When Will My Childhood Sweetheart Marry Me?-Chapter 24 - 0: He Is My Childhood Friend

While everyone was focused on their own scores, Jiang Shuyao gradually shifted her gaze downward.

Following the increasing sequence numbers, she found Pei Yan’s name in the last column.

The total score was less than a hundred, with only Chemistry and Physics bearing scores, while the rest were zeros.

She slightly furrowed her brow, feeling a complex emotion sweep through her heart.

Whether one could study well was one matter, but the desire to study was another attitude entirely.

The little rascal typically had a poor attitude towards learning, with zero scores in those subjects, either due to absence from the exam or just turning in a blank paper.

Either case was heart-wrenching.

Pei Yan had been smart since he was young, with even better grades than her when they were children, but now he had fallen like this, and with Uncle Pei turning a blind eye, what would his godmother feel when she returned from abroad one day and saw Pei Yan in this state?

The girl barely audibly sighed, her thoughts interrupted by the ringing of the bell for class, before she suddenly snapped back to reality and found Tang Xing staring unwaveringly at her.

"Yaoyao, do you know Pei Yan?"

Despite her thick-skinned nature, she couldn’t overlook how blatantly obvious those around her were behaving.

Jiang Shuyao had stared at Pei Yan’s name for a good ten minutes, making it difficult for her to ignore.

Adding the events of both the past and the present, Tang Xing felt confident that the relationship between Yaoyao and Pei Yan was anything but ordinary.

Being at the same school and continuing to avoid the topic wasn’t a solution, and after the incident on the playground, Jiang Shuyao had long decided not to keep it a secret anymore.

Therefore, with hardly any hesitation, she looked at her deskmate and sincerely said, "Actually, Pei Yan and I grew up together. I pretended not to know him at first because I was worried you’d distance yourself from me if you knew about my connection with the school tyrant, so... I’m sorry, Xing Xing."

Huh.

Tang Xing was stunned.

She had thought maybe they were relatives, never imagining that the grade’s top dog was actually Yaoyao’s childhood friend.

How thrilling.

At this moment, Tang Xing experienced a subtle feeling, indescribable and unsettled—not annoyance, nor surprise, but rather... envy?

As for what she envied.

"Yaoyao, with Pei Yan looking out for you, you can now strut around Yunzhong."

In her anxiety, hearing her deskmate’s light-hearted words, Jiang Shuyao was momentarily struck into stillness.

What Tang Xing said was true, it was widely known that to survive in Yunzhong, one must have at least one of the following:

Good grades.

A wealthy family.

Having Pei Yan looking out for you.

And Jiang Shuyao happened to tick all the boxes.

Especially the last one, which really troubled her.

Being looked after by a ruffian was nothing to be proud of, and seeing her deskmate’s eyes shine, Jiang Shuyao was dumbfounded, unable to utter even half a word.

However, Tang Xing’s reaction was a weight off her chest; if things really had turned out as she previously worried, unable to continue being friends because of Pei Yan, that would have been truly upsetting.

Suddenly it was Friday, and after the last class of the afternoon, the weekend was about to start. Everyone paid full attention, listening through the class teacher’s endless chatter, eager for the holiday to begin.

Yu Zhengqing looked at the group of students sitting quietly below and nodded approvingly, "Hmm, being able to sit still at such a crucial moment shows that everyone’s self-control has improved again. Don’t be proud, keep it up."

Heh, the students of class six got up earlier than chickens, slept later than dogs, and went through more papers daily than actual people, what energy would they have left to bounce around.

Tang Xing quietly rolled her eyes, turning to glance at Jiang Shuyao beside her, only to find her intently listening, seemingly enjoying every word.

Reflecting on the recent events, she couldn’t help but marvel, Yaoyao was beautiful, had good grades, and was so well-behaved, how could someone like Pei Yan be her childhood friend? 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

One as pure as a snowflake, the other as dark as a demon.

Such two people grew up together, each developing in their own way, unaffected by the other, truly a wonder.