The PE teacher was probably startled by the four of them. After blowing his whistle to announce free time, he used "handling an urgent matter" as an excuse to hand the rest of the class over to class monitor Zhou Xinyi, then slipped away without looking back.
As soon as the teacher left, the class scattered like birds and beasts. The boys immediately occupied the basketball and table tennis courts, brimming with such restless energy as if they hadn't just been gasping for air on the running track a moment ago.
The student union was holding a social mixer that evening, going to a karaoke lounge to sing. Hu Yishu and Zhou Xinyi were both student union members and were bound to go. Lu Huai'an figured that even Zhenxi, whom he had just seen on the track, seemed to be one of them.
Chapter 301