You're my wife, don't doubt it!

The surgery is scheduled for September 1st.

"Isn't that terrible?"

As with every September 1st before, Tao Tianyi silently recited this simple nursery rhyme that he had known since the first grade of elementary school—even though he was already a senior in high school this time.

Tao Tianyi really liked this nursery rhyme, finding it catchy and positive. However, he never understood the specific meaning of the first line, "A bamboo pole, tall and tall."

The final conclusion was that it rhymed.

Since Tao Tianyi was already a senior in high school, he knew that the teacher wouldn't get a high fever from reciting such nursery rhymes. Even if the teacher did get a high fever, the start of school would be as unstoppable as the rolling wheels of progress.

Perhaps this is life, life, do you understand, my friend? Life is like bread where the buttered side always lands first, and life is like nothing good ever happens.

Tao Tianyi's catchphrase is "Is there any good news?", which comes from the animated series "Little Confused God". The fundamental reason he always asks "Is there any good news?" is that he knows there won't be any good news.

Summer vacation, though long and leisurely, is also quite boring and empty. It passes by in the blink of an eye, which is certainly not a good thing.

However, no matter how bad the summer vacation is, the start of school is obviously an even worse thing.

They will face a monotonous campus life, monotonous studies, monotonous classmates, monotonous teachers, and monotonous classes, and of course, nothing good will come of it.

Although it's already September, the weather is still very hot, which is not a good thing.

Distributing books is not a good thing, early morning reading is not a good thing, raising the flag is not a good thing, doing exercises is not a good thing, and the principal's speech under the national flag at the start of the new semester is even less a good thing.

Especially considering the direct sunlight.

Eye exercises are not a good thing, not being able to hand in summer homework and being harassed is not a good thing, and changing seats is not a good thing either—in fact, changing seats has little to do with him, because as always, he has no deskmate and sits alone in the last row of the classroom, only now he has moved from the far right to the far left.

Just a few hours after the start of the semester, Ms. Lin, the class's homeroom teacher and grade director, announced two pieces of bad news.

The first piece of bad news is that there will be a placement test for the start of the new semester tomorrow.

Are you toxic? This school has never heard of such a tradition.

Tao Tianyi had no idea that Director Lin and the school had deliberately dragged the entire grade into the rankings to protect the self-esteem of a certain special supplementary examinee and his girlfriend.

If Tao Tianyi found out, he would definitely want to skin that supplementary examinee alive.

Even worse news is that next month, in October, the first and second year high school students will be going to Dongfanghongzhou to participate in the "Military Training Camp".

As is well known, every high school in Shanghai is required to arrange three activities during the three years of high school education: "learning from workers," "learning from farmers," and "learning from the military," as a mandatory political task.

Comparatively speaking, "learning from workers" and "learning from farmers" still had some enjoyment in terms of balancing work and rest, while "learning from the military" was something that everyone feared and gritted their teeth over.

Because "Xuejun" is also known as "Military Training".

As a result, the name "Dongfang Hongzhou," a hellish place, has left a very bad impression on the minds of many students in Shanghai.

As soon as Teacher Lin finished announcing these two pieces of bad news, wails of agony echoed throughout the classroom.

These are not good things either, Tao Tian thought.

However, Tao Tianyi then heard something that seemed to be a good thing.

In one class of this grade, ever since their homeroom teacher, Yao, publicly revealed his secret on the platform in the playground in front of the entire school, their newly appointed homeroom teacher has also run into trouble.

In short, that's it.

Of course, this wasn't good news for Tao Tianyi either, since he had no grudges or connections with that poor homeroom teacher surnamed Song. He could only wish him a RIP.

The problem is that no one dares to be the homeroom teacher for that class anymore.

The rumor is that whoever becomes the homeroom teacher of this class will be unlucky; the position is considered very unlucky.

"It's only two samples, just a coincidence, yet you're all so scared," Tao Tianyi thought.

What happened to the saying that "a thorough materialist is fearless"? How can you teach and educate people when you're so superstitious?

Of course, this has nothing to do with Tao Tianyi. What does have to do with him is that the homeroom teacher, Teacher Lin, as the grade director, had to temporarily take on the role of homeroom teacher for that class.

As the grade head, he was already busy enough, and now he has to take on an additional class. Of course, a person's time and energy are limited.

In other words, this class is about to enjoy greater freedom.

This is a good thing.

Another good thing is that, on the very first day of school, they announced the upcoming "Top Ten Campus Singers" competition.

St. Francis Secondary School's "Top Ten Singers" competition is renowned throughout the district's high schools; in short, it's a lively and exciting event, a true spectacle.

This year is even more incredible. I heard that several other key high schools in the district, as well as Lu Xun High School, will participate together, turning it into a cross-school event.

During his freshman year of high school, Tao Tianyi ranked tenth in the campus's top ten singers competition. Someone told him that on the day the list was posted, a girl pointed to the three words "Tao Tianyi" on the bulletin board and said, "I have his QQ and phone number."

This incident made Tao Tianyi slightly ecstatic for a short week.

Although no one eventually added him on QQ or called or texted him, Tao Tianyi still felt that it was worth waiting for and holding onto hope.

I need to perform well this year and try to get a better ranking so I can stand out and maybe attract the attention of the new first-year female students or girls from other schools.

Tao Tianyi pondered the matter carefully.

Speaking of this girl...

Tao Tianyi's eyes glanced at the seat that Zhao Xiaomei had been sitting in, which was now empty.

The boy felt a little melancholy and planned to ask someone what was going on after class.

Zhao Xiaomei... could be considered someone he liked, but not quite "the one he loved" or "the one in his heart".

This means that Tao Tianyi had a slight interest in her because of her appearance and figure, but really only a slight one.

After all, her reputation isn't very good.

It mainly concerns the relationship between men and women.

This is also one of the reasons why Tao Tianyi coveted her, because subconsciously he felt that she was "easy to pick up".

Besides, she was quite friendly to me, so we could be considered friends.

Of course, she seemed to be quite friendly to all the boys.

She is a kind woman with a heart full of love.

Anyway, even so, she still couldn't win Tao Tianyi's heart.

During the summer vacation, Tao Tianyi made several invitations to her, but in the end, none of them came to fruition.

I heard that she went to some kind of seaside summer camp. Tao Tianyi originally wanted to go with her, but his parents wouldn't allow it and insisted on sending him to tutoring classes instead.

ε=(ο｀*))) Alas, as mentioned before, nothing good has happened.

Zhao Xiaomei's absence is not a good thing.

As a classmate and friend, Tao Tianyi naturally remembered her and cared about her.

As soon as get out of class ended, and Teacher Luo stepped out of the classroom, Tao Tianyi rushed to the front rows to inquire about Zhao Xiaomei's whereabouts.

As it turned out, nobody knew, not even the most well-informed "little techie" said they needed to find out more.

Compared to Zhao Xiaomei's absence from class, the students in this class—especially the male students—were clearly more interested in something else.

"This morning, I went to Lao Lin's office and saw a girl I didn't recognize reporting for duty," said Passerby A.

"What do you mean? Is there another new transfer student? Are they going to join our class?" said Passerby B.

"I don't know," said Passerby A. "You know, Old Lin is currently teaching two classes and is also the grade head. Who knows which class he'll be assigned to?"

"What does he look like?" asked Passerby B.

“Great.” Passerby A raised an eyebrow.

The boys made excited "Oh~~~" sounds.

"Is he really that good-looking?" said passerby Ding.

"I don't know, I couldn't see her face clearly, but her skin was snow-white," the passerby recalled. "Her bangs were very long, covering half of her eyes, and she wore a pair of huge round glasses that covered half of her face."

"Is it really tacky?"

"Yes, she's a bit rustic, but just looking at the lower half of her face, you can tell she's not ugly," said Passerby A. "But the most important thing is, she's very... she's very..."

Passerby A made a gesture of holding a watermelon in front of his chest.

"Aren't you disgusting?" a girl with freckles on her face and a ponytail criticized her.

“Exactly, isn’t it tacky?” Tao Tian nodded, expressing his agreement with an upright expression.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the bell for the second period—oh, the preparatory bell, whatever—rang.

Tao Tianyi slowly returned to his seat and sat down with his legs crossed.

Life is rarely good.

Teacher Lin walked in, followed by a girl wearing the new first-year high school uniform with a backpack.

The moment they saw it, almost all the boys in the class looked over at the same time.

"A transfer student? He really is in our class."

"She's so short."

"It's cute even though it's small."

The design of this year's first-year high school uniform is quite good, especially the shirt and plaid skirt set.

Most of the newly enrolled female high school students wore the same outfit; very few wore a different, relatively ordinary-looking outfit: a pink and white short-sleeved sports shirt and pink and white sports pants.