The last day of 2008 was Ruan Mian’s birthday. It also happened to be No. 8 Middle School’s New Year’s Eve gala. The school had started preparing for the gala programs over half a month ago. With over 100 classes in the whole school, each class except the seniors was required to submit a performance…

The biology competition that Ruan Mian participated in that year was not very difficult, and the awards did not carry much weight either. At the end of October when the list of award winners was announced, there were over a dozen first prize winners, and Ruan Mian was among them. On the day the award…

Compared to the recent series of events, becoming deskmates with Zhao Shutang was undoubtedly the most vexing thing that had happened to Ruan Mian since transferring to No. 8 Middle School. In the last monthly exam, she and Zhao Shutang were only a few places apart in the rankings. According to Zhou Hai’s usual seating…

Ruan Mian got first place in both the preliminary and final 50m sprint races for second-year high school girls that morning. After her only event for the day, she was playing games with Meng Xinglan in the class break area when she suddenly got a call from her father Ruan Mingke. Ruan Mingke was a…

Meng Xinglan had other matters with Liang Yiran, so she didn’t ask Ruan Mian to go with her to the liberal arts class to find him. The two separated at the stairs on the second floor. Ruan Mian walked to the classroom door, reached out to push it open. Coincidentally, someone was coming out from…

The midterm grades came out on the first day after the National Day holiday ended. Ruan Mian’s weakness in certain subjects remained as severe as ever. She got full marks in math, 208 total points in science, and luckily passed English with over 100 points this time. The only subject, Chinese, barely scraped by with…

It rained in Pingcheng during those two days of the monthly exam, and the temperature also plunged sharply. Ruan Mian had forgotten to close her window the previous night before going to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she found her throat feeling a little dry and sore. Fang Ruqing and Zhao Yingwei…

“Huh? What a coincidence?” Li Zhi’s voice was a bit loud. The lazy cat who was nestled nearby taking a nap was woken up. He reached out to smooth its fur, and said again, “I really didn’t expect that.” Chen Yi was indifferent to such coincidences. He leaned over to scoop the cat into his…

September 1st was the official start of school at No. 8 Middle School. The new high school freshmen who had just finished military training took off their cheap military training uniforms and put on the uniform standardized school uniforms. They stood on the school track and field with the upperclassmen to listen to the school…

Chen Yi slept through the entire morning self-study period. When the bell rang for class to end, he immediately woke up. It was only the second day since the start of the new semester, and a strong study atmosphere had not yet formed in the classroom. As soon as class ended, it was like a…