A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 014 - Alibi

Jiang Tian: I’ll be Home Late Tonight.

The rain was too strong, and half the corridor got wet. The students once loitering outside instantly vanished, and all went back to home base. Only Sheng Wang alone wanted to go out for a breath of fresh air.

He stayed on his seat, feeling like he was the newly imported monkey in a zoo. The tourists flocked around him in all directions, and surrounded him tightly.
Gao Tianyang was the tour guide, “It’s 150 questions, are you even still human?”
He sat on his own table. His voice automatically came with a loudspeaker, and he was noisy enough for the entire class to hear.

The group of people who indirectly copied his homework was on the frontlines, and joined in one by one, “Seriously, let’s not talk about all correct, I’m already happy if I get less than 10 wrong, really.”
“10 wrong answers are already asking too much from me, 20 it is. I’ll be exhilarated if I get less than 20 wrong out of 120.”
“How aspiring of you!”
“The cruel reign of English has caused the people to suffer for too long—as long as gaokao do away with English, Tsinghua and Peking U will both be fighting for me!”
“Bleh, go have your Spring and Autumn dream!”

Everyone in this group was more shameless than the last, they bragged till the point that the study rep Song Sirui could not bear to listen anymore. He pushed apart the crowd, squeezed in and started dragging people. After he dragged them he said to Sheng Wang, “Grass, let’s discuss something.”
Sheng Wang sneezed twice in a row. He took a piece of tissue and asked questiongly, “What are you cursing me for?”

Song Sirui was stumped by his words, and replied as if he did not know if he should laugh or he should cry, “No, the day you came I said Xu dug out a school grass and brought it here, when I call someone I usually use only a single character, so I called you that on a whim.”

Sheng Wang gave two dry laughs, “Your way of thinking is quite unique, can you change it?”
Song Sirui replied, “Sure, then Sheng it is.”
“Then I’m kidney!” Gao Tianyang gave him a slap, and sniggered, “You could call him Wang too.”
“Fuck off, you’re the one who’s a dog.” After Song Sirui cursed out Gao Tianyang, he looked woefully at Sheng Wang, “Why is your name like this?”
Sheng Wang was amused, “I’m so sorry, it’s too late now. You can make do with that.”

“Sheng-ge, Sheng-ge should be alright right?” Song Sirui said.
Sheng Wang was just chugging down water with his cup in his hand, after hearing that he grinned, “I’ll gett a little full of myself here if you’re like this.”
“First rule of Class A, whose grades are good who gets to be Ge, we do not care about where you came from,” Song Sirui casually pointed behind, “just like the one behind you, everyone has to call him Ge when they see him.”

Sheng Wang was leaning against his seat, he did not stop drinking his water, but his gaze shot towards the corner of his eyes.
The desk was as empty as can be as seen within his peripherals. Jiang Tian was off to god knows where. 20 minutes had already passed for the long break and he was nowhere to be found right from the start.

Song Sirui called him Ge a few times, and then continued to proper matters all naggingly, “Can you not give your paper to people like Gao Tianyang next time round? Our homeroom teacher said it before, telling me to keep an eye on everyone and put an end to the bad common practice of copying homework, every time I catch one I have to report one.”
“Then did you report?” Gao Tianyang’s laugh was especially wretched.
“I noted it all down, and I’ll report it on a quarterly basis, just you wait.”

Song Sirui was not tall, in any class he would be assigned to the first row. When he rolled up his sleeves and reprimanded people he looked especially much like a show poodle. Regardless of gender, people in Class A liked to tease him. He did not really put up false airs either, he never did go through with it every time he threatened to tell on someone.