I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

Right after Gu Xi had gotten rid of the classmates using “classmates should help each other out” as an excuse, Dong Mingming, her deskmate, poked her head over and asked in a gossipy way, “Gu Xiao Xi, out with the truth. What is your relationship with Gu Chenyi.”

“No relation.” She didn’t even know him. Gu Xi didn’t know what to make of that.

“I guess he’s just a very friendly person and decided to help me carry the books back since we will be in the same competition and that I am a girl.” That was the best reason that Gu Xi could think of.

As soon as she was done talking, however, she got a “yeah right” look from Dong Mingming.

“I might believe that if it was someone else but not Gu Chenyi,” grumbled Dong Mingming. Gu Chenyi was very much like Sheng Xiuyan at school. He may not appear to be as cold and distant as Sheng Xiuyan and appear more friendly but, deep down inside, they were the same.

Gu Chenyi was the type who’d pretend that he saw nothing and walk around a girl who fell in front of him.*

Granted, the girl’s classmate later on revealed that the girl fell purposefully.

All in all, he wasn’t one who was eager to lend a helping hand.

Not to mention that he was smiling when he walked in with Gu Xi’s books, and a happy smile at that?!

That was too bizarre……

Dong Mingming grumbled to herself.

After hearing what Dong Mingming had just said, Gu Xi stopped in the middle of tidying up her examination papers. “Who did you say he is?”

“Who are you asking about?”

“What did you say his name is?” Gu Xi turned and asked Dong Mingming.

“He’s Gu Chenyi.”

“Gu?”

“Yeah.” Dong Mingming nodded with a dubious look.

Gu Xi’s eyes moved a little. His surname was also Gu?

Even though Gu wasn’t some rare surname but, combining that fact with all of his “bizarre” behavior, Gu Xi suddenly recalled Gu Shao telling her that there were three boys over on the Gu family side and they were about the same age as her……

“Do you really not know him?” asked Dong Mingming again. Gu Xi looked genuinely baffled.

Gu Xi smiled at her and said, “I will in the future.”

Gu Shao had also mentioned that those from her grandpa’s side liked her. So her guess was: Gu Chenyi was a part of the Gu family.

Came to think about it, he did look somewhat similar to Gu Shao.

The smile on Gu Xi brightened some more.

Dong Mingming was even more baffled after hearing what Gu Xi had said.

Then, Gu Xi asked her, “Do you know how his name is written?”

He was one of the well-known students at school. Of course Dong Mingming knew how to write his name. But she also felt that Classmate Gu Xi’s focus was very odd.

Baffled, Dong Mingming wrote down Gu Chenyi’s name on a piece of paper. “Like this.”

Gu Xi looked at the three characters on the piece of paper and committed his name to her memory.

***

At home that night.

Gu Xi pulled over the gift package of examination questions given to her by the dean after she had completed her homework assignments.

In the past, Liming would also arrange for similar practices and examinations before a competition.

Gu Xi opened up a set of test questions and scanned over them. They were still the familiar content and familiar type of questions.

Gu Xi had already done all of the past examinations before so she pulled out a set of predictive questions, all 20 pages of it.

“I wonder if I had fallen behind.”

Gu Xi brought up a timer app on her cellphone as she mumbled to herself.

Gu Xi started working on the set of questions as the timer started.

Per the rules, the final round was for two contestants on each team to complete as many questions as they could in 60 minutes. Each correct answer would worth one point and each incorrect one would reduce the final score by 1.

Quickly, her 60 minutes were up. Gu Xi had completed 11 problems and 2 of them were incorrect.

She was not too happy with that outcome.

“Yup, I had fallen behind.” She grumbled.

That particular outcome, however, would surprise any teacher at HSAU had they seen it. Both her speed and accuracy were impressive.

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Translator’s rambling:

I think girls in China needs to work on better balances. Sure seem to read a lot of girls falling, intentional or otherwise. No boys like a klutz, definitely not your current (or future) CEOs.