Class

The classroom was divided into left and right sections, with an aisle down the middle. There was a row of six seats on each side. At the moment, two unfamiliar students from other classes sat near the aisle, followed by Gao Jun, Su Yuan, Ji Yehao, and Yang Xiaowei.

Su Yuan had not brought her textbook, so she could only share with Gao Jun and Ji Yehao. Fortunately, it was the first class, so they generally would not cover anything too advanced.

She had long heard that Physical Chemistry was a very important foundational course, so the school was extremely strict about it. Sure enough, the instructor was a female associate professor in her early thirties. The moment she arrived, she began taking attendance and bluntly told everyone that anyone absent more than three times would automatically fail the final exam. Her style was truly swift and forceful.

Su Yuan shuddered inwardly and immediately placed this course on her no-skipping list!

The female professor introduced herself, then got straight to the point and gave an overview of the course before immediately starting the first lecture. The pace was dizzying.

"Teacher Liu doesn't seem easy to deal with!"

Below the podium, Su Yuan frowned and remarked.

Yang Xiaowei gave her a thumbs-up. "Our Su Su's instincts are sharp as ever! Teacher Liu really isn't easy to deal with. I heard that when she taught last year, there were thirty-six or thirty-seven students in one class. By the end of the term, half of them had to take make-up exams, and a third had to retake the course."

Su Yuan froze, unable to believe it. "Ten people retaking a course in one class? Teacher Liu is a little too formidable, isn't she?"

"Why would I lie to you? Running into her means we're unlucky!" Yang Xiaowei spread his hands, looking as though they were doomed.

Universities generally had strict admissions but easy graduation requirements. It was as though once someone got into college, they could simply sit back and wait to graduate. In reality, that was more or less true. Aside from a small number of people who could not obtain their diplomas, most graduated smoothly. This was also reflected in final exams. It was common for some students in a class to need make-up exams, but very few had to retake a course.

"Holy crap, this is a deadly rhythm!" A boy in the front row shouted casually after hearing Yang Xiaowei's words. He wore a leather jacket and an earring, and at first glance looked like some street punk.

Su Yuan poked him with her pen and said, "Fang Kai, if you don't put in some effort, your chances of getting hit are pretty high!"

"Peh, peh! Watch your mouth!!" Fang Kai was like a rat whose tail had been grabbed. He raised a fist at Su Yuan, then thought about it and was suddenly overcome by a wave of bleakness.

"Hahaha." Su Yuan burst out laughing.

By society's standards, Fang Kai could definitely be classified as a thug. Yet strangely enough, he got along quite well with Su Yuan and the others. He could even cheerfully accept Su Yuan's "curse." If it had been anyone else, they would have gotten a fist in the face.

"Hey, Su Yuan... did you get plastic surgery?"

Fang Kai's words nearly made Su Yuan choke on her own saliva.

"That male student over there, pay attention in class!"

"Seems like she's talking about us!"

"Stop talking, I know already." Su Yuan hurriedly lowered her head, trying her best not to expose her face to Teacher Liu. If she made a bad impression in the first class, this course would be in danger. She did not want to repeat the disaster of Calculus. Luckily, Teacher Liu only glanced at her a few times, and the little incident passed.

"Ring ring ring!" The first class ended, and there was a ten-minute break. Su Yuan had spent the entire class tilting her neck and was already sore all over. She immediately slumped limp over the desk like an invertebrate and closed her eyes to rest, leaving Ji Yehao and Gao Jun looking at each other.

When class resumed, Teacher Liu continued explaining the textbook material from the podium. Her lecture was dazzling, her logic exceptionally meticulous, and even obscure concepts became simple in her mouth. Of course, that simplicity varied from person to person. Su Yuan looked around and saw many people already playing on their phones. They presumably could not understand it, so they simply gave up listening and planned to catch up later.

This sort of thing was common. Even during Calculus last semester, Su Yuan herself had done exactly the same thing.

After what felt like forever, the dismissal bell finally rang. Perhaps because she had drunk some water that morning and then downed a bag of soy milk, Su Yuan had long been feeling the urge to use the restroom.

The third and fourth classes were Human Physiology, and they needed to switch classrooms. There was a relatively long break in between, so after asking where the next classroom was, Su Yuan handed her textbook to Gao Jun and headed for the restroom.

At that moment, the corridor was packed with students filing out, some carrying bags and others holding textbooks. The traffic became clogged for a while. When she reached the restroom, she ran into the men's room without a second thought. After all, she was currently a "boy," and entering the women's room would look far too strange to others. Seeing an open stall, she immediately claimed it.

Women's physiological structures differed from men's, so the state of relieving themselves was also different. The sounds they made were distinctly different as well. Furthermore, because developed organs could obstruct the flow of urine, many girls often ended up getting their lower bodies wet and needed to carry tissues to wipe themselves clean.

Su Yuan had once seen a joke claiming that someone had studied women urinating and found that if they made a "hissing" sound, like water rushing from a broken faucet, then from a physics perspective, such women were definitely younger, stronger, and tighter.

If the sound was more of a "zzzt," like a toy water gun firing, then these women were older than the first type. They were still youthful, but had far more experience in that department. If the sound was a "splashing" noise, then they were either auntie-level or extremely experienced; if they made a faint rustling sound or no sound at all, then they were either sickly and weak, shy, or young virgins.

As for those who made a roaring splashing sound while urinating, with the grandeur of water pouring down from on high, those were transvestites.

There was not a single cloud in the sky, only a blazing sun overhead.

Under the shade of a massive camphor tree, the gentle breeze brought threads of coolness.

"Fang Kai, isn't this a little inappropriate?" After their afternoon Computer Science class, Dormitory 330, where Su Yuan lived, had accepted Fang Kai's invitation to gather beneath the camphor tree beside the rubber track field.

She looked awkwardly at Fang Kai across from her. Not far away, pairs of fiery eyes shot toward her, making her unable to sit still.

Fang Kai waved a hand and said comfortably, "That's life. Some people suffer while others enjoy themselves. When has life ever been fair from the start? We should enjoy ourselves and ignore them."

"Tch!" Su Yuan curled her lips, but she could not be as carefree and uninhibited as he was.

"I think Su Yuan's concern makes sense. The amount of aggro we're drawing does seem a bit high." Gao Jun spoke up, and it was clear that, like Su Yuan, he was not quite used to this either.

"It's fine, it's fine. We're tempering their willpower. Opportunities like this do not come around all the time for them. It'll definitely benefit them once they enter society."

Ji Yehao and Yang Xiaowei shook their heads. Yang Xiaowei said, "Fang Kai, look. The junior girls across from us are looking at us with nothing but hatred. That's going to be a huge obstacle when it comes to picking up junior girls in the future!"

Fang Kai glared. "Cut the crap! Don't you already have a girlfriend? Even Master Fang here doesn't care, so why are you whining?" Yang Xiaowei chuckled. "Of course I don't care. I'm just worried you'll become the bad senior on the campus forums!"

"It's fine. Don't I still have you guys with me?"

"You actually have the nerve to say that?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

Under the shade of the enormous camphor tree sat a small table. Su Yuan, Ji Yehao, Gao Jun, Yang Xiaowei, and Fang Kai sat on the ground together, enjoying the two chilled watermelons placed on it. Not far away, under the blazing sun, the freshmen undergoing military training stood at attention on the rubber field. One by one, they stared at their noses and focused on their hearts, doing their best to ignore the bunch of bastards ten meters away.

Su Yuan felt as if she had committed an unforgivable sin, and her heart was full of torment. The boys across from them probably wanted nothing more than to tear them apart alive.

Fang Kai spat. "Do you know how exhausting it was for Master Fang to haul these two watermelons over here? It's good enough that you even have something to eat. You should be grateful, grateful!!"

"But I think what we're doing is pretty immoral..." Su Yuan had eaten his food, but still wanted to say something.

"Then why is someone eating so happily?"

Su Yuan could only give an awkward laugh.

It turned out that not long after Su Yuan and the others returned to the dorm after their afternoon classes, they received a call from Fang Kai inviting them out to eat watermelon together. Seeing such a good opportunity, they gladly came. But once they arrived beneath the camphor tree, everyone was speechless. This guy... he had actually done something so wicked and heartless!

He was simply rotten to the core.

Still, eating chilled watermelon in front of freshmen undergoing military training, experiencing the difference between heaven and hell, gave them an irresistible impulse. It had a unique flavor of its own.

"We're tempering their willpower. The junior brothers and sisters will definitely understand our good intentions in the future. This is all for their own good!"

At first hearing those words, Su Yuan exchanged looks with the others. They had never seen anyone so shameless. She even felt as though she was the sort of person who had failed to withstand the test. Forget it, forget it. Better a dead friend than a dead me. She took a fierce bite of watermelon flesh. Then she suddenly asked, "There's a class meeting tonight. Fang Kai, are you going?"

"A class meeting? What's the point? I'm not going! I'd rather go play World of Warcraft!" The moment Fang Kai heard there was a class meeting, he immediately shook his head.

Su Yuan wore an expression that said she had known all along.

"Hey, Su Yuan, you should have a shot at competing for the position of Youth League secretary this semester, right?"

Su Yuan paused, then shook her head.

With the start of a new academic year, the class officers and Youth League secretary would all be replaced, though they could also remain in office. But considering future employment prospects, they tried to let as many students as possible serve as class officers so everyone could make their résumés look better.