Rebirth and Redemption C23

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Chapter 23 — Exam

He still had to restrain.

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Early in the morning, Chu Feng and Rong Xun checked the water, electricity, and windows at home, locked the door, and rushed to school. It was quite cold in the morning. Fortunately, Chu Feng specially told Rong Xun to wear a scarf when he went out, which made Rong Xun not feel cold. 

When they entered the classroom, there were few people inside, and they were reading while having breakfast. There were exams for today and tomorrow, and no one dared to neglect. They all seize the time to read more questions. Maybe what they saw in the morning would be included in the test?

Chu Feng and Rong Xun sat on their seats and started reading while having breakfast like them. Now Chu Feng was very organized in reading. He knew what should be paid attention to, and which ones to look at casually to have an impression. Since the third year of senior high school, their monthly exams had the same model and scores as the college entrance examination. They wanted the students to be familiarized with the examination form of the college entrance examination as soon as possible, so as to avoid making mistakes in the busy time of the college entrance examination.

During the meal, every time Rong Xun accidentally looked up, he could see the girls quietly looking into their class, and they were not from their class. As for which class they were from, he didn't know. 

These girls looked inside at the door of their class. At last, their eyes fell on Chu Feng, and some accidentally looked at Rong Xun when they came in, and they all walked away shyly.

After several times, Rong Xun also noticed that these girls should have come to see Chu Feng because of the advertisement yesterday. After all, it was rare to find a student at school who filmed an advertisement on TV and was also very good-looking. It was understandable that they wanted to sneak a peek out of curiosity.

“What are you looking at?” Chu Feng saw that he always looked at the door and he followed the direction he was looking at, but there was no one, not even a scenery. He didn't know what Rong Xun was looking at.

“Nothing.” Rong Xun smiled and didn't mention it. The exam was coming soon. He didn't want to affect Chu Feng's mentality. Although it didn't seem to affect Chu Feng, but who could tell for sure?

Chu Feng took the bags they had finished eating and threw them away and took hot water by the way. The two drinks they bought that he advertised were not finished yet and could be saved until noon.

Just after taking the water, Gui Heng and Si Xian came. They looked like they had just come from home. They shouldn't have met in the dorm last night.

“Brother Feng, you did a good job in that advertisement.”Gui Heng smiled immediately when he saw Chu Feng.

Chu Feng didn't answer him, but asked, “Why did you two come together?”

“I met him at the school gate.” Gui Heng smiled and touched his arm with his elbow. He whispered, “When I just went upstairs, there was a girl student who stopped us and asked if you were from our class.”

Chu Feng raised his eyebrows but didn't take it to heart. He had been an actor for a long time and understood that this was a momentary freshness feeling of the little girls, especially the Jinhua students in his same school. After all, they were close to him, but wait a little longer and everyone would get used to it.

“How was your review?” Chu Feng asked.

Gui Heng's face had a sullen expression and his mouth twitched, obviously, he lacked confidence. 

Si Xian looked very confident and said with a smile, “Anyway, I didn't play during the holiday. I read at home.”

Si Xian had always been a very restrained person and had strong self-control. There was plenty of time to play after the college examination, so if he didn’t play this year, then he wouldn’t play.

The students in the class came one after another. Many people would pay special attention to Chu Feng, but they also knew Chu Feng's reputation, but some people dared to take the initiative to talk to him.

Soon, the headteacher Dong Fang came into the classroom and saw everyone coming. She smiled with satisfaction and said, “Everyone came very early. Did you review well during the holiday?”

“Reviewed.” The students said in unison, as for whether it was true or false, who knew. 

Rong Xun whispered to him, “Jiayou.”

Chu Feng smiled and said, “You too.” 

Rong Xun watched Chu Feng leave the classroom before taking his things to the designated seat.

The examination time actually passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, the morning passed.

Because the four of them were assigned to different classes, Chu Feng sent a message that he would meet directly in the small canteen at noon. He went back to the classroom to pick up Rong Xun and go with him.

Rong Xun didn't want to put pressure on Chu Feng and didn't ask him how he did in the exam.

“What would you like to eat at noon?” Chu Feng asked him. The exam was hard and naturally, he should reward Rong Xun.

“Fried squid rings.” Rong Xun told him. He liked it very much from the first time he ate it, so he would usually eat it twice or three times a week.

“Okay.” Chu Feng said. 

After entering the small canteen, Chu Feng found that there were many more people here than usual and the environment was a little noisy, but he didn't care. After all, he wasn't the only one who wanted to reward himself during the exam.

“This way.” Gui Heng waved to them.

Chu Feng nodded and motioned them to choose their food first, and took Rong Xun to choose food first.

“Brother.” Chu Rou arrived, who knew when. She patted Chu Feng from behind, then turned her eyes to Rong Xun around Chu Feng and said with a smile, “Senior.”

“En.” Rong Xun smiled at her.

In fact, Chu Rou also liked to eat in the small canteen, but because she always came with her good friends, it was always inconvenient to sit with Chu Feng and talk to them. After all, girls have their own little secrets to talk about, so it was usually just a greeting.

“There are a lot of people today. I think Brother Heng had already taken seats, add us ba.” Chu Rou said to Chu Feng coquettishly.

“All right.” It was just putting a table together, Chu Feng would not refuse.

The friend who was with Chu Rou looked at Chu Feng with bright eyes, with a bit of shyness in her eyes but didn't talk much.

As soon as he sat down, Gui Heng said with a smile, “Brother Feng, can you guess how much came here for you?”

“No one came for me. It's all for rice. Eat yours quickly.” Chu Feng said. Although he made an advertisement, he was still far from entering the entertainment industry. He would not be complacent about such an advertisement and think that everyone liked him. After all, he also learned from the past, and he knew something very well.

“Brother, I think Brother Heng is right. Several students in the class asked me about you today.” She never wanted to hide her relationship with Chu Feng, so many people know that they were brothers and sisters.

“Eat your meal, don't follow your Brother Heng.” Chu Feng picked up a dish for Chu Rou and moved Rong Xun's favorite to him.

“I didn't.” Chu Rou bowed her head and ate. After a while, she looked up at Rong Xun and Si Xian, “What do you think, Senior Rong Xun, Brother Xian?”

Rong Xun smiled and said nothing. He had found it this morning.

Si Xian smiled and said, “Your brother knows well, so don't worry.”

Although there were more people in the small canteen, no one came to chat up with Chu Feng. At most, they just looked at him and didn't affect them. After dinner, passing by the small supermarket in the school, Chu Feng saw someone selling lollipops and wanted to buy one for Rong Xun, but Chu Rou was also there. It was obviously not good just to buy one. He simply bought one for each, and his one was stuffed into Rong Xun's pocket. He didn't like to eat this kind of food very much. It was just right for Rong Xun to have one more.

Chu Rou's friend was obviously very happy to get the lollipop Chu Feng handed to her. Her face was flushed and whispered her thanks.

Chu Feng didn't care. He walked back to Rong Xun and felt he was very cute when he saw him with a lollipop. When the two were whispering, there was also the mixed taste of lollipop vanilla and chocolate. It seemed like Rong Xun had become a large lollipop.

Chu Rou didn't worry much about her good friend who blushed at her brother. She knew that her friend was not a love-struck fool, but a kind of clever girl, and not a person who would fall in love quickly. That was why she was so relieved to take this friend to fight with her brother.

The two-day exam was over in the twinkling of an eye. It was not until he returned to his dorm the next night that Rong Xun asked Chu Feng how he felt about the exam.

Chu Feng said with a smile, “It must be better than before.”

“That’s good.” In fact, he had no high requirements for Chu Feng, as long as he made progress.

Chu Feng lowered his voice, leaned to Rong Xun's ear, and said, “I'm used to sleeping with you. I always feel I am missing something when I go back to my bedroom.”

Rong Xun felt hot on his face, pushed Chu Feng, and then ran into the bathroom with his clothes— what Chu Feng occasionally said, he really couldn't resist. The feeling of his heartbeat stopping made him feel excited and a little flustered.

Chu Feng chuckled and didn't chase him. After all, this was the dorm, not Rong Xun's house. He still needed to restrain.

Before the class the next day, Dong Fang called Chu Feng to the office.

“I saw the advertisement you made, and I heard many girls talk about it privately.” Dong Fang said in a slightly serious tone, “If you want to develop in this area, the school and teachers will not interfere. But I hope you can be vigilant and don't start puppy love because girls love you, so as not to delay your studies.”

“Don't worry, I will never fall in love with girls.” Chu Feng vowed.

“That’s good.” Dong Fang was afraid that talking too much would make Chu Feng unhappy. Now it seemed that Chu Feng was still very good at communication. “You're very popular now, and it's normal for children as old as you to pursue stars, handsome boys, and beautiful girls. I can understand it. But it's only temporary. I hope you don't delay your study because of your temporary popularity.”

“I understand.” Chu Feng smiled.

“That’s good. All right, you go back first.” Dong Fang said.

Back in the classroom, as soon as Chu Feng sat down, Rong Xun came up and asked in a low voice, “Why did Teacher Dong look for you? Is it related to the exam?”

Chu Feng said with a smile, “It's not related to the exam, it's related to puppy love.”

Rong Xun looked at him with wide eyes, but on second thought, he knew why the headteacher wanted to talk to Chu Feng about this.

Chu Feng whispered, “I promised her I would never have a girlfriend. But I didn't say I wouldn't have a boyfriend.”

Rong Xun felt that his ears seemed to be scalded by the heat exhaled by Chu Feng. He quickly sat up and didn't ask anything. He honestly read his book, only his red ears confirmed that he was actually shy…

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Footnotes: 

test — 会考, unified examination

she — Okay, in the raws 她也不得不多提醒几句, the character 她 is used for she, her. I already checked a previous chapter, and it used the 他, as for the rest, I will check it the other time. 

Jiayou — 加油, lit. refuel, add oil. / fig. to make an extra effort or to cheer on. I don’t want to translate that so I used pinyin. 

Translator's Notes:

An anonymous comment asked about the release comment. As for the release schedule, I wrote it on the TOC page of Rebirth and Redemption. I am very sorry to tell you this, but the release schedule is sporadic. I don't have a fixed schedule when to post but if I can, I will work on it as long as I can.  Thank you very much for reading Rebirth and Redemption. 

I worked on this chapter as fast as I could so you can read it. I am very thankful that so far, no one asked me to rush on releasing chapters but thanked me and gave me good words upon recovering. 

Thank you very much for your understanding. 

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