Together Forever

Chapter 5.1

The Real You and Me

One week after the gala, it was the week of midterm examinations.

By now, it was approaching late autumn, and the classrooms were frightfully cold. Consequently, the library, which was fitted with year round central heat and air, had naturally become a high-demand piece of turf.

Tong Yan's upper body was slumped on top of the table as she studied for Jurisprudence, and her head was spinning from all the Latin terms. The teacher for this particular course insisted that if one was to study law, then one must learn Latin. He had directly handed out a self-written handbook that consisted completely of Latin terms with the corresponding English equivalent, proclaiming that half the final examination would be in Latin. Hence, Tong Yan had no choice but to plow through that handbook until she was about to go nuts.

"Philosophy, philosophia. This stupid one here cannot figure out the difference." Tong Yan sighed, "Why is it that, even as I'm being tortured by the CET-6 English test, I have to memorize Latin, too?"

Shen Yao was sprawled on the table as she worked on advanced math practice test problems. "I think the most unlucky law students in the entire country must be us. Have you ever seen any law students have to re-take advanced math over and over again?"

Wen Jingjing pulled her head out from the International Commercial Arbitration textbook. "And let me add: out of all the law schools in the whole country, how come ours is the only one that teaches completely in English from third year onwards? I haven't even passed my CET-4 yet ..." After saying this, she rubbed away at her tears of misery.

When Tong Yan's eyes caught sight of the textbook for International Commercial Arbitration that Wen Jingjing was holding, she unexpectedly thought of Gu Pingsheng. Last week, he had again said that there were matters to attend to in his family and had not given her any physics lessons.

Her gaze inexplicably brushed over the textbook in Wen Jingjing's hand again, and suddenly, she really wanted to send a text message to Teacher Gu and ask him whether he was going to tutor her this week ... But after taking a glance at her phone, she grew hesitant again.

Maybe, he was very busy.

The place they were seated was separated from a staircase by only the wooden railing, so when all of a sudden, a large number of people upstairs started walking down, their gazes were naturally drawn in that direction. It seemed that they were all teachers, and in groups of twos or threes, they chatted as they walked.

"Hey, isn't that Tong Yan's Goddess of Nightmares? She knows Teacher Gu?" Shen Yao's eyes were sharp and swiftly caught sight of the potential for a love affair.

When Tong Yan looked over, Gu Pingsheng was walking side by side down the stairs with the Goddess of Nightmares, Zhao Yin. From somewhere within the crowd, someone called out, "Teacher Zhao." Zhao Yin tapped the back of his hand lightly, motioning to him that somebody was looking for her.

As Gu Pingsheng looked over at Teacher Zhao, he also happened to see the three of them as well. But, it was only a brief, single glance.

After quiet was restored at the staircase, Shen Yao also put away her advanced mathematics papers. "I have advanced math at three o'clock this afternoon. I'm heading out first." Wen Jingjing also abruptly took a look at her watch and then cried out that she was going to be late for her elective class.

Soon, they had both left, and Tong Yan was not in the mood to stay here any longer either. While she was considering going back to the dormitory room, someone suddenly set a paper cup down beside her hand. A cup of purified water with a faint white cloud of steam rising from it.