Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 144 of 214
"He was talking to Su Ya in class, and I scolded him a couple of times as class monitor. I hadn't even meant to criticize him—I just wanted an excuse to talk to him a bit more. But it seems like it only annoyed him more, and he thinks I'm being a busybody."
Yang Jincong shook his head with a smile. Ah, they really had been laughably childish back then. Xiao Qing had called it exactly: Zhou Yanning always bossed him around as class monitor because she was interested in him. But at that age, who could ever have guessed such a thing?
Thinking of high school, Chen Shutang had often treated him the same way. Yang Ce suddenly understood.
He turned another page:
"June 18. Today the math competition results came out, and y actually got first prize. But what's surprising is that Su Ya actually placed too—she got a national second prize. I only got third.
So y likes smart girls. Starting today, I'm going to work hard. I'll work hard and learn math well."
He really had won first prize in that math competition, it seemed. Looking back, for a while afterward Zhou Yanning had indeed kept bringing him Olympiad problems to ask about. At the time, he'd thought she just had it in for him and was deliberately digging up the hardest problems from some question bank to stump him. So he'd misunderstood her.
"September 10. Today is Teachers' Day, and the school gave us a half day off. But my mood is terrible. When school let out, he actually walked off together with Su Ya.
They were actually holding hands. Are they already dating?
Then what am I supposed to do?"
Did holding hands mean they were dating? Yang Ce sighed. When you're that age, who can explain anything clearly?
"September 11. I told Teacher Wu about what I saw yesterday. Teacher Wu will definitely break him and Su Ya apart, right? That way I'll have a chance. It has to be that way.
I'm in a great mood today. Teacher Wu called Su Ya in for a private talk. She'll probably be moved to another seat soon."
Aren't you just being foolish? Yang Ce stared at Zhou Yanning's childish handwriting, momentarily speechless. That idea was far too naive—break me and Su Ya apart and I'll be with you?
Still, since you were young, I won't hold it against you. As for the past, Yang Ce couldn't be bothered to hold a grudge now. Besides, Zhou Yanning had been willing to give up even her life for him—these little faults weren't something Yang Shuoxuan intended to pursue.
"September 15. Did I do something wrong? Su Ya transferred schools. She actually transferred away.
I don't know why, but my mood has somehow gotten worse instead. By all logic, with Su Ya gone, my chances should be better, but I can't feel happy at all.
Su Ya, I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to. I never expected things would turn out this way."
So that was the price of being foolish. Still, seeing that Zhou Yanning had felt regret at the time, Yang Ce felt somewhat consoled.
"September 16. Today he didn't come to school either. Why? Could he have transferred schools too?
I didn't take in a single thing the teacher said. My mood is awful.
What should I do? Won't somebody tell me?"
Reading this, Yang Shuoxuan couldn't help but recall the events of those years. Su Ya leaving him—those had truly been hard days to endure. Back then, he had hated Zhou Yanning to the extreme, but looking at it now, this was merely a lovestruck little girl acting on impulse.
To be continued.
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