Chapter 1097: Chapter 1097: Truly Bitter
But not long after the new term started, with the change of principal, that promise was voided, while the company where Li Chengyuan worked had a partnership with City No.1 Middle School. For any employee’s child who could get into City No.1, the tuition would be at a discounted rate, only one third of what ordinary students paid.
That was also the reason he transferred.
His impressive high school entrance exam report made him a key target of the competition coaches as soon as he entered the school.
Xi Siyan had never quite decided whether to join or not. It was a hard road; once you made it through, university scholarships and guaranteed admission spots would be within easy reach.
But if you failed and turned back to take the college entrance exam, your grades would usually suffer a big drop.
Yet now, Xi Siyan planned to give it a try.
He wanted to fight for his own life.
Xi Siyan grabbed a casual bite from a street stall outside and came back. Before going to bed, he caught sight of the cold medicine he had tossed aside. His brows knitted slightly; after a moment, he reached out, took it over, pulled out a pill, shoved it into his mouth, and forced it down.
Then he went to take a shower. Lying on the newly bought bed, there was still a bitter taste of medicine in his mouth—really bitter.
But when she had forced him to take medicine that day, why hadn’t it felt this bitter?
Was it because he hadn’t drunk water?
Xi Siyan got up again, poured himself a glass of water and drank it. It was a bit better, but still bitter.
On Monday, because he now lived much closer to the school and his biological clock hadn’t adjusted yet, Xi Siyan arrived at the school gate very early. There were lots of breakfast stalls at the entrance, and Xi Siyan was not in the habit of eating breakfast.
It wasn’t that he never did; mainly, it was that no one had ever prepared it for him before, and the money Zhang Yi gave him was barely enough to cover lunch—how could there be extra for breakfast?
But today, he paused for a second at the gate and suddenly thought of the breakfast Zhou Chengchen had brought him before. Xi Siyan only hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward. "Two pancakes, thanks."
"Okay, just a moment."
Watching the vendor deftly pull out two pieces of dough and get ready to fry them, Xi Siyan suddenly remembered something and spoke up. "Sorry, one is enough."
The vendor glanced at him and didn’t get annoyed. "Got it."
Xi Siyan had originally wanted to bring one for Zhou Chengchen as well, to reciprocate and show his thanks. He didn’t like owing people favors.
But then he suddenly remembered that Zhou Chengchen had said it was just breakfast made at her house.
Xi Siyan didn’t know what exactly Zhou Chengchen’s background was, but clearly, this deskmate of his came from money. Everything she wore and used obviously wasn’t cheap; after school she even had someone specifically come pick her up, exactly like those two little kids from the Li Family.
Families like that really weren’t the type to eat food from street stalls.
Soon, the vendor finished. Xi Siyan paid and stepped into the school.
He was the first to enter the classroom. Not long after he arrived, Zhou Chengchen came.
Xi Siyan was a little surprised. She was almost always cutting it close; even when she wasn’t, she never showed up this early.
There was still a hint of anxiety on Zhou Chengchen’s face.
"Hey, Xi, morning."
After greeting him, Zhou Chengchen hurriedly started rummaging through her own desk drawer.
The only reason she had come so early was because when she was checking her homework last night, she had realized that she seemed to have left one math paper at school. She absolutely did not want the class rep to write her name down in front of Xi Siyan, so she could only run over early.
She searched twice and still didn’t see that paper.
Zhou Chengchen’s features scrunched together. She’d lost it?
As she was thinking that, a big hand suddenly reached out in front of her, and two identical math papers were placed right before her eyes.
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