You hidden in my heart - Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Li Xining stood in the corridor outside the classroom while reading a book.

Lu Yuling stood on the opposite side, looking at Li Xining from time to time, carefully examining her expression. But Li Xining kept ignoring him, making Lu Yuling very anxious, like an ant on a hot pot.

Forty minutes later, the class was finally over.

Lu Yuling breathed a sigh of relief and then mustered up the courage to move towards Li Xining step by step. He wanted to apologise to her, but before he reached the end, Li Xining glared at him and said fiercely, “Stay away from me!”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘All right.’

Five minutes after the bell rang, Mr. Li came out of the classroom. As soon as he walked out, he saw Li Xining, but he didn’t continue to embarrass her, and said in a calm tone, “Go to class.”

Li Xining breathed a sigh of relief. Before entering the class, she finally gave Lu Yuling a look. He was also looking at Li Xining at that time with a pitiful expression. Li Xining’s heart did not soften, and she went to the classroom. Lu Yuling followed her into the classroom through the back door, but his eyes were fixed on her.

The whole morning, she didn’t look at him again.

Lu Yuling spent the remaining four classes and one big break in panic. During this time, he pretended to pass Li Xining’s seat with a water bottle and pretended to ask her if she wanted water.

Li Xining still didn’t even look at him and said angrily, “Stay away from me!”

Lu Yuling: “…”

The mission failed, and Lu Yuling went to his desk with a sullen face, wondering why it was difficult to coax women.

After sitting in his little corner with an empty bottle, Lu Yuling sighed. He had never encountered such a difficult thing, and no one had ever dared shake his face like this. The key point was that he still enjoyed being ignored a little bit because the person who was ignoring him was Li Xining. Pain and happiness at the same time. In other words, as long as she cared about him, it was okay.

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After the chemistry period was over, most of the students rushed to the cafeteria to line up in the queue to grab a meal at noon. Five minutes later, there were only two people left in the classroom: Li Xining and Lu Yuling.

The empty classroom was quiet. Li Xining took out yesterday’s physics paper and the answers issued today and corrected her homework with a red pen against the answers.

Lu Yuling observed the situation first. There was no one around, and the atmosphere was just right. He took a deep breath, stood up from the chair with the Chinese book, and mustered up the courage to walk to Li Xining. “That… I’ll ask you to check it.”

Li Xining finally gave him a look this time, but she didn’t speak.

Facing Li Xining’s gaze, Lu Yuling held his breath for an instant and was too nervous to say a word.

Li Xining frowned. “Why are you in a daze? Recite it!”

“Oh…” Lu Yuling started to recite the book after licking his nervously dry lips, but before starting, he suddenly thought of something and eagerly said with a bit of arrogance, “You asked me to memorise the compulsory one, and I even memorise compulsory two.”

Li Xining wanted to laugh at the naked invitation for credit, but she held back. “So what?”

Lu Yuling looked dissatisfied. ‘So you don’t praise me?’

‘What a little princess!” Thinking that, Li Xining glanced at him and said, “You recite the compulsory one first, then you can talk about the other.”

‘What a little princess!” Thinking that, Li Xining glanced at him and said, “You recite the compulsory one first, then you can talk about the other.”

Feeling disappointed, Lu Yuling sighed. Just as he was about to recite the content of “Compulsory One”, the door of the classroom opened, and there stood a boy from the next class. Seeing Lu Yuling, that boy yelled, “Brother Lu, hurry up, everyone is waiting for you.”

Only then did Lu Yuling remember that he had an appointment with some other students to play basketball.

On one side stood a friend, and on the other side was a woman.

Friends were like siblings, and women were like clothes. Temporarily losing limbs was not terrible, but running naked was a nightmare. After all, he had just fallen in love with such a piece of clothing, and he hadn’t put it on yet, so Lu Yuling decisively chose the woman. This girl was not easy to mess with, so he didn’t dare to mess with her at all. But he couldn’t just tell his little brother that he didn’t want to play because he was forced by a woman to stay and study, otherwise, where would he put his face? How would he get respect from his brothers in the future? So he was going to reject this little brother openly with the reason that “I sprained my ankle today”.

However, just as he was about to speak, Li Xining said to the student at the door in a gentle and polite manner, “I’m sorry, he can’t go today, he has to study physics.”

Hearing the words, the male student was stunned. “What is he going to do?”

Li Xining: “Study physics.”

The male student frowned, unable to believe his ears, and asked again, “What physics?”

Li Xining: “Study, study physics.”

The male student asked, “Again, who wants to study physics?”

Li Xining: “Lu Yuling, you brother Lu.”

The male student said, “Brother Lu, what physics? Let’s go and play!”

Li Xining looked at Lu Yuling with a smile that was not a smile. “You can go if you want, and you don’t have to learn.” ‘Dare to go?’

‘Oh, woman.’ Understanding the meaning of Li Xining’s words, Lu Yuling sighed, looked at the male student, and said righteously, “Playing basketball is a waste of time, I have to study today.”

The male student was silent for a moment. “…Damn it! What the hell!”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘I see that your skin is itchy!’

After the male student walked away in a daze, Li Xining squinted at Lu Yuling, hating iron for being weak. “Now you know what kind of image you have in everyone’s mind? It’s normal for people to study, and you are a big villain who can’t study!”

Guilty and embarrassed, Lu Yuling reached out, rubbed the tip of his nose, and began to change the subject. “Hey, are you still listening to me?”

Li Xining rolled his eyes at him. “You are active now!”

Lu Yuling: “I count down to three, if you don’t listen, I’ll leave. Three, two…”

Li Xining was anxious. “Listen! I’ll listen!”

Lu Yuling laughed.

Li Xining was taken aback for a moment and then realised that the situation had reversed. ‘What a rascal!’ “You go!” Li Xining glared at him.

Lu Yuling stopped talking nonsense and spoke in a cadence. “Independent cold autumn, the Xiangjiang River goes north, the head of Juzizhou! Look, the mountains are all red, the forests are all dyed, the river is full of green, and hundreds of boats compete for the current… Have you ever remembered that when you hit the water in the middle, the waves, curb, fly, boat?” After reciting it emotionally, he raised his eyebrows at Li Xining, asking, ‘Isn’t it amazing?’

Li Xining: “What’s the name of the poem?”

Lu Yuling: “Qinyuanchun·Changsha “.

Li Xining: “Next poem.”

In the next ten minutes, Lu Yuling recited seven poems in one breath. After reciting the last “Book of Songs,” he looked at Li Xining with pride and expectation, his eyes filled with—— Praise me, praise me!

It was all like this: “If I don’t praise and praise, Princess Lu will probably lose his temper.’ So Li Xining boasted, “Aren’t you very powerful?”

Lu Yuling was satisfied, and said modestly, “Oh, I’m generally powerful.”

Li Xining couldn’t help laughing. “Okay, you go to eat and come back quickly after eating.”

Lu Yuling: “Aren’t you going?”

Li Xining: “I asked Xu Dongruo to bring me a hamburger.”

Lu Yuling felt guilty after hearing Li Xining’s words. If he went to eat by himself, leaving her alone in the classroom, it would be unfair. So he sat next to her and said, “I asked Ma Fatty to bring something for me too.”

Li Xining didn’t expect him to stay. “I’ll give you a chance to leave. If you miss this time, you won’t leave, ok?”

Lu Yuling replied with a smile, “What’s the matter? I’m really afraid of you?”

“Bring me the blank physics paper.”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘Okay, I’m afraid of you.’ Sighing, Lu Yuling had no choice but to get up to get his “blank” physics paper.

Li Xining’ eyes followed him all the time, and looking at his slender back, she couldn’t help but smile.

At this time, Lu Yuling, who was turning him back to her, suddenly asked, “What are you laughing at?”

‘Do you have eyes in the back of your head?’ Li Xining quickly retracted the corners of her lips, trying to deny, “I didn’t smile!”

Lu Yuling stopped and looked back at her, full of satisfaction. “Why do you keep looking at me then?” He could feel her gaze fixed on him.

Li Xining blushed and stared at him. “Who is looking at you? Narcissism!” After she finished speaking, she turned her head away and ignored him.

After Lu Yuling came back, Li Xining looked helplessly at his “blank” physical paper and sighed wistfully. “You can really save resources for the country.”

Lu Yuling said “Tsk”, “If you want to teach me, start quickly, don’t waste time, an inch of time is worth an inch of gold.”

‘Tch, now you know that time is precious and cannot be wasted?’ Li Xining glanced at him angrily and then began to give him a lecture.

The third year of senior high school review has just started, and the first round of review will be more detailed. The teachers of each subject had basically taught what students should learn, and now they just had to go deep into the lessons.

In addition to supplementary lessons in physics, they had just covered Chapter 4 “Newton’s Laws of Motion”. But there was a tight time at noon, and Li Xining would definitely not have had enough time to teach all the knowledge points to Lu Yuling. This would be too cumbersome, and the workload would be heavy. Even if Lu Yuling could accept so much knowledge, she would not be able to finish it. So she could only review at fixed points; while explaining the question, she told him the knowledge points contained in the question.

Although Lu Yuling didn’t study much, it wasn’t that he had no foundation at all. After all, he was in the classroom every day and had learned some things by ear. Moreover, his brain was very easy to use, and he could understand a little bit with his photographic memory. It could be said that as long as he wanted to learn, there was nothing he couldn’t learn. Therefore, Li Xining’s lecture was very smooth, and she finished most of the papers in less than an hour.

At about 1:10 p.m., the classmates returned to class one after another after lunch, and Li Xining was a little tired from talking. “Let’s talk about the rest tomorrow, you can also read the book and learn by yourself and finish writing.”

Lu Yuling hurriedly asked, “Is there any reward for self-taught writing?”

‘Do you still dare to bargain?’ Li Xining stared at him. “Yes!”

Lu Yuling: “What reward?”

Li Xining smiled and said, “You will be rewarded for cleaning the windows next week.”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘It sounds like I have never been rewarded for cleaning.’

This time, Li Xining suddenly remembered that the school inspection that was originally scheduled for after the 11th was also brought forward to next week. Staring at Lu Yuling’s yellow hair for a while, Li Xining asked softly, “Lu Yuling, do you have time this weekend?”

‘Oh…is she asking me out? Isn’t it too early? Isn’t it too immodest to agree all at once? Wouldn’t it be too indifferent if you didn’t agree?’ After struggling for two seconds, Lu Yuling nodded lightly, a little shyly. “Yes, yes.”

Li Xining was very satisfied with the answer, and hurriedly said, “Then go and cut your hair; an appearance inspection will be coming soon, don’t hold the class back.”

Lu Yuling: “…” ‘Damn it! grass! grass!’

End of chapter 9

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