Chapter 64: Xie Qin: You Like Me!

"I can help you discuss it with the school leadership, or is it that you have other requirements regarding the prize money?"

Wang Chunmei did not know the reason why Shen Li had come all the way from Haishi to this university in Wuchuan.

She was not willing to give up on Shen Li, this piece of gold; to her, this was also a good opportunity for her to be evaluated for a promotion, and if Shen Li entered the city-level competition, she would also be able to receive a bonus.

Come to think of it, Wang Chunmei also quite hoped that Shen Li would join the Mathematics Competition organized by the school this time.

However, the quota was limited; each department put forward two spots, selected from three students, and finally six people would be chosen to participate in this team competition.

Shen Li lowered her eyes: "There is no other reason, I just don't want to participate."

This Mathematics Competition was a city-wide joint competition; if she were to participate in the competition.

She knew clearly that she would encounter people she used to know.

She did not want to... go back.

And even less did she want to let them know that she was here.

In the classroom.

Xu Zhouyuan stuffed half a pancake into his mouth at once, "No! What on earth was said! It took such a long time!"

"Does anyone here know lip-reading? Can you translate it for us?" Zhou Mingyu looked out the window at the homeroom teacher's expression and said with amusement: "That's quite something. Our Vice Class Monitor is usually very good-tempered when talking to people; I didn't expect that this time, she would make the homeroom teacher's face turn black with anger."

At this moment, Shen Li walked in through the back door of the classroom, sat in her seat, and put down the shoulder bag in her hand.

Seeing this, Xie Qin raised his eyes, turned his body halfway, and locked the back door.

Xu Zhouyuan sat beside Xie Qin, poked his head out, and asked curiously: "Vice Class Monitor, what did the homeroom teacher say to you? You made her that angry, tell us about it."

Shen Li found her textbook on the desk, spread it open, and replied indifferently: "Nothing, just some unimportant matters."

Zhang Zixin inadvertently looked up and happened to meet the gaze Xie Qin cast over; he raised his chin slightly, and the meaning in his eyes could not have been more obvious.

Before her seat had even warmed up, she got up and swapped places with Xie Qin.

Zhang Zixin sat in Xie Qin's seat and sat together with Xu Zhouyuan.

She also complained in her heart: He should have just dragged the desk over; it's such a hassle every time.

Xie Qin's desk was clean, without even a book on it, let alone the drawer; inside there were only a few books and a lighter.

Sitting beside Shen Li, Xie Qin immediately heightened his presence; he propped up his head, looked at her, and narrowed his eyes: "Second time."

"What?" Shen Li looked at him in confusion.

"You! Are! Late!" Xie Qin enunciated every word.

Shen Li averted her gaze from his pitch-black eyes, "I sent a message to the teacher that I would be coming later."

Seeing her perfunctory attitude, Xie Qin felt a bit uncomfortable inside, carrying the temperament of a youth: "Not planning to report to me, where did you go?"

Shen Li lowered her eyes, her movements of flipping through the book did not stop; she simply and cleanly ignored him, not even giving him another glance.

Seeing that she remained silent, Xie Qin instead got energized; he leaned closer to her side, his tone somewhat accusatory: "After coming back, why do I feel like you seem... to be... getting colder and colder toward me!"

Shen Li asked him nicely: "Aren't you sleepy today?"

Usually at this time, he would have long been sleepy and would be lying on the desk sleeping soundly.

"You like me!"

Shen Li met his gaze, confused, not knowing when she had given him such a baseless illusion.

Xie Qin's handsome face suddenly leaned in front of her, his nose almost touching her cheek, and in the depths of his pitch-black pupils were her own cold, clear eyes.

Shen Li felt somewhat uncomfortable being watched by him and looked away: "..."

"You've even started caring about whether I'm sleepy or not." Xie Qin leaned back in his chair, "... Having a crush on me isn't anything shameful."

He!

Is really so narcissistic.

Shen Li held a pen in her hand and paused, thinking of the girl at the school gate today who had her arm around him, appearing to have some intimate actions.

Thinking that the girl should be his new girlfriend.

Shen Li: "Xie Qin."

Xie Qin: "What is it, speak!"

Meeting that exceptionally serious gaze, he couldn't help but have a bad premonition.

"I think..."

Shen Li wanted to say something, but later thought better of it and swallowed the words she was about to say.

There were still many people in the classroom now.

Some things are better left for a suitable opportunity to say.

Shen Li changed her words.

"You can be quiet for a while."

"Fine! As you wish." Xie Qin took out his phone and raised it to show her, "I'll play a game, you... continue listening to the lecture properly."

This kind of action seemed to have formed a tacit understanding between them.

As long as Shen Li didn't find him annoying, he could say a bunch of random things, and once she felt impatient, Xie Qin would stop at the right moment and not disturb her.

She listened to her lecture.

Xie Qin just sat on the side quietly doing his own thing.

Someone who usually played games in class with such arrogance, not caring about anyone and needing to make noise to feel satisfied, was suddenly controlled and became well-behaved.

When class ended, there were still a few minutes left.

The homeroom teacher walked in from outside and said one thing: "Everyone should have seen the notice I posted in the group over the weekend."

"The school is going to select six students from the entire department to participate in the preliminary round of this Mathematics Competition."

"Currently, the teacher is first recommending our class's Shen Li..."

Upon hearing this sentence, many gazes all turned toward Shen Li, who was sitting in the very last seat.

Hearing this news, Shen Li lowered her eyes, indifferent and without much reaction.

She had refused.

Why was she still pushed forward?

The homeroom teacher continued, "Whoever is interested in participating can first find the class monitor to fill out a registration form; at that time, there will be a designated teacher to organize and conduct a small test for the students who signed up, selecting six students out of thirty to go and participate in this competition, and the six selected students will also undergo specialized training for this competition."

"First is the team competition, then the individual competition, with results determined by points."

"The teacher doesn't even ask for you to get first place among the Wuchuan City University, as long as you can make it into the top ten, the school will provide a small bonus."

"If you make it into the top twenty in the individual competition, you will also get a full scholarship."

The entire Wuchuan City has a total of thirty universities, which means Chengde has to take down over twenty schools, and that's not even mentioning the individual competition; for them, it is no different from hell.

To put it bluntly, there are people who come to Chengde University who still can't even figure out intersections and unions.

Let alone being interested in participating in this kind of competition, the people below couldn't even be bothered to listen.

They're already at Chengde, for fuck's sake.

Who still thinks about loving to study? Everyone is just waiting to graduate after three years of junior college, muddle through to get a degree, enter society, and find a job to drift through life.

Damn! A Mathematics Competition at that!

Being able to come to class on time is already giving the school face.