Adrian Xu and the League of Schools Chapter 9

After a moment of silence, Nathan Shao tried to explain: "Actually..." Actually it is like this.

Richard Meng interrupted again, and he raised his voice: "Don't worry, I've told you all! Am I the kind of teacher who doesn't respect the wishes of students? What do you think of me!"

...

"If I said I wouldn't let you two sit at the same table, I definitely wouldn't change seats for you two!"

Richard Meng no longer had the ambition he had a few days ago. The one-to-one plan was strangled in the cradle by Adrian Xu and Nathan Shao. Yesterday, a teacher who was concerned about the implementation of his plan came to ask, "How is the one-to-one plan you planned last time?"

Richard Meng sighed: "Not really, they don't seem to have the will to do so."

The teacher next door: "Really? I thought your idea was good..."

Richard Meng shook his head, not wanting to talk about the past again: "Especially Adrian Xu - asking him to change his deskmate was like asking for his life, saying something inappropriate, and the more he said, the more outrageous it became, and in the end he even said something like "forced". Tell me, was I forcing it? I was just discussing it with them."

The teacher next door was also amazed after hearing this.

Although Richard Meng felt sorry, he quickly adjusted his direction. He had to guide the students step by step and take a long-term view. If one-on-one teaching could not solve the problem, then let the teacher light himself up and become a beacon to illuminate the lost teenagers!

Although he didn't know how much the lost boy hoped that he could hold on a little longer, not respect the students' wishes too much, and be tough when necessary.

After Richard Meng finished sorting out the documents, he looked up and found that the two were still standing by the desk. The usually unruly Adrian Xu had an icy expression. He thought to himself that Adrian Xu spoke less today. Was he in a bad mood?

Nathan Shao seemed, well, much more friendly...

Just from the expressions of the two people, they seemed to have the same complicated emotions.

Richard Meng put down his pen: "Do you have anything else to do?"

Nathan Shao really wanted to turn around and leave.

Recalling the last time when he "would rather die than surrender" in the office, Adrian Xu felt a little reluctant to stay there.

The slap in the face came too quickly.

The harsher the words were at that time, the more painful my face is now.

If he could live his life again, he would like to go back to the day when Richard Meng arranged for him and Nathan Shao to be desk mates, and then say five words to Richard Meng: Teacher, I do.

But no matter how painful it is, there is no way to avoid being a deskmate.

Nathan Shao lowered his voice, tilted his head and said to Adrian Xu word by word: "You dug the hole yourself, fill it yourself."

Adrian Xu reminded: "Now you are Adrian Xu."

Nathan Shao: ...

Adrian Xu added: "I can say that, but you should think about it carefully."

The implication is that if he doesn't say this later, Adrian Xu will have to say it under the name of "Nathan Shao".

Nathan Shao had never been so embarrassed when doing any difficult math problems. After weighing the pros and cons, Nathan Shao closed his eyes and spoke reluctantly: "Teacher, we would like to sit at the same table."

Richard Meng just started counting the number of homework papers. The office was noisy. Nathan Shao said this coldly, but it still made him forget how many he had counted for a moment: "Ah, deskmate, okay... Wait a minute, what did you say?!"

Richard Meng was shocked when he realized what was happening: "You guys are going to sit at the same table?"

Cross the heart

After that hurdle, it was not difficult to say the following words. Nathan Shao repeated: "We want to change seats."

Richard Meng sat up straight, wondering if he had misheard: "Didn't you say it was inappropriate before?"

Nathan Shao said expressionlessly: "Suitable."

"Is there a destiny between people?"

"It's fate."
 
Richard Meng: "A forced melon is not sweet?"

"A forced melon," this sentence was too embarrassing, Nathan Shao paused before continuing, "How do you know if it's sweet if you don't try it?"

Richard Meng continued: "The feelings of the classmates who came reluctantly..."

Nathan Shao interrupted: "Don't force it."

...

Richard Meng looked at the students coming and going in the office. The teacher next door was talking to their class representative, "Next time, if they don't hand in their homework after being urged, don't waste your time. Don't collect their homework. Let them come to me directly. What kind of attitude is this? I will teach them a lesson." Only then did he regain some sense of reality: "Are you serious? Do you really want to be my deskmate?"

It couldn't be more serious.

The few words Nathan Shao had just spoken were already his limit. He lowered his eyes, reached behind Adrian Xu, and pinched him through a layer of school uniform where Richard Meng couldn't see.

Adrian Xu's psychological burden was not that heavy. After the embarrassment was over, he actually found the scene indescribably funny. He had never been good at standing properly, so he just leaned against the wall to listen to Richard Meng and Nathan Shao talking back and forth.

After being pinched unexpectedly, he finally said "Fcuk", stood up and took over the conversation: "Teacher, we are really not forcing each other. I have also figured it out. Adrian Xu really needs the help of an excellent deskmate like me on his learning path."

Richard Meng still had a bit of sanity left and remembered that Nathan Shao had said "trouble" at the time: "Don't you think it's troublesome?"

Adrian Xu: "No trouble."

Adrian Xu added: "How can it be troublesome? Isn't it normal for classmates to help each other and work together?"

Richard Meng was a little confused by the two, but he also found that the one-on-one plan was progressing inexplicably. He originally wanted the two to sit at the same table, so there was no reason to refuse now: "You have considered it carefully... OK."

He tore off the seating chart of Class 7 that was posted on the side, and used a pen to mark the back row of the first row and the back row of the second row: "Then Li Mingyong and Gao Zhibo will sit together."

After Adrian Xu finished his speech, he leaned back against the wall and thought to himself that Nathan Shao's deskmate was actually Gao Zhibo.

After Richard Meng finished marking, he asked again: "When will you two switch?"

Richard Meng meant that if you two were not in a hurry, you could change seats during lunch break. Class was about to start and it would be inconvenient to change seats. However, the two people in front of him could not wait and said, "Change now."

Class group of Class 7, Grade 2.

[Student A]: Big news.

[Student A]: I've gone crazy. I just went to the office to hand in my homework. Why did they treat me like this? I heard the school bully and the genius student asking to change seats in the teacher's office.

The students in Class 7 all knew that the two people were extremely incompatible after the lollipop incident, not to mention the incident last night when they fell to the ground due to "mutual fighting". Although this incident had not been publicized, it had already been spread privately within the grade group.

[Student B]: I understand. I am very impressed by their current mood and choice.

I understand that given the current situation of the school bully and the academic genius, they think they are too close to each other with only an aisle between them.

[Student C]: Yeah, fire and water cannot coexist. This aisle does look too narrow.

[Student D]: Do they want to span the entire class, from the beginning to the end?

[Student A]: No... they applied to sit together, sit together!!!

[Student B]: ??? Does the Warrior know what's going on? @Li Mingyong

[Li Mingyong]: ...I don’t know.

[Li Mingyong]: Really? There is such good news? I will soon see hope of survival?

No matter how heated the discussion in the class group was, the two parties involved were completely unaware of it.

When Adrian Xu and Nathan Shao entered the classroom, the only sound in the classroom was the sound of flipping books.

Gao Zhibo had also learned about the seat change, and the shy anticipation in his eyes quietly turned into disappointment.

Adrian Xu went over to pack up his things - there was actually nothing to pack up. Nathan Shao's seat was arranged as if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the textbooks and test papers of various subjects were placed on the table in different categories. Except for the English textbooks that Adrian Xu had messed up in the morning because he was looking for a vocabulary manual, everything else was too tidy.

Gao Zhibo didn't expect that he and the God of Learning would have to separate after only two days of being deskmates. The only souvenir was the piece of paper with the steps to solve the problem that the God of Learning handed to him in the morning. He mustered up the courage to call Adrian Xu: "...God of Learning."

Adrian Xu felt scared when he heard Gao Zhibo read these two words, fearing that Gao Zhibo would take out a question book from behind him and take advantage of this last opportunity to ask him a question that he couldn't understand at all.

Adrian Xu put the vocabulary booklet back, thought for a while, raised his hand and patted Gao Zhibo on the shoulder: "All good things must come to an end. After I leave, you must study hard."

Gao Zhibo was actually reluctant to leave. In fact, he didn't know what to say when he called Nathan Shao. He nodded when he heard it.

Adrian Xu: "Remember to think independently."

Independent thinking, this is the most important learning method he learned this year---Gao Zhibo nodded again.

Once Adrian Xu started talking, he couldn't stop. Due to his status as the school bully, no one dared to talk to him except Tyler Zhang's group. It was okay in the first year of high school, but after the class was divided, no one talked to him at all.

He tapped his fingers on the table and was about to say something else when he felt a sudden chill on the back of his neck.

Nathan Shao was behind him, his expression not very good. He reached out and hooked Adrian Xu's school uniform collar and pulled him back, his eyebrows and eyes were impatient: "Don't talk nonsense."

Adrian Xu held back the rest of his words: "...Oh."

To other people, this scene couldn't be more strange.

The class group, which had finally quieted down, exploded again.

[Student A]: ? ? ?!

[Student A]: I was choked.

[Student C]: Let me just say this. I have been wanting to say this for a long time. I don’t know if it is my illusion, but the school bully seems to be scarier today than before…

Adrian Xu was a very flamboyant "bad guy". He seemed to not care about anything. He would scratch his hair and lean back when he woke up from sleep in the middle of class. When the teacher went off topic during class and talked about something funny, he would laugh along. But after Nathan Shao became "Adrian Xu", it was more like he had engraved the words "No Trespassing" in the air within half a meter around him.

Compared to Gao Zhibo's reluctance to leave, Li Mingyong packed his things very efficiently.

Before Adrian Xu had finished moving his things, Li Mingyong had already put on his backpack and was waiting with his textbooks in his arms. He looked like he was running towards a happy new life. He even wanted to buy a gong and drum to bring good luck!

The class bell rang.

The first class in the morning: Chinese.

There was a burst of trivial and messy footsteps outside the corridor, all of which were students rushing back to class, and then it became completely quiet.

Adrian Xu sat down next to his original seat, and he and Nathan Shao became desk mates.

It really embodies the four words "things in the world are impermanent" to the fullest.

If it were Adrian Xu a few days ago, he would rather be beaten to death or jump off the teaching building than sit at the same table with this guy named Nathan Shao.

Adrian Xu was filled with emotion. He really didn't want to get too close to Nathan Shao, so he dragged his chair to the side and felt more comfortable.