Chapter 78 Don’t
"Oh, this is really annoying. The National Day holiday is only four and a half days..."

"It's good enough if there is some release. Senior year doesn't have even three days."

"What are you going to do on your holiday?"

"What the hell, I want to be the first to fly, so I'll take this opportunity to learn! Did you see my motto? Work hard when you're young, and you'll benefit from it for the rest of your life. Don't waste your time!"

"Not bad, not bad. Sister really appreciates your spirit!"

During the break before evening self-study, Li Zhuangsheng and Zhu Zhixue were chatting and laughing. Zhu Zhixue looked at Li Zhuangsheng's motto and rubbed Li Zhuangsheng's dog head with a look of satisfaction on her face.

"Go away, go away. You still think of me as your sister. Are you older than me?" Li Zhuangsheng feigned anger and slapped Zhu Zhixue's hand away.

Zhu Zhixue straightened her already majestic chest and said, "I was born in March, so I must be older than you!"

Li Zhuangsheng was speechless for a moment and thought to himself, It’s very big, it’s really big.

"Alas, but studying also requires a combination of work and rest. Look at my hands, they are deformed!"

Zhu Zhixue fell on the table again with a "plop" sound, stretched out her hands with a sigh, and showed her fingers whose joints were a little deformed from years of holding a pen.

Li Zhuangsheng nodded sympathetically and consoled him: "It's really tragic, a lot of people have it... but you'll slowly recover after you graduate from high school, don't worry."

"Is your hand deformed?" Zhu Zhixue asked, "Let me see."

"I should be fine."

Li Zhuangsheng also opened one hand.

"Your hands are much better than mine...Are you not working hard enough?"

Zhu Zhixue directly held Li Zhuangsheng's hand, looked at it carefully, stroked it gently, and then snorted in dissatisfaction.

Li Zhuangsheng looked unnatural, he wanted to withdraw his hand, but then he felt that this was a bit too much. But this was indeed "not good", boys and girls should keep a distance.

He has always been relatively conservative. Because he loved reading since he was a child, he was too "precocious" and developed the awareness of "gender differences" at an early age, which resulted in a "mental imprint".

When he was in junior high school, he saw a boy borrow a girl's cup to drink water. He was very surprised and asked the two why they didn't mind. In the end, he was laughed at. Not only that, in his subconscious, pursuing a girl is to do something bad to her. It is an "immoral" and shameful thing, and it is disrespectful to women...

This sense of shame has been with him for more than 20 years and is the fundamental reason why he has remained single.

In fact, there is no need to be ashamed of love between men and women. It is a biological instinct. It is not wrong to pursue girls, and it is not "blasphemy" to have natural and ordinary physical contact with girls. There is no need to think too much about it. Only boys who "disrespect" girls will have girlfriends.

The logic is clear, but it is not easy to change the mindset of the past twenty years.

Calm down, please. You are in your twenties, how can you be more innocent than a teenager? Don't let your imagination run wild. This is just normal contact between classmates!
Li Zhuangsheng said to himself secretly.

"Wow, your hands are so big!"

Zhu Zhixue kept touching Li Zhuangsheng's hands, and Li Zhuangsheng's heart was slightly moved. He thought her hands were so soft and sticky, as if she had just applied hand cream.

"I'm a boy, it's normal to have big hands." Li Zhuangsheng's face was slightly hot, and he pretended not to care.

"Let's compare..."

Zhu Zhixue placed her hand on Li Zhuangsheng's hand, and her fingertips gently danced on Li Zhuangsheng's fingertips.

"It's indeed much bigger than my hand..."

"Have you had enough chatting? Do you remember all the words you misspelled today?" Lin Yuehua couldn't help but frown at Li Zhuangsheng.

"That's enough!" Li Zhuangsheng quickly retracted his hand and smiled apologetically at Zhu Zhixue, "I have to memorize some words now."

Zhu Zhixue pouted at Lin Yuehua with a hint of dissatisfaction, but didn't say anything. She just gave Li Zhuangsheng a look of "I'm sorry" and left in a huff. "Hey, were you chased back?" The girl at the same table teased with a smile.

"I don't want to disturb him from studying!" Zhu Zhixue said angrily.

My deskmate chuckled and pretended to sigh: "I was wondering why you suddenly asked me to borrow hand cream..."

"What's wrong with me? I just want to use it occasionally!"

"I want to use it sometimes," the classmate imitated with a smile, and wanted to touch Zhixue's little hand, "Look at your little hand, it's so tender..."

Zhu Zhixue dodged his hand, snorted, and turned away: "Humph, believe it or not, it's up to you!"

My deskmate glared at me and said, "You want Li Zhuangsheng to touch it but not me, right? Believe it or not, I won't lend it to you next time!"

"Ouch...what are you doing——"

Zhu Zhixue took her desk mate's arm and acted coquettishly.

"Don't give me that crap, you're a guy who values ​​women over friendship... Hey, I see that the school hunk and Lin Yuehua are getting along pretty well recently?"

"That's normal. He's a good person."

My deskmate grinned and said in a teasing tone: "Aren't you worried?"

Zhu Zhixue hesitated for a moment, then pouted: "What's there to worry about?"

Hu Mengdie is the one who is worrying, and Lin Yuehua...she is thin, has acne on her face, and has a bad temper. Who would like her!

……

"The monthly exam is tomorrow..." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his head and memorized the words, his thoughts wandering.

"Then you have to work hard, otherwise you will be assigned to the cafeteria next time after taking the exam this time..." Lin Yuehua raised the corner of her mouth, with a teasing tone in her voice.

At Xingpeng High School, the examination rooms for monthly exams, midterms and final exams are arranged according to the results of the previous exam. The best students take the exam in Class 1, and so on. Since the examination room cannot be as crowded as normal classes, the last three or four hundred students are assigned to the cafeteria.

"I guess I'll have to go to the cafeteria next time."

Li Zhuangsheng sighed helplessly. The ranking of this monthly exam depended on the final grades of the previous semester. His grades were pretty good then, so he was lucky to be ranked in Class 10 this time.

But with his current ability, he will probably have to spend the two days before the midterm exam in the cafeteria. Wow, it's embarrassing for the Sunshine Class to have to take the exam in the cafeteria...

"Actually, the cafeteria is not bad. At least the meals are fast and you can eat right after the exam. The dishes are all the freshest and I can even save a seat for you!" Li Zhuangsheng couldn't help but puff out his chest.

"You don't have to save a seat for me. Forget it this time. Study hard in the future and do well on the midterm exam. At least don't sit in the cafeteria next time!"

Li Zhuangsheng was confused: "You want me to leave the cafeteria in just one month? This is too much... You have to help me!"

Lin Yuehua's eyes flashed with anger, and she said coldly: "I'm not helping you, who can you blame? I asked you to take time out to study math at noon, but you refused!"

"I really can't do it at noon. I really have something to do..." Li Zhuangsheng scratched his face and coughed softly, "Ahem, if you really want to help me, why don't you come to my house during the National Day holiday?"

Lin Yuehua was stunned.

"You shouldn't have anything else to do during the holidays, so why don't you come to my house and teach me? My parents won't disturb us. At most, there will be one more person, Li Xiuyu, and she should be in her own room!"

"……I do not want."

Lin Yuehua adjusted her glasses and turned her face away.

(End of this chapter)