Chapter 17

When eating in the cafeteria at noon, although Song Yan sat face to face with Xia Lin as usual, he kept looking around absentmindedly.

Knowing that he was looking for Yu Luotong, Xia Lin raised his chin blankly: "He's over there."

Song Yan turned his head to look and saw Yu Luotong looking for an empty seat in the crowd with a dinner plate a few meters away, so he stood up and waved at him: "Luotong, come here."

Yu Luotong immediately came over with a wide-eyed smile.

"It feels good to know people," Yu Luotong said. "I thought it was too hard to transfer in the last semester of high school. I'm fortunate to know you."

Xia Lin raised his eyes and bowed the corners of his mouth politely at him, but did not speak.

In the last life, Xia Lin and Yu Luotong had a pretty good relationship because they followed Song Yan all the time—one—at least on the surface, they looked good. But in this life, Xia Lin didn't plan to force a smile on his rival's face any more, and kept his distance as long as he could.

Song Yan looked at Yu Luotong's dinner plate, and called out with a fuss: "Luotong, why do you eat so much, and it's all vegetarian!"

Yu Luotong was a little embarrassed: "That...because all the money I earned from part-time work was used to buy concert tickets, so the living expenses are a bit..."

Song Yanhao said angrily, "Then you said it earlier, I'll borrow your meal card for you, and you can buy whatever you want!"

"No no," Yu Luotong quickly waved his hand, "I don't want your money, eat people and talk short..."

"What can eat people and talk short, we will be good brothers from now on, what's the point of borrowing you a meal card?"

Yu Luotong tapped his chopsticks and suddenly sang softly: "You can laugh at my poverty, but you can't trample on my dignity.

This is the chorus lyrics sung repeatedly in ET's famous song "Faith", almost every E fan can say a few words when they open their mouths.

And this song has a detached status in the hearts of ET fans, and is almost regarded as a biblical existence, sacred and undeniable.

Song Yan listened to him sing these two lines, and suddenly became quiet. After a moment of silence, he said with shame: "You are right, we ET fans are all dignified."

Xia Lin pursed his lips and tried not to let himself smile.

In the past, he didn't feel anything when he accompanied Song Yan in the pursuit of stars, but now he looks back at Song Yan ten years ago, how he looks at the second grade.

But thinking about it carefully, Song Yan and Yu Luotong's devout attitude of worshipping their favorite bands as spiritual beliefs is probably something he will never be able to experience in his life.

This was the insurmountable gulf between him and them.

In the afternoon activity class, the students in their class routinely ran two laps of the playground before they started to move freely.

In the past, Song Yan would definitely have called Xia Lin to the ping pong table to tear up a few games, but now Xia Lin, who is determined to take the road of learning to dominate, naturally chooses to go back to the classroom to do the simulation questions.

Song Yan felt very boring by himself, so he accompanied Xia Lin back to the classroom.

At the door of the classroom, they saw that Yu Luotong was chasing after the head teacher begging for something, and the head teacher always shook his head with a straight face.

After the head teacher left, Song Yan walked over and asked, "Luo Tong, what's going on?"

Yu Luotong complained with a sad face: "Your school is too strict, my previous school would not be like this!"

Song Yan laughed: "This is your school now, okay? What's going on?"

"Okay," Yu Luotong spread his hands, "I want to ask the head teacher for leave, and ask him to allow me not to use it for self-study every night, but he disagrees, saying:

Unless I ask my parents to write a leave request and send it in person. My mom is long gone, and my dad doesn't care about me at all, why would he go to school for this kind of thing.

Song Yan wondered: "If you don't come to study at night, what are you going to do?"

Yu Luotong looked around, then leaned into Song Yan's ear and whispered a few words, and then a complicated look appeared on Song Yan's face.