A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 042 - Asking For it

“Is Your Face an Attraction? I Need to Buy a Ticket to Look at It?”

The moment class ended, nearly everyone crowded around them.
“One, two, three—” Song Sirui pinched the thin air and shook his head as if he was a music conductor, everyone drawled and hooted, “Treat us to a meal! Treat us to a meal! Treat us to a meal!”
“You’re even counting the freaking beats?” Sheng Wang nearly choked to death as he drank water.
“Yeah, it’s more imposing when it’s in sync.” Song Sirui was still gesturing according to the beat, Gao Tianyang was nearly losing his mind from laughing at the side.

“Were they always this dumb?” Sheng Wang turned to ask Jiang Tian, “Were they like this when you got a prize too?”
Jiang Tian said, “Depends on the situation.”
“What situation?” Sheng Wang asked.
Two boys at the side howled in laughter as they said, “Depends if Old Gao is willing to die. If Old Gao is daring enough to yell to treat everyone, we will yell along. If Old Gao is too scared, we will just yell ‘Tian-ge’.”

“???” Sheng Wang glared at them, “Then why are you guys so bold today?”
“Aren’t you here now?”
“Damn, you’re preying on the weak?” Sheng Wang said.
Song Sirui started chanting without any other care in the world. “Sheng-ge—”
It was as though other people planned this beforehand, they followed, “Handsome!”
Song Sirui: “Tian-ge—”
Other people: “So suave!”
Song Sirui: “Sheng-ge—”
Other people: “OP!”
“Tian-ge—”
“Cheat mode!”

“......”
Shit, they’re all insane!!!
The people in the corridor downstairs all came up to spectate already, Sheng Wang hurriedly whisked a book out to block his face. “I’ll treat I’LL TREAT, don’t yell anymore.”

“Damn, you’re really treating?” Gao Tianyang laughed till he perished and came back to life again, “Didn’t you notice how well practised they were?! It’s the usual flow of events for them already, you’re the only one who actually gave in after so many rounds of yelling!”
“I concede, I want my dignity.” Sheng Wang laughed as he raised his hand, “After this week’s test, ‘During Those Year’ BBQ store at the school entrance, my treat. Let’s eat the boss out of stock!”

A huge group of people began to cheer, “Eat Lin-ge broke! Eat Xi-ge broke! Eat the entire shop broke!”
“I hope you burst from all the food!” Little Chilli or maybe someone else jokingly cursed along.

It was the first time Sheng Wang had ever encountered such crazy classmates, but he really did like this class more and more. No, wait, most of the people in this class. He said it before himself, that he was petty and held on to grudges. He was in no way benevolent, so the people who sabotaged him before were still dumbasses.

Laughter and jokes went on non-stop as everyone crowded around the last row, Qi Jiahao alone sat beyond the crowd.
Initially, he said it before he had poor eyesight, and after badgering the homeroom teacher for a while then he managed to get a seat on the first row. Recently, the entire column shifted, he went to the fifth column, Sheng Wang and the rest were at the first.
He was diagonally across from where the crowd was, the furthest possible distance in the classroom.

He remembered the day he fought his way into Class A from Class 5: the classroom was just as boisterous too, a giant group of classmates he only half knew surrounded him, and teased to get him to treat everyone just like that too.
Before that, he had only ever seen the people of Class A along the corridors and at the sports ground. He barely knew them, let alone speaking to them; he knew their names anyway, because every single one of them was a target he intended to surpass.

Therefore, the first time he was met with this teasing, he was both arrogant and timid, terrified and pleased with himself at the same time. By the time he struggled through his conflicted feelings and was about to agree, the crowd had already dispersed after they were through with joking around.
From that day onwards, Qi Jiahao became Old Qi of Class A.