Chapter 23 Play hard to get?

Tao Shuxin sat back in her seat and smoothed down her fluffy textbook angrily.

In fact, Xu Mingyuan protected it quite well, but boys are not as careful as girls. After looking at it many times, there will always be wrinkles that he didn’t notice.

In the past half month, Xu Mingyuan has not had much contact with her.

Every time Tao Shuxin looked back, Xu Mingyuan was mostly reading with his head down, or writing and calculating with a pen and paper. He would only raise his head when the teacher asked him to answer a question.

But he couldn’t answer most of them.

Not only that, after class he basically sits down and does homework, as if he is studying very hard.

Only occasionally would he be seen chatting with his good classmates in the corridor. Of course, he would also go to the playground to play basketball for 10 to 20 minutes after school in the afternoon, and then return to the classroom with his arms around each other, bragging about his shooting moves.

Very childish.

It seems like there is no difference, but the biggest difference is that I no longer chat with her or mess around with her.

During the entire half month, the two of them spoke less than they did in the short two hours that day in the ice cream shop, and by far less.

Tao Shuxin didn’t sleep well that night. She was thinking about how Xu Mingyuan overheard that she liked watermelon milkshakes, and how he pretended to be so familiar with her.

When Xu Mingyuan went to school that day, Tao Shuxin came to her senses and realized that Xu Mingyuan definitely had no good intentions!

However, after the seat-changing incident, Xu Mingyuan seemed like a different person.

Not only would he not take the initiative to chat with her, he wouldn’t even joke with her.

After borrowing a few books, he acted as if nothing had happened. Even when he had problems, he would ask his classmates around him for help and never asked her for help.

Once, Tao Shuxin walked over as if nothing had happened and took the initiative to ask if there was anything in the textbook that they didn’t remember clearly, and that they could ask her.

However, Xu Mingyuan just said thank you and wrote it very clearly in his notes.

At this moment, Tao Shuxin felt that Xu Mingyuan just treated her as an ordinary classmate, and just happened to see that she wrote good notes, so he came to borrow the textbook from her.

It doesn’t seem to be any different.

Is the truth so simple? It’s inexplicable!
Tao Shuxin felt an inexplicable blockage in her chest, and even her breathing was difficult.

What she didn’t know was that the truth was so simple, but she just complicated everything.

But today, everything is clear.

The stone that had been pressing on Tao Shuxin’s chest finally settled.

After the monthly baseline test, small-scale seat adjustments began again.

“Tao Shuxin, you and Chen Xiaojing switch places.”

After adjusting the seats of several people, it was finally Tao Shuxin’s turn.

“Hey, my good deskmate, you moved out so soon.”

Xu Mingyuan watched Chen Xiaojing packing her things, feeling a little sorry.

It’s nice to have Chen Xiaojing as my deskmate. She is usually very quiet and will answer questions carefully. If she doesn’t know the answer, she will even discuss it with the students in front and behind her.

If it weren’t for Chen Xiaojing, Xu Mingyuan wouldn’t have made such rapid progress.

“Really? Then just talk to the teacher.”

“That’s right.” Xu Mingyuan suddenly shouted to Gao Dexiang, “Teacher Gao, can I apply to sit with Chen Xiaojing?”

“oops!”

Chen Xiaojing hit Xu Mingyuan’s arm with a red face.

You said this only after the books have been packed up. You are not sincere at all!
She and Xu Mingyuan were quite happy to be desk mates. Sometimes he would tell a joke to make her happy, and they would usually buy some snacks for them to eat together.

Chen Xiaojing, who has sat at the same table with many people, felt most relaxed only when she sat at the same table with Xu Mingyuan. This made her, who usually didn’t like to talk, take the initiative to talk to her classmates.

“Young Master, you are looking for trouble for me!”

Gao Dexiang didn’t tolerate Xu Mingyuan and glared at him with anger.

In fact, what Xu Mingyuan didn’t know was that in Gao Dexiang’s eyes, his poor performance in the exam was just a slap in the face, and who knows what bad things were going on in his mind.

Tao Shuxin, holding a pile of books, walked over and stood in the aisle less than a meter away. She glared at him fiercely and then turned her head away.

“Do you need my help?” Xu Mingyuan asked. “No need for your fake kindness!” Tao Shuxin decisively refused.

Five minutes later, the noisy classroom became quiet. Tao Shuxin was still putting the books back in place one by one, as if she would never be able to finish.

Seeing that she was unwilling to pay attention to him, Xu Mingyuan did not waste any more time and continued to review his Daye.

During this short period of half a month, Xu Mingyuan used up ten pen refills. This was in 03, far from the level of involution that would occur ten years later.

Even Xu Mingyuan admired his own perseverance.

“Humph!”

Seeing Xu Mingyuan doing his homework with a serious look, Tao Shuxin snorted with disdain.

After observing carefully for a while, she found that Xu Mingyuan was really doing his homework.

Even if I don’t know the answer to a question, I will first find the answer in the book, then write it down in my notebook several times, and then do it again after I have memorized it.

But Tao Shuxin discovered that there seemed to be a lot he didn’t know.

“Tao Tao, please help me, how do I solve this problem?”

Xu Mingyuan, who had a math test paper, was stumped by a question. After thinking it over, he began to seek help outside the test center.

Tsk, I knew you couldn’t keep your temper!

Tao Shuxin, who was gritting her teeth while doing the test paper just now, couldn’t help but curl the corners of her mouth upwards, and then pressed them down hard.

“Hmm.” Tao Shuxin cleared his throat and said sarcastically, “You don’t even know this? Isn’t it clearly written in the question? Stupid, it is known that AC equals AB plus AD…”

As Tao Shuxin spoke, he picked up a pen and wrote down the steps to solve the problem on the paper.

After Xu Mingyuan asked a few questions, Tao Shuxin answered them one by one and explained them in great detail.

“Oh, thank you.”

Xu Mingyuan suddenly understood and found a piece of paper to do the calculation again.

Just pretend!

I was just taking the opportunity to ask questions to find something to say.

Tao Shuxin thought secretly in his heart.

She knew that Xu Mingyuan was quite good at math and this problem shouldn’t be difficult for him at all.

Xu Mingyuan had no idea what kind of messy things were on her mind, and she didn’t even have enough energy to do her homework every day.

“Let me tell you, my mom is the dean of studies!”

Tao Shuxin lowered his voice and said.

“Hmm? I know.”

She suddenly said this, which made Xu Mingyuan confused, but he still nodded.

There is more than one principal in No. 3 Middle School. Tao Shuxin’s mother is not mainly responsible for students, but is in charge of teachers’ work. She does not appear in public very often.

“I’m warning you, don’t cross the line!”

Tao Shuxin stretched out her white and tender fingers and tapped the gap between the two tables.

“Have you graduated from elementary school?”

Xu Mingyuan was speechless. He pulled the table one centimeter away and continued to do the questions.

Tao Shuxin suddenly went crazy and felt like vomiting blood.

It was obviously you who wanted to change seats, and now I have changed them, but you are still pretending like you don’t care!

Play hard to get?

When I was a little girl!

Tao Shuxin clenched her fists so tightly that her fingertips turned white.

I made a secret decision in my heart that I would never talk to Xu Mingyuan again! Not even once!

(End of this chapter)