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Seeing that everyone in his class had arrived, Lin Chuan directed them to line up quickly, and then found a suitable spot to join the queue.

Soon, a burly, square-faced instructor walked over. "You're from Class Five, right?"

"Yes, instructor," Lin Chuan, standing in the first row, replied.

"Are you the squad leader?" the instructor asked.

"Um."

"Is everyone in your class here?" the instructor continued to ask.

"Class 5 of Grade 1, all 40 students are here," Lin Chuan replied.

The instructor looked at the neatly lined-up class and said, "Your class is doing very well. Class monitor, what's your name?"

"Lin Chuan".

The instructor nodded, his gaze sweeping over the other students in the class, before finally speaking slowly, "My surname is Liu, and I will be your instructor during the military training. You can call me Instructor or Instructor Liu, as you like."

"After all, you're all in high school now, and you all look quite tall. Some of the boys are even taller than me. You're not little kids anymore, and you should all be sensible. So I hope you all get along well."

When the students in Class 5 heard what the instructor said, they couldn't help but feel happy. They had seen that the instructors of other classes always made a show of force or find an excuse to make the students run laps or do 50-meter frog jumps. Now it seemed that their instructor was not bad.

Lin Chuan, being someone who's been through it all, knows that training with an easy-going instructor makes the military training period much easier.

"That's true, but don't think you can just take my military training lightly. If you practice well, I'll let you rest as much as possible, but if you don't do the movements correctly, I'll still punish you. It's that simple," Instructor Liu said, raising his voice. "Do you understand?"

"Understood," the students replied.

"Speak louder, I can't hear you!" Instructor Liu repeated.

"Understood!" the students answered in unison, their voices resounding.

Hearing the fairly synchronized voices, Instructor Liu nodded again. He pointed to the shortest girl on his right and said, "You can start counting off, starting with you."

"1, 2, 3, 4..."

After the roll call, the military training officially began. Since it was only high school military training, the training intensity wouldn't be that high. It was only the first day, so everyone started with the simplest thing: standing at attention.

Instructor Liu wasn't joking. Although he didn't use the "clichéd" opening of showing force, he was still extremely strict about the military training movements, even the simplest thing like standing at attention.

After demonstrating the movements, Instructor Liu walked around the group, constantly giving instructions: "Neck out, chest out, legs out, chin in, stomach in, buttocks in..."

The early September sun in the south was still quite hot. Students in military training uniforms began to sweat, and some of them had their shirts completely soaked.

Some people had sweat dripping down their faces, and their hair was falling around their eyes. It was a little itchy, but they dared not scratch it, otherwise they would be scolded by the instructors.

There were a few people who didn't seem to like sports, and their movements were always incorrect. Instructor Liu taught them several times, but he was still not satisfied.

He took a deck of cards, pulled out a few cards, and placed them between the hands of the group, saying, "Keep your hands close together, don't drop the cards."

Finally, a few students were singled out and made to stand in front of the group for a "demonstration." Training in front of everyone caused some of the more shy students to blush. Wang Xu was one of the students in the "demonstration" group. He straightened his back and looked rather comical.

Those students were only allowed to return to the team after practicing until the instructors were satisfied. If they couldn't practice well, they were sent to run laps. Fortunately, Instructor Liu didn't do anything like having the class monitor accompany them while they ran laps, so Lin Chuan escaped unscathed.

Because in just one morning, the students run laps several times. If he were to follow along with them all, there would be no need for military training; they could just run laps all they wanted.

Instructor Liu glanced at his watch, looked up and said, "Your overall performance today was pretty good. Now you'll have a 15-minute break." Although a few students were constantly being punished by running laps and having their movements corrected, they all persevered and practiced until they were done.

He pointed to an open space next to him, next to the playground fence. A row of sycamore trees grew on the fence, and below them was a small patch of shade. Although it couldn't completely block out the sunlight, it was certainly better than standing in the sun.

"You guys go and rest there; our next military training session will be held there."

"Yay!" A cheer erupted in the classroom.

Lin Chuan looked at his instructor and thought to himself that this was a case of giving a stick and then a treat, which was much more effective than any kind of "show of force".

During the long-awaited break, everyone instantly relaxed. Some of the boys sat on the curb, while others sat directly on the ground. Even the usually tidy girls weren't so particular about their appearance.

Chen Xiyu sat on the curb, sweat wetting her cheeks, wisps of hair clinging to her pale face. She looked up, and Lin Chuan, walking by, met her gaze. "Are you going to buy water?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, yes," Lin Chuan replied.

"Then buy me a bottle."

Lin Chuan thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, isn't that right? Shouldn't it be you, the girl, bringing me water at a time like this?"

"You're dreaming," Chen Xiyu said.

Lin Chuan shrugged.

"My roommate brought a bottle too," Chen Xiyu said. The roommate she was referring to was Zhou Yun, or more accurately, her former roommate, since she had moved out. The bread slices she had just eaten actually belonged to Zhou Yun.

Lin Chuan waved his hand, "Okay."

Then, he turned to look for his deskmate and found Wang Xu hanging around Zhao Jiajia, chatting about something. This guy was quite enthusiastic, and as a fellow otaku, he and Zhao Jiajia seemed to be having a great time. However, it was obvious that the two were on the same page, one an otaku and the other an otaku girl.

"Old Wang, go buy some water," Lin Chuan called out.

"Are you going to buy water? Could you get me a bottle too?" Zhao Jiajia said.

"Yes," Wang Xu replied.

The two went to the cafeteria together, where many people were already queuing to buy water. After all, it was the first day of military training, and not many people brought their own water. Of course, there were also many people trying to curry favor by buying water for the girls.

After queuing for a while, it was soon their turn. They each bought two bottles of water and headed back.

"Ugh, it takes forever to buy a bottle of water," Wang Xu couldn't help but complain.

"It's military training," Lin Chuan said casually.

He looked up and saw Chen Xiyu still standing on the training field where his class was training, with Liu Hao standing in front of her, holding two bottles of iced cola in her hands.

"Hello, I'm Liu Hao, the one who ran for class monitor. Do you remember me?" Liu Hao said with a smile.

"Hello." Chen Xiyu looked up at him with a smile on her face but did not reach out to take the water.

"Can I buy you a bottle of water? It'll be nice to get to know you," Liu Hao continued.

"Thank you, but I don't drink beverages." Chen Xiyu smiled politely as always.

"Shall I go buy a bottle of mineral water?" Liu Hao said.

"No need, someone bought it for me," Chen Xiyu said.

At this moment, Lin Chuan walked over. "You two have some water." He casually handed two bottles of mineral water to the two of them. Chen Xiyu took them and said with a smile, "Thanks."

Lin Chuan simply held out his hand, "Miss Chen, could you please pay for the water?"