Chapter 62: Doubt

When Tan Mo was here, Qiao Lan never thought he could beat Tan Mo, but now that Tan Mo is back, Qiao Lan looks at the biology he has just started to study and suddenly sees the possibility that he can beat Tan Mo in the exam.

Qiao Lan's bio was surprisingly good.

She used to be an arts student and had never studied biology, and having re-engaged with it in her life, she had no idea that she was so talented at it, and she usually scored nearly full marks on biology exams.

Not to mention the future, Qiao Lan was still very confident in the recent exams. Looking at Tan Mo, who was seriously reading his biology book, Qiao Lan suddenly got excited and poked Tan Mo with his finger, "MoMo, how about we make a bet?"

Tan Mo's face stiffened again at Qiao Lan's call of "MoMo", and regardless of what Qiao Lan was going to bet, his face remained expressionless, but his eyes seemed to show a bit of anguish as he whispered, "...don't call MoMo ."

Qiao Lan hadn't noticed that she was just calling you MoMo, but now that Tan Mo had pointed it out again, Qiao Lan also lowered her voice and laughed for a while before saying, "Aunt Chan calls you MoMo every day, but I don't see you not letting her call you MoMo."

Aunt Chan Can it be the same?

Tan Mo looked up at the class teacher who was in the middle of a lecture, he was still very principled at heart, for example, he could not study or listen to the lecture, but he could not talk.

But if it's with Qiao Lan, Tan Mo decided to abandon his principles and pressed his head down a little before turning his head and continuing, "Aunt Chan is the eldest."

Qiao Lan also pressed his head down a little, a high pile of books on the table, pressed down just enough to block their heads, Qiao Lan blinked, "Did you forget that I'm a few months older than you?"

Tan Mo: "......"

"You're not even seventeen yet."

Tan Mo: "......"

His seventeenth birthday is next month, and Tan Mo began to regret why he had brought up the subject before resolutely resurfacing to pick up where Qiao Lan had left off, "What's the bet?"

Qiao Lan also glanced up at the podium, the class teacher was still enthusiastically continuing her lecture, and continued with her book shielding her face, "Forget the first monthly exam, it's too close, I bet you'll never get first place in the midterm."

Tan Mo smiled and looked at her, "Is the first one you?"

"Of course", I was worried about Chen Yaoyang, but now I have nothing to worry about.

Tan Mo looked at the biology book in front of him and thoughtfully agreed, "Yes, what's the bet."

Qiao Lan didn't really think about it, so he asked Tan Mo, "What do you want to bet on?"

"Then when the mid-term results come out, whoever has the highest score will ask the other to do something."

"Even if I didn't have to bet, I'd say yes to whatever you want me to do," Qiao Lan said, but in a voice too low for Tan Mo to hear, "What did you say."

"I said..."

Qiao Lan had to come a little closer to repeat what she had just said, and was about to say it when Bai Yu behind her suddenly poked her with his hand.

Qiao Lan was stunned and was about to turn around and ask Bai Yu what was wrong, only to find that the class teacher's impassioned voice had disappeared and he looked up to meet the class teacher's rounded eyes.

"Qiao Lan Tan Mo , did you have a good chat?"

The class teacher bellowed, "Thump, thump, thump, thump" and poked her finger at the board, "Class, look at the board, look at me! The blackboard is here!"

Not in the face of your tablemates! Good grades mean you don't have to listen to lectures? Can you hold on to first place this time and dare to be so prodigal?

Tan Mo never listens in class and the teachers are used to it and understand that it is a waste of time for him to listen in class, so Tan Mo reads other books in class and the teachers definitely don't care.

But you can't forget to chat in class even if you're not listening, so many students around you always forget to look at him or her when they're not listening.

When the class teacher yelled, the eyes of the class poked at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo with meaningful expressions, which suddenly made Qiao Lan's ears burn.

After so many years of leading students, the classroom teacher instantly noticed that something was wrong.

Not so much from Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, but from the students next to them.

The class teacher has long found that as long as the class is looking at someone, or has not yet had a chance to look at someone a little bit, the teachers do not know but the students next to them definitely know, sometimes they named two people, the other students around the expressions are definitely very playful, some bold will also start.

Qiao Lan and Tan Mo were caught talking in class today. Although there was no noise, the class teacher was instantly alerted by the look in the eyes of everyone around them.

The class teacher's attitude towards the good students and the bad students was very different, especially for the top students like Qiao Lan and Tan Mo. The class teacher stared at them for a long time in silence and said, "Come to my office after class."

And with that, he added, " Qiao Lan first."

Qiao Lan , Tan Mo: "......"

Once class was over, the class teacher acted as if she had suddenly put some sort of certification on the two, not to mention the other students who were chattering and talking, and even Bai Yu felt that something was wrong.

Bai Yu ran over and followed Qiao Lan out of the classroom and asked her, "What are you two talking about in class?"

"Qiao Lan is so tired that she doesn't know what to say.

Bai Yu: "Why are you two getting so close for a bet? And you don't know how long the class teacher has been standing on the podium staring at you two!"

Qiao Lan: "......"

Bai Yu glanced back towards Hao Ying in the classroom and met her eyes. He felt a bit sorry for her and returned his gaze to Qiao Lan's face, then moved down to see the jade pendant around Qiao Lan's neck.

She witnessed Qiao Lan's red Zhao Tong eyes crying the day Tan Mo came back, Qiao Lan is usually a person with little mood swings, so that really scared Bai Yu.

Although two people who are both good looking would look better together, how ambiguous that action looks.

Thinking about the number of times Qiao Lan had unconsciously mentioned Tan Mo in the dormitory recently, Bai Yu took a deep breath and said, "LanLan, really, let me ask you something."

"Ask away."

"Do you... like Tan Mo, huh?"

Qiao Lan was silent for a long moment before she whispered, "Is it that obvious?"

Holy shit! Bai Yu almost jumped up from his chair, "Really?"

"No, no," Qiao Lan hurriedly waved her hand, saying no and feeling wrong again.

She really doesn't know.

When Qiao Lan couldn't stop thinking about Tan Mo after she left for the United States, she sensed that something was wrong, but when she thought about it more deeply, it didn't seem to be.

Ask her if she likes Tan Mo, yes, of course she does, why would she want him and take care of him if she didn't?

But there are so many kinds of likes, friends, family, they can all be likes, what is her like for Tan Mo? Family, friends, all of them, but is there a like for that?

Sometimes Qiao Lan feels that there is, and sometimes she feels that there isn't. Sometimes when she looks into Tan Mo's eyes her heart will suddenly beat faster, like when she feels a ghost in her heart and the tips of her ears burn after being called out by the teacher.

But most of the time, Qiao Lan doesn't. She looks into Tan Mo's beautiful light brown eyes and doesn't even think twice about it.

Qiao Lan thought about it for days and finally figured out what it was all about, because from the beginning, she didn't seem to see Tan Mo as a person of the opposite sex, she looked after him because he was her favourite character in the book, and then she pitied him because of his pity.

So she doesn't feel anything when she's confronted by Tan Mo, but when Tan Mo shows some of his male charms, Qiao Lan suddenly breaks through the perception barrier and blushes a little.

So when Bai Yu asked her if she liked Tan Mo or not, Qiao Lan really didn't know.

But there is a saying that when you start to struggle with whether you like someone or not, you have actually already liked them.

When he went to the homeroom teacher's office, he was the only one in the office and pointed to the seat in front of him for Qiao Lan to sit before saying, "Do you know why the teacher is looking for you?"

"I know", Qiao Lan said, "I'm sorry teacher, I won't talk in class anymore."

Class teacher: ...It's all a minor problem, although the admission of fault is a good one.

"It's good to know that you're wrong", the class teacher couldn't scold Hao Ying like she did with her most valued student, so she coughed before continuing, "Apart from that, what else is going on with you and Tan Mo?"

Qiao Lan: "...teacher we have nothing to do..."

"You all have very good grades, and your teacher is still very relieved about you, but you are still young, and it's your senior year, so you can wait until you finish your exams and then have a good relationship when you go to university, it's a waste of time to fall in love now. You all have very good grades, and you can definitely get into the top two universities in China if you work hard, so you can talk as much as you want when you get there..."

...you are thinking too far ahead, teacher.

Qiao Lan was still struggling with her feelings for Tan Mo, she didn't understand anything and Tan Mo didn't understand anything at all. "

The class teacher looked at Qiao Lan with a very sceptical look, "Really?"

"Really."

The class teacher was silent for a long time, "Forget it, you go back first and let Tan Mo in."

When Tan Mo entered the office, the homeroom teacher and Tan Mo looked at each other in silence for a long time before the homeroom teacher said, "I'm very happy that you're up and back in school."

So what, Tan Mo looked at the class teacher in silence.

The class teacher's head hurt, she had just been talking to Qiao Lan happily and now she was acting like a mute, but remembered the words of the old gentleman who had taken care of Tan Mo when she first took over and pushed her temper back.

"The teacher asked you to come over, mainly because of what happened between you and Qiao Lan."

"Oh," Tan Mo mentally shuddered, he was now very fond of, and even enjoyed, having his name listed with Qiao Lan's, even if it meant being named by the teacher in class.

Class teacher: ...... I knew Tan Mo was difficult to communicate, but this was too hard!

Frowning and thinking about it, the class teacher said, "Teacher thought about it, you both have such good grades and are both well balanced, so if you sit separately, you can help some of the students who have relatively lower grades, so..."

Do you two want to stop sitting at the same table...

Before the words could be said, they were interrupted by the teenager in a cold voice.

"No."

The class teacher frowned and his heart, which had just been soothed by Qiao Lan, instantly lifted, "Why?"

Because he only wanted to sit with her, but Tan Mo didn't want to talk about it and refused to answer the class teacher's question.

The class teacher said, "If you don't say why, you'll change your seat right away."

Tan Mo pursed her lips and said after a moment of silence, "If I change my seat, then I won't come."