Notice Board
Translator: Shiny Editor: Aru
There were more than 50 students in class 19, with girls taking up the majority. As soon as the school term had started, the boys couldn’t wait to vote for the class flower, and Ding ChuChu had gotten first place.
She was the top of her class. A small, shy girl with a good temper who was quick to blush. She was too pure. At the time of voting, Li Shiyu hadn’t hesitated to throw down his vote for her.
However, Brother Chen didn’t seem to have given his vote for anyone at the time?
Li Shiyu looked at them with a gossipy gaze.
It was the beginning of September and the girl was dressed in the summer school uniform. A white shirt with short sleeves and a dark blue, pleated skirt. Her tender hands held a bottle in front of her torso . Because of her short stature, she was forced to raise her head to look at Lu Chen, her snowy neck stretched out from the collar of her shirt, there was a fragile sense of beauty.
“Tch.” He clicked his tongue with deep emotion and shoved the people by his side. “Go go go, buy food! What are you all staring at over here! Let the girl talk!”
“Hahaha, let’s go.”
“Brother Chen, take your time, haha.”
The boys didn’t forget to joke around as they walked away.
Being teased by them, Ding ChuChu’s face turned even redder.
She pursed her lips and glanced at Lu Chen. Forcing herself to press down the nervousness in her heart, she said softly, “That… Thank you for helping me on Friday. This drink is for you.”
With that, she straightened her arms and passed over the bottle.
Her words reminded Lu Chen that he had indeed helped a schoolgirl soon after the second school term began.
But actually, it wasn’t because he had some sense of heroism and wished to save the beauty, but because at the time, he was in a foul mood after he lost his game in the internet bar. As luck would have it, he came across a couple of good-for-nothings. What was more, five or six of them had cornered a girl against the wall.
He had deliberately mocked them and said, “Yo! You really don’t deem yourselves as men?”
When those hooligans caught sight of him, they immediately rushed towards him.
The girl had run away crying.
It was her?
Lu Chen put the tip of his tongue against his cheek and smiled, “You’re too polite.”(2)
Saying so, he took the offered drink and walked away to look for Li Shiyu and the others.
When Ding ChuChu returned to her table, Sun Jing had already helped her to get her meal. Seeing her red face and embarrassed manner, Sun Jing asked her mischievously. “He accepted it?”
“En.” Ding ChuChu nodded and picked up her chopsticks.
She couldn’t help but slightly tilt up the corners of her lips, revealing a trace of her emotion.
Sun Jing only knew that she had gotten in trouble with a group of gangsters after class and that Lu Chen had saved her, but she didn’t know that it was Jiang Xun who had stopped her since he was angry for Ruan Yue’s sake. Seeing Ding ChuChu’s face flushed with the manner as if spring had arrived, she couldn’t help laughing and said firmly, “I say, he’s definitely interested in you.”
“Eh-” Ding ChuChu was so upset, she lifted her foot and kicked her lightly. “Don’t say that again. People can hear, so embarrassing. He was just helping me by incident, and I……”
“Got it! You only have your studies in your heart.”
Sun Jing stuck out her tongue.
Lu Chen carried the drink and finally went to Li Shiyu.
The group of boys were all excited and someone asked hastily, “What’s the situation, Brother Chen? The class flower personally delivered drinks.”
“It’s rare to see miss ChuChu take the initiative, you mustn’t disappoint her.”
“Disappoint your mom-” Lu Chen placed the drink on the table and explained. “She was being bullied by some guys last Friday, I just helped her, nothing more.”
“Hero saving the beauty? That’s not your style!”
“That’s right! What is it they say? All heroes that save the beauty have their own sense of colour.”(2)
“Hahahaha-”
Their table erupted into laughter.
Someone with sharp eyes shot a glance at Ding ChuChu who was sitting not far off, and whistled loudly. The girl’s face was practically buried in her bowl. He couldn’t help clicking his tongue, and sighed with emotion, “This girl is basically a little white rabbit.”
The group of boys laughed again.
Qin Zheng listened to them talking for a long while before asking in a puzzled manner, “Are you guys kidding me? Do you all really think she’s pretty? She’s just so-so, can’t compare with Ruan Yue.”
Hearing this, Li Shiyu immediately scolded him, “I think it’s just you being a masochist, preferring that sort of cold beauty. Girls, ah! They should be delicate and adorable, right Brother Chen-”
He turned his head and looked at Lu Chen who was silent and had an indescribable look on his face.
Lu Chen laughed and couldn’t be bothered to respond to him. He lowered his head and started to eat.
More delicate?
Who could compare with Ruan Da Xiaojie?(3)
……..
At this time, Ruan Yue had already returned to the classroom.
Although No.1 Middle School was a boarding school, they did not force students to live in the school. They merely required that students who returned home after school must pay the full fees in the beginning and do extra studies. However, because of said school fees, the majority of students chose to live in the school.
Fu Zhixing and Ruan Yue were both non-boarding students, however, the difference was-
Since childhood, she had formed a habit of taking a nap after lunch, which resulted in her owning a bed in her dormitory.
Both of them returned to their classrooms from the playground. Fu Zhixing planned to go straight home, but Ruan Yue did not go with him. She really had no idea how she should face her parents.
Her mother had a proud personality. She didn’t know whether it was because she studied in the medical field, but her lifestyle was very cold. She had played the role of a strict mother since Ruan Yue had been young. On the contrary, her father had treated her like a princess, doting on her and giving her whatever she asked for.
If it weren’t for Ding ChuChu’s appearance, she might never have imagined that once the man started to be biased, he could be partial to such a degree.
Every little bit of kindness he showed to Ding ChuChu felt akin to the pain of a razor blade cutting into her flesh. At first, she had been surprised, annoyed and had complained. Later, after so many repetitions, she became numb to the pain. Her anguish had surged up when her parents had divorced, and later, reached its peak when she had seen him at Ding ChuChu’s wedding……
Six years.
She had hated him for six years.
Even now, sitting in the classroom and thinking of him, that emotion burned her heart and eroded her bones.
Ruan Yue supported her forehead against the desk.
Ring.
The bell for evening study rang.
She raised her head and discovered that the classroom was already filled with people.
As she was in a daze, a girl sitting in the row in front of her suddenly turned around and said, “Ruan Yue, have you finished your math homework? You’re the only one left in our group.”
“……..”
Ruan Yue stared blankly for a while before responding. “Oh, I’ll finish it now.”
“Then, hurry up. I’ll hand it over to the teacher after self-study this evening.”
“Got it.”
Nodding, Ruan Yue rummaged through her table drawer for the mathematics homework book.
Quickly finding the book, she opened it, but was dumbstruck.
The mathematics class was in the morning and she could actually infer the teacher’s explanation from the notes, but how to answer these questions? She was at her wit’s end. She stared blankly at the book for several seconds before inclining her head and whispering, “Qin Ziyu?”
Qin Ziyu was preparing for the next day’s lesson by checking over the Chinese textbook and guidance book. Once he heard his name being called, he set aside his pen and turned to look at her. “Hm?”
Ruan Yue pushed the mathematics book in front of him. “How do you do this question?”
Qin Ziyu had mild myopia. He looked at the question and gently pushed the black-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose with his index finger. He took a pen and paper and whispered, “The first question uses the sine theorem, the second question uses the cosine theorem……”
He drew a triangle on the paper and explained slowly as he wrote. Finally, he raised his gaze and glanced at Ruan Yue before softly asking, “Did you understand?”
He had written down all the steps and even the answer. Ruan Yue still didn’t understand, but nodded quickly and said, “En, understood, thank you.”
She lowered her head and finished her homework.
The math teacher had assigned two problems, both of which were easy to deduce by the formula. Ruan Yue didn’t have the cheek to ask him for help with the second question as well. She thought about it on her own for a while, and after finishing writing, she lightly nudged the arm of the girl in front with her book.
The girl inclined her head and heard her say, “I’m sorry, I forgot to do it during the day.”
No one had ever told Ruan Yue that when she spoke in a soft tone, her voice sounded very tender and winding…..
The group leader was a cool girl with a short, masculine haircut. After the start of the new school term, she had found a cold beauty sitting behind her and had conscientiously kept her distance. At this moment, she suddenly heard her apology and felt slightly stunned. She waved her hand and said, “It’s fine, it isn’t that urgent.”
“Sorry for bothering you.” Ruan Yue smiled and relaxed her tone when speaking.
The classroom door opened and Dong Guofeng, their homeroom teacher looked inside. He looked at Ruan Yue’s free appearance as if she had nothing to do, and asked her, “Ruan Yue, have you finished your homework?”
Suddenly hearing her name, Ruan Yue stood up subconsciously and answered, “En.”
The teacher nodded his head and instructed her, “If you’re finished, then hurry and monitor the blackboard(4), it’s almost teacher’s day.”
“……Got it.”
She sat down and rummaged through her desk drawer for the design.
She searched for a while, yet still didn’t find it.
She frowned and pondered for a while before recalling that the design she had decided on was in a magazine and she had left it in her dormitory. She originally should have gotten it in her free time……
At this time, at a small distance, Ding ChuChu had already stood up.
The class representatives for each subject had been selected at the start of the term based on their results from the first exams. Ruan Yue was the representative for the Chinese class. Ding ChuChu had the highest overall score and was the representative for the English class in addition to being the studies representative.(5) However, because Dong Guofeng was also their Chinese teacher, he was used to directly appointing some matter to Ruan Yue. So, she was in charge of the notice board, with Ding ChuChu and one of the students gifted in art assisting her.
Seeing that they had already gotten up and gone to the back, Ruan Yue was forced to follow them.
She was in group 1, Lu Chen was in group 2, and the notice board was placed between group 2 and 3 at the back. Once she reached Li Shiyu with a stool, she found that the group of boys from both the rows at the back were laughing, their shoulders shaking.
Ding ChuChu stood by Qin Zheng’s side, her face flushed with an appearance of being at a loss.
Lu Chen raised his foot and kicked the leg of his stool. “Will you die if you don’t cause trouble?!”
“Won’t die, won’t die, Brother Chen, calm your temper-”
Qin Zheng quickly moved the table and stool forward as he spoke, deliberately pretending to be scared which made it even harder for the group of people in the last two rows to hold in their laughter.
In the midst of this laughter, Ding ChuChu placed the stool behind Lu Chen and Li Shiyu. She raised her head and said softly to Ruan Yue, “I’ll clean the blackboard first. Ruan Yue, you can go talk to Xu Yiran and discuss the design.”
Xu Yiran was very talented at fine arts. She had a gentle temper and was very good-natured.
Upon hearing this, she walked away from Ding ChuChu and Lu Chen and walked to Ruan Yue’s side.
The two of them went a little further to communicate.
Lu Chen slightly raised his gaze, only catching sight of the girl’s lowered face, inclined to one side.
1.Basically, expressing that it’s not a big deal and no thanks are needed.
2.He’s saying here that those heroes who save the beauty, basically have their type. So, Lu Chen acting out of the ordinary is because he finds Ding ChuChu attractive.
3.I think I mentioned this before, but Da Xiaojie is an appellation for the eldest daughter of a wealthy/influential family.
4.Chinese schools have a blackboard in their classrooms which is handled by the students. I’m not entirely sure but I think that they write down study tips and some notices in addition to quotes and stuff like that. I have seen some C dramas where they have class competitions and judge the blackboards and they’ve drawn cartoons and written quotes and poems and stuff on it.
5.The student in charge of the studies of the whole class. Checks over their studies and performance and assists them as appropriate.
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