Chapter 3

Chapter 3

On the first day of high school, it was Uncle Zhang from the Xu Residence who drove us to school.

S City No.1 High School has both junior and senior divisions. Xu Ge had previously attended the junior high division here.

So he was already very familiar with the school.

I was in Class One, and he was in Class 2.

Passing by the honor roll at the school gate, I casually glanced at it and saw Xu Ge’s photo.

I went closer to look.

It turned out that during the high school entrance exam, Xu Ge had ranked first in the entire city.

“Xu Ge, I never expected you’d be a top student.”

I beamed and said to Xu Ge.

Xu Ge seemed long accustomed to such things. Hearing my praise, he just gave a nonchalant “Mm,” and turned to step up the stairs first.

“Let’s go, or we’ll be late.”

I watched the boy’s thin back, somewhat at a loss, and licked the corner of my lip.

His cold attitude-did he not want me to act like we knew each other at school?

I didn’t know if that was really what he thought. In any case, from that point on, I no longer took the initiative to talk to him.

Occasionally running into each other in the hallway, I would just pretend not to see him.

And Xu Ge himself had even less to say to me. If I didn’t greet him, he would act as if he didn’t see me either, simply sidestepping and walking away when we met.

The first flag-raising assembly of high school was taken very seriously by the principal.

They invited the top scorer of the whole city to speak on stage.

At that moment, Xu Ge stood on stage, and I stood in the audience.

The young man wore a white school uniform top and loose black uniform pants that wrapped his slender, long legs.

He stood straight and tall on stage, like a young white poplar.

Fair skin, dark eyes, his bangs slightly lifted by the wind.

His eyes were beautiful, deep peach blossom eyes.

Just standing there, he drew the gaze of all the girls in the school.

He adjusted the microphone, his eyes sweeping over the audience: “Hello everyone, I’m Xu Ge, very…”

After the flag-raising ceremony ended, my deskmate Nian Nian exaggeratedly cupped her face, swooning. “So happy! I never imagined S City No.1 High School would have such a handsome guy.

“Think how lucky the person sitting next to him must be, facing this face every day. If it were me, I’d want to live at school 24/7.”

I smiled and casually tore off a blank page.

Thinking of Xu Ge’s appearance on the flag-raising platform that morning, my pen moved with my heart, and in no time, a cool, aloof, thin, dark-grey outline was sketched out.