Let Su Yang In, Quickly

At Muyang Middle School, in an ordinary classroom.

It was between classes, and the students were making a racket in the small classroom.

In the corner of the back row, at two seats by the window, Su Yang and Ren Yexue were whispering to each other.

"No! I don't know your mom and dad!"

Ren Yexue had half her face resting on the desk, a little flesh squished up on her cheek. Her slender brows were knitted tightly, giving her an adorably guileless look.

Su Yang's question had left her utterly puzzled. Why had he asked whether she knew his parents? How strange!

Hearing Ren Yexue's answer, Su Yang, who was sitting beside her, looked a little disappointed.

Ren Yexue doesn't know my parents? How could that be...

But Su Yang didn't give up. He continued asking.

"Then do you know someone named Gai Fengyan?"

Ren Yexue shook her head again.

"I don't know anyone named Gai Fengyan!"

"I see... Looks like I was mistaken."

Su Yang turned his head away and didn't question Ren Yexue any further.

Ren Yexue's answer had been somewhat unexpected.

Generally speaking, if someone said another person was "pretty good," they had to know each other and be on fairly good terms.

Yet Ren Yexue insisted she didn't know his parents. That meant only his parents knew about Ren Yexue.

Could Mom and Dad have been secretly watching Ren Yexue for some time? What exactly are they doing?

But the lead concerning his parents had gone cold again. Now his only hope lay with the Soul-Reaping Bureau, which had yet to appear...

Just as Su Yang was lost in thought, Ren Yexue gently placed an exercise book on his desk.

"Top student, could you explain this problem to me?"

"It's a problem the math teacher left us to think about this morning. Even though you weren't in class, I know you can definitely solve it."

She leaned most of her body toward Su Yang. From her shapely curves, it wasn't hard to see how soft Ren Yexue's body was.

Su Yang casually glanced at the exercise book, and an approach to solving the problem instantly formed in his mind.

Just as Ren Yexue had said, although Su Yang hadn't attended class that morning, he had already taught himself the entire semester's coursework.

For Su Yang, a problem like this was a piece of cake!

Picking up a pen from the desk, Su Yang said in a clear voice,

"Easy! The way to solve this problem is..."

"Well? Do you understand? My explanation was pretty easy to follow, wasn't it?"

Su Yang confidently turned to look at Ren Yexue, expecting to see a look of sudden understanding on her face.

Instead, he found Ren Yexue resting her chin in her hand and staring straight at him, the faintest hint of a smile on her lips—one look at her and he could tell she hadn't been paying attention.

When Ren Yexue noticed Su Yang turning toward her, she froze for a moment, then immediately furrowed her brows and put on a look of attentive concentration.

"Wow, so that's how it works! I get it, I get it."

"Su Yang, you're amazing! I understood it right away!"

Su Yang: "=.="

Ren Yexue: "＾∀＾"

"Then explain how to solve it back to me."

"Ah... Explain it back? Okay, okay... Hmm, let me think..."

Ren Yexue bit her fingertip, but still didn't put pen to paper.

Black lines covered Su Yang's face as he watched the utterly stumped Ren Yexue.

Did this girl really not listen to a single thing I said? Didn't I just waste all that time for nothing?

Five minutes passed, and Ren Yexue still hadn't picked up her pen.

Finally, after another five minutes, Ren Yexue cautiously turned her head and gave Su Yang an awkward yet polite smile.

"How about... you explain it to me again, top student?"

Ren Yexue even stuck out her tongue and acted cute for Su Yang.

But all she got in return was a merciless flick on the forehead from Su Yang.

Snap! It rang out loud and clear!

"Ow! That hurts! Su Yang, why did you hit me on the head?!"

Looking at Ren Yexue as she clutched her head, Su Yang said irritably,

"You weren't paying attention."

"That's because..."

Ren Yexue wanted to say something else, but the previously noisy classroom fell silent in an instant, cutting her off.

A flurry of movement followed.

The classmates who had been fooling around all over the classroom instantly returned to their seats.

It turned out their homeroom teacher, Teacher Zhao, had come in and was standing at the classroom door.

Seeing this, Su Yang and Ren Yexue naturally straightened up as well and focused their attention on their homeroom teacher.

"Hasn't class started yet?"

Ren Yexue muttered softly.

Unlike his usual, consistently serious self, Teacher Zhao seemed extremely anxious at the moment.

He looked all around from the classroom doorway, as if searching for something.

Finally, when he spotted Su Yang at the back of the classroom, his eyes lit up with delighted surprise.

He quickly waved several times at Su Yang, signaling for him to come out from the back of the classroom.

"Whew, thank goodness you're back, Su Yang!"

"Quick, quick, quick, come out for a moment! The director of the City Education Department wants to see you."

Homeroom teacher Zhao's words caught Su Yang off guard.

The director of the City Education Department wants to see me? What's going on? Teacher Zhao didn't misspeak, did he?

Su Yang pointed a finger at himself. "Teacher Zhao, you mean me?"

"Yes! You! Come out quickly! The principal and the Education Bureau director are already waiting for you in the conference room!"

"Okay, I'm coming."

Su Yang rose from his seat and walked out of the classroom.

After Su Yang left the classroom, Teacher Zhao called inside, "The class study representative, keep everyone on task during self-study," then hurried off behind him.

After Teacher Zhao left, the classroom instantly erupted.

"What's going on? Why would the Education Bureau director be looking for Su Yang?"

"Maybe it's a city outstanding student award? Didn't Su Yang come first in the grade last time?"

"Even if he did come first in the grade, surely that wouldn't bring the Education Bureau director to our school to see him in person? Nothing like this has ever happened before!"

"Then maybe it's financial aid? Isn't Su Yang's family pretty hard up?"

Ren Yexue remained silent, watching Su Yang's departing figure, her eyes full of complicated worry.

"Director, I know this student, Su Yang!"

"His grades go without saying, and his character is excellent too! Having a student like him at our school is truly an honor for Muyang No. 2 Middle School!"

In the conference room, the principal of Muyang No. 2 Middle School was glowing with pride as he praised Su Yang at length to a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes.

The middle-aged man wore silver-rimmed, half-frame glasses that lent him a refined air. The gray at his temples did nothing to diminish his bearing; rather, it added a distinctive charm.

It was the kind of confidence unique to a man tempered by time.

He sat on the sofa with a smile on his lips, quietly listening to the principal of Muyang No. 2 Middle School sing Su Yang's praises.

The door opened with a creak.

The next moment, Teacher Zhao interrupted the principal's endless praise of Su Yang.

"Principal, Director, I've brought Su Yang."

At those words, the director sprang to his feet.

"Let Su Yang in, quickly!"