"That’s right. But Professor Luo is teaching a senior course, and it’s only once a week. Some people couldn’t get the course and were yelling outside the classroom."

Suddenly, a female classmate sitting behind the two girls talking said, "I’ve got a little scoop. Do you want to hear it?"

"Go on, spill it."

"Just say it, don’t keep us in suspense!"

The female classmate lowered her voice, "It’s said that Professor Luo and Professor Kang are a couple!"

"..."

"Are you sure?"

"Well! It’s just a rumor, I can’t be sure if it’s true. But given Professor Luo’s looks and Professor Kang’s looks, I think the chances of them being a couple are quite high!"

"Professor Luo looks like he’s in his twenties, and Professor Kang looks even younger; I feel like they’re both younger than me."

"Time is always kind to beauties!"

"To tell you something that might not be supposed to be said, Professor Luo is privately called ’Beauty Luo’ by the senior girls!"

Suddenly, another female voice chimed in, "Professor Kang and Professor Luo are indeed a couple. On the day I registered, I saw them walking together at school. Also, when I attended Professor Kang’s first class, I saw Professor Luo sitting in the classroom listening intently to Professor Kang’s lecture. That gaze was way too focused!

After Professor Kang finished the class, as soon as he stepped out of the teaching building, Professor Luo helped carry Professor Kang’s teaching materials. The two of them walking together looked like an immortal couple!"

"In my opinion, Professor Kang and Professor Luo are better looking than movie stars, better than those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and they have exceptional charisma!"

"Lower your voice, lower your voice. Professor Kang is standing just outside the classroom door!"

...

As Kang Li stepped into the classroom, it instantly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone sat up straight and attentively watched the beige figure walk up to the podium.

"Good morning, students!"

Kang Li placed the textbook and lesson plan on the lectern, a cheerful and gentle smile spread across his face as he greeted the students who came to attend the class.

"Good morning, teacher!"

Like in previous classes, Kang Li didn’t take attendance, not because he didn’t want to, but because the class was always full. There was no worry about student attendance rate.

Besides, Kang Li believed that learning is for oneself, not something that requires the teacher’s attendance checking or supervision for passive learning. Moreover, students attending Kang Li’s classes all know that from the first session, their Professor Kang has a photographic memory. With just one look, he can tell who came to class and who didn’t.

Because of this, the students attending his class were both excited and nervous.

Excited, because Kang Li is truly amazing—knowledgeable, gives lively lectures, and never drags the class overtime. Getting into this professor’s class is akin to the feeling when receiving a college admission letter back then. Nervous, because they were afraid they wouldn’t get a seat and would have to listen from the corridor outside, and be mistakenly thought to have skipped class by their likable and amiable Professor Kang.

For the full classes, Kang Li had suggested to the school to consider changing to a bigger classroom for the students’ convenience, so that they wouldn’t have to listen from outside the classroom.

The school was working on coordinating this arrangement.

After all, the school doesn’t have just one department or one grade, so coordinating a classroom for Kang Li’s class takes some time.

"Wait for me, I’ll go to class with you."

Hearing a few classmates saying they were going home while some said they were going to class, Wang Tao chose to go home. He walked alongside Li Guochao and Wu Song, the three of them walked with their arms around each other’s shoulders, chatting while heading towards the bike shed.

"See you later."

At the school gate, Wang Tao got on his bicycle, waved at Li Guochao and Wu Song, and then rode away.

Actually, the high school is about five stops away from the research institute compound, not very far. Besides, a number of buses pass along the road from the compound to the high school, making the commute quite convenient by bus.

However, for those who had bicycles and knew how to ride, many chose to cycle to school.

But to ensure the safety of the three siblings of Min Rui, Kang Li didn’t agree with cycling to and from school. Thus, ever since middle school, the three Min Rui siblings have been using the bus to commute between school and home. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Back to Wang Tao, after parting ways with Li Guochao and Wu Song, he cycled for a while and couldn’t help but remember what Wu Song said about Ming Han looking like Han Qian’s dad.

In fact, he was wondering about this too, especially after hearing his mom talk about Professor Luo’s ex-wife who ’came back from the dead’ recently. Wang Tao couldn’t shake the feeling that there was more to the story, and at that moment, he couldn’t help but entertain a thought: could they be...?