Author; Angelina
Translator: Jlei2000
Chapter 2: Where is the prince?
This school has no legends. People only want to be a legend of dressing unusually and non-mainstreamed. They are not here to study. They’re here to take part in a fashion week. No landscape poetry only a grove for lovers affair to hide in; [1]. No culinary delicacy on the tongue; [2] only canteen Aunt’s supple hair mixed with white rice and immutable side dishes. [3]; Not even a good learning atmosphere, only students who go over the wall to play overnight[4]. Besides being ordinary and mediocre, this school remains tasteless.
[1]共青路偷情隐蔽的小树丛 this sentence took me a while to figure out. It still might be inaccurate so if i’m wrong please feel free to correct me.
[2]舌尖上 means tongue 美食 means culinary delicacy aka gourmet food
[3]一成不变- immutable; this means that the side dishes are the same, they never change.
[4]翻墙出去打通宵的学生 not too sure about this one either. From what I have gathered it’s telling us that students go over the school’s wall to play overnight.
The third year of high school is life’s second field of tragedy after the three encounters. Teacher and parents simultaneously extend hands to cherish. To lead students rubbing them in their palm. Rubbing till they’re unable to become humanoid (a robot)
Guo Zhi walked in this piece of dull scenery repeatedly, looking at the front. He has not considered. He has a harmonious family, fixed friends, healthy hobby, and stable achievement. But why, sometimes the incredibly lonely feeling suddenly hits. This type of strong loneliness. Regardless, himself and others are unable to help relieve it. Just pointless loneliness.
The Headteacher is holding a flashlight patrolling the school. Guo Zhi approached the garden grove whispering a cry; “Quickly run~~ The Headteacher is coming~~” Originally just a ordinary restless grove but birds scattered to hide in the smokes. Couples clothes irregular and suddenly they change personality like nothing had happened. They talk about all kinds of complex maths questions. Language problems. Geography questions. calmly and the headteacher pa.s.sed by. As expected it is school, the so called actor/acting is this nurtured!
Guo Zhi clasped his hands, waist smile: “It seems everybody is enjoying school life, that’s nice.”
What type of boy is Guo Zhi? Saying a nice point is that he is exactly an idiot, saying a ugly point is that he is exactly a stupid idiot. In his eyes things are fine. He has a very blind positive outlook on life, make a simple metaphor. If the sky suddenly rains. He will feel like he’s at MTV filming; if the sky rains knives, he won’t care about getting stabbed a few times. He would only think that he can change the kitchen knife at home; If the sky rained women’s menstruation, he would think, G.o.d was a woman all along. It doesn’t matter what falls, he will not hide~!
His lithe footsteps returned lifeless in the cla.s.sroom. Every table in the cla.s.sroom was piled up with books and review questions. They were divided into two types of pictures. Good grades took weeks of examination papers controversy til flushed with anger/excitement. Poor academic performance by weeks of examination papers cushioned nails. Guo Zhi sat at at the rearmost, both hands holding his cheeks waiting for night cla.s.s/study to start ringing.
A student who came had just finished playing basketball. He was patting the basketball at the back, hitting the people at the side. The basketball rolled outside the cla.s.sroom landing on a boy’s foot.
“Student, trouble you to pick it up!”
He did not get a reply, the boy left crossing over the basketball. Guo Zi looked out but can only see the back of the boy. He was wearing a cap.
“That boy seems to be always wearing a cap, I wonder what he looks like?” Guo Zi suddenly asked.
His desk mate w.a.n.g Linlin bored, messed with her hair: “Who knows, I guess he’s too ugly that he can’t see people. He seems to be from cla.s.s 3 or cla.s.s 4. I heard a friend say that their cla.s.s has a weirdo who is always wearing a cap brim very low. No one has seen what his face looks like and no one wanted to see. It’s a person who can always be ignored. His achievement is ordinary, physical education is ordinary, everything is ordinary. Ugh, really unlucky choosing this low-quality school. Romantic meteor garden fantasy is fully shattered. I heard there will be a transfer student coming today, please don’t let me down again!
“What’s wrong with being ordinary? I think being ordinary is really good.”
“You are someone who thinks everything is good!”
“Really?” Guo Zi smiled lightly: “If you feel that nothing is good, then why live on?”
Their conversation was interrupted by the teacher who brought in the transfer student. Girls cannot help but be ecstatic. w.a.n.g Linlin is even more excited. She almost rushed to strip naked for the transfer student’s body: “My silent prayers these past three years. They have finally come true!!”
“Then have you not prayed for other things in the past three years? such as getting better grades?” Guo Zhi’s words were given a fierce supercilious look by w.a.n.g Linlin but she immediately stomped in excitement: “Can you not see. Prince. Really handsome! Our school can be saved!”
Guo Zhi also looked at the boy. The boy has a short hairstyle. His handsome face bought a fascinating smile that kills thousands of concubines. He was stylishly dressed like a n.o.ble who suddenly fell into the slums. Guo Zhi nodded: “He’s very handsome.”
“What is very handsome!! Compared to the school, the overall quality has already exceeded! Simply the prince of my dreams.”
“You are over exaggerating.”
“Your reaction is too bland!”
“I’m not a girl, having a reaction towards a man, that is strange.”
The teacher gave the transfer student a simple introduction. The transfer student is called Hua Gu Yu, he transferred from a big city’s high school. Once those three words big city (大城市) were heard, the eyes of the other students were on him as if his grades have improved quite a lot. Hua Gu Yu seems to have gotten used to this life of being the centre of attention bringing a little pride to walk to the arranged seat.
After the teacher’s bombardment, night cla.s.s has finished. Today, Guo Zhi was a proctor, he had to stay behind to clean the blackboard and collect homework. After he finished, he put the homework in the teacher’s office and only then did he leisurely get ready to go back upstairs to his room holding a book. The stairwell lighting is dark, the sound of footsteps is clear. Guo Zi going up the stairs saw that boy head downstairs. They pa.s.s each other, they exchanged up and down positions. Guo Zi suddenly turned around: “It’s okay, looks aren’t important. Do not feel inferior if you look ugly, I think looking ugly is fine.”
The boy stopped back facing Guo Zi said short words. His voice is pleasant to listen to and it makes people surprised but the content is nasty to listen making people surprised as well: “Crazy.”
“Sorry, I didn’t have the intention to laugh at you, I just don’t want you to have low self esteem because of your looks. Why do you need to hide your face under the hat? Isn’t seeing sunlight very good? Is it because you have a scar on your face? Or is was your born ugly? I don’t mind, I have a lot of friends who are ugly. “Guo Zhi, you say this to make boys feel better but have you considered how your friends feelings?”
The boy proceeded to communicate with Guo Zhi with this kind of crazy formula, he tried to leave. Guo Zhi thought he hurt him, he hurriedly grabbed the boy’s shoulder. The boy coldly turned around they stood opposite of each other. The distance across the middle was the brim of the hat.
“I am not kidding, if you don’t believe me let me look at your face. I will never get frightened by your ugliness!” Guo Zhi had a sincere and earnest expression. He waited for the boy to respond. He put in finger on the brim taking the hat away slowly, the shadow goes in gradually exposing his face in the dim light. His face, his eyes, his eyelashes started to penetrate Guo Zhi’s sight a little bit. Two seconds later, he suddenly out the hat back onto they boy’s head but he could not buckle his heartbeat. Panicking, he said: “You’re really only suitable for wearing a hat, goodbye!” After he finished talking, Guo Zhi ran away.
The boy looked in the direction Guo Zhi ran in: “He really is crazy.”
Night, the dark deprived sight but cannot take away the picture in Guo Zhi’s brain. That person, why can he with just two seconds appearance shake his heart. That fine face no one could withstand. The second he moved the hat, Guo Zhi only had one thought. The prince was here all along.