“Lend me a pen.”
In the last row of the 12th class of the first year of high school, Qin Chu pinched Qin Shiwu’s neck.
Qin Shiwu screamed, “Where do I have a pen!”
His desktop was blank and could basically be used as a mirror.
Ji Rang took out a few pens from his desk compartment, and after he wrote twice, they ran out of ink.
“I have pens, but they have no ink.”
Qin Chu took a look and said, “I don’t want black ones.”
Ji Rang, “Do you want red ones? I have a few red refills, but no casings. So you have to put on a casing yourself.”
Qin Chu took the red refill, “No need to put it in a casing. It is just to change two words.”
Qin Shiwu was very curious, “What are you changing?”
He turned his head and saw that Qin Chu was using the red refill to change the score on the report card.
Qin Shiwu’s eyes widened, “Are you changing your score?”
Sixteen years in the past, the test report cards of the Provincial No. 1 High School were handwritten by the teacher, not digitally. As long as there was a red pen, the scores on the report card could be turned around.
Qin Shiwu saw that his father was very serious in correcting the score, and he was speechless.
Above all else, if anyone saw the deputy general manager of Zhongkong Haiyang correcting his own report card in school when he was young, they would be shocked.
Ji Rang reminded him, “Don’t you think what you changed is obvious?”
Qin Chu, “It doesn’t matter. Just need to deal with the old man.”
He knew his limits. Instead of giving himself a ridiculous score in the 700s, he had simply added two strokes to the “1” so the score became a “4.”
After making the change, Qin Chu glanced toward the door of the classroom and caught sight of Qin Heng standing outside.
He didn’t want to see Qin Heng. So, after seeing him from a distance, he immediately stood up and left through the back door.
Qin Shiwu called out briefly, “Dad……”
But Qin Chu had already disappeared without a trace.
Qin Heng walked into the classroom, and the two students in charge of reception in front of him asked, “Hello, may we help you……”
Qin Heng said, “I am the parent of Qin Chu and Qu Muyao.”
The two looked at each other.
Qin Heng asked, “Is this the 12th class of first years? Qin Chu’s class?”
The two nodded, “Qin Chu’s seat is at the back, and Qu Muyao’s is next to his.”
Qin Heng thanked the two students and walked straight to the back.
During parent-teacher conferences, the classroom was required to be cleared.
Most of the students who were assigned to greet the parents chose to stay in the dormitory and not come out. There were also a small number of people who wanted to take advantage of this gap to run out on dates or do other things, and they would wander around the campus.
However, the more relaxed the situation was, the stricter the school would be.
Director He of the political and educational department personally patrolled, and it was more difficult to go on a date than to ascend to the sky.
When Qin Heng came, there were already many parents in the 12th class of the first years.
The students who received the parents were responsible for pouring hot water, and the parents picked up the test papers and homework books on the table and began to flip through them.
Neither Qin Shiwu nor Ji Rang’s parents came. They could be considered brothers in hardship[footnote]fellow sufferers / in the same boat[/footnote] and it was hard to differentiate between the elder and younger brother[footnote]fig. one is just as bad as the other[/footnote]. And they did not go back to the dormitory. They sat in the back of the classroom and made jokes.
When Qin Heng came over, Qin Shiwu swallowed.
He looked up at Qin Heng, and for a moment, he was overwhelmed with emotions.
There’s a special bond between grandchildren and grandparents.
Qin Shiwu remembered that he was quite favored by Qin Heng. Qin Heng would buy him whatever he wanted and rarely refused.
Every year during the summer vacation, he would also go to Qin Heng’s estate to play. At that time, Qin Heng was already in a state of semi-retirement, and most of the affairs in the group were in the hands of Qin Chu. He was alone at home playing with his grandson and nurturing his years[footnote]enjoying his old age[/footnote].
Qin Shiwu had never seen Qin Heng’s appearance when he was young.
In his memory, Qin Heng’s temples were gray.
Ji Ran secretly glanced at Qin Heng a few times from the back and saw that after Qin Heng had sat down, like other parents, he began to read Qin Chu’s test papers.
— — He didn’t read the score at all. Poor Qin Chu worked so hard to change it.
The more Qin Heng looked at it, the deeper his brows frowned.
Qin Shiwu had a bad premonition, and he didn’t know why he had a feeling of a disaster brought upon fish in the pond[footnote]to be caught in the crossfire/to be an unintended victim[/footnote]. So, he quietly informed Ji Rang and slipped through the back door.
Moreover, it was also too stressful to be near Qin Heng.
His tricks were more than enough to deceive Qin Chu and Lu Tong. But was it enough to deceive Qin Heng?
Qin Shiwu remembered his grandfather’s shrewdness — — Perhaps it would not be enough.
After Qin Chu had run out of the class, he wandered around the school idly.
Passing through the corridor, he met Lu Tong under the eaves.
At this time, the lights in the classroom were already on, and the parent-teacher meeting had officially begun. There was nothing for the students to do.
“You didn’t go back to the dormitory?”
He suddenly asked.
Lu Tong was obviously thinking about something but was interrupted by Qin Chu. He turned around and said, “No. I have to send my mother off at the end of the meeting.”
He gave an explanation for the first time.
Qin Chu took out his mobile phone, “Wanna play a game?”
Lu Tong, “No.”
Qin Chu leaned on the railing next to him, and while he appeared to be playing a game, his eyes were actually on Lu Tong.
He rarely had such a peaceful time with Lu Tong.
The other party had something in his heart, so he didn’t pay much attention to him but looked at the restaurant in the distance in a daze.
There was a small secluded balcony on the far left of the fourth floor. It was an isolated place. It was just in the middle of the two media classes of the second and first years. It was a holy place for students to go on dates.
The two of them were now standing on the small balcony. In addition, there were some other couples on the small balcony too. Some of them were bold enough to snuggle together, and some of them were courageous enough to quietly hold hands.
There was a vast expanse of space in front of this small balcony, with no buildings. There was a solitary hotel in the distance, which was flashing with light and looking rather lonely.
Qin Chu played the game for a while, “It’s so boring if you don’t talk.”
Lu Tong confessed, “I am originally a boring person.” He said, “If you want to act clingy, go find someone else. Don’t come to me to make trouble.”
Qin Chu argued strongly for what was right, “Who is acting clingy?”
He remembered Lu Tong’s drunken appearance a few days ago and complained in his heart: Obviously, you are more skilled in acting clingy.
Lu Tong did not answer anymore but looked ahead.
Qin Chu leaned against the railing with interest, turning his head sideways and staring at him, “What’s wrong with you?”
Lu Tong did have something in his heart, but this did not mean that he wanted to share it with Qin Chu. He felt annoyed when he saw Qin Chu’s face. This mood came out of nowhere, and it was hard to manage.
Qin Chu suddenly realized, “You didn’t fall in love with me, right?”
Lu Tong glanced at him, “You came all the way to find me?”
Qin Chu, “Don’t get all enraged just because I hit the nail on the head. It’s normal to fall in love with me. Nothing to be ashamed of.” Then he asked, “How’s your body?”
Lu Tong’s body was covered with a lot of suppressants, and most people couldn’t detect his pheromone.
In addition, when he was an alpha before, the smell of his pheromones was not very obvious, so no one noticed anything strange. But he had made special preparations because Lin Siyin came.
Lu Tong hadn’t confessed about his secondary gender to his family yet. Because, as soon as he admits it, he will be greeted with endless troubles.
“It’s okay. I won’t die just yet.” Lu Tong’s heart was really confused. He was desperate and tried all kinds of treatments. Under the seductive night, he actually confided in Qin Chu, “I didn’t tell my mother about the secondary gender.”
Qin Chu raised his eyebrows, “You didn’t tell them such a big thing?”
“What if I tell them?” Lu Tong said, “Can they solve it after I tell them?”
He and Qin Chu were so compatible. Even if he told his parents, what could they do?
Just like Lu Tong was facing, there were only two choices.
Either die or marry Qin Chu.
Setting aside whether Lu Tong was willing or not — — If it was a matter of life and death, he might even compromise.
As for Qin Chu, he had a bright future; in that case, why would he do such an arduous and thankless task and sacrifice himself for others?
Thinking about this, Lu Tong suddenly remembered that Qin Chu seemed to have someone he liked.
During the midterm exam, he accidentally saw Qin Chu’s text messages on his phone. The other party was a girl who grew up with him abroad. More or less, they had become Qin Chu’s white moonlight.
He muttered in his heart: Qin Chu also has someone he likes? It’s hard to imagine.
There were no lights on the small balcony, and as the sky darkened, people became more and more invisible.
As for why this place was a holy place for couples to date, wasn’t it because of its conditions that were favored by nature?
Qin Chu suddenly said, “What’s the big deal? Didn’t I agree to help you? Why are you like the man of Qi who feared that the sky might fall[footnote]Once upon a time, in the State of Chi, during the Spring and Warrior Period (770 B.C.–221 B.C.), there was a very cowardly man who always let his strange imagination run away with him.
One day after supper, he sat down with a big cattail-leaf fan in hand to enjoy the cool breeze in the doorway of his home.
Suddenly, he said to himself, “What would we do if, one day, the sky fell in on us all?”
From that moment forward, he could not stop obsessing over this extremely remote possibility.
Upon noticing that he seemed on edge all the time, his friends started to worry about him.
After they learned the cause of his constant anxiety, his friends pleaded with him to forget about it. “Why do you trouble yourself with silly ideas like this? How could the sky collapse? Even if it were to happen, you wouldn’t be able to do anything to prevent it. So stop worrying about it!”
However, no matter what his friends said, he would not budge, and he continued to obsess over the possibility that the sky might come crashing down on his head one day.
Later, people created the idiom “Qirenyoutian” based on this story.
This idiom is used to tell people not to worry about unrealistic things.[/footnote]?”
Lu Tong thought calmly: You will help me now? But what about in the future? Do I have to rely on your pheromones for the rest of my life?
He suddenly felt that he was truly unlucky.
Why did he encounter all the low-probability events that no one else had encountered?
Lu Tong didn’t consider himself to have done anything wrong in his life. Surely he isn’t facing the concept of “divine retribution is unfailing[footnote]one is inevitably punished for one’s misdeeds[/footnote]”, right?
Lu Tong’s mood still didn’t improve.
Qin Chu paused, then said, “I heard people say……”
Although Lu Tong’s eyes were looking ahead, his attention was on Qin Chu.
The other party said brazenly, “Those omegas will be emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy when in heat. Is that what’s up with you now?”
Lu Tong：……
Qin Chu appeared very magnanimous. He smiled and showed two small eye teeth, “Renting out a handsome guy’s shoulder. Free parking for the first half-hour. After thirty minutes, it’s billed by the second. Twenty yuan per second. Want to lean on it?”
Lu Tong was so angry that he found it laughable, “Get lost.”
Perhaps he was really infected by the emotion. Lu Tong continued calmly, “Qin Chu, have you ever thought about your future?”
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