Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

Afternoon.

The small clique that had just become familiar through limited time together received some bad news—they had to officially form groups!

"Students, collect your belongings and take your respective seats as shown on the projection," Guan Biyue projected the grouping she had drafted at noon onto the big screen. "Xu Qingfan, come here, you are the group leader for the first group."

She pointed to the first group by the front door, indicating that Xu Qingfan should hurry over.

"Wuuu~ Brother Qingfan, don’t go!" Lin Wanning clutched Xu Qingfan’s hand, refusing to let him leave.

"Are you dumb? You will sit right next to me, so pack your things quickly!" Xu Qingfan flicked the little girl’s forehead and picked up his backpack as he spoke.

"Wow! Oh, yay!" Lin Wanning looked closely and saw that she was indeed going to sit at the same desk as Brother Qingfan! "And Yiyi too, Yiyi is in our group!!!" Little Wanning excitedly packed her things, eager to join the embrace of the first group.

Xia Xiaoxiao and Xiao Ruawen were the group leaders for the second and third groups, respectively. Although it was disappointing for student Xiaoxiao not to be in the same group as the little rascal, the fact that she was seated right behind Xu Qingfan and could pinch his face for revenge meant Xia Xiaoxiao wasn’t too sad.

By the time the two of them reached the first group, Zhang Yiyi and the remaining member had also arrived.

The last member was also a girl, her name was Chen Qiuyue.

They say names reflect the person, and Chen really had a face as round and fair as the full September moon.

Possibly too self-conscious about her figure, once Wanning was seated, Chen Qiuyue’s movements and expressions appeared very uneasy.

After Xia Xiaoxiao and her team members sat down, Xu Qingfan found himself suddenly surrounded by girls; he had a fleeting feeling of being in a "daughter country."

He looked around and noticed that the other groups were mixed, two boys and two girls each; it seemed that only their group was special.

Guan Biyue clapped her hands to signal for quiet, "I’ll give you all thirty minutes to get acquainted with your new classmates, and in the next class, the teacher will introduce our school to everyone."

Without needing the homeroom teacher’s reminder, Lin Wanning was already chatting with Zhang Yiyi on their notebooks, and when they came across words they didn’t know how to write, the clever Wanning would draw pictures instead, making their conversation smoother and smoother.

After Lin Wanning told Chen Qiuyue that Zhang Yiyi couldn’t hear, the latter covered her mouth in surprise, repeatedly indicating that she understood.

Wanning invited Chen Qiuyue to join them, but the latter only wrote her name on the paper and nothing more.

Xu Qingfan guessed that she maybe didn’t recognize many characters, which suddenly reminded him of a chubby girl from his past life’s elementary school.

Due to the popularity of the film "Flirting Scholar," everyone in his class called her Ru Hua. Most of the boys and a few girls ostracized her; any girl who befriended her would be isolated with her, and any boy who got close would be loudly mocked for liking her.

Not only that, but if something in the class got damaged, or if a student lost something, the first suspicious glances would fall on her.

Of course, she wasn’t the only isolated one; there was another girl who often helped out at home, her skin tanned and her body occasionally emitting an unpleasant odor, whom classmates jokingly referred to as Feng Jie.

In his past life, Xu Qingfan was the typical well-behaved student; he didn’t bully anyone, nor did he want to be ostracized, so when they were mocked and pranked, he always just stood by as a spectator.

One incident stuck with him clearly: when they graduated from primary school, the two girls used a red pen to smear the faces of all the boys and some of the girls in the graduation photo, which they then posted in the most visible spot on the day they returned to check their grades.

Back then, Xu Qingfan thought, "I never mocked you, I never threw your bags away, and I certainly didn’t put trash in your lockers, so why did you smear my face too?"

It was later that he understood that standing by and watching in the face of bullying was also a form of bullying.

What had been experienced couldn’t be changed, so let the light of righteousness shine first on Class 16 of Year 1 at Experimental Primary School!

The slanting afternoon sun shone through the glass window onto him, and with the air conditioning on in the classroom, Xu Qingfan felt a warm drowsiness overcome him.

Xu Qingfan yawned and unconsciously laid his head on the desk, closing his eyes.

When he woke up again, the homeroom teacher was already standing on the podium, explaining many things to pay attention to after school began.

"There are two rounds of school buses in the morning; if you miss both, you’ll have to have your parents bring you to school."

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In the afternoon, after school, everyone should line up in the square and wait until everyone is present before the school bus will depart, so please don’t delay everyone’s time because of yourself, oh, if you delay one minute, the dozens of kids taking this bus would altogether face dozens of minutes of delay."

"Did all the little friends understand?"

"Understood!"

[What the heck, understood what?] Xu Qingfan comfortably stretched himself, not taking the matter to heart, anyway he just had to follow Xia Xiaoxiao at the time.

"Brother Fan, we can’t go to and from school together anymore, Wanning and Yiyi are both on bus number two!" Lin Wanning said pitifully after noticing Xu Qingfan was awake.

"Which bus am I taking, ah? Did they mention anything just now?"

"Brother Fan, you and Xiao Xiao are both on bus number four. Just now, the teacher showed us the music room, gymnasium, library, and mentioned that we will learn broadcast exercises in tomorrow’s PE class, it seems to be called something like ’Summoning!’ Also, tomorrow we have to submit the form for elective courses, Brother Fan, what will you choose?" Lin Wanning prattled on.

"The teacher also said this week is our group’s turn for duty." Chen Qiuyue bravely added.

"Got it, thanks for the reminder." Xu Qingfan smiled at her with pursed lips.

"It’s... It’s no problem!"

"Wanning, what did you choose for your elective course?" He withdrew his gaze and reached out to poke Lin Wanning’s hair.

"We all chose drawing, and there’s one more we haven’t decided on yet, do you want to choose drawing too, Brother Fan?" Lin Wanning looked at him with hopeful eyes.

"I’m terrible at drawing, you guys go ahead, I’ll pick something else."

"Okay (˃⌑˂ഃ)~" the little girl pouted her lips.

Guan Biyue packed the projector away and declared with a wave of her hand, "That’s all for today, school is out!"

"Yeah! Time to go home and watch Ultraman!"

"The new storm has already appeared, how can we stand still!"

"Traveling through time to start missing you, I will come to your side!"

Once someone started, several pairs of jokers began to sing out loud together.

The scene then became chaotic with everyone in the classroom singing different songs.

"Love you even if I die~"

"Happy breakup~ wish you happiness~"

"Having kids doesn’t necessarily mean happiness!"

"Hahaha!"

"If you wanna marry afresh, you gotta split the house!"

Lin Wanning, perhaps finding it funny too, joined in out of nowhere, "My biggest fear is having to make soup every day!" Her soft and tender child’s voice sung this Cantonese line, instantly melting Xu Qingfan’s heart.

"Let’s go, let’s go, go home and slowly enjoy your soup." He took Lin Wanning and Xia Xiaoxiao by the hand, one in each, and led them downstairs.

Lin Wanning took Zhang Yiyi’s hand, and Xiao Ruawen also came over to take Xia Xiaoxiao’s hand, and the group of five instantly blocked the corridor.

Holding hands with two felt fine, but holding hands with five suddenly made Xu Qingfan feel too conspicuous, so he had to let go of the two little ones and slow down to walk behind the group of four.

All of a sudden, he had the feeling that he was the male lead in a story where he’s the personal bodyguard to a school beauty, at over twenty years old and still so adolescent, only Xu Qingfan could be like this, he shook his head helplessly.

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