Back to my parents when I was seventeen

After staring at each other for a moment, Deng Xitong was skeptical, "Really?"

Xu Chuning: "Yeah."

She lowered her eyes to look at her, "You continue, I'll close my eyes for a while."

Deng Xitong: “…”

She nodded hesitantly, "Forget it, I won't watch it either."

She was afraid of being discovered by the teacher.

Xu Chu Ning chuckled, "Sorry."

"It's okay." Deng Xitong didn't mind that she scared herself. She lowered her voice and whispered to her, "What nightmare did you have just now?"

Xu Chu Ning paused and blinked gently, "I can't remember clearly, but it feels quite scary."

Deng Xitong said "oh" but didn't suspect anything. "Then have you been under too much pressure recently?"

She is also prone to nightmares when she is stressed.

Hearing Deng Xitong's question, Xu Chuning felt a little guilty. How could Deng Xitong really believe that she was having a nightmare?

After a few seconds of silence, she shook her head and said, "Fortunately, this may be an accident today."

Deng Xitong understood and comforted her, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, your grades won't be a problem. Besides, it's just a final exam, not the college entrance exam."

Xu Chuning hummed: "I know, don't worry."

But even if it was just a final exam, this exam was very important to Xu Chuning. She wanted to get a scholarship. Meiji Middle School offered a considerable amount of scholarship to the top student in each semester. Xu Chuning needed this scholarship to reduce the pressure on her and You Shuzhen's life.

Deng Xitong chatted with the students who woke up earlier. Xu Chuning looked at the time and thought that taking another nap was not ideal, so he simply took out his English book and started memorizing words.

Apart from mathematics, her English is relatively not that good.

Xu Chuning's education before junior high school was very ordinary, and she didn't have a good English teacher, so her oral English was a little worse than other students. Therefore, whenever she had free time, she would listen to oral training and memorize all the words.

If conditions permit, she would like to watch more foreign movies to improve her English listening and speaking skills.

When Shen Sinian woke up from his nap, he happened to see Xu Chuning reading a book seriously with her head lowered. Her long neck and slightly drooping eyelashes made her look focused and attractive. Looking at her, he couldn't help but sigh, she was worthy of being his mother.

As he was watching, a voice popped up beside him, "Brother Nian, what are you looking at?"

Shen Sinian turned around and saw his classmate He Jianzhang who was sitting next to him across the aisle.

The two sat in the same row and both knew how to play basketball, so they got along pretty well.

Hearing this, he glanced at him and said, "I didn't see anything."

He Jianzhang clicked his tongue and raised his chin slightly, "Don't think I didn't see it." He hooked his arm around Shen Sinian's shoulder and said in a low voice, "You were clearly looking at Xu Chuning just now."

At this point, he looked at Shen Sinian mysteriously and asked curiously, "I wanted to ask before, are you and Xu Chuning really just ordinary classmates?"

All the classmates in the class could see that Shen Sinian and Xu Chuning had a special relationship.

Before Shen Sinian transferred to the school, Xu Chuning seldom interacted with classmates in the school, and she didn't even interact with girls.

Of course, this is not because Xu Chuning is aloof, but because Xu Chuning is more mature than most girls. She has experienced a lot since she was a child. When everyone was still carefree high school students and only focused on studying, she had to get up early and go to the family shop to help out.

Apart from helping out in the shop, she spent almost all her time at school reading books. She was like a machine that only knew how to study. She had no hobbies and would not listen to any gossip.

She is not interested in anything other than studying and making money.

Other students occasionally wanted to talk to her, but they were afraid of disturbing her studies and delaying her studies.

"Of course not." Shen Sinian answered He Jianzhang without thinking too much.

He Jianzhang widened his eyes, took a breath and said, "I knew it, I saw it a long time ago-"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Sinian looked at him coldly and said, "We are still friends."

He Jianzhang: “…”

The words on his lips choked and he looked at him incredulously, "... just friends?"

"Otherwise?" Shen Sinian asked.

He Jianzhang choked, looking at Shen Sinian's frank appearance, and choked, "You don't have that kind of thought about her?"

"In what aspect?" Shen Sinian didn't react.

He Jianzhang: "...Do you really not understand or are you pretending not to understand?"

Shen Sinian: "What?"

He Jianzhang wanted to say something, but the bell rang. He sighed, "Forget it, I'll tell you after class."

Shen Sinian was puzzled. "Okay."

He withdrew his gaze from him and turned to Xu Chuning, "Ningning."

Xu Chu Ning closed the English book and turned to look at him, "What's wrong?"

Shen Sinian lowered his voice and asked, "Why did Shen Yubai come to see you at noon?"

He wanted to ask during lunch break, but other students were resting at that time, so he didn't want to disturb them, so he held back. Later, he fell asleep on the table.

"..."

Xu Chuning didn't expect Shen Sinian to be so curious about this matter. She said, "Nothing. Tell me about my mother."

Shen Sinian lowered his eyes and said seriously, "What's wrong with Aunt You? Isn't there any problem with the report?"

Seeing his nervous look, Xu Chu Ning smiled softly, "It's really alright, don't worry, he just told me the advice given by the experts, asking me to keep an eye on my mom and pay more attention to her."

Hearing this, Shen Sinian breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay as long as you're fine."

After he finished speaking, he muttered again, "But he could have said this to our faces."

This isn't a big secret either.

Why is Shen Yubai being so mysterious?

Xu Chuning paused for a moment, and for some reason, did not tell Shen Sinian that Shen Yubai played the piano for her.

She hummed vaguely, "It's time for class."

Shen Sinian nodded in confusion, still not understanding why Shen Yubai couldn't talk about You Shuzhen's matter in front of everyone, but instead called Xu Chuning to another place to talk quietly.

……

Xu Chuning did not pay too much attention to what Shen Sinian was thinking. When class started, she put away all her wandering thoughts and focused on listening to the lecture.

After the class, Xu Chuning and Deng Xitong got up and went to the bathroom.

When she entered the restroom, she happened to hear some classmates discussing, "Did you hear about this?"

"what?"

"During the lunch break, Shen Yubai from the international class went to the art building with a girl."

"What? Is this true? What are they doing in the art building?"

"Who knows? What else can a man and a woman do in an art building where no one is there during class time?"

"No way, Shen Yubai is in love?"

Hearing this, Xu Chuning paused. Deng Xitong beside her also widened her eyes, turned to look at her, and asked silently: They are not talking about you, are they?

Before Xu Chu Ning could even open her mouth to answer, she heard even more explosive gossip, "What should Shen Sinian do then?! Aren't they having an affair?"

Xu Chuning: “…”