There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 28.1

The teachers and students of Qiande High School had been feeling a bit uneasy recently—over the past month, they seemed to have encountered Huo Jun with an unusually high frequency.

In the past, people who had this feeling would soon meet with great misfortune, but this time seemed different. Despite the students being on edge for nearly a month after repeatedly seeing Huo Jun, the campus remained peaceful and quiet, with nothing happening.

Everyone’s feelings were quite mixed.

It felt as if an eagle had suddenly moved into a group of laid-back chicks, frightening the usually chattering chicks into silence.

As a result, during the first month of school, which should have been the most restless and undisciplined, the students at Qiande High School behaved so well that it was as if they were competing to be moral role models.

The teaching director was deeply moved.

The first floating red flag of September was awarded to the third year elite class.

In early October, during the elite class’s first PE lesson.

Next to the school’s main sports field, in the sun that still held a hint of late summer heat, Qiao Jin hung from the horizontal bar, pretending to be dead—

“Brother Jun, this past month my life has been so boring I could die, and my bones are almost rusting. Can you please have mercy and let us go out to have some fun?”

“…”

When he heard the voice, Huo Jun was sitting on the parallel bars.

He was naturally blessed with excellent body proportions, long legs, and good physical fitness. At that moment, he was sitting lazily on one of the parallel bars without holding on, his gaze wandering aimlessly into the distance.

It wasn’t clear if he was looking at the horizon or at the freshman elite class students being drilled by the PE teacher in front of the horizon.

After a long silence, Qiao Jin couldn’t help but turn his head.

Following Huo Jun’s line of sight and seeing the scene diagonally across the field, Qiao Jin wiped his face with his hand.

He sighed.

“Brother Jun, stop looking. It’s no use looking, you can’t have her anyway.”

“…”

This comment seemed to hit a nerve with Huo Jun, and he turned his gaze back with an unfriendly look.

“Do you want me to help you loosen up your muscles?”

Qiao Jin shrugged innocently, “I’m just telling the truth—not to mention anything else, junior Qin Ke is now the teachers’ favorite. I heard from the math department teachers that their math teacher wants to make an exception and let her participate in the math competition that’s usually only for sophomore students and above in our school.”

“That’s true, now it just depends on what Qin Ke wants,” Qiao Yu came down from the climbing frame and joined the conversation, smiling, “I remember the last time the school wanted to make an exception was for you, Brother Jun, right?”

“…”

Huo Jun didn’t say anything, just narrowed his eyes slightly.

Qiao Jin: “Haha, don’t mention that time, be careful or our homeroom teacher will get upset with us again—he worked so hard to get that approval, but then Brother Jun got a zero on the second monthly test. He filled in all three wrong answers for every multiple-choice question, avoiding the correct ones. I heard that answer sheet is still plastered on the wall in the math department office to ward off evil spirits, hahaha…”

Qiao Yu laughed along.

The two hadn’t been laughing for long when a student from the third year elite class ran in through the field entrance. Not far away was their class’s rest area, where the top students were sitting in groups on the steps, voluntarily engaged in self-study with their books.

The boy who ran in saw Huo Jun and the other two, his face changed, he called out “Brother Jun” to Huo Jun, then carefully circled around them to the rest area.

“The honor roll is up—” He had just raised his voice when he remembered Huo Jun and the others were behind him, so he quickly lowered his volume and called out to the top students, “Last month’s test scores, they’ve just been posted.”

Hearing this, the top students stopped their self-study.

Several students in the class exchanged glances, especially those competing for the top spots, their eyes almost sparking with fire.

At first, no one made a move. After a few seconds, some students got up and walked towards the honor roll area outside the field. Only then did some of the others lose their patience and stand up to leave as well.

With this movement, almost the entire elite class followed suit.

Qiao Jin and Qiao Yu stood shoulder to shoulder watching the commotion, discussing it. Suddenly, they felt a slight tremor in the ground beside them.

Qiao Jin, being the closest, turned around and was stunned.

“Brother Jun, where are you going?”

Huo Jun put on his baseball cap backward, glancing sideways with his eyes, his voice lazy from the sun, “Isn’t the honor roll out? Going to check it.”

Qiao Jin: “……” 

Qiao Yu: “……”

A few seconds later, Qiao Jin spoke carefully yet with heartfelt concern. “Brother Jun, did you forget? You slept through the entire monthly test at the end of last month.”

Huo Jun snorted lightly, looking at Qiao Jin as if he were an idiot, “Who said I was going to look at mine?”

“…” Qiao Jin was silent for two seconds, then muttered quietly, “True, you always know whether you’ve scored full marks or zero as soon as you hand in your paper.”

Qiao Yu caught on quickly and smiled, “Brother Jun, are you going to check junior Qin Ke’s score?”

“Mm.”

Huo Jun tugged at his cap and turned to leave.

In fact, after seeing Huo Jun also going to check the scores, it wasn’t just Qiao Jin who was shocked. Along the way, the top students from the third year elite class who noticed this couldn’t help but set aside their rivalries and huddle together to whisper—

“What’s going on? Did Brother Jun take the last monthly test seriously?”

“That can’t be… I remember he was still sleeping on his desk when they collected the math papers.”

“Yeah, and he turned in a blank paper for physics.”

“Then what’s he doing?”

“This is crazy… Is our class’s top five going to be missing a seat again after this?”

“…”

The top students anxiously followed Huo Jun to the main scoreboard.

To their surprise, they stopped, but Huo Jun walked past them to the first board.

“Isn’t that the monthly test board for first and second-year students?”

“Oh, so Brother Jun didn’t come to see his own…”

“Phew, that was a close call.”

“Aren’t you curious who he came for?”

“Curious, yes—but who dares to go check?”

“…Forget I asked.”

The top students watched carefully as the boy walked to the first-year honor roll and lifted the brim of his cap.

After five seconds, Huo Jun turned and left.

Everyone: “??”

Five minutes later.

In a corner of the field, the freshman elite class had just dispersed.

“Wuwuwu, the PE teacher is inhuman…” Gu Xinqing hugged a tree and cried, “I can’t run anymore, I quit, I have heatstroke, I demand a rest!”

Qin Ke stood nearby, looking at her with a mix of amusement and exasperation. “No one’s forcing you to run anymore, didn’t we just finish the two laps?”

“…But the trauma to my mind and body can’t be healed! And it’s too much to run like this every class! Why don’t the third years have to run!”

“How about we transfer you to a third year class then?”

“—!”

The PE teacher’s voice suddenly cut in, startling Gu Xinqing, who was hugging the tree, so much that she almost climbed up it.

She trembled as she turned to look behind her. The tall and imposing PE teacher of the freshman elite class was standing there with the attendance sheet, his tiger-like eyes staring at her.

Gu Xinqing slowly shuddered and squeezed out a stiff smile:

“I was just talking in my sleep, tea-teacher…”

The PE teacher snorted with a half-smile and turned to leave.