Together Forever - a chinese web novel
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| Together Forever |
Original Name
《至此终年》 BY 墨宝非宝Synopsis
What if you met a teacher who was once a surgeon? When you were thirteen years old, both his and your mother were being rescued in the same hospital. However, six to seven years later, he can no longer hear any sound and unable to work in the surgery theatre anymore. Holding a book, he has become an ordinary university lecturer.What if he is the same as you – abandoned by his mother, and a father who he can’t talk about?
What if he lost his health because he tried to save the nation?
What if, he loves you?
Can you bear not to love him?
“To have Ping Sheng in your life, life has no regrets.”
>>Go to the chapter list of Together Forever to read more!
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Chapter 1
The Pretty Lady’s Bane of Our Faculty (1)Due to Gu Pingsheng’s arrival, the Law Faculty suddenly came into the limelight.As an academic institution known for science and engineering, the faculties of Telecommunications and Management had always been the leaders of the school, and the Faculty of Architecture and the various science faculties were also not to be taken lightly, despite their habit of remaining quiet. As for the few lonely faculties that belonged to the liberal arts category, they practically had no status in the school worth mentioning.
" ‘Law school? This university has a law school? Isn’t it only Fudan[1] that has one?’" Shen Yao indignantly read the heading of one of the threads on the school’s BBS forum. "How dare they actually say that. They’re looking down on us!"
Her eyes had been fixed on the online discussion board the entire afternoon and even lunch had been taken care of with only some instant noodles.
Because of a single photograph of Gu Pingsheng, though, the Law Faculty finally became famous.
The weather was very hot, and Tong Yan lay sprawled on her bed.
She was biting open longan shells with her teeth, and one by one, she ate the fruit while occasionally lifting aside the muslin bed curtain to toss the shells under the bed.
Longan fruit (image credit)
"We’re normally so low-key, but this week, we’re practically catching up to Super Girl[2] in popularity. It’s all Gu Ping–– " Midway through, she realized she was actually addressing him directly by his name and immediately caught herself. "... Teacher Gu’s fault."
Shen Yao cackled with a "hehe" and corrected her, "The thing is, we’ve successfully trampled the Faculty of Architecture and now have the most beautiful teacher in the entire school."
Tong Yan nearly swallowed her longan seed.
Gu Pingsheng’s face was relatively fairer in complexion and more slender, and relatively sharper and more defined, and every so often, his attire would be rather attractive and pleasing. But to use the description, "most beautiful" on a teacher of the Law Faculty was just... However, Gu Pingsheng’s ability to incite the masses was something she could not deny either.
This was apparent just by looking at this week’s three classes of International Commercial Arbitration Law. The students who sat in on the class just to listen, despite not actually taking the course, had filled the entire classroom, causing her and the class prefect, who were both late, to have no seats and only stand at the door, staring blankly.
A classroom that seated more than sixty people... And our faculty only had nineteen students in it for our year... Where did all these people come from?
It was fortunate that when Gu Pingsheng stepped in, he had quickly discovered that their territory had been completely overrun by outsiders[3] and had softly asked two girls sitting in the front row, "Could I trouble you..."
Before his question could be completed, the two girls had immediately jumped to their feet. "Teacher, it’s no problem. We’ll just stand."
Tong Yan had been speechless. In this day and age, there were still people willing to stand to listen to a class lecture?
Luckily, he only came to the school three times a week.
In the end, to preserve the rights and interests of the students of their year, the class prefect had held a small internal meeting and established that no one should in any way divulge this semester’s class schedule or else that person would become the public enemy. They couldn’t make Teacher Gu sacrifice himself and his good looks every time to help them, right?
Tong Yan finished eating her longan fruit and then climbed down the bunk bed ladder to discover that Shen Yao had seated herself back in front of the computer.
The subject headings for every post on the entire screen were flashing with the words, "Law Faculty."
"Risking My Life to Leak Law Faculty’s Timetable," "Discuss the Abrupt Rise of the Law Faculty and its Journey to its Current Celebrity Period." "Open Letter to the Leaders of Our School re: Waste of Educational Resources in Law Faculty," "May I Ask Which One of You has Friends in the Law Faculty?"......
Shen Yao clicked the mouse and opened up a post with the subject line, "Strongly Against Teacher/Student Romances. Bring Back Our Pure, Clean Campus!’
"Wasn’t it, last year at the Faculty of Architecture’s graduation ceremony, there was a teacher-student couple that got married on that day? How come no one’s ever mentioned them? God’s finally blessed us for once, and we’ve suddenly stepped on everyone else’s toes."
Tong Yan could not be bothered to pay attention to her, and alone, she left and went outside to attend her elective course. Because it was Friday and many people had selected their courses to avoid falling on this day of the week so that they could return home, there were not many students on the university campus. She walked along the pathway and was right in the middle of letting her mind go blank and feeling utterly fatigued, when someone unexpectedly called her name.
In that moment when she turned around, she was taken aback.
Facing the sunlight, she looked over to see Gu Pingsheng, who was extremely popular in the school by now, poking his head out from a Range Rover.
Because he was framed by a background of sunlight, she could not see his expression clearly and could only sense that his eyes were on her. For reasons unknown, she remembered that night when he had sat quietly on the ground outside of the emergency room. The occasional nurse walking by had not dared to look at him.
Tong Yan walked up beside the vehicle, making an effort to slow her speech. "Teacher Gu, why are you here today?"
Gu Pingsheng watched her amusedly. "You don’t need to speak so slowly. It makes me feel like I’m watching a movie played in slow motion. Where are you going?"
His voice had much texture to it, but unfortunately, he could not hear himself speak.
The tone in which he spoke was like a very close friend and not like a teacher.
Smiling rather awkwardly, Tong Yan answered, "The library."
She had thought she was just exchanging small talk with him and did not expect that she would end up sitting in Gu Pingsheng’s vehicle. He had said he would drive her there, but in reality, it was merely a three to four minute car ride. Still, she could not refrain from sneaking glances at him a couple of times. To be truthful, from the time they had met each other again, she had not dared look directly at him.
When it was time to get off the vehicle, he also stepped out. In this place where there was always a relatively large number of people coming and going, Tong Yan was still rather nervous about walking together with him. However, it would be inappropriate for her to say anything, and so, she could only cautiously probe, "Teacher, you’re here to borrow books, too?"
He locked his vehicle before turning to her and asking in return, "You don’t know about today’s special lecture?"
Tong Yan searched hard through her memory and seemed to remember that a certain well-known figure in international trade laws had been invited to the school. It seemed her class prefect had mentioned it to them on Wednesday. Now, she glanced over Gu Pingsheng’s appearance — a black suit and tie, a calm expression in his eyes, a smile that seemed imperturbable. Besides his small action of hooking his keys around his finger, he did indeed look much more stern and authoritarian than normal...
"Don’t tell me you’re the speaker?" She blurted out the question.
"It’s my friend," he answered with a slight chuckle. "I’m here to check over the lecture hall. Have you eaten yet?"
"No."
"It’s past six o’clock now." He contemplated briefly and then suggested, "The lecture begins at seven. Time is a little tight. I’ll go buy some sandwiches and drinks and we’ll..." He took a glance at the lake called "Remembrance of Roots[4]", which was in front of the library. "Let’s eat beside the lake."
She had actually never intended on attending this lecture.
Unconsciously, her eyes flitted away. "I really want to go but I have a computers class this evening..."
"Would you be able to look at me when you speak?"
Her cheeks grew hot and immediately, she turned back to meet his gaze.
Smiling slightly, he explained, "I didn’t get a clear look at what you said just now."
With his gaze on her, she did not dare say any of the fibs she had had prepared and could only reply, "I was saying, I need to go to the fifth floor to borrow some books. You might need to wait for me for a little bit."
Because of Gu Pingsheng’s warmness and enthusiasm, she had no choice but to attend this unforeseen lecture.
Sitting down by the lake, the two of them hastily ate their dinner. As she took the first bite out of her sandwich, she glanced over at Gu Pingsheng, who was browsing through some papers. At the same time, he started putting away his materials and turned to look at her.
Tong Yan immediately adjusted her facial expression, and with a sincere and respectful look in her eyes, she waited for her teacher’s instructings.
"Your mother is well? How is her health?" He unwrapped his sandwich and took a bite.
"Very well." She thought for a moment and then asked him a similar question. "Your mother..."
"She passed away."
She offered her apology. After she had finished her entire sandwich and was starting to take sips of her coffee, she finally asked the question that had been on her mind. "Teacher Gu, I remember you used to be a doctor." And moreover, a cardiac surgeon at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
When she said this, two girls walked by in front of them, casting curious and envious glances.
Tong Yan was slightly embarrassed. Earlier, when Gu Pingsheng had made the suggestion, she had wanted to say that Remembrance of Roots Lake was known in the school to be "a lake for dates," especially on nights like this one, where a gentle breeze was blowing. Every bench was occupied by snuggling couples...... She had already deliberately placed the books she had just borrowed between the two of them, but Gu Pingsheng was just too striking. All those stares of jealousy and envy were impossible to avoid, even if she tried.
"Technically, I couldn’t be considered a doctor. Back then, I was just doing an internship at the hospital my mother worked at," he told her. "Later, because I could not hear, I could not work at an operating table anymore and so I switched to study law."
"You were able to get your PhD so quickly?"
"I took my undergraduate studies in the U.S. Both law school and medical school require that you have an undergraduate degree before you are eligible to apply." He smiled, ate the last bite of his sandwich, and then pulled out a package of moist towelettes, holding it up first to her. "At the time, I had completed two years of medical school and had not graduated yet when a mishap occurred. One of my [female, elder] cousins introduced me directly to her advising professor, and so I went to the U.K. to study law. So in fact, I actually did not waste too much time."
She understood now. Pulling out a towelette from the package, she asked, "But, why did you come back to China? Wouldn’t it be good to stay at the college you graduated from?"
Gu Pingsheng also yanked out a towelette, and after wiping down his hands, he picked up his paper cup and took a drink of his coffee. "After I graduated last year, I came back to China for vacation, and one time during a dinner, I met the dean of your Law Faculty. He invited me to teach for one semester as a trial. I have a friend here in this university, and she also convinced me to come here. And so, I decided to give it a try to see if I could be a teacher." He thought for a moment, then added, "I only signed on for one semester."
"Just one semester?"
He nodded. "I may not even get used to being called ‘Teacher’ before I’ve left."
Tong Yan gave an "oh" in response and then turned her head away, continuing to sip at the coffee inside the paper cup. She had never before had to casually converse under someone’s constant gaze, and even when they stepped into the library building together, she still was not yet accustomed to it.
Generally, guest lectures were not scheduled on Fridays because most students would have gone home and attendance would be poor.
However, when Tong Yan stepped into the large lecture hall, she gaped in astonishment. This lecture hall that seated five hundred was packed, with not a single empty seat, and even the aisles were filled with standing people... She reckoned, aside from the presentations held for fourth year students to aid them in finding jobs, this had never before been seen.
Luckily, Shen Yao had saved a seat for her ahead of time.
The entire evening, Gu Pingsheng took on the role of facilitator for the lecture.
This American friend also had celebrity status and he spoke fluent Chinese. He was lecturing away on trade laws when he veered off to talk about how, when he was in the Middle East, he had passed through gunfire and even personally rescued a girl. As they listened to his descriptions, the entire hall of people would again and again let out anxious cries. Occasionally, Gu Pingsheng would throw in a couple of sentences, and though his words were few, his comments were even more vivid and exciting than if he had personally experienced all this.
Later, when the banter between the two of them became too animated, the American started to tell amusing personal stories of Gu Pingsheng. "Back in King’s College, your Teacher Gu was definitely a "pretty lady’s bane[5].’"
The large, five hundred-person lecture hall instantly grew quiet... This American did not simply have "good Chinese," he had mastered it to the point of perfection.
Gu Pingsheng shook his head and did not speak, merely smiling. When his American friend wanted to say more, though, he finally switched his microphone to his other hand and interrupted duly, "It is now time for questions, so do the students have any questions?"
A single sentence successfully caused the hall to liven up again.
Beside them, a Korean exchange student did not understand the meaning behind "pretty lady’s bane" but was truly curious. "The thing that American guy just said, what does it mean?"
Grinning, Shen Yao explained, "Beauty that causes ‘the moon to hide, the flowers to hang in shame, the fish to sink, and the wild geese to alight.[6]’ You understand that?"
The Korean student prided himself on having passed the Chinese language assessment examination and replied very seriously, "It means a woman so beautiful that she causes the fish and the wild geese to become so dazed that they forget how to swim and fly."
Hearing this, Tong Yan wanted to giggle. The meaning was correct, but why did it sound so weird?
"That definition is about right. What that person is saying is, Teacher Gu is so gorgeous that even the pretty ladies are put to such shame they want to die."
Not surprisingly, that night on the school’s BBS, the string of post headings that were lined up and down the screen had all become "Pretty Lady’s Bane."
The Pretty Lady’s Bane in Our Faculty (2)Every Sunday, Tong Yan would go to work at her part-time job in a French sporting goods store.
This particular company actually had four or five different stores within Shanghai. In the beginning, when she first went for her interview, she had favoured this particular company simply because of its branch store that was near the university. However, she had not expected that shortly after she started her job, she would be internally transferred to another branch store that was much further away. When she had received the call informing her of this, she had hesitated for three seconds and then still chose to accept the transfer.
As a result, every Sunday at five o’clock in the morning, she needed to force herself to crawl out of bed and travel by bus for two hours before she reached the store. The only benefit of this was that this particular store was near the Hongqiao area[1] and 90% of its customers were foreigners, so it was a nice opportunity to practice her spoken English while being a sales assistant at the same time. Except, the store’s recent shipment of athletic pants had completely shattered that lovely dream.
These last several weeks, she had been sent directly into the storeroom where, like a machine, she would clip the pants onto the hangers. The biggest problem was, the metal clips were very stiff and the waist of the pants had to be pulled taut before they could be clipped. When she finished all of the more than five hundred pairs of pants, her fingers were swollen.
By the time the manager had completed inspecting her work, it was already past one o’clock in the afternoon.
She was starving, and her stomach rumbled as she walked out of the storeroom and ran with hands raised to the checkout counter. "Miao Miao, I’m going crazy. See how ridiculously swollen my fingers are?"
"Such a tragedy." Miao Miao shook her head. "It’s a work-related injury, ah."
She growled in complaint, "Yeah! The first three fingers of both my hands have no feeling. Am I going to have to eat my lunch using my ring finger and pinky to hold my chopsticks?"
Miao Miao was about to banter a couple more sentences with her when she suddenly switched to put on a professional expression, shifted her eyes away, and addressed someone behind Tong Yan. "Sir, this checkout counter is closed already."
"That’s alright," a voice answered from behind.
Teacher Gu? Tong Yan turned around in surprise. Gu Pingsheng was looking directly at her.
Could there be more of a coincidence?
Seeing the American professor beside Gu Pingsheng and that shopping cart that was crammed full of goods, she instantly understood. These two people were likely planning on driving themselves around on a self-guided tour. The cart was packed with things like tents and fishing rods...
"Your friends?" Miao Miao observed the two of them as he stared at her and she stared at him and quickly said, "Here, come here to pay. I’ll give you the 11% employee discount."
After saying this, she immediately pulled the "closed" sign off her till and very keenly helped Gu Pingsheng pay for their items.
Seeing that she was standing off to the side with nothing to do, Tong Yan stepped in and helped her bag each of the items. This was work that she was accustomed to doing since early on, so very quickly, four large bags were filled. However, as she picked up the bags, she hesitated.
So heavy. Who should she hand them to? Forget it. Of course, she should take care of her own teacher. Without batting an eye, she handed the two lighter bags to Gu Pingsheng and gave the other two to the American professor. In any case, no one could tell the difference from just the size of the bags alone.
She had not expected that right when she handed the bags over, Miao Miao would grinningly whisper in her ear, "I’m going to have lunch now. You, have a nice lunch with your hot guy. I’m guessing you won’t even get to use your ring and pinky fingers. Just kind of take a couple of bites for show. When you’re all warm and fed, you tend to start thinking raunchy thoughts."
A gasp of "ah" escaped from Tong Yan, and then before she could grab her back, that lass had already scurried away.
"Let’s have lunch together?" Gu Pingsheng spoke up at just the right moment.
Hence, Tong Yan somehow ended up eating lunch together with two university teachers.
Fortunately, she was eating curry rice, so she could use a spoon, which was easy to handle.
After the three of them had finished ordering their meals, Gu Pinsheng suddenly said to her, "Let me look at your fingers."
Tong Yan paused in surprise. How was he going to look at them? She stretched her fingers straight upright in front of him. While she was still waiting nervously, he had already gently taken her fingers in his hand and pulled them closer to him. Tong Yan started in shock. It was rather inappropriate for Teacher Gu to hold a girl’s hand like this out in the open, right?
As he examined her fingers, the American professor put on a show of seriousness, glancing over at them and then bumping Gu Pingsheng on the arm. When Gu Pingsheng tilted his head to look at him, he grinned, "Hey TK, seeing that look in your eyes reminds me of when you were studying medicine."
There was a seldom seen moment where Gu Pingsheng was taken aback before he smiled and let go of her hand. "Indeed, guilty again of acting out of occupational habit."
Oh right, he used to be a doctor. To doctors, there were absolutely no taboos between men and women.
Secretly relieved, she pulled back her hand, took her straw between her fingers, and started sucking madly at her smoothie.
Those hands just a moment ago had radiated warmth, not the icy-coldness of many years ago. They were well-proportioned, slender, and completely without any flaws.
Seriously, like the hands of one of those idealized surgeons in American television dramas...
"Will you be continuing to work like that this afternoon?" he asked her before motioning to a server. "May I trouble you to bring me some larger chunks of ice?"
Tong Yan waited until he had turned back to face them and she was certain that he could see the motions of her lips before answering, "No, not this afternoon. This afternoon, I just need to work as a sales assistant, that’s it."
"Why don’t you switch to work somewhere else?" He thought for a moment. "For example, tutoring?"
Tong Yan smiled, "I’m a student in the liberal arts stream. In general, it’s the science or engineering students who can find the tutoring jobs. Middle school and high school students usually hire people to teach math, physics, and chem. Very few ask for tutors in language arts."
"Even if you don’t do tutoring, there are lots of other jobs."
She smiled again, "Yes, but I actually want to work in something that doesn’t just involve sitting down, writing and drawing. I’m letting myself toil and sweat and experience personally how earning money isn’t easy."
The American professor grinned at this. "That’s very understandable and normal. I used to also frequently work as a cashier or something. University students usually just sit in a classroom, and if your job is like that, too, it’d be no fun at all."
She quickly nodded in agreement. "That girl who was here earlier graduated from a technical college and has worked for many years now. My very first day here, I was writing out a receipt for a customer, and I actually realized that I didn’t even know how to write out the numbers one, two, and three in banker’s anti-fraud characters[2]. It’s really simple for me to type out characters on my computer, but when it really came time to write them out with a pen, I discovered I was like an illiterate."
Soon, the server had brought over a bucket of ice. Gu Pingsheng pulled out his package of moist towelettes, took one, and wrapped an appropriately shaped ice chunk in it before handing it to her. "Hold this in your hands. It should be a little better by the afternoon."
She took it from him and clutched it in her hands, feeling slightly embarrassed. She was not that weak and fragile, you know.
In the afternoon, when she was back at work, Miao Miao’s eyes were like those of a wolf. "When the manager came back just now, she secretly told me that a man was holding your hand. Let’s not even talk about how romantic it is. I specifically asked whether it was the Chinese guy or the American. Good thing, good thing, it turned out to be that Chinese guy whose looks are enough to make people envious. Ha ha ha ha! Hurry now. Tell me the secrets behind successful seduction."
Tong Yan’s head was "covered with black lines[3]." [speechless] "He’s my university teacher."
Miao Miao was stunned. "A teacher and student romance? That’s wicked amazing!"
"He was just checking to see how my fingers were." Tong Yan raised her hand and waved it right in front of Miao Miao’s eyes. "Did you forget about my work-related injury?"
Miao Miao continued with her surprised look. "Tong Yan, I remember you’re studying law, right? So your teacher should also teach law, right? At the very least, he should definitely have nothing to do with medicine."
"He used to be a doctor and then later switched to teach law."
"No wonder he’s a teacher at a prestigious school. So talented! So wickedly amazing!"
Tong Yan was simply speechless and decided to give up on trying to explain. She went over to greet a foreign couple and started her light and easy work as a sales assistant.
Due to all the physical labour of Sunday, on Monday, she successfully managed to sleep almost right up until the start of class and was dragged out of bed by Shen Yao. "Hurry and get up. Today is International Commercial Arbitration. There’s going to be a quiz."
Her head still foggy, she opened her eyes and stared, unmoving, at that face in front of her for a long while before she suddenly sat straight up. "A quiz?!"
And it was in International Commercial Arbitration... Why was it Gu Pingsheng again?
She gnawed on the end of her pen and stared at those numerous and dense squiggles of English words in front of her. Normally, the thing that vexed her most was English comprehension problems. This time, just great, she not only had to read and comprehend, she had to thoroughly understand all of those complicated law cases as well. Most importantly, she also had to analyze them... and write out her analysis in English.
This wasn’t just a simple CET-4 or 6[4] English composition.
She cast a quick glance over at the quiz paper of the class prefect, who was sitting beside her. More dense squiggles of English words in handwriting that looked easy and confident. Basically, aside from "is," "are," and "here"... she did not understand any of it.
"Tong Wuji." Shen Yao’s head was lowered as she called her name.
Her name was Tong Yan, like the idiom, "tong yan wu ji." ["Children’s words are spoken without reservations or filters."] Her nickname: Tong Wuji.[5]
Shen Yao had not spoken quietly, obviously taking advantage of Gu Pingsheng’s deafness.
From an unknown corner, a few chuckles could be heard followed almost immediately by more chuckles and quiet sounds of conversing coming from the front of the room. Without exception, everyone was staring down at his or her own quiz paper but murmuring with one another to compare answers.
Tong Yan stole a guilty look at the man sitting beside the classroom door and ignored Shen Yao.
Shen Yao continued to call her name from behind her, changing her voice in all sorts of weird and wacky ways until, at last, she shouted loudly, "Tong Yan!" Shocked, Tong Yan dropped her pen and once again glanced guiltily at Gu Pingsheng.
A gaze passed over everyone in the room and quickly caught hers. Tong Yan hurriedly lowered her head and fixed her eyes hatefully on her quiz paper. "What?"
Shen Yao’s tone was especially fawning. "Tong Wuji, let me see your paper..."
"...... I haven’t written anything either."
"Tong Yan." A voice suddenly echoed out, rather cold, like a deep pool of water.
In a state where she wanted to cry but was unable to, Tong Yan rose quietly to her feet and looked directly at Gu Pingsheng. "Teacher Gu."
He gazed wordlessly at her for a brief moment, then walked over, picked up her quiz paper that she had only written a couple of sentences on, and looked again at her. "Don’t know the answers?"
"...... I don’t." If she were to fib even now in this moment, then she would be digging her own grave.
Outside the windows, the cicadas were chirping incessantly, and the ceiling fan above her head was happily spinning away.
But inside the classroom, it was extremely quiet. Great Beauty Gu’s demonstration of authority was quite scary.
After a long moment of silence, Gu Pingsheng finally gave a long sigh. "It’s the first in-class quiz, and all of you may not yet be used to using English to do the case studies. How about this? Tong Yan, you answer one question from me. If you answer correctly, today, you will all be allowed to bring your quizzes back with you to do and your marks will still count like normal towards your overall grade."
The class broke out in an excited uproar, and everybody immediately turned and fixed their eyes on Tong Yan, the intensity of their gazes stronger than even the blazing sun. Only Tong Yan’s face grew even paler.
"What is the general concept behind ‘international commercial arbitration laws’?" Gu Pingsheng asked her smilingly.
General concept?
"Holy cr*p!" Someone from a corner murmured, "Tong Wuji, if you can’t even answer that, expel yourself at once from our class."
"Tong Yan, for our overall grade, yah!"
"Pretty Lady’s Bane is deliberately letting us off the hook, hey, Yan Yan."
Tong Yan wished she could cry. If you’ve got the breath to say all that stuff... why don’t you just hurry up and tell me the answer?
"All of you, raise your heads and look at me," Gu Pingsheng instructed with a chuckle.
Once his voice rang out, every person instantly shut his or her mouth. Obediently, they lifted their heads to gaze at Great Beauty Gu.
"Are you done thinking over your answer?" he asked.
Torn with agony, Tong Yan steeled herself and forced herself to bravely look at Gu Pingsheng. " ‘International Commercial Arbitration Law’... is... laws that are... international... and commercial... and about arbitration."
The members of the class collectively felt tears springing into their eyes. Sure enough, spoken true to her name — like children’s words, completely without filters. Not even the slightest bit of technique or skill in them.
The Pretty Lady’s Bane in Our Faculty (3)Everybody was laughing. Gu Pingsheng, though, was not and simply calmly repeated her words. "Laws that are international, commercial, and about arbitration?" In that moment of such solemnity, Tong Yan was somewhat unable to make herself speak.
The person behind her raised a hand and lifted her head, asking, "Teacher, may I answer for her?" Shen Yao’s conscience, at last, was feeling remorseful, and she decided to turn herself in.
Gu Pingsheng’s lips were pressed together and turned up at the corner, but it was uncertain whether he was contemplating or smiling. In the end, he shook his head. "No, it’s not necessary."
He walked back to the podium, opened the textbook, and began his lecture as if nothing had happened. However, when the bell rang signaling the end of class, he closed his book and stated, "Tong Yan, this afternoon, head over to Administration and come to my office."
She was done for.
The instant Gu Pingsheng left the classroom with books in hand, all eyes turned toward Tong Yan, and the expression in every one of them said only a single thing: You’re done for.
"It’s okay." Shen Yao patted her on the shoulder. "Pretty Lady’s Bane is specifically a bane to pretty ladies, so that just goes to show that your looks are very fine."
Tong Yan ground her teeth together, wishing she could eat her alive.
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