Hong Kong 1980: Me and the Queen Swapped Clothes

Fang Yanmei secretly glanced at Wang Zuxian beside her. Sure enough, there was no unusual expression on her face. She was obviously used to this kind of scene. Or perhaps in her heart, it didn't matter whether these people looked at her or not. She only cared about how late Li Mengdie would be.

While Wang Zuxian was intently peeking at the crowd, Fang Yanmei was trying to break the icy silence between them: "Xiaoxian."

"Huh?" Joey Wong turned her head.

Fang Yanmei suddenly fell silent. Faced with such a beautiful face, she suddenly felt that the topic she had prepared was not interesting enough, so she forced herself to ask, "Is there anything you like?"

"What I like is playing ball." Wang Zuxian remained carefree. She had spent enough time with Qin Weiming and their relationship was good, so she didn't think about anything else. Besides, Wang Zuxian couldn't quite explain her feelings for Qin Weiming yet, so she naturally viewed him through a biased lens.

"Oh, is there anything else you particularly like? I mean, like watching movies or playing games, something we can do together." Fang Yanmei was already trying her best, but just saying this prepared sentence made her feel a layer of sweat on her back.

"If you're talking about this, I have indeed thought about it, but, Ah Ming, I seem to remember that you're not very interested in this kind of thing." Wang Zuxian looked at Fang Yanmei. She knew Fang Yanmei's habits, and now Fang Yanmei's way of probing her was too obvious, making it difficult for her to pretend not to know.

"Me? Did I? I thought we always chatted like this before." Fang Yanmei was embarrassed. She didn't expect to be exposed so quickly, and couldn't help but change the subject.

Seeing Qin Weiming's embarrassed appearance, Wang Zuxian was very understanding. She felt that she shouldn't make Fang Yanmei too embarrassed, especially since she was just trying to find something to talk about and hadn't done anything wrong.

"What have you been busy with lately? I feel like you've been acting strange." Wang Zuxian asked Fang Yanmei directly, without mincing words, why she felt something was off about Fang Yanmei lately.

Fang Yanmei could only complain to herself that if she and Qin Weiming hadn't suddenly switched bodies, she wouldn't have ended up here. However, she still honestly said, "Actually, I didn't do anything. I've been doing my homework at home."

"Homework? We're all going to Guoguang School, why are you still doing homework from the previous school?" Wang Zuxian didn't understand.

Fang Yanmei looked at Wang Zuxian with disbelief. She hadn't expected this tactic and immediately asked, "Don't your parents force you to do your homework?"

"No, my parents will just cover for me with the teacher, saying I'm busy practicing ball and therefore don't need to do my homework." Wang Zuxian smiled and narrowed her eyes. She was happy to see Qin Weiming looking so embarrassed in front of her.

Fang Yanmei felt nothing but endless envy, jealousy, and hatred. She never imagined that there was such a lucky person as Wang Zuxian in this world, who didn't have to do homework at all, and whose parents would cover for her. Just thinking about it, Fang Yanmei knew that such a thing could never happen to her.

She couldn't help but sigh. She realized that she hadn't thought about these things when she was talking to Joey Wong earlier, but now that Joey Wong had finished speaking, she suddenly felt that all her previous thoughts had become useless: "I had thought before that maybe I didn't have to do it, but my mother said that I had to do the homework assigned by the school. Homework is for myself, not for the school. You can fool others, but you can't fool yourself, so I still have to do it."

"What that aunt said makes a lot of sense, but my mom said that as long as I study hard, I can do my homework whenever I want and not do it when I don't want to, because my brain is something I'm born with, and I won't become smarter just by practicing more. I'd rather use that time to play ball and exercise more so that I can have a healthy body to cope with life and work in the future."

Joey Wong recounted her mother's teachings, which were the exact opposite of what Fang Yanmei said.

"They really are two different family education philosophies, but I prefer your mother's philosophy," Fang Yanmei said immediately.

Wang Zuxian gave her a disgruntled look: "I think you just don't want to do your homework. You'd better do it properly. If it weren't for my ball game, my mom wouldn't be so easy to talk to. In fact, she usually assigns me other homework."

"Sigh, I don't want to do so much homework either." Fang Yanmei was very frustrated. She had been here for five days, and all she could do was do homework. There was nothing else to do.

Looking back on her time in Hong Kong, where she spent her days attending classes, Fang Yanmei almost missed her old life. Although she had to work hard every day to earn a living, at least she didn't have to do homework with her eyes open and her teacher closed like she does now.

After a month of this, Fang Yanmei felt that she never wanted to study again for the rest of her life. It was just too hard. It was a kind of hardship that involved purely mental labor, which was completely different from the purely physical labor she used to do.

"I think you're quite good the way you are now. You always gave me a feeling of being too mature before." However, Joey Wong had a different opinion. She felt that Fang Yanmei's current feeling was just right.

"Really?" Fang Yanmei was a little skeptical.

Joey Wong nodded seriously: "Really, I always thought you were very different from your peers, but now that I see you not wanting to do your homework, you're just like my former classmates."

"Perhaps it's because you knew Ah Ming back then, but now you know me, Fang Yanmei." Fang Yanmei felt a slight resonance with Wang Zuxian's words. In fact, she had thought so too. Compared to others, she felt that she was not mature enough compared to Qin Weiming in the past.

Although it sounds strange to say it like this, she really feels that she is not as mature as Qin Weiming in many ways.

Therefore, when Joey Wong expressed these feelings, it was as if she was simply stating her innermost thoughts.

Fang Yanmei didn't speak, and Wang Zuxian thought she was a little unhappy, so she quickly looked at her expression and asked, "Ah Ming, why are you suddenly not saying anything?"

"I just think you're right. I used to think I was a bit too precocious, um, but it's still weird to say that to myself." Fang Yanmei imitated Qin Weiming's tone, successfully making Wang Zuxian laugh. She felt that Qin Weiming had been acting strangely lately, but he was still so daring when it came to joking about her: "Mengdie seems to be here. I waved to her."

A tall girl strode through the crowd. She was in the same group as Joey Wong, so she was naturally quite tall. As she walked down the street, she immediately caught Fang Yanmei's attention.