Ever since Xu Su had acknowledged her feelings for him, aside from eating with Qian Jia and Huang Feng in the cafeteria, Xi Zirong would wait for her outside the girls' dormitory to walk to class together. After evening self-study ended, the two of them would also walk back together.
She no longer came and went everywhere with Qian Jia and Huang Feng like before.
Xu Su and Xi Zirong weren't the only "young couple" in the Rocket Class. Perhaps influenced by them, several other couples in the class who had previously hidden their relationships had recently become more open, starting to appear everywhere together.
After the New Year, most of the students in the class were seventeen. Some, like Xu Su, who had started school a year late, were now eighteen, so dating didn't seem like such a terrible crime.
