[TN: This chapter, I am unsure of the author’s knowledge on the subject of AS. From what I read in the comments some of it is accurate while other parts are exaggerated or outright wrong. I don’t claim to be an expert on AS and to be honest I barely have any knowledge at all. But I will try to translate this the best I can and fully interpret the author’s to position the best I can without stepping on any toes]

What an obviously blatant but naive threat!

The head teacher was shocked.

Did Lisa think that he was still in elementary school?

But after a moment of pause the head teacher realized what game Lisa was playing at.

Their school was currently considered a very good school in the province, and their college entrance rate could be ranked in the top five. So if no accidents were to happen then the college entrance exam champion this year would come from one of the top five schools.

There were many excellent students at the school, like Suho, Jennie, etc., all of them were top notch. But, no matter what, they were different from Lisa.

After all, if they could be considered talents then the only word suitable for Lisa was genius.

In his time as an educator the head teacher has taught and met many students, but he has never encountered someone Lisa. He believed that Lisa’s knowledge has long surpassed that of high school.

Such a student has a very, very high probability of hitting the top place in the college entrance examination next year.

A champion in the college entrance examination. Which teacher wasn’t tempted by those prospects, not to mention the end of the year bonus that it entailed, it was an incredible honor.

So even though Lisa’s threat was so naive, the head teacher was still threatened.

Just because he changed Lisa’s seat, he might lose a good seed, so it was obvious what decision he needed to make.

But in addition to Lisa’s threat, the head teacher also worried about another point.

Although Jennie had just said that she definitely did not fall in love with Lisa, Lisa had mentioned no such denial. Even if the head teacher couldn’t see into Lisa’s head, even a blind person could see that he liked Jennie.

Although the head teacher was strict, he wasn’t pedantic.

According to conventional thinking, falling in love in high school definitely does more harm than good. Most students’ academic performance plummeted because of falling in love, but there are exceptions, and there are also examples where mutual encouragement is excellent in the end.

In this case, it would be better not to intervene, as it would only be counterproductive.

But the head teacher wasn’t sure which of the two categories Lisa and Jennie belonged to. He looked at the expressionless boy in front of him, his eyes showing fondness and annoyance. After thinking about it for a long time, he said, “If you and Jennie want to continue to sit at the same table there are some requirements you need to fulfil. Your grades must not be lowered.”

“Okay.”, Lisa answered quickly this time.

The head teacher looked at Lisa suspiciously. Compared to Jennie, Lisa worried him more. Afterall, Lisa had the gall to threaten him with not coming to school if he “didn’t let him sit at the same table with Jennie”.

“Then I’ll trust you once,” the head teacher said, before hurriedly adding, “Also, no more talking in class!”

“Yes,” Lisa answered in a straightforward manner.

They could still communicate without speaking. If there was something he needed to say, he could still pass her small notes.

Lisa remembered the last time he passed a small note to Jennie. It seemed that it was more than a year ago.

He missed those interactions a bit.

Before, when Jackson had been chasing Jennie, the whole floor could hear the head teacher screaming. But when it was Lisa’s turn, he entered the office steadily and walked out calmly to his math class.

During the class, the head teacher asked Lisa to write a question on the blackboard. After Lisa finished it, the head teacher smiled with satisfaction.

Regardless of whether Lisa or Jennie were together or not, looking at the attitude of the head teacher alone, the students in class all became more sympathetic towards Jackson.

This was the ultimate gap between the poor students and the school tyrants.

While the students were guessing what the relationship between Jennie and Lisa was, the first monthly exam of their first semester began. This time, Jennie sat firmly on her throne as first in the grade, after all she had studied biology for over half a year. Second place belonged to Lisa, who had overwhelmed Suho.

Looking at Lisa’s performance, Jennie suddenly felt that she was a bit too confident in her bet with Lisa, afterall the point difference between them wasn’t much. Thinking of the bet, her thoughts turned to the contents of her bet with Lisa.

In fact, she was quite curious at what Lisa would have asked for.

Lisa didn’t digress in Chinese this time, and his grades were higher than Jennie’s in that subject, but his biology was a little bit worse.

Currently, the teenager was looking at his biology workbook and doing the practice questions, while Jennie was speaking English to a boy in the class whose name he couldn’t remember.

Lisa stared at the question in front of him for a hundred seconds, but Jennie still hadn’t finished speaking.

After he finished counting Lisa no longer continued to stare at the offending question. Instead, he picked up a pen and quickly drew a few strokes on the book, before handing the book to Jennie, “Help.”

The boy who was asking Jennie for help was taken aback, even Jennie was shocked. After all this time, she had never expected that Lisa would ever ask her for help.

No matter what the boy next to her thoughts, Jennie was caught up in her curiosity.

In all her time spent talking to Lisa, she never thought that one day she would be able to teach him something!

Jennie hurriedly finished speaking to the boy next to her in two or three sentences, leaving behind a stunned boy. Afterwards, she took the exercise book handed over by Lisa, full of motivation, “Which one?”

Lisa pointed at more than half of the questions on the whole page, and looked straight at Jennie, “Many.”

Jennie swept over the marked questions, and they were indeed the key and difficult points of this chapter. She took a pen and began to go over the questions seriously to Lisa.

Sitting behind them Gaeul watched in a daze as Lisa smiled at Jennie and began talking to Jennie.

Later during dinner she began chatting, “With your grades it’s highly likely that both you and Lisa can get into Beijing University.”

Jennie nodded, “It wouldn’t be surprising.”

“Have you guys ever talked about attending the same University?”

“No, “Jennie replied, she had thought about it but she didn’t ask, she just felt that such an outcome had already been decided.

Gaeul smiled, “I don’t think you even need to ask, Lisa likes you so much. He would definitely enter whatever University you decide to go to so he can stay by your side.”

Jennie almost choked on her bite of rice and waved her hand hurriedly, “No no.”

“No? No that he likes you or not, that he wants to enter the same University as you?” Gaeul felt that Jennie’s eyes could be donated to people in need if she wasn’t going to use them.

Before when Lisa couldn’t stand up, no one would think too much about the relationship between the two. But now that Lisa was able to stand up everyone suddenly had the realization that Lisa had liked Jennie since a long time ago.

He deliberately gave the first place scholarship to Jennie, brought specially made breakfast to Jennie every day, and even worked as Jennie’s full-time physics teacher. Whenever people thought back to their relationship these past few years most felt the need to laugh at how foolish they’d been for not seeing it.

Another thing that Gaeul would never forget was that when Jennie was almost taken away by Luo Nian and Lisa suddenly appeared at the school gate. At that time, she had looked back at Lisa and saw the hostility on the boy’s face. To this day it still made her feel both at awe and scared to be on the receiving end of such a look.

If anyone were to hear about the relationship between Lisa and Jennie 80-90% of them would definitely say that such a couple was fake.

But Gaeul was very sure that Jennie and Lisa were as true as true could be.

She had seen a passage when she was reading a book about Asperger’s Syndrome. The passage had explained that people with Asperger’s Syndrome generally suffered from “love disorder”. Some believe that a small percentage of people with Asperger’s Syndrome have an IQ far exceeding that of ordinary people, but their EQ is much lower than that of ordinary people. In terms of emotions, they are more like children with blank slates.

That’s why Jennie was so sure that Lisa would never like her. He would rely on her, take care of her, and protect her, but he would not like her like a man likes a woman because Lisa did not understand this type of emotion.

Some say that some people with Asperger’s Syndrome will never understand what love is in their entire lives. Perhaps a number of people will understand, but in some cases, people on the higher scale of AS are too paranoid and sometimes overarchingly possessive. With this came a large amount of trouble that came from being too obsessed with one person. Few people could understand or handle such love, which leads to tragedy.

Jennie sometimes wondered if Lisa was part of this very small group, but after much observation she has come to the conclusion that no, he isn’t.

Even if Gaeul didn’t understand why Lisa didn’t like her, Jennie couldn’t tell her why.

The fact that Lisa has Asperger’s Syndrome was something that was on a need to know basis. The fewer people knew about this, the better. After all, he had finally gotten rid of the horrendous ridicule and abuse that had occured because of his crippled status.

He had worked so hard every day to make himself more like a normal person. Even if he didn’t, shouldn’t have to, Lisa has worked hard enough.

The Golden Week vacation that they had only lasted a few days, and later that month, in mid-October, Lisa would be celebrating his 17th birthday.

“Sister Jennie”, who was mentally over twenty years old, suddenly felt an indescribable sense of guilt when she remembered the ultimate problem she had been struggling with recently.

Lisa was only seventeen years old, and she may as well be an old cow thinking of eating tender grass if she ever thought of him as anymore than a best friend and close companion. What would Lisa think if he knew that she had been questioning the type of relationship they had.

Taking a deep breathe, Jennie who had an agitated spirit, cleared the mess in her head, and said to Lisa with a slightly embarrassed face, “Lili, tomorrow for your birthday, I will take you to eat this strawberry mousse cup, I found last time while shopping.”

Lisa no longer corrected Jennie’s “Lili”. After he thought about it, hearing everyone call him Lisa, and Jennie called him “Lili”, seemed pretty good.

Lisa’s eyes moved slightly, “You went shopping alone?”

How could a person just go shopping alone, who did Jennie go with? A boy or a girl?Could it be that Jackson?

Luckily for him, Jennie broke Lisa’s train of thought in time.

“I went with Gaeul, there’s a shopping mall over there, and in it is a dessert shop next to the theatre, their strawberry mousse is very delicious, you will definitely like it.”

Lisa’s eyes are calm again, although he has not yet eaten the strawberry mousse, he seemed to feel the slightest of sweetness on his tongue.

Lisa looked at the girl’s beautiful eyes, and a light smile formed on his lips, “Ok.” he said softly.

Could he treat this as a “date” between them.

He would. But he just won’t let Jennie know.

The night before his seventeenth birthday, Lisa, like all young boys and girls who were in love for the first time, was nervous because of the “date” that was happening the next day. But his anxiety was even worse than ordinary people.

Because he never liked to go to those noisy commercial districts, he waited expectantly for his “date” tomorrow with Jennie. He couldn’t stop thinking about where they were going, what they would eat, what they would talk about, and what clothes he should wear.

Uncle Chen stood at the door looking at Lisa who was currently changing clothes, and was indescribably happy. After so many years, he finally saw Lisa have the youthful breath of a teenager.

After hearing Lisa asked him nervously, whether he looked good, Uncle Chen happily claimed that the previous outfit was better.

After getting up early the next day and finishing his meal early, Lisa was nervously fidgeting until he finally saw the girl coming from a distance. Without her school uniform, and with her long hair draped over her shoulders, she was so beautiful that he couldn’t move his eyes away.

She was so pretty.

Lisa couldn’t help thinking about it, and when he looked again, he discovered that Jennie was wearing a shirt and cropped trousers that closely matched the colors of his own clothes.

Jennie seemed to have discovered the tacit understanding of their choice in clothing and after a moment of surprise, the tips of her ears turned red quietly.

However, her mind suddenly came to a halting stop when she looked at Lisa clearly.

Why is he so good looking?!