CHAPTER 439: CHAPTER 438: IT’S HER! IT’S HER!

After the award ceremony process, Zhen Yu felt much better than when she had just made a blunder.

Feeling better, she didn’t mind adding a couple of sentences to thank the school authorities in front of her speech.

However, her speech was only a thin sheet of paper; even with the two added sentences, it was quickly over.

The female host, seeing that the returning students had speeches of three pages, had not expected the freshmen to have only one!

It wasn’t until Zhen Yu had bowed that the host realized it, hurriedly announcing the vice principal to present the new school rules and make a concluding speech.

Compared to the earlier leadership talks that were making people drowsy, these new school rules were what the students truly cared about! The vice principal had only read one rule when the boys below started uproar!

However, it was the vice principal’s job to oversee the school’s discipline, and he had always been very authoritative.

He was like a fearsome enforcer! All the students feared him!

So, none of them dared to speak out loudly, only muttering softly below!

The vice principal didn’t care about those! He continued reading the school rules, even emphasizing them again,

"I will say it again! Boys must all have crew cuts! Girls’ hair length must not exceed the collar! Bangs must not cover the eyebrows! Hair at the temples must be tucked behind the ears, not covering the face! No overly fancy hair accessories! Additionally! From this school year on, school uniforms are to be worn not only Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but from Monday to Saturday! Considering Junior Year and Senior High School students have a tight schedule and heavy tasks, you have one week to get your hair cut! Next Monday, there will be a uniform check! Those not compliant will be sent back home! Only return to class once your hair is fixed!"

"Freshman students must leave the school immediately after the opening ceremony to get a haircut! Gather at the school field at 1 p.m. in camo uniforms! If anyone’s hairstyle does not comply, they will temporarily be out of my hands! The instructors will naturally have corresponding disciplinary measures waiting for you!!"

"Now I declare! The opening ceremony is formally concluded!"

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As soon as Zhen Yu finished her speech, she immediately returned to the first class team. When it was announced that the freshman students had to get their hair cut by 1 p.m. today, almost all her classmates around her immediately began wailing.

Only Zhen Yu was silent and motionless, seemingly indifferent to the matter.

Hu Xi stood beside her and couldn’t help but tug at the hem of Zhen Yu’s school uniform.

Seeing Zhen Yu look over, she then asked, "Girls have to cut their hair short! Didn’t you hear?!"

Zhen Yu’s eyes didn’t even flicker as she blandly replied, "I heard."

Hu Xi: "..."

Great! No common ground! It seems a top student who ranked first in the city doesn’t care about appearances at all!

Actually, Hu Xi was wrong. Zhen Yu did care about appearances!

After all, she was also a girl in love!

However, Zhen Yu wasn’t particularly fond of dressing up; she preferred to wear clean and neat clothes on ordinary days.

Moreover, she believed appearance was inborn. Changing a hairstyle still leaves one looking the same, doesn’t it? What difference could it make? The ugly remain ugly! The beautiful remain beautiful! Could cutting the hair turn Xi Shi into Dong Shi?

In such a short span of time, Zhen Yu had already thought out the hairstyle she wanted to get!

All the hassle about tucking hair behind the ears or covering the face, maybe even needing to use hair accessories to keep it in place, Zhen Yu wasn’t interested.

She’d just get a boyish haircut! Easy and worry-free!

—

As the school leaders began to leave one after another, the teams in the field didn’t disband at all!

It seemed that most homeroom teachers, like Zhang Lei, separately emphasized the importance of cutting the hair short.

Zhen Yu listened to the homeroom teacher’s nagging while watching the time on her watch.

Three minutes later, Zhang Lei finally announced dismissal.

And his speed was considered fast! Only a few class teams had dispersed before him...

Zhen Yu still stood where she was, motionless.

Hu Xi greeted her, and seeing no response, she walked away with someone else.

Ten minutes later, three freshmen finally reconvened at a corner of the playground.

Bai Xue rushed over and clung to Zhen Yu’s arm, pretending to cry, and then was immediately dragged by Zhen Yu towards the direction of the school gate.

"Why do I have to cut my hair?! I don’t want to cut my hair, I can’t cut my hair! I’ll look hideous if I cut my hair! I’ll be too embarrassed to see people! Waaaaah! I won’t cut it, I won’t cut it, I won’t cut it..."

Zhen Yu, tormented by her whining, glared at her and threatened, "Keep your head but not your hair! Keep your hair but not your head!"

Bai Xue immediately raised her other hand to cover her neck!

Pretending to be angry, she said, "You’re too cruel!! The vice principal definitely didn’t say that!!"

Zhen Yu’s eyes flickered. "Oh? And what did he say?"

"He said, he said the instructors will have corresponding punitive measures ready, waiting..."

Zhen Yu continued to intimidate, "So you want to try them?"

Bai Xue swallowed, "Gulp! Better not, I guess!"

It was only then that Han Mingyue spoke up to mediate, "If a stretch or a shrink both result in a cut, it’s better to cut it sooner!"

Under Zhen Yu’s fierce look, Bai Xue could only nod obediently.

"Mmhm!"

——

Outside the school gate, there were not ten barbershops but certainly eight, and Zhen Yu and her friends randomly chose one that didn’t look too crowded and stood in line outside.

Not all freshmen would come to get a haircut right after being dismissed.

Some thought that everyone going at once would definitely mean it’s crowded, so going a bit later wouldn’t hurt!

And some simply didn’t want to cut their hair, so keeping their precious locks even a second longer was worth it!

Zhen Yu was just lamenting how the school had bolstered the barbershops’ business when she suddenly heard someone calling her.

"Zhen Yu! I knew you’d be the first to come get a haircut!" Lu Huai shouted as he excitedly ran towards Zhen Yu’s queue.

Just then, Bai Xue curiously peeked out from beside Zhen Yu and saw Lu Huai.

"Huh? Isn’t this guy in our class?"

As soon as her face caught Lu Huai’s eyes, he unconsciously slowed his pace.

But his heartbeat, on the other hand, sped up more and more! Faster and faster! He suddenly became clumsy.

It’s her! It’s her! It’s actually her!

So she is Zhen Yu’s friend! This is just great!

Lu Huai was so excited he nearly jumped up!

Since he and she are both friends of Zhen Yu! Doesn’t that indirectly make them friends too?!

Meanwhile! Hearing Bai Xue’s words, Zhen Yu’s eyebrows immediately furrowed.

"You said he’s in your class?! That shouldn’t be!"

"Do you know him?"

Zhen Yu was about to answer "yes," but then, right as the words reached her lips, she swallowed them back!

What was that look Lu Huai gave Bai Xue?! His eyes brimming with... infatuation...

Any sympathy Zhen Yu had for him being in class ten disappeared in an instant, and she coldly rejected, "Not close!"