Shattered Dreams and the Echoes of Youth Chapter 5

As long as boys don't have any serious flaws, they will look handsome with a little grooming, especially boys like Nathaniel Zhou who are tall and have beautiful eyes. In the past, he wore those silly-looking myopic glasses which covered most of Nathaniel Zhou's appearance. In addition, Nathaniel Zhou didn't like to dress up, so he didn't attract attention at school. Some people even called him a nerd and stupid in private. But today, he just dressed up a little and he looked eye-catching, especially with a neat shaved head, a white shirt, and a height of over 180cm.

Even in the high-pressure study environment of senior high school, there are still students who raise their heads to peek, and then exclaim. If it were in the past, Nathaniel Zhou would definitely say nothing and walk to his seat with his head down. But now, facing the astonished and envious eyes of his classmates, Nathaniel Zhou just responds with a smile. After all, such reactions from his classmates also show that his transformation was very successful.

The originally quiet study time became briefly noisy because of Nathaniel Zhou's arrival, and most students could take this opportunity to relax and talk to the students next to them.

"Nathaniel Zhou looks so handsome without glasses!"

"Yeah, he looks a bit like Yang Yang!"

"I think he's much more handsome than Yang Yang!"

The male star Yang Yang debuted in 2007. He has only been in the industry for two years and is not very well-known, so compared to that unknown little star, everyone thinks Nathaniel Zhou seems more handsome.

Especially when Nathaniel Zhou laughed just now, some girls' heartbeats inexplicably accelerated. You know, Nathaniel Zhou used to be the number one in the class, and now he has suddenly changed a lot, which is almost impeccable.

"Zhou Muchan, why did you take off your glasses?" As soon as Zhou Muchan returned to his seat, a girl behind him asked.

The girl behind was not pretty. She had a ponytail and wore glasses. In fact, except for one particularly outstanding girl in high school, most girls were the same. Just as Nathaniel Zhou always looked at Olivia Tang in front of him, the girl behind was also at the top of her class, but she always lagged behind Nathaniel Zhou.

She always made excuses to ask Nathaniel Zhou questions, and then secretly observed Nathaniel Zhou in her spare time, thinking that if only she could surpass Nathaniel Zhou one day.

Nathaniel Zhou was particularly different at noon today. It felt like he was originally an ordinary person like himself, but suddenly the distance between them had widened a lot.

Nathaniel Zhou smiled softly at the question from the girl behind him: "Nothing, I just want to change a little."

The girl pursed her lips slightly, thought for a long time and said: "This is indeed much more handsome than before."

"Is he handsome?" This sentence made Nathaniel Zhou interested, so he turned around and asked.

The sudden closeness made the girl blush a little. She was wondering whether she should change herself and let down her ponytail.

Nathaniel Zhou's change brought some life to Class 3-7, which only cared about studying every day. When the get out of class was over, a few girls found an excuse to come over and talk to Nathaniel Zhou. They were all very curious about why Nathaniel Zhou had suddenly changed so much.

Nathaniel Zhou just told the truth and said he wanted to change. Then a girl made a joke: "Are you in love?"

Then the remaining girls giggled, and Nathaniel Zhou stared at the girl and asked, "How about talking to you?"

This sentence made the originally cheerful girl instantly shy.

Nathaniel Zhou has indeed changed a lot. In the past, Nathaniel Zhou was a nerd who only knew how to study and even found it troublesome to talk to girls. But now, Nathaniel Zhou talks to girls in a humorous way and doesn't care about their teasing.

In just one afternoon, all the girls in the class seemed to be discussing Nathaniel Zhou. Even during class, the teacher would come over and look at Nathaniel Zhou in surprise.

Especially the female teacher, who took advantage of the gap between doing the test paper to walk in front of Nathaniel Zhou and look at him from left to right. At first, she didn't dare to look at him blatantly and could only look at him secretly when Nathaniel Zhou was doing the test paper.

Nathaniel Zhou's classroom was on the third floor. The emerald green leaves of the sycamore tree outside the window covered most of the window. Nathaniel Zhou sat by the window, with an upright posture, doing the test paper with a serious look on his face, like a character from a youth movie.

The teacher peeked over there for a long time before he couldn't help asking, "Are you Nathaniel Zhou?"

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"Hahaha~" After hearing the teacher's question, the students couldn't help laughing anymore.

Although the study pressure in the third year of high school is high, one always needs to relax occasionally. However, Nathaniel Zhou’s sudden change is still surprising. The head teacher couldn’t help but talk to Nathaniel Zhou and asked him how his life was recently.

"The college entrance examination is in two months. We'd better talk about anything after the exam." Nathaniel Zhou is a good student, and his head teacher Chen Zhongshi doesn't want to make it too clear, but Chen Zhongshi has also gone through adolescence, and he knows what sudden changes mean.

In the face of the class teacher's earnest advice, Nathaniel Zhou just nodded slightly and said, "Don't worry, teacher, it won't affect my studies."

Nathaniel Zhou is still Nathaniel Zhou, but Chen Zhongshi always feels something is weird, but he can't tell what's weird. Usually, when talking to Nathaniel Zhou, every word Nathaniel Zhou says is cautious.

That was the attitude of a student towards a teacher, called respect, but now Nathaniel Zhou was relaxed when facing Chen Zhongshi, and there was even a hint of indifference on the corner of his mouth.

Chen Zhongshi looked at Nathaniel Zhou for a long time, and finally nodded and said, "Go back to class first."

So Nathaniel Zhou turned and left.

After four classes in the afternoon, there were always girls asking Nathaniel Zhou questions under various pretexts. Nathaniel Zhou would always say awkwardly, "Actually, I don't know how to do it either."

"You're lying~ How could you not~" the girl said in a slightly coquettish voice.

Nathaniel Zhou smiled bitterly. He was not modest in this regard. He really wasn't. Since Nathaniel Zhou graduated from a double first-class university in his previous life, his IQ and thinking logic must be superior to ordinary people. After his rebirth, he vaguely felt that some functions of his body seemed to have been strengthened. Both his understanding of things and his memory were much better than in his previous life. It cannot be said that he had a photographic memory, but Nathaniel Zhou was sure that if he had the current physical ability to be reborn in the first semester of senior year and give himself a semester to study, let alone a double first-class university, it would not be impossible for him to make further progress.

It’s a pity that Nathaniel Zhou, who had been tortured by studying for three whole years in his previous life, had no interest in learning at all. He just wanted to do something that he had never done in his youth.

"Nathaniel Zhou! Where are you going? Let's have dinner together tonight?" After four classes, it was time for dinner at 5:30, and a girl took the initiative to invite him out.

"Never mind. I have other things to do."