Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 59: Not Alone

Guo Ran slept until noon before she finally woke up.

She sat up, her hair messy, and leaned against the headboard, her pretty face still drowsy, the dark circles under her eyes indicating she had gone to bed late the night before.

Guo Ran zoned out for a while.

Remembering what happened yesterday afternoon, she was still terrified, the knife-wielding woman who chased after her—if it weren't for Jiang Ning's warning, she really couldn't fathom the consequences.

"What a piece of trash..." A wry smile emerged on Guo Ran's lips.

Only after speaking with the police did she fully understand what Yan Bo had done.

She had previously thought Yan Bo was a good person and had made plans to continue dealing with him.

If it weren't for the girl's parents suddenly showing up, she would have been the next victim.

Thinking that she might have become the girlfriend of someone like Yan Bo, Guo Ran shuddered at the mere thought.

Thankfully, what goes around comes around, and karma had taken care of Yan Bo, the trash.

Guo Ran got out of bed and opened the curtains, letting in the afternoon sunlight. The sudden burst of light made her squint her eyes.

The brilliant sunshine filtered through the drifting dust in the air, falling on her skin and casting a glow like polished white jade.

She would go to class in the afternoon and take the chance to thank Jiang Ning—thanks to him, she would have been in trouble before the police arrived.

Guo Ran felt grateful. For three years of high school, if Jiang Ning came to her for chemistry tutoring, she would definitely teach him with all her might.

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Tomorrow was a mini break, and Fourth Middle School still had only two classes this afternoon.

The first class was Chemistry, and the second was Music.

Before class, Ma Shicheng whispered to Jiang Ning,

"You know about the Music teacher, right? The one with the iPhone, the rich woman teacher from a wealthy family."

He was envious in his heart.

In the era when smartphones were just becoming widespread, having an iPhone indeed seemed a bit more prestigious than other brands. Nowadays, many iPhone cases have a space on the back, leaving the large apple logo visible, signaling to others:

"Look, I use an Apple phone."

It shows the brand's influence.

Like Ma Shicheng, always holding a smartphone—because he couldn't afford it, he could only fiddle with various Android phones. In truth, he really wanted to experience an iPhone; he had heard that with jailbreak access, you could do a lot of things with it.

However, the phone he was currently using was one his parents bought him after he begged for a long time, costing over a thousand yuan.

In the class, Ma Shicheng only knew of Huang Zhongfei, Bai Yuxia, and Jiang Ning who had iPhones.

At least in Ma Shicheng's eyes, having the latest iPhone equaled being wealthy.

"What about her?" Jiang Ning asked. The music teacher was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, quite tall, probably around one meter seventy-eight, about the same as Jiang Ning now.

Most of the boys in their class were just over one meter seventy, and when they first saw the music teacher, it indeed attracted a lot of attention.

Ma Shicheng said, "The Music teacher was hired by the school for a large sum of money. I was chatting with someone before and heard that the Music teacher is from East River Province. She has her own job there, and to avoid hassle, she scheduled all the class sessions she teaches on the same day. That way, she comes to Fourth Middle School once a week, teaches all classes, and then immediately takes the high-speed train away."

"That's kind of impressive," Jiang Ning said.

He really didn't know about this before, and his impression of the music teacher was that she was well-shaped, dressed fashionably, and taught professionally.

Ma Shicheng continued, "Besides the Music teacher, I've also found the Physics teacher interesting."

"Last Friday when we had a day off, I saw the Physics teacher and some other teachers get in a car. I thought they were going to a party, but later I heard from others that they went to a training institute in An City."

"Car rides to and from, all expenses paid, go to An City to teach for two days, and make one thousand five hundred yuan."

Ma Shicheng clicked his tongue. Doing this four times a month would mean six thousand yuan, just extra income, which was higher than his father's salary.

At the same time, he was a bit upset, "He's too busy making money to teach us properly. Look at the Physics teacher's classes—they're nonsense, even worse than my middle school teacher."

Jiang Ning had heard a little about this kind of thing, and he had some impression of the Physics teacher. The most vivid memory was of the Physics teacher having a son, who was a year older than them and currently in his second year of high school.

Later in the college entrance examination, the son was admitted to Dongjiang University, one of the top ten 985 universities in the country.

After his son got into university, the Physics teacher planned to teach the experimental class, but the Academic Affairs Office turned him down, stating that he wasn't serious enough in his teaching.

Thus, when the Physics teacher continued to teach an ordinary class, he would, intentionally or not, bring up his 985 son, showing off and causing many students to be dissatisfied.

Later on, a student ratted him out for his tutoring gig, and the physics teacher got punished.

The bell for class rang as they talked.

Teacher Guo Ran walked into the classroom, his eyes glancing over at Jiang Ning, their gazes met, and Jiang Ning smiled.

Feeling the goodwill, Teacher Guo placed the textbook on the desk and addressed everyone,

"I know you're about to go on vacation, so I'm not teaching new material today."

Instantly, the boys' voices chimed in at the back, "Only a teacher understands us," "Teacher, you're the best," and other such praises.

Teacher Guo reminded everyone to open their textbooks, as she went through and marked the key points one by one.

Before the mini-vacation, each subject teacher would assign homework, and Teacher Guo was no exception.

Just before class was about to end, Teacher Guo distributed a set of test papers. As the bell for the end of class rang, she stood at the podium and called out,

"Jiang Ning, come to my office."

As these words fell, the class quieted down. Since Teacher Guo started teaching Class 8, she had never called a student out individually.

Why was Teacher Guo Ran asking for Jiang Ning?

Could the two be related?

Someone speculated.

Jiang Ning ignored their stares and rose from his seat.

Teacher Guo, thinking that Jiang Ning might not know where her office was, deliberately waited at the door for him before they left together.

Geng Lu turned her head and asked,

"Do you guys know why the chemistry teacher is looking for Jiang Ning?"

She was curious; having sat with Jiang Ning these past few days, it was clear that he had no connection with the chemistry teacher.

"Not sure, probably something to do with his studies," Ma Shicheng said.

"I want to go too," he added.

Guo Kunnan sighed beside him, "If it were any other teacher calling me to their office, I wouldn't be happy, but if it's the chemistry teacher, I could stay there every day."

Who hasn't fantasized about an attractive female teacher? Especially during high school, it's just a pity that when one actually shows up, you suddenly realize that apart from in class, you almost never interact with her.

Moreover, Guo Kunnan had heard that someone would pick Teacher Guo up in a car every afternoon at the school gate, probably her boyfriend.

With Teacher Guo being so beautiful, there must be a lot of people chasing after her.

He felt a twinge of heartache.

Men always regret seeing a beautiful woman in the arms of another, and although Guo Kunnan was just a high school student, he was no exception.

Seeing that the others were clueless, Geng Lu speculated, "Maybe the chemistry teacher needs him for something about the class representative position. We still don't have one for chemistry."

The study committee members also served as representatives for some subjects, but with many courses in the first year of high school, they were overwhelmed, and some teachers might designate students to take up the responsibility.

Ma Shicheng asked, "Isn't Jiang Ning's academic performance not very good?"

This topic immediately captured the others' attention. During high school, grades were always the most important, and no matter how good you were in other aspects, if your grades were poor, it was hard for people to think highly of you.

"Generally speaking, students who voluntarily sit in the back of the room don't do well academically," Guo Kunnan analyzed logically.

You could tell from the classroom atmosphere. Up front, students listened attentively to the lecture, while Guo Kunnan and Ma Shicheng, playing with their phones, waged a battle of wits with the teacher.

When class ended, the students in the front were busy with homework, but Guo Kunnan and his friends were still on their phones.

Guo Kunnan was very self-aware; he, along with Ma Shicheng, Dan Kaiquan, and Cui Yu, were all poor students, to put it frankly.

In his eyes, Jiang Ning was no different.

Thinking this, he felt oddly relieved.

'As long as everyone is as bad as me, I won't feel upset,' Guo Kunnan thought to himself. 'I'm not alone.'

Geng Lu wanted to object upon hearing this, but she couldn't find the words because her grades were quite ordinary too...

Since her grades were poor, she planned to take the route of an arts student for the university entrance exams.

Seeing that no one else spoke, Guo Kunnan asserted confidently,

"I don't know about other things, but Jiang Ning definitely can't be the chemistry class representative."