Chapter 36 Ex-girlfriend Zhang Ningzhi

“Can you still bite it open?” Zhang Ningzhi asked like a pure, curious child.

“Yeah, it’s very simple. You need to do it like this and this.” Jiang Nian pinched a corner of the milk carton, skillfully biting an opening. “See, it’s open.”

Li Hua thought to himself: Good, good, good, you opened it, but I’m about to break.

He felt like the brother in “My Classmate’s Sister,” who had his head down, writing homework at his desk for two hours, pretending to be completely focused.

As soon as class was dismissed, Nan Tong went wild again. Either several people were playing Jenga in one spot, or they were hugging front to back, moving frantically like Nan Tong.

Class 3 of the Olympiad had many talented individuals and a strong study atmosphere.

A person-to-person phenomenon appeared, with Qi overflowing.

“Hey, what the heck!” Li Hua was still in his seat when Ma Guojun and his group rushed forward, grabbing his hands and feet, lifting him up like a slaughtered pig.

“Jiang Nian, ah! Save me, save me!”

“Don’t mind him, Jiang Nian, today we’re here to deal with him!” Ma Guojun adjusted his glasses.

Jiang Nian, in his seat, looked awkward, stood up, and said, “He is my brother, after all. It wouldn’t be right for me to just watch.”

“I’ll hold his left leg; I don’t trust anyone else to do it.”

Oh, your mother, my suspended heart finally died!

During the long break, there were only three short minutes of rest, followed by the bell for running exercises. According to the Academic Affairs Office regulations, all third-year students had to go down and run exercises.

Li Hua was ‘aruba’d’ twice within three minutes, leaving him completely listless. But by sacrificing himself, he quickly pulled Jiang Nian into the collective of some of the boys in Olympiad Class 3.

Jiang Nian had observed that Li Hua was the kind of emotionally intelligent guy with high popularity in the class. The emotionally intelligent guy could chat with a dog on the street and had many friends inside and outside the class.

As for Zhang Ningzhi, as soon as class ended, Yao Beibei dragged her to the restroom for a ‘double queue.’ Girls’ cliques are harder to integrate into, and Yao Beibei was trying to use ‘restroom diplomacy’ to help her break into one.

The young classmates were not mean; they were all helping the new students adapt to the group in their own ways.

On the other side, in stark contrast, was Yu Tongjie.

Since moving up a class, Yu Tongjie actively answered questions in class, his voice drowning out everyone else’s. After class, he didn’t sleep; he hunched over his desk, silently doing problems.

This person was impervious to persuasion, kid, you’re invincible.

Fortunately, this was Chinese youth; classmates at most found him a bit strange. They would discuss him behind his back in their free time but wouldn’t actually play any ’80s’ games with him.

“Let’s go, time for running exercises.”

Jiang Nian and Li Hua walked arm-in-arm past the first row, glancing at Yu Tongjie, who was holding an English vocabulary book, preparing to go downstairs alone for the running exercises.

What a diligent young man.

Aside from not being a good person, he could still be considered human.

“What? You know Brother Bully?” Li Hua asked. “He’s the most pretentious in the class, acting like a main character from a Japanese anime. Even Class Zero isn’t as pretentious as him.”

Jiang Nian shook his head. “Not familiar.”

He wasn’t someone who repaid grievances with kindness, but he also didn’t always seek revenge. For those who gossiped about him behind his back, if it wasn’t serious, he usually just let it go, treating it like a dog barking.

The school was a large rookie station, with countless small and large packages, impossible to clear.

The running exercises were uneventful, except that some people were on the verge of death.

Big Ma Guojun and Jiang Nian ran side by side in the same line, but after two laps, Ma Guojun was nowhere to be seen. Turning around, he had completely blended into the team of the class behind them.

No, classmate, who the heck are you?

Ma Guojun, seeing the gaze of the sports committee member from the next class, adjusted his glasses while bouncing along, and said with a chuckle.

“From the next class, just cutting in.”

Damn, what a creepy thing to say. Thankfully, the other sports committee member was a guy. But less than half a minute later, Big Ma Guojun returned to Jiang Nian’s side with a look of horror.

“What happened?” Jiang Nian asked.

“Your mom, I just said ‘cut in,’ and that white-socked jock’s face turned red.” Ma Guojun’s two fat legs bounced quickly, and he didn’t dare to fall behind for the last lap.

Jiang Nian didn’t know if running exercises could improve physical fitness. But he knew that Big Ma Guojun’s ‘quality’ was inversely proportional to the number of laps.

Every extra lap, he would randomly curse the mother of a school leader.

As soon as the running exercises stopped, Yu Tongjie’s gaze subconsciously swept across the girls in the class. His eyes landed on two of them, but not Zhang Ningzhi.

He was now very disappointed in Zhang Ningzhi because she had protected Jiang Nian.

But as his gaze swept past, he inevitably saw Zhang Ningzhi. Her face was flushed, and she subconsciously turned her head, seemingly also locking onto someone in the class.

Jiang Nian was tall and stood on the outer circle, chatting with the uncouth Ma Guojun. He suddenly caught Zhang Ningzhi’s gaze when he turned his head and couldn’t help but look twice.

The girl, caught in the act, immediately blushed and recoiled like a willow branch swaying.

Ah, she saw me.

Burying one’s head in the sand doesn’t work.

Jiang Nian was about to laugh when his mind suddenly chimed.

【At thirty-eight, while tidying your room, you open an unremarkable box, awakening long-sealed memories.

A neat ponytail, her innocent self, photos, and carefully prepared gifts are all covered in dust.

Your gaze lingers on a lunchbox. Ten years ago, you accidentally broke your leg. On a snowy night, she brought that lunchbox and traveled thousands of miles to see you.

You realize you weren’t a complete failure; at least you once won all the love of a lovely girl.

Mission: Re-establish contact with your ex-girlfriend, Zhang Ningzhi, who you lost touch with years ago. Reward: 300 RMB.】

Looking at the panel that popped up, with lines of text, Jiang Nian was slightly taken aback. “Dude, how does my future self in another timeline have an ex-girlfriend?”

Having an ex-wife is already a big deal; does he also have an ex-girlfriend?

On the sports field, various classes were evacuating in batches, and the surroundings were bustling with noise.

Jiang Nian couldn’t help but fall into deep thought. Logically, he had always been in a regular class in high school. Zhang Ningzhi had the ability to get into the Olympiad class, so from high school to university, the two of them should have had no interaction.

Hmm, that makes sense.

Ten years ago would be when he was twenty-eight.

Wasn’t that the year his other self went on blind dates? Jiang Nian couldn’t quite remember, after all, it wasn’t something he had personally experienced, only seen mentioned on the panel.

Two years later, he started shelling out money for betrothal gifts. Getting married so quickly? With such a good girlfriend, how did she become an ex-girlfriend? And he was forced into blind dates in the same year.

This life simulation… Oh, no, this life review game is truly mind-bending.

For Jiang Nian, he could play it like a game. But the information revealed did feel a bit like a premonition of the future, even if many things would change.

Unable to figure it out, he simply stopped thinking.

He’d better do the mission first.

If it were his thirty-eight-year-old self, completing this mission would clearly be a loss. He might have to spend a lot of money to inquire or find Zhang Ningzhi’s whereabouts.

But now