Chapter 45 Situation
It has been a week since we entered December. Although there is still more than a month to the Chinese New Year, the beginning of 03 is just around the corner.

Xu Mingyuan felt very good. He had even forgotten how many years it had been since he had experienced such a fulfilling and energetic life.

Chinese teacher Zhang Yan praised Xu Mingyuan for the first time, saying that he had made great progress and encouraged him to keep working hard.

This is Xu Mingyuan’s greatest gain, and only this sentence can show that his efforts have paid off.

Most people thought that Xu Mingyuan was hiding his incompetence and deliberately doing bad grades. No one believed that someone who was in the top 20 in the class in the exam before the holiday suddenly became the last in the class.

Only Xu Mingyuan himself knows how hard it is.

In this monthly exam, Xu Mingyuan successfully returned to the 20th place in the class. Although he is still the same in the eyes of the teacher, there is always room for improvement.

In this monthly exam, it was mainly the Chinese language that pulled up his score by more than 20 points.

In the past, Xu Mingyuan always made some mistakes in his reading comprehension questions, but now he has a deeper understanding.

Understand that an exam is an exam. Don’t mix too many of your own ideas into it. Formulaic things should be solved in a formulaic way.

I forced myself to endure the difficult science subjects and re-read the texts that I once had to memorize by rote, only then did I discover the beauty hidden in these texts.

It’s very relaxing, very comfortable, and I have gained more insights.

There is no resistance in my heart. Learning can be regarded as a hobby. It is just like the anticipation of getting a little red flower in kindergarten.

“Lao Gao is going to change my seat.”

Tao Shuxin pouted and whispered in Xu Mingyuan’s ear.

“Adjust it.”

My ears were itchy from her blowing, so I moved a little further away from her.

“Tune it? Just tell me the tune?”

Obviously irritated by Xu Mingyuan’s attitude, Tao Shuxin raised her voice twice.

“What else? Didn’t you say you wanted to change seats?”

Xu Mingyuan looked at her, somewhat puzzled.

Pack! Just keep pretending!
The resentment in Tao Shuxin’s eyes was about to overflow, and the pen holder creaked as her white and round fingertips gripped it.

You spent so much effort to sit with me, and now you start to act arrogantly. You insist that I tell you what’s in your mind, right?
Xu Mingyuan had no idea that there were so many things going on in her mind. It was just a change of seat. It was not like he had changed seats before.

“Actually, I told Teacher Gao that there’s no need to change seats.”

Tao Shuxin felt that she should still explain.

“Oh.”

“…”

Seeing Xu Mingyuan’s indifferent look, Tao Shuxin took a deep breath to calm down, then glared at him and said, “But Lao Gao said it’s not okay, saying that you always gossip to me during self-study class!”

“Who gossiped about you? I was just asking questions, but you were the one who insisted on gossiping. How can you frame someone?”

Xu Mingyuan was unhappy at that time. He had never taken the initiative to gossip with her. She was the one who started it when she had nothing to do.

“You are making things up! You are slandering me!”

“Since you love to say four-character idioms so much, you shouldn’t be the class monitor. Wouldn’t it be better to run for the Chinese class representative directly?”

“You, you, you! Humph! I should have changed seats!”

Tao Shuxin clasped her hands in front of her chest, lifting up her slender curves under her wool sweater.

Xu Mingyuan glanced at her indifferently, then looked at her twice.

The little girl is eighteen years old now, and her temperament seems different.

“What are you looking at!”

Tao Shuxin lowered her voice and glared at him fiercely. She looked as fierce as a kitten, but her cheeks were quietly flushed.

After a while, Tao Shuxin came over again and whispered, “Why don’t you talk to Lao Gao?”

“I have nothing to do? I won’t tell you.”

Xu Mingyuan refused without even thinking about it.

Tao Shuxin’s grades have always been the best in the class. She just needs to tell Lao Gao where she wants to sit.

Since Lao Gao disagreed, it was probably He Qiong who brought it up.

In this case, Xu Mingyuan doesn’t want to offend her.

It’s outrageous to be able to set off fireworks downstairs of someone else’s building in the middle of the night.

This silly child doesn’t even realize it. She doesn’t realize that the more she doesn’t want to change her seat, the more she has to change it.

Tao Shuxin was so angry at Xu Mingyuan’s indifferent attitude that she turned her head away and ignored him.

Tao Shuxin walked out of the classroom just before the end of the school day, and soon after, she and Lao Gao walked in one after the other. Every monthly exam was a small-scale seat reshuffle, with students who liked to talk in class and students whose grades dropped being moved away, and then criticized.

Xu Mingyuan’s deskmate was replaced by Jiang Ping. This kid’s performance dropped from the top five in diving to outside the top ten, which made Lao Gao very angry.

I don’t know if he was following Xu Mingyuan’s example and intentionally lowered his grades.

Tao Shuxin moved forward one position, from being Xu Mingyuan’s desk mate to being his desk mate in the row in front of him.

Sitting in the front row is Tang Lin. This girl talks more in class than Tao Shuxin. No one knows what Lao Gao is thinking.

As soon as he arrived, he started chatting with Xu Mingyuan: “Want to go out and play in the afternoon?”

“Don’t go.”

“Why not? Let’s go together. We finally have a break, how about we go eat spicy hotpot? Jiang Ping, do you want to go?”

“I don’t know. Let’s ask Siqi later.”

“Does that mean you agree? Xu Mingyuan, don’t be ungrateful. Tao Tao asked me to say this.”

“You are talking nonsense! When did I say that? I will tear your mouth to pieces…”

Tao Shuxin was furious. He reached into her clothes and started scratching her, chattering all the time.

“No, I’m going to surf the Internet with Sun Hongwei and others later.” Xu Mingyuan said.

“Just playing games, boring, huh.”

There was a hint of disappointment in Tao Shuxin’s tone, and she turned her head to whisper.

Ding-ling-ling, the classic ringtone of Xiaolingtong sounded, and a strange number appeared on the screen.

Not many people know his phone number, and the only person who has recently asked if he should be given his phone number is Xiao Yangzhi.

But Xu Mingyuan didn’t expect that someone would call him after so many days.

“Hello.”

“Is it classmate Xu Mingyuan?”

“Yes, what’s up?”

“Do you have time now? Do you remember that you gave Duan Shihan a file bag a few days ago? I just came to you to find out the situation.”

The person on the other end of the phone came straight to the point.

“can.”

Since we can arrive before school is over, we can say that we’ve been waiting here.

Xu Mingyuan looked around and saw a black Jetta with its hazard lights on.

“I have something to do. Can you help me turn on the machine first?”

Xu Mingyuan patted Sun Hongwei on the shoulder and asked them to go to the Internet cafe first.

“How long will it take? Do you want me to bring you an omelet?”

“All is fine.” Xu Mingyuan said casually.

“Then hurry up.”

They were all senior high school students who had been holding back for a week and couldn’t wait to go to the Internet cafe to have some fun. Seeing this, they just greeted him and told him to hurry up, and then left together.

Xu Mingyuan walked closer and saw the Jetta honking its horn, so he opened the back door and got in.

Through the rearview mirror, Xu Mingyuan recognized who this person was at a glance: Duan Jianhe’s secretary Zhao Bingsheng.

He is about thirty years old, with a square face, short hair, black-framed glasses, and a gentle appearance.

“Student Xu, right? It’s already noon, how about eating something first?”

“Thank you. I made an appointment with my classmates to play games online, so I asked them to bring me some food.”

Xu Mingyuan didn’t want to stay in contact with him for too long, because Zhao Bingsheng was a shrewd man.

Although Xu Mingyuan had the advantage of age, the more they talked, the more flaws he revealed, and he might have guessed something.

“Would you like to go get something to drink?”

“No need for that, just talk about it here, I’m in a hurry to play games.”

“Since you are in a hurry, let’s talk in the car.”

Zhao Bingsheng agreed and drove away from the crowd who were leaving school.

He was just a student, so Zhao Bingsheng didn’t take it seriously. He basically didn’t know anything about this trip.

(End of this chapter)