We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

"This school assembly will be hosted by student xxx from Class 5, Grade 1. Please give him a round of applause."

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"Raise the national flag and play the national anthem."

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"With youthful vigor, we paint the foundation of our growth; upholding responsibility, we unite and cooperate—this is the spirit of contemporary students..."

"Next, please welcome Mr. Lu Zhong, the director of the Ideological and Political Education Department, to speak."

"Ahem." Lu Zhong cleared his throat as he stood in front of the microphone. "Just last Thursday, an extremely serious fight broke out at our school!"

Standing at the end of the line, Li Mubai suddenly looked up at the podium. Wasn't it said that there would be no announcement?

"Xing Yi from Class 1, Grade 11! Disregarding school rules and regulations, he caused a fight and is hereby disciplined and ordered to reflect at home for one week!"

Everything was different from last Thursday night... Back then, Xing Yi was only given a warning, and no one was told to go home and reflect on his actions.

"Dear students, this is our shared campus, and it is every student's responsibility to abide by school rules and regulations! We treat every student equally, regardless of their academic performance!"

Upon hearing the last sentence, some students in the audience pursed their lips and couldn't hold back their laughter.

Wu Changguo walked to Li Mubai's side with his hands behind his back, seemingly unintentionally:

"Unless there are special circumstances, you will stand at the front of the line at the next school assembly."

Li Mubai nodded; he hadn't yet adjusted to going from deputy squad leader to squad leader.

"Now, let's announce the results of last week's quantitative assessment. Grade 11... Grade 12, Class 3 of Grade 12 won first place... Now, please have the class leaders of these three classes come up to receive the rotating red flag."

Wu Changguo looked at Li Mubai and gestured for him to go up.

This used to be Xie Shu's job...

He jogged up to them, and Lu Zhong presented them with the rotating red flag, giving him a meaningful look.

He returned to the group, and Xie Shu was still standing in the first row like the class monitor, her head down, seemingly lost in thought.

"This is the rotating red flag? Give it to me, I'll go hang it on our classroom door."

Yang Kun said excitedly, "In the past, Xie Shu would collect them and hang them on the bulletin board. Now I can just ask for them and play with them."

Li Mubai handed him the rotating red flag, and it seemed that no one cared why Xie Shu wasn't the one to receive it; they probably just assumed that she had something else to do.

Is Xie Shu going to the regular meeting at noon?

Ring ring—

"get out of class is over. Students, please proceed to the cafeteria for your meal."

It seemed that Xie Shu was not going, and she left directly with Deng Yi and Chen Qiuhe.

"Shubao, don't you usually go to the class monitor meeting on Mondays? Why didn't you go today?" Deng Yi asked curiously.

"I'm not going. I've already discussed it with Li Mubai," Xie Shu lied.

"oh oh."

"Poor Li Mubai, he'll have to attend meetings alone from now on," Chen Qiuhe said half-jokingly.

Xie Shu remained silent...

Inside the meeting room, the others glanced curiously at Li Mubai, who was all alone. They remembered that he always came with another girl, starting from the first week.

"Ahem." Xiao Qingqing coughed twice, attracting the attention of others.

"Next, I have something very important to say. It is expected that at the end of April, the second-year high school students will be conducting a three-day study tour."

"That's awesome!" Upon hearing this, the class monitors of the second year of high school immediately became excited.

"I'd like to ask, where is the study tour taking place?" someone asked, raising their hand.

"Everyone, please be quiet for a moment. I'll explain the details about this study tour." Xiao Qingqing paused for a moment. "First of all, this study tour is based on the principle of voluntariness. Students who wish to participate need to pay a fee of four hundred yuan."

"Secondly, the school has not yet decided on the location for this study tour; for now, we need to collect the students' preferences."

"Finally, if the number of participants for this study tour is less than half, the school will cancel it, so the class monitors of the second year of high school should try their best to promote it."

Will Xie Shu go on the study tour? Why doesn't she want to be class monitor anymore?

As Li Mubai walked out of the conference room, he ran into Wang Rui, who was pacing back and forth at the door.

"Wang Rui? What are you doing here?"

"Ah, I just took a walk around after dinner," Wang Ruiqian said with a smile.

"Is that a lunchbox you're carrying?"

"Uh..." Wang Rui stammered, unable to think of an excuse. He took a step closer and whispered, "I brought it for my girlfriend."

"oh."

It seems his girlfriend might be the class monitor, but Li Mubai wasn't interested in finding out who she was. He said goodbye and left.

The cafeteria was sparsely populated; the other students had already finished lunch and returned to their dormitories. In the past, he might have followed Xie Shu to the third floor.

"Hey, Li Mubai, you're so late." Lan Shiyu and Xu Yao came out of the cafeteria. Although the latter felt embarrassed, she still greeted them.

Li Mubai nodded and prepared to leave for the convenience store.

"Wait, Li Mubai, this is for you." Lan Shiyu took out two vacuum-sealed bags printed with Lingnan specialties from her schoolbag and casually tossed them over.

"Don't go hungry, then Aunt Yang will be looking for me." After Lan Shiyu finished speaking, she and Xu Yao left.

Chicken biscuits? Do they actually contain chicken?

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"Going on a study tour!"

In less than half a day, almost the entire second year of high school knew about the news.

"Li Mubai, did the school say where we're going?" Chen Qiuhe asked, turning her head.

"No, we're just gathering the students' opinions right now."

"Then let's go climb Jingyun Mountain!" Chen Qiuhe said, then shook her head. "Never mind, never mind, let's go see Qingxia Waterfall instead."

It seems Chen Qiuhe hasn't realized that the school is just collecting statistics on student registrations; the specific destinations are ultimately decided by the school.

"Xie Shu, where do you want to go?" Chen Qiuhe asked, assuming that Xie Shu would definitely go.

Li Mubai remained silent, listening quietly to Xie Shu's answer.

"I..." Xie Shu hesitated for a moment, "I don't have any thoughts."

"Okay." Chen Qiuhe took it as a yes or no attitude.

Could it be that she really wasn't planning on going on the study tour? This thought popped into Li Mubai's mind.

At Xie Shu's request, Wu Changguo did not announce the change of class monitor during the class meeting, but simply told the students to go to Li Mubai if they had any questions.

"That's great, you've gained the homeroom teacher's favor. You'll definitely be the class monitor every year, and this year it's my turn." After class, while Xie Shu had gone to eat, Zhao Feng came over and teased him.

Li Mubai forced a smile. What's so good about being a class monitor? It's just making things difficult for yourself. Such a boring position, including vice class monitor, why did he agree to it in the first place?

"Class monitor." Sitting in the club activity room, Li Mubai looked at the person next to him and called out.

"Let's start with dictation," Xie Shu said, holding up his vocabulary list. "By the way, can you dictate thirty words a day now?"

"OK."

"Starting tomorrow, we'll do dictation of thirty words a day. If you find it too fast, let me know."

"it is good."

Xie Shu clearly intends to expedite the completion of this task, so is she planning to leave? Transfer schools?

"Senior, senior."

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"The dictation is finished."

"Okay, let me see."

Everything was just like before; he finished his dictation, and she corrected it.

"Three wrong, keep it up!"

Xie Shu chuckled softly, but Li Mubai didn't feel relieved.

"Class monitor, why...did you stop being class monitor?"

The sun hasn't come out for several days in a row. Since the torrential rain on Friday, the sky has been covered with layers of grayish-white cloth.

Inside the activity room, the lights were off, and even near the window, it felt rather dim, affecting not only the view.

Xie Shu remained silent for a long time. This was the longest Li Mubai had ever seen her silent. In the past, he sometimes suspected that Xie Shu was a robot because she would repeat the same sentence: "Is silence a sign that the robot has crashed?"

Obviously not. Xie Shu was just thinking; perhaps it was some unspeakable reason...

"I'm going abroad, Li Mubai."