At Lu Chi's reminder, Yue Bin and Zhang Yang finally remembered it was time for evening study. The two hurriedly grabbed Lu Chi and headed out, not forgetting to tell Xing Yuan as they walked, "Keep an eye on these bags of bracelets for us. I'll come get them after evening study."
Xing Yuan nodded helplessly. "Go on, don't worry. Nothing will happen with me here."
Zhang Yang immediately chimed in, "That line's pretty good too. We should write it down and make it into a bracelet later..."
Lu Chi: "..."
The basketball players: "..." They'd become completely possessed by business!
By the time the three of them had scrambled from the basketball gym to the library building, Yue Bin suddenly called out to Lu Chi.
"Hm?" Lu Chi, standing on the steps, turned back in confusion.
On a midsummer night, it was not yet fully dark at seven o'clock. The lingering glow of the sunset spilled across the quiet, empty field as the cool night breeze brushed past.
The sweat-drenched boy stood below the steps, looking up at Lu Chi with a brilliant smile. "Lu Chi, I believe you can take first place in the grade. I believe in you even more than I believe in myself."
As the dimming sunset dragged away the last trace of light at the horizon, the boy's sincere eyes shone even brighter than the first emerging stars.
Lu Chi, who had long forgotten about it during the intense run, paused slightly. Then he lowered his head with a smile and turned to head upstairs.
Half a month later, the transfer student everyone thought was wasting his time and letting himself go—who had even been called into the office by the homeroom teacher—scored an outrageous 733 points on the final exams.
At the same