We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

Xie Shu hasn't come to school. Why isn't she coming to school?

Looking at the empty tables and chairs, the books were still there, but no one had come.

The students in the class discussed it curiously, and Deng Yi even went to Wuchang Kingdom to ask, but he did not get an answer.

"Hey, Li Mubai, why isn't Xie Shu here?" Chen Qiuhe turned her head and asked.

"I don't know, maybe something happened at home."

They might be preparing to go abroad...

After evening self-study, it was their group's turn to clean up again, but their group leader, Xie Shu, was not there, and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Li Mubai, what should we do?" Zhang Chun looked at Li Mubai.

"As with the previous division of labor, I'll mop the floor, wipe the blackboard, and take out the trash," Li Mubai briefly assigned the daily tasks.

He also needs to gradually adapt to life without Xie Shu.

Li Bubai: "Why didn't you come to school today?"

Yan Shu: "I'll be studying at home, and I probably won't be coming to school until early May."

Li Bubai: "Wishing you all the best."

Yan Shu: "Yeah, you have to keep going too. Even after I'm gone, you have to memorize vocabulary and study math every day so you can get into your dream university."

It seems that Xie Shu going abroad is a done deal. If Xie Shu doesn't go abroad, which university would she want to attend?

Li Bubai: "If you were to take the college entrance examination, which university would you choose?"

Yan Shu: "Hmm—it's a secret. I'll only tell you after we play Truth or Dare."

Li Bubai: "Then let's go."

Yan Shu: "If you don't come, you're still at school. Be careful not to get caught by Teacher Wu."

Li Bubai: "No, he's come many times this semester."

Yan Shu: "Go and study!"

Seeing that Xie Shu was not coming, Li Mubai had no choice but to give up.

Xie Shu's books are still in the desk. I don't know when she will come to pack them up. Will that be the last time she sees this school?

The two jasmine plants on the windowsill have already sprouted a few buds, and they will probably bloom for the first time in May.

To my shame, the two jasmine plants have been left to their own devices since they arrived here – they were given to Wuchang State-owned Farm for care.

Who told Li Mubai to be clueless about growing flowers?

Before the class meeting, Wu Changguo took scissors and fertilizer to prune the jasmine.

Ring ring—

"Stop what you're doing," Wu Changguo said loudly from the podium. He glanced around and saw that everyone was there except for Xie Shu.

"The first thing we'll talk about in today's class meeting is the study tour. Li Mubai, how many people have signed up so far?"

"Twenty-three students have signed up."

"Yes." Wu Changguo nodded affirmatively. "Our class has more than half of its members. For this study tour, we will be going to Qingzi County in our province. We will be traveling by high-speed rail. The hotel will have single and double rooms, which will be randomly assigned."

Wu Changguo cleared his throat, took a sip of water, and continued:

"Registration is still open, and the deadline is this Friday. Li Mubai, please compile a list of registered participants and payment receipts."

Qingzi County, I wonder what's fun there. Speaking of which, Li Mubai's hometown is under the jurisdiction of Qingzi County, but he has never been to the county town.

"Ahem." Wu Changguo gestured for the excited students to calm down.

"There's one more thing. From now on, Li Mubai will be the class monitor, and the position of vice class monitor will be vacant for the time being. If any girl wants to be the vice class monitor, she can come to my office and talk to me."

"Teacher, what about Xie Shu?" Deng Yi asked, raising her hand.

"Xie Shu, you probably won't be staying at our No. 6 Middle School anymore." Wu Changguo subtly conveyed the information that Xie Shu was going abroad to study.

Upon hearing this, everyone gasped. To be fair, Xie Shu was half of the liberal arts students in their year at No. 6 Middle School. Now that half of them are gone, what competitiveness do they have left?

"Teacher, did the class monitor transfer schools?"

"To protect your privacy, I won't tell you the specifics." Wu Changguo took out his textbook. "Alright, let's continue the lesson."

Class? Who has the mind to continue attending class now?

Everyone was speculating about where Xie Shu had gone. Some said she transferred to a better high school, while others said she returned to her hometown to compete. Regardless of the reason, no one seemed to have guessed that she had gone abroad to study. This term seemed somewhat distant to ordinary public high school students.

"Li Mubai, don't you know where Xie Shu went?" Chen Qiuhe asked anxiously again. Xie Shu was also her friend.

A look of hesitation flashed across his face, but he finally spoke:

"have no idea."

This is something that should be best addressed by the person involved.

"You really don't know?" Chen Qiuhe narrowed her eyes slightly.

"I don't know." He shook his head.

"Hmph, I'll go ask Xie Shu. Don't forget, I also have Xie Shu's contact information." She raised her wrist, which displayed a smartwatch.

"Then go ahead and ask. Remember to let me know when you get the answer."

On Xie Shu's first day away from school, her classmates seemed very curious about why she left. Not only were the students in Class 3 discussing it, but some students from other classes were also speculating. When Lan Shiyu found out, she even came to ask Li Mubai what was going on. It was only then that she and Xie Shu established a very good "friendship" through a debate.

Since Wu Changguo didn't say anything, Li Mubai naturally wouldn't reveal the reason either.

Chen Qiuhe seemed to know, as she returned from her dormitory just before evening self-study and looked rather regretful.

On the fourth day since Xie Shu left school, the discussions and speculations gradually subsided. Studies had to continue, the countdown to the college entrance examination continued, and life went on. People couldn't stay focused on one thing for too long, except for those who were paying attention to her.

Xie Shu said that Li Mubai could take her notes and materials to look at them freely, and she hoped that they would be helpful to him. As for the textbooks and workbooks, she would decide when to pack them up.

Li Mubai didn't touch her books and notes, leaving them as they were when she left, carefully arranged.

On the eighth day since Xie Shu left school, the results of the joint exam of the three schools were released. Judging from the total scores, everyone's scores dropped, and judging from the rankings, Li Mubai remained unchanged.

Chen Qiuhe is really on fire, she fought her way up to twentieth place in her class.

Mr. Chen, the math teacher, scolded their class for doing poorly on the math test again.

"Why don't you guys look like Xie..."

He said this subconsciously, but then stopped abruptly.

Ten days after Xie Shu left school, no one was discussing where Xie Shu had gone or why he had left.

"Huh? How could this word be wrong? I clearly didn't make a mistake, did you correct it?" Chen Qiuhe questioned, holding up her dictation notebook.

Yes, Xie Shu was gone, but he still needed to take dictation, so he found Chen Qiuhe, and they took dictation from each other.

"Take a look here yourself, is there a mistake?"

Oops! That was a typo; I wrote an extra stroke.

"Go tell the college entrance exam grader that you added an extra entry, and see if they'll give you the points," Li Mubai said speechlessly.

"Okay, okay, you have sharp eyes! You're amazing!"

Li Mubai glanced subconsciously at the empty seat in front of him. The books were still there, but the person hadn't been there for a long time.