through the strait gates(过门/Guomen)//work by priest(CN)//BL

Chapter 4: Conflict (vol. scallions)

Xu Xilin was Class 1's organization leader, and was also on the school's basketball team. And he was also extremely loyal to his friends and acquaintances. He often used the the advantage of his position to help his classmates get a spot on the court. If there was anyone that he wanted to become friends with, no matter male, or female, he could. Being the core of the group of the back three rows in the class, this was the first time he had received such a baffling and rude face.

"*Psycho." Xu Xilin thought.

(a better translation would be "asshole", but let's keep it the Chinese way)

He did not became a people person because he was cheap and sticky. He did not have the kink of pressing a hot face to a cold ass. The initial good impression towards Do Xun incinerated into ashes blown away.

In a blink of an eye, Xu Xilin moved a certain Mr. Dou into the "doesn't know to appreciate favor––weirdo" column.

Dou Xun was probably one, really.

If defining anyone else as being unsociable was "cannot fit into the major group of people", dearest classmate Dou Xun's unsociable was probably "cannot fit into the species".

For the whole week, except for questions in class that he was forced to answer, Dou Xun wasn't seen to talk with anything else alive.

Every day, he sat in the most isolated corner of the class, arrived early and left late. Came alone, departed alone, and except for leaving through the back door to go to the bathroom, he basically didn't walk around even the least bit in class.

He never lift his head up while walking, and didn't really look people in the eye. Except for the time in class, he always had a pair of headphones on, blocking out the noise around him completely. At first, when people met him in the school or in the corridors, they would greet him friendly, but as he never even glanced at them once, slowly, no one did it anymore.

All the boys in the class, with Xu Xilin as the lead, viewed him with absolute disdain.

The last period of Thursday was a free study period. Xu Xilin texted the school basketball team's coach, and reserved the court. He picked this day because Tsai Jing didn't have work on Thursday night.

In this decade, smartphones weren't a thing yet, and the non-smart phones weren't common among high school students yet. The main communication channel among students were still passing notes around.

Xu Xilin tossed the crunched-up note to the student in charge of sports in their class. "Hey, did you bring a basketball?"

Wu Tao, the student in charge of sports in their class, was someone who was the best at sports among normal students, and the best at studying among sports students. As he performed extraordinarily above his usual level in the senior high school entrance test, he successfully became the only sports special student in the experimental class. But as he preferred having fun over studying, and had to undergo harsh training every day, he did not have exactly the best experience in the experimental class. Only when fun was involved did he fit in the class, specifically Xu Xilin and the other guys, completely.

Wu Tao's note came back quickly. "No, but I think Yiran brought one."

Yiran's full name was Yu Yiran, and she was actually a girl. But the young lady was 1.78 meters tall, and weighted 78 kilograms, exactly twice as the lightest girl in class. She couldn't fit in any of the girls' uniforms, so she had to order a boys' one. And she fitted in completely with Xu Xilin and the other guys, and played basketball with them, gender conformity tossed aside like trash.

An helpless Tsai Jing helped them pass the note back and forth, and turned back to tap on Xu Xilin's blank biology test. "They'll have to be passed back when the bell rings! Quick!"