From North to South

This chapter opens with a conversation between a boy named chao and a girl named pianpian. The boy asks the girl if she remembers the name of the teacher. The girl replies that she doesn't, because she's not good at remembering people's nicknames. She also says that the teacher's nickname is "southern idol" , which means that he's from the south. Aww, that's a little weird. Btw, the pronunciation of "south" and "male" in Chinese is the same, so it makes sense that the girl would call the teacher by his last name. . Then the girl asks the boy if he has a crush on the teacher, and the boy says that he does, but he'd rather be a southern idol than a northern idol. He also tells the girl that chao has been staring at him since then, and that the southern idol has been drinking tea with the boy. Ooh! The girl wonders who snuck up on the boy, and he tells her to submit her politics homework to the class rep. He then tells her that the box with the political homework is a sign that the boy and the teacher are in a fan club. He says that if the teacher was on bad terms with chao, he wouldn't throw around his paper-ball notes so much, and chao would be nicer to him. But if the teachers were on good terms, he says, they would be exchanging notes secretly during the class. He tells the boy that the collar on chao's collar must be neat, because he'll spread