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Chapter 5

T e a s e r

Like the fish from the deep blue sea suddenly jumped out of the water and discovered the brightly s.h.i.+ning sun.

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When she heard of Pei Zhi's name, Lin Zhao Xi's heart beat faster, and she felt vaguely happy. She sat in her seat, twirled her pen, and drew a little man holding a card on the white paper in front of her.

Others were starting to get excited about the discussion.

"Asking Pei Zhi to solve the problem, if it takes male G.o.d within 3 seconds to answer then it is suitable to be the major finale, isn't it?"

"If it takes more than five seconds then is it too difficult?"

"What if it takes Pei Zhi too long?" The curly-haired boy lowered his voice, and then he replied himself, "Oh, that would be impossible."

"Mr. Zhang this time is good at criticizing first before praising."

(The original was "老張這波先抑後揚吹的有水平。")

The more these people in the Student Union chatted, the happier they became, and quickly it turned into giving Pei Zhi the whole set of questions to solve.

Lin Zhao Xi said: "In fact, we can ask a teacher…"

But speaking of Pei Zhi, she herself was not quite confident, her weak tone was quickly drowned in the people's excited discussion. She could only give up, although she was looking forward to watching Pei Zhi defeat the intellectual test by Bai Cao in an instant.

But actually looking for Pei Zhi?

Lin Zhao Xi thought, if she was asked to go, she would certainly be afraid.

"The question is, who is going to ask Pei Zhi?" Soon after, these people also realized that, although it sounded interesting, no one was willing to go.

Just as Lin Zhao Xi was about to repeat her offer to find a teacher, she heard someone say: "Let's draw lots!"

These three words were life-saving, effectively made everyone approve. Small pieces of paper were made instantly and piled up in the middle of the conference table. A group of people picked the pieces, the paper pile was quickly reduced.

Lin Zhao Xi held a piece, her palm turned slightly damp, the white piece of paper was almost transparent under the sunlight, in the end she could not tell what kind of mood of hers. She and Pei Zhi had been cla.s.smates ("同學" is not actually "cla.s.smate" but more like someone you study with. As a p.r.o.noun it can also refer to students/ fellow friends) since elementary school, junior high school to high school and then to college, they had studied in different cla.s.ses of the same schools for 16 years.

It could be destined, but then there was no intersection. She had looked at Pei Zhi all this time, became a witness of his life from the outside, witnessed him grow from the extraordinary young boy to the extremely outstanding young man.

And now…

Lin Zhao Xi looked at the piece of paper in her palm. If there was Pei Zhi's name on it, wasn't it the first time there was an intersection in their lives?

With her unexplainably subtle mood, she opened the piece of paper. The paper was pure white, empty, and there was nothing on it.

Her mind went blank for a while. Then she slightly sighed, felt very calm, thought it should be like that. There was nothing like what Mr. Lin said - Anything in this world can happen to anyone. For example, she and Pei Zhi could not have this coincident intersection.

She was sad yet relieved to think so, and as she put the paper in her pocket, the conference room turned silent, and all eyes were drawn to her. Lin Zhao Xi was very confused; therefore, she turned to what everyone is looking at.

She turned her head and saw the girl who had previously shared the material with her.

The girl gripped tightly on the top of table, twisted her body, and she looked extremely nervous.

"Shen Mei?" An Xiao Xiao suddenly spoke, "Did you get it?"

Shen Mei shrank at the question.

"Little Mei Mei, hehehe." Someone smiled.

"I…" Shen Mei nodded slowly like a robot "I… I don't want to go."

"Are you afraid of asking Pei Zhi?"

She already looked innocent, thus, when she hears of Pei Zhi, she blushed.

"How can our Shen Mei be so shy!"

Having heard that, Shen Mei's face got redder as if dripping blood.

This looked like she was really having a crush on Pei Zhi, making someone in the conference room smile: "What a great opportunity, we will support you!"

"Well, there's nothing to be embarra.s.sed, I also like Pei Zhi."

"Mr. Zhang you don't need to act gay!"

Shen Mei explained with a tiny voice: "No… I don't like…"

Lin Zhao Xi looked at her, and all of a sudden, she understood her feelings very well. Shen Mei might not even have a crush on Pei Zhi, it was just all types of admiration and fondness mixing, having the most secretive thoughts in her heart revealed, making her confused, and she did not know what to do.

"Is it because of your boyfriend? Ah, no problems, we won't tell him." An Xiao Xiao said unexpectedly.

Shen Mei was startled by her, her eyes were filled with tears, she pleadingly looked at An Xiao Xiao.

"Fine." Lin Zhao Xi suddenly interrupted An Xiao Xiao.

"I'll go." She told An Xiao Xiao, quietly gave Shen Mei a tissue from under the table and gently held her hand.

Shen Mei offered her a grateful look, and Lin Zhao Xi freezed.

Wait, what did she just say?

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