Age of Legends

Chapter 103: Appreciation
Shen Nuoyi took the water and left with Zheng Xue.

Wang Shuowei then said to Zhang Chen: "She is in a bad mood now, which is understandable. It may be her period. No...she runs so hard during her period."

In fact, Shen Nuoyi felt a little regretful when she returned to the classroom. She also felt that her anger was unreasonable, but hearing those rumors made it difficult to calm down.

But then again, Zhang Chen was not hers, so there was no reason for her to be angry.

Moreover, would Zhang Chen be angry with my cold and stern look?

Shen Nuoyi also reflected on himself and felt that he did have a bad temper. When he was in a bad mood, he would tend to take his anger out on others, especially those who could make him feel unstable.

When they were having dinner outside after school in the afternoon, Shen Nuoyi and Zheng Xue had dinner with a few girls. Shen Nuoyi said to Zheng Xue, "Let's go out and buy some milk tea from that store."

"Yeah."

Zheng Xue and Shen Nuoyi went to the milk tea shop opposite the school. Shen Nuoyi said, "Buy a cup for Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei."

"Ah, why do we have to treat them?" Zheng Xue tilted her head, "This milk tea is so expensive!"

A cup of milk tea that costs six to eight yuan is certainly a high cost for today's students.

Seeing Zheng Xue's suspicious look, Shen Nuo said calmly, "Didn't Wang Shuowei pay for the water during the physical education class?"

"That's right!"

So they came back with two cups of takeaway tea. Zheng Xue put the milk tea on Wang Shuowei's table with a thump, "You got a bargain!"

Shen Nuoyi just happened to pass the milk tea in his hand to Zhang Chen, "It's for you."

Just consider it as an apology for giving him the cold shoulder.

If he was really angry, then this cup of milk tea that he brought would probably calm him down. Secondly, if Zhang Chen was unwilling to accept it, or was hesitant when accepting it, then he was really angry.

Zhang Chen glanced at her, poked the top of the milk tea with a thick tube, and took a sip. It was smooth, tender, fragrant and sweet.

I saw Shen Nuoyi's eyes looking at me.

"how?"

"Oh... does it taste good?" Shen Nuo's eyes seemed a little confused, but luckily his mouth was open, which covered up his unnatural eyes.

"It's a bit too sweet. I don't like sweet drinks."

"Hey Zhang Chen, you're still being picky!" Zheng Xue looked at him coldly.

Wang Shuowei glanced at him and said, "My cup is not sweet. Why don't you exchange it with me?"

"You've drunk it."

"Just change the straw. Look at you, I don't even dislike you!" Wang Shuowei laughed.

"Okay, I'll drink this."

Shen Nuo said, "Then I'll buy you something non-sweet next time."

"Will you treat me next time?" Zhang Chen looked at her with a smile.

Shen Nuoyi saw a lot of things in his smiling eyes, and then raised her eyebrows slightly.

"You wish. You can treat me next time!"

……

After evening self-study, a group of people who lived near the compound went home together, talking and laughing, as if they had returned to the state of last semester.

But everyone felt something was different. Last semester, Shen Nuoyi was the absolute focus of everyone. When she spoke, everyone would listen to what she said and try to get to know her better.

But now that they are going home together, there is another focus in the crowd, and that is Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen is now quite famous in the school. Even some of them who are in other classes go home with Zhang Chen after evening self-study, and people from their class come to inquire about Zhang Chen's situation.

You know, last semester, all the people who came to inquire were about Shen Nuoyi.

Whenever Zhang Chen spoke, Shen Nuoyi would listen carefully and watch his every move. Occasionally, the two looked at each other, and Shen Nuoyi's eyes began to jump away disobediently again.

Yes, there were two wolves in the crowd. But no one knew about Wang Shuowei, Zheng Xue, Yu Zexi, Qin Zhu and other civilians who went home together after evening self-study.

Until the end when everyone went back to their homes, everyone said goodbye to each other. Shen Nuoyi said goodbye to everyone else, then looked at him and said, "Goodbye."

"See you tomorrow." Zhang Chen also replied with a smile.

It turns out that sometimes saying goodbye to each other like this and making an appointment to meet again tomorrow is a little happiness that can be easily found.

……

After returning home, Shen Nuo washed up and sat on the bed holding her doll. She recalled that today, when Zhang Chen was drinking milk tea, she stared at him, actually wanting to see if he was angry.

She just wanted to know that.

If it were in the past, she probably wouldn't care so much about a friend's feelings.

Ever since Zhang Chen expressed his feelings to her during the holidays, Shen Nuo has felt uneasy whenever she is with Zhang Chen. She always pays attention to him and tries to pry into his inner thoughts.

She used to dislike this because once she started to care about a person, she would involuntarily become dependent on that person over time.

And when this person leaves one day, the hole of dependence will exist for a long time, or even continue to exist there.

She hated this feeling and never wanted to have it again.

But it seems that I have no control over it now.

……

……

Huang Huifen stole the show at the parent-teacher meeting held after the first test at the start of school.

She is simply amazing now. In the largest real estate exchange center in Rongcheng, she is known as "Sister Huang".

Every weekend, Huang Huifen would tell Zhang Chen and Zhang Zhonghua, "I'm going to learn about real estate!"

Then they went to the exchange center. This made Zhang Chen feel that if his mother had not died of the disease, she would have definitely fallen into the vortex of selling health products to the elderly, and she might have even caught a lot of people. She was the most innocent one to be arrested by the police.

Huang Huifen is now "famous" because she bought a shop in Hexianju. People call her "Sister Huang" all the time, which she thinks is very respectful. But she doesn't know that people may be laughing at her behind her back, as the biggest victim of Rongcheng in the past two years.

But it was true in school. Huang Huifen was well-known in the parents' group of Class 5, Grade 2. At some point, the parents' group started to hear that the student who ranked last in the class and was annoyed to get into a decent university had actually jumped to the first-tier line.

This is legendary enough.

Later, I chatted with some parents from other schools, and they all knew about this. Upon asking, a parent from Class 5 said, "It's our class. That kid's grades were really at the bottom, but he shot up all of a sudden. It's true. You see, we spend a lot of money on tutoring outside these days, and if our kids can get 20 or 30 points higher after tutoring, we'd be praying to God for help. But that kid's grades shot up by more than 150 points! What the hell is wrong with that kid's brain?"

While others are amazed at this time, they still have to say, "Oh, it's fast to climb up from the bottom, but for a family like yours that has always been in the middle and upper reaches, it's not easy to improve the scores!"

This is amazing. Even the parents in this class felt proud of Zhang Chen because he told other schools about him.

At today's parents' meeting, many parents were curiously looking at Zhang Chen's house. They also wanted to see if this dark horse could hold up in the opening exam. Who knew that the question of whether it could hold up was directly improved, and this dark horse was no longer at the level of 570.

He got 604 points!

There are 15 people in the class!
There were 25 in the class before!

The middle and lower-level parents were completely furious. After the parents' meeting, they surrounded Huang Huifen and asked her how she educated her children and how their children studied.

This is the natural chain of contempt in school. If your child has good grades, no matter how difficult or annoying you are, there will still be a large number of dog-licking parents surrounding you and treating you as a respecter.

This is naked realism.

Everyone was listening to Huang Huifen bragging.

At this moment, class teacher Zhou Ming felt a headache when he saw the big boss's parents who gave him the most gifts surrounding Huang Huifen and asking questions. He looked at Zhang Chen's math score of 145 this time. Then he looked at Shen Nuoyi's math score next to him, which was also 145.

I just wonder how Zhang Chen, who usually only scores 70 or 80 points in math, did it?
I didn’t take tutoring classes outside!
After the parent-teacher meeting, Huang Huifen, who was surrounded by people, had her first taste of being a parent of a good student surrounded by people. When she walked out of the school gate with a few parents she had just made friends with, a man and a woman stopped her at the door.

"You are Zhang Chen's mother, right?" The two greeted Huang Huifen warmly.

"You are……?"

"Haha, my name is Zhuang Xuefeng, and this is my wife Liu Jun. Our child is Zhuang Yanyue. She was the person involved in your son's heroic act. I've always wanted to thank you in person... Let's have a meal together with our two families, don't refuse, and please do me the honor..."

Huang Huifen: “???”

(End of this chapter)