Chapter 45: Regret
"See? So it really is true. That girl looks like she's from Class Seven. I've never seen her before. Hmph." Although Li Lumei did not say it outright, anyone could see from her expression a trace of displeasure that the girls Su Can associated with were all undeniably outstanding.
"Probably." Chen Lingshan nodded. Li Lumei often went to the convenience store between classes to buy things. In reality, those were all excuses. Her real intention was to take the opportunity to watch Mao Xiaoshi play basketball a little longer, or find a chance to get a little closer to him.
"I heard about her a few days ago. Apparently, she's really good at basketball, and her grades are pretty good too-top twenty in the year, I think. I just don't know where she came from. She seems just like Tang Wu to me. Most likely another one of their old classmates from No. 3 Middle School! Did all these people save up their energy to burst onto the scene in high school?"
Li Lumei curled her lips and, for no particular reason, thrust out her chest as she spoke with the particular sense of superiority that came with attending No. 1 High School. But on second thought, that was only deceiving herself. What did it matter which school someone had attended before? At least they were outstanding now, and that left her a little less confident. Thinking also of Shen Lu from Year One, Class One, and her bold confession to him, she could not deny that she was still a little surprised.
The class had been very quiet lately. There was little discussion even of someone as talked-about as Su Can. Most of them had been stunned by that report card. Su Can's behavior was perhaps