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I’m so overwhelmed I don’t even want to talk about it. Hmph.
——From Su Zaizai’s Little Fairy Diary
After the first class in the afternoon ended, Su Zaizai immediately stood up.
Just as she was about to leave the classroom, the prelude music for eye exercises came on over the school broadcast system.
Su Zaizai immediately sat back down and groaned in frustration.
Jiang Jia looked at her with an expression of exasperation: “What’s wrong with you?”
Without missing a beat, Su Zaizai lied: “My bladder’s about to explode.”
After the eye exercises ended, Su Zaizai rushed to the third floor where the advanced Grade 10 classes were located, pretending to go to the restroom. Unfortunately, she didn’t run into her handsome crush.
She didn’t hurry back, deliberately lingering in the hallway for a while.
But by the time the bell rang for the next class, she still hadn’t encountered him.
Even though she hadn’t seen him, Su Zaizai was unbearably tense…
Her heart felt like it was about to leap out of her chest. Her breathing was short and rapid, as if there wasn’t enough oxygen to breathe, and her cheeks were flushed red.
When the second class ended, she shamelessly dragged Jiang Jia along with her.
Su Zaizai couldn’t stop talking about her idol: “Let me tell you, Zhou Xuyin is just so good-looking! He’s insanely attractive! How can a guy look like that?! I can’t handle it, ah, Zhou Xuyin…”
His eyes, his nose, his lips—blah blah blah…
Jiang Jia: “…”
Indeed, when a fangirl goes crazy, it’s terrifying.
The two walked downstairs and turned left after reaching the third floor.
At the far end of the corridor, they spotted “Zhou Xuyin” walking toward them.
He approached them, glancing briefly at the two of them before quickly averting his gaze.
Su Zaizai’s breath caught in her throat. She tightened her grip on Jiang Jia’s arm and abruptly turned her head, blurting out a random topic: “What are we eating tonight?”
Jiang Jia was momentarily confused, her mind still filled with the three words Su Zaizai had been repeating. Without thinking, she blurted out: “Zhou Xuyin?”
Zhang Lurang looked over.
Su Zaizai’s face instantly turned bright red, and she tugged Jiang Jia to quicken their pace.
Once inside the girls’ restroom, Su Zaizai looked utterly defeated: “What do we do? Do you think he heard us saying we wanted to eat him…? I feel like crying, ahhhhh!”
Jiang Jia stared at her in disbelief: “He just passed by? I didn’t even notice.”
Su Zaizai pulled Jiang Jia back out.
At that moment, Zhang Lurang happened to be turning the corner. As he rounded the bend, half of his profile came into view.
Jiang Jia squinted but soon shook her head: “Too far away, can’t see clearly… I was too busy listening to you talk earlier and didn’t pay attention to anything else.”
The two returned to the restroom.
Su Zaizai turned on the faucet and splashed some water on her face, looking thoroughly dejected: “Oh my god, I feel like every time he’s within my line of sight, I get so nervous…”
“You’re smitten,” Jiang Jia said, staring at her face as if discovering a new continent. “It’s the first time I’ve seen you blush—it’s kind of scary.”
Su Zaizai took a deep breath, looked at herself in the mirror, touched her cheeks, and said seriously: “Actually, I think I look quite charming.”
Jiang Jia: “…”
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Two days after returning from the weekend, Su Zaizai became deeply dissatisfied with her own reaction of getting flustered every time she saw “Zhou Xuyin.” After some thought, she finally came up with a plan to grab his attention.
After the third class in the morning ended, she picked up her water bottle and said to Jiang Jia: “Let’s go fill up our bottles.”
Jiang Jia rolled her eyes: “Can we limit this to three times a day from now on?”
“Just accompany me twice more today, and then I’ll handle it myself from now on.”
Jiang Jia reluctantly followed along.
On the way, Su Zaizai reflected earnestly: “I realized that what I did before isn’t working—looking away the moment I see him won’t catch his attention at all.”
Jiang Jia rolled her eyes again: “So what are you planning to do?”
“When we see Zhou Xuyin, you shout my full name really loudly, okay?”
“…Oh.”
To reach the water dispenser on the third floor, they had to pass by the advanced class’s classroom. When they arrived near the advanced class, Zhang Lurang happened to walk out, holding his water bottle.
The two immediately quickened their pace, following behind him.
Jiang Jia shouted loudly on cue: “Su Zaizai!”
Su Zaizai followed up with an equally loud explanation: “I think the solution to that problem isn’t like that. Look, the car’s braking process is uniformly decelerated linear motion. If you reverse your thinking and treat it as a uniformly accelerated linear motion starting from rest in the opposite direction…”
She rattled off a long string of words, leaving Jiang Jia utterly stunned, her jaw nearly dropping.
Su Zaizai proudly declared: “So the answer should be twelve meters per second.”
Hehehe, surely a top student would be attracted to someone who excels academically!
After Zhang Lurang finished filling his water bottle, Su Zaizai didn’t rush to follow him. Instead, she turned to Jiang Jia with sparkling eyes: “How was my performance just now?”
Jiang Jia’s expression softened with pity: “...How long did you spend memorizing that problem?”
Caught red-handed, Su Zaizai didn’t even try to deny it and admitted honestly: “I was memorizing it all night.”
“When you plugged in the data just now, you got the unit for acceleration wrong… You kept saying meters per second…”
Upon hearing this, Su Zaizai froze: “Then what’s the correct unit?”
“Meters per second squared…”
She fell silent.
A long while later, she finally said: “Jiajia, let’s take a detour back.”
Su Zaizai simply didn’t have the courage to pass by the advanced class again.
She had tried so hard to show off, only to be immediately exposed as a fraud.
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“Jiajia, I think I need to salvage my image,” Su Zaizai sat on her chair, calmly analyzing the situation. “I acted too impulsively just now. I should’ve shown off my English or humanities instead.”
Jiang Jia was utterly exasperated: “...Why on earth did you choose a physics problem? Don’t you remember you only scored forty points on your last physics exam?”
“I thought he looked like a science student…”
“Big sis, they haven’t even split into arts and sciences yet!”
Su Zaizai bent over, banging her head on the desk in despair: “Then do you think I should memorize an English essay to fix my image?”
Jiang Jia stroked her chin thoughtfully: “I think you’d better not. Maybe you should just apologize properly and explain to him that you weren’t cursing him last time…”
Su Zaizai’s eyes lit up: “You’re absolutely right! So right! I’ll go right now!”
Seeing her like this, Jiang Jia couldn’t help but laugh.
Su Zaizai took out a mirror and combed her hair, muttering under her breath: “Hmm, first, I’ll make myself look as beautiful as a fairy to dazzle him.”
Soon, she sighed deeply.
Jiang Jia, confused by her fluctuating emotions, asked: “What’s wrong with you?”
“I feel so insecure,” Su Zaizai stared at her reflection in the mirror, biting her lip. “Do you think he might fall in love with himself just by looking in the mirror?”
Jiang Jia: “...”
The more Su Zaizai thought about it, the more inferior she felt: “I feel like in his world, everyone else must look ugly.”
“...You’re exaggerating.”
“Do you think Zhou Xuyin might have gone gay because of his own looks and settled for another handsome guy in the advanced class…?” Her imagination ran wild.
“...”
“No way! That Zhang Lurang! He must stay far away from my Zhou Xuyin!”
“Shut up,” Jiang Jia knocked her on the head. “But, I’ve heard people say Zhou Xuyin is roguishly handsome. Why do I only sense aloofness from him…?”
“What’s so great about being roguish?” Su Zaizai waved dismissively. “I love his restrained and cold demeanor—it’s so hot. Such a turn-on.”
“Stop fantasizing, okay? Let the guy rest in your mind for a bit, Miss Fairy.”
“Alright, I’ll let him rest for ten seconds.”
“...”
“I’m starting to count now: ten, nine, eight…”
“...” Crazy.
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After class, Su Zaizai decided to handle things on her own without asking Jiang Jia to accompany her.
She psyched herself up as she walked toward the advanced class.
She repeated the words she planned to say in her head: Hello, I’m Su Zaizai from Class Nine—the one who asked your name on the playground the other day…
What else should she say…?
Before she could figure it out, she arrived at the entrance of the advanced class.
She took a deep breath. From the front door, she could see him sitting on his chair, leaning back against it, holding a notebook in one hand, his expression unreadable.
The girl sitting in front of him was talking to him.
Su Zaizai averted her gaze and stopped a boy walking toward the front door, whispering: “Excuse me, could you call Zhou Xuyin from your class for me?”
At the mention of that name, the boy immediately glanced toward Zhang Lurang, then quickly realized: “Oh, he’s on leave.”
On leave?!
Su Zaizai froze…
Wha—what?!
Isn’t he sitting right there?! Can’t they see him?!
Panic-stricken, Su Zaizai raised her hand and pointed at Zhang Lurang: “H-he…”
Suddenly, the boy sitting in the first row of the second group burst out laughing and turned to Zhang Lurang: “Hey, Zhang Lurang, you’re falling behind! Three people have come looking for Zhou Xuyin this week, and you’ve only had two!”
At the sound of his voice, Zhang Lurang raised his head and glanced toward the front door.
Just in time, he caught Su Zaizai pointing at him. His brow furrowed almost imperceptibly before he lowered his head again and softly muttered: “Oh.”
Zhang Lurang…
It turned out that for four whole days, she had been fantasizing about the wrong person.
And worse, she had mistaken her real crush for an imaginary rival.
...She was going to kill Jiang Jia when she got back.
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