Chapter 4: The True Face of An Baili

School is synonymous with youth, immaturity, and love. It is the whisper of the sea that has never been seen brought by the wind, and the beautiful bubbles that come with dreams. In school, Lu Li can briefly cross the class gap and sit in a clean and bright classroom with his peers. Everyone wears the same uniform and talks not about connections and careers, but about beautiful girls and unfinished homework.

When he was young, he despised school very much. He felt that they were naive and impulsive. He felt that he was extraordinary and destined to be the son of destiny to achieve career success. But now he is very nostalgic for school, greedy for this naivety, and likes this simple and pure life.

Today is the first day of class division, and Lu Li arrived at school very early. He doesn’t like to be the last one to sit under the gaze of many people. He likes to curl up in the corner and express his protest to the world with a silent attitude.

As young girls in uniforms enter the classroom one by one, Lu Li’s dusty memories are gradually awakened. Their names and personalities are picked up from the dust.

This is Chuanhai No. 1 Senior High School, and it is also a key high school that ranks among the top in the entire Shenzhou country. Compared with other small high schools that focus on science, Chuanhai No. 1 Senior High School is undoubtedly an outlier. Its main subjects are liberal arts - literature, art, music, politics, morality, law ... The reason is very simple. Many of the students studying here are children of wealthy businessmen and powerful bureaucrats.

They don’t need to consider work and employment. It’s that simple.

“Specially recruited students” like Lu Li who entered the school through the government’s talent support project are relatively rare. In the entire Class 2 (1), except for him, there is only An Baili. Yes, An Baili is also an “ordinary person” who entered the school through the talent support project. Her family background should not be superior, but I heard that her parents used to be decent people, but for some reason, their family fell into decline.

Lu Li sat alone by the window, looking at the blue sky and cotton-like clouds. There were a few white birds flying across the sky, and he couldn’t help but flash a trace of envy in his eyes. He likes birds, or rather, he likes the feeling of freedom. In Chinese culture, the bird has always been endowed with a transcendent meaning, which may refer to beautiful love, freedom, or a lonely and vast state of mind. In short, it is a romantic second sex and an unrealistic rambling of literati.

The empty seats in the classroom gradually welcomed their new owners. There are a lot of girls in this liberal arts class, but very few boys. But Lu Li rarely has unrealistic dreams, because he knows that they can sit in the same classroom is just a superficial appearance. On the surface, they speak the same language, but in fact, they are two completely different creatures.

He is poor, and they are rich, that’s all.

This pessimistic and negative thought has entangled him all his life, and even if he lives again, he can’t easily change it. Although poor, Lu Li is ambitious. He is a steadfast person who will not be shaken by external things. In Zou Yameng’s words, he is sometimes as stubborn as an alien bull.

The monitor came late, but the front seat was occupied by others, so she could only walk to the back row depressed. Lu Li felt that she was not a scheming person, because she showed her unhappiness on her face. High school students of this age have their own reserve and pride, and the class monitor is obviously not one of them.

She passed by the window, and the colorful sunlight was imprinted on her beautiful face, which was as beautiful as a classical oil painting. Her tightly furrowed eyebrows added a bit of Lin Daiyu’s softness to her. The next second, the often furrowed eyebrows stretched out because she saw Lu Li who seemed to be independent of the world.

Please don’t get me wrong, the class monitor is not familiar with him. The reason why she was happy was just because she could meet a rare acquaintance in this strange class, which made her feel a little stable in her heart. One of the biggest illusions in life is that a gentle girl smiles at you, and you think “she likes me”. Lu Li is certainly not such a person. He smiled and responded to the class monitor, but he was thinking about something else in his mind.

“The seat next to you...”

“No one, please sit down.” Lu Li helped her pull out the chair. He wished someone could sit in this position, no matter if it was a man or a woman, as long as it wasn’t reserved for An Baili.

“Thank you.”

She thanked him politely, gently pressed down her skirt, and then sat down gracefully. She was wearing shiny leather shoes, and her tight tights covered her straight and slender calves, but Lu Li didn’t like girls who were too thin. He liked girls with a little flesh, including legs. So his eyes only stayed on the pair of white legs for a moment, and then fell on the monitor’s profile.

It’s a bit difficult to say, he hasn’t remembered the monitor’s name yet.

The monitor’s profile has beautiful lines, and the full forehead curve flows slowly through the brow arch, and then draws a smooth depression on the bridge of the nose, guiding people’s eyes to her delicate and small nose. Lu Li thought she was very suitable for classical makeup, with pink in the corners of her eyes, holding a round fan and singing: “Why is the autumn wind sad for the painted fan.”

Lu Li remembered that she seemed to have organized a talent show for the first-year class meeting. She played the flute at the party, but Lu Li couldn’t remember it clearly. He hoped to bring the monitor into his production team and let her be in charge of the music part. This should be a difficult task. The first step of the task is to find out her name.

Of course, he couldn’t ask directly, otherwise it would be a bit rude - they have been in the same class for a year, but he didn’t even know the monitor’s name. This is too rude.

His eyes stayed for a long time, and the monitor’s neck was slightly red. Her red was not the red in the pond in the south that was accompanied by lotus leaves, but a light and lovely pink, starting from the neck and slowly spreading to the ears. Finally, she couldn’t help it.

“What are you looking at? Don’t ... don’t look at me like that.” The tone was pretended to be tough, but the pink face made Lu Li want to laugh. This monitor was innocent and cute, and she didn’t let anyone look at her. Maybe this is the immaturity of a girl?

This is also normal. The ratio of men to women in Chuanhai No. 1 Middle School is seriously unbalanced, with more girls than boys. Most of the boys will not study in Chuanhai No. 1 Middle School, but go to the affiliated high school of the university early. Most of the men who stay here are the second sons in the family who have no inheritance rights. He thought with a sense of malice that the monitor must have never had close contact with a boy, and if he suddenly grabbed her hand, she would be scared.

Of course, he didn’t do it in the end.

“Monitor, can you play the flute?” It doesn’t matter if it’s not a flute. He added in his mind.

“Yes. Don’t you know?” The girl’s eyes were a little puzzled. She organized the party very successfully, and her flute solo was also perfect. Lu Li should not have known about it. Unless Lu Li slipped away halfway that day. Thinking of this, the monitor’s eyes became sharp.

“Lu Li, it’s a new semester starting today. As your monitor, I will no longer indulge you like I did last semester. I will strictly supervise you. You are not allowed to skip classes, go online, and hand in homework on time...” The pink on her face faded, and she gradually became a little majestic.

“What else? Call the parents?” Lu Li smiled cynically, and his tone might be self-deprecating, mocking, or something else.

The monitor looked at Lu Li’s expression, and something seemed to be touched in her heart. She remembered that when she was promoted to high school, she was elected as the monitor and decided to live up to the expectations of teachers and parents and become a competent class cadre. All students have a decent family background and will maintain superficial respect for her, except Lu Li.

He blatantly skipped classes, often went to the computer room to tinker with something, and it was said that he had an unclear relationship with people outside the school. At first, she was of course angry. She initially tried to persuade Lu Li, but in return, she only got his disdain and contempt. She was angry and decided to use the monitor’s big move: invite parents.

It is not easy for teachers to invite parents. Because the students of Chuanhai No. 1 Middle School have ordinary backgrounds, teachers rarely interfere in matters other than learning. No. 1 Middle School implements a student self-government system, so the monitor has the power to invite parents. It was with this opportunity that the monitor learned about Lu Li’s miserable life experience and gradually gave up the idea of ​​forcing him. Her natural soft heart made her turn a blind eye to Lu Li.

“The second year of high school is over, and the third year of high school is all about preparing for the college entrance examination. This year’s study task is very heavy, you can’t fish for three days and dry the net for two days like last year.” The monitor was very serious, “Your family conditions are not good, you should be more diligent and serious, and work hard to get into a good university.”