002 A New Beginning (Changed to third person as requested by everyone; today's chemistry class was exhausting. Seeing that all the previous original novels have been highlighted, will the moderator also highlight mine?)
Teacher Wang looked up and down at Ye Zixu. Ye Zixu stood silently beside his grandfather. His grandfather nodded and looked at me kindly.
"Oh, I see! Then wait for me in that classroom, I'll be there right away." Teacher Wang lowered his head and didn't continue talking to Ye Zixu and the others. He pointed to the classroom to the left of the office.
Ye Zixu and his grandfather didn't say much and walked toward the classroom Teacher Wang had indicated. This floor had four classrooms, but from the outside, it was clear that two of them were not used for teaching but for storing things. His grandfather saw Ye Zixu to the classroom door and then left by himself, with Ye Zixu not trying to stop him. As for tuition fees and such, his grandfather had already taken care of them in advance.
Ye Zixu reached the classroom door. The door was not the aluminum alloy security door he had seen before but an old wooden one. These doors were very worn; one could even squeeze through gaps in the panels without a key. Most of these doors had no locks, or one might say these doors could never really be locked. Some of the metal rings used to close the doors had already been lost by mischievous students. Thus, most of these doors served merely a decorative purpose rather than a practical one.
Ye Zixu randomly chose a seat and sat down. The benches in this school were long and could seat two people each. The desks were also for two people, with the partition in the middle long since missing. Ye Zixu glanced at the empty classroom but didn't say anything. He quietly looked out the window at the world outside, which, though full of vitality, failed to evoke any sense of familiarity.
After sitting there for an unknown amount of time, Ye Zixu heard footsteps at the door. He turned his head and saw Teacher Wang with several girls beside him. In a world where boys were generally lazier than girls, this scene did not surprise Ye Zixu. Once inside, the girls formed their own small circle. Teacher Wang chatted with them for a while before returning to the office.
"What are you talking about?" Seeing this scene, Ye Zixu couldn't help but interject.
"None of your business!"Among these girls, only the one closest to Ye Zixu replied to me with a single sentence, while the other girls kept ignoring me and continued talking about their topic.\In fact, Ye Zixu also knew that integrating into a group required a certain amount of time, and perhaps at this moment, the scene he was experiencing was something that new students would encounter in the future.\Time passed little by little, and more people filled the classroom. Boys and girls talked about different topics, and Ye Zixu instinctively moved his seat to the farthest corner of the classroom. He was the only new student in this class; most of the other students had advanced directly from elementary school. Perhaps there were one or two new students transferred from other schools, but their transfer range was not large, only a distance of one or two towns. Moreover, most of their hometowns were here, so they knew a lot of each other.\As for Ye Zixu, he did not fall into either of these two categories. On the first day of school, he was completely isolated in the farthest corner of the classroom.
