You hidden in my heart - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7
Students had to be in the classroom at 6:30 a.m., and Li Xining and Lu Yuling stepped into the classroom at 6:28 a.m. one after another. But others didn’t take that as gossip because it would be impossible for their goddess, Li Xining, to fall in love with the rebellious Lu Yuling. So everyone thought that it was just a coincidence.
After entering the classroom, Li Xining looked at her desk first. There was no candy today, and then she looked back at Lu Yuling beside her.
However, Lu Yuling’s expression didn’t change much; as if he didn’t know anything, he walked along the aisle between the desks towards the last row naturally.
Li Xining frowned in confusion. ‘Didn’t he send the candy?’
“Hey, why are you late today?” Her good friend Xu Dongruo asked when Li Xining sat down.
“Dongruo, did you see the candy on my desk?”
Xu Dongruo shook her head. “No.” She sat at the same table with Li Xining for quite a long time, and she also knew that an unknown person would give her friend candy every day. So she was also surprised that she didn’t see any candy today. “I entered class at 6:15 today, and I didn’t see any candy at that time.”
“Oh.” Li Xining felt disappointed.
Although the students had to report at 6.30 a.m., the head teacher, Mr. Zhou, usually didn’t come until the end of the morning reading. So until he comes, the class leader should manage the classroom. After taking out the book “Biology Compulsory One”, Li Xining walked up to the podium and sat on the small chair there. Without opening her book, she looked at the back of the class to see what Lu Yuling was doing. As she expected, he was talking with Fatty Ma.
After Lu Yuling returned to his seat, Fatty Ma smirked at him and whispered, “Brother, why did you come to the class with Goddess Xining today?”
Lu Yuling didn’t answer so much and said succinctly, “We met on the way.”
Ma Fatty: “You usually arrive a little after six o’clock; why are you so late today?” Fatty Ma couldn’t understand why Lu Yuling came early every day.
Lu Yuling asked back. “You live by the sea?”
Ma Fatty: “No way.”
Lu Yuling: “Then what’s your problem? Want to control me?”
Ma Fatty replied very honestly, “I… I am afraid that you will tear down my CP.”
[T/L: In China, the term “CP” refers to the imaginary lovers or couples in novels, plays, or comics. The English word coupling (pairing) is shortened to CP.]
Lu Yuling: ‘Your damn CP. Soon or later, I’ll tear down your CP and let your goddess hug me every day.’
Just when Lu Yuling was blaming his friend in heart, Ma Fatty suddenly opened the language book and started the morning reading with lightning speed.
Lu Yuling was startled by his friend’s sudden movement, and he caught sight of Li Xining, who was walking this way. He scolded Ma Peng in his heart and, at the same time, hurriedly looked for the language book. However, before he could open the book, Li Xining had already reached their desk. She looked at him with a straight face. “Why haven’t you opened the book yet?”
Li Xining never cared for him on other days as long as he didn’t disturb other people’s studies. But today, the sun had really come out from the west, and she started to take care of him. He hadn’t been supervised for a long time, and even the class teacher ignored him—the only request that Mr. Zhou made was for him not to cause trouble in school. Now that someone was suddenly taking him under control, Lu Yuling suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, not to mention that this person was Li Xining. Because he always thought that she didn’t care about a guy like him who didn’t study. He looked at Li Xining in a daze.
Li Xining sighed. “Give me your language book.”
Lu Yuling took the book and gave it to Li Xining. When she opened it, she became very angry—a new book! ‘This little princess comes to school every day just to fool around, right?’
Glancing at Princess Lu with hatred, Li Xining opened his book, took a pen from Ma Fatty’s desk, and began to draw a checkmark on the table of contents. This was a compulsory first book. She marked out all the ancient poems and text passages that were required to be recited before returning the book to Lu Yuling. “Recite the things in the “Compulsory One” this morning.”
Lu Yuling was even more confused, staring at Li Xining, dumbfounded. ‘What happened to her today? Why did you suddenly start caring about me?’
Fatty Ma: “Compulsory One? How can he finish mesmerizing that much today?”
Li Xining said firmly, “There are only five chapters. If he wants, he will definitely be able to memorize everything.” She knew that Lu Yuling was a very smart person, and then she turned her attention to Lu Yuling and said, “I will check at noon today, and you can go to dinner after you have finished memorising. After dinner, you have to learn physics.
After Li Xining left, Lu Yuling was still in a dazed state. ‘What’s going on?’
Fatty Ma was also confused. “Brother, what has happened to the goddess Xining? Why did she pay so much attention to you today?”
Lu Yuling didn’t know the answer, but he didn’t reject this sudden attention. As long as the other party was Li Xining, he could do anything for her.
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Yuling opened the language book in a daze and started to read. For a long time, no one had asked him to do something, and he was also not willing to listen to others. But for him, Li Xining was not just anyone. He just wanted to listen to her because she was the only light in his dark heart.
Seeing Lu Yuling studying, Ma Peng couldn’t believe his eyes. Even the other students in the back row were stunned—’Oh my god, Brother Lu started to study. What’s the situation? What’s the situation with him and the class leader?’
Ma Peng was in a dilemma. He didn’t know whether to choose his CP or his Brother Lu. Although Lu Yuling was handsome and good-looking, how could he be compared with Chen Lin? ‘As long as the goddess Xining was not blind, she would not fall in love with Brother Lu anyway, and how could the goddess be like an ordinary person like Brother Lu? She never cares about just the beauty of the skin. ‘”Brother, did goddess Xining fall into your hands?” Ma Peng asked after thinking for a while.
Lu Yuling couldn’t bear it anymore and scolded his friend. “Go away!”
Ma Peng: “…” ‘In this situation, I really can’t figure out why the goddess treats you so well.’
“Hey…am I…not worthy of your goddess?” Lu Yuling hesitantly asked Ma Pang after a few seconds.
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The morning’s one-hour self-study was finished at 7.30 a.m. Not only did Lu Yuling finish mesmerising the five poems in “Compulsory One “, but he could also memorise two poems in “Compulsory Two”. Although he didn’t study, he was a genius student, so it was not hard work as he concentrated on studying.
Ma Peng was very surprised. Never had he thought that his Brother Lu was actually so talented at learning.
After the bell rang at 7:30 a.m., Li Xining returned to her seat with a book in hand. Xu Dongruo stared straight at her with a pair of pretty fox eyes full of eagerness to gossip.
Li Xining knew what she wanted to ask but deliberately pretended not to know anything. After putting down the book, she picked up the water bottle, turned around, and walked towards the front door of the classroom.
Xu Dongruo quickly caught up with her, and after leaving the classroom door, she grabbed Li Xining’s arm. “Good sisters should talk about everything, do you have something to tell me? Yes, you have, you want to tell me about you and Lu Yuling.”
Li Xining squinted at Xu Dongruo and muttered, “Stop talking nonsense.”
Xu Dongruo said “tsk” dissatisfied, “Look at you, the whole class saw this morning that you and Lu Yuling had something to do, and you still want to hide it?”
Li Xining: “Do you really want to know?”
Xu Dongruo nodded. “Think about it!”
Li Xining: “I have a condition…”
Before she finished speaking, Xu Dongruo swore, “Don’t worry, I will never tell others!”
Li Xining was stunned for a moment and quickly changed her words. “Then I have two conditions, and there is one condition other than you not being able to tell others.”
Xu Dongruo: “What condition?”
Li Xining lowered her voice. “You go to Fatty Ma to ask about Lu Yuling. Remember, inquire around, don’t make it too obvious.” As she wanted to give Lu Yuling a helping hand, she needed to understand him.
Only then did Xu Dongruo realise she had been tricked by her good sister. “Are you hanging on me?”
Li Xining: “How can you say I’m hanging on you? I’m negotiating with you, you help me find out the situation, and I’ll give you the latest gossip. How fair?”
“Treacherous!” Xu Dongruo was indignant, but for the sake of gossip, she admitted, “Let’s talk, what should we focus on?”
Li Xining had already thought about it. “To inquire about his relationship, both inside and outside the school. I need to know how powerful he is, and…”
“The other thing is to inquire about the relationship of the opposite sex?” Xu Dongruo completed Li Xining’s sentence.
Li Xining was a little shy but replied, “The more detailed you find, the more detailed I will tell you.”
Xu Dongruo rolled her eyes and muttered, “Tch, I knew your purpose was not simple!”
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Most students would get out of the classroom to take a break after the morning self-study was over. They either went to fill their water bottles, went to the washroom, or stayed in the corridor to breathe fresh air. Some of them didn’t go out, and they napped till school started.
The classroom was nearly empty, and Ma Peng was sleeping while Lu Yuling was not. He looked around the classroom. When everyone in the classroom was almost gone, he got up gently, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked calmly towards the front row. When he was in the middle of the third row, he accidentally knocked off a stationery bag on a certain desk, then leaned over to pick it up from the ground and put it neatly back on the desk. Then he returned to his seat.
The first period was the physics teacher’s class. The old man had a stubborn temper. Li Xining and Xu Dongruo didn’t dare to be late and hurried back to the classroom after filling the water.
However, as soon as they walked to their desks, Li Xining was stunned.
There was a candy wrapped in purple wrapping paper in the middle of the desk. It was grape-flavoured, her favourite flavour. She subconsciously looked up at the corner of the last row.
It just happened that Lu Yuling was also looking at her, or rather, he was looking at her all the time, with some tension in his handsome brows but also with some desire and expectation.
The moment their eyes met, Li Xining found the answer. ‘I knew…it was you…’
Her heartbeat increased rapidly at this moment, and she felt a warm feeling spreading in her body. Even from far away, she felt the scorching heat coming from Lu Yuling.
End of chapter 7
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