A Hidden Marriage Daily Life with the Film Empress O - Chapter 1

“Hey, hey, did you see? Si Beimuo is trending again.”

“Really? You mean my aloof, tsundere, sharp-tongued Film Empress?” The high school girl’s eyes sparkled as she looked at her deskmate. Even though she had lowered her voice, she still could not hide the excitement in her tone.

“How could it be fake? As expected of Emperor Beimuo.” The young Alpha giggled and leaned closer to her deskmate. “Tsk, tsk. Speaking of which, our Emperor Mo really is amazing. Her child is almost four years old already.”

“Tsk, so what? My Emperor Mo is a real actress, not an idol. Besides, she’s already thirty-two this year. Isn’t it normal for her to have a child?”

“The two students in the back.”

A very pleasant voice, mixed with the gentle breeze, drifted from the podium into the ears of the two chattering high schoolers.

“It’s still class time right now. For the new semester, give your homeroom teacher some face.”

The gentle voice sounded completely free of anger.

The woman standing at the podium was an Alpha, and a very beautiful one at that. She was dressed simply and wore a pair of black-framed glasses that covered most of her delicate face.

She was tall, and her long silver-gray hair was especially eye-catching. She seemed to be in poor health, her pale, thin lips opening and closing as she spoke.

Night spread over the entire campus like dark-blue silk. Warm halos of light shone through the windows, casting rectangular patches of light onto the quiet road.

The wind brushed through the corridor, rolling up a fallen sheet of calculation paper. It spun in the air before sticking to the glass, reflecting the silhouettes of students inside, bent over their desks and writing furiously.

“Ring, ring. Ring, ring.”

Chang Qingyuan lifted her head from the computer she was using to prepare her lesson. She adjusted her glasses, which had slipped down slightly, and looked blankly at the phone on the podium. The classroom was very quiet, so the not-too-loud ringtone seemed especially abrupt.

She glanced at the caller ID. “Stay quiet and do your self-study properly. Class monitor, keep an eye on them.”

As she spoke, she picked up her phone, stood, and walked to the classroom door. Only then did she say softly, “Mom.”

In the huge campus, only the wind still wandered tirelessly, making the lights shining out from the teaching building sway faintly. On the ground, it wove a flowing patch of shattered gold.

“Yuanyuan, your school has a holiday tomorrow, doesn’t it? Your sister came home tonight, so I was thinking you could bring Sinian and Siyuan over after school so we can all have dinner together.”

The gentle inquiry from the person on the other end pulled Chang Qingyuan back from where she had accidentally lost herself staring into the distance.

“Okay. I’ll bring my two younger sisters back later.”

“Ah, good. Yesterday, Sinian and Siyuan were still making a fuss to your mother, saying they wanted to see Second Sister… All right, Yuanyuan, you get back to work first. Mom will start preparing the dishes.”

“Mm.”

High school students always displayed inhuman levels of energy during the last class right before school ended, especially when there was a holiday the next day…

Hiss. Why did they have to be so loud? They really were not putting their homeroom teacher in their eyes at all.

“Ahem.”

Chang Qingyuan copied the way her own homeroom teacher had acted back when she was in high school, crossing her arms and leaning against the doorframe as she raised her brows to make her presence known. Sure enough, the students inside did not dare act up anymore. They all lowered their heads in a convincing manner and picked up pens that had long since stopped writing, pretending to study.

Chang Qingyuan looked around and sighed.

Tsk. Why does it feel like I can see the future of my class all the way to the end at a single glance?

“I believe all of you already know that there’s a holiday tomorrow.”

“Whoa! It’s really a holiday!”

“Oh my god, oh my god! I told you!”

…

The small classroom successfully exploded into chaos because of Chang Qingyuan’s opening sentence. Some of the bolder students even asked directly in class, “Teacher, is the holiday because our school is being used as a test site for the adult college entrance exam?”

This question happened to be what every student in the class wanted to ask, so the classroom instantly fell quiet again. More than thirty pairs of bright eyes stared straight at Chang Qingyuan, expectantly waiting for their homeroom teacher’s answer.

Chang Qingyuan seemed to think of something and gave a soft laugh before offering a standard, proper answer. “Probably.”

Her voice was light, but it triggered another round of cheers from the students in the class.

“Teacher, teacher, our school is so run-down. How did they even choose this place?”

“How would I know? All right, school is almost over. I know you’re anxious, so start packing your things… When you get home, have your parents send me a message.”

Chang Qingyuan glanced at her phone and felt that the time was about right. In any case, the students in her class could no longer sit still, so she might as well give them something to do and block up their noisy mouths.

“Ding.”

Her phone, which had originally been on a black screen, suddenly lit up. A private message on the interface was especially conspicuous.

She sighed and had no choice but to pick up the phone again.

“Pack your things if you’re packing, but don’t talk. If you get too loud, our class will be the last one to leave.”

After this threat, that group of little troublemakers in the class became much more well-behaved, just as expected.