Stark Contrast

If he looked closely at Zhi Ying's eyes, he would see their brightness, but they lacked focus when looking at people's faces.

Jiang Wei just glanced at her lightly and didn't notice it.

The four of them turned around again. Li Ge and Han Jiaojiao exchanged glances, their eyes and expressions full of gossip. Of course, the two of them would not be stupid enough to start asking questions in front of Jiang Wei.

"Ying Ying, what did you drop?" Han Jiaojiao was the closest to Zhi Ying and tilted her head to look at the object she just picked up in her hand.

"Oh, my campus card." Zhi Ying opened her palm to reveal a card.

No.1 Middle School was a public school, known for its flexible policies on student accommodations. A significant number of students lived off-campus.

The school's supermarket accepts cash, making the campus card primarily essential for those using the school's cafeteria services.

At that time, it would become necessary to scan the photos and print them to serve as campus cards for the students. The school uniformly extracted these photos from the middle school exam database for convenience.

The photo on Zhi Ying's campus card was the one taken by the school when she registered for the middle school exam.

Han Jiaojiao took the opportunity to pick up the campus card and looked at it with the two people next to her.

"Who is this?" Zhao Qian glanced at the photo and didn't recognize the person, and the two next to him didn't reply to his words, so he moved his eyes to the name column: Zhi Ying.

Shoulder-length hair and radiant fair skin!

The three of them once again looked at Zhi Ying, who was on the far right, surprised at her current crew cut and tan complexion, pondering her drastic change.

"..."

Han Jiaojiao knew that Zhi Ying had fair skin before, but she didn't expect her to be so fair that even the rough pixels couldn't resist her fairness, and she had such long hair.

"Zhi Ying, did you suffer a blow to become like this?" Zhao Qian looked regretful, what a beautiful girl with such long hair and fair skin. Although she was not as refined as Yu Qingyin, the obvious striking temperament of a girl was enough to make many boys like her.

And he wouldn't have mistaken her for a "brother" at first glance!

Li Ge's idea was more fashionable: "Is it because you want to be handsome? So you shaved your head and tanned yourself on purpose."

Han Jiaojiao also looked at Zhi Ying next to her, she knew how Zhi Ying's skin turned so tan, but she didn't know why Zhi Ying shaved her hair.

"It's better to cut it short than to shave it, and that kind of bob hairstyle is fine." Zhao Qian had a deep obsession. Although he was under eighteen, he already had the temperament of a straightforward man.

"It's troublesome to wash hair, so it's better to just shave it." Zhi Ying's world was only about how troublesome hair washing was.

Han Jiaojiao was puzzled: "Then why did you have long hair in middle school?"

Li Ge thought up a reason for Zhi Ying: "You must have heard that high school is difficult, so you wanted to save time."

Zhi Ying yawned as she had stayed up late the previous night. "The barbershop is far away; I'm too lazy to go," she explained with a casual shrug.

As for why she had long hair in middle school, it was because she didn't even want to tie her hair. Every day when she got up, went to school, and went to bed, Zhi Ying would not touch her hair the entire day.

What she hadn't said was that her hair only needed to be washed once a week in middle school. She had inherited her mother's good hair quality and her hair doesn't become oily easily, otherwise, her deskmate would have disliked her to death.

The longest period she had gone without washing or combing her hair was two weeks, and it became completely knotted!

The reason why was because at that time, Zhi Ying had gotten a set of competition questions from the Internet, and she didn't know where it came from. It didn't really matter as the knowledge points were not from middle school, and they even exceeded the scope of high school mathematics.

To avoid her parents finding out, she turned off the lights at night and hid in bed to use her phone for calculations. At five o'clock in the morning, when the sun had just begun to rise, she quietly slipped out of bed to work on problems.

At first, her mother was relieved to see her turn off the light and go to bed early every day. However, when she saw that Zhi Ying's long hair had become so knotted that it almost turned into curly hair, she realized something was wrong.

First, they raided Zhi Ying's room at night and lifted her quilt. Seeing her holding the phone, they were stunned, thinking she was playing on her phone, but in the end, it was Zhi Ying herself that accidentally told them her actual intentions.

Then they took her to the bathroom to wash her hair themselves and had it dried before letting her go into her room again. They took her phone away, though.

When Zhi Ying starts working on problems, she immerses herself entirely, oblivious to her surroundings.

Her relentless dedication often worried her parents, who feared for her health due to late-night study sessions, resulting in them intervening as they urged her to maintain a balanced routine despite her academic zeal.

They prevented her from going to bed in the middle of the night and getting up too early in the morning.

After the middle school exam, her mother told her to cut her hair short to avoid trouble if she forgot to wash it for ten days or more, and to avoid others being disgusted..

Zhi Ying went to the barbershop and shaved a crew cut. When she got home, her dad almost lost his temper when he saw her hair.