-Xiangyu: Shut up.
The parents' meeting was supposed to be in half an hour, but in reality, parents started entering the school ten minutes early. Gu Chen had to guide the parents to fill out the sign-in form at the classroom door and then lead them to their correct seats.
Afraid of wasting time, Gu Chen didn't dare sit down to eat in the cafeteria. He bought bread from the convenience store and headed towards the classroom, with Xiang Yu following him without saying a word.
The two finished eating while walking down the street.
A group of parents were standing below the teaching building, and the words "Lihang Building" were written in large characters on the side of the building. Someone even stopped Gu Chen to ask him questions.
"Excuse me, where is Lihang Building?"
Xiang Yu stood there and many parents came to ask for directions. Xiang Yu's social anxiety kicked in and he didn't know what to say for a moment, so Gu Chenquan helped him out.
Several parents came to attend parent-teacher meetings, some of whom were grandparents. Gu Chen stood at the bottom of the steps and patiently pointed out each one to them.
"Grandma, look, this is Qihang Building. All the first-year students are there. What class is your grandson in? ...Granddaughter, Class 10 should be on the second floor. You see that staircase over there? Just go up to the second floor."
"Grandpa, your grandson... is in Class 23 of the first year of high school? Then please be careful going upstairs slowly, Class 23 is on the fourth floor."
"Auntie, is your son? A second-year high school student in the humanities class? He's on the third floor of Lihang Building."
"Hey, Auntie, you look familiar?"
"Go ahead," Wang's mother laughed at his joking manner. "Which floor?"
"There's a sign-in sheet on the third floor of Lihang Building. Aunt Feng, please remember to fill it out. I'm too busy to see you upstairs."
"Okay, Xiao Chen, you go ahead and get busy."
After the other person left, Gu Chen explained to Xiang Yu, who was standing to the side looking puzzled, "This is Mouse's mother."
Mrs. Wang is well-maintained and dressed fashionably, wearing a maple-colored knitted long dress with a mink short coat over it. In fact, if you look closely, the younger parents around her all seem to have reached some kind of agreement, each one dressed in an outstanding manner.
"Actually, the building name and floor number were included when the notice was sent out." Seeing that no one was asking, Gu Chen pulled Xiang Yu back to class. "Let's go back to class, some parents are probably here."
The two went upstairs one after the other and ran into an old acquaintance at the entrance of the second floor.
Liu Hu was standing at the entrance of the building, probably waiting for the parents. When he saw the two of them, he snorted coldly without any politeness.
Gu Chen, unfazed, greeted him with a smile: "Hello, Liu Hu."
He also took the opportunity to ask the other person, "Is your old injury any better?"
Xiang Yu: "..."
Enemies meeting are bound to be furious. Xiang Yu believed that Gu Chen, this idiot, genuinely cared about the other party, but saying it out loud carried a provocative tone.
That's exactly what Liu Hu was thinking. He cursed, rolled up his sleeves, walked over, and asked through gritted teeth, "Are you fucking looking for trouble?"
Before he even reached Gu Chen, he immediately rolled up his sleeves, switched his expression to a forced smile, and headed towards the stairwell.
"mom."
Gu Chen and Xiang Yu both looked back at the same time. A stylishly dressed lady with a dark face walked up to Liu Hu in her high heels.
"Still picking fights with your classmates? Didn't your dad scold you enough last time?" Liu Hu's mother glared at Liu Hu, annoyed that he didn't learn his lesson.
"Mrs. Liu, is this your son?" Two other men had just come upstairs with Liu Hu's mother. Both men gave off a capable and elite vibe, with excellent demeanor.
The person who greeted Liu Hu's mother with polite language seemed easier to get along with, and their smile gave off a friendly vibe.
"Who is this?" Liu Hu asked in a low voice.
Liu Hu's mother answered in a low voice, loud enough for only two people to hear, "The Xu family."
Explain it in one sentence.
After hearing that it was the Xu family, Liu Hu didn't dare to say another word.
After that incident, he originally wanted to use his family's influence to trip up Gu Chen Xiangyu, but before he could put his idea into action, his father, who was away on a business trip, called back and gave him a severe scolding.
"You've really grown wings, haven't you! This young girl doesn't want to date you, and you're already getting cocky! Do you even know what kind of person she is before you mess with her! And you even hit her friend!"
How could I not know? Xu Youqing and Xu Youlu's family owns a restaurant.
Liu Hu was indignant at the time, and was then subjected to a barrage of insults.
"You call a nationwide chain of star-rated hotels a 'hotel'? Do you even know who her mother married? Xu Yubo was sitting next to me when we were bidding for that land. After he finished his call, he smiled at me and asked if I knew about my son harassing my sister. Do you think the Xu family is so easy to deal with? You know you've been recorded! You've completely disgraced me! You better reflect on your actions and don't you dare cause any more trouble!"
"Yes," Liu Hu's mother said with a polite smile, "Little Hu, say hello to your two older brothers."
"Hello, brother." Liu Hu said reluctantly.
"Hello." The man smiled again and said to Mrs. Liu, "We're all here for a parent-teacher conference, so Yu Bai and I will be leaving now."
"Okay, okay."
Despite saying that, Mrs. Liu took Liu Hu away first, leaving the remaining four people standing there looking at each other.
Gu Chen and Xiang Yu knew that Xu Youqing had handled Liu Hu's matter, but they didn't know that Xu Youqing had called her family to resolve it, nor did they recognize the two people in front of them.
Whether you know someone or not is one thing, whether you greet them or not is another.
Gu Chen greeted them politely, "Hello, brothers."
"hello."
"Hello."
[Author's Note: Xiang Yu: It hurts me to lose this point.]
Chapter 51 Gu Chen, We Are All the Same
Chapter 51 Gu Chen: We are all the same.
Gu Chen and Xiang Yu didn't linger. Gu Chen glanced at the time; there were less than ten minutes left before the parent-teacher meeting officially started.
The two ran upstairs to the door of Class 2, and Gu Chen looked inside. Seeing that not many parents had come, he checked the number of parents and the number of people registered on the sign-in sheet at the door. He found that a few parents had not filled out the form, so he took the form and pen and went inside to walk around.
Xiang Yu didn't know whether she should go in and sit down or help Gu Chen guide the parents.
Standing at the door for a moment, he seemed a little awkward, unsure of what to do.
Parents were coming and going in the corridor. Some couldn't find their classrooms and asked Xiangyu, who was standing at the door. Xiangyu wasn't used to this, but fortunately, everyone explained the location clearly.
"Phew—" Spending too much time with an extrovert like Gu Chen actually made my social anxiety less severe.
"My deskmate." Gu Chen came out of the classroom with his watch in his hand. Seeing that the other person's ears were slightly red, he smiled and reached out to touch them. "What's wrong?"
Xiang Yu reached out and brushed the other person away before they could touch him, saying, "Don't cause trouble outside."
"Okay...hmm?"
Gu Chen saw one of the people he had just met at the entrance of the second floor walking towards him, stopping in front of the Class 2 sign.
"What a coincidence, we meet again."
"Hello, brother." Gu Chen handed the pen to the other person and pointed to the blank space after the student's name, "Sign your name here."
"OK."
Xu Youluo – Bai Zhi Qiu
"You're Luo Zai's older brother?" Gu Chen smiled brightly. "Hello, Brother Bai. I'm Gu Chen, the class monitor of Class 2, Literature Department. This is my deskmate, Xiang Yu, who is also the top student in our grade."
He then introduced Xiang Yu to Bai Zhi Qiu, who nodded and smiled in return.
Gu Chen gives the impression of being the kind of model student that parents would love.
Other parents arrived later, but Bai Zhi Qiu didn't chat with them much. She asked for Xu You Luo's location and went inside.
The two stood at the entrance of Class 2 like gatekeepers. When Gu Chen saw that a parent had arrived, he first introduced himself, then his deskmate, and then guided the parent to fill out the attendance sheet and explain the student's location.
He remembered everyone's location very clearly, without making any mistakes.
Hearing Gu Chen repeatedly use the word "first," Xiang Yu began to feel embarrassed.
"Just introduce yourself, don't include me," Xiang Yu said helplessly.
"I reckon the dean will praise you during the meeting later," Gu Chen chuckled. "You're so outstanding, classmate, you'll definitely leave a good impression on all the parents."
“…Never mind, I’ll talk to you later, you shut up.” Xiang Yu pursed his lips. “I’ll try.”
I'll try to talk to other parents.
Xiang Yu steadied his breathing and saw another woman, whose identity he didn't recognize, standing at the classroom door. Just as he was about to speak, he heard someone call out from the side, "Mom."
Xiang Yu originally wanted to say: Auntie, please fill out the sign-in sheet first.
Suddenly, Gu Chen spoke up. He knew the other person was his boyfriend's mother. In his nervousness, the string he had carefully prepared snapped, and without thinking, he blurted out, "Mom, please fill out the sign-in sheet first."
He immediately realized his mistake after speaking, his face flushed red, and he looked at Jiang Linyan, his mind blank, unable to say a word in embarrassment.
I wish I could disappear into a crack in the ground.
"Hey." Jiang Linyan chuckled twice, responding jokingly.
"Pfft, hahahaha." Gu Chen couldn't help but burst out laughing.
When the time came, the dean came over with the documents. He saw Gu Chen leaning on Xiang Yu's shoulder, laughing so hard he couldn't straighten up. He pushed up his glasses and asked with a smile, "Class monitor, what's making you so happy?"
The parent-teacher meeting lasted for nearly an hour, with each subject teacher taking turns to speak. Many parents took notes very seriously.
Xiang Yu sat in his seat and listened to the whole thing, but out of the corner of his eye he saw that Gu Chen's mother, Ms. Jiang, had basically taken notes throughout.
The handwriting is elegant and neat, and it is indescribably pleasing to the eye.
In comparison, Gu Chen's handwriting is truly incomprehensible to Xiang Yu.
Ms. Jiang drove over and asked Gu Chen to go home with her after the parent-teacher meeting. Meanwhile, Sun Xiaona's parent-teacher meeting for Class 13 of the Science Department had also ended, and she was waiting for him at the entrance of Class 2 of the Arts Department.
"See you tomorrow, my deskmate."
"See you tomorrow."
Gu Chen watched the other person disappear at the end of the corridor.
Ms. Jiang is still talking to the dean in the classroom. Gu Chen overheard a few words, which were roughly about his test paper score.
When this issue was brought up in relation to the college entrance examination, its impact was amplified immediately.
Sigh, the road to mastering calligraphy is long.
Gu Chen waited for a while, and seeing that the two hadn't finished talking, he prepared to go to the restroom and come back to continue waiting.
As I turned the corner of the corridor, I saw Xu Yubai and Bai Zhiqi chatting in front of me.