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

"No need, I'll just go to my dorm and lie down for a while."

Xu Su's voice was a little hoarse, and her throat hurt terribly every time she spoke. She put the keys in her pocket, got up to go out, and saw Xi Zirong standing motionless in front of her.

Looking up at him, she said patiently, "You should go eat too. I know the way to the dorm."

Xi Zirong didn't move, but instead frowned as she looked at her, "Your cold is very serious, you need to take medicine, it's not advisable to tough it out."

The boy's clear voice sounded very serious. Xu Su didn't understand why they, who usually didn't interact much and hadn't exchanged more than a few words in the two or three months since the start of the semester, were suddenly picking a fight with her.

Recently, the temperature has dropped and many students in the class have caught colds, but I haven't seen him go around urging them to take their medicine!

Xu Su pulled out a few loose bills from her pocket, the largest denomination being five yuan. "Does the class monitor even care whether I take my medicine or not?"

She opened the money and counted it in front of Xi Zirong; it was nine yuan and fifty cents.

Her face showed no trace of the inferiority complex one might feel at someone her age for being poor: "See this? This is all the money I have on me. Do you think it's enough to buy medicine? Right now, I just want to lie down and sleep for a while. Can you move aside?"

Already sleep-deprived and suffering from a sore throat due to illness, Xu Su was exhausted after speaking for a long time. She swayed and her arm was immediately supported by someone.

Xi Zirong reached out and grabbed her arm, letting go only when she was steady: "You probably don't know, but we don't have to pay for medicine at our school clinic. If you want to sleep, you can get your medicine first before you go to sleep."

Xu Su, unaware of this, stared wide-eyed and asked, "Really?"

Perhaps due to a cold and fever, the girl's cheeks were flushed and her eyes were a little blurry.

Xi Zirong avoided eye contact, stepped aside to make way, and nodded to confirm, "Yes, Fu Jun went there last week. There's a flu outbreak recently, and our school offers this benefit... Can you walk by yourself?"

He hesitated for a moment before reaching out to help her up, clearly worried that Xu Su might lose her balance.

Xu Su waved her hand and refused his help: "No, if you help me out of this classroom, Teacher Wu will call us for tea by the afternoon at the latest. I can manage on my own, it's just a little cold."

Xu Su was quite happy. She hadn't expected that No. 1 High School not only had beautiful teaching buildings, but also cared so much about its students. She really loved it.

Based on her understanding of Chen Shulan and her husband, Xu Su knew that her minor symptoms were unnecessary for them to take medicine. Now that she had cold medicine instead of having to tough it out by drinking water, Xu Su was naturally not going to be dramatic and make things difficult for herself.

Xi Zirong withdrew her hand, seeing that she could indeed do it herself, and didn't say anything more.

The two walked out of the classroom. It was breakfast time, and the teaching building was empty.

The autumn sunlight wasn't very bright. The two walked side by side, their shadows overlapping. Xu Su glanced at them and inexplicably felt something was amiss, so she subconsciously separated herself a little.

"You haven't eaten yet either. Why don't you just tell me how to get to the infirmary and I'll go by myself?"

Xi Zirong kept walking and shook her head: "The infirmary is in a remote place, and it can't be explained in a few words. I'll take you there."

Xu Su then noticed that he was still holding her water cup in his hand.

As if noticing her gaze, Xi Zirong handed her a water glass: "Want some water? I just filled it up for you, thinking you'd need it to take your medicine later."

"..." Xu Su stiffly reached out and took the water glass he handed her, no longer caring when he had taken the water glass from her desk to fill it with water.

Even the slowest person would have noticed something was wrong.

"You..." He stammered for a long time, but still couldn't bring himself to ask.

An inexplicable atmosphere hung in the air, and the two of them tacitly remained silent.

The school clinic was indeed in a remote location. In her previous life, she had attended the No. 1 High School for three years and had never been there once. If Xi Zirong hadn't led the way, she might not have been able to find it.

On the way, I even ran into two classmates. Seeing them walking together, I thought they had discovered some big news, so I sneaked away and took a detour from a distance.

“…” Xu Su remained silent.

I really want to call them back and tell them that the way they walk so furtively is really unsightly.

Why does he look like he's been caught red-handed...? Xu Su felt inexplicably embarrassed and turned to look at the boy next to her.

Xi Zirong didn't seem to see her classmates, or perhaps she saw them but didn't care. Her face showed no emotion. When she saw Xi Zirong looking over, she reassured her, "We'll be there soon. Just turn the corner ahead."

That calm and composed demeanor made Xu Su doubt herself. Why was she, a woman with the mental age of thirty, not as composed as a high school student? It seemed that even her mindset had been affected by the school environment when she was sixteen.

We finally arrived at the infirmary.

The small office had an iron shelf against the wall with some medicines on it, and a single bed in the far corner, separated by a curtain.

Although it looks somewhat simple, it has all the necessary parts.

The school doctor in the infirmary was a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties. He was carrying a bowl of porridge and was about to start eating when he saw the person who came in.

He put down the porridge, pointed to the stool opposite him, and said, "Is anyone sick? Please sit down."

Xu Su sat down, touched her throat and said, "I had a stuffy nose and a sore throat when I woke up this morning. I didn't cough, but my throat hurt a lot and my voice was a little hoarse."

The school doctor took out a clean cotton swab and a flashlight, and came over to say, "Open your mouth."

"Your tonsils are a bit inflamed." He then took a thermometer from a clear glass jar on the table, shook it a couple of times, and handed it over: "Let me take your temperature."

The water cup in her hand was taken away. The boy standing beside her raised his chin, indicating that she should take her temperature properly.

Seeing this, the school doctor raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

"..."

The last time Xu Su was this speechless was the last time.

Ten minutes later, after confirming that she had no fever, Xu Su left the infirmary carrying three boxes of cold medicine prescribed by the school doctor.

Xu Su was about to go back to her dorm to rest for a while when she saw that this person was still planning to follow her. She couldn't stand it anymore: "Class is about to start. You should go back."

"Okay, I'm going to get some breakfast." The dormitory and the cafeteria are in the same direction.

Thinking that the person hadn't eaten breakfast and had led her all that way to the infirmary, Xu Su belatedly felt a little embarrassed. "What would you like for breakfast? I'll treat you to it as a thank you for taking me to get my medicine."

"How could I let a patient treat me? You don't need to thank me. Just don't always take your anger out on me." Xi Zirong seemed to be laughing, her voice was soft and somewhat pleasant.

Help! She seems to be being flirted with.

Although she had never been in a serious relationship, Xu Su wasn't stupid. This class monitor usually seemed indifferent and never looked at anyone differently. Why was he acting like he had taken the wrong medicine today?