Chapter 168
Chapter 168: Chengque’s “Self-Imposed Decree of Guilt”
As Wen Yu expected, this matter didn’t cause much of a stir with Chen Xiongguo.
Although he was surprised by Fu Chengque’s emotionally charged speech, fundamentally, those remarks, though a bit odd, didn’t contain anything too outrageous. After Fu Chengque was dragged away, he just went over and spoke with her; this matter didn’t even catch the attention of the principal and the others.
Later, after the principal and the others understood the situation, what they said didn’t differ much from what Wen Yu had said.
Fu Chengque’s content itself leaned more towards “personal experience”, not too serious, but the important thing was to uplift the students’ emotions and prevent them from giving up.
In this regard, she succeeded, and quite well!
But here comes the problem…
Fu Chengque, who usually had a calm demeanor, suddenly changed her style on stage. What’s going on?
Chen Xiongguo thought it over and realized that the only reason might be that she was “close to Wen Yu and influenced by Wen Yu”.
With this in mind, and considering the significant improvement in Fu Chengque’s grades, he became even more convinced—
Wen Yu, using this method, managed to coax Fu Chengque into thinking about becoming an “Empress”, sparking her enthusiasm for learning, leading to a rapid improvement in her grades. Obviously, he also managed to pull Lu Min and a few others into this, assigning them some roles, and they were enthusiastically playing along.
Although the method seemed childish, it was remarkably effective, with the rankings of these individuals rising rapidly.
It could be considered converging paths to the same destination.
But merits and demerits cannot offset each other.
So, Wen Yu was “invited”.
Chen Xiongguo pondered for a moment, then said sternly, “You’re responsible for supervising Fu Chengque to write a self-criticism, and you’ll write one too.”
Wen Yu immediately looked distressed, “Teacher, what does this have to do with me…”
“How does it not? Although Fu Chengque is usually lively, she hasn’t reached the point of acting on her own like this!”
“Injustice, Teacher.” Wen Yu continued to protest, “Those were all her own ideas, what does it have to do with me!”
“It’s mostly because of your influence on her, with all that ‘Empress’ and ‘strategist’ stuff. How old are you.” Chen Xiongguo waved his hand, his tone resolute, “Anyway, you have to write!”
As he said this, Chen Xiongguo felt somewhat speechless.
But deep down, he found these two kids really interesting.
It’s nice.
If they could stick it out until the end of university, wouldn’t that be a good thing?
Of course, as the class teacher of the senior three, he absolutely couldn’t show such thoughts.
He chuckled inwardly at his own musings about the past and, when he spoke again, his tone softened, “Write it together, submit a self-criticism, and the teachers won’t pursue it.”
He patted both of them on the shoulder and said softly, “Go on.”
***
As Wen Yu walked from the office back to the classroom, he remained silent.
Fu Chengque trailed behind, like a feather.
She looked around with a pitiful expression, saying, “Someday, I’ll reign over the world…”
“You’re still making empty promises!”
“Sharing joys and sorrows together…”
“Where’s the ‘joy’ in this!”
“I even said during the speech that you were my ‘strategist’!”
“Shut up! It’s too embarrassing…”
Fu Chengque “Mmm” and covered her mouth.
Wen Yu walked ahead with his head down, and Fu Chengque quickly followed.
Seeing that Wen Yu seemed quite disheartened, she apologized softly, “I’m sorry…”
Wen Yu ignored her.
She raised her voice a bit more, “General Wen, I’m sorry…”
Wen Yu glanced at the clear sky and then at the girl following closely behind him, sighing.
“Speaking of… General Fu, when did you become so thick-skinned?”
Fu Chengque was stunned for a moment, then became slightly angry, “What do you mean by ‘thick-skinned’!”
“You never dare to do such things usually.”
The girl hesitated for a moment, then looked into the distance and spoke slowly, “Wen Yu, senior year is almost over, huh?”
Wen Yu paused, “Yes, there are only a few dozen days left.”
Fu Chengque’s tone was melancholic, “No matter how much we think about it, we’ll have to part ways, right? I’m useless, I couldn’t achieve anything big with you guys, to make our names last in the school’s history! Actually, I was prepared…”
She suddenly stopped in her tracks, and Wen Yu stopped too.
“What preparation?”
“It’s just…” She turned her face, smiling, “Preparation to say ‘study group, disband!'”
As Wen Yu remained silent, she continued, “I just wanted to leave something behind while there’s still a little chance, so that when we get together in the future, we can reminisce with fondness…”
Her voice was soft and gentle.
With the wind, her words peeled off: By that time, no one would feel embarrassed, no one would feel ridiculous, only the lamentation of fleeting youth, regretting not doing something more memorable in their reckless youth.
Wen Yu looked at her and suddenly thought of the “self-criticism” and Tang Yin’s two lines of poetry:
Others laugh at my madness, but I laugh at their inability to see. Without seeing the graves of the heroes, without flowers and wine, I till the fields.
In this light…
Wen Yu didn’t care at all.
The opinions of others, the talk of Empress and strategist, the absurd names of the groups, none of it mattered.
“You have to tell me next time,” he suddenly said.
“What?” Fu Chengque was stunned.
“Your speech!”
“Huh?”
“Your speech is so important, and you didn’t let me participate, that’s too much!” Wen Yu said sternly, his expression serious, “You should have let me change a few words too, otherwise, you’re the only one enjoying it, and I have no sense of participation at all!”
The girl was initially frightened, but then she woke up and suddenly put on a bright smile—
“Hehehe, next time for sure!”
“We promised, next time for sure!”
***
When they returned to the classroom, class hadn’t started yet, and the corridor was full of seniors.
Although the two walked quickly, Fu Chengque’s remarkable appearance and remarkable speech made a lasting impression.
Along the way, there were discussions.
“Hey! Look! Isn’t that the one who spoke at the assembly just now?”
“Oh? The one who wants to be Empress? Wow, she’s so pretty…”
“I thought she was the icy beauty type, turns out she’s lively.”
“And who’s the handsome guy next to her?”
“Don’t know? Haha, I do. Wen Yu from Class Four, the one who’s doing even better than Fu Chengque in grades, ranked top ten in the grade in the recent mock exam! he’s the one Fu Chengque called her strategist.”
“Wow… My apologies!”
“Empress, haha, we girls also have big aspirations!”
As this classmate spoke, she shouted to Fu Chengque who had walked up, “Classmate Fu Chengque, good luck, hope you become Empress!”
And there were cheers from the girls, “Your strategist also needs to work hard!”
They said they didn’t care, but it was still embarrassing.
Both of them blushed and hurried on with their heads down.
When they reached a corner with no one around, Fu Chengque lifted her head, blushing but proud, and patted her strategist Wen Yu on the shoulder, with stars in her eyes, “Strategist! We did it!”
The strategist was startled, “Did what!?”
“That thing!”
“What thing!?”
“Goal Three: To increase the number of partners!”
“…”
“Strategist, we’ve already spread our influence throughout the whole school! Now the entire senior class of Second High School is on my side, hahaha, I can already feel the feeling of ruling the world!!!”
“…”
Wen Yu had to admit, Fu Chengque was really something.
He only thought it was a joke, but she actually did it. As she said, now the entire senior class of Second High School knew her, and her influence had indeed spread…
But the cost was quite high.
“General Fu, your image has been exposed.”
“What image?”
“The image of the cold and aloof ice beauty.”
“Ah!”
“Now you’ve become the lively middle school Empress.”
“Oh…” The girl was stunned.
After a moment of daze, she gently shook her body, lifted her chin, and became proud, “Doesn’t matter!”
Turning her head, she started to walk proudly toward Class Four. When she noticed Wen Yu hadn’t followed, she turned and urged, “Strategist, keep up!”
“Coming!” Wen Yu lifted his leg to catch up, and the two walked side by side.
“Hehe.”
“What are you laughing at?”
“General Wen.”
“What?”
“This time I made sure to keep you close!”
“Hmm?”
“Hmm… Didn’t let you down, put you in the most important position!”
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