A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 054 - Back Alley

Soon Enough, the Lost Item Was Claimed by Jiang Tian Along With the Pears.

The brats were already intrigued, but Zhao Xi refused to go on anymore. He used his chopsticks and leisurely picked out the soft tendon on the metal stick. The moment he looked up, 30+ pairs of eyes were sparkling at him.
“What?” Zhao Xi was amused.

“What’s next, Xi-ge?”
“What do you mean what’s next?” Zhao Xi played dumb.
“Why are you like this?!” Everyone didn’t dare to fight him either, they could only protest by slapping the table.

“Then?” Zhao Xi didn’t intend to go into too many details. He only said, “Then my grades fluctuated too much and nearly gave my homeroom teacher heart problems.”
Those who were there all knew how amazing his grades were, when they heard that, expressions of surprise all showed up on their faces. “No way, Xi-ge, your grades could still piss teachers off?”

“It could, of course it could.” Zhao Xi was frank, “Who doesn’t have their bad days or two. I had a bad temper back then, it’s fine if I'm so pissed that I was gonna explode, but I was too apt at fanning the flames too, so whenever I fou……”

His words jammed, and he chuckled, his fingers tracing the rim of the glass, “The alcohol is making me blabber. Anyways, quarrels and conflicts happened pretty often. Now thinking back, my luck was pretty shit, 8 out of 10 times we fought, it was exam time, therefore—”
His palms splayed open, indicating “You get it”.

Back then, he was honestly insane, he didn’t put too much importance on anything. When he’s in a good mood, he could go through an entire Olympiad questions collection in two days. When he’s in a bad mood, then to motherfucking hell the exams can go.
This type of people, when they start dating, who they are torturing are the teachers and not themself. One week he may be the first in the level and leaving the second behind in the dust, the next he dared to fall out of the first 100 places with a dark look on his face. The next week again, he came back with a grin.
Which teacher could stand this? None of them could stand this.

At the start, the homeroom teacher was scared out of his mind, thinking that a major incident happened to him or something. He dragged him to the office for a heart-to-heart talk, and with that it took up the entire night of self-study. After that, the teacher wasn’t terrified anymore, he had only anger.

That homeroom teacher had the surname of Fang, and was the infamous King of Hell in Fuzhong. When he started acting fierce, nobody dared to even breathe too heavily. When they heard his footsteps, any student chasing each other around would instantly return to their seats.

Sometimes, he would try to relax the mood in the class, and play some songs for the students. No matter, it was basically two songs, one Yesterday Once More and the other Don’t Cry. The former was out in 1973, the latter in 1991, a few generations away from the students.
He didn’t speak when he played the songs either. He just propped himself up against the lecture table, and surveyed the entire class from the top of his his spectacles. Nobody could relax at all.

It was a teacher with such a terrifying reputation, that Zhao Xi somehow managed to anger into growing an entire patch of white hair.
Zhao Xi had met many teachers as he grew up, and out of them, Old Fang was the strictest, the one who scolded him the fiercest, and the one who worried about him the most after he graduated.

Old Fang wasn’t good at small talk, neither was he good at expressing a casual side. Every year when it was the time for festivities once more, Zhao Xi would make a call to him. He would use the tone he used in the night self-study chat, ask Zhao Xi about how his health was, was he doing okay, and when would he be coming back to the country.
For quite a few years, Zhao Xi didn’t frequently come back, but every single time, he would pay a visit to Old Fang.