SB-chapter 25

When Xiao Zhan was about to bite Wang Yibo, the latter suddenly let him go. Xiao Zhan immediately climbed into bed and curled into a ball.

Wang Yibo pulled the door open, clearly not willing to end it like this.

Nei Mingjue walked in with a gloomy face and said, “What were you doing?”

“Xiao Zhan is sick, so I’m going to take him to the infirmary now. But, he isn’t willing.”

Wang Yibo pinched his earlobes and seeing that it didn’t look like Wang Yibo was lying, Nei Mingjue immediately went to pull the covers over, asking, “How did you get sick? And why are you afraid of doctors?”

Xiao Zhan didn’t dare to say anything, so Nei Mingjue had no choice but to look at Wang Yibo, “How did he get sick? Call the school doctor over.”

Wang Yibo paused and then said something in Nei Mingjue’s ears, making him stunned and then he smiled. “Why are you embarrassed? You have to let the doctor check.”

Xiao Zhan pulled the covers down, just below his eyes and his eyelashes were flickering.

Wang Yibo said, “After school is over, I’ll take him to the hospital to check it out.”

Nei Mingjue nodded and walked out, having the crowd disperse.

Then, Wang Yibo placed the anti-theft chain back on the door and sat next to Xiao Zhan, curling the corner of his lips up. “You dare  not hand in your homework next time?”

Xiao Zhan revealed a look of resentment in his eyes and Wang Yibo bent down, leaning against the bed and said, “If you don’t cooperate with me, it makes me think that you don’t like me.”

Xiao Zhan quickly added onto Wang Yibo’s words silently. If you don’t like me, I’ll beat you to tears.

Xiao Zhan immediately sat up and said, “No. I, I like you.”

“Then why don’t you hand in your homework to me?”

Why? Because we’re fake dating. Xiao Zhan’s mind was messy and he believed that he needed to keep a distance from Wang Yibo.

Otherwise, once Wang Yibo recovered his memory, he would become a scum for playing Wang Yibo’s feelings. But how could he explain this?

Say that he was too shy? It would seem half-hearted if he acted too shamelessly.

Thankfully, Xiao Zhan was smart and said, “Because I think that if we are dating, we shouldn’t force each other to hand in the homework every day. Shouldn’t we hand in the homework…when we can’t help ourselves? Can we just let it be?”

Wang Yibo moved closer and Xiao Zhan subconsciously took a step back, listening to him say, “When can you fall in love with me?”

The youth who already passed puberty had a magnetic but gentle voice. His eyes were determined and his stubbornness touched people’s hearts, including Xiao Zhan whose face flushed from the intense gaze. He clutched the blankets tightly and looked up to bump into Wang Yibo.

Maybe because it was too sudden, Wang Yibo’s eyelashes flickered and then he moved a step back.

However, this didn’t stop Xiao Zhan from bumping into Wang Yibo and their lips touched one another.

Wang Yibo’s lips which originally scared Xiao Zhan to death were actually rather soft and gentle.

Xiao Zhan immediately took a step back and looked down to hear his heartbeat, humphing softly like a mosquito. “Now, this is what I mean when I say I can’t resist myself.”

Wang Yibo pursed his lips and took a step back, and then again. He touched his mouth and said, “Fine, I won’t force you in the future, but you need to hand in your homework at least once a week. Then, I’ll be satisfied, ok?”

He slowly nodded and said, “I want to nap.”

Wang Yibo wanted to say that he will accompany him since he was eager to stay with Xiao Zhan the entire time.

However, Xiao Zhan didn’t reciprocate his feelings, so Wang Yibo needed to keep some distance.

Wang Yibo finally left and Xiao Zhan immediately snuggled back in the blankets, calming down.

Whenever Wang Yibo forced him to hand in his homework, he felt difficulty breathing.

Xiao Zhan suddenly thought of the kiss by the door and the teacher’s frantic voice; it was too terrifying. But after recalling this memory, he slowly felt the aftermath and excitement that accompanied the memory.

Xiao Zhan recalled Wang Yibo’s appearance carefully and he was really handsome. When Wang Yibo was focused on kissing him, he couldn’t pull his gaze off of Wang Yibo.

Wang Yibo was known as the heart throb of the school, but what a pity for he had an evil reputation.

Despite how handsome he was, it couldn’t disguise his bad temper and there were many who called him “Unoffendable,” but rarely any called him “Handsome brother.”

Xiao Zhan didn’t dare to observe Wang Yibo carefully. Whenever he saw him, he labeled him as an “evil tyrant” and avoided Wang Yibo whenever possible.

Wang Yibo had kept his words and stopped forcing Xiao Zhan. This made the latter secretly happy and it was great. He felt that even if they weren’t fake dating, real couples wouldn’t be stuck like glue either.

He placed his pencil down when Peng Chuyue suddenly pushed him and said, “Have you noticed the junior sisters from Chongqing High School constantly wandering outside our class lately?”

It took Xiao Zhan a long time to process things besides studying and hearing this, he looked out to see girls wearing Chongqing school uniforms laughing outside the door.

Chongqing High School had a lot of regulations. From the buildings, one could tell. The sophomores and juniors each had one school building. For seniors, because they have heavy studies, they have their own school buildings.

No one could enter without signing in first and seniors had 3 school buildings to themselves. The studious atmosphere was different from the other buildings as well and in comparison, the sophomores caused the most disturbance.

Juniors caused less disturbance and seniors rarely caused any. It was quite strange for sophomore girls to appear here, especially in elite classes.

He asked, “Are they here looking for their relatives?”

“Look for who?” Peng Chuyue said in Xiao Zhan’s ears, “They seem to be looking for Wang Yibo. Look…”

While talking, Wang Yibo just strolled out of class and the sophomore girls immediately took a few steps back. Although they were being polite, one could see their flushed faces.

The moment Wang Yibo left, the crowd dispersed too.

Xiao Zhan was confused and asked, “There are people who like Wang Yibo?”

“He received many love letters.” Peng Chuyue sighed and continued, “Girls who yearn for excitement would probably like him.”

Xiao Zhan looked down and thought that it was quite exciting to be dating Wang Yibo.

He recalled the kiss by the door and suddenly knitted his eyebrows, harshly wiping his lips as if he wanted to wipe his mouth off.

“Your mouth’s red. Why are you doing this?”

“I did nothing.” Xiao Zhan all of a sudden gave Peng Chuyue attitude and said, “Something dirty was on my mouth.”

Wang Yibo who kept a nervous attitude towards the monthly exam grades finally calmed down.

Like usual, Teacher Lu started to list the ranks of people and there was no suspense that Xiao Zhan was first.

Xuan Lu seemed to be very satisfied. It was unbelievable how Xiao Zhan could maintain first place while still mingling with Wang Yibo.

Xiao Zhan normally didn’t care about class ranks, but he was suddenly nervous. Wang Yibo who was behind him spun the pen in his hands and acted calmly, but his slow breathing exposed his anxiety.

What rank would he be?

“Hu Shin, grade rank of 47th and class rank of 33th.”

“Shen Li, grade rank of 48th and class rank of 34th.”

Xuan Lu patiently allowed everyone to choose their seats according to the rankings. Of the entire Class 1 students, everyone was above the top 100 of the grade ranks.

“Wang Yibo.” She finally called him and Xiao Zhan immediately sat up; Even Wang Yibo subconsciously raised his head, recalling how she had called out rank 40th which meant…

“Grade rank of 599th and class rank of 41th.” Xuan Lu looked over and smiled, saying, “Not mad. You successfully improved from being the last of Class 1 to 4th to last of Class 1. Congratulations.”

Class 1 was full of elites and it was incredible that Wang Yibo had surpassed 3 people.

Xiao Zhan was delighted and immediately turned around to look at Wang Yibo, saying, “Con…”

Seeing Wang Yibo’s cold face, Xiao Zhan immediately swallowed the rest of his words because his gaze landed on Zhou Yixuan and Seungyoun who were lying on their desks as well as Li Wenhan who was laughing nonstop.

Next, Xuan Lu called out his name, “Li Wenhan, grade rank of 634th. And you’re laughing? Although Wang Yibo didn’t make much improvements in the class, at least he surpassed 100 or so people in the grade. What right do you have to laugh at him?”

She slapped the test on Li Wenhan’s desk and the red Xs finally made him feel ashamed. He stopped laughing and stood up, peeking at Wang Yibo and saying, “Brother, let me look at your test.”

Wang Yibo grabbed his book and hit backward, slapping Li Wenhan’s face with it.

Zhou Yixuan and Seungyoun knew very well that no matter what, Brother Wang had surpassed them.

The top 40 students in the elite class had gotten in this class based on their abilities. But Wang Yibo and the 4 others were placed in this class.

There were only 40 students in the elite class, but after the 4 additions, there were 44 people.

The seat arrangements in the class used to be this:

But after the new additions, it became like this:

4 more seats were added in the back and changed the originally square-shaped seating into a polygon-like seating. Every day, it hinted at the 4 people being the extra students in class and the principal hoped that they had the self-awareness to move out of elite class.

It was rare that Wang Yibo got angry over studies. He had a gloomy face and the urge to immediately leave the elite class and then come back in with his own ability.

At this time, he suddenly saw Xiao Zhan’s hand which slowly touched his shoulder. His eyes were like a squirrel’s, softening Wang Yibo’s heart.

Xiao Zhan said softly, “Cheer up.”

Wang Yibo subconsciously hooked Xiao Zhan’s slender fingers and felt his mood turning better as he watched Xiao Zhan reciprocating him.

The seats didn’t really change much. With Wang Yibo here, no one dared to sit behind Xiao Zhan, but because Peng Chuyue sat next to Xiao Zhan due to new regulations, the class sweated.

Although Wang Yibo was comforted, he still felt very uncomfortable.

He originally didn’t care about ranking second since after the last incident, no one would dare to sit next to Xiao Zhan.

So, it didn’t matter what score he got. After all, he would be the one next to Xiao Zhan anyway.

But now that the first and second places were linked together, Wang Yibo had no choice but to score well on the test if he wanted to sit with Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Zhan squeezed the finger Wang Yibo touched and although the latter only defeated his useless brothers, he did improve in the grade rankings.

Xiao Zhan felt very proud, so when class was over, he turned around to say to Wang Yibo, “Let me look at the questions you got wrong.”

Wang Yibo gave Xiao Zhan the test and the latter stared at it before becoming confused.

Wang Yibo’s test was considerably neat and he knew this because Wang Yibo usually handed in an empty test. Sometimes, he didn’t even write his name on it. But he didn’t think that when Wang Yibo started to answer questions on the test, it still maintained its neatness.

Xiao Zhan turned the test back and forth, noticing that it was the same as the previous tests that he made Wang Yibo too. The latter only picked the questions he knew and left the others empty.

But, here’s the main point.

There was not a single red X on his exam.

All the filled in questions were correct.

This made Xiao Zhan confused. “Why didn’t you attempt the questions?”

“If I don’t know how to do it, I don’t know how.” Wang Yibo supported his chin with his hand and said, “I don’t like wasting time on useless things.”

Sigh. He didn’t score great on the test, but not many can defeat him in acting cool.

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