Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Now that he's made the decision to break up with Xi Zirong, what right does he have to stop other girls from pursuing him?

Xu Su knows how outstanding Xi Zirong is, so it's normal for someone to like her.

Xu Suzhen never expected that Gu Yunjia, whom she considered a friend, would question her in public like this for Xi Zirong's sake.

It still feels a bit like being betrayed...

Whether the two parties involved were willing or not, what happened in the cafeteria that afternoon spread throughout the campus at lightning speed.

The general public, including but not limited to students, teachers, and perhaps some school leaders, have all heard about it.

After all, this is not only the romance between the academic genius and the school beauty, but also the romance between the top student and the second-best student in the senior year.

Anyone who has followed them knows how good their relationship is and how obsessed Xi Zirong is with love, since she never knows how to restrain herself.

A student from another class once passed by the Rocket Class and saw the way Xi Zirong looked at Xu Su, and exclaimed that he now believed in true love!

Xu Su and Xi Zirong's relationship was widely recognized as true love, which led most people to firmly believe that the news was a rumor when it first spread in the cafeteria.

For the next few days, the two parties ate separately, and even the students in the Rocket Class noticed that Xu Su and Xi Zirong hadn't exchanged a single word in those two days.

So, it took three days for the news that the top student and the second-ranked student in the grade had broken up to be basically confirmed.

During breaks from studying, the students' after-dinner conversations shifted from whether Xi Zirong and Xu Su had broken up to what the reasons were for their breakup.

Some say that it was because they were in their final year of high school, and in order to focus on their studies, the two painfully broke up.

Some say that the teachers and school leaders intervened, after all, they are the top two students in the grade, and if their college entrance examination scores are affected, the school will suffer a huge loss.

Some people say that perhaps Xu Su's parents found out about this, since it's a public fact that Xu Su initiated the breakup.

There were all sorts of speculations, but no one guessed that the reason for the breakup was that one of them had fallen out of love.

After all, Xu Su and Xi Zirong kept their distance from all the opposite sexes at school and never gave anyone a second glance.

Many people even went out of their way to ask Qian Jia and Huang Feng if they, as best friends, knew the reason for the breakup.

Huang Feng complained repeatedly, thoroughly annoyed, and even she wanted to know why...

Unlike Xu Su and Xi Zirong, who had barely spoken a few words to each other in the past few days, Gu Yunjia, Xu Su's deskmate, turned around many times more often in the past few days.

Either he couldn't figure out the formula for a math problem, or he was stumped by a physics test, and he would always turn around and ask Xi Zirong for help.

Xi Zirong would simply write down the answer for any classmate who came to ask her for help, and if they still didn't understand, she would ask again.

He treated Gu Yunjia's questions the same way, writing out the answers for her.

But this little girl was very persistent. She loved to use an admiring and expectant tone, along with her starry-eyed fangirl eyes, to ask questions that drew inferences from one instance to another.

I often bring Xi Zirong a bottle of soda and a bag of snacks, saying it's a thank you gift for helping me with my homework...

After a few days, Gu Yunjia's intentions, which she never intended to hide, were completely exposed, and everyone knew that she had feelings for Xi Zirong.

Gu Yunjia is quite pretty; she was the class beauty before. After the division into arts and sciences classes, she entered the advanced class, so she lost the title of class beauty. But as long as you don't compare her to Xu Su, her looks are indeed quite good.

The saying goes, "It's easy for a girl to pursue a boy," and everyone in our class, including those from other classes, was secretly watching and wondering when Gu Yunjia would succeed and win the heart of the academic genius.

These two people, one was Xu Su's deskmate and the other was her seatmate. Gu Yunjia's pursuit of Xi Zirong was already quite a big deal, and Xu Su inevitably witnessed the whole process.

These past few days, Xu Su has been unable to study properly during evening self-study sessions, passively listening to Xi Zirong explain problems to Gu Yunjia.

This reminded Xu Su of what Qian Jia had said. Qian Jia's considerations were not without merit. Perhaps she really should talk to Teacher Wu about changing her seat.

She couldn't stop Gu Yunjia from showing affection for Xi Zirong, nor did she have the right to tell Xi Zirong to ignore other girls.

But what's the point of letting her listen to her ex-boyfriend and the girl who likes him having such close contact every day...?

Xu Su admitted that she was quite unhappy, although she had no right to be unhappy.

So she decided to avoid seeing it and thought she would bring up the matter of changing seats with Mr. Wu when he was in a good mood.

Ever since she lashed out at Xu Su in the cafeteria, Gu Yunjia hasn't greeted Xu Su at all these past few days, and occasionally she can hear Xu Su talking sarcastically to her friends.

Unlike Xu Su, who dislikes interacting with people, Gu Yunjia is quite popular in class.

During breaks, groups of three or five girls would often huddle together and chatter. Sometimes when Xu Su passed by, the girls would deliberately raise their voices or simply remain silent.

...In short, it has a bit of a clique-forming, isolationist feel to it.

If Xu Su were truly an eighteen-year-old high school student, she might genuinely experience the discomfort of being isolated.

However, during her four years of university in her previous life, she spent most of her time alone, only having some daily interactions with a few girls in her dormitory.

Xu Su, who was used to being alone, felt that isolation had no impact whatsoever.

Besides, she also has Huang Feng and Qian Jia.

These past few days, Huang Feng has been coming to the Rocket Class every day after school to wait for Xu Su and Qian Jia to go to the cafeteria for dinner. They are afraid that Xu Su will feel uncomfortable, so they tacitly avoid mentioning Gu Yunjia and Xi Zirong, and only keep talking about interesting things in other classes.

Huang Feng, being the know-it-all, had heard about Gu Yunjia forming cliques even though she was in another class.

But Gu Yunjia and the others were only secretly targeting him, and Huang Feng had no way to rush into the Rocket Class to stand up for Xu Su. All she could do was complain in solidarity with the enemy.

The cafeteria has a new dish this week: minced meat hot and sour noodles.

As soon as Xu Su entered the cafeteria, she smelled the sour and spicy aroma, and her mouth watered involuntarily after not having eaten spicy food for so many days.

Xu Su pulled her arms away from her two friends, interrupting Huang Feng who was still criticizing Gu Yunjia's crimes, "Stop talking about that, I'm going to get some hot and sour noodles."

She walked excitedly toward the window selling hot and sour noodles, completely forgetting about the rumors between Gu Yunjia and Xi Zirong.

The cafeteria was crowded, and the line at the hot and sour noodles window was even longer. Huang Feng and Qian Jia were also planning to try it, so the three of them decided to have hot and sour noodles for lunch.

So the group divided the work: Xu Su queued up to buy hot and sour noodles, Huang Feng queued up to buy fried chicken legs, and Qian Jia went to buy soda.

Qian Jia was the fastest. After buying the soda, she skillfully reserved three seats, waiting for Huang Feng to come back with the fried chicken legs so she could pick up Xu Su's hot and sour noodles.