Chapter 69: Excessive Additives

Jiang Nian was a bit distracted while showering, until he dried his hair and lay down on the bed.

What was Xu Qianqian doing?

Crying? Probably not, she might be showering now.

It’s over, I have an image now, and this ‘hiss hiss hiss’ feeling will keep me from sleeping even more.

He tossed and turned in bed, cursing himself for being a pervert. But then again, so many years had passed since the incident, there was probably only a faint sadness left.

His excessive concern seemed to risk reopening old wounds.

She was clearly just a bit sad and wanted to be alone for a while. But then you came along with a low-EQ comment, ‘Everything will pass,’ and made her cry.

Alright, alright, the water in the kitchen is boiling, go turn it off.

A three-cut, six-holed bun.

After much thought, Jiang Nian felt he still needed to say something.

It couldn’t be too somber, nor too frivolous. He wondered how those high-EQ guys on the internet talked to girls and decided to look for some examples.

Looking at yours?

Damn it, how did I accidentally enter a forum!

Jiang Nian backed out and clicked into the Pure Love forum, then silently exited three seconds later. It was South Tong, so why use the pure love title to fish for something else!

After all that fuss, seven minutes had already passed.

The forum was only abstract, so Jiang Nian decided to switch apps to find material.

His Little Red Book nickname was nono, and he was often mistaken for a girl, blending in. So, he didn’t have many private messages, only a little over twenty.

‘God’s mill grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly fine.’

Jiang Nian was full of questions; this didn’t sound much like a healing quote. And as soon as he saw Jesus, he thought of the old joke about priests and little boys.

Forget it, I’ll just improvise.

After much procrastination, he sent one message.

‘Three days off?’

Five minutes later, Xu Qianqian replied with an ‘Mm.’

Jiang Nian thought for a moment, then typed a reply.

‘Sleep early.’

On her end, Xu Qianqian didn’t reply again. Jiang Nian guessed it was probably just a ‘good’ or an ‘mm.’ His emotional intelligence was lacking, and his abstract thoughts came and went.

The next day.

Jiang Nian didn’t remember when he fell asleep; it seemed he just dozed off.

The time in the third year of high school was actually quite tight, and he never got enough sleep. You either burned through your life to fight it head-on, or you valued your life and went to bed early.

As Jiang Nian’s cousin would say, a depleted body is not good.

Otherwise, when you get to college, you’ll catch a cold just from peeing in winter.

He picked up his phone and saw that Xu Qianqian had replied at 11:40. It wasn’t ‘good’ or ‘mm,’ but she had transferred him money.

‘What the f*ck!’

Oh, three yuan, he had bought her a bun yesterday.

You scared me to death, your sister.

Tap, tap, tap, he typed a line, ‘Don’t send money in the middle of the night, it’s really scary.’

Xu Qianqian must have woken up too, sending a few question marks.

‘Then don’t accept it.’

‘Ha, what are you kidding? Call me Daddy and I’ll send it back to you.’ Jiang Nian typed a familiar line, in a great mood. Xu Qianqian was back to normal.

‘Dream on!’

After washing up, Jiang Nian put the hairpin gift, which was to repay Zhang Ningzhi’s favor, into his bag.

There were books in his backpack. The piggy bank was too big to carry, so he planned to bring it to Song Xiyun at the sports meeting tomorrow. As for Xu Qianqian’s phone, his mother said it wasn’t the right time to send it these days.

That’s true, he could only find an opportunity.

In the morning, the two walked side by side to school, just like usual. It was as if the heavy scene from last night had never happened.

However, this thing was like pregnancy; even if you washed it, you couldn’t pretend it never happened.

He only had two events at the sports meeting, it seemed, if he could get leave. Jiang Nian thought this and put it into action, pulling out his phone.

Forget it, I won’t tell her yet.

I’ll see after I get leave; it would be troublesome if it didn’t work out. With his personality, he might just skip it directly, and then he’d inevitably be interrogated by three parties.

With his mother’s personality, puppy love? One slap would kill him!

Oh, puppy love with Xu Qianqian, huh! Then let’s see.

Just kidding, neither he nor Xu Qianqian had any intention of puppy love. Did puppy love in the third year of high school have any buff for studying? It didn’t seem to make much sense.

But there was a bit of ambiguity, it wasn’t completely innocent.

Both families only had one child, and the adults’ relationship had always been very good. They basically hoped that he and Xu Qianqian would become a couple, but of course, it didn’t work out in the end.

Why their relationship was not good to just average in junior high and early high school, he couldn’t say.

Rebellion, vain brain damage, a bit of all of it.

After entering high school, he actually felt that this kind of relationship beyond friendship was quite rare. Suddenly he discovered, oh ~ childhood sweethearts are rare treasures.

The main thing is that it looks good, it’s set.

Young people don’t think too far ahead; at seventeen or eighteen, they are omnipotent. They just enjoy themselves, instead of playing ‘my husband, my husband.’

Later?

What is that?

Morning reading.

Li Hua yawned. Tomorrow was the sports meeting. He had been looking forward to it for so long, and finally, this day had come. He wished he could fast-forward directly to it.

Thinking of this, he patted Jiang Nian’s shoulder.

‘What’s the first class?’

Jiang Nian turned to look at Branch Branch Baby, who immediately fumbled through her timetable. The loose school uniform jacket couldn’t hide her well-proportioned figure, her slightly red face, and her fair swan-like neck.

Who invented this ‘girl’ thing anyway? It’s too damn beautiful.

Sometimes, Jiang Nian would smell a faint scent from next to him during class. He almost couldn’t resist saying something inappropriate, ‘Baby, can I lick you?’

If he said it, he’d be finished! Olympiad Class Three’s Orochimaru, Jiang Nian!

‘First class. english.’ Zhang Ningzhi stammered, tucking a strand of hair that had fallen during her lean behind her ear. ‘After that is english, Math, PE.’

‘Oh, English Teacher’s class.’ Jiang Nian thought to himself that he could go begging for food again.

Xi Bao’s snacks were quite tasty, and the key was that her bag was like a treasure chest. It was full every day, and Xi Bao wasn’t stingy; he could always snatch a bit.

Goblin activated, activate the Gluttony card!

After morning reading, a large group of people in the class immediately collapsed onto their desks, including Zhang Ningzhi. She adjusted her arm, preparing to find a comfortable angle to lie down.

Suddenly, her arm was poked.

She was startled but didn’t get up from the desk. Instead, she turned her head, revealing a pair of eyes that blinked.

Jiang Nian was holding something in his hand and, taking advantage of no one looking, reached it into her desk compartment.

His five fingers spread open like a lotus, revealing a blue rabbit hairpin.

Zhang Ningzhi was stunned, looking at the rabbit hairpin with a blank mind. Two or three seconds later, her heart leaped into her throat. What. What?

‘Huh?’ Jiang Nian saw she wasn’t reacting and directly stuffed it into her loose school uniform pocket.

Can a rabbit hairpin freeze you for so long?

I have an immature idea.

Zhang Ningzhi’s heart immediately felt a wave of numbness. All ten of her fingers unconsciously curled up, and her head was buried in the crook of her arm, which was covered by her autumn clothes and school uniform jacket.

Her face was completely red, she didn’t even have the strength to say thank you, and her heartbeat was exceptionally strong.

The sunlight outside the window, at this moment, seemed to become viscous.

It will be available on Wednesday, the Acquired day, with a big update. There will be no launch speech; if there is, it will be a whole piece of kowtowing thanks.

A preview.