85 Peeled
In the end, he still marked those answers and Orange who was sitting behind him skillfully copied all the answers. He has heard that Lu Xuan had jumped ranks and even if all of the answers were not correct, some would surely be true.
As long as Orange didn’t get peeled by his father’s belt, he was ready to trample on his own dignity and copy Lu Xuan’s answers.
So what if he was copying Lu Xuan’s answers? His loyalty still belonged to Boss Han.
It was like sleeping with Lu Xuan but his heart still belonged to Han Zixin.
Two hours later, when the exam ended, the hallway of the school was bustling with the students holding the cardboard and their admit cards, discussing the answers to the question.
“I’m saying, Xin Ge, the fourth question’s answer was c!” Orange announced proudly as he saw Wei Xiao Hua and Chen Xi Jun discussing with Han Zixin about a particular answer.
“It is really c,” Chen Xi Jun said as he looked at Orange with narrowed eyes. “Orange did it hurt?”
“Hurt what?” Orange couldn’t understand what his buddy meant by the sentence.
“Your ass,” Wei Xiao Hua added.
“What happened to my ass?” Orange said as he tried to look at his ass in the window mirror that looked quite good to him. His ass didn’t look like a peach-like that of the pretty invigilator?
“You start studying. Does it mean your father’s belt has peeled your ass again?” Wei Xiao Hua said all of them began laughing.
“F*ck ass! F*ck study. I didn’t study. I copied the answers,” Orange proudly announced.
“Copied answers?” Wei Xiao Hua said. He was offended now. This Chen Xi Jun didn’t let him copy his answer sheet. “How did you copy the answer?”
“The teacher in our class was totally into the pretty invigilator,” Orange giggled as he looked here and there and then said in a whisper, “I’m telling you we will eat wedding candies soon. They were in each other’s ears all the time.”
Every teenager was interested in their teacher’s love story and these boys were no less.
“Were all your answers correct?” Han Zixin asked when he could no longer hold his curiosity. Even the little blockhead looked more enthusiastic about the question paper than him. At this moment, he didn’t know his fate… if he would be able to pass the exams… given how bad his exam was.
“Almost 50 per cent. I will pass,” Orange grinned. When he had come out of his examination centre, he had double-checked all these answers and almost fifty per cent of them were correct. Some he had copied from Lu Xuan and some he had merely guessed and some he had marked because he felt like marking those as he was getting a good vibe out of them.
“Who did you copy?” Han Zixin couldn’t help but ask. He was low key jealous of his buddy.
“Don’t you know boss Lu started studying?” Orange grinned. What he wanted to tell them was that he copied Lu Xuan but he failed to see their darkened glances.
And the next second he knew that he was kicked so fiercely that he was kissing mother earth.
“Motherfucker!” Orange cursed out loud when he saw Li Yu kicking him.
Yes, Li Yu had returned to school just like Lu Xuan. Unlike the latter, he was excited about the school. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“Where is your dignity, Orange! You copied Lu Xuan?! Lu Xuan, who is the reason I was suspended for a month and more? I fucking hate the guy,” Li Yu boomed and all the other three guys stood behind him in his support.
“I didn’t change camps, I only copied his answers,” Orange muttered but all four of them glared at him.
Once a betrayer, always a betrayer.
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“I think something is wrong with me,” Lu Xuan said as soon as he saw Gu Shangyan sitting on the borders of the old tree in the old playground eating a pie. This boy was obsessed with sweets.
“Are you dying?” Gu Shangyan asked as he wiped his mouth and raised his eyes to look at a sulky teenager.
Lu Xuan glared at him. “I attempted 50% of the maths paper. And I don’t want to get good grades. Give me a suggestion.”
Never had Gu Shangyan met someone who felt bad about getting good grades.
“I am only asked how to get good grades. I’m never asked the opposite,” Gu Shangyan chuckled when he felt how his life had been so boring.
“Well, I’m giving you a chance to be creative.” Lu Xuan glared at him.
“Why don’t you want good grades?” Gu Shangyan couldn’t help but ask.
“I don’t want my father to nitpick. He will be giving his usual sermon on how I can do better and truthfully, his disappointed look is better,” This was Lu Xuan’s answer and Gu Shangyan knew he was lying but he didn’t force the teenagers to speak the truth either.
“You are a twisted guy,” Gu Shangyan sighed. He draped an arm around the boy’s shoulder and said, “Let’s de-stress ourselves by a round of the game.”
Lately, he had been addicted to the game Lu Xuan played in a gaming cafe all day.
“At the usual?” Lu Xuan asked as he completely forgot about the exam and the stress he was under.
“The one and only, “Gu Shangyan smirked.
If his uncle found out that his nephew had been obsessed with a game, he was going to be proud of the guy who made his studious nephew see the first dawn of the real world.
Gu Yanxi had always wanted his nephew to play and befriend children his age but his nephew was born with facial paralysis, instead of a scowl and frown he wasn’t capable of showing any expression. Especially not a smile.
“Wait, I forgot my school bag with my buddies. Just give me a moment,” Lu Xuan said as he ran inside.
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