Chapter 25: Zhang Yue's Wish
Zhang Yue indeed did not plan to take the entrance exam for No. 1 Middle School. In her previous life, she was admitted to No. 1 Middle School with high scores, and their elementary school class had excellent grades overall, with more than 20 students out of 50 being admitted. However, just as Zhang Yue was full of ambition and ready to make a big splash in the new school, the first day of class gave her a huge blow.
When they were divided into classes, there were twenty-four people in their elementary school class. Eighteen of them were assigned to Class One, including all her good friends! As for the remaining students, most of them were two per class, except for Zhang Yue, who was alone and assigned to Class Five.
This might not be a big deal for adults, as my mom said: "It's a good thing, it gives you a new start, in an unfamiliar environment, you can completely show off a brand new self." But for a kid under twelve years old, there is a feeling of being abandoned.
And then she found out that her class teacher was also a pervert.
Her homeroom teacher was a middle-aged woman who had just been transferred from the county, introverted and self-willed. Every day she wore a blue-gray large linen shirt (it was really a large linen shirt, the kind that people made at home with fabric in the 80s, with five plastic buttons and two pockets). Her gray-white hair was tied back with a rubber band, giving off an air of poverty. I remember when her child came to school to find her for the first time, looking at the seven or eight-year-old kid, Zhang Yue was shocked and couldn't even close his mouth! Please, originally the homeroom teacher was only in her thirties at that time, she had always thought she was about to retire! (Zhang Yue still can't figure it out to this day, what was she thinking? How could you not dye your hair at least? If people knew they would think you were a young white-haired person, if they didn't know they would think you were the kid's grandmother!)
Perhaps she was neglected in school, as if she had been holding her breath and wanted to vent on the students. Every day, she would find fault with others for no reason. She herself didn't like dressing up, nor could she stand seeing others pay attention to their attire. Since she couldn't do anything about others, she would constantly pick on the girls in her own class. I don't know how many times the girls in her class were sent home to change clothes by her, and the reason was always something like wearing jeans or a floral blouse.
One time, during morning reading, she highly praised a boy in the class for being hardworking and simple, not paying attention to his appearance, and asked everyone to learn from him. However, right after the second class, during recess, the director of studies stopped that boy on the playground, criticized him for not taking care of his appearance, and asked: "How many days has it been since you last changed your clothes?" When he found out that the boy hadn't changed his clothes in almost a week because his parents were away on business, she even called over the class teacher to supervise and make sure he changed his clothes the next day! This incident was laughed about and spread throughout the school for a long time.
Zhang Yue's family was already well-off, and she was a girl who loved beauty. Under such a teacher, what good could come of it? First, during a physical education class, the teacher suddenly walked up behind her, grabbed her ponytail, pulled off the purple hair tie on top, and said: "Every day you're not doing your job properly, showing off what?! Go find an elastic band!" Then she strode away. Zhang Yue was left standing in the middle of the playground, holding her loose hair with one hand, suppressing a belly full of grievances, searching everywhere for someone to borrow an elastic band from. That feeling of helplessness is still vividly remembered by Zhang Yue.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the class teacher is actually an English teacher! Classic, right? When Zhang Yue found out she was the English teacher, she almost collapsed. At that time, it was only in first year of junior high school that they had English classes, and every girl was full of curiosity and hope for English, imagining what it would be like to speak fluent foreign language, but their own foreign language teacher turned out to be this kind of person...
Then, what's next? At that time, Zhang Yue's father had gone abroad, and she was influenced by her surroundings. Her foreign language listening ability was still much higher than that of her peers. After listening to the class teacher's lessons several times, which were unbearable, and correcting her pronunciation a few times with a lack of attention, she basically became enemies with the class teacher, and for foreign languages, Zhang Yue basically gave up.
In addition, she fell ill later and her grades plummeted. The class teacher was not actively helping but took an indifferent attitude. In the third year of junior high school, in order to avoid affecting their own promotion rate, they even called Zhang Yue's mother to the school for a conversation, hoping to transfer Zhang Yue to another second-rate school. These blows were huge for Zhang Yue. Recalling her entire junior high school life, it seemed like there was always a layer of gray fog in Zhang Yue's heart, making her unbearable to recall and unwilling to think about.
Zhang Yue knew that her rebirth might have already set off a butterfly effect, and the future was uncertain. But what if? Zhang Yue didn't dare to think about it, what if she got into No. 1 Middle School again and ran into that teacher's hands... Thinking of this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but shiver. Although with her current experience, she could completely handle it, and even get along well with the class director. But why should she look for trouble? Since heaven had given her a second chance, she should make good use of it and grant herself a beautiful future!
