Chapter 545: Chapter 150: Dream Stealing Space?_1
“Hello.”
Just as he was pondering about what seemed off, the serene and beautiful new classmate Elise sat down at the desk next to Link and greeted him softly.
“Hello.”
Snapping back to reality, Link lightly shook Elise’s extended hand.
“Nice to meet you, please take care of me.”
Elise showed a sweet smile and said some pleasantries before focusing on the class.
“Nice to meet you?”
Hearing her words, Link furrowed his brow.
Something felt amiss about it.
She looked so familiar somehow and her personality didn’t seem like this.
She wasn’t this calm, she should be more lively.
“Strange, why do I feel the term ‘lively’ doesn’t fully describe her?”
Link mumbled to himself, shaking his head, feeling increasingly confused.
Ever since he was roused by the homely-looking English teacher in the last class, he had felt like this.
Wait, what does the English teacher look like again?
Oh, I remember now.
Looks like bushy eyebrows, the “to wife or not to wife” Old Xu.
Unfortunately he doesn’t have a beauty like Cong Shan as his wife, he heard that Old Xu is a perennial bachelor.
The kind who only thinks about himself and not his family.
Ah, why doesn’t anyone ask me, “do you want a wife or not?”
When that time comes, I’ll proudly yell out, “I do!”.
He he he…
Without noticing, Link’s thoughts wondered away from little sister Elise, daydreaming about a flamboyant life that might get him stabbed.
A Chinese class passed by in aimless thoughts.
“Want to hang out?”
Little sister Elise wasn’t shy at all and even took the initiative to invite Link.
“No, I’ll stay a bit longer.”
For some reason, Link wanted to accept her invitation but changed his words before it left his mouth.
As if as soon as he stepped out of the classroom, something bad would happen.
“Ah!”
Elise sighed, a glint of disappointment flashed in her eyes, then they became lost.
She brought up hanging out no more and even didn’t go herself, circling her arms and resting her head for a bit.
“Ah!”
Link felt dispirited, feeling as if he did something wrong.
But didn’t know where he went wrong.
He blankly watched Elise as she rested her head on the desk, his pupils vibrating rapidly up and down.
It was as if two people were playing tug-of-war inside his head and his pupils were the red flags tied to the rope.
His head was throbbing with pain.
Forget it, I’ll stop thinking and go to sleep.
Frustrated with the discomfort, Link laid his head down on the desk, his pupils immediately ceased vibrating and his head stopped aching.
“Want to hang out?”
After awakening, he heard Elise’s invitation again.
Wow, another class ended.
How many classes have passed?
“No, I’ll stay a bit longer.”
After some thought, Link still felt that he didn’t get enough sleep, so he rejected the invitation straight away.
Huh, why the hell does the thought of hanging out make me want to sleep?
I’m not Ah Q, having a weird habit of loudly declaring “I want to nap with you.”
Right, who’s Ah Q?
A character from a text we learned in Chinese class?
This question emerged, and Link started flipping through his Chinese textbooks.
One, two, three, four, five…
There seem to be a lot of Chinese textbooks in his desk drawer as if they wouldn’t end.
Flip flip flip.
Link kept flipping desperately, trying to find Ah Q who liked to feel pleased with himself after “being beaten by his son.”
“What are you looking for?”
Elise asked gently from the side.
“What am I looking for?”
Link repeated the action of flipping pages furiously and repeated Elise’s question.
It seemed as if he was questioning Elise, or maybe questioning himself.
What was he looking for?
Was it Ah Q, or something else more important?
Link couldn’t help but feel dejected.
He stopped his flipping, showing a deep sorrow on his face, looked at Elise’s puzzled eyes and said dejectedly, “It seems I’ve forgotten what I was looking for.”
After he said this, Link suddenly felt his eyelids becoming heavy.
Circling his arms, resting his head, he quickly fell asleep.
Elise looked at the lightly snoring Link, mumbling wordlessly to herself:
Ah Q?
Who is Ah Q?
Why hasn’t she ever heard of him?
After hesitating for a while, Elise extended her index finger and gently touched Link’s cheek.
A weird thought surfaced in her mind, she seemed to have stolen a kiss here before.
She shook her head with a smile and suppressed the absurd thought.
They just met recently, how could she have kissed Link, and stolen one at that.
She was not a hopeless romantic, how could she do such a bashful thing.
It’s all nonsense, all nonsense!
Thinking like this, Elise retracted her hand and sat deep in her chair.
Just like that, a day passed by.
The next dozen or so days seemed to be a carbon copy of the day after he woke up.
Class, recess, class, recess, class, recess.
It felt like besides these two things, there should be no other things to do.
For instance, refusing to go out to play with Elise.
It felt like an evil act that would bring about disaster once done.
“Want to hang out?”
Not knowing how many times Link had spaced out, Elise waved her hand in front of him, after getting his attention, she extended an invitation.
Not waiting for Link to reject, Elise lowered her voice intentionally and said, “I’ll take you to play something fun.”
After saying this, she abruptly clasped Link’s hand and pulled him towards the classroom door.
There was no room for refusal.
Wait.
Outside the classroom?
Have I left the classroom these days?
As he was dragged out of the classroom, Link raised this question in his heart.