A Certain Someone ( The On1y One ) Chapter 035 – Overseer

By The Time The Overseer Finally Nodded, He Was So Drowsy That He Couldn’t Even Find His Own Bedroom Door.

At the front of the classroom, Song Sirui said something terrible that must have gotten on the nerves of a huge group of people, Gao Tianyang took the lead by pressing him onto the table, putting him in a stranglehold as well as clawing at his waist. One person after another all piled on top of Song Sirui’s back, nearly suffocating him.

Li Yu couldn’t understand braindead games like these, as she did her work she shook her head and giggled uncontrollably. Little Chilli was cheering on at the side, she even dug out her phone and recorded the entire process as though she was filming a movie. She even tried different angles and zoom-ins in imitation.
Song Sirui was squeezed until his face and neck were flushed, and spat in difficulty, “I’m fucking sorry, please?!”
“I’m gonna die, help me——”
“What’s wrong with all of you!”
……

The classroom was full of chaos, but Sheng Wang heard Jiang Tian’s words crystal clear.
He mused and said, “I have a pretty bad temper and a petty mind, I stay angry for a long time too.”

Jiang Tian’s upper body was slightly leaning forward, a pen between his fingers. When he listened to him, his gaze was slightly lowered, his fingers pinched the two ends of his black pen, slowly spinning it around.
He nodded, and replied, “Mn, so?”

So if I reopen just because you told me to, wouldn’t I look pathetic?

The leg stepping on the horizontal bar under the table relaxed, the chair rocking backwards settled back onto the ground, the back of the chair no longer touching the edges of Jiang Tian’s table.
He tossed the totally useless physics book back into the desk. Just as he was about to make some bold declarations, Gao Tianyang who was at the front returned in victory, asking him from afar, “Sheng-ge! What got you so happy?”
Sheng Wang: “Happy? Your ass.”
Gao Tianyang: “???”

He did not understand how did a “happy?” from him became all about his ass, he could only see Jiang Tian shaking in laughter laughter.

Young Master Sheng Wang’s dignity was priceless, even if he was to lose it it wouldn’t be now. Therefore, he forced himself to not give in for an entire afternoon as well as three periods of night self-study, and somehow endured all the way until it was the middle of the night.
He was in the midst of calculating for the final physics question when his phone vibrated three times at his side, there were a few WeChat messages.

Normally, Jiang Tian would be the only one still up at this hour. Sheng Wang subconsciously peered at the wall behind him, and opened up WeChat. Unexpectedly, the conversation most on top wasn’t the person next door, it was his ex-deskmate slash roommate, Pang Xie.
StarAniseCrab: I JUST SAW YOU ON THE INTERNET SHENG-GE!!!
StarAniseCrab: as expected, if you’re handsome there will always be people taking pictures of you no matter where you go
StarAniseCrab: it’s only been like 5 seconds, there’s already people lining up wanting to confess to you

Sheng Wang was thoroughly lost, he jabbed three punctuation marks in reply.
Shop’s Closed: ???
StarAniseCrab: eh? ur still awake?
Shop’s Closed: aren’t you awake too

StarAniseCrab: that’s true
StarAniseCrab: life in Jiangsu sure is bad, it literally forced our Sheng-ge to burn the midnight oil every single night
Shop’s Closed: don’t even mention it to me
Shop’s Closed: my kidney hurts

StarAniseCrab: are you still doing homework? exactly how much homework do y’all have?
Sheng Wang casually snapped a picture of the paper he was doing and sent it over.
Shop’s Closed: last question, if your message came any later I would have slept.

The other person didn’t reply instantly, Sheng Wang didn’t bother to wait either, he stuffed in his earpiece and continued to figure out the formula. Around five minutes later, just as Sheng Wang completed the last section, his phone suddenly vibrated again.

StarAniseCrab: I just read through the questions
StarAniseCrab: I think my worldview kinda collapsed
StarAniseCrab: I literally can’t do a single question????

Sheng Wang wheezed, he replied with a voice message straight away. “Don’t crumble yet, who would even test this on a regular basis? It’s compulsory for everyone in the class to participate in the Olympiads here, this is the practice paper, I’m struggling my way through it too
StarAniseCrab: can’t tell that you’re struggling
StarAniseCrab: no wait HOLD ON!
StarAniseCrab: aren’t you still catching up? How are you already doing competition papers?
Sheng Wang sent a smiley face that was asking for extra beatings, saying, “Already caught up.”

StarAniseCrab: ……
StarAniseCrab: it wasn’t even one month???
StarAniseCrab: fk
StarAniseCrab: I shouldn’t have came to seek heart attacks in the middle of the night

Speaking of his arrival in his chat, Sheng Wang recalled the first sentence in this conversation. He asked, “You said you saw me on the internet just now? What do you mean?”
StarAniseCrab: oh, hold on, I’ll send it to you
Next he tossed a screenshot over.

The screenshot consisted of a status of a person’s QQ space —— someone named “Fuzhong’s Confession Page” posted a picture. It was Sheng Wang, standing by the sports ground.
It was likely taken after a jog during the long break, he wore a white T-shirt, a school jacket hanging over his left shoulder, a hand grabbing a bottle of water, the other hand wiping at the corner of his mouth. There were traces of sweat by his sideburns, and he was smiling as he talked to someone.

StarAniseCrab: you haven’t seen the QQ chat for a while now, right?
StarAniseCrab: I saw a few girls talking about it in the class chat last night, saying that their first love flew away, and is now receiving confessions from girls in other schools
Shop’s Closed: ……

Sheng Wang didn’t know what to reply to him either, he sent two stickers about how he didn’t know if he wanted to laugh or cry, and scrolled down from the screenshot.
Below that post was a series of replies so long that the screenshot didn’t capture all of them. Some were lining up to send tiny hearts emojis, some typed out his name, some said he was both handsome and valiant. There was even one who focused on a particularly strange area, saying: Whose hand is it from the left side of the picture? I think that he’s probably a major hottie, you can tell from the fingers alone.
Another person replied: if he’s a major hottie, then I’ll put a blind guess and say that it’s Jiang Tian.

Sheng Wang said internally, don’t need to blindly guess, it is Jiang Tian.
He zoomed in on the picture. That hand was svelte and neat, next to the prominent outline of his wrist, was a tiny little mole.

There were two PE lessons during the supplementary lessons over the summer break. The girls of Class A hated going under the Sun, they always found excuses to stay behind in the classroom and do their work. The boys, otherwise, were pretty enthusiastic. They generally went to the equipment room, grab a basketball, and play half-court, with the teacher as the referee. Sheng Wang was more of the lazy type, but he did show Gao Tianyang, the PE rep, plenty of respect. He went on court for both times and coincidentally ended up on the opposite team as Jiang Tian for both times too.
Jiang Tian usually wore a wristband to play basketball, when he dribbled the basketball, that tiny mole would be under the edges of the wristband, appearing and disappearing along with his movements.
It was really……pretty handsome.

His phone buzzed again. Sheng Wang blanked out for a moment before he realised that he seriously stared at Jiang Tian’s hand for such a long time.
He averted his eyes at once, hurriedly closed the picture, gulped two mouthfuls of water from the cup on the desk, and finally went back to WeChat as he licked the corner of his lips.

StarAniseCrab sent a few messages again, Sheng Wang gave all of them a brief sweep, but he already lost any interest in chatting. After two simple lines exchanged with Crab, they both let each other know that they would be going to sleep.
There was soon complete silence from Crab’s end. However, Sheng Wang did not intend to sleep yet.

He stuffed the completed physics practice back into his bag, and looked up to check the time—it was 1.07am.
Ever since he caught up with the syllabus, he no longer needed to stay up to 2am every night. Perhaps it was because he has yet to readjust from his previous schedule, he was clearly quite drowsy, but he felt like he should be doing something.

He rummaged through his bag again—the homework was all completed, he did the practice for math-physics-chem Olympiads, he already memorised all of the classical texts, so maybe he should take a look at the vocabulary list?
He may be thinking of that, but his finger already tapped on WeChat’s icon. He entered and left the personal info page for three times before he decided to change his profile picture and nickname in the middle of the night when nobody is awake.
He found a picture of Hot Kid cupping his fist, changed his profile picture into that, and then entered the four words: “Open For Business”.

Not even two minutes since he made the change, there was a knock on his bedroom door.

There was a ceiling light switched on in the second floor’s corridor, it wasn’t particularly bright. It casted a halo on the floor between the two bedrooms. Jiang Tian’s hair was already dry from his shower, the warm yellow light from above erased his sharpness in his features, making him appear gentle.
He raised what he was holding in his hand. “Opening gift.”

“What’s that?”
Sheng Wang received it with confusion, and turned it over……
The fuck, a copybook.

“Are you trying to pick a fight?” He asked, annoyed.
Jiang Tian declined to comment. His fingers retracted a little, saying, “Want it? If not, I’m taking it back.”

Sheng Wang talked under his breath for a moment before he asked, “Did you practice your handwriting to this?”
“Roughly.” Jiang Tian said.
“What do you mean by roughly?”
“I followed it twice.” Jiang Tian said.
“You call that practicing when you only did it twice?” Sheng Wang said, completely done, “Why don’t you just say that it’s innate.”
Jiang Tian even had the guts to agree.
Sheng Wang nearly rolled his eyes out. “I’ve confirmed, you’re here for a beating.”

Laughter rumbled in Jiang Tian’s throat, he said properly again: “Practicing is pretty quick, actually.”
Sheng Wang wasn’t exactly convinced. “It has to take one year minimum, no?”
“No need.”
“Don’t hoodwink me.” Sheng Wang deadpanned, “This, I still know. You might not believe me, but I did practice my handwriting as a kid, I did it so seriously—”
He stuck out two fingers. “For two years.”

This time round, Jiang Tian really did laugh out loud.
His wrist was propped against the door frame, and laughed with his head looking aside, his Adam’s apple slightly trembling along.

“The hell you’re laughing at.” Sheng Wang said stonily.
Jiang Tian turned to face him. “Do you want a crash course?”
“Duh!” Sheng Wang eyed him warily after saying that. “Don’t tell me……you even have tricks to practising your handwriting?”
“It wouldn’t be particularly refined, but it’s at least readable.” Jiang Tian said.

Sheng Wang suspected he was launching personal attacks, but beggars can’t be choosers. On the basis of the copybook, he would just suck it up. “Readable is all I need, I’m not planning to master calligraphy anyway.”
Jiang Tian stuck out his palm, his pointer finger beckoned, “A pen.”

Sheng Wang pushed him straight into the room next door.
The table here was already tidied, the chair was empty, but Jiang Tian did not sit. He took out a red pen from his bag, stooped and circled a few words on the copybook.

“国(country), è¾½(liao), 溪(stream), 覃(Qin/Tan/deep), 鸦(crow), æ°§(oxygen)……” Sheng Wang read out a few as Jiang Tian circled, he couldn’t spot a pattern.
Jiang Tian flipped through more than 10 pages, and circled less than 30 characters. He settled his pen down. “You just need to practise these, copy them a few times every day, pay a little more attention when you write on a normal basis, and that’s all.”

“Really?” Sheng Wang had his doubts. “What’s so special about these words?”
“Fully enclosed, half enclosed, top-down, left-right structures. I’ve picked out a few classic examples for all.” Jiang Tian said, “It’s like how you do your work, when you master these few, you master all of them.”

Sheng Wang’s eyes swept around the surroundings. “Do you have a blank notebook? Lemme try.”
Jiang Tian found one for him, and even threw in a pen for free.

“Just write, I’ll memorise my texts.” He grabbed the language textbook that was facing down at the side of the table, and sat at the windowsill just like the many nights before.

The few night insects at White Horse Alley started crying out again, in chirps and screams. Sheng Wang briefly paused before the table. He finally pulled out the chair, sat down, and started writing the characters circled out on the copybook, stroke by stroke.

Five minutes later, he let out a long sigh of relief. He dangled the book right in front of Jiang Tian’s face. “I’m done, take a look. I feel like I’ve vastly improved.”
Jiang Tian gave it a quick scan, and that handsome face of his instantly went dead.

He didn’t bother with his book anymore, he settled the notebook in front of Sheng Wang again, hoovered over the table, and demanded like an overseer: “Rewrite it.”
“……”

Sheng Wang silently swore in his head, feeling like he was in kindergarten again.

The young master never saw it coming, not in a million years, that he seriously stayed up to 2.30am just to practise his handwriting. By the time the overseer finally nodded, he was so drowsy that he couldn’t even find his own bedroom door.
In the end, he couldn’t even remember what kind of fuss he kicked up. He only knew that when he opened his eyes in the morning, what he saw was the ceiling in Jiang Tian’s room.

TO BE CONTINUED.