Chapter 9 Behind the Back

  Tang Yu stood at the main entrance of the school, like a delicate and elegant lotus flower. Today, she was wearing a white T-shirt that perfectly accentuated her slender figure, which she had developed by the age of 16. Many junior high school students passing by couldn't help but gaze at this beautiful girl, who was considered a campus belle in the middle school department. As they thought about their upcoming graduation and the fact that they would soon be going their separate ways, many people felt a deep sense of regret and longing that was hard to put into words.

  Tang Yu's face was red, she had been standing here just now, and several boys had boldly confessed to her, but in the end they were all rejected by Tang Yu and slunk away dejectedly.

  The losers are too numerous to mention, the most direct contribution is to make more people hesitant, especially some boys who know that if they don't confess after graduation, they will miss their chance. In the end, they still covered up the love letter in their hands and missed Tang Yu, and in their future life, these may be lifelong regrets for some people, or perhaps a small episode that they will smile about when looking back on their lives.

  Pinching the hand, Tang Yu was not willing to lend or not lend. She couldn't help but secretly blame Su Can in her heart. Originally, when it was announced that it was the last day of school, several girlfriends around her knew that she would lend the test paper to Su Can for copying. Moreover, today is the last day before the holiday, and several girls have their own things, so they didn't accompany Tang Yu together.

  Seeing Su Can tidying up his books on the seat, Tang Yu felt that waiting for him in the classroom wasn't such a big deal. To be honest, she had never waited like this for any boy before, so she simply walked slowly while waiting. They had already reached the school gate, but Su Can still hadn't come out, which made Tang Yu stand at the last door of the school gate. As the class monitor, she had promised to do something, and if she just left like that, she wouldn't be able to do it.

  However, as a result, it looks even less like the case. At this time, Su Can finally appeared with a heavy backpack, panting and gasping for breath, just when Tang Yu was slightly resentful in her heart.

  "Are you here?" Tang Yu was dissatisfied with Su Can in her heart, but she would never show it on the outside. She just furrowed her brow, and another thing, Su Can's appearance was a bit comical.

  This week, people who knew Tang Yu on the road all grew up and looked at Tang Yu with their mouths open. This icy beauty, who was very famous in junior high school for three years, was even a campus belle-level girl. Just now, no one knew what she was doing standing at the school gate, not even some people who had confessed to her and were rejected and left dejectedly. Who would have thought that she was actually waiting for a boy?

  "Sorry to keep you waiting, this thing is too heavy. It seems that the burden of my three years in junior high school has come today!" Su Can naturally thought of the knowledge points he had left behind in his junior high school days, which he had to master in just two short days, and the difficulty was no joke.

  Tang Yu looked at Su Can with a slightly puzzled gaze, earlier she had been waiting here and discovered that it wasn't quite what she had expected, merely thinking to herself that the scene of her waiting for a boy was somewhat ambiguous, not to mention if Su Can were to see it, this boy would inevitably feel a sense of pride and vanity in his heart, which would make her own heart feel somewhat uncomfortable.

  Tang Yu was intelligent and perceptive, able to see through many things, but her aloof exterior made her unaccustomed to expressing her inner thoughts.

  Who would have known that Su Can appeared with a hint of apology in his eyes, and the tone of his speech could be heard to be focused on the books he was reviewing, not at all like the situation Tang Yu had expected, couldn't help but make her reevaluate Su Can.

  The test papers for each subject were handed out from Tang Yu's hands, one by one through

  After scanning at the typing and printing shop, Su Can had in his hands a dozen or so copies of various test questions with reference answers.

  For Su Can at this stage, what stock rises and falls, what era trends, what information industry opportunities are not very realistic, and they can't compare to these test papers that can be used to solve the urgent problems in front of him, held in his hands, as if grasping his own future destiny.

  The smell of snacks wafted from the street vendor outside the copy shop, and the golden-edged clouds floated quietly in mid-air. After finishing the copying, Tang Yu and Su Can, who theoretically had no intersection with each other, walked out of the door side by side. Turning back to look at the outer wall of the school, a rare hint of reluctance flowed from Tang Yu's eyebrows. She turned her head to look at Su Can, "I want to go back inside the school and take another look. Maybe after today, such opportunities will be scarce."

  Su Can looked at Tang Yu with some surprise, trying to recall if she had walked around the school on the day of the middle school exam. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find such a memory. But what surprised Su Can even more was that their class leader, known for being cold and unfeeling, actually showed a hint of reluctance at this moment.

  Seeing Su Can's expression, Tang Yu continued with a somewhat affected ease, "Are you going home? It doesn't matter."

  "It's no use going home so early, I'm not in a hurry to go back for dinner. Let's go, I'll accompany you back and take a look."

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  Su Can felt that he had just accomplished a feat that he had dreamed of in his junior high school days but never achieved.

  Strolling with Classmate Tang Yu in the campus. Unfortunately, Su Can is no longer the 16-year-old boy he used to be, at least not mentally. Although Tang Yu had an extraordinary appearance and temperament at the age of 16, it was still not enough to make Su Can's face turn red, his ears hot, and his heart beat faster like a normal junior high school student.

  It was a stroll on the campus eleven years ago, familiar places were in sight. The playground that was once overgrown with weeds is now a large open space, with cement pavement, basketball hoops and a running track paved with cinder, marked with clear white lines. Later, there were also flower beds, replacing the clumps of pennisetum alopecuroides that grew here in deep and shallow clusters.

  There was a defective corner of the wall, where countless people had jumped out to escape from class. Su Can also had an experience once, behind which was a small fish pond. He threw his school bag over the wall and only discovered this secret when he climbed up.

  Now thinking back on those things and looking at what's in front of him, Su Can felt a surge of indescribable emotions, especially with Tang Yu by his side.

  Su Can naturally understood Xiao Tang Wei's current mood. Her grades had long surpassed the admission standards of First Middle School, not to mention that there were special privileges at that time. If you were a top student, First Middle School would unconditionally admit you, and even exempt you from tuition fees. Tang Wei was clearly one of the key students who received special care. She knew she would be leaving this middle school, but still couldn't bear to part with the three years of junior high school life, and used this method to relieve her reluctance.

  On a slope of lawn, Tang Yu suddenly sat down. Su Can felt fresh about her unusual behavior and sat down beside her, the wind blew gently, and the grass fluttered between them, a very quiet picture.

  "Su Can, actually you're quite clever. If you work a bit harder, you'll definitely get very good results. You don't need to be like that."

  "What's wrong?" Su Cang asked in surprise.

  "Today you gave Dong Qingyun the answers to yesterday's homework, I heard... If you want to gain others' respect, there's no need to use this method..." After glancing at Su Can, Tang Yu saw that her words hadn't hurt him and continued with relief, "Your grades are just a little below the admission line of San Zhong, but if you keep up this studying momentum, I believe you can definitely catch up."

  Su Can was stunned, it turned out that Tang Yu had heard about his event of checking answers with Dong Qingyun this morning, and thought he was deliberately showing off. After all, a 93% accuracy rate, even Tang Yu couldn't achieve that, she might have a high accuracy rate, but she did the test paper herself last night, it's impossible for her to finish all the exercises in just a few hours from dinner to sleep, let alone Su Can, which was simply absurd.

  "Uh-huh, I see." Su Can smiled wryly at Tang Yu.

  Tang Yu was stunned, and she saw a different temperament in Su Can's eyes and expression, as if there was another soul living deep within him. His bright smile made her involuntarily turn away, wondering what was wrong with herself, why she suddenly thought of this boy who had been on the periphery of her life for three years while he was copying homework, and felt a reluctance to part with school and everything. And now, why did her heart inexplicably skip a beat?

  Seeing the bright eyes, Su Can understood that he could hardly accept the fact that the gentle-hearted Tang Wei, who had been calm and collected on the surface eleven years ago, would be murdered ten years later.

  Now that he's back, it means he can't just live a blank life, he wants to change the arrangement of his fate!

  Su Can secretly made up his mind.

  Two people walked out of the school together when their junior high school head teacher, Xiao Zhou, was discussing something with a school leader at the entrance. Xiao Zhou had just graduated from normal school and had less than three years of teaching experience. After being assigned to several schools, he was finally transferred to No. 3 Middle School and became the head teacher of Su Can's class, teaching English. He was hot-tempered and had disciplined several mischievous students in the class, which later led to these students becoming thugs in society and still having a deep respect for Xiao Zhou when they thought back on him.

  In my impression, Teacher Xiao Zhou was still teaching the next junior high school class, but later became famous for his strict methods. By 2009, he had already become the principal of a middle school in Xia Hai City, and his career was booming.

  Seeing the two of them walking out of school together, Little Zhou was stunned at first, and even Little Tang felt uneasy, after all, it's almost graduation time, and she and Su Can were actually strolling out of the school building after class, who knows what their teachers might think, but now it's not easy to explain.

  The two of them could only nod and greet Xiao Zhou, without interrupting his conversation with the vice principal.

  It wasn't until the last moment when Su Can clearly saw Xiao Zhou giving him a thumbs up, this teacher who was usually strict to the point of being almost tyrannical, yet at this moment looked just like his own despicable colleague eleven years later.

  But how could Su Can possibly know about the countless shocks in Xiao Zhou's heart?

  The lovely class monitor Tang Yu in our class, how come I didn't notice it before? It turns out that she and Su Can, this unknown little boy, are actually a couple behind the scenes!

  They arrived at a fork in the road where the two routes diverged, and since there were no pedestrian traffic lights back then, Su Can followed Tang Yu across the street before waving goodbye.

  "See you next semester then."

  Tang Yu was stunned, and she subconsciously thought about how she would meet Su Can again at Municipal No. 1 Middle School.

  As soon as she saw Su Can's clear eyes, with no impurities, smiling at her, Tang Yu still slightly pouted and nodded.

  "Uh-huh."

  Tang Yu felt a little sad, she knew that the innocent Su Can still didn't understand that next year he wouldn't be appearing in No. 3 Middle School, they were two kinds of people who would be separated by the watershed of high school and go on different roads in life.