Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
There was less than half a minute until class officially started.
When Zhao Yanzi sneaked in from the back door, Hao Ren’s classmates turned around to look at her.
University courses were normally split between ‘big classes’ and ‘small classes.’ A few classes would merge for a big class, and these big classes were usually introductory or mandatory courses for a specific program.
Each program had their small classes, and these small classes were usually practical courses like engineering design which required specialized equipment.
First-year and second-year courses consisted mainly of introductory courses, so several classes would be merged for them. However, third-year and fourth-year courses focused on individual programs, and there were differences within programs. Therefore, the teaching material would be different, and not many people were in each class. The teachers were stricter, so it was harder to skip classes or have people sit in for others.
Therefore, when Zhao Yanzi came in just now, the entire class immediately focused their attention on her.
Hao Ren suddenly started to sweat. “What is Zhao Yanzi doing here? Does she think she can just go to university classes whenever she wishes? If multiple classes were taking the same course together, Zhao Yanzi might be able to sneak in and not attract a lot of attention since people in different classes weren’t necessarily familiar with each other, but…” he thought.
Right now, everyone knew that except for Lu Linlin and Lu Lili, there weren’t supposed to be other people not in their class attending this lecture!
Zhao Yanzi blushed slightly when she saw that everyone was staring at her. She hid the Grade 9 Math textbook under her armpit and walked to Hao Ren while pretending calm.
“Go! Go! Go!” Hao Ren whispered to her as he waved his hand to tell Zhao Yanzi that she should leave immediately.
However, Zhao Yanzi didn’t seem to understand what Hao Ren meant and sat right next to Hao Ren.
When the Lu sisters saw that Little ‘Zhumu’ had come, they immediately squeezed over a bit to give Zhao Yanzi some room.
Xie Yujia was sitting in the front row. She turned over and looked at Zhao Yanzi and didn’t know what to say. She was no longer the Class President, so she couldn’t say anything about these things that related to maintaining the class order.
The current Class President Yu Rong watched blankly as Zhao Yanzi took a seat beside Hao Ren. His lips twitched a little, and he did not know how to deal with this situation.
At that moment, Oldman Sun who was in charge of this semester’s Structural Mechanics walked into the classroom with handouts in his hand.
Oldman Sun had taught them Mechanical Engineering last semester, so he was familiar with this class. This was also the first class he was teaching this semester, so his memory of the class was still clear.
“Excellent, excellent. We have two new students in this class,” Oldman Sun said with a smile as he looked around the classroom.
Students were more scared of skipping these types of small classes since the faculties tended to be stricter. The instructors would actually look to see who were present rather than running through a list of names.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili had transferred to the Mechatronic Engineering Program, and the Program Director had already told all the instructors about the sisters’ transfer. Even if the Program Director didn’t say anything, the instructors knew that the Lu sisters were Vice Principal Lu Qing’s ‘granddaughters,’ so they would treat them nicely because no one dared to give them trouble.
“32, 33, 34…” Oldman Sun was counting but realized that something was wrong; there was one more person.
Engineering students tended not to skip small classes, and other students usually didn’t drop in.
“That student over there, please look up,” Oldman Sun said when he saw a girl. At the moment, the girl was putting her head down on the table with her two hands in front of her forehead.
Zhao Yanzi, who sat next to Hao Ren, looked up helplessly.
Oldman Sun saw a girl who obviously looked younger than the students around her.
“You’re not a student of this class, right?” Oldman Sun stared at her and asked.
As he was talking, he walked down the middle aisle toward the back of the classroom.
Since Zhao Yanzi looked very young, even younger than the first-year students who had just started school, Oldman Sun was very suspicious. The courses for first-year students were chosen with the direct supervision of their counselors, so they probably would not select third-year courses. Also, Oldman Sun had looked at the list of enrolments for this class. Other than Lu Linlin and Lu Lili, all the other students enrolled were from Class Two.
Zhao Yanzi became nervous when she saw the teacher walking over. She thought university courses were more relaxed, and teachers would not check attendance. She did not know that she would be exposed so quickly for sneaking into Hao Ren’s class.
Zhao Yanzi was beside Hao Ren when he was choosing classes, so she purposely memorized his class schedule for today. She thought she was bored anyway, so why not come over. She never thought…
“Ai!” Zhao Yanzi’s hands were below the desk, and she tugged Hao Ren’s clothes, hoping he would help her out.
However, Hao Ren looked down and pretended that he didn’t know who she was.
“Who told you to come here by yourself?” he thought.
“Hey, hey…” Zhao Yanzi was anxious, and she pulled Hao Ren’s clothes again. However, Oldman Sun was already standing in front of her now.
“This student, which program are you in?” Oldman Sun asked as he looked at Zhao Yanzi.
Hua, hua, hua. The whole class turned around to look at Zhao Yanzi, who was sitting in the back of the classroom.
Hao Ren had brought a small beauty over, and this little beauty was caught by Oldman Sun!
“I… I…” Zhao Yanzi’s face turned red. She clenched her teeth and said; “I’m in the Math Program.”
“Math Program…” Oldman Sun had experienced a lot of things so that he couldn’t be easily fooled. He reached out to the textbook that Zhao Yanzi was holding and saw the cover of the textbook; it said Grade 9 Math.
Zhao Yanzi’s face had turned completely red, and Hao Ren couldn’t help but laugh.
“So incredible! Such an excuse,” he thought.
“Math Program?” Oldman Sun questioned her again.
“No… this,” Zhao Yanzi was so embarrassed that she shrunk her neck a little. Then, she looked up and said, “I… I am tutoring part-time!”
“Tutor… she even dares to say such things…” Hao Ren knew that she couldn’t get out of this situation, so Hao Ren put his hand in front of Zhao Yanzi and was about to explain.
Unexpectedly, when Oldman Sun saw how hard Zhao Yanzi tried to talk herself out of trouble, he smiled brightly that more wrinkles showed up on his face. Zhao Yanzi reminded him of his own granddaughter because Zhao Yanzi was quibbling yet anxious.
Everyone in the class was shocked and thought, “Oldman Sun, who is known for being strict, smiled?”
“OK, you can stay here, but you have to pay attention in class. You cannot be loud and noisy,” Oldman Sun gave the textbook back to Zhao Yanzi and walked back to the podium.
The students in the class looked at Oldman Sun in shock. Zhao Yanzi obviously was not here to listen to his class!
Ding, ding, ding, ding… The official bell started running.
“Today is the first session for Structural Mechanics. You have all learned Mechanical Engineering last semester, so these two courses are actually related with the former being the foundation. Oldman Sun flipped opened his handouts and started drawing all over the whiteboard with a black marker.
He did not care whether Zhao Yanzi was in his classroom or not!
“Hey! Brother Ren. This is incredible!” Zhou Liren said as he turned his head around and used a pen to poke Hao Ren.
Zhao Yanzi touched her burning cheeks, and she sighed because she knew that she had escaped from trouble.
Xie Yujia turned around and looked at Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi. She also did not expect things to have turned out this way.
“Pay attention in class!” Hao Ren used both hands to turn Zhou Liren’s head back around.
Zhao Yanzi had been shocked and did not dare to be noisy in Hao Ren’s class. She flipped open her textbook and read it quietly.
She just wanted to experience the university class atmosphere and see how Hao Ren was like in class. From what she saw now, university classes were very similar to her middle school ones! However, she did not understand a word the instructor said in front of the classroom. Actually, that wasn’t too different since she also didn’t understand a thing in middle school.
Time passed by slowly. Xie Yujia turned around again and looked at how good and quiet Zhao Yanzi behaved while she was sitting next to Hao Ren. Xie Yujia felt a bit jealous.
Ding, ding, ding. Two classes were over. Oldman Sun started to tidy up his handouts and left the classroom.
Hualalala. All the students gathered in the back row.
“Hao Ren, who’s this little beauty?”
“Wow. So cute. What’s her name!”
Everyone stared at Zhao Yanzi, who was sitting next to Hao Ren, with curiosity.
Zhao Jiayi and the guys had seen Zhao Yanzi a few times, but many of their classmates had no idea who Zhao Yanzi was. However, Zhao Yanzi was now so daring that she created a fake identity and came to a small class to be with Hao Ren!
When everyone focused their attention on her, Zhao Yanzi rushed to put away her textbook.
Zhao Yanzi was in Grade 9. Although one couldn’t say that she was a kid anymore, and she was only a few years younger than Hao Ren, Zhao Yanzi’s figure and looks were still very young.
Compared with Zhao Yanzi, the university students were all old!
“Fiancée!” Zhao Yanzi was suddenly serious. She held onto Hao Ren’s arm and uttered the word slowly.
“Wow…” The students were suddenly very excited, but no one believed her. She could have said girlfriend, which was more believable.
Everyone knew that Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were a couple!
“This little beauty must be doing this on purpose because she was Hao Ren’s little cousin!
Zhao Yanzi’s face turned bright red when she saw that they didn’t believe her.
“Ok, ok. Stop this commotion.” Hao Ren used both hands to push the crowd away. He said this to his classmates but also Zhao Yanzi.
“Little cousin, do you have a boyfriend?”
“What school do you go to?”
The guys saw how cute Zhao Yanzi was, so they all started to ask her questions.
“Fiancée! Fiancée!” Zhao Yanzi yelled while gritting her teeth. It was almost a conditioned reflex now from the way she spoke.
She had to ensure that everyone knew her identity so that Hao Ren could not engage in other relationships in university!
“Senior Hao Ren.” A freshman walked into the classroom just when the students were clamoring. “The counselor, Mr. Yue, wants you to go to his office.”