TBG Chapter 1

“My deskmate is a little blind girl. She wears a piece of cloth over her eyes every day. The cloth is sometimes pink, sometimes green, and sometimes…”

The Chinese teacher frowned and interrupted the male student who was reading the composition. “Xu Xiaopang! This is your composition?! What nonsense have you written!? That’s how you address your deskmate?! Who taught you to address her like that?”

“Everyone calls her that,” said Xiaopang, who was standing beneath the podium.

The entire class burst out laughing.

“Silence!” The Chinese teacher knocked on the desk to get attention. “The theme of the composition is called ‘Deskmate’, and it is intended to help you get along with your classmates and deskmates in a friendly and harmonious manner. It is not for you to give people arbitrary nicknames!”

“Ma’am.” A male classmate raised his hand, pointed at Xu Xiaopang’s deskmate, and said, “That’s not a nickname, she is blind.”

The whole classroom erupted into laughter once more.

“Quiet! Quiet!” The Chinese teacher had no control over the situation, and the bell rang for the end of class. She gathered her lesson plans and angrily dismissed the class before turning around and leaving. As soon as the teacher left, all the students rushed over to Xu Xiaopang to grab his composition paper and read it aloud.

“My deskmate has snow-white skin and strawberry-colored lips… Strawberry lips, hahaha… Let me see what strawberry-like lips are…”

A swarm of students rushed in front of Su Ruan and lifted her chin.

Su Ruan clenched her fists tightly, but she didn’t resist and let them examine her mouth. Since she couldn’t see, she was afraid that going to the toilet would be inconvenient, so she hardly drank water in the morning. Her lips were so dry at this point that the flaps were peeling.

“Where’s the strawberry color?” A male classmate smiled and poked at Su Ruan’s. “It’s all dried into a sweet potato color.”

The students laughed again.

Su Ruan picked up her cane and followed the group of students out after finally surviving school for the day. She had been a top student in a special needs school. No.2 High School made an exception for her and accepted her, but the environment was no better than at the special needs school. The students here… were even worse.

After school, classmates would deliberately place a stool in front of her and stretch out their feet to trip her. When she fell, they would throw her schoolbag in her face. Su Ruan’s parents visited the school several times to speak with the administration, and teachers, class representatives, and even the dean reprimanded those students. But it was useless. They would still stretch out their feet to trip Su Ruan when she left school at the end of the day, as if it had become their routine homework, and if they didn’t finish it, they wouldn’t go home for dinner.

After Su Ruan tripped, she climbed up with the help of her cane. Dusting herself off, she walked down the stairs expressionlessly and walked out of the school gate. The uncle at the gate greeted her and informed her about the vehicles coming and going. She forced a smile and thanked him.

She walked down the small lane to the left after leaving the school gate. She would reach her house after passing through two traffic lights. She had been walking this road for a week and was already familiar with it, so she didn’t ask her father to pick her up. But just after one traffic light, she heard many noises coming from ahead. She listened intently and tightened her grip on the cane.