Chapter 14: Qingbei University, are you still coming?

Shen Li sent messages to the classmates who didn't come to class as usual.

The last few people on the list were automatically ignored.

In the blink of an eye, it was Thursday. The sun was bright and scorching, and the leaves outside the building cast mottled light and shadows.

The morning class ended.

In the classroom corridor, a few girls walked by, complaining and envious: "If I had known, I would have signed up for the Philosophy Department. There's air conditioning to blow, unlike us who are dragged to sign in every day and have to attend class in such a hot classroom."

"Who says it isn't? Our head teacher is a lunatic, catching attendance every day. If you don't go to class, she calls your parents, she's really sick! If this continues, people will be hot and stupid."

"Sigh, I'm so envious of the people in Class 2!"

A few girls looked toward the classroom, and only Shen Li was sitting in the classroom.

It was lunchtime now, and the people in the classroom had all left.

Shen Li took out her phone and looked at the balance on the card, feeling a bit troubled. There was still over ten thousand yuan left in the card, but quite a bit had been spent on tuition and air tickets.

This money couldn't support her tuition and living expenses for three years of university.

"Hey, did you see the school forum?"

"Just at noon, someone in our class saw Xie Qin taking Song Yuewei to the mall. I heard he even bought her a Chanel bag, heard it was almost thirty or forty thousand yuan."

"No way, I remember they haven't been dating for long. He's so generous with his girlfriend. If anyone marries him in the future, I can't even imagine how comfortable that life would be. I really don't understand the world of the rich."

"Really, someone already took photos and posted them on the forum. It was someone from our class who saw them walk in with their own eyes, and later Song Yuewei came out carrying a new bag. And… wasn't it Song Yuewei's birthday on Monday? They went out to play, heard they even went to the most expensive bar. The consumption that day was almost enough for a bag."

"Wow, Song Yuewei is really too happy. Did you notice? They really seem like what's written in novels—school beauty talent and hoodlum school bully. Woo woo, it's so good to ship. I bet Xie Qin has really fallen for a talented school beauty like Song Yuewei. She's beautiful and can study, and she's a school beauty. Who wouldn't love her! Maybe this time Xie Qin has really fallen into Song Yuewei's hands."

Not long after the phone was turned on, a low-battery warning popped up.

Forgot to charge the phone yesterday.

Suddenly, a message popped up: Qingbei University, are you still coming?

Being guaranteed admission to Qingbei University was the goal she had struggled for for three years, but now… she hadn't told anyone that she had come to Wuchuan, thousands of miles away, failed everyone's expectations, and attended a third-rate vocational college.

She had also cut off all contact with everyone over there.

A few minutes before the afternoon class, only a few people arrived in the classroom one after another.

Shen Li didn't reply to the message. Since the phone was almost out of battery, she turned it off, took a few coins from her wallet, and went to the vending machine outside the classroom to buy a bottle of milk.

Don't know if it was a machine malfunction or some other reason, she inserted four yuan in coins, but there was no reaction.

It was stuck and didn't move.

Her money seemed to have been swallowed.

Sometimes, when the mood is bad.

Everything seems to be going against her.

Nothing goes smoothly.

Outside the classroom, Shen Li heard a few familiar voices laughing and talking.

She walked into the classroom.

Probably seeing Shen Li at the classroom door, the atmosphere was silent for a few seconds, and playful eyes fell on her.

Ignoring the unclear gazes cast at her, Shen Li returned to her seat.

Song Yuewei was sitting in Xie Qin's seat, and Xie Qin was sitting beside her. She looked at Shen Li and cast a 'friendly' look, taking the initiative to speak to her: "What a coincidence, we meet again. Heard you became the vice class monitor… being a class cadre is very hard."

Shen Li: "Mm, it's okay."

Her tone sounded cold to people.

"I happened to have no classes today, so I just came to accompany A-Qin to class."

"A-Qin told me about the last time. He was just standing up for me. I want to apologize to you on A-Qin's behalf. Didn't scare you, right?"

Xie Qin sat in his seat, lowered his eyes, playing with the coin in his hand, flipping it back and forth between his flexible, well-defined knuckles, and his legs were shaking rhythmically under the table.

Shen Li was thinking about whether to go tell the head teacher to get her money out of the vending machine.

Listening to the voice beside her, she came back to her senses and looked at her, with a smile at the corners of her lips: "It's okay, I didn't take it to heart. I'm also very sorry about the last time. It's good that you didn't mind." Her gentle voice had no offensive power. To others, Shen Li's voice sounded like she had no temper at all.

When she spoke, she was gentle to everyone, but in this gentle voice, there was always an obvious aloofness that made it hard to get close.

"How could that be? It was my friends who spoke too seriously. If I should apologize, I should be the one to apologize to you first." Song Yuewei saw the test paper on Shen Li's desk, and her words turned: "You signed up for the English Level 4 exam? What a coincidence? I signed up too. If you have any questions you don't understand, you can ask me. I studied last year's real questions, and I estimate this year's question types shouldn't be difficult."

Shen Li withdrew her gaze, her aura cold: "Thank you, no need."

She was still worrying in her heart whether to go find the head teacher now and tell her?

But it seemed, class was about to start.

Should she wait until after class?

"Let's add each other's contact information. If you have any questions in the future, regarding studies, you can come and ask me."

"Sorry." Shen Li raised her eyes and looked at her, her eyes clean but without temperature: "I don't really use my phone."

Song Yuewei looked at her with suspicious eyes and smiled: "If you don't want to add me, you can just say so. Saying this kind of excuse is a bit perfunctory."

"Or is it because of the last time, you refuse to forgive me?"

Shen Li shook her head gently, looked at her, and explained: "Thank you for your kindness, but… really no need, I really don't play with my phone much."

She also didn't have the habit of leaving her contact information for others.

Regarding her request, Shen Li declined politely.

Song Yuewei laughed, with a bit of inquiry in her eyes: "If you don't use your phone, how do you chat with your boyfriend?"

Shen Li: "I don't have a boyfriend."

Her phone number was handled using her mother's ID card, and even the old phone she used was an old phone that her father had phased out.

Her family controlled her very strictly. When she was at school, they were afraid she would fall in love early, and also afraid she would provoke bad students, so… she hardly used her phone.

At Haicheng Middle School, her grades were always the top in the school, even the city. In the rocket class, classmates were all working hard to study, and there was almost no situation of early love. The head teacher also managed her strictly, and few people interacted with her.

Not to mention having a boyfriend, the daily high-pressure study time was enough to make her breathless.

There was simply no opportunity for her to do anything other than study.

Song Yuewei felt that what she said was a bit fake, and she also felt that she was very fake.

She was so beautiful.

To say she had never fallen in love early.

No one would believe it.

The classmates in the class who heard the sound all cast their eyes toward Shen Li.

"Is it that no boys are chasing you? Or have written you love letters? I think there should be quite a few boys chasing you. Could it be… you haven't seen anyone you like?"

Xie Qin's movement of spinning the coin with his fingertips also stopped. His fingertips paused. ===== CHAPTER 15 =====