There was no denying how important the environment was.
Once all of Senior Year Two moved into the Senior Year Three classrooms, the urgency of facing the Gaokao and the atmosphere of studying immediately intensified.
Having only just moved, though, many students had yet to adjust and kept accidentally going to the wrong classroom.
The Class Monitor, for example.
On Sunday morning, as Chen Shi'an and Wen Zhixia walked along the school path to their extra classes, they distinctly saw Lin Meng Qiu, who had just come from the dormitory, head up the Senior Year Two stairwell...
Only when Chen Shi'an reached the entrance to Senior Year Three's Class Five did he see the Class Monitor, who had gone to the wrong classroom, hurrying across the connecting walkway with her head down...
"Class Monitor."
"...What?"
"Did you go to the wrong classroom?"
"×!"
Utterly embarrassed, the girl stammered things like "I just went to have a look" and "Can't I come over from that side?" Chen Shi'an burst out laughing, only to have his morning milk confiscated. Even the soy milk Little Cicada had given him was snatched away and drunk by the Class Monitor...
Accustomed to having one day off a week, everyone felt as uncomfortable as if ants were crawling all over them when their rest time suddenly shrank to half a day.
Many students were listless throughout the morning's classes, and instant coffee became the classroom's bestselling item.
Fortunately, the half day soon passed.
When classes ended at noon, Chen Shi'an left campus with the two girls.
"Ha! There's one good thing about being in Senior Year Three now. We're so close to the school gate!" Wen Zhixia said optimistically.
"...But we're so far from the cafeteria," Lin Meng Qiu said pessimistically.
"And we won't have to