An Impossible to Reject Confession

“You added Qiao Mu before you added me? I clearly was the one who told you to make an account.” Bai Yi said, unsatisfied. “Everyone says foreigners have weird tastes, do you like Qiao Mu’s type?” 

“Bai Yi, don’t spout nonsense.” Before Xu Youyou had a chance to speak, Qiao Mu hurriedly cut in, his ears turning red. 

Xu Youyou’s eyes narrowed as she found the situation entertaining. 

“Why are you so anxious? I was just making a joke. I know you two are deskmates. It’s normal that she would add your first. Not to call you out, but, Qiao Mu you are so serious. That’s why no one in the class is willing to hangout with you,” Bai Yi said. 

Don’t hangout with Qiao Mu? Xu Youyou’s brows furrowed. 

Qiao Mu did not refute and lowered his head to continue doing his homework.

“Nerd.” Bai Yi quietly muffled, then turned towards Xu Youyou, “Your WeChat username is YOYO, is that your English name?”

“Yes.” Xu Youyou responded indifferently. 

Bai Yi was stunned. He wasn’t sure he misinterpreted it but he felt Xu Youyou’s temperament was different than before: “I’ll add you in a bit. After you join the group chat, you should take the initiative to say hi to everyone and say a bit more about yourself. Everyone wants to get to know you.”

The past two days Xu Youyou has been sleeping continuously and her classmates had no opportunity to talk to her. 

While talking, Bai Yi added Xu Youyou to the Class 18 group chat. And @ed Xu Youyou to introduce her. 

Bai Yi: Give a warm welcome to our new classmate @YOYO
It was the afternoon rest period and many students were on their phones. When Bai Yi’s message came through, it aroused a bunch of students and a wave of welcomes came rushing through. 

Xu Youyou wasn’t a real high school student and had no energy to interact with her fellow classmates. So, she crudely sent a red envelope into the group chat. 

A round of thank you memes rushed through the chat. Bai Yi was also able to grab one and when he opened it he received ¥101.5. 

The extravagance of the red envelope almost blinded him. 

“My goodness, a nouveau riche. What a large red envelope.” Bai Yi had gotten ¥100 and he turned around to thank the nouveau riche in person but found that she was once again lying down. 

The Sleeping God was indeed the Sleeping God. 

Bai Yi resentfully closed his mouth and turned towards Qiao Mu who was doing his homework. Bai Yi nudged him: “Your deskmate sent a red envelope in the group chat, hurry and grab one.” 

Qiao Mu opened his phone to look and found the class group chat had over hundred of messages, many of those messages were to hug Xu Youyou’s leg*. 

Liu Lang: I did the math. There were a total of 35, which was sent based on the number of students in our class. There are still three students who haven’t received theirs. So far the biggest red envelope was ¥160 and the smallest was ¥30. My preliminary guess would be that the red envelope was a total of ¥1000. 

Huang Ming: It seems our new classmate is a nouveau riche. leghugging.JPG

Shen Lili: I want to be friends with the nouveau riche. 

Li Haobo: Nouveau Riche, I can provide you with a free homework copying service. 

Bai Yi: Class Monitor, where is your integrity?

Li Haobo: I have a lot of integrity. Haven’t you realized I only let people copy me once?

Bai Yi: Scram, if she were to copy someone it wouldn’t be you. Her deskmate is a subject representative. 

Huang Ming: After sending the red envelope, the nouveau riche fell asleep. @Bai Yi, you know the nouveau rich more, what is up with her?

Bai Yi: She said she isn’t used to the environment yet. 

Li Haobo: Then we must take care of the new student more, let her feel the warm welcome. 

Shen Lili: Class Monitor, your look so much better after receiving the money. 

It should be said that in a new environment, money always opens the door. 

Qiao Mu opened the red envelope and found he was the last one and received the biggest red envelope of ¥180. He raised his eyebrows in surprise and his eyes scanned across the string of numbers unconsciously. He quickly did the math. It was like Liu Lang said, Xu Youyou sent a big red envelope of ¥1000. 

Didn’t she just make her account? How did she have so much money? 

Xu Youyou did not sleep the entire afternoon, she woke up during the last period and with head down played on her phone the rest of class. She was not fully of energy. The English teacher finally saw the new student “become alive,” and called Xu Youyou to answer a few questions. But for Xu Youyou, English class was not difficult and was able to answer very fluently, shocking the English teacher. 

After class, a few extroverted students came to thank Xu Youyou for the red envelope. They also invited Xu Youyou out for the weekend. 

Today was Friday, Hongluo No. 7 High School wasn’t the main draw of the city. The principal answered the nation’s call to action and lesson the burden for students. First years and second years didn’t have to attend class on the weekend so starting tomorrow they could go out and play for two days. 

“It’s okay. I’m still a bit unaccustomed to the environment here and want to rest over the weekend.” Xu Youyou rejected them. 

“In the future, we can go out together.” The students conveyed their understanding, and grabbed their backpacks and left.

Xu Youyou randomly grabbed a book and tossed it into her backpack. She saw that Qiao Mu hadn’t yet left, and couldn’t help but ask: “School’s over, aren’t you leaving?”

“Today I’m on duty.” Qiao Mu said. 

“On duty?” Xu Youyou did not understand.

“To clean the classroom.” Qiao Mu wasn’t sure if they did it abroad so he explained, “Monday through Friday there would be a group assigned to clean the classroom. When it’s your turn we call it ‘on duty.’”

A group?

Xu Youyou scanned the classroom’s arrangement of desks and understood: “Deskmates are a group?”

“Yes.”

“Then today I’m also on duty?” Xu Youyou asked.

Qiao Mu was stunned and seemed to just realize he had a deskmate: “You just transferred yesterday. You don’t need to be on duty.”

“How is that okay?” Xu Youyou placed her backpack back on her desk, “what do we do? Sweep the floor?”

Qiao Mu saw Xu Youyou’s determination and didn’t reject her. The two worked together and were able to clean the classroom in no time. 

With their backpacks on their back, the two left and locked the classroom carrying a bag of trash each. 

“Later I’ll return the money to you.” Qiao Mu suddenly said. 

“What money?” Xu Youyou didn’t understand.

“The red envelope you sent in the group chat. I was able to get ¥180,” Qiao Mu said.

“Your skill isn’t bad,” Xu Youyou laughed. “But why do you want to return it?”

“It’s too much. And in the future you shouldn’t send such big red envelopes.” 

“It’s fine. I have money. Every month my dad gives me an allowance, and it’s quite a bit. His money is useless. Anyway, besides giving money, he doesn’t have any other uses.”

Qiao Mu, shocked, could not help but ask, “Does your mom know?”

Xu Youyou looked at Qiao Mu surprised.

Qiao Mu was brought back to reality and realized he slipped up: “Sorry, the homeroom teacher told me a little bit about your situation, so I know…”

“Know that my parents are divorced? Or know that I have a psychological issue?” Xu Youyou asked.

Qiao Mu did not expect that Xu Youyou would ask so bluntly and was speechless again. 

—————————Translator’s Note —————————

* It means to suck up to someone.