“Difference, difference, treatment, different treatment…”
“I think it should be that her books were taken away in advance for the next batch of students to worship and look up!”
“…Impossible, not even a set of test papers? I wanted to grab one set for my sister. The teachers are too ruthless, they didn’t even leave one set for us students.”
Amidst the bursts of laughter, the monotonous and repetitive high school life came to an end, time flowed away inadvertently. Looking back, it turned out that it was already time for parting.
“Hey, where is my autograph book? Who else hasn’t left their autograph, remember to sign it on my book, okay!! We only have three days left, don’t let me leave any regrets.”
“Yang Ce, what is your contact information? Why didn’t you fill it in? How can I find you next time?”
One of the most popular communication methods in 1999 was home phone, the other was MSN, and there was also Little Penguin QICQ, a newly emerging communication media. Ye Jian was a little special; she didn’t use those three.
An Jiaxin was angry, “Darned it, do I have to post a missing person notice to find you next time?” After the anger, she followed Ye Jian, leaving through the back door at noon. They entered an Internet cafe where the internet speed was like a crawling turtle and opened a QQ account for Ye Jian.
“What name do you want to use? An invincible player who has swept the scores of the entire First Provincial High? What about your email address? You must have an email, right? You have to choose a profile picture too, how about a blonde?”
Opening the ’99s QICQ registration page, Ye Jian filled it in without any hesitation. Now the Little Penguin was not as popular as MSN, but it was still very popular among students. Therefore after the 2000s, the Little Penguin became the main contact method for students of the ’99s. It could be considered that every student had an account on it.
When Ye Jian wrote her name in the first column, An Jiaxin looked puzzled, “Green helmet? What kind of name is that? You should be more domineering! Also, a helmet is a hat, so does that mean you’re naming yourself Green Hat?”
Cuckold! (TLN: Green hat in Chinese means cuckold.)
Ye Jian, who was used to her friend who could always distort a normal name into another meaning, calmly said: “Green represents hope, and helmet represents protection. So, if you’re thinking normally, what I meant is “Protecting Hope.” Do you think it’s more domineering now?”
“…” An Jiaxin bit her fingernails silently, and said softly: “It’s really domineering.”
So it turned out that this was what Ye Jian meant by green hat. Smart students indeed had much higher understanding ability than normal students like herself.
As for registering her mobile phone and pager number, Ye Jian directly omitted them because she had neither a mobile phone nor a pager number.
The registration was done very fast. After a while, Ye Jian had a six-digit QQ account, and An Jiaxin became her first QQ friend. Seeing her online name, Ye Jian couldn’t help but rubbing her forehead, “Your name is ‘Please Call Me the Empress’? Well, that’s really domineering. I think you’ve watched too many dramas.”
There is a popular drama all over their country at the moment that had a plot that took place in the Qing dynasty. Even Ye Jian, who never watched TV, would also watch it occasionally when she had a headache from doing her homework questions.
These kinds of dramas were basically the same; there’ll be a maid, then the two of them will get together, and later, the maid will become a big star, but at that time, they were already in their prime.
“The queen is so domineering, I like her!” An Jiaxin shouted as she took out her graduation autograph book from her school bag, “Come on, let’s add a few more students’ QICQ numbers. Then we will go to the stationery store to buy a graduation autograph book for you later. The whole class has one, but I don’t see you having one.”
“Jian’er, sometimes you have to follow the trend!”
In her previous life, Ye Jian was brought up to have a cold, calm temperament; she had never participated in any group activities.
