Chapter 2 - Okay, He’s Not That Bad.

“Look at that, you have a friend on the first day!” his mother exclaimed as she ushered him into the classroom.

“What, no…” Kevin started to complain, but it was too late. His mother already decided that he would sit next to Jason and herded him towards the seat beside him. Jason, who appeared to be reading a novel, put the book down and glanced at them from the corner of his eye. Kevin resisted the urge to yell an insult back.

“This is Kevin!” his mother introduced for him, “How nice to see someone else his age! Hopefully it’ll make him put some efforts in his studies!”

“Mom…”

“[Per the school rules, we’ll use Chinese],” Jason responded and his mother raised her eyebrows. Needless to say, his mandarin pronunciation was way better than Kevin’s ever was.

“[Oh, my bad!]” his mother quickly apologized and Kevin crossed his arms in a pout. He hated how impressed his mother looked from just this single phrase. “[My son’s name is Guan Huaxing.]”

“[Cha Chenming.]”

Boxed in by his mother, Kevin gave up and sat down in the seat next to Jason. He stopped paying attention to what his mother and his greatest nemesis was talking about and took out his phone instead. His mother was making all sorts of elated sounds, words that he couldn’t understand even if he concentrated. In response, Jason’s tone was leveled...