CH 58

Chapter 058 - So he was the only pacifist here. (1)

Inside the classroom, Tan Muxing was sketching at his desk when Qiu Qingkong came running over excitedly with her backpack. When she noticed that the seat next to the window was empty, she asked, “Where my teacher?”

“Teacher Liu asked to speak to her,” said Tan Muxing.

“Oh, probably regular chitchatting again.” Qiu Qingkong waved goodbye at Tan Muxing before she ran back to the girls by the door. “Okay, chat with you later on line then. Budbye, budbye!”

“Bye-bye.”

Tan Muxing watched as Qiu Qingkong rejoined Yuan Yan and the others by the door. The girls chatted and laughed as they walked away.

Chu Qianli, Qiu Qingkong, and Tan Muxing had their own group chat. As such, Tan Muxing and Qiu Qingkong would also chat with each other from time to time, mostly talking about Chu Qianli. She was the core person who held the group together.

That being said, Qiu Qingkong would still hang out with Yuan Ya and the others at school from time to time. She didn’t not distance her old friends after she made new ones. Chu Qianli, on the other hand, hang out with Tan Muxing all the time. This pair of astrology teacher-student pair had their own friend circles.

Tan Muxing always found that incredulous. Chu Qianli had only been here for two weeks and had already blended into the class and gained her own label.

Taking manga or anime as examples, He Shichen was the ceiling in their class; Yuan Ya was the good student class lead; Qiu Qingkong was the social butterfly; and Chu Qianli was the mystical transfer student who was very good at astrology.

Tan Muxing had no label in the class and his role was also very hazy.

“Hey, Big White Chubby, you used to sew and now you straight up play with girls?” Wang Zheng casually made fun of Tan Muxing after hearing Qiu Qingkong chatting with him.

Tan Muxing frowned a little but he pretended that he didn’t hear him at all. He thought to himself, surely there are villains wherever one goes.

Wang Zheng’s grades are poor in class and would always tease Tan Muxing. Any time someone talked to Tan Muxing, he would go and instigate. Over time, nobody would talk to Tan Muxing anymore.

Tan Muxing had been spending a lot of time with Chu Qianli lately and, naturally, Wang Zheng would resort to his old tricks. Nevertheless, Chu Qianli never acted the way others would expect her to and she didn’t care about Wang Zheng at all. She continued to walk out with Tan Muxing after school.

Wang Zheng noticed that Tan Muxing gave him no response whatsoever and felt that his punch had landed on cotton. He stood up and was going to continue his act when Chu Qianli rushed back.

“Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Lucky Money-printing Machine is tied up today. Otherwise, he would be lecturing me again……” Chu Qianli mad dashed back to her desk, packed her backpack, looked over at Tan Muxing and said, “Sorry to keep you waiting! Let’s head out!”

He Shichen had to tend to his matters at the student union that evening and would not be riding with Chu Qianli.

Tan Muxing slowly gathered up his things and said gently, “Alright.”

“Qiu Qingkong just came looking for you.” Tan Muxing didn’t even bat an eye at Wang Zheng. He picked up his backpack and walked out of the classroom with Chu Qianli, never once did he look back.

“Oh, I’ll just text her later. I watched the anime that you recommended yesterday. It is quite interesting,” said Chu Qianli excitedly. “Clow cards are very similar to tarot cards!”

“That anime is quite old. I didn’t know that you didn’t know about it.” Tan Muxing sighed. He knew nothing about Chu Qianli’s childhood. She seemed to have missed out a lot when she was a child.

Wang Zheng did not look happy when he watched the two walked away.

The group of three gathered around in class the next day. Qiu Qingkong raised her phone and showed it to the other two. She said emotionally, “Teacher, I want to learn tarot. I really want to do some videos like this lately!”

Tan Muxing looked at the screen on her phone and said, “Is this an astrology clip?”

“Oh, a group reading.” Chu Qianli looked at the tarot video on some channel and said hesitantly, “Well, you can do that if you want but you aren’t even very good with the dice yet.”

Qiu Qingkong had wanted to be an astrology disciple but, she was still struggling with reading the dice when she wanted to move onto tarot cards.

“But you are good at it,” said Qiu Qingkong with somewhat of a guilty conscience. She mumbled, “I can’t solicit for business at school recent and I felt that my life is purposeless. I must expand out business outside of school……”

Tan Muxing called her out, “I feel that you are more interested in promoting astrology than actually learning it.”*

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