His Wife Calls The Shots - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: So-So

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After the big commotion, there was not much time left in the session. The remaining class of the day was physics and it was to be held in the lecture hall. Hence she did not return to the classroom.
In recent weeks, a number of third-year physics teachers were out of town so there were only three teachers around to teach. Given the situation, they had arranged for three classes to be combined for a lecture.
Before she arrived at the entrance of the lecture hall, she heard someone from behind calling out to her. A bespectacled girl carrying a stack of exercise books hurried towards her. It was the girl in charge of the class.
“Qianmiao, where’s your maths assignment?”
Tang Qianmiao walked on steadily without looking back at the girl. She replied simply, “I haven’t done it.”
“What? Again.” The girl looked aggrieved and noticeably sullen. “Teacher Yan is really strict. The last time you didn’t submit your assignment, she said that was the last chance she was giving you. If you fail to submit your homework again, you’ll be in trouble the next time you see her in class. It will be tough for you.”
“Where’s the washroom?” Tang Qianmiao suddenly asked the girl.
The class in-charge was stunned for a second, then pointed in a general direction and said, “There… it’s over there.”
“Thanks.”
With that, Tang Qianmiao started walking in that direction. She hadn’t gotten very far when she sensed the footsteps following behind her.
She glanced at the girl and asked, “Why are you following me?”
“Those stairs there lead to the lagging classes. They are mostly boys and often misbehave. It’s better if you don’t go that way by yourself.”
Tang Qianmiao halted, then turned around and looked at the other girl with a subtle smirk. “Are you saying that you want to protect me?”
The class in-charge looked back at her with her quiet and bright eyes and suddenly turned scarlet. Although Tang Qianmiao was a girl, there was however, something quite boyishly dashing and charismatic about her.
“I… I didn’t mean that…” The class in-charge lowered her head and tried to find an explanation. Before she could finish, a taunting whistle could be heard coming from the far end.
The class in-charge looked up and suddenly turned even redder. She looked anxious as she said, “Qianmiao, hurry, let’s go. They’re coming!”
From a short distance away, they could see about seven or eight boys walking towards them, spread out so they almost filled the width of the corridor. The boy right in front wore his school uniform with the top buttons undone, exposing his scrawny chest.
As the boys approached, the class in-charge shrank back and stood behind Tang Qianmiao. She was now as red as a tomato.
The boy with the exposed chest stared at Tang Qianmiao with a leering smile. “New transferーI hear that you fought with Lu Wanyu? Did you manage to win the fight? Why don’t I help you… on the condition that you be my… hey! Hey, I’m talking to you. Stop right there! Stop now!”
He stared after Tang Qianmiao, who didn’t even glance at him, as she slowly and steadily walked towards the washroom. Seeing her dismissive attitude, the boy lost his temper at once.
The rest of the boys started laughing unkindly, only one of them, who looked tidy and proper, frowned.
“Brother Zheng, your skills in snagging girls has gone downhill, you’re a dead duck.”
“Shut the hell up!”
Xu Youzheng glared at the boys, then turned to the one next to him and said, “Brother An, this Tang Qianmiao quite a looker, isn’t she? I wasn’t lying.”
Shi Chengan replied nonchalantly as he took a few steps forward, “So-so.”
Xu Youzheng looked stumped. This was considered “so-so”?
“Brother, did you forget? Our Brother An only has eyes for Chu Chu. Have you seen him take a second look at any other girls?”
“Exactly. Feng Chuchu is in one of the focus classes. Besides her looks, this new transfer is only mediocre in every other way. She has no charm, isn’t she only a pretty face? Don’t you get sick of looking at her at some point anyway? We’re after inner beauty.”
Still, Xu Youzheng was enamored and didn’t see what they were talking about. As they bantered back and forth, they arrived at the lecture hall.
As Shi Chengan was ahead of them, they saw that he had now sat himself beside a girl.