After being reborn, I gained a childhood sweetheart who appeared out of nowhere.

"So, I don't think I'll have to memorize all the classical poems and prose I've learned before today, do I?" Lin Chuan asked. Although they had only attended half a semester of classes, they had already learned quite a few classical poems and prose. If they had to memorize them all in one afternoon, it would probably be a bit of a challenge.

"No need, just memorize it this week. Give me your midterm Chinese exam paper," Cheng Xue said.

"What do you need the exam paper for?"

"I need to know which of your fill-in-the-blank questions in the poetry section you got wrong. Today you need to memorize the questions you got wrong for the midterm exam."

Lin Chuan hummed in agreement, rummaged through his drawer for a while, and then pulled out a Chinese language test paper and handed it over.

Cheng Xue took a look and saw that Lin Chuan had made quite a few mistakes. She opened the textbook and said, "Then you should start memorizing from the first one, 'Qinyuanchun: Snow'."

The classroom was empty except for the two of them. Cheng Xue stood next to him, not sitting down, holding a textbook in her hands, staring straight at him.

Their eyes met for about ten seconds before Lin Chuan said, "If you suddenly ask me to recite it now, I don't remember it all. Shall I recite it for you in ten minutes?"

I thought Cheng Xue would refuse, but to my surprise, she nodded in agreement.

Lin Chuan took out his textbooks, flipped to the familiar texts and started reading. These were all things he had learned in class, and he had a vague impression of them before. Now, he could review and memorize them quickly, so it wouldn't take too long.

After watching for a while, he looked up at Cheng Xue next to him. She was standing next to him, not sitting down, holding a textbook in her hand, staring straight at him.

"I'm not going to run away, so you don't need to stand here," he said.

"I need to make sure you're memorizing, not doing anything else," Cheng Xue said, sounding like a rigid teacher. Of course, if she were a teacher, her demeanor would be quite fitting.

"Whatever you want." Lin Chuan didn't want to dwell on it, so he continued reading and briefly reviewed the material he needed to memorize that day.

After an unknown amount of time, Cheng Xue glanced down at her watch and then reminded her, "Ten minutes are up."

Lin Chuan looked up at the clock on the wall; it really had been ten minutes, neither fast nor slow.

"Can we start reciting now?" Cheng Xue asked.

"OK."

"Then let's start by memorizing 'Qinyuanchun: Snow'."

Lin Chuan put down his textbook, briefly recalled the scene, and then began, "The scenery of the Northland is magnificent, with thousands of miles of ice and snow..."

He had learned these poems in class, and there weren't many of them. He memorized them carefully later, and they were quite simple. There weren't many poems on the exam, after all, they were only in their first year of high school.

Lin Chuan quickly completed his "task" without making any major mistakes.

After listening to the last classical Chinese text, Cheng Xue closed her textbook and nodded, "That's enough."

She then turned around and went back to her seat, put her textbooks away, and got up to go to the cafeteria. As she left the classroom, Lin Chuan followed behind her. It wasn't that he was following her intentionally; it was just that he always took this route to the cafeteria, and Cheng Xue happened to be taking it too, so they ended up walking one after the other.

As Lin Chuan approached the cafeteria entrance, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, are you guys eating together in the cafeteria?" The other person's voice was slightly cheerful, with a hint of teasing.

Lin Chuan turned his head towards the direction of the sound and saw his department head, Sun Yan, smiling and waving to the two of them, "Hello!"

"Senior." The two stopped and greeted her.

Sun Yan walked up to the two of them. "Are you going to the cafeteria for lunch?"

"Um."

"Let's go together then," Sun Yan said.

Lin Chuan wanted to refuse, perhaps because he had attended too many social drinking parties in the past, so he was not really interested in eating with people he was not very familiar with. He would rather eat alone. Sun Yan was his senior and department head, and Cheng Xue was even less likely to be a topic of conversation.

But Sun Yan didn't give him a chance to refuse. She pushed the two of them by the shoulders and walked them directly into the cafeteria, saying generously, "It's rare to run into you. What are you having for dinner today? It's on me."

"Senior, is this a student council perk?" Lin Chuan asked.

"Of course, after all, you two are the most outstanding juniors in my department," Sun Yan said.

"Wow."

Because they were late for lunch, there weren't many people left in the cafeteria. The three of them walked to the food counter to order. Lin Chuan didn't stand on ceremony with his department head and ordered two meat dishes and one vegetable dish.

Cheng Xue didn't want Sun Yan to pay and insisted on buying it herself, but unfortunately she couldn't resist the minister's "authority".

"What? You won't even give me face when I'm treating you to a meal?" Sun Yan looked at her with a stern face.

Cheng Xue could only nod. "Thank you, senior."

After getting their food, they found a seat by the window.

"How did your midterms go?" Sun Yan asked, still concerned about her team member while eating.

"It's alright." Both of them blurted out this line almost without thinking.

"You two are so in sync!" Sun Yan said with a grin. "Did you two just agree to have dinner together? Should I not have come?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Xue was taken aback, and her expression clearly changed.

"Haha, I was just kidding," Sun Yan said.

"I'm fifteenth in my class, I didn't check the grade ranking." Lin Chuan really didn't care much about his grade ranking. Anyway, it wasn't a very important thing to him right now, and he didn't need to rush to prove anything with his grades.

"We're second in our class and in the top five in our grade," Cheng Xue said.

"Wow, Xiaoxue is that amazing?" Sun Yan said. "But you're already in the top five of the grade, how come your class is still second? Is your class not a top class?"

"We're first in our class and also first in the grade," Cheng Xue replied.

Who is it?

"Chen Xiyu".

"Hey." Sun Yan was taken aback, turned to look at Lin Chuan, and said meaningfully, "Little Chuan, look at how outstanding the girls around you are. You have to work harder. You're the class monitor, so you need to set an example. Our student council also needs to save face."

Lin Chuan smiled without saying a word, his face showing that whatever the minister said was right. After all, he had eaten there for free, so whatever the minister said was right.

Later, Sun Yan asked Lin Chuan about the school magazine, presumably because Lao Xue had read his own essay published in the magazine in Sun Yan's class.

Lin Chuan responded to Sun Yan's praise and teasing with a few laughs.

After finishing their meal, the three parted ways at the entrance of the cafeteria, and Cheng Xue returned to her dormitory.

"Where are you going next, junior?" Sun Yan asked.

"Let's go back to the classroom," Lin Chuan said.

"I thought you'd play some ball or something this afternoon," Sun Yan said.

The two walked together back to the classroom, not too far apart, not too close. When they were almost at the classroom building, Sun Yan suddenly asked, "Junior, are you and Xiaoxue very familiar with each other?"

"We're in the same class, and I'm the class monitor. Does that mean we're familiar?"

"I'm talking about that kind." Sun Yan gave a knowing smile.

"That's not familiar."

"So you two will go home from school together and eat together?" Sun Yan said.

In high school, it's actually considered a very ambiguous thing for boys and girls to eat alone together. If their classmates see them doing this, they'll be talked about for days.

Lin Chuan, on the other hand, had gotten used to eating with Chen Xiyu every day and had forgotten that boys and girls at this age tend to have a lot of thoughts and ideas, and might think about all sorts of strange things.

"We didn't leave school together. Cheng Xue had to check my memorization," Lin Chuan said. "If you hadn't shown up, we wouldn't have been sitting at the same table eating together."

"Oh, I see," Sun Yan said, sounding like a concerned elder. "Xiaoxue is a very good junior. She is very serious about her work, but she doesn't talk much. I also like Xiaoxi very much. She is so beautiful... They are both very good."

Lin Chuan almost forgot that Cheng Xue was Sun Yan's junior in the student council, while Chen Xiyu was in the literature club.

"Junior, which of these two nice girls do you think is better?" Sun Yan turned around and asked him, the subtext of which seemed to be asking him who he liked.

Lin Chuan suddenly felt that the senior in front of him was so familiar. Her gossipy manner was just like a female version of Wang Xu. It was a pity that if Wang Xu had told him these things, he could have just told him to get lost. But the senior couldn't say it directly.

"I think studying is better," Lin Chuan said.

Sun Yan couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Hahaha, junior is so funny."

"I'm serious," Lin Chuan said. "There are beauties in books, and there are houses of gold in books."

The two stopped in the lobby downstairs in the teaching building. To the left was the path to the first-year classrooms, and to the right was the path to the second-year classrooms.

"Senior, I'm leaving." Lin Chuan said goodbye and prepared to return to the classroom.

"etc."

Lin Chuan stopped and turned around.

"Junior, it's your freedom to like whomever you want, but..." Sun Yan patted Lin Chuan's shoulder, looking serious, "You can't be a jerk!"

…………

Thursday evening, in the classroom of Grade 1 (5).

"By the way, why has the update schedule for 'My Girlfriend is a Cat' recently become single updates? What's going on?" Wang Xu sighed. "It used to be a lot of updates all the time."

"Didn't you read what the author said?" Zhao Jiajia asked.

"What author said that?"

"There's an author's note after each chapter of the novel," Zhao Jiajia said. "It says that the author has some things to do lately, so there will be only one update this week, and normal updates will probably resume by the weekend."

"Oh, it's mainly because the plot has just reached a really interesting point recently. They're now going to find that legendary place where wishes can be granted," Wang Xu said. "I really like this kind of plot. It has an adventure novel feel to it, a romantic adventure, which sounds really exciting."

"Yes, yes," Zhao Jiajia said.

"What are you talking about?" Chen Xiyu asked.

"That online novel we talked about at dinner, did Chen read it?" Wang Xu asked.

"I've seen it."

"How is it?" Zhao Jiajia asked. "Does it look good?"

"It's one of my favorite novels that I've ever read," Chen Xiyu said with a smile.

"Such high praise?" Zhao Jiajia asked in surprise.

The group chatted happily, but Lin Chuan didn't quite understand why they had to talk about their favorite novels in front of his desk during class break, which was a normal thing.

Why are you all gathered here talking about novels?

Chen Xiyu looked at him. "Is it not allowed? Or do you have some special feelings for this novel?"

"No, it's just that, students, it's almost time for the last evening study session. Shouldn't we go back to class?" Lin Chuan said with a smile.

"The class monitor is acting all high and mighty now," Zhao Jiajia said.

"Do you even believe what you're saying?" Lin Chuan asked.

After much persuasion, he finally managed to "invite" the group to leave, and things quieted down.

"Old Lin," Wang Xu called out to him.

"I'm not interested in talking about novels right now," Lin Chuan reminded him.

"No, it's just that I noticed Chen seems to have read quite a few online novels as well?" Wang Xu said this only after Chen Xiyu returned to her seat, his focus seemingly different from others.

"What's so strange about reading novels?" Lin Chuan said.

"That's strange," Wang Xu said. "I always thought Chen was the kind of person who only studied at home."

After all, in his mind, Chen Xiyu was the kind of student who was the best in every way, someone who would study hard at home, someone whose desk was filled with many world classics, someone who wouldn't read novels, play games, or watch anime, someone who would do such things that would waste his life.

In her spare time, she only plays the piano and reads world classics.

Or perhaps most of the boys in the class felt the same way about Chen Xiyu at first glance.

"Who knows?" Lin Chuan said casually. What he really wanted to say was that Chen Xiyu not only reads novels, but also watches anime and plays games.

"Come to think of it, I really feel..."

"Class is starting," Lin Chuan interrupted his gossip, then pushed Wang Xu's face away. "I need to do my test, so don't keep nagging me."

Lin Chuan wasn't unwilling to chat with Wang Xu; rather, he genuinely had homework to do. His hard work wasn't driven by ambition to be number one, but rather by the fact that after evening study sessions, his time was free for reading novels.

He needs to finish all his homework and course requirements before school ends.

Lin Chuan was writing on his math test with his head down, and time passed quietly until the school bell rang. He then looked up, quickly threw the things he needed into his bag, and said to Wang Xu, who was still chatting with the student in front of him, "I'm leaving now."

Before Wang Xu could react, Lin Chuan had already walked to the front row with his schoolbag. "Miss Chen, it's time to go back."

"OK," Chen Xiyu said, still packing her things at a leisurely pace.

"Hey, hurry up!" Lin Chuan seemed a little anxious. He immediately reached out and helped her put her things into her schoolbag, then picked it up for her. "Let's go, let's go."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Chen Xiyu asked. Before, as long as they did nothing else after evening study and left school directly, they would never miss the last bus. They would even have five minutes to kill when they arrived at the school gate.

"I suddenly realized last night that if we walk fast enough, we can catch the previous bus, so we don't have to take the last bus," Lin Chuan said.

"Is there a difference?" Chen Xiyu asked. The two trains were only a dozen minutes apart, so it really didn't make much difference to her.

Yes, yes.

"Is something wrong?"

"No..." Lin Chuan said, but he actually did have something to do.

In the hallway outside the classroom, Lin Chuan helped Chen Xiyu carry her schoolbag and pushed her shoulder to make her walk faster.