Chapter 5 - 4 Changing Desk Mates
Qingran got up unusually early the next day, at 6:12 AM, and upon sitting up, she felt a faint headache at her forehead and a slight pain in the joints of her right hand as she rubbed them.
After a night of drinking, she was feeling quite unwell and sighed, thinking that she could no longer trust Aunt Zhao's fruit wine that supposedly doesn't get one drunk.
After washing up, the hazy memories from the previous night's drinking floated back to her: Aunt Zhao was as usual beaming and coaxing her by calling her "Mom", Li Qingmo still disdainfully commented on her embarrassingly bad tolerance for alcohol, Xie Ying'an uncharacteristically asked her to unlock her phone and asked who he was.
Tsk, Xie Ying'an must have been drunk too.
Their home was not far from the school. After having a bowl of porridge and not seeing any sign of Li Qingmo coming downstairs, Qingran sent him a message and then headed to school on her own.
Qingran usually sleeps well, she seldom went to school during early self-study unless the teacher specifically asked her to. She arrived early today, and apart from the usually hardworking top students, there were only a few others around as most students were still leisurely getting into the school mood shortly after the start of the term.
Just as Qingran sat down, she saw Wen Shiyi entering the classroom through the front door. Wen Shiyi smiled and greeted her as she passed by Qingran's seat, saying, "Morning!"
Qingran responded with a smile, "Morning!"
Wen Shiyi adjusted the breakfast in her hand and asked Qingran, "Have you had breakfast?"