Xu Xinduo was still furious before she patted Tong Yan again. As a result, Tong Yan immediately leaned in to hold her wrists with both hands and said, “Alright, alright, let’s stop making trouble. If you want to give pointers, we will go to the Jiu-Jitsu classroom later, okay?”
“Let me go,” Xu Xinduo struggled.
“If you promise not to fight anymore.”
“How is that possible? I will teach you later— if you can’t do it, I will beat you up!”
“Hey, why are you so fierce?”
“That’s how I am, don’t have me teach you if you dislike me being fierce.”
Tong Yan quickly let go of Xu Xinduo and compromised, “Okay, I’ll let you beat me up; a fierce master would have excellent apprentices, after all.”
Tong Yan continued to read the ancient poems, taking them very seriously. Tong Yan was very smart and his scores in science were very good. Many problems could be instantly solved by him upon sight. As a student in the International Class, his English scores were generally rather good as well.
Languages were really where Tong Yan’s shortcomings laid, so towards the end of the reviewing period, he specialized in improving his language abilities.
Xu Xinduo followed his movements and read a book. However, she soon felt that it was not addictive, taking out a set of Olympic Math questions to study. She wanted to see if there were any questions that she had problems with. If there was any sort of issue that surfaced, she was going to check them over quickly.
As a result, after answering two sets of papers, she began to sigh, feeling that these sets of questions were average.
After thinking about it, she went to check the papers from the National Competition as she looked at her answer paper. The questions were the same, indicating that he hadn’t bought a pirated copy. So why was it so simple?
The life of a bright student who had no academic troubles must be so lonely…
On the other side, Tong Yan was rubbing his head and memorizing Classical Chinese, seeming to have a slight headache from all the memorizing.
Just as Xu Xinduo sighed, Tong Yan threw the textbook down and said, “Can’t these people speak less? Lower the amount of these small essays, it’s bothering me to no end!”
Xu Xinduo laid on the table, looked at Tong Yan with a smile, and said: “You have to write more small compositions. Your literary talent is pretty bad.”
Tong Yan followed and laid down on the table with his face directly facing Xu Xinduo’s face. He said after a while: “Don’t be fooled by the fact that I can’t recite these classical Chinese compositions, I can easily recite the composition written by you without any punctuation problem.”
Xu Xinduo opened her eyes wide and exclaimed, “What do you mean!?”
“It’s a kid’s method to memorize the compositions by rote.” After Tong Yan finished speaking, he coughed a little and continued slowly, “I care about a person. He has been with me like a shadow…”
Xu Xinduo’s face immediately became beet red along with her eyes.
She stood up abruptly, quickly grabbed her things and rudely put them into her bag. Not paying attention to the fact that the zipper of the bag was not pulled properly, she picked it up and went out.
Tong Yan still didn’t stop and followed behind her while saying: “He is always there, but I can’t touch him. I know he is with me, but I can’t hug him.”
Xu Xinduo reached out to pull the doorknob. When she was about to open the door, Tong Yan quickly reached out from behind her and grabbed the doorknob.
Xu Xinduo was so angry that when she turned around to beat him, she was suddenly embraced by Tong Yan, hugging her tenderly, and said in her ear: “As long as you want, you can touch me, you can hug me anywhere anytime.”
The moment Tong Yan held her in his arms, Xu Xinduo seemed to have frozen stiff.
