CH 5

Tang Cuo stayed with Wen Ying for two hours, and when he returned to the dormitory, he was no different than usual, and he could laugh and joke with his roommates.

After two rounds of blackout, He Zhong strolled through the school’s forum and discovered a post at the top of the top ten—no need to envy other teachers anymore!

He told Tang Cuo after clicking on it, “This world of looking at faces is truly hopeless. Teacher Tang has just finished a class, and he is firmly at the top of the top ten list.”

Tang Cuo was wiping his flute when He Zhong said this. when he suddenly panicked and slammed the flute down hard on the table. When He Zhong heard the sound, his heart sank, and he dropped the mouse and ran over, saying, “Hey, what are you doing?” There was a small hole on the silver flute. Despite its small size, anyone who knows how much the flute costs would have to shed blood.

Tang Cuo, on the other hand, didn’t even look at it, dropped the flute, and turned around to sit in front of He Zhong’s computer.

Tang Xu was photographed in class from every angle in the post. Except for the photos, the post contains no other content. There are floor1after floor of compliments, and what’s more, there are boys praising Tang Xu’s figure and appearance.

He Zhong wiped Tang Cuo’s flute, set it aside, and walked over to lean beside him and said, “Class representative, do you know how many people envy you?”

Tang Cuo showed no expression. He dropped the mouse and said, “There’s nothing to envy.”

After finishing speaking, he climbed onto the bed amid He Zhong’s “Hey”, laid down, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

Tang Xu took Tang Cuo’s phone number on the day of dinner, but he never contacted Tang Cuo. Tang Cuo would look at his phone with anticipation and fear every night before going to bed. He would slowly fall asleep clutching his phone, after confirming that there had been no news or calls from Tang Xu today. But he couldn’t sleep most of the time, and when he couldn’t sleep, he wondered if the reunion between him and Tang Xu only turned his world upside down in his heart but didn’t startle the slightest wave in the other’s heart.

Tang Xu’s assignment has been assigned from the second class of the automatic control class, which is held twice a week. Each lesson has limited content in order to familiarise students with the formula theorem. Tang Cuo hoped that no students would turn in their homework late, so that he could handle all of the assignments at the end of the class without having to go to Tang Xu’s office alone.

Unfortunately, some of his classmates are always too lazy to copy their homework in class and have to put it off until they have to hand it in.

Tang Cuo had to make an extra trip to see Tang Xu every time. But there seems to be an advantage—he discovered that slowly, he no longer has such a strong feeling when he sees Tang Xu, as if they were just teacher and student.

The other teacher in the office was not present that day, and there were only two of them in the room. Tang Cuo placed the assignments on Tang Xu’s desk. Tang Xu took out a piece of candy from the drawer and handed it to him as if he had coaxed a child, and said,” Your reward, the wedding candy of other teachers. I saw there was one you liked to eat, so I took a piece.”

Looking at the candy lying flat on the palm of Tang Xu’s hand, Tang Cuo was stunned for a moment and did not move.

This piece of candy is too familiar to Tang Cuo. He didn’t like candy because he always had a toothache, but this brand of orange-flavoured gummies had a very low sweetness. Tang Cuo didn’t get a toothache from eating it, and he thought it was very delicious. At that time, Tang Xu really loved him. There was always a large box of candy in the house, all of which was the same and not a single piece of another.

Tang Xu raised his eyebrows when he didn’t respond and asked, “Why, don’t you like this now?”

The hand hanging by his side clenched into a fist, and Tang Cuo lowered his eyes and said, “I like it.”

He raised his hand after speaking and held the orange-flavored gummy candy in his hand.

“Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you, is the tooth still hurts?”

“…It doesn’t hurt anymore.”

“That’s great.” Tang Xu smiled, set down his water glass, and picked up the top one of the pile of homework books, and after giving Tang Cuo the piece of candy, he said, “Since you said before that you don’t blame me, then do you want to change your name back? I really don’t like it.”

He was well aware of Tang Cuo’s life experience and past, and he didn’t want Tang Cuo to have anything to do with them.

However, Tang Cuo shook his head firmly. “No, it’s too much trouble, and this name… is quite special. It can make people remember me.”

Tang Xu said nothing more after seeing him like this: “Okay, as long as you like it. The name is just a symbol anyway.” Tang Xu flipped through Tang Cuo’s homework and said with a smile, “For half the class of sixty students to be just like you2. Your camaraderie must be really good, huh.”

Tang Cuo has nothing to say, since he didn’t copy it anyway.

Tang Xu said, “If you do your homework so well, why are you so inactive in class? Next time you sit in front of me, every time a question is asked, no one takes the initiative to answer. You will be my trustee from now on, and you’ll answer when I ask a question, got it?”

Looking at the way he joked, Tang Cuo pursed his lips and bent the corners of his mouth, and he nodded, “Got it.”

After leaving the office, Tang Cuo wasn’t willing to eat that candy. He put it in his pocket as if he were carrying some treasure.

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rue: double updates! Happy reading~

The floor is refer to comments or replies under the post.

It basically means half of the sixty students copied Tang Cuo assignment.