Chapter 66: Don’t Understand

Perhaps it was because Tan Mo, who was wearing only a thin school uniform on a cold day, drew too much attention, or perhaps it was because the two of them were already drawing too much attention, and even the biology teacher, who came in to the class, kept glancing at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo from time to time.

Thinking about how Tan Mo had just come to the office on her own initiative, the biology teacher thought something was wrong, only for Tan Mo to come and ask for leave, not for herself but for her desk mate, saying that her desk mate was sick and asked her to sleep well in class.

The biology teacher finally understood how Tan Mo felt when the class teacher asked her to talk to her.

At least Qiao Lan was his favourite student, and now that he was so ill, it seemed unreasonable not to say yes to Tan Mo.

The biology teacher's eyes glanced over at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, and when he looked at Tan Mo's thin clothes, he shivered uncontrollably.

It seems that the heating in the school is not burning very well.

When the class was over, Hao Ying's buddies patted Hao Ying on the shoulder and said, "Dude, resign yourself to your fate."

It's not that I'm trying to discourage you, but you're no match for Tan Mo, who is no worse than you.

Maybe one day she will be at the same level as Hao Ying.

In the eyes of the brothers, Hao Ying is now no match for Tan Mo, let alone Qiao Lan.

"As the saying goes, in the eyes of a lover, there is a beauty in the eyes of a lover, and people Qiao Lan now see Tan Mo as good everywhere, not to mention that people are more powerful in the first place, so brother, really resign yourself to fate."

Hao Ying: ????

You have to add to the sadness already, don't you?

"There's actually another way," the boy next to me suddenly said, "a way to make Qiao Lan like you."

The tone of voice is deep and a very serious one.

Hao Ying was instantly energized and his eyes lit up, "What's the law oh?"

"That is."

The boy sold out and then loudly announced, "Quickly recommend that 'The Cold-Faced Prince Fell in Love with Me' to Qiao Lan!"

The main character of the drama, Shi Xingyu, is a hot searcher every day, and his popularity is so high that everywhere he goes, he is a new fan of Shi Xingyu.

I forgot to mention that Shi Xingyu is the star who looks like a brother to Hao Ying, a popular and popular celebrity.

Hao Ying :""

Crowd: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha."

"Roll, roll, roll, roll," Hao Ying kicked the man out.

"Just kidding, bro, I just want to cheer you up, in fact, think about it, you're not going to be able to make it with Qiao Lan, she's going to get into X University in the future, let's look at our own results, we know it's impossible, right, your results are the same as Tan Mo or Chen Yaoyang"

A group of people next to him finally got this big brother who loves to tell the truth and can't look at his eyes to go away, although it's really all true, see is really don't say, say maybe Hao Ying really want to cry.

Qiao Lan took her medicine well and rested early, her health was good and she gradually got better again after two days. Bai Yu vowed as she blew her nose, "I'll definitely go running with you when this cold is over."

Qiao Lan had a fever, but she recovered in two days, while she was still dizzy every day.

Bai Yu hung a rubbish bag next to his desk hole, specifically for paper, and while reopening a roll of paper, he chatted casually with Qiao Lan, "LanLan, why do you want to study finance?

This is simply the norm when applying for majors. Many parents want their children to go to teacher training school or to study medicine, but many students take a detour from both majors, thinking like Bai Yu and dying to be a teacher.

After all, having been a student for more than ten years and having suffered from teachers for more than ten years, it is only natural that a little rebelliousness should develop.

But when they start looking for work later on, and jobs are hard to find, a large number of students start to regret why they didn't listen to their parents at the beginning. Some graduates of teacher training schools go straight to school posts after graduation, and in addition to that many people start to envy teachers for having two holidays in winter and summer.

But not everyone thought so. Qiao Lan and Bai Yu chatted for a while about their future majors, and when they turned around, Tan Mo closed the book in his hand and asked Qiao Lan, "Why do you want to study finance?"

Tan Mo was clearly reading a book, but it seems that he was not reading too carefully.

Qiao Lan coughed lightly and pretended to be serious, "Tan Mo, please correct your attitude towards your studies."

Tan Mo didn't say anything for a while, and Qiao Lan suddenly realised that he was suddenly having a text joke with Tan Mo.

Tan Mo was unable to understand her flirtation.

Perhaps it is because Tan Mo is so normal these days, so unrecognisable to others, that Qiao Lan sometimes suddenly forgets that Tan Mo has Asperger syndrome.

The main characteristic of Asperger syndrome is the inability to distinguish all information other than words, such as eyes, expressions or body movements, but it is also difficult to understand some joking expressions.

Qiao Lan remembers reading a book on Asperger's syndrome, in which someone gave an example of a successful entrepreneur who, in a speech, spoke of his own Asperger's syndrome and used the simplest of examples to illustrate the inconvenience of the condition.

The entrepreneur said a friend once asked him flirtatiously.

"May I ask your watch what time it is?"

For a normal person, this is a humorous and entertaining way of asking questions about the world, but for this entrepreneur, he couldn't hear it.

He only found it incomprehensible because his own watch did not speak and it had no way of telling his friend what time it was.

So he answered his friend, "I don't know," when he was clearly wearing a watch and knew what time it was.

What happened after that is quite understandable; the friend thought it was a deliberate rejection on his part and has slowly distanced himself from him ever since.

And it was a long, long time before he realised what he had done wrong.

The successful entrepreneur, who is almost 40 years old, could not understand his friend asking him for the time, and Tan Mo, who is now just 17 years old, had a hard time understanding Qiao Lan's sudden jibe.

Qiao Lan's words, "Please correct your attitude to study", seemed to Tan Mo more like an unhappy reprimand from Qiao Lan.

Qiao Lan looked at the bewilderment on Tan Mo's face and hastily changed her tone, "I meant I just saw you reading a book so I thought you didn't hear us talking."

Tan Mo froze, suddenly thinking of something, and only after a long moment did he nod.

Although Tan Mo's face remained expressionless, Qiao Lan knew Tan Mo too well to see his sudden silence and knew that this seemingly minor incident had affected him.

Qiao Lan could only quickly change the subject and continue with the question Tan Mo had just asked her.

"I didn't know what I wanted to study before, I was a bit interested in stock speculation and thought about finance casually, and before Bai Yu they asked, so I just answered casually."

Tan Mo's attention was finally diverted by Qiao Lan, "Like to speculate in stocks?"

"I don't really like it, I'm just interested," Qiao Lan laughs, "I read a biography of the 'stock god' once in a while, and I thought it was very impressive and admired it."

Very impressive and admirable?

Tan Mo's eyes dropped in thought, and Qiao Lan looked at Tan Mo, who was lost in thought again, and suddenly remembered the new major she had thought of.

It was something that I wanted to get into after meeting Tan Mo, something that was temporarily put on hold due to Tan Mo's temporary departure and Tan Mo's increasing normality, and something that Qiao Lan has picked up again today.

How could she forget that Asperger's syndrome, the ultimate life-long cure, could not be cured?

Coincidentally, Tan Mo was with Qiao Lan when we were all talking afterwards, not talking but listening to the others, when someone told a very funny little story.

Everyone, including Qiao Lan, was laughing, except Tan Mo, who was expressionless.

The boy who had told the joke looked up and met Tan Mo, who had not laughed or spoken, and was suddenly a little startled and whispered with some self-doubt, "Isn't that funny?"

Funny.

Tan Mo subconsciously asked rhetorically in his mind that he really didn't hear anything funny in this passage.

But everyone but him was laughing, so it wasn't that the joke wasn't funny, it was that he simply didn't get it.

Tan Mo felt a sudden tightening of his heart.

Because he is back on his feet, he appears to be no different from anyone else, just like a normal person, and more and more people don't even think he's good enough for Qiao Lan anymore.

The feeling was so good that Tan Mo began to indulge in it, even a little too much, almost forgetting a cruel fact.

Even if he could stand up, he would still be different from everyone else.

He suffers from a lifelong condition, Asperger syndrome, which many people would regard as a symptom of mental illness.

How could he have forgotten that he was in fact still different from the others, his mind forever crippled?

The sudden coldness made the storyteller boy a little embarrassed, and someone next to him hurriedly saved the day, "Maybe the god of learning didn't hear it haha."

"You're being too fucking cryptic, Tan Mo shouldn't have understood, people's brains are meant to learn not to listen to your crap."

Tan Mo sat stiffly in place and suddenly felt a squeeze on his right hand. Tan Mo turned around, surprised, and Qiao Lan let go of his hand and said slowly, "I didn't understand it either."

"Didn't get it what are you laughing at", the boy who willed the story was devastated, was the segment really that hard to understand?

"It's just that you're all laughing," Qiao Lan says with a helpless look on his face.

So why are you admitting it now?

The boy wanted to ask, but then he remembered that Tan Mo had a blank look on his face and didn't understand, so he was instantly enlightened and felt like he was suddenly being fed a mouthful of dog food.

The crowd had a good laugh again, "Surely the schoolmaster's brain is different from ours", covering up the little coldness that had just come out of nowhere.

Tan Mo sits back in his chair, his hands clenching slowly, little by little, where no one can see them.