If the world had no daytime (GL) - Chapter 10

This wasn’t the first time Bai Tian had been caught by Old Bald Li and scolded, nor was it the first time she had been punished to clean the flower bed in front of the teaching building.

But this was the first time she had “implicated” someone else and made them suffer the punishment with her.

Zhao Yuelan had been loved by everyone since she enrolled. The teachers smiled when they saw her, and the students blushed when they saw her. How could she have suffered such injustice? Especially since this matter had nothing to do with her at all.

But just as the rumors said, Zhao Yuelan’s temper was too good. At this moment, she was bending over, picking up the trash in the flower bed with a garbage bag in her hand, without any impatience or complaint on her face.

Seeing her like this, Bai Tian actually felt a little guilty.

“There’s still half of the lunch break left. You go back and rest. I’ll do the rest, after all, it’s not your fault anyway.”

Bai Tian squatted on the ground and said to the person in front of her, then continued to bury her head in cleaning up the trash.

The person who was bending over stood up, turned around, looked at her, smiled and clapped, and replied, “If I had stopped you earlier, it wouldn’t have turned out like this. I have a share of the responsibility.”

After she finished speaking, she continued to walk forward, bending down carefully to clean as she walked.

Bai Tian thought for a while, quickened her pace and walked in the opposite direction. By the time the two of them finished cleaning up, the lunch break bell had not yet rung.

They walked towards the trash can behind the cafeteria, one after the other, carrying their garbage bags. After throwing away the trash, they washed their hands at the sink beside it and prepared to go back to the classroom.

Bai Tian called out to her, “Wait for me.”

Zhao Yuelan turned around and stood there watching her walk into the cafeteria.

A few minutes later, Bai Tian came out with two boxes of milk tea and handed one to Zhao Yuelan.

The temperature in the cafeteria’s thermos was just right. Zhao Yuelan warmed her hands with it, then thanked Bai Tian and opened the straw to drink.

The two of them walked back slowly in the cold wind, drinking milk tea.

“My name is Bai Tian, from Class A,” Bai Tian said suddenly, walking beside Zhao Yuelan.

“Yeah, I know, we’ve met before.”

Vaguely remembering that she hadn’t introduced herself that time, Bai Tian looked at her, paused after meeting that honest smile, and stopped thinking about it.

“I’m really sorry today, for making you suffer the punishment with me.”

Although apologizing was an embarrassing thing, Bai Tian still didn’t want to owe her, otherwise, it would become an unfillable debt over time.

If you have a grudge, settle it on the spot; if you make a mistake, admit it on the spot.

Living with this mentality, Bai Tian didn’t know that sometimes being too clean and neat was actually a kind of coldness.

Zhao Yuelan looked at her calm profile, a smile flashed in her eyes. She suddenly jumped forward two steps and stopped in front of Bai Tian, turned around to look at her, then reached out and smiled, “We’re comrades in suffering now, why don’t we get to know each other again?”

Bai Tian looked at her clean and beautiful eyes, hesitated for a moment, then extended her hand.

The girl with shoulder-length hair took her hand, pulled her forward slightly, and brought Bai Tian close to her, then whispered, “Let’s play together often from now on, new friend.”

The other person’s breath was so close that Bai Tian could feel it. She raised her head unconsciously and mumbled an “hmm” before being released.

The bell rang just in time, and Bai Tian felt like she had been rescued. She quickly said, “Then I’ll go back to the classroom first.”

She waved her hand and quickly walked into the teaching building without looking back.

Looking at the small figure disappearing into the corridor, the person standing in place raised her head and met the gaze from the corridor on the third floor.

A girl with a pink crystal hairpin was holding a pile of test papers, standing in the middle of the corridor facing the flower bed downstairs. She looked at the other party’s bright eyes that hid cunning, then turned around and walked into the classroom behind her.

When Bai Tian returned to the classroom, Ye Wan was handing out papers on the podium. Those whose names were called came up to get them, and then quickly counted how many red crosses there were.

The test papers in Class A were never graded; they were simply marked with red crosses next to the wrong answers. The elite class teachers didn’t have that much energy, and the students didn’t need to know their scores.

Every wrong question could make them feel dejected, but they would quickly recover.

Bai Tian walked into the classroom a little absent-mindedly and didn’t even hear Ye Wan calling her name.

The person standing on the podium paused, covered the test papers, and continued to call out the next person’s name.

After handing out all the test papers, Ye Wan took her own and Bai Tian’s two papers and walked down, waving her hand in front of the person who was sitting there in a daze.

Bai Tian still hadn’t come back to her senses.

Ye Wan looked at her for a few seconds, then suddenly pinched her nose.

The person who had her fatal spot pinched finally came back to her senses. She frowned and looked at Ye Wan, asking, “What are you doing?”

The other person didn’t let go of her hand, which was tantamount to tacit consent. Ye Wan finally managed a barely noticeable smile, then pinched the small nose again before letting go.

“The test papers have been handed out,” she said as she sat down and flipped open the book for the next class.

Bai Tian didn’t have the mood to settle accounts with her. She took the test paper that belonged to her on the desk, didn’t even look at it, and stuffed it into her desk drawer.

“Did Teacher Li catch you again today?”

Ye Wan asked knowingly.

This successfully brought out the annoyance that Bai Tian had been bottling up. She glared at Ye Wan and spoke without hiding anything.

“The way you’re gloating makes me suspect that you’re the one who’s tattling.”

This was the real Bai Tian.

She had the same sharp tongue as Ye Wan in private.

Ye Wan’s mood finally improved. She completely ignored the fact that she was in the classroom and made a mocking expression, smiling and saying, “You’re so angry that you’re biting people randomly.”

Bai Tian glared at her, looking like she was ready to jump up and fight her any moment.

Suppressing the laughter that was about to overflow, Ye Wan reached out and patted Bai Tian’s cheek, and even pinched it before she retracted her hand before completely angering the other party.

“You silly child, the devil is more cunning than you are. Why can’t you learn to be smarter?”

Having fought wits with Old Bald Li for so many years, she knew how shrewd he was.

It was just that he didn’t have time to deal with Bai Tian recently. Now that things had calmed down, Bai Tian’s good days were over.

“Just study hard in class, before Teacher Li decides to scatter glass shards on all the walls.”

“!!!”

Bai Tian’s eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at Ye Wan, “Come on, that’s going too far, right?”

Ye Wan lowered her head and leisurely flipped open her physics textbook, answering ambiguously, “Who knows? I just heard a few words.”

While Bai Tian was uncertain, the person wearing the crystal hairpin slowly used her final words to crush Bai Tian’s free-spirited heart.

“It’s better to believe it than not to believe it.”

Sometimes people are divided into pessimists and optimists. Optimists tend not to think about the worst possible outcome, while pessimists do exactly the opposite.

Unfortunately, Bai Tian was a pessimist.

She had long been accustomed to preparing for the worst, so this time Bai Tian was indeed taken aback by Ye Wan.

After that, until the mid-term exam, Bai Tian never skipped class again.

This was not because she had extinguished the burning flame of freedom in her heart, but because she planned to use this to numb Old Bald Li’s guard.

For Bai Tian, who had been unusually obedient, staying in school every day was actually not as boring as it had been in junior school. Now, she would occasionally compete with Ye Wan overtly or covertly, hide in the back of the gym during lunch break to relax, sleep in class and play with her phone after class, and her days passed just like that.

It’s worth mentioning that Bai Tian would always meet Zhao Yuelan during lunch break.

Either she was on her way to the gym to play basketball, or she had just finished playing and was passing by, and then she would naturally chat with Bai Tian for a while.

Day after day, feeling that the other person was indeed a good person, Bai Tian gradually dispelled her reservations and defenses against strangers.

She felt that it was much more comfortable to be with Zhao Yuelan than with Ye Wan. This person would not cause trouble for her, and she was also very talkative and interesting. More importantly, Zhao Yuelan was knowledgeable and had a wealth of knowledge. Bai Tian could learn about many places she had never seen and various strange stories around the world from her.

“So, the deer in Nara are actually just a tourist attraction. They’re not as cute as they seem, and you can get bitten if you’re not careful.”

Bai Tian and Zhao Yuelan were walking back to the teaching building, listening to the other person talk about what she had seen and heard during her travels, and she was quite fascinated.

With a happy smile, she turned a corner with the person beside her, preparing to take a shortcut through the flower bed.

The corner of her eye caught something, and Bai Tian stopped and looked over.

The person who was still talking noticed her expression and looked in the same direction, and was also taken aback.

Under a short tree not far away, a girl with a ponytail was being held in someone’s arms and was being gently comforted. The intimate posture and atmosphere were completely different from that of a so-called friendship, appearing particularly ambiguous.

Bai Tian looked at the side profile, and the crystal hairpin shining in the sunlight reflected a dazzling light, causing Bai Tian to squint her eyes involuntarily.

“What’s wrong?”

The person standing beside Bai Tian asked softly.

Bai Tian came back to her senses and shook her head, “Nothing, I saw a classmate.”

She took the first step and continued walking back. Zhao Yuelan followed behind her, and after a few steps, she turned her head and looked back. Coincidentally, her eyes met the eyes that had been looking over at her for some time.

She calmly looked away, and before she had taken a few steps, her phone vibrated.

Zhao Yuelan took it out and glanced at it, then smiled and deleted the text message, and put the phone back in her pocket.

She took a few steps forward, slung an arm around Bai Tian’s shoulders and said in a jokey tone, “Have you really been drinking milk every day? Why aren’t you growing taller?”

Bai Tian’s face darkened as she retorted, “You drink so much milk every day, but your chest hasn’t gotten bigger.”

Zhao Yuelan, whose sore spot had been hit: “……”

T/N: Hahahaha… No one can defeat this troublemaker. Don’t joke casually, especially about her height. 😂