I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 210. Lin Wanning Drops a Small Pearl

The sweltering summer has quietly passed, and after an autumn rain, it's September again, with its golden autumn breezes blowing through the wheat fields.

This is their second year in junior high school. In addition to the familiar textbooks for Chinese, mathematics, English, politics, history and geography, there is a new one—physics.

As a subject that terrified countless female students, Xu Qingfan recalled that many girls in his class who were originally top students became just ordinary starting from the second year of junior high school.

Clearly, this includes Lin Wanning and Xiao Ruanwen.

Zhang Yiyi, on the other hand, may have inherited her mother's intelligence, which is highly regarded by Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Her grades have never fallen far behind those of Xu Qingfan, Xia Xiaoxiao, and Wu Lingyu, who are in the top tier.

Their midterm exam results were actually not bad; Lin Wanning ranked 38th in the grade, and Xiao Ruanwen ranked 24th.

Although they dropped out of the top six in the grade, the parents felt it was okay. After all, math and physics become more difficult after the second year of junior high school. Some problems cannot be understood just by doing a lot of practice problems. If you don't know how to do similar problems next time, you still won't know how to do them.

After Xu Qingfan personally explained this principle to several parents, they all expressed their understanding. After all, girls are inherently weaker in terms of logical thinking, and as long as they don't fall out of the top sixty in the grade, it's fine.

But Xiao Ruanwen and Lin Wanning didn't think so. The two girls felt extremely frustrated about falling out of the top six in their grade.

The former was alright; after receiving her report card, she only pouted and was unhappy for a short while before regaining her usual energy—a carefree girl indeed.

But Lin Wanning is different. In order not to fall too far behind Qingfan in her grades, she studies very seriously, and her diligence is comparable to that of Wu Lingyu.

However, the reality is that the huge gap in talent cannot be bridged by hard work alone. The harder the girl tried, the further she got from Xu Qingfan's shadow. This was Lin Wanning's thought.

So when she received her report card, she felt incredibly wronged. If she hadn't held back, Little Pearl would have fallen behind at any moment.

[I've been working really hard, so why are my grades even further behind Qingfan's?]
[Wan Ning can't let her little pearl fall. She's not the kind of little girl who cries at the slightest setback, but she's really sad and wronged, sob sob sob]
The girl felt wronged and depressed.

Well, taking advantage of the moment when she was alone with Xu Qingfan, she still cried.

"Alright, this is because of the Licheng unified exam. It's all the fault of the teacher who made the exam so difficult. Don't cry, Wan Ning." Xu Qingfan comforted the girl by patting her head.

"Waaah~ Brother Qingfan, am I really stupid? It's so simple, why can't I do it?" Lin Wanning sobbed, and after speaking, she didn't forget to sniffle back the snot that was about to fall out.

"I'm not stupid, Wan Ning is very smart. This time it was just a slip-up. It's my first time doing physics and I'm not familiar with it yet. I'll definitely do well on the final exam once I've had more experience!" He coaxed her like a child, wiping away her tears with a tissue.

"Really?" Lin Wanning stopped crying, raised her head, and stared at him without blinking.

"Of course it's true! Wan Ning will definitely get 100 on the physics final exam. If she gets math questions 12 and 16 right and the first two parts of the final question right, she'll be back in sixth place in the grade, maybe even higher than me."

"Okay." The girl nodded seriously. "I'll listen to Brother Qingfan!"

"Stop crying, okay?"

Lin Wanning wanted to agree, but she hadn't finished venting her grievances. She looked at Xu Qingfan pitifully, and after a while, she whispered, "Can I cry a little longer?"

"I'll stay with you no matter how long you cry." Xu Qingfan was completely charmed and sat with the girl on the steps at the top of the teaching building.

Through the openwork square tile corridor, one could see the setting sun overhead. Lin Wanning cried for a while longer before stopping, although her eyes were still red and swollen, with dried tear stains visible at the corners of her eyes.

She linked arms with Xu Qingfan and rested her head on his shoulder, each wearing one earphone.

After finishing a poem about birds, Lin Wanning released his hands, stood up, walked down two steps, and stood up again. He then extended his hand to Qingfan: "Thank you, Brother Qingfan. I will definitely do my best in my final exams!"

Xu Qingfan smiled, reached out and grabbed the girl's outstretched hand, pulling her back.

"Hey~ Brother Qingfan, what are you doing?" Lin Wanning originally wanted to pull him up and leave, but instead, Xu Qingfan pulled her into his arms. Due to inertia, the two of them fell backward onto the cold floor, and the girl's eyes were now only inches away from his.

“It’s dangerous to pull someone up from the stairs, you see?” Xu Qingfan reached out and patted the girl’s cheek, and the two stood up again.

"I know, I know." Lin Wanning's face flushed red, and her heart started beating very fast.

"Come on, we've been sitting here for almost an hour. Just tell them I have diarrhea later," he said, taking the girl's hand again.

"Ok!"

[Brother Qingfan is helping me cover up the lie. Brother Qingfan is the best!] Lin Wanning thought sweetly.

It was already afternoon school dismissal time. Lin Wanning had dragged Xu Qingfan back home by making an excuse that she had left her homework at school. The four girls should be at home preparing dinner right now.

"Go wash your face first, you look like a crying cat."

"Uh-huh!"

The two went down to the first floor of the teaching building, washed their faces at the tap, and left the campus together.

As dusk approached, a swarm of mosquitoes gathered under the streetlights, their presence creating a dark, oppressive atmosphere. As the two passed by, they flew onto Xu Qingfan's head.

Although both of them were wearing junior high school uniforms, Lin Wanning was still quite small, so when the girl walked hand in hand with him on the street, passersby only thought they were a close brother and sister and wouldn't think they were dating.

Lin Wanning took her phone out of her pocket and started taking pictures of their shadows as she walked. After taking seven or eight pictures, she finally got one that satisfied her.

She set the picture as her phone wallpaper, then turned the screen off and on again, grinning foolishly at the photo.

back home.

"I'm sorry, I had diarrhea for some reason, so I'm back so late," Xu Qingfan said, feigning weakness.

"Brother Fan, are you alright? I'll go get you some medicine!" Upon hearing this, Wu Lingyu immediately dried her hands on her apron and went to find Baoji Pills for him.

"Brother Fan, are you alright?"

"Brother, please sit down."

Xiao Ruanwen and Zhang Yiyi also rushed over to help him sit down, as if Xu Qingfan were in a vegetative state.

"Lazy dogs poop and pee a lot." Xia Xiaoxiao pouted unhappily, turned around and went back to the kitchen to get a cup to fill with warm water for him.

Only Lin Wanning stood there, blushing with guilt, lost in thought.

"I'm actually fine now, so maybe I shouldn't take the medicine."

"No, Brother Fan, be good and take your medicine quickly."

"Wan Ning, are you not feeling well either? Why is your face so red?"

"without"

(End of this chapter)