a joke.

Perhaps he already knew these boys quite well.

However, considering that school had only started a month ago, it seemed unlikely that they would be that familiar with one another yet.

For someone like Mo Xueyao, unless she deliberately made an effort to memorize everyone’s names, there would still be classmates she couldn’t name even after three months of school.

As the class bell rang again, students made their way back to their seats in groups of two or three.

Wang Jiale swiftly returned like a gust of wind.

Following her was the Chinese teacher, wearing a gray mini skirt and a long-sleeved shirt, who stepped into the classroom gracefully.