In the morning, unlike usual, that Mini Cooper was no longer parked outside the courtyard gate. Ji Qianxi felt a little unaccustomed to it, but she still walked to the bus stop at the village entrance to take the bus to school.
Arriving at the front door of her classroom, she looked toward the back row and saw only Chen Yu sitting there, head down reading a novel. Su Yizhou's schoolbag was nowhere to be seen on the adjacent desk.
She assumed that no one had called Su Yizhou to wake him up, causing him to oversleep, and she worried he might be punished by the teacher. The rule back then was that being late got you hit on the palm with a ruler; there weren't as many rules yet, and nobody thought such a practice was wrong.
Chapter 44