The next day, Tan Xiao woke up to the sound of his alarm clock. He groggily turned off the phone alarm, wanting to snooze for another minute, but Kong Xuan couldn't wait, as if he had caught Tan Xiao red-handed, and shouted, "Don't sleep in! Get up for school!"

Tan Xiao: "..."

Startled awake, all sleepiness gone, he almost forgot he had a roommate. Looking up, he saw Kong Xuan sitting on the desk looking down at him, as if saying, how can you sleep at your age.

Tan Xiao couldn't quite understand why Kong Xuan wasn't enthusiastic about studying, but was enthusiastic about going to school. As he got up to get ready, he noticed Kong Xuan staring at his phone on the bedside table.

"You don't have a phone, do you?" Tan Xiao wondered, recalling that when Kong Xuan first transferred, there were rumors that his family wasn't well off, and wondered if that was why he didn't even have a phone.

Kong Xuan didn't expect Tan Xiao to be so astute, guessing the information conveyed by his gaze, and nodded reservedly.

"It's just as well you don't have one." Tan Xiao recalled the teacher's tone, "It prevents addiction to the internet and short videos on phones, which are infinitely harmful to teenagers with low self-control."

Kong Xuan: "..."

Kong Xuan was furious: "You didn't recognize me for a whole semester!"

Tan Xiao: "..."

Hearing Kong Xuan bring up old scores, he knew his intention. He probably wanted a phone, no wonder he was staring. Last night he also seemed very interested in the computer, but it's strange that he only thought of researching these things after being in the mortal realm for so long.

"Don't say it, you want offerings, right? But most of my allowance is in fixed-term investments and can't be withdrawn yet." Tan Xiao had been learning to manage the remuneration from doing rituals with Tan Chunying since he was young, from small to large amounts. He didn't expect to have a large expenditure, so he bought closed-end investments.

Kong Xuan was full of resentment.

"But if you just want to use a communication device, we have an old one at home that should still work." Seeing Kong Xuan looking reluctant, Tan Xiao rummaged through a drawer and found a children's phone watch, a Paw Patrol collaboration, which Tan Xiao had used before.

Before Tan Xiao could say anything.

Kong Xuan looked at Tan Xiao with murderous eyes.

"Hahaha!" Tan Xiao put the phone watch back, suddenly remembering, "Oh, there's also a phone that came with the broadband, never used it."

He went downstairs to look for it. At this hour, Tan Chunying wasn't up yet, so he searched quietly and found another phone.

The reason this phone had never been used was because it was a large-screen, large-font, high-volume, dual-SIM elderly phone. Although it was a smartphone, it was too bulky.

Sure enough, as soon as he took it out, he heard Kong Xuan say dissatisfiedly, "Don't you have the model you use?"

Tan Xiao was about to say something, but Kong Xuan snatched it away, "I'll use it for now."

Tan Xiao: "..."

After all this fuss, it was getting late. Tan Xiao hurriedly got ready, "Let's go, off to school."

He hastily grabbed his things, put on his shoes, and ran into the yard before exclaiming, "Ah, forgot my exam papers!" He ran back to find the papers, with Kong Xuan following.

"Let's go." Tan Xiao tied his loose shoelaces and jumped out the courtyard gate.

Kong Xuan followed beside him. It was his first time immersively experiencing the chaos before school and found it quite novel.

Tan Xiao also rarely went to school together with someone. Looking at Kong Xuan beside him, he felt that a night had passed and things were very different.

Walking on the way to school, Tan Xiao suddenly thought of something and asked suspiciously:

"By the way... your identity is fake, mixed in using magic. Are the parents also disguised? There was a parent-teacher meeting after the midterm exams before, did you invite the great god Primordial Phoenix to come down?"

The great god Primordial Phoenix, who knows if he would be a strict parent.

"Didn't invite him, didn't ask Primordial Phoenix to come." Kong Xuan said.

"How could it be..." Tan Xiao suddenly recalled Kong Xuan's appearance when he first transferred and asked, "No, wait, how did you fill in the family situation when you faked it? The teacher should have asked you, right?"

"I filled it out truthfully. When school started, the head teacher asked about my parents. I said I have no father, my mother is up there." Kong Xuan recalled, his expression also becoming a bit subtle as he spoke, "Then he never asked again, and didn't require my parents to come to the parent-teacher meeting."

Tan Xiao: "???"

What the heck! When Kong Xuan first descended, he probably didn't even know the ambiguity of what he said - Primordial Phoenix gave birth to Kong Xuan from the qi of the five elements, the purest single parenthood possible. And that person really is up there!

No wonder the head teacher was quite mindful of telling everyone to take care of Kong Xuan... originally thought it was just because Kong Xuan's grades were poor.

Arriving at school, passing students noticed the two and stared at them, just not daring to say hello. But they were used to it, and Tan Xiao had long avoided the possibility of needing to recognize people, so he didn't feel anything.

Entering their own class, with familiar deskmates, it was livelier.

As soon as the two entered the door, the class monitor Yu Zhenzhen stood up and said sternly, "Why are you only coming now?!"

"Class monitor?" Tan Xiao was startled. Today they were a bit late leaving because of looking for the phone, but they weren't late, right? He looked up at the clock in the classroom to confirm they really weren't late, at most right on time.

Yu Zhenzhen raised her hand and slowly applauded, "I just want to say, you two are so well-matched, so well-matched!"

With that, those who should applaud and scream all started. The class monitor sure knows how to speak, this can't be summed up with a sentence like the performance was brilliant, this is performing a sense of perfect match, even the costumes match so well!

Tan Xiao thought to himself that Yu Zhenzhen was more excited than the last time he collaborated with the Zhurong band. Kong Xuan's "costume change magic" was too amazing, right?

"If you had told me earlier your program was like this, I would have borrowed a telephoto lens to take photos even if I had to!"

"Wuwuwu I shouldn't have misunderstood, right? The characters in the performance are a shaman and a deity."

"Of course, last night I watched information on shaman dances all night, and saw an analysis of 'Nine Songs'. Surprisingly, there's a lot of content about romance between humans and gods. I knew I didn't misunderstand, I was wondering why the dance looked so romantic no matter how I looked at it!"

"...Am I the only one who feels like I missed several episodes? When did you two become so close that you even perform as a couple."

Previously, there were only rumors that Kong Xuan was Tan Xiao's lackey, but there's still some distance from collaborating on a performance, right?

Tan Xiao almost coughed his lungs out, "No, no, we didn't perform as a couple, it's a god and a shaman."

The classmate who said this was even a staunchly straight guy. He made a gesture of wiping away tears, "Then what's the difference?"

When Tan Xiao agreed to the performance, he didn't consider the relationship between Kong Xuan and the Peacock at all. Years of performing made him feel there was nothing strange about it.

Only when others mentioned it did he suddenly realize that if you analyzed the stage relationship he and Kong Xuan displayed, it really was... He actually stammered, not looking at Kong Xuan: "That's... that's not how it is."

After yesterday's performance, Tan Xiao slipped away directly, only telling the head teacher and at most exchanging a greeting with Lin Yang. He didn't go see the reactions of the others.  

The deepest impression in his mind was the confrontation in the later part of the performance. He even didn't think that everyone could see Kong Xuan at one point.

So Tan Xiao never imagined how excited the performance was from his classmates' perspective. Just as the teacher from the neighboring class said, this wasn't a performance at the level of a school celebration. It would be impossible not to ship them.

As his desk mate, Lin Yang looked at them with a gratified and benevolent smile, thinking it was worth eating melons for a semester to see this day. Especially today, Lin Yang actually saw Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan coming to school together on the way.

"I'm telling you! You two are actually childhood friends, you just didn't recognize each other at first." The more Lin Yang thought about it, the more it seemed like this.

After thinking, Tan Xiao still admitted it: "We indeed knew each other before..."

He guessed right! Lin Yang excitedly slapped the table. Then his loss was even more justified. Although they had been desk mates for over a year, in the end they were childhood friends.

At this time, Kong Xuan also walked to the side of the seat and said to Lin Yang, "You get up."

Lin Yang: "?"

Kong Xuan said righteously, "I want to be his desk mate."

Lin Yang: "..."

Now that Kong Xuan and Tan Xiao had acknowledged each other, who else could take this desk mate position besides him? Kong Xuan felt Lin Yang should consciously give up the seat.

"It doesn't work like that. The teacher didn't say to change," Tan Xiao was also speechless. "Besides, if you sit like this, what's the difference from being my desk mate?"

Lin Yang was in a daze, but it was still Tan Xiao who brought up the old relationship. He said emotionally, "Exactly, you can't abandon the godsent one just because you have a childhood friend."

"...What nonsense." Tan Xiao thought, what godsent one, if there was a godsent one it should be Kong Xuan, a pure godsent. "Anyway, it's almost the end of the semester, let's change next semester."

Lin Yang: "..."

Wuwu, still have to change ah.

How cruel.