Chapter 108: Lu Yuanqiu, I Hope You Admit Defeat [Third Watch]
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“Welcome to Mickey’s Clubhouse! Hello everyone, I’m your English teacher, Su Miaomiao.”
A rapid stream of messages followed, all saying “Hello, teacher.” Lu Yuanqiu didn’t see a reply from Bai Qingxia and guessed she was still typing.
“Has Teacher Liu joined yet?” asked Mickey’s Clubhouse.
“Not yet,” Wang Haoran replied. “The head teacher might be busy and forgot. Teacher Su, I’ll set you as the group admin first. Everyone, remember to change your display names to your own names.”
Only two or three people changed their names. Lu Yuanqiu was too lazy to bother.
Just then, Su Miaomiao spoke again.
“Who is this ‘Lese’? They just tried to add me as a friend. I must have clicked wrong and accidentally rejected. Could you send the request again?”
“Teacher, I’m Zheng Yifeng. I also clicked the wrong button and accidentally sent a friend request…” Lese replied.
Lu Yuanqiu burst out laughing. Both of them?
Accidental?
Who was really accident, and who was just pretending?
“If the teacher already said that, aren’t you going to give her some face? Can’t you add her again?” One Leaf Knows Autumn teased.
Lese was silent.
English Teacher Su Miaomiao sent a laughing emoji covering her mouth.
The two didn’t say anything more. Lu Yuanqiu wasn’t sure if Zheng Yifeng resent the friend request.
Another minute passed.
“Hello, teacher,” Summer Maple greeted.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at the message without expression.
He strongly suspected Bai Qingxia had been typing for a long time.
Since Bai Qingxia typed slowly, Lu Yuanqiu rarely chatted with her on QQ. When they did, she mostly sent smiley faces or took a long time to reply.
So when he wanted to talk to her, Lu Yuanqiu usually called.
He took out today’s homework and his phone, then dialed Bai Qingxia’s number.
When she answered, the girl’s soft voice came through: “Hello? Lu Yuanqiu, my dad’s asleep, so I have to be quiet.”
“No problem. I can hear you just fine. Do you have time now? I have some questions for you.”
In the rented room, the girl put down the phone, glanced at a red plastic basin filled with laundry, and softly replied, “I have time. Ask away.”
“Good. Take out your math workbook.”
“I left it at school. You just read the questions—I remember them all.”
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Lu Yuanqiu: “Question ten, the sequence problem…”
It was nearly eleven o’clock at night.
In the rented room, outside the curtain on the single bed, Bai Songzhe, wearing shorts, snored loudly. A dim yellow lamp glowed on the table beside him.
The girl took off her school uniform, revealing a worn white short-sleeve shirt underneath. She got up, stepped out from behind the curtain, tossed the uniform into the basin, then held the basin full of clothes, clamped the phone between her ear and shoulder, and went into the hallway.
At the sink at the end of the hall, she filled it with water, then brought a small stool to sit on. She scrubbed the clothes with both hands, quietly answering the boy’s questions.
A few stars dotted the night sky. Below, the silent, dark urban village without streetlamps had a shabby two-story building faintly glowing with warm light.
Under the soft light, the girl in her worn short-sleeve sat at the narrow, crowded end of the second-floor corridor. Her voice on the phone was soft and gentle.
A few kilometers away, the boy sat at his desk, nodding frequently.
…
The next day, at school.
After the first class ended, Zhang Bowen hadn’t yet picked up the class sign when Liu Wei entered the classroom first.
She clapped her hands, trying to awaken the sea of students who had just finished class and were dozing on their desks. “Everyone up! Today’s the first day of running drills; everyone must go run! The principal is coming upstairs to check.”
Lu Yuanqiu sat up, lifting his drowsy head from the desk.
They were in their final year of high school—didn’t sleep quality count as part of physical health?
Couldn’t they take this time to catch up on sleep?
“Teacher, I’m on my period. May I be excused?” Chen Fei suddenly raised her hand.
Liu Wei frowned. “Okay, but you still have to go down. Just stand outside the track if you don’t want to run.”
Hu Caiwei quickly added, “Teacher, I’m also on my period!”
Liu Wei nodded. “Same for you.”
Lu Yuanqiu spoke up defiantly, “Teacher, I’m on my period too!”
Liu Wei glared at him. “Lu Yuanqiu, do you want to experience my menopause?”
Lu Yuanqiu was speechless.
Frustrated, why was a man’s period never taken seriously?
Men clearly had one or two days a month when things weren’t convenient too!
On the playground, the whistle blew. The familiar running drill music from his previous life echoed relentlessly in his ears.
But once the run began, Lu Yuanqiu quickly felt energized and even discovered a certain charm in the exercise.
He ran beside Bai Qingxia, his expression serious as he watched the trembling world around the girl from the corner of his eye, gradually forgetting his fatigue.
I love running drills.
…
At noon, in the cafeteria.
“Brother Qiu, the draw results are out. Currently, we brothers face a very serious problem.”
After placing his meal on the table, Cao Shuang sat across from Lu Yuanqiu, speaking seriously.
Lu Yuanqiu took a bite of rice and looked up. “The draw results are out? I haven’t asked yet. Which class did your class get?”
Both Lu Yuanqiu’s Class 28 and Cao Shuang’s Class 19 had advanced to the top 15 in the third year—today’s second round of elimination.
Cao Shuang said, “Our Class 19 is up against your Class 28 today.”
Lu Yuanqiu was stunned. “Our two classes are facing off so soon?”
Cao Shuang nodded solemnly. “What do we do, Brother Qiu?”
Lu Yuanqiu smiled while eating. “What’s there to do? Play normally—win and advance, lose and get eliminated. Only two outcomes.”
Cao Shuang looked serious. “But Brother Qiu, I have no fighting spirit left against you now.”
Lu Yuanqiu was about to reply when his gaze suddenly shifted to two people slowly approaching behind Cao Shuang.
He said, “Isn’t the fighting spirit just arriving…”
Among the two approaching, the one on the right was Liu Yang, the boy with the lip piercing who had provoked them in the cafeteria that day.
The taller one on the left was about 1.9 meters. He wore foreign brand clothes and had a mature appearance unusual for their age. His complexion was cold, his eyes narrow, and his lips thin, giving an unpleasant impression.
Lu Yuanqiu had never met him before, but he knew this was Zhang Yifei.
Zhang Yifei and Liu Yang walked to the table. Liu Yang smiled and said, “Senior Cao, could you move aside? Sit opposite them.”
Lu Yuanqiu beckoned Cao Shuang over to sit next to him.
After Zhang Yifei and Liu Yang sat across from them, Zhang Yifei spoke first with a muffled voice: “I’ll get straight to the point, Lu Yuanqiu. I want you to concede.”
Two chapters remain to be updated: chapters 9 and 11.
(End of chapter)
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