Chapter 1: I Am Your Goddess

  On the third day of school, it snowed in the morning, and the sky was gloomy. Su Yifan carried a heavy box across the playground, and when he looked back, he could see his footprints. The gray sky had no color, and the snowflakes fell on his neck, each one cold.

  Su Yifan, who had never been in good physical condition, had already carried these things across the playground seven times, and even in the sub-zero temperature, sweat had wet his forehead.

  Judging from his appearance, Su Yifan is a relatively handsome young man with delicate features. Although he looks a bit weak and thin in his bulky winter clothes, his medium height and facial expression are similar to those of most high school students, giving off an air of numbness that has been tamed by the world, making him seem rather ordinary and lacking distinctiveness. No matter how you look at it, he's just an average high school student who doesn't stand out much.

  The playground was empty in the early morning, and Su Yifan's lone figure looked a bit lonely. After receiving Cheng Shuiyan's phone call last night, he went to bed early and rushed over this morning to help the Literature Club move some materials.

  This task shouldn't have fallen to Su Yifan, but Cheng Shuiyan's contact had delivered the goods last night after school. Since the third building for club activities was already locked up, the members of the Literature Club who admired Cheng Shuiyan didn't say a word and moved the stuff back to the classroom. After dinner with these club members, Cheng Shuiyan was in high spirits and called Su Yifan, asking him to come over the next morning to help move things.

  This is not the first time Cheng Shui'an has worked with Su Yifan, and it seems that everyone has already gotten used to this.

  Cheng Shui Xin is one of the most popular beauties in Coastal High School, and if her looks may have some controversy among the few famous beauties in school, her taste is undoubtedly the first. This beauty who seems to be born for stardom has a typical artistic hobby, loving various books, movies and music. In more popular terms, she's a small fresh meat.

  If you let a group of high school boys describe Chen Shui-xin's appearance, they would definitely ramble on without grasping the key points. In the eyes of most boys, Chen Shui-xin is beautiful from head to toe. At just over 171 centimeters tall and still growing, Chen Shui-xin's slender waist, less than 1 meter 7 in circumference, paired with her height, would be enough to make many boys ashamed to cover their faces and slink away.

  If you look at Cheng Shui Xin up close, you'll feel how stunning her pale skin is to the point of being breathtaking. Her entire person seems like a meticulously polished CG painting. Her eyes aren't those exaggeratedly large ones, and her lips are slightly smaller than other girls'. Yet it's precisely this combination that makes Cheng Shui Xin seem to have an unusual allure amidst her innocence, with a sense of distance brought by pure beauty still preserved within the allure.

  In the words of many people, Cheng Shui'an is that kind of beautiful girl who exists solely for distant admiration.

  In terms of personal charm, Cheng Shuiyan is different from those pseudo-pure girls who only dare to post photos of themselves at certain angles on QQ space. She is a beauty with almost no dead ends, so even if the photography technique is not good, there are still many people who praise her. Cheng Shuiyan's writing is also very good, and she can write articles that make people feel happy and pleasant, which adds a few more points to her beauty.

  Although she was extremely popular in school, Cheng Shui'an was still very resistant to the goodwill of most boys. She kept a distance from most of her classmates that was neither too far nor too close, except for Su Yifan with whom she had a good relationship.

  Su Yifan happened to know why Cheng Shui'an and he had a good relationship, the reason was very simple.

  I'm really too lacking in aggression.

  Su Yifan, who had received many good reviews in his third year of junior high school, was still unable to escape his fate in high school. Just like in his junior high school days, Su Yifan had a pretty good relationship with many beautiful female classmates - of course, it was just a seemingly good relationship from an outsider's perspective.

  As a thorough and complete good person, Su Yifan rarely complains about anything. Always thinking that there's nothing to be concerned about, Su Yifan almost never calculates gains and losses with others, in the eyes of many classmates such a person is a bit foolish. However, Su Yifan has always believed in his parents' education for him, suffering a loss may not necessarily be a misfortune.

  At the literary club activity in high school, Cheng Shuiying soon discovered that Su Yifan was different from others. Compared to those boys who were showing off like peacocks spreading their tails, Su Yifan's silence was quite unexpected.

  As time went by, Cheng Shui Xin slowly became nominal "friends" with Su Yi Fan.

  In fact, Jing Shui Xin herself was very clear that most of the time if she had any not-too-outlandish requests, as long as she mentioned it casually, there would be countless people rushing forward to help solve them.

  But Cheng Shui Yin didn't like that feeling, there's no such thing as a free lunch, even if it's just small things, after all, they can still be hidden dangers. Her heart was too proud and she didn't want to be tied down by trivial matters and little boys in high school.

  It's just that Su Yifan won't put any pressure on Cheng Shuiyan, he's a boy who never shows his aggressive intentions. Almost all the girls are willing to be friends with such a boy. Su Yifan is low-key and silent, never refusing his classmates or asking for anything. But since Cheng Shuiyan got close to Su Yifan, other girls gradually stopped approaching this good person in their hearts.

  After all, not everyone has the courage to compare themselves with a legendary figure like Cheng Shuiying.

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  Su Yifan wiped the sweat and moved the last box of materials to the literary club's activity room, then squatted in this small classroom for half a day before slowly standing up straight.

  There are 15 boxes of materials, including some traditional pure literary publications, classic excerpts magazines and essays, old versions of translated books and so on, which is something that only Cheng Shui Xin can accomplish by getting so many materials at once.

  It's obviously too early for anyone to be in the activity building, so Su Yifan squatted down by the wall to rest for a while before trudging back to the classroom with heavy footsteps. Even Li Peiran, who usually arrives at school the earliest, hadn't arrived yet.

  Su Yifan had just taken out the "Cloud Atlas" he had bought a few days ago and hadn't flipped through many pages when Li Peiran pushed open the door and entered the classroom, smiling at Su Yifan without much surprise: "You're really early."

  Li Peiran is also a member of the literary society and is that kind of typical backbone, he's probably aware of Cheng Shuiying calling Su Yifan to move things.

  Although Li Pei Ran's smile had a lot of sarcastic tone, Su Yi Fan didn't mind much, nodded and continued reading the "Cloud Atlas" in his hand.

  Li Peiran saw Su Yifan still didn't like to counterattack and felt bored himself, so he stopped talking.

  After another ten or so minutes, people started to arrive one after another. The high school's early self-study session was more like a tea party, with everyone chatting and exchanging various topics. Su Yifan put away "Cloud Atlas" and took out his language textbook, flipping through it, but he felt dizzy and sleepy, the early wake-up call combined with the intense physical labor making him feel like he could fall asleep on his desk at any moment.

  There were still fifteen minutes before the start of early self-study, and Cheng Shui also arrived. Seeing Su Yifan, she smiled and greeted her with a sweet but not overly familiar voice.

  "Thank you."

  Cheng Shui Xin's smile undoubtedly had a huge magical power, and when she smiled to thank him, many eyes focused on her. Su Yi Fan immediately looked very embarrassed in front of this almost goddess-like smile, blushing before answering seriously: "You're welcome."

  "I'll treat you to a meal another day." Cheng Shui Xin said casually and sat down, she usually says this kind of thing eight or ten times before calling Su Yi Fan to eat together, of course for other boys this is already an unattainable dream.

  The entire morning, Su Yifan was in a painful struggle of whether to fall asleep or not, until halfway through the second class, the heavy snow outside finally stopped, and then the school broadcasted a ruthless temporary notice. The last class in the morning was postponed to the afternoon, and the whole school was mobilized to go out and shovel snow.

  In the corner of the classroom, there was a pile of snow-clearing tools that classmates had brought in one after another. Su Yifan arrived too early and hadn't brought anything because it hadn't snowed yet. During the break between the second period of the morning class, their teacher Wang Qin appeared in the classroom to encourage her students.

  Wang Qin is a Chinese language teacher with nearly twenty years of teaching experience, and her ability to sarcastically mock students is not ordinary. In class, if a male student turns around to talk, she will tease him by saying "a smile can charm hundreds" (a quote from Journey to the West). If a male and female student are talking to each other, she will ask the whole class to stare at them together, then ask how they plan to continue acting out The Western Wing.

  After knowing that Su Yifan forgot to bring the snow sweeping tool, Wang Qin ordered Su Yifan to do the final cleaning work in the snow sweeping activity and sarcastically said that Su Yifan had a body like Lin Daiyu but the mind of Li Kui. Under the sympathetic gaze of all his classmates, Su Yifan did not explain himself, thinking that if he said it was because of Cheng Shuixin that he didn't bring things, it would cause even more trouble.

  The snow-shoveling activity in the fourth period was a complete torture for today's high school students, despite the presence of teachers and the director of the teaching affairs office shouting back and forth. When Class 3 of Grade 2 finished clearing their assigned area, it was already 11:50, ten minutes later than the usual dismissal time.

  Classmates hurriedly carried things back to the classroom, and Su Yifan also followed them back to the classroom. Alone, he re-mopped the classroom that was full of muddy footprints before crossing the playground again to go to the cafeteria for dinner.

  The school cafeteria was a magical place, contracted into various forms of snack stalls, with prices that were considerate of students and flavors that weren't bad either. When Su Yifan arrived at the cafeteria, it was almost full, with only a few seats left empty near the entrance. In the cafeteria, Su Yifan didn't see Cheng Shui's figure, he knew that beauty had always been disdainful of eating in school.

  Su Yifan, who had never been late to the cafeteria before, found that many stalls had already sold out. He could only choose the simplest tomato and egg fried rice with a small dish of pickles. Holding the cold fried rice, he sat at the entrance, where the cold wind blew in through the gap in the door and hit his face.

  Su Yifan lowered his head and took two mouthfuls, feeling a little lost in his heart. When the class teacher scolded him today, he still fantasized that Cheng Shuijin could stand up and say something to help him, although he knew it was impossible. Su Yifan thought that with excellent grades and looks, Cheng Shuijin would definitely be able to appease Wang Qin's anger at that time.

  Unfortunately, Cheng Shui Xin didn't notice, she was then intently lowering her head looking at her phone, probably browsing through her Weibo.

  As an otaku, Su Yifan felt that most of the time, whether he was at a disadvantage or had the upper hand wasn't that important. However, after reading many comics and watching many movies, and playing many games, he would occasionally have some unrealistic fantasies.

  These fantasies include Ching Shui-hsien suddenly smiling sincerely at himself one day, and no longer rushing when eating alone, as well as him gaining more respect and attention from others.

  Thinking about it, Su Yifan felt that this was very boring, so he decided to lower his head and continue eating.

  The canteen was very lively at noon, with all kinds of happy voices and laughter. Many classmates tried to drag out this meal as long as possible, lingering in the canteen and not wanting to return to the classroom. Su Yifan really wanted to find someone to talk to, but unfortunately, the few classmates who were willing to talk to him were basically not eating at school.

  At this moment, Su Yifan felt very lonely, with a chill from deep within his heart.

  Whoosh! A gust of cold wind blew by, and the thick cotton door curtain was lifted up. Someone else walked into the cafeteria.

  Su Yifan was still lowering his head and picking at the remaining few mouthfuls of tomato and egg fried rice, without even raising his head.

  Suddenly, the entire cafeteria's noisy atmosphere slowly quieted down.

  Feeling that there was an unusual change around him, Su Yifan swallowed the food in his mouth, raised his head and saw a figure blocking the light at the door.

  At this moment, the canteen was eerily silent.

  The high school classmates who were used to seeing beauties everywhere fell silent at this moment.

  Beauty is a concept, as well as a temperament. The girl who walked into the cafeteria had a faint smile on her face that could be remembered for a lifetime at just one glance, and although her expression was kind, there was an aura about her that made it impossible to look directly at her. She simply walked into the high school cafeteria, her gaze sweeping across the faces of the astonished boys and girls.

  Almost no one dared to look straight into those eyes, nor did anyone dare to carefully examine the girl's face. The deep brown coat couldn't hide that nearly perfect figure. From her appearance, it seemed like she was only eighteen or nineteen years old, but she walked around as if she had entered her own territory, finally stopping her gaze on Su Yifan's face.

  The dining hall was still quiet, with many breaths, silently and soundlessly.

  "Excuse me, are you Su Yifan?"

  The girl spoke up, her soft voice in standard Mandarin, polite but with an unmistakable undertone of joy.

  Su Yifan struggled to keep the chopsticks in his hand from falling onto the table, foolishly staring at the girl and nodding.

  The girl took a deep breath, put away the smile on her face, and looked at those students who were still staring foolishly again, with some chill in her eyes.

  The next moment, the girl stretched out her hand towards Su Yifan.

  "Come with me."

  Su Yifan stared at the girl in disbelief, who was enough to make Cheng Shuiyan and Yang Bingbing, campus belle-level beauties, pale in comparison. It took him a few seconds to confirm that he hadn't misheard.

  "What? Who are you?"

  The girl smiled at Su Yifan again, and that smile was as beautiful as a brand new world unfolding.

  "I am your goddess."