So Yuluo pretended not to hear, staying in her small room, not even called for dinner. Ma Jiao went out to play mahjong, and Xia Dahao went out drinking, with only a housekeeper on the first floor, completely ignoring her.
Yuluo ate two stale dry biscuits from her journey and wanted to drink water but didn’t know how to use the water dispenser. She finally got tap water from the bathroom.
By the time she was full and the sky was almost dark, she washed up simply and sat at her desk to study. She was in her second year of high school, and her grades were top-notch in their town’s high school. The principal had said that as long as she kept working hard, getting into a Beijing university would be no problem!
She was reluctant to leave the high school she’d attended for almost two years. She heard the new school Xia Dahao transferred her to was a private elite high school, where students were notoriously bad, and teachers were snobbish, only liking students from wealthy families and disliking poor kids.
She had heard that students at the private elite high school didn’t study at all, only thinking about showing off brand names.
That the male students would even hit female students.
That the female students would sleep with rich men.
She had heard many things about the private elite high school, and none were good.
The one who told her all this was her good friend Yuan Yuan, who had watched a TV drama called “Meteor Garden”.
She said, “When you go to the private elite high school, you’d better meet F4!”
Early the next morning, Xia Dahao knocked on Yuluo’s door – “Yuluo, wake up and go to school!”
Yuluo was already awake, reciting English vocabulary.
She had nightmares all night about the new school! Sometimes it turned into a haunted house, sometimes a cemetery, just like a ghost story. When she woke up in the middle of the night, it was raining outside, and the raindrops from the eaves were hitting a plastic sheet below, making a crisp sound.
The “tap tap” sound made Yuluo feel melancholic. She had only been here a day, and she was already homesick.
Breakfast was milk, bread, and eggs.
