Chapter 3: The Tragic Ending Under High Pressure

  The next day, before dawn, Cheng A was still the first to arrive at the classroom.

  It seems to have become a habit, with a bit of the "three good students" style, flipping through the national studies of Tang poetry, Song lyrics and Yuan drama. He has liked ancient poetry since he was young, and yearns for the free and easy character of those poets, as well as their carefree lives, so much so that now he is becoming more sentimental with age, immersed in memories of the past every day.

  His hobby of reading classical Chinese literature began in the seventh grade and has been "unstoppable" for three years, causing him to never take his language arts classes seriously in junior high school. However, he always performed well on language arts tests, and his class teacher trusted his language skills more and more because he also helped teach their language arts classes. As a result, whenever it was time for language arts class, he would do as he pleased and developed the habit of reading other books during class.

  When he finished reading Fan Zhongyan's "Su Mu Zhe" and understood it thoroughly, the sky was already bright, and there were more people in the classroom. A few people were reading books, while most of them continued to discuss yesterday's topic. As his gaze swept 360° and was about to return, he coincidentally met the school flower who had just entered the classroom, and the school flower also stared at him for a moment.

  Cheng A sighed softly, what a pity!

  Quickly withdrew his gaze and silently mourned for himself in his heart, but didn't see the school flower's mouth corner slightly raised with a faint smile.

  "Hey, have you seen the top student girl? She's not here yet?" Classmate Zhuang Bing nudged him. To avoid the awkwardness from this morning, Cheng A directly looked past the school beauty and focused his gaze on the top student girl's seat.

  Empty, really didn't come!

  Could it be... That uneasy premonition from yesterday is coming again...

  Finally, someone noticed that the top student girl didn't come, so everyone started guessing that she must be too ashamed to come because of yesterday's incident. Chen Si Nian, who was sitting in the last corner, looked even more nervous, after all, he was the real "male lead" in this matter, and every move of the top student girl had a great relationship with his actions yesterday.

  "Xiao Yi (the school flower's name, full name Yang E), you said Zhu Si (the excellent student's name) hasn't arrived yet? Won't it be because of yesterday's matter?" The school flower's deskmate and best friend, Pu Fang, asked softly while tapping her arm.

  "Ah! What did you say?" The school flower seemed to be thinking about something and suddenly came back to her senses.

  "I was wondering what's been going on with you these past few days? Why do you keep spacing out? Are you secretly in love with someone?" asked Pu Fang.

  "What's wrong? I just didn't sleep well last night." The school flower hastily denied it.

  "I was just saying that, what's wrong with you? Is it really true that there is someone?" Pu Fang looked at her with an increasingly puzzled expression.

  "Look, Zhu Si has arrived." Seeing the excellent student walk into the classroom, the school flower quickly changed the subject, but no one noticed that the school flower's eyes lingered on a certain person by the window for a few seconds.

  Everyone saw the top student girl walk into the classroom, and they all shut their mouths. The originally noisy classroom suddenly became silent as a tomb. Because anyone could see that the top student girl had cried, and she had cried so much that her eyes were red and swollen, and her footsteps were light and floating.

  Typical, cried, hurt, and forgot to rest. Everyone only realized that there was a problem now, yesterday everyone just cheered, seemingly ignoring the personal feelings of the excellent student. How can a girl bear such embarrassment, Chen Si Nian's face in the corner also turned into a pig liver color, things are big, this is the unanimous view in everyone's heart at this time.

  Accompanied by the slightly heavy "thud" of his leather shoes, Yan Zhu Ge (the nickname for their Class Advisor, a bespectacled, somewhat refined, 178cm-tall "great man" with a rather outstanding appearance) sauntered into the classroom. His face, which had been slightly smiling, instantly froze and dropped to freezing point when he saw the top student.

  Ignoring the nervous expressions of everyone, he walked straight to the excellent student's side, bent down and asked. Everyone's originally not-so-heavy heart began to sink, while Chen Si Nian in the corner turned pale. The unease in Cheng A's heart was also resolved, it turned out that the unease came from here, after letting go, he became the most relaxed one in the whole class.

  Watching Glasses Brother constantly asking questions, while Excellent Girl kept shaking her head, everyone's heart was also following her head, going up and down...

  One minute... two minutes... three minutes... Not yet, under the serious expression of the excellent student, Eyes Brother finally compromised and stopped asking questions.

  He stood up straight, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses which had become slightly disheveled from bowing his head, took a deep breath, and in the midst of everyone's nervous yet expectant gazes (Chen Si Nian was even leaning forward, like a prisoner awaiting sentencing, afraid to miss a single word or punctuation mark), he said in that magnetic voice that seemed to have no relation to the eight-tone dialect: "The weather has been too cold lately, everyone please remember to dress warmly, after all, one's body is the capital of revolution!"

  Everyone was sweating profusely, thinking he already knew about the whole thing, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

  "Ah!" The crowd finally let out a long breath, hastily adjusting their breathing, just like swimmers emerging from the water's surface, grabbing time to catch their breath. Chen Si Nian was even more unbearable, as if he had just done a strenuous exercise, showing signs of difficulty breathing.

  Eyes Brother's gaze swept over the crowd with a puzzled expression, his eyes seeming to hold a deep thought. Everyone's hearts, which had been at ease just moments before, suddenly leapt into their throats as they hastily sat up straight and avoided eye contact. This showed that Eyes Brother's prestige in Class 2 of Grade 1 was deeply ingrained in people's minds, and even his simple, unadulterated stare could make some people feel like they were on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

  In fact, there was a reason why everyone feared him so much - no one knew how his slender body could produce such explosive force. Ever since that time when he performed a full martial arts display in class, he had left an impression of being powerful, ruthless, and merciless on all the students in Class 2 of Grade 1. Every time they thought back to that "full martial arts display", the children who had witnessed it felt a chill run down their spines, and as a result, their reverence for him grew deeper and more profound with each passing day.

  Eyes Brother saw the serious expressions of everyone, and with satisfaction, he withdrew his gaze, walking out of the classroom in "cat steps", like a victorious rooster.

  The four classes in the morning were calm and peaceful, perhaps due to the lingering aura of "Eyes Brother" or perhaps because of the tears of the excellent student... At noon, everything returned to its usual calmness, and everyone thought that this matter would end under the dominance of "Eyes Brother".

  But who would have thought that the most shocking and thrilling part was not the process, but the unknown outcome.

  Lunch break!

  Xiang Ge still walked into the classroom with his usual pace, but the sound of his iconic golden shield sneakers seemed to be a bit faster than usual.

  No one cares about this change, Cheng A is still buried in English grammar, unable to pull himself out. In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to pull out, but rather he wants to pull out but can't.

  "Ahem!" Eyes Brother seemed dissatisfied with everyone's disregard for his actions, and lightly cleared his throat to remind them of his arrival. Seeing himself once again become the focus of the entire class, Eyes Brother's vanity was greatly satisfied. Originally, everyone thought that this time would be just another routine matter, but after attracting everyone's attention, Eyes Brother seemed to have no intention of leaving.

  Everyone looked at him in confusion, thinking he had something important to announce, but after scanning the entire class with his eyes, he said softly, "Chen Si Nian, come out with me for a moment."

  The whole class was stunned into silence.

  Chen Si Nian's face turned pale in an instant, it's all over...the matter has been exposed.

  This is what everyone thinks at this moment.

  Chen Si Nian mechanically followed Yan Zhuo out of the classroom, while all the children in the class looked at each other, and saw confusion and puzzlement in each other's eyes. Didn't everything seem fine this morning?

  Everyone's attention is focused on the top student, and now everyone suspects that the top student handed over the letter to Brother Eyes. The top student also noticed the suspicious glances around her, her originally pale face turned even paler, and the red and swollen eye circles had tears rolling inside again, while her head was shaking like a rattle drum...

  At this moment, the excellent student A felt a sudden heartache, although the excellent student was slightly arrogant in her daily life, but she was innocent of being arrogant, because she had the capital to be arrogant.

  An inexplicable courage in his heart made him stand up...

  "I can guarantee that this thing was not told by Zhu Si to Yan Yan Ge"

  Everyone looked at him with confusion, doubt, suspicion and curiosity.

  The school flower's eyes flashed with a complex emotion.

  Cheng A looked at the excellent girl, and the proud look on her pale face was gone, replaced by confusion and incomprehension of his behavior...

  "Is that letter from Zhū Sī still with you?" Chéng A asked aloud, trying to firm up the thoughts in his mind.

  "En." The excellent student weakly responded with a single word, and to make everyone believe her, she took out that letter paper which she didn't want to touch again.

  Everyone withdrew their puzzled gaze, and Cheng A also secretly let out a sigh of relief. He didn't know where the courage came from, perhaps it was because he couldn't bear to see the top student's exhaustion, or maybe it was his encouragement for her. Only after proving himself did he feel a pang of guilt, as unprovoked help can arouse others' suspicion.

  Isn't there a saying "No evil deed goes unpunished"?

  He glanced at the school flower's back with a guilty conscience, but didn't expect the school flower to be looking at him too. He smiled awkwardly, while she rolled her eyes and lost interest. He quickly withdrew his gaze.

  "How did you know that the excellent student girl didn't hand in her letter?" asked Zhuang Bing, his desk mate, curiously.

  "Guess"

  “...”

  "Because I believe she is a good kid, although a bit proud at ordinary times, but this does not affect her pure mind."

  "It seems like you've been paying attention to her for a long time, don't tell me you have some thoughts about her too?" Zhuang Bing asked suspiciously.

  "I've noticed your sister for a long time, but I just couldn't bear everyone suspecting her!" Cheng A rolled his eyes.

  "I don't have a sister!" Zhuang Bing's face was full of confusion

  Just as Cheng A was speechless, rhythmic applause broke out in the corridor. Everyone couldn't help but close their eyes and mourn for Chen Si Nian.

  Another poor kid ruined by Eyes Brother.

  One minute... two minutes... five minutes...

  Chen Si Nian walked into the classroom, but seemed a bit miserable, covering his face and walking straight to the top student girl.

  "I'm sorry, I've caused you trouble."

  Under the sympathetic gaze of everyone, Chen Siniang finally apologized and put a perfect ending to this "love letter incident".

  The palm print on his face took three days to fade, once again showing everyone the ferocity "beastly nature" under Eyes Brother's slender physique.

  "The Love Letter Incident" finally ended in ashes under the violent eyes of Ge, and ultimately concluded with Chen Si Nian's apology. However, the impact brought by this incident was positive, bringing a model for everyone's future romantic journey.