Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
“Take your seats. We have a new classmate joining us from today onwards.” Mr. Yang looked on with joy at his students from his teacher’s desk before gesturing for Peach to come forward to his desk. He then announced, “Now, your new classmate, Peach, will introduce herself.”
Standing at the teacher’s desk, Peach took a look at her classmates sitting before her. Taking a deep breath, she beamed and introduced herself, “Hi everyone, my name is Peach Su. You can call me Peach. It’s nice to meet all of you!”
The students started whispering to one another in the quiet classroom.
“Let’s welcome Peach to our class,” Mr. Yang said and took the lead in applauding. Then, he glanced around the classroom and pointed to an empty seat on the right. He then told Peach, “Peach, you can take the vacant seat next to Li Tingting. ”
“Ok,” Peach agreed and carried her backpack with her to her assigned seat.
“Alright, let’s start the class. We will be learning Hanyu Pinyin in today’s lesson. Everyone turn your textbook to page…”
Li Tingting was a beautiful girl. Although she was curious about Peach Su, she was wary about talking to her during the lesson.
On the other hand, Shen Mochen, who was having a Mathematics lesson upstairs, was being interrogated by his deskmate, “Shen Mochen, was that your girlfriend?”
Shen Mochen’s deskmate was Hu Yucheng, the boy with the sharp chin, fair skin and narrow eyes, who had spoken to Peach earlier on.
Shen Mochen threw him a cursory glance but did not respond.
Seemingly accustomed to Shen Mochen’s coldness, Hu Yucheng continued talking to himself without waiting for Shen Mochen’s answer, “But she claimed that you’re her husband. That girl was so short though. She’s not even in first grade, is she? She can’t possibly be a kindergartner, can she? ”
Shen Mochen still did not reply.
Unable to suppress his curiosity, Hu Yucheng poked Shen Mochen’s arm and asked, “Hey, are you really her husband?”
“No.”
“Oh…” Hu Yucheng nodded and continued, “I think she looks adorable. If you’re not her husband, why don’t you let me have her. It would look pretty good if she were my girlfriend.”
Adorable? Brows furrowed, Shen Mochen turned his head to glare at Hu Yucheng. Was ‘adorable’ the right word to describe Peach?
He recalled seeing Peach crawl all over the floor, slobbering while watching him eat, and crying till her snot was everywhere. In his mind, the only words that could be used to describe her were ‘ugly’ and ‘annoying’.
“What’s up? You don’t want to?” Hu Yucheng looked at him with a frown. Thinking that Shen Mochen was upset, he obsequiously took out his new mechanical pencil from his pencil case, and handed it to Shen Mochen while whispering, “My father just bought me this new Transformer pen. How about we make an exchange? ”
Shen Mochen turned back to look at the blackboard and said, “Up to you.”
“Deal.” Hu Yucheng gleefully sealed the deal and patted Shen Mochen’s shoulder with satisfaction.
“Hu Yucheng, come and solve this problem on the blackboard!” Ms. Wang’s voice rang out loudly from the teacher’s desk. She had been observing Hu Yucheng for a long time. Not only was he not studious, he even distracted Shen Mochen by talking to him during class. He was not obedient at all.
“Huh?” Hu Yucheng’s face fell and looked towards Shen Mochen for help.
Shen Mochen glanced at the question on the blackboard and casually revealed the answer, “4.”
Hu Yucheng went up to the blackboard and wrote down the answer.