TWSITAOCP Ch. 06

The young master lowered his head, wishing he could disappear on the spot.

There were few students in the office, and the boy’s voice was very close behind his head, sounding very clear.

It’s Yan Xiu again.

Yu Sui didn’t know when he had arrived, nor if he had heard him chatting with Lao Gu.

In this office, only Lao Gu had the last name Gu, and when Yu Sui sensed someone approaching, he perked up his nerve.

“Oh, here you are.” Lao Gu put down his water cup, “I was just talking about you.”

Yu Sui: “…”

He stared at the top of Lao Gu’s head, silently wondering whether he should deal with Lao Gu or himself if Lao Gu really said something that embarrassed them both.

“Put it here.” Lao Gu lifted up a stack of test papers off the table.

Yan Xiu agreed but didn’t move. He narrowed his peach blossom eyes and glanced at the back of someone’s head—he showed no sign of giving way.

Lao Gu also raised his head.

Yu Sui lowered his eyes and looked at Lao Gu in silence. Then, he said “oh” belatedly and took two steps to the side.

Yan Xiu passed by him, and the edge of his short-sleeved shirt and his arm brushed against Yu Sui. Yu Sui, with his nerve on edge, silently took two steps to the side.

“Is that all? Old Qin didn’t say anything else?” Lao Gu.

“He said he sent a message.”

Lao Gu didn’t give the order of “You can go now”, so Yu Sui continued to stand here in a subtle mood. In his line of sight were Yan Xiu’s sweatpants, and today he wasn’t wearing white sneakers.

When the boy’s hands were free, they hung at their sides. The back of his hands were very wide. He then casually put them into his trouser pockets.

There was a slight noise outside the window. Yu Sui glanced over and saw an eye through the gap in the blinds; he almost screamed out in broad daylight.

Upon taking a closer look, this single eyelid looks somewhat familiar, similar to Yang Feiwen’s.

As soon as this thought crossed his mind, the small gap in the blinds opened a little more, and Yang Feiwen winked at him mischievously outside the window.

There was a burst of suppressed laughter outside immediately.

Yu Sui wanted to curse, but he held it back due to his strong sense of personal responsibility for his persona, his ears turning red.

Damn.

Yu Sui closed his eyes and moved out step by step along the wall.

Although he was mentally prepared, Yu Sui was still shocked by the huge number of heads when he came out. The crowd was also startled by him, either pretending to look at the scenery outside or bringing a book to feign studying.

“Why did you come out? Wait a little longer, I haven’t taken any pictures yet…” Yang Feiwen followed closely behind him.

“That’s the teachers’ office.” Yu Sui glanced at him and said. “Has your paparazzi career expanded to the teacher’s office?”

They walked all the way back, with Yang Feiwen following Yu Sui right into his classroom. Yu Sui turned his head to look at the office. Outside the office, which usually had very few students, now had few people standing in the corridor.

It was obvious that he had followed Yan Xiu all the way to the office.

Although the head of the discipline committee was a police, he was a handsome police—a student who had followers all year round.

Yu Sui judged that only a small number of people were missing after he left. And not many people went to gossip like Yang Feiwen, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“First-hand information always involves certain risks. What’s an office compared to that?” Yang Feiwen used a pen as a microphone, holding it in front of him, and asked mischievously: “Interviewing the person involved. The last time was a grand wedding under the five-star red flag on the podium in front of the whole school, and this time it’s an office again, what about the next time?”

“What next time?” Several classmates came over, leaning on the table. “Didn’t Lao Gu ask to call you over? What did Lao Gu say?”

“Still looking eagerly.” Yang Feiwen said.

They had been chattering at Yu Sui for a while, and Yu Sui didn’t know which question to reply first. He slapped Yang Feiwen’s hand that was grabbing the corner of his table and said, “Get lost.”

“Ugh, so fierce.” Yang Feiwen shrank back, but couldn’t help but say. “Why weren’t you this fierce to the minister just now?”

“Did you meet the minister?” The students stretched their necks.

“No.” Yu Sui took out two small bottles of milk from under the table, changing the subject. “Whose milk is this? Dad accepted it with a smile—”

Before he could finish speaking, someone immediately interrupted: “The minister sent it to you. Dad, drink it slowly to improve your brain and try to get the same score as our mom—”

The air in the classroom paused and instantly burst into laughter.

The gossip target male protagonist blinked a little late, looking completely unconcerned. His classmates in the class only joke with those they are familiar with, and they will tease whoever has an issue. And almost everyone had been through it.

At times like this, those who react most strongly end up getting teased the hardest.

Yu Sui looked at the classmate who called him dad with clear eyes and sighed: “These days, there are so many people who are eager to be someone’s son.”

Everyone laughed again.

As a result, what happened between Yu Sui and Yan Xiu in the office that day was posted on the forum again.

The school forum automatically pushed the latest popular posts, and that misleading title immediately became popular.

After taking a shower, Yu Sui held the towel in one hand and looked down at the screen.

“Yang Feiwen.” Yu Sui shouted. “It’s not me.” Yang Feiwen knelt on the upper bunk with his knees together and swore condescendingly. “We, paparazzi, also have professional ethics. How can we sell gossip about our brothers…”

His volume dropped sharply in the second half of the sentence, full of jealousy: “I haven’t had time to take a picture yet. Who is this with such quick hands, tsk tsk!”

Yu Sui was speechless: “…Get off my bed.”

“Seriously,” Yang Feiwen nudged Yu Sui with his elbow after coming down. “With the current situation on the forum, if Yan Xiu suddenly decides to come to check on the dormitories, everyone will blame you.”

Yu Sui sat on Yang Feiwen’s bed below, opening a game to play with one hand holding the earphones and the other holding the phone. He was completely uninterested in this topic: “Let them blame me. It won’t cost me a piece of meat.”

“You don’t realize how serious this is.” Yang Feiwen shook his head. “Did your teacher ever say that you should never underestimate the power of the masses? You haven’t replied to my question this afternoon. Where do you plan to ‘accidentally’ meet him next time?”

The game started smoothly, probably because students were getting out of school and office workers were getting off work, resulting in quick matchmatching and a rapidly filling loading bar.

Yu Sui adjusted the character he was going to play, praying that he wouldn’t be matched with any weird people in the game today. His dark eyes were full of nonchalance: “Next time? The exam hall, I guess?”

Unexpectedly, those words came true.

If given another chance, Yu Sui would definitely not waste his rare seer ability on such trivial matters.

 

The class placement exam scrambled the seating order and was too random, so many people met unfamiliar classmates even though they had been studying in the same school for nearly a year.

There were even rumors of the academic genius being in the last examination room and the school bully being assigned to the laboratory. The forum was bustling with activity, and every new post would be pushed to the top of the trending topics. The campus forum was forced to increase its monitoring efforts.

The Head of the Discipline Inspection Department was naturally also among the student’s concerns.

As soon as Yu Sui entered the room, he met that pair of extremely oppressive eyes. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he found his seat and walked over.

There were quite a few familiar faces there, and they raised their hands to greet Yu Sui.

After all, it was one of the more important annual exams in high school. The number of people playing around was half of what it usually was, and one could see students studying hard everywhere.

After the first day of the exam, a classmate in the same exam room asked Yu Sui: “There’s not many people at the entrance. Want to go review there?”

Yu Sui refused. He was hungry and wanted to go to the school canteen. He only brought two review materials that his teacher had printed out in advance.

“Glutinous rice chicken, fish balls, beef balls, and hot dogs.” Yu Sui looked around and then fished out a bottle of water from the freezer.

“Alright.”

Shortly after the exam ended, there were only one or two empty seats in the canteen, and quite a few people had already arrived.

Beyond the tables and chairs was a basketball court with a high fence blocking. Hu Fan and Zheng Zian sat face to face. In order not to disturb the boy next to them who was reading, they lowered their voices and said, “I don’t want to attend tomorrow’s meeting at all. Why do I have to attend a meeting after the exam?”

“It’s the same every year,” said Zheng Zi’an, more calmly.

“But our performance is not up to standard.” Hu Fan glanced at the boy next to him, “The head always goes easy on us.”

“We caught quite a few last time, and now we’re just missing one person.” Zheng Zian suddenly remembered that he hadn’t returned Yan Xiu’s meal card yet. He rummaged through his things and handed it over, “Xiu, your meal card.”

Yan Xiu stopped reading after finishing the page and casually put the book aside. He had a cold look and gave off a strong sense of oppression. He was initially pulled to the Discipline Inspection Department just because of his looks and temperament. The supervising teacher said that only someone like him could control the other students.

In fact, it really did calm down, but he was also notoriously lenient.

Yan Xiu reached out and took it: “Sorry about that.”

“Don’t be. Getting scolded in exchange for a semester’s worth of drinks is a pretty good deal. It’s not a loss no matter how you calculate it.” Hu Fan patted the boxes of water stacked up next to him and said, “It’s not easy to work in the disciplinary committee. You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Nobody actually wants to catch anyone. We just feel bad that you always end up taking the scoldings. Every time someone gets caught, they play the good guy and then turn around and tell you to let them go. But who knows?”

He paused: “You haven’t heard what others said about you behind your back…”

He’d said all that, but the person involved remained impassive as ever. Hu Fan cursed inwardly, suddenly noticing Yan Xiu shift slightly, as if looking at someone.

For a moment, he thought someone had violated the rules again and followed Yan Xiu’s gaze.

He saw a very fair-skinned boy slowly coming out of the canteen, with his hands full of snacks, a bottle of cold drink in his arm, and tucking two sheets of white paper under his armpit.

The boy looked around and finally walked straight towards them.

Perhaps because it was getting dark, he didn’t seem to notice that the reason this spot was empty was that it was occupied by three members of the disciplinary committee.

Just as ordinary people rarely take the initiative to share a table with police officers, they always maintain a certain wariness around those in such positions.

He stopped in front of Yan Xiu and asked gently and politely, “Is anyone sitting here?”

Hu Fan and Zheng Zian shook their heads,  a bit surprised at how he managed to carry so many snacks at once.

So he smiled and said, “Can you help me hold these for a moment?”

Yan Xiu was on the opposite side, closer. Yu Sui was also asking from his direction. Yan Xiu paused for a moment, before reaching out to help him.

Yu Sui could carry the snacks by himself, but the three of them had to use both hands to hold them. They couldn’t help but wonder why he didn’t just put the snacks on the table.

The cold drink was removed from Yu Sui’s hand, then he took out the two pieces of paper. Only then the three of them saw the densely written words on them. It was a review outline.

Yu Sui put the outlines, spreading it steadily on the table, before putting the cold drink on it. Then, he put the snacks on one by one.

The young master sat down and said politely, “Thank you.”

Yan Xiu: “…”

Hu Fan: “…”

Zheng Zian: “…”

The atmosphere was tense, but it didn’t affect Yu Sui. Yu Sui hurriedly poked a fish ball into his mouth and raised his eyes carelessly: “…”

Yu Sui also froze.