Volume Three, Chapter One: I have time
Only a few days after returning to school, Su Can had already fully felt the enormous change brought by his status as someone who had bravely intervened. On his way to school, along the path leading to the classroom building, people would occasionally point at him, and he would hear, "That's the guy from Class Five, right..."
The students of Class Five, however, remained quite restrained. They did not deliberately bring up what Su Can had done. They laughed and fooled around just as they always had. Before he knew it, Xue Yiyang had become the center of attention again, with an astonishing ability to keep people around him. More and more girls were interacting with him. In his previous life, Xue Yiyang had yearned to be surrounded by girls like this, and this time he had gotten his wish. Naturally, he no longer had any opportunity to complain to Su Can.
Still, Xue Yiyang instinctively poked Su Can in the ribs. "You're famous now. Even Wang Chen from Class Four next door asked me what happened that day. For the sake of your buddy's lifelong happiness, I had no choice but to do you wrong!"
Su Can knew the guy had probably embellished the story and made himself the protagonist. In his telling, Su Can would become someone who had acted decisively only at his prompting, then clasped his hand afterward to thank him: "Thanks so much for reminding me and getting me stabbed!" He would invent some ridiculous, hackneyed nonsense like that to get a little closer to the girls.
Once, while teaching a lesson, Xiao Rihua called on Su Can to stand and answer a question. It covered material taught during the week Su Can had spent recuperating at home