Ningjiang Middle School.
Xia Kening walked through the school gates with a curious gaze, following the crowd of students toward the first-year teaching building.
On the backs of Ningjiang Middle School's blue-and-white uniform jackets, each student's year of enrollment was marked in red numbers.
Song Yunshen and his fellow first-years had enrolled in 2024, so Xia Kening only had to follow the uniforms bearing that number to find the first-year classrooms.
She had to admit, walking onto a high school campus in Song Yunshen's body was a marvelous experience.
Xia Kening could clearly feel that the familiar weight on her chest was gone, and her whole body felt much lighter.
The only problem was that her viewpoint was a little too high. Her usual eye level was less than 1.6 meters, but Song Yunshen had to be at least 1.8 meters tall... right?
The girls all looked so short from up here.
So this is what it feels like for tall people to look at short people?
Still taking in the novel experience, Xia Kening entered the first-year teaching building and easily found Class Five by following the signs on the classroom doorframes.
Only then did Xia Kening finally begin to feel nervous.
After all, she wasn't really Song Yunshen. If someone noticed something was off, it would be terribly awkward.
Standing at the door, Xia Kening carefully recalled Song Yunshen's earlier instructions. She took a deep breath, finally mustered her courage, and stepped into the classroom.
There were still more than twenty minutes before morning study began, and the classroom wasn't full yet.
Everyone was chattering away, and hardly anyone noticed Xia Kening coming in.
But Xia Kening spotted the figure sitting in the middle of the third row with ease.
Second Sister really is here.
Xia Kening kept her eyes fixed on Xia Yunuo, curious to see what her sister was like at school.
At that moment, Xia Yunuo looked in Xia Kening's direction. When their eyes met, she immediately lowered her head again and looked away.
Did Second Sister just look at me?
Xia Kening blinked, feeling inexplicably guilty.
But then it occurred to her that she was Song Yunshen now. They were classmates, so what was there to be afraid of?
So Xia Kening continued watching her sister as she walked toward Song Yunshen's seat.
Doesn't she talk to her deskmate?
Xia Kening noticed that even when Xia Yunuo's deskmate turned around to chat with the student behind them, the deskmate didn't say a word to Xia Yunuo.
Xia Yunuo also kept her head down, reading alone, with no intention of chatting.
By then, Xia Kening had reached Xu Zhuoyue's seat. She was wondering how to get past him when he stood up to let her through.
"Stop staring. Any more of that and your eyeballs will fall right out," Xu Zhuoyue said to Xia Kening. "You see her every day, and you still can't get enough?"
Xia Kening blinked. What's wrong with looking at my own sister?
Then she realized that she was Song Yunshen right now.
Did Xu Zhuoyue get the wrong idea because I kept staring at Second Sister?
"I wasn't looking... uh... I just took a little look..." Xia Kening instinctively began to explain.
"All right, all right." Xu Zhuoyue chuckled. "Who in class doesn't know you're pursuing Xia Yunuo? Look all you want."
"Huh?" Xia Kening froze when she heard that. She raised a hand and pointed at herself. "Me? Pursuing her?"
"Who else?" Xu Zhuoyue gave her an exasperated look. "You fucking stood me up two days ago to go treat Xia Yunuo to a meal. The whole class knows about it now."
Xia Kening's eyes widened at his words, as if she'd heard something unbelievable.
"He... I... I treated her to a meal?"
"Has your brain gone mushy?" Xu Zhuoyue looked at him strangely. "I saw you two eating together with my own eyes. Don't play dumb with me."
Hearing that, Xia Kening was instantly on guard, alarm bells ringing in her head as guilt washed over her.
Damn!
How did I give myself away so quickly?
What do I do, what do I do?!
What should I do now?
Xia Kening frantically tried to recall Song Yunshen's earlier instructions, but in the end, she could only remember one thing.
So she walked straight to her seat, then did her best to stay calm and said to Xu Zhuoyue:
"Dumbass."
"Bastard, you're acting this cocky just because you treated Xia Yunuo to a meal?" Xu Zhuoyue cursed back and sat down again, but he really didn't say anything else suspicious.
Seeing how accustomed Xu Zhuoyue looked, Xia Kening gradually unclenched her hands. That actually worked?
Is this how boys are with each other?
Calling him a dumbass was actually fine...
With a strange look in her eyes, Xia Kening hurriedly took out Song Yunshen's math homework, intending to study his handwriting before the exam began.
After the bell for morning study rang, the math teacher, Teacher Song, walked into the classroom.
Since the morning exam was math, the math teacher had taken over morning study for once.
But Xu Zhuoyue, sitting beside her, clearly had no intention of reviewing. Within minutes, he quietly passed her a pad of scratch paper, with a tic-tac-toe board and an X already drawn in the center square.
Xia Kening blinked, unable to understand what he meant.
Seeing her stare blankly, Xu Zhuoyue immediately whispered, "Your turn. You're not actually going to review, are you? Stop putting on an act. Does someone with your math skills even need to review?"
Only then did Xia Kening realize that Xu Zhuoyue seemed to be inviting her to play five-in-a-row.
Some boys in her class also liked to sneak a game during lessons, but Xia Kening was in a hurry to study the handwriting, so she could only decline politely. "Teacher Song's here. I won't play."
"What are you pretending for?" Xu Zhuoyue looked exasperated. "Your math grades are so good that Teacher Song can't pay you enough attention. Come on, don't tell me you're afraid of losing?"
Hearing him say that, Xia Kening felt rather helpless.
In the end, she really had no choice but to reply:
"Dumbass."
With that, she bent her head and continued studying Song Yunshen's handwriting.
Seeing this, Xu Zhuoyue couldn't help clicking his tongue. "Don't tell me you're going to work hard and improve yourself so you can be worthy of Xia Yunuo?"
"Dumbass."
"Speaking of which, how far have things gotten between you and Xia Yunuo? Tell me."
"Dumbass."
"Don't be so stingy. I haven't even settled the score with you for standing me up for that meal."
"Dumbass."
"Hey, now you're going too far. You haven't come to play ball all week, and I haven't said a word about it."
"Dumbass."
"Fuck, are you ever going to stop? Dumbass!"
"Dumbass."
"You're the dumbass!"
"Dumbass."
"Dumbass!"
At nine-thirty that morning, at Shulan Middle School.
Having finished his math paper, Song Yunshen sat at his desk in the exam room, spinning his pen in utter boredom. He was still thinking about Xia Kening, who was controlling his body.
Xu Zhuoyue was a talkative bastard. Song Yunshen didn't know whether Xia Kening could handle him.
He hoped she wouldn't give herself away.