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Chapter 485 New Classmates

Friday afternoon, during the class meeting for the honors class.

After more than a month of hard work, the students have finally been granted their second holiday.

Today is Christmas Eve, and tomorrow, Saturday, is Christmas Day. We'll have two days off, including Sunday, and no evening study sessions.

The study time in the top classes is so long that even someone working 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days a week) would be ashamed.

How could a group of teenagers endure such hardship?

After nearly half a semester of rigorous training, the students in the honors class have long since lost the intense enthusiasm they had when they first joined the class.

Everyone was excitedly discussing how to spend this hard-won holiday.

Christmas is originally a European holiday, so it shouldn't have much to do with Asia.

However, due to the brief period of global unification, subtle changes have occurred in many places.

Christmas, which shouldn't have been a holiday, was given a short two-day break in Asia Union.

While holidays like New Year's Day and Lunar New Year's Eve in Asia also have considerable holidays in Europe.

These small changes are a godsend for students.

With more holidays, there are more days off. For the students in the key class of Qianhua Experimental Middle School, any holiday that allows them to have a break is worth celebrating with drums and gongs.

As usual, Ai Liang propped her head up with one hand and silently flipped through the novel on the table.

His quiet figure seemed out of place amidst the noisy classroom, as if everything around him was irrelevant.

The homeroom teacher hasn't arrived yet, and Chen Zili is helping to prepare the materials needed for the class meeting later on the podium.

Cheng Lejia, Jin Pingan, and Fang Xinlei all dropped out of school recently.

The stated reason is to study abroad.

After Cheng Lejia, the class monitor, left, the position eventually fell to Chen Zili, who had served as acting class monitor for nearly a month.

As for the Shengjia Group in Qianhua City, it was taken over by the Third Countermeasures Division under the Countermeasures Bureau, who are now responsible for maintaining the group's operations.

All the profits generated by the group were transferred to the Countermeasures Bureau and used as research funding.

You know, scientific research is very expensive, let alone research that the Countermeasures Bureau is doing on the supernatural.

The value of discarded scientific instruments alone is astronomical every day.

This is one of the main reasons why organizations associated with the supernatural are so rare.

Of course, those small groups that gather together don't count as an organization; in the eyes of the Countermeasures Bureau, they are at most just exchange meetings.

After all, qualified people have already been kidnapped and poached by them.

"Xiao Qing, are you free this weekend?" Yi Wenna asked eagerly.

Ye Qing thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "Um... I have to help out at the supermarket on Saturday, but I should be free on Sunday..."

Evanna pouted and said, "But isn't tomorrow Christmas?"

Ye Qing waved her hand with a wry smile: "It's precisely because tomorrow is a holiday that the supermarket is under more pressure. Holidays are not a time for rest for service industry workers, but rather a time for even harder work."

Yi Wenna looked disappointed: "I was thinking of staying at your place for a couple of days..."

"Tomorrow night is fine. I should be able to get off work around four or five in the afternoon if nothing unexpected happens."

At this point, Ye Qing seemed to remember something.

She turned to the side, leaning against the wall, and poked Ai Liang's back: "A Liang, tomorrow is Christmas. Is there any special food that you'd like me to bring back?"

Ye Qing's slender fingers kept gently scratching Ai Liang's back, sometimes drawing circles and sometimes squares, as if she would keep scratching him as long as he didn't turn around.

Ai Liang moved her chair forward a little, then slowly turned around: "I think you want me to make some special dishes."

Ye Qing turned completely around and lay face down on the table, her fingers tugging at Ai Liang's sleeve: "Hehe, Christmas is a holiday after all, it's not too much to make something delicious, right?"

"...I've already ordered the ingredients online, there's nothing else I need to order."

Ai Liang gently slapped Ye Qing's hand away: "But you can buy two chocolate cakes as dessert."

"Eating chocolate cake at night will make you fat, right?"

Yi Wenna seized the opportunity to attack: "Ai Liang, can't you try to understand the difficulties that girls face?"

Ye Qing turned around and blinked heavily: "But I don't gain weight no matter how much I eat?"

Yi Wenna slowly withdrew her finger from Ai Liang's, and her gaze began to gradually move down from Ye Qing's face.

Finally, it stops at a point below the collarbone.

Evanna looked down at her... feet, then said in a resentful, muffled voice, "That's just that all the fat on your body has gone where it's supposed to go."

Ye Qing secretly turned her head to look at Ai Liang, her expression somewhat embarrassed.

When Ye Qing noticed that Ai Liang's gaze had returned to the novel, she gave Yi Wenna's forehead a hard flick: "You have to say things like this directly, you deserve a beating!"

Yi Wenna didn't refute, silently rubbing her forehead.

She had long since resigned herself to the fact that Ye Qing and Ai Liang often ate together.

They adhered to the idea that if they couldn't beat someone, they should join them.

Yi Wenna no longer seeks to separate the two of them; she only hopes to be able to get involved herself and wait for an opportunity.

Although it's a bit awkward to freeload, it's better than leaving Ai Liang and Ye Qing alone.

Ye Qing usually has to work, so due to time constraints, they really only eat together.

But this time it's a holiday, and they're both alone, so they might not go home after dinner. What if something happens after the meal...? Yi Wenna didn't even dare to think about it.

While Yi Wenna was still immersed in her own little mental drama, Yu Xin led a student she had never seen before into the classroom.

Yu Xin walked up to the podium and tapped the table: "Quiet down, let's begin the class meeting."

As soon as Yu Xin finished speaking, the class fell silent.

This doesn't mean Yu Xin had high prestige, but rather that under normal circumstances, students could leave school early after the class meeting.

The longer it drags on, the more the students will suffer.

"This student's name is Peng Yuan. Due to some unexpected events at the beginning of the semester, he was delayed until today to register..."

After giving a brief introduction to Peng Yuan, Yu Xin turned to look at him, as if asking himself if he had anything to say.
Peng Yuan glanced at everyone in the class and shook his head.

Yu Xin pointed to the last row of seats, then nodded to Chen Zili in the audience: "Go sit down there first. If you have any questions about life, you can ask Chen Zili to tell you."

He's not only the class monitor, but also your roommate.

"Well, I see."

Peng Yuan nodded and gave Chen Zili a friendly smile.

Chen Zili nodded slightly in acknowledgment.

Although Chen Zili has made new friends in class and has gotten used to living alone in the dormitory, one shouldn't hit a smiling face. Even if the dormitory relationship isn't handled well, it shouldn't become too strained.

(End of this chapter)