Chapter 39: Quite Familiar

Su Tian didn’t know how Jiang Chiyu felt, but when she first put herself in his shoes, she felt so embarrassed that she wanted to scratch the walls. So she sent another message: “Welcome, classmate Jiang, to our united and friendly class.”

Jiang Chiyu replied: “Hmm.”

No one spoke again.

…

…

Su Tian was already digging into her bed.

Fortunately, at this time, “I Love Math” sent a message: “Class rep, you’re just giving away the wealth passcode like that…”

“I Love Math” was the math class representative, Song Mingxing.

Su Tian didn’t understand it the first time.

She still didn’t understand it the fifth time.

Whether she understood or not didn’t change with the number of times she read it.

Li Bai bless me: “?”

I Love Math: “Don’t you know? In our school’s main group, someone offered a high price to purchase Jiang Chiyu’s contact information, but no one could provide it.”

Su Tian never looked at the main group, so she really didn’t know.

However, she suddenly remembered that on the day Jiang Chiyu transferred, when she was in the office, someone had also mentioned that the new transfer student was their class’s “wealth code”. They told her to pull down the curtains during the day, and whoever wanted to see the transfer student would have to pay.

It would definitely be a profitable venture.

Song Mingxing seemed to have just remembered that Jiang Chiyu could also see his messages, so he added, “Of course, everyone in our class will protect Jiang Chiyu’s personal privacy. No one will do anything like profiting from his contact information.”

The whole class responded one after another. After a few exchanges, the topic shifted to something else.

Only then did Su Tian feel relieved. The moment she turned off her phone, she suddenly wondered why she was worrying about Jiang Chiyu.

Who cares if he feels embarrassed or not! What does it have to do with her!

Su Tian covered her head and went to sleep.

…

On Monday, everyone’s spirits were generally low. When Su Tian entered the classroom, half of the students were lying on their desks, catching up on sleep.

The other half were frantically finishing their homework.

She was also very sleepy. After putting away her things, she lay on the desk and took a short nap.

When she was awakened by people’s voices, someone was already sitting in the seat beside her. Su Tian covered her mouth and yawned softly, wanting to say “Good morning” but felt that it might make them seem too familiar with each other. So she held back just as she was about to open her mouth.

Jiang Chiyu spoke first: “Good morning.”

Su Tian: “Oh, morning.”

Jiang Chiyu: “Pig.”

Su Tian: “…You are!”

The brief conversation ended. The first class was morning reading, but for some reason, the teacher never came. So the sound of reading was gradually drowned out by the sound of talking.

“Did you hear? A police car just arrived at our school. It’s said that a plainclothes police officer went directly to a certain class in the second year of high school.”

“Wow, really? If they’re wearing plainclothes, how do you know they’re a police officer?”

“It seems that a few people from Class 7 who often fight recognized him. They’re familiar with the police officers at the station.”

“Can’t they just be here as a parent?”

“There are several police officers.”

It was two people behind them chatting. Su Tian listened for a while, and the sound of her reciting softly gradually became quieter.

The two continued to chat.

“Who knows what it’s about.”

“It seems, I mean it seems, it’s because a girl in one of the second-year high school classes was cheated out of two thousand yuan or something.”

“Is the person who cheated her also from our school?”

“It should be. Otherwise, why would the police come to our school?”

“Tsk, two thousand yuan. Doesn’t this already constitute a crime?”

Just as they were talking, their classroom door suddenly opened from the outside with a creak. The people in the class quieted down for a moment, and then quickly started whispering again.

Su Tian looked over. It was their head teacher, Old Gao. Behind Old Gao stood a… police officer.

The voices in the class grew louder and louder.

“Quiet!” Teacher Gao shouted. He didn’t come in but stood at the door. His gaze shifted in Su Tian’s direction.

Su Tian suddenly became nervous. Was Teacher Gao looking at her?

Why was he looking at her?

Teacher Gao paused for a second. “Jiang Chiyu, come out for a moment.”

Su Tian abruptly turned her head to look at Jiang Chiyu.

The class started whispering again.

“You—”

Su Tian wanted to ask but didn’t know where to start.

Jiang Chiyu’s eyes were calm. He didn’t say anything. It was as if he already knew what was going on. He put down his book and went out.

The voices in the class reached their peak after Jiang Chiyu and Teacher Gao left—

“Damn, there really is a police officer!”

“What’s up with Jiang Chiyu? Why did the police come looking for him?”

“Didn’t they mention fraud… Could it be him?”

“That’s impossible. It doesn’t seem like it, right?”

As she listened to the conversation behind her, Su Tian’s mind raced.

Combining the conversation between the two behind her just now, Su Tian’s mind was buzzing.

The person sitting behind her was called Yu He, and the person sitting behind Jiang Chiyu was called Wang Suhan. Both were boys.

At this moment, Yu He tapped Su Tian’s shoulder with his pen. “Class rep, do you know why Teacher Gao called your deskmate?”

Wang Suhan also looked over and added, “Why did the police come too?”

Su Tian shook her head.

Wang Suhan muttered in a low voice, “Could it really be that appearances can be deceiving?”

Su Tian heard him and snapped back, “How could that be possible!”

Wang Suhan was stunned by her outburst.

Her voice was a bit loud and not well controlled. The class gradually quieted down and looked at her.

Although they had only been together for two months in this class, in the eyes of her classmates, Su Tian had always been soft-spoken and gentle. She rarely lost her temper like this.

Su Tian also quickly realized that her tone wasn’t very good and calmed down: “I’m sorry.”

She had indeed calmed down.

The overwhelming emotions that had exploded in that instant all receded like the tide. She suddenly thought, why did she react that way?

Teacher Gao had just called Jiang Chiyu out, and a police officer happened to follow behind.

Why did she instinctively worry about Jiang Chiyu?

Wouldn’t that be equivalent to her subconsciously suspecting that Jiang Chiyu had done something wrong?

How could that be possible?

Her train of thought had been led astray by the gossip of the two behind her.

Su Tian shook her head, exhaled, picked up her pen, and continued doing her homework.

Yu He, true to his name, liked to mediate. He patted his deskmate. “What are you saying? I think the new classmate is a good person.”

He turned to Su Tian again and asked cautiously, “But, class rep, are you and the new classmate very familiar with each other?”

Yu He and Wang Suhan had been curious for a long time.

Ever since the new classmate sat in front of them, sometimes they would vaguely hear some… um… suggestive words in the conversations between the two in front of them.

They didn’t know if they had misheard or what.

Su Tian was stunned for a moment by Yu He’s words.

Familiar? It seemed they weren’t very familiar.

It had only been a week since Jiang Chiyu had returned from abroad and transferred to their class.

However, perhaps because of their past bond, the two of them could call it a long-awaited reunion.

Although the Jiang Chiyu of five years later was completely unfamiliar to her.

But maybe it was because Jiang Chiyu had been highly involved in her life for the past week, and he was everywhere, so it felt like they had known each other for a long time.

But to say they weren’t familiar, their parents had known each other for many years and had just had a meal together a few days ago. Just yesterday morning, Jiang Chiyu had been having a pleasant conversation with her father.

“Familiar.” Su Tian said softly, “Quite familiar.”