Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 543 - 379. Sound the alarm bell

During the second long break, since the new broadcast exercises hadn't been learned yet, this week's long breaks were all twenty minutes of free time.

"Coming to fetch water or not?" Xu Qingfan nudged Xiao Ruawen, who was lying on the desk, sleeping.

The latter only gave him her back: "Help me fetch it too."

This seemed to be the habit of people from Hong Kong speaking Mandarin: no matter how standard the accent was, they always liked to mix colloquial and Mandarin.

For example, the classics: "How would I know?" "Talk about this and that," etc.

"Then I'll get you half hot and half warm." Xu Qingfan shook his head and guessed that the girl's period was also approaching.

"Mmm, thank you, Brother Fan."

On the first day of school, there was an innumerable amount of students like Xiao Ruawen who just fell asleep.

Xu Qingfan had been one of them in his past life; without dormitory supervision in high school and lax management, students often chatted and played on their phones until midnight or one or two in the morning—no wonder they had no energy for class the next day.

[But what could be the reason for this Xiao Ruawen?]

Xu Qingfan glanced at the "big-chested monster" and covered her with his own winter school jacket to prevent any wardrobe malfunctions before bending down to pick up her water bottle from her backpack.

The water faucet and the restroom were at opposite ends of the corridor. Considering queueing time, if you wanted to fill water, you had no time for the restroom and vice versa.

He remembered that in his past life, as a nice guy, he usually carried seven or eight water bottles each trip, his and Xia Xiaoxiao's included, with the rest belonging to female classmates asking for his help.

However, as school had just started, nobody dared to order him around, apart from Xiao Ruawen.

"Classmate, are you going to fetch water? There's no water left," he was informed by two female classmates, also returning empty-handed, halfway there.

"Okay, thank you." Xu Qingfan politely nodded at them, and the two instantly fled hand in hand.

The absence of water was a common occurrence. Xu Qingfan was not surprised at all. Sometimes when the fifth floor's water dispenser was empty, he'd go down to the fourth floor, then the third, then the second. If all were empty and he was in dire need of a drink, he'd go to the teachers' office to fetch water.

Wondering if he might run into Yu, Xu Qingfan didn't go to the fourth floor to fetch water but directly descended to the third floor.

Unfortunately, Lady Luck wasn't on his side today; when he arrived at the third floor, Wu Lingyu was not among the people queuing in front of him.

Xu Qingfan pulled out his phone to look at the group messages; several girls were probably too busy chatting with new classmates to speak up at the moment.

He quickly got his turn to fetch water. Right as Xu Qingfan was about to fill his bottle after putting away his phone, suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder from behind.

"Brother Fan!" The familiar voice was unmistakably Yu's.

As Xu Qingfan turned around, he saw the girl's eyes sparkling with an unmistakably surprised delight.

There was still a long line behind him, but Xu Qingfan took the girl's water bottle, filled his own first, and then filled hers with warm water.

As long as it wasn't excessive, this kind of behavior was not considered cutting in line during student days.

"Sorry about that," he apologized to the waiting girls behind him, and then pulled Wu Lingyu away from there.

"It's... it's okay." The girls, originally somewhat displeased, instantly bloomed into smiles.

"I came with a friend." Wu Lingyu pointed at Xie Rui, who was still at the end of the queue.

She had just recognized Xu Qingfan's silhouette and came up to greet him, only to have Brother Fan fill her bottle for her.

"Then let's go together to say hello. There's no water on the fifth floor, so I thought I might run into you on the third floor, and as it turns out, I really did." Seeing too many people staring at him and Yu holding hands, Xu Qingfan timely let go of her hand.

"Yeah!" Wu Lingyu was thrilled at heart, so she didn't really want to talk much.

"Hey there, Brother Fan!" Xie Rui waved at him forthrightly.

"Good morning, there was no water upstairs; I came down to fetch some and happened to run into Yu, so I dragged her along," Xu Qingfan responded with a wave and a smile.

Then another girl greeted him: "Hi, Brother Fan, my name is Lan Yiting, and I am Dian Dian's friend."

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"Oh, you're the deputy class president, right? I know you, Yu has told me about you, hi, hi." Seeing her offer her hand, Xu Qingfan reciprocated politely with a handshake.

"Hehe, so Brother Fan knows me! I'm going to boast about this when I go back to the dormitory at noon!" It appeared she was another social butterfly, who laughed heartily for a while before continuing: "We won't disturb you then; Ruirui and I still need to queue for water."

After bidding farewell to them, Xu Qingfan took Wu Lingyu to a quiet corner for a chat.

From this angle, they could view the bird's nest-like second cafeteria. Xu Qingfan, while tousling Yu's hair, started casually: "Getting used to being a class monitor for the first time?"

"Yeah." Wu Lingyu nodded seriously, "Occasionally I have to deliver oral notices on behalf of the teacher, and for minor tasks, I just follow Brother Fan's advice and direct the duty students and class representatives to do them, I don't do them myself."

She reported in detail to Xu Qingfan.

"So, are there any students in your class who refuse to follow rules, has anyone bullied our Yu?" Lifting his hand, he tilted his head and pinched the girl's cheek.

Wu Lingyu first shook her head, then nodded: "Brother Fan, you bully me!"

Because her face was pinched by Xu Qingfan, the girl's voice was distorted as she spoke.

"Right, only I can bully you." Xu Qingfan shamelessly admitted with no hint of embarrassment.

Wu Lingyu couldn't resist such flirtatious talk and her cheeks reddened like blooming peach blossoms.

"Only let Brother Fan bully me..." she murmured softly.

"What did you say?" Xu Qingfan did not hear clearly.

"Nothing... just saying how it's such a coincidence to run into Brother Fan at the water dispenser." Wu Lingyu smiled as she raised her eyes.

In fact, she wouldn't have minded if Xu Qingfan had heard her, but a young girl's modesty made her feel that saying such things was too embarrassing.