That afternoon, Qi Le An stayed on set for a while before returning to Hai City with Chen Shan and Yin Yan.
Yin Yan returned to the studio, while Chen Shan escorted Qi Le An home. Qi Le An held a few strands of hair on Chu Cheng Yuan’s T-shirt in his pocket. As soon as he got home, he took a piece of paper and wrapped the hair inside carefully.
Jiang Xiaoyu’s hair was long and curly, and Chu Cheng Yuan’s hair was short and black.
The difference between the two was pretty obvious. Qi Le An only kept Chu Cheng Yuan’s black hair.
Chen Shan set the table in the dining room while Qi Le An put Chu Cheng Yuan’s hair in the drawer. He had long wanted to use the system to teach Chu Cheng Yuan a lesson.
“What are you doing? Come out and eat!” Chen Shan raised his volume.
Chen Shan shouted outside and Qi Le An quickly walked out of the bedroom.
In the dining room, Qi Le An beamed with smiles on seeing Chen Shan placed the takeout food on the plates instead of the containers, he had even taken the rice out and put them into two bowls. It was the same food, but how strange, the food felt so homy within plates and bowls.
Chen Shan looked at Qi Le An suspiciously, “What were you doing in your room for so long?”
Qi Le An yawned and said, “Just checking my homework.”
Chen Shan, “Why do you have so much homework when you have your final exams in a week or two?”
The two of them sat at the dining table while Qi Le An grabbed a bowl of rice and said, “Yes, there’s nothing I can do though.”
Chen Shan sneered, “You’re only in the first year of high school. Wait for the second year and the third year of high school.” He snorted twice, but the threat undertone in his words was obvious.
“Oh Chen Ge, just quickly, by the way, I want to go to one of the English classes and I will do a liberal arts program,” Qi Le An told Chen Shan his decision while eating.
Chen Shan didn’t have any objections, he nodded and asked, “Do you need to hire an English teacher during the holiday? During the day, you can shoot your drama and you can get some English tutoring done in the evening.”
“Not for now, I want to give my all for this drama,” Qi Le An suddenly lost all his appetite on talking about his English level.
Chen Shan laughed and served Qi Le An some saute eggplant, “Everything is all right, An, you need to eat more and grow taller. Jiang Xiaoyu is almost as tall as you now.”
“I’ve grown taller, alright?” Qi Le An said angrily and immediately took a large mouthful of rice and stuffed it into his mouth.
Chen Shan simmered with laughter.
After dinner, Qi Le An said to Chen Shan, ” I want to celebrate Wei Sama’s birthday on 22nd.”
Chen Shan thought for a moment and said, “Wei Chang Feng is coming back? All right, do you need me to do anything for you?”
Qi Le An shook his head and said, “No need. I’m just going over as a friend.”
Chen Shan asked again, “As a friend? What do you mean? Is Wei Chang Feng going to hold a birthday fan meeting or what?”
Qi Le An wasn’t entirely sure, but since Wei Chang Feng’s parents were both in New Zealand, the only reason he could think about why he came back before his birthday was for the fans. ‘He probably wanted to spend some time with his fans, right?’
However, it was no secret that Wei Chang Feng always kept a low profile, Chen Shan couldn’t recall whether Wei Chang Feng had held any birthday fan meeting before.
When Chen Shan saw Qi Le An’s expression, he knew that Qi Le An had not asked clearly, so he shook his head and said, “You’d better ask. Tell me the time and place when you’ve confirmed, I can buy you tickets in advance if you need to fly to City B.”
Qi Le An nodded and suddenly felt that Chen Shan had accepted him and Wei Chang Feng.
On second thought, Qi Le An thought his nagging had really worked, he kept talking about Wei Chang Feng all the time, he would love to think it was his nagging that had helped Chen Shan change his mind about him and Wei Chang Feng.
That night, Qi Le An called Wei Chang Feng and asked him about the details of his coming back to China.
Wei Chang Feng planned to come back on the 20th. Originally, he had a spy drama in the first half of this year, the drama he had recommended a role to Qi Le An. But because he was injured, he had to turn it down. The drama now was about to finish with a new Male Lead.
This time, Wei Chang Feng returned to China because of his new movie.
“I start shooting on 22nd, probably I will celebrate my birthday on set,” Wei Chang Feng said gently on the phone.
Qi Le An was a little disappointed. ‘Can’t I celebrate your birthday with you, Wei Sama?’
However, Wei Chang Feng’s next sentence had immediately cheered Qi Le An up.
“The new movie is shooting in the film and television base in H city. Isn’t your drama also shooting there? Do you feel like visiting me on that day?” Wei Chang Feng’s voice dripped sweetness he said, “You will be on set on the 22nd, right?”
‘Visiting him on set?’
‘Only family members get to visit people on set, isn’t it?’
Qi Le An almost jumped for joy as he heard that, “Yes, Wei Sama, I’ll see you on set then!”
Wei Chang Feng nodded and said, “Good luck with your finals.”
Qi Le An was in such a great mood, he reviewed his English notes for so long after he hung up the phone.
On Thursday morning, Qi Le An returned to school and the final exam was only two days away. During the class meeting on Monday, Mr. Luo had clearly stated that they would be divided into new classes after this exam. In other words, they only had two days left to be in the same class. In the past few days, the atmosphere in the class was a little gloomy, everyone felt reluctant to part with their classmates.
Some people asked Qi Le An which class he would go to, but to prevent people from selecting classes because of him, Qi Le An told people that he had yet to figure out which class he was going to pick.
On Friday, the teachers all gave a summary of the whole semester’s outline. The last class on Friday afternoon happened to be Mr. Luo’s mathematics class. There were ten minutes left before the class ended, Mr. Luo closed his textbook and said to his students who were sitting in the classroom, “For some of you, this is the last time I give you any lecture.”
The classroom instantly fell silent.
Mr. Luo looked at the youthful smiley faces and said, “I’m not going to make this emotional, but I wish you a bright future regardless of whether we will be sitting in the same classroom again, please choose your program wisely, you are about to make a decision that’s going to affect you for a lifetime.”
Someone started to applaud, and the rest of the class immediately started to applaud as well.
Mr. Luo continued, “You have to believe that your life has just begun. I hope that in the following two years you are going to spend at our school, you will find a direction for your future and I hope that you will be a kind and happy person forever.”
There were already some girls’ eyes welled up with tears and Huang Tian Xiang lowered his head in silence. Qi Le An had only spent one semester with his classmates, but he also felt reluctant to part with his classmates and teachers.
After school, Qi Le An deliberately stayed and took a photo of the classroom he stayed in for the semester. He posted it on Weibo and said, “The last class of my first year in high school, I don’t want to say goodbye to my classmates.”
On the weekend, Qi Le An was focused on preparing for the exam at home, especially his weak link, or in his case, weak links. He had been listening to BBC and VOA for a long time, and he would just turn the audio on and listen no matter what he was doing, he had already felt he made great progress, and hopefully, he could do well in the final exam.
At the end of the exam week, the teachers evaluated the papers at a fast speed, and the classmates also filled in the class choosing papers. Qi Le An received the custom-made ear studs the day before he got his report card. The ear studs were in a black jewelry box, they were giving off a silver glow, so exquisite.
Qi Le An didn’t know what had possessed him, he just took one ear stud out and put it into the jewelry box he put the ear stud that he had stolen from Wei Chang Feng.
‘Will it look strange if I just give Wei Sama one ear stud?’ thought Qi Le An.
‘Whatever! I will keep one!’ Qi Le An made up his mind.
The last day of school ended by noon. The teachers would just hand out the report cards and urged the kids to spend a safe holiday in the morning, and the semester just finished like that!
Qi Le An’s classmates decided to spend the remaining class fees to have lunch together, and they specifically asked Huang Tian Xiang to invite Qi Le An. Huang Tian Xiang invited Qi Le An after hesitating for a long while. Qi Le An thought about it and sent Chen Shan a text, saying that he would go to the studio later, then he said to Huang Tian Xiang that he would join them.
The class suddenly roared with laughter. Qi Le An suddenly felt that in fact, they had a chatting group behind his back, how come they knew immediately that he agreed to go to lunch with them.
But that was not the point, they were probably protecting his privacy anyways.
Although they were just a group of high school students, kids in the international department were all from wealthy families. Huang Tian Xiang booked a restaurant near the school that they often frequented, which made Qi Le An even more suspicious if they had planned this whole thing out before they invited him…
Looking at his classmates who were drinking soft drinks, Qi Le An suddenly felt grateful.
‘I’m so lucky… that I get to experience a completely different life, a much better life.’
After lunch, everyone took photos together. Huang Tian Xiang asked the restaurant owner to take photos for all of them together, he promised to share their photos in the group chat at night.
It wasn’t until three o’clock in the afternoon that everyone said they needed to call it a day. Qi Le An texted Chen Shan about his whereabouts and asked him to pick him up. While waiting for Chen Shan, some classmates came up to hug him, especially the girl who had got Wei Chang Feng’s signature photo from Qi Le An.
” An, I guess you have picked the Liberal Arts program, I’ve picked Science, please don’t forget me!” The girl got so emotional and she cried out. She was the representative of the chemistry class in her class. She did extremely well in all the Science subjects, Qi Le An wasn’t surprised that she had picked the Science program.
“No way,” Qi Le An shook his head and assured the girl, “Don’t worry, my friend! Aren’t we Weibo friends? I’ll send you Wei Sama’s photos in the future!
The girl instantly laughed and said, “Definitely! Thank you so much, An!”
Qi Le An laughed loudly.
While they were talking, Chen Shan arrived at the restaurant and called Qi Le An while he walked inside. Qi Le An took the call and looked at the door. The girl followed Qi Le An’s gaze and saw a tall, stylish, and handsome man walking towards them.
The girl forgot to breathe.
‘Damn! Who is this? So handsome! Damn it! I might have to jump ship now! Sorry Wei Sama!’ the girl screamed in her heart.
Perhaps the girl’s gaze was too straightforward, Chen Shan couldn’t help but glance at the girl after hanging up. The girl blushed crimson immediately. She timidly reached her hand out and said, “Hello, nice to meet you, I’m Qi Le An’s classmate, my name is Zhao Yue Nan.”
Qi Le An squinted his eyes on seeing that.
Chen Shan also looked at Zhao Yue Nan with surprise, then he reached out his hand, “Hello, I’m Chen Shan, nice to meet you.”
There weren’t many classmates left in the restaurant, Zhao Yue Nan kept staring at Chen Shan in a daze for a long time. Then he whispered to Qi Le An, “Your friend is so handsome!”
Chen Shan pretended to not hear that and looked away.
Zhao Yue Nan’s house was not far away from Gale Studio. Chen Shan decided to give her a lift. Zhao Yue Nan who was usually very loud and outspoken acted like a lady in the car, she would even cover her mouth when she smiled.
When Zhao Yue Nan got out of the car, Chen Shan said, “Your classmates are fun, I feel old compared to you kids.”
Qi Le An wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to laugh. He thought that Zhao Yue Nan would ask him about Chen Shan’s situation later that night.
Qi Le An’s phone suddenly sent him a special notification when he tried to stifle his laughter. He looked down and saw a few photos sent by Wei Chang Feng.