Sui Yue Jian

Chapter 2

After that, for some unknown reason, they both often had eye contacts. Sometimes it was just coincidence, sometimes it was intentional. 

During math period, Xie Meng often get called to the board. Whenever he leaves his seat, Ji Qinyang will immediately stare at him. Maybe it was just hallucination, because a lot of people were looking at him. Especially Zhang Ganggang - he had the eyes of a true fanboy ready to die for his idol. Whenever Xie Meng finishes, if the teacher says "correct" he would automatically applause first. 

Everytime Xie Meng woud felt awkward when they applaused. When he glanced at Ji Qinyang, their eyes usually met. He would be applausing with a big smile on his face. 

Zhang Ganggang applaused till his face went red: "You could do it without needing advices from Maitreya!"

Xie Meng sighed: "I studied before class."

Zhang Ganggang idolized Xie Meng like a god: "That is also amazing!"

Xie Meng glanced at him, opened the book and pointed: "It's the same as this one. You only need to change the numbers."

After taking a closer look, Zhang Ganggang realised it was nearly the same.

"If you did study beforehand, you can also do it." Xie Meng said like a piece of cake, he patted Zhang Ganggang, encouraging him: "You should try next time, I will applause if you got it right."

Maitreya was amazing at teach maths. He was also humorous, when teaching geometry he used small toys like he was teaching kids. But in all of his students, only Ji Qinyang acted like he was his own kid.

Only Ji Qinyang dared to joke with him, like how would ants crawl in the shape of a cube without being guided by sugar. Even in algebra class, he would ask ridiculous questions like why doesn't a + b equals ab.

Maitreya was so mad, but he couldn't say a word. Even though he refused to study and didn't follow the rules, he never fought with anyone and was never lazy. Even if he needed punishment, not a single thing about him could be punished. 

"Work harder, can you?" Maitreya counseled him patiently, "Be like Xie Meng, he even studies before class, and revise after class."  

It was a night extra class. A student and a teacher face to face talking, Ji Qinyang replied lazily. 

"I did try." He was laughing, "But it's mission impossible, even how hard I work."

Xie Meng unconsiously heard the conversation, he raised his head. Ji Qinyang also accidentally looked at him, blinking and then made a monkey face. Xie Meng laughed.

"..." Zhang Ganggang curiously looked at him, "What was that?"

Xie Meng coughed: "Nothing."

Zhang Ganggang gave Xie Meng the "I-know-you-are-trying-to-fool-me-but-I-will-ignore-it" face. He spent the whole day talking about a new friend he just made with a very cheerful face: "Let me tell you, Rourou was very kind and sweet, she told me we needn't have to be good at Literature..."

Xie Meng listened to him while looking at the pulpit. Ji Qinyang wasn't looking anymore, continued listening to Maitreya's endless counsels like nothing happened before.

A few days before the midterm test, Ji Qinyang told Qi Fei to hang out with him. They  played basketballs with a few seniors until lunch break.

Qi Fei was the one who asked Ji Qinyang about Xie Meng: "I heard some seniors are forming a band, are you interested?"

Ji Qinyang lazily laid on the ground: "It's too small, not interested."

"Not certainly." Qi Fei smiled, "It seems like the main singer is Yin Luoxue."