Chapter 101: Chaos and Heartlessness
Despite her words, what Su Can saw was the ritual smile on her face and the indifference in her eyes.
In her black skirt, black stockings, little black leather shoes, and white blouse, Sun Man treated him just like any ordinary boy she interviewed or met in her usual capacity as the star presenter of the school television station. She used just the right words to leave a pleasant impression, calmly knowing how to draw closer to someone and establish a better relationship.
The boy beside Sun Man seemed very unhappy about Su Can cutting in. He hurriedly found a new topic and whispered to Sun Man, looking rather intimate, his gaze sweeping over Su Can with seeming casualness.
Su Can said no more. He listened quietly to the various speeches and waited for the pledge rally to end.
There was no longer any point in counting the months until the Gaokao. It was now the final hundred-day sprint.
By now, the humanities and science classes throughout the outer and inner school buildings were beginning to drown in a sea of exercises. Teachers arrived for class carrying thick stacks of exam papers fresh from the school printing machine, still warm and smelling of ink, and had the group leaders hand them out. On some papers, pressed too tightly together in the stack, the printed lettering had spread into black smudges.
At times like these, someone would complain about their bad luck, or stubbornly swap papers with their deskmate, setting off a squabble. These were tiny interludes, but the people involved found them immensely entertaining.
Endless functions, chemical equations, dynastic chronologies, the establishment of the Versailles-Washington System and the victory of the Russian October Revolution, the subjunctive mood, modal particles, subjects, predicates, objects, attributes, adverbials, complements,