My Little Ancestor Is Sweet And Wild ( Part-1 )

Chapter 23

                           𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲

At lunchtime, Ning Li and her group went to the reading corner. There was almost no one walking around in this hour, so it was less distracting.

The group sat down in a circle with the scripts in their hands.

Ren Qian did the narration while Ning Li was given the role with the least lines.

He Xiaochen sat beside Ning Li and then shared her own script with the latter. "Ning Li, your role might have the least lines, but there are some words that are not within the syllabus. I've labeled the pronunciation for you. Why don't you use my script instead?"

Ning Li wanted to reject her, but when she saw the sparkles in He Xiaochen's eyes and the serious expression on her face, she swapped her script with He Xiaochen. She smiled. "Thank you so much."

He Xiaochen was caught off guard by Ning Li's gentle smile.

She realized that Ning Li was not as cold as the rumors said. More importantly, she was beautiful!

Witnessing Ning Li's beauty at such a close range proved to be impactful to He Xiaochen who stole a quick glance at her.

Meanwhile, Ning Li saw Pei Song looking at his script with his head down. His eyes were half-closed due to the angle which made him look extra handsome.

He Xiaochen put her hand on her chest and said, "You're welcome!"

'Holy mother of cow! So, this is how it feels to be with the good-looking kids in school! I'm in heaven!'

Ning Li saw the reaction on He Xiaochen's face and thought that He Xiaochen somehow looked...aroused?

He Xiaochen nervously calmed herself down and cleared her throat. She recovered to her serious self.

"Let's begin."

..........

It was noon, and the sun was bright.

The campus was quiet except for the reading corner where a couple of students were reading scripts.

Ren Qian's English might not be as good as Pei Song or He Xiaochen's, but he was not too shabby either. He read through the narration smoothly, and it was then Pei Song's turn.

The young man's voice was calm and clear, making early autumn feel less stuffy as his voice was somehow refreshing.

Then, it was Ning Li's turn. She flipped to the next page and wanted to read out her first line.

When she saw the notes on the script, she was slightly stunned. The script was written in both English and Chinese, and on the left side, where the English text was, the words had been labeled neatly.

On top of the words was the intonation and below them was the pinyin.

The writing on the script was neat and beautiful. It was obviously He Xiaochen's.

Ning Li failed to keep up, thus drawing the others' attention.

He Xiaochen was a little surprised. "Ning Li?"

Could she still not pronounce it?

He Xiaochen had taken her time to label the words in both intonation and pinyin. No matter how poor Ning Li's English was or how confusing the intonations were, she could have read it with the assistance of the pinyin.

Ning Li looked at He Xiaochen with a complicated gaze. "You've done a lot for me."

He Xiaochen thought that Ning Li was nervous based on her complicated gaze. She patiently said, "It's fine, Ning Li. Just read it. If we run into any problem, it's best for us to find out earlier than later so that we can fix it!"