Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Su Yu walked past me, stirring the air and leaving behind his signature scent-fresh and pleasant-in the aisle.
Having sat in the row right in front of him for the past six months, I was very familiar with that smell.
I wasn’t sure if it was his laundry detergent or perhaps a sachet in his wardrobe that lingered on his clothes.
It was a very faint scent, clean and crisp, yet every time I caught a whiff of it, I felt a sense of peace wash over me.
I had once asked Lu An if she could smell it, but she insisted there was no scent at all.
She said I was so obsessed with Su Yu that I was hallucinating it.
After last night’s dream, I was starting to believe her.
When you like someone that much, it really is a case of ‘thinking by day and dreaming by night.’
Despite how much I liked Su Yu, I hadn’t spoken a single word to him at school.
I talked to everyone else in class, except for him.
Su Yu hadn’t taken the initiative to talk to me, either.
Just as I was thinking this, a finger suddenly poked my back.
It felt like an electric shock running through me. I bolted upright in a second, my upper body stiff as a board, before I awkwardly turned around.
Su Yu was leaning against his desk, the hand that had poked me resting on the edge. He looked up at me with pleading eyes and said, “Huanhuan, let me copy your homework.”
His desk mate immediately made a scene. “No way! Su the Genius, even you’re copying homework?”
Su Yu replied lazily, “I went to bed early last night. Didn’t do it.”
His words jolted me, and suddenly, I didn’t have time to be nervous or shy anymore.
Because I hadn’t done it either.
After I said that, Su Yu and I fell into a brief silence together.
His desk mate let out a string of laughter, patting him on the shoulder with gloating delight.
Right then, the bell rang. The History Teacher, famous for being strict, stepped onto the podium and instructed the Class Representative to collect yesterday’s homework.
As things stood, Su Yu and I had no choice but to go stand in the hallway as punishment.