Chapter 6

Su Li paid the dormitory fee on the second floor; fortunately, her parents still provided the dormitory fee. She took the receipt and just needed to go to the Dormitory Manager later to collect the key.

She looked up at the floor above; she seemed to have fallen asleep on the sofa without realizing it.

"Su Li?" Wang Laoshi called to her. Su Li hurriedly withdrew her gaze, "Thank you, Teacher."

Wang Laoshi looked at the lively and spirited child and felt a touch of pity: "It's fine, hurry back to class."

"Okay." Su Li hurried out of the administration building. She had to drag Gouzi over to take a look together this Saturday and Sunday; perhaps if she slept in that lounge, she could go back.

Upstairs, Zhao Jiu came out of the elevator and was led into a room, where the proctoring teacher was waiting for him.

"Student, there are six A4-sized test papers, each worth 150 points, finish them within 6 hours."

Zhao Jiu glanced at the questions and realized one thing: he seemed not to have done any schoolwork for ten years.

He picked up his pen and could only start with the English he was most familiar with, then Chinese, mathematics, and finally physics, chemistry, and biology, which he had basically not used in ten years.

Finally, at 3:30 in the afternoon, Zhao Jiu rubbed his head and came out of the administration building. He glanced at the time; his little Su was probably still in class.

He would probably know his results by tomorrow.

He walked to the bulletin board next to the teaching building to wait for Su Li. Su Li had to go home, so she would definitely pass by this spot.

Zhao Jiu took out his phone and turned it on. The questions at No. 1 High School were quite insane.

Messages came in from Cheng Yu and the others.

"Boss, where did you go?"

"Boss, Wang Qiyun is snitching again!"

"Are you there?"

Zhao Jiu replied to the message: "I'm at No. 1 High School."

Cheng Yu replied instantly: "No. 1 High School? What are you doing there?"

Zhao Jiu thought about how Su Li got carsick and typed: "Transfer exam."

Over at Shengde, Cheng Yu thought of the No. 1 High School girl who got into Zhao Jiu's car yesterday. The hand holding his phone shook. Did he take a fancy to her? And transferred schools for her?

"Then did you get in? I heard the questions at No. 1 High School are quite insane."

Zhao Jiu: "I don't know."

Cheng Yu: "!!!"

Their boss was actually unsure if he could pass the exam?

Zhao Jiu was also annoyed; for the first time in his life, he was this uncertain about his own scores.

Zhao Jiu continued chatting with Cheng Yu. At this moment, several students who had finished organizing sports equipment passed by, slowed their pace, huddled together, and whispered.

"Who is this? Not wearing a school uniform."

"Head is down, can't see the full face, but just from this angle, he feels handsome!"

"His hands are so good-looking, slender and clean."

A girl picked up her phone and secretly took a picture, then sent it to their class group that didn't have any teachers in it.

"I announce that another school hunk has come to our school!"

"This temperament! Could it be that he's not from our school?"

"If he wasn't from our school, would the security guard let him in?"

"Not to mention anything else, is this advertising for the bulletin board?"

Consequently, in the afternoon, a photo of Zhao Jiu leaning against the bulletin board spread widely in Grade 1 first, then gradually spread to Grade 2 and Grade 3.

In the classroom, Su Li finally finished catching up on her homework, leaving only chemistry.

She found her chemistry book, looked at the questions first, then flipped through the book to recall. In front, Liu Jiajia suddenly leaned over and excitedly patted Chen Xue's desk.

"Look at this! Very handsome, isn't he!"

Chen Xue leaned over to look closely and also got excited: "Who is this? Does our school have this person?"

Liu Jiajia shook her head: "Don't know. I found it in a group; it seems a Grade 1 junior student took it."

Chen Xue looked at Zhao Jiu in the photo: "Not wearing a school uniform, could he be from outside?"

Liu Jiajia nodded: "Possible. After all, the probability of two school-hunk-level handsome guys appearing in one school is a bit small."

Some schools don't even have one.

"Why didn't the junior student ask for his phone number!" Chen Xue said with a heartache.

Liu Jiajia nodded; the junior student was just too thin-skinned.

Chen Xue glanced at Su Li, who was doing practice problems on the side: "Su Li, do you want to see? This boy looks very clean."

Su Li turned her head. Why did her words sound so strange?

Chen Xue reacted; it did seem strange, as if she were asking her to solicit him? Forget it then.

Su Li continued to lower her head to catch up on homework, incidentally asking: "By the way, Chen Xue, do you know who in our class lives in 204?"

Chen Xue and Liu Jiajia looked at her in unison: "What a coincidence, both of us."

Su Li was stunned for a moment, remembering that when Wang Laoshi arranged the seats, he split Chen Xue and Liu Jiajia up and stuffed her with Chen Xue.

"I'm going to live in the dormitory, and the dormitory the teacher arranged is 204."

Liu Jiajia put away her phone: "That's great, someone finally came to share the electricity bill."

"The two of us don't even dare to turn on the air conditioning at night now; it costs too much money."

Su Li smiled, then told them she would move in tonight. Chen Xue told her about things to pay attention to in the dormitory.

When school ended in the afternoon, Chen Xue and Liu Jiajia went to the School Cafeteria to eat and then went back to clean the dormitory. Su Li had to go home first to get her luggage.

Many students who knew a school hunk was leaning against the bulletin board chose to pass by the bulletin board, then those living in the dormitory turned toward the School Cafeteria, and the day students walked slowly toward the school gate.

Zhao Jiu looked up and found there were quite a few people, so he scanned the crowd. His secretary hadn't come out yet, so he continued to look down at his phone.

A few people who had walked far away whispered: "He just looked up; his face is also handsome, not losing to Jiang Xiangnan at all."

"Still waiting here, it can only be for a girlfriend."

"However, he looks like a high school student too, why isn't he in the classroom?"

"No idea."

At this moment, Hu Xiao and Yu Yangfei came out first to wait for Su Cheng to emerge; since Jiang Xiangnan lived on campus, the task of seeing her home fell to them.

The two chatted idly.

"Tell me, when will Su Li truly give up on Brother Jiang?"

Yu Yangfei: "Hard to say."

Suddenly, they noticed the nearby students were acting a bit strange, as if they were looking at something.

The two turned their heads and saw, under the bulletin board, a strange boy standing there, though they didn't know when he had arrived.

As day students passed by, they snuck looks at him, and some even took secret photos; this was a scene they had only seen on the day of enrollment for Grade 1, when the one being secretly photographed was Jiang Xiangnan.

Yu Yangfei looked at Zhao Jiu in front; he was stunned. The youth was leaning against the bulletin board, one leg slightly bent, one hand holding a phone, head lowered as he typed, the other hand in his pocket—casual and uninhibited.

Everything he wore from head to toe was not inferior to Jiang Xiangnan; with his head lowered and face turned to the side, it was hard to say exactly how he looked, but his temperament alone was completely different from Jiang Xiangnan's style, exuding a hint of nobility.

He inexplicably felt that Jiang Xiangnan was in a bit of danger, if this person was a boy from their school.

But thinking about it carefully, it shouldn't be; Jiang Xiangnan didn't care about those empty reputations anyway.

"Who is that person? Why isn't he wearing a school uniform? No, if our school had someone like this, it's impossible we wouldn't have noticed," Hu Xiao said from the side, looking puzzled.

Yu Yangfei withdrew his gaze: "Maybe he's not from our school."

Behind them, Su Li came out of the teaching building holding her bus card and house keys; she didn't need to carry a schoolbag home, and she felt she could just walk back.

As soon as she came out, she saw Hu Xiao and Yu Yangfei waiting for Su Cheng; Su Li ignored them and headed straight for the school gate, but after two steps, she froze.

Up ahead, the boy leaning against their school's bulletin board, playing with his phone—why did he look so much like Gouzi?

Su Li was dazed for a moment; was she dreaming?

She reached out her right hand and pinched her left hand; it hurt.

Not a dream?

"Gou... Boss... Zhao Jiu, why are you here?" Su Li walked over, then looked at the spot he was leaning against and the reactions of the nearby students.

Gouzi was in casual clothes, the bangs on his forehead slightly falling, his skin fair; even without seeing his face clearly, one could feel the cleanliness and freshness of this person, especially with the sunset glow shining on him.

Having been together for too long, had she forgotten that Gouzi indeed had the qualifications to be a "femme fatale"?

And his style was completely different from Jiang Xiangnan's; one was cold and aloof, the other had a hint of nobility amidst his sunshine; the former made people afraid to get close, the latter made people unable to resist getting close.

Zhao Jiu: "..."

He heard it; she had just wanted to call him Gouzi, realized it was wrong, wanted to change it to "Boss," but remembered they were at school, so she changed it to his name.

Zhao Jiu put away his phone, straightened up, and said: "Came to handle a transfer."

Su Li thought about it; with the way Zhao Gouzi dressed here, transferring over was normal.

"Did you bring my money!" Su Li's eyes brightened slightly; a worker's wages come first, she had to solve the wage issue.

Zhao Jiu had a headache and lifted his foot to walk outside: "I can't exactly let a high school student carry tens of thousands in cash, can I?"

Su Li nodded: "Then..."

Zhao Jiu: "I'll give you a card."

"Thank you, Boss." Su Li hurried to follow.

Zhao Jiu glanced at her and asked: "Was your phone off all day?"

Su Li: "My phone was confiscated; I'll go buy a new one later while I'm at it."

Hu Xiao and Yu Yangfei watched the two in front; Su Li was following slightly behind the youth, and as the two walked, their backs looked inexplicably harmonious.

Hu Xiao was stunned; wh... what was the situation?

Why was Su Li walking with that boy?

People from Class 15 passed by and looked, saying: "Hu Xiao, didn't you say Su Li was pestering Jiang Xiangnan?"

"Who is that boy next to Su Li?"

Hu Xiao choked, suddenly not knowing what to say.