CH 3.2

Chapter 3.2 - Moonlight

In an instant, the whole class gave him a sympathetic look.

He became completely speechless.

Not long after the headteacher went out, the math teacher walked into the class and started his lecture. When the teacher was lecturing, the fat man sitting in front of Xie Yu threw a paper ball at him. “Brother, is Tu Niuxiang?”

[TL Notes: Tu Niuxiang - I think the meaning of this is going backward.]

Shut up! Xie Yu directly raised his leg and gave the fat man a kick.

After throwing the note into the table drawer, he sighed, turned his face reluctantly, and glanced at the village girl beside him.

Su Yan was sitting upright with her arms folded, listening to the math teacher without moving with a serious and focused look like a big white goose with a straight neck. She didn’t even look at Xie Yu.

He couldn’t help but not laugh, it was really rustic. But after studying her for a while, Xie Yu found that she was actually good-looking. 

Su Yan sat next to a window, and she was covered with golden sunlight, which made him dazzled. However, in a blink of an eye, a piece of chalk slammed into his head.

"Xie Yu, what are you doing? Why are you staring at others? Do you want to be a hooligan? The Math teacher's voice echoed in the classroom.

".........."

In a second, the whole class exploded with laughter.

Su Yan blushed and glared at him fiercely.

Xie Yu was suffocated and speechless, and he didn't even know what expression to put on.

Is the old man blind? What hooligan? He thought angrily.

The math teacher patted the desk hard, and the class instantly returned to silence. When the teacher turned around and continued to lecture on the whiteboard, some students listened, while some were still looking at Xie Yu and Su Yan.

The fat man sitting in front again threw a ball of paper on his desk, and the words on it were as cheap as before: Brother, I get it, Xiang!

"You........."

Xie Yu was too lazy to bother about the fat man, so he threw the paper ball into the drawer and began to listen to the teacher. The teacher quickly explained the lesson and told them to do the exercises. Xie Yu quickly finished the classroom practice, and then he had nothing to do.

Being bored, he turned his face and glanced at Su Yan beside him again, and found that she was staring at the exercise book with her brows furrowed in a daze.

She can't do it. Didn't she listen to the teacher seriously just now? Why can't she do it? Is the question difficult? Or.....is she dumb? He thought.

He didn't want to care about her at first, but suddenly he thought of the task assigned by the head teacher, gritted his teeth, and asked in a low voice reluctantly, "Can you do the question?"

Su Yan clenched the black signature pen in her hand tightly and bit her lower lip tightly. She didn't understand what the teacher said just now, even though she tried hard to listen.

When I was in my hometown before, the teacher had never taught us such a difficult thing.

"Do you need me to teach you?" He tried his best to use a friendly tone, but Su Yan replied without looking up: "No!"

"..." Xie Yu gave her a strange look.

"You don't need to teach me! I know." Su Yan got annoyed.

"..."

For the first time in his life, Xie Yu was rejected by a girl, and she was a village girl, which felt quite strange. But he also felt that her rejection came not only from her hostility to him, but also from her self-esteem, because she didn't want to be laughed at again. 

Really, it's rude and stupid.

He didn't intend to continue to make a fool of himself, but her sensitive, inferior and stubborn appearance, like a small grass swaying in the wind, easily softened his heart.

With a sigh, he picked up the pen again, carefully and neatly wrote down the problem-solving process, then tore the page and pushed it silently in front of her.

Su Yan was stunned for a moment, then turned her face to look at him, and her big watery eyes were full of surprise.

He ignored her, secretly took out his mobile phone from his desk pocket, sent group messages, and made an appointment with someone to play basketball.

Next was gym class, so as soon as the bell rang, he quickly bounced off the stool to go out. Just as he was about to go, the girl next to him suddenly put a piece of paper on his desk. 

Thank You.

Her handwriting was neat and beautiful. He didn't expect her letters to be so beautiful.

"Hey, Xie Yu, what are you doing? Let's go." Suddenly a roar came from the door, reminding him about the basketball game, so he put down the paper and went out.

"Aren't you going home yet?" A gentle and delicate voice came from the phone, interrupting Xie Yu's memories.

Ten years had passed, and she had changed a lot.  Not only had she lost the rustic look on her body, but her tone and voice had become more confident.

"Immediately." He stared at her window upstairs, "Do you really want me to go?"

"Well." He promised, but never hung up the phone.

Su Yan waited for a while, then asked helplessly, "Why haven't you gone home yet?"

Xie Yu told the truth: "I'm afraid you'll run away."

Obviously, it was a happy event, but he worried that it was a beautiful dream.

Su Yan was helpless: "We are getting married tomorrow. Where else can I go?"

"Yes." Xie Yu said with a smile. "Then you just wait at home and wait for me to marry you tomorrow."

"I know!" After that, she told him to pay attention to safety on the way home and then hung up the phone.

"He saw you yesterday. Why can't he wait until tomorrow? As for coming here at night? It's greasy and crooked!" Yao Anan, who had witnessed the entire scene, asked Su Yan annoyingly. 

Su Yan sighed: "I don't want to meet him today, and my mother won't let me meet him the day before the wedding, it's not auspicious." As she was about to walk into the house, she suddenly caught a glimpse of red, so she looked down, and saw it was the two copies of 'Double Happiness'.

[TL Notes: The double happiness symbol, "囍" (pronounced shuāngxǐ, 双喜) in Chinese is comprised of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese character 喜 (pronounced xǐ), which means joy and happiness. It’s commonly used as a Chinese wedding symbol to represent double the joy and happiness for the newlyweds as they begin their marriage.]

She quickly looked at the curtain and found out that the two copies of Double Happiness that had been sticking to the top had disappeared. 

Why did it all fall to the ground? Su Yan began to worry.

Su Yan's heart suddenly felt a sense of unease, like a hunting bird feeling the storm.

Am I thinking too much? Must be. I’m thinking too much.

She tried hard to calm down her emotions, bent down, and picked up the two copies of Double Happiness from the ground and posted them on the curtain again. However, she didn't know if it was because the red paper was too brittle or because she used too much force, one of the Double Happiness suddenly broke from the middle and fell down. 

Su Yan's face turned pale, and she looked at the words "Happy", which were cut in half, at a loss, and her ominous premonition became stronger and stronger.

Yao Anan noticed something and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Su Yan pursed her lips uneasily, panicking like a frightened bird: "I...I accidentally broke Double Happiness."

Yao Anan saw the broken piece of paper, and she was stunned for a moment, and then immediately began to comfort her good sister: "Oh, isn't it just a piece of paper, why do you think so much? Just change a new one and stick it on it!"

Su Yan nodded. Nodding, trying to keep himself calm: "Um..."