A Book Dedicated to Our Youth - Tong Hua

I Turned Into A Four Eyed Panda.

Qi Qi is on a roll! Though she may not have good grades, she is actually quite smart and quick witted. Also, Luo Qi Qi makes friends!!!

3. I Turned Into A Four Eyed Panda.

Not learning a subject because you dislike that teacher and get bad grades, who bears this outcome? In an adult's eyes, a children's rebellions may seem laughable and childish but it's the only method we know.

Although mom urged me to go apologize to Teacher Zhang, I didn't. I have no regrets towards this vicious old witch.

After going through my face-on revolt from the homework copying incident, all fear I had towards her turned into extreme hatred. In her classes, I brazenly started to sleep on the desk or read novels. If she threw a piece of chalk at me, I would lift my head up high and stare fiercely at her. Don't you want me to listen to the lesson? Then I will now 'concentrate deeply' and listen. I stopped doing my homework. Since she thinks that I copy, then I have to uphold this false reputation so I might as well stop doing my maths homework and copy it all instead.

Perhaps things in the world are like this, the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the perverse and the perverse are afraid of those who don't fear dying. Although at the time I was small, my hate for Teacher Zhang definitely wasn't small and with an appearance of being willing to risk everything without fearing death, gradually, Teacher Zhang stopped bothering me.

What was funny yet sad was, when I first wanted to copy homework, I wasn't able to find homework to copy. In this class, I had no friends, everyone who I could borrow homework from were only those sitting in front, back, left and right of me but they all didn't want to show me. As I was laughing bitterly inside of Teacher Zhang thinking too highly of me, Zhang Jun swaggered over and without a sound, threw his homework on my desk.

I wasn't able to react for a moment and stared at his homework in a daze. He saw that I didn't move so assuming that I didn't want to copy his homework, he said annoyed: "I copied Chen Jin's work." Chen Jin was our class' gifted youth, he always got full marks for maths and even if he did a test with his eyes closed, he was still be able to beat everyone by a long way.

I immediately flipped open his homework and started copying. Not knowing why, I felt very grateful inside but I wasn't able to say "thank you". With my head buried in the homework, I said in a small voice: "If you did it, I would still copy it." He snorted sardonically. I don't know what what he was being sardonic about.

I thought that he had already walked off but after a long time, his voice suddenly came from the top of my head: "Is there anyone who copies like you? Please! Can you at least slightly adjust it?" I immediately scrambled to change it and after I was done, I looked up to ask if it better but he had already long gone.

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–First paragraph talks about the spread of Taiwan and Hong Kong's pop culture into Mainland China and the drama characters they were in love with, how Luo Qi Qi secretly sneaked up to watched dramas when her parents were asleep and how her classmates would fervently discuss it the next day.–

Among the singers from Taiwan and Hong Kong, the Little Tigers were the most popular group. Their stickers and posters were spread around the class and all the girls would discuss them. All three of the Little Tigers had fans and who was the best looking was a much debated topic. Their cassette tapes were passed around the class, the guys and girls all hummed the tune to 'Green Apple Park', 'Date of the Stars' and 'Love'.

As I had no friends, I could only enjoy these from a distance. My only friend were books, all kinds of different books and as long as I could get my hands on it, I would flip through it from beginning to end, no matter if I could understand it or not. When the temperature was warm, I could randomly choose a place to read but when the temperature turned cold, I had nowhere to go.