Chapter 97 If you’re wearing Anta when it rains, you don’t deserve to fight for food in the cafeteria.

Jiang Nian was listless for the entire morning.

Apart from couples, few high school seniors genuinely wanted to attend classes. It was even worse on rainy days, with the classroom feeling stuffy and smelling of various strange things.

Only going out for some fresh Qi in the morning with Zhang Ningzhi and filling a thermos with hot water was somewhat interesting.

The rest was just exhaustion, followed by falling asleep instantly on the desk. As soon as he recovered some energy, class would start again, depleting it only to be replenished, a continuous cycle.

Jiang Nian had just woken up and saw the class monitor walking down the aisle. As if sensing his gaze, Li Qingrong even turned her head and met his eyes.

It had to be said, the class monitor’s looks were absolutely stunning.

He watched her as she walked. Li Qingrong wasn’t wearing a school uniform; a gray and white jacket made her look exceptionally youthful. Her hairstyle was also pretty, a cute low ponytail.

The class monitor really loved her bear hair tie; with her cold expression, she looked so adorable.

I really want to… forget it.

Half a month after moving to this class, Jiang Nian discovered something interesting.

Class monitors in other classes were either tough enough to control the whole class or exceptionally skilled in social etiquette.

His class monitor, however, was a bit strange. She usually didn’t manage things much and wasn’t very talkative.

Logically, the discipline committee and academic committee might have some opinions. After all, an incompetent class monitor meant a heavier burden on them, effectively consuming their study time.

But surprisingly, there were no complaints. The loyalty (aluminum copper) of the discipline committee and academic committee was frighteningly high.

When the class got noisy, the discipline committee would be frantic, and the class monitor would curiously glance over. The fact that the discipline committee could continue her work was truly impressive.

In another class, the discipline committee would already be shouting, “XXX, say something! Aren’t you going to do anything?”

Jiang Nian strongly suspected that Li Qingrong was the class monitor purely because her personal charisma was too strong.

For example, during last week’s sports day, three people didn’t get bottled water. Li Qingrong offered her own bottled water, and immediately seven or eight others followed suit. Another seven or eight people were a step too slow and could only silently put theirs back.

Jiang Nian was stunned at the time. Solving problems from the root, right? How to divide three bowls of water among four leaders? The answer is that three leaders will automatically beat the fourth one to death.

But he still looked; anyway, the class monitor would actively avert her gaze, so every extra glance was a gain.

This proved true; two seconds later, Li Qingrong withdrew her gaze from the stare. She didn’t react much, turned her head to the other side, and walked away.

Jiang Nian propped his head and smiled. Looking at the Young Miss more made him feel happy.

Yay…

Turning around, he found that Zhang Ningzhi, who had been sleeping on her desk, had gotten up at some point.

The young girl was holding a thermos and drinking hot water, her peripheral vision casting a faint glance at him. She said nothing, yet seemed to say everything, then pulled out her physics worksheet and started copying down incorrect answers.

Jiang Nian felt a bit awkward and coughed.

“The blackboard is a bit reflective.”

Zhang Ningzhi: “It didn’t look like you were looking at the blackboard just now.”

“Haha. Really?”

All three classes that morning were spent going over worksheets, making everyone drowsy.

The rain outside was incessant, making Li Hua look distressed. There was a risk of getting his shoes wet on the way home, so after some thought, he decided to make a decision that went against his ancestors’ wishes.

“Nian, I’m not going home for lunch; I’m planning to eat at the cafeteria with you.”

Jiang Nian looked down at Li Hua’s shoes and shook his head.

“It’s raining, and there’s standing water on the road. You’re telling me you’re wearing mesh sports shoes and still want to eat at the cafeteria?”

“What’s wrong? Anta, a brand name.”

“Anta? You’re wearing mesh shoes; you don’t deserve to fight for food at all.” Jiang Nian was slightly speechless. “There are so many puddles on the road. Are you planning to ballet-hop all the way there in those shoes?”

“The Sissy Senior of Senior Year Three Won’t Dream of the Cafeteria Auntie with Full Dishes.”

“Save your energy, you scrub.” Jiang Nian pointed to the trash can in the front corner of the classroom. “Go rummage in there at noon; that’ll do for a couple of bites.”

“You bastard!” Li Hua became anxious.

Zhang Ningzhi, pretending to do her work while eavesdropping, had been keeping a straight face since the long break after the second class, but when she heard “ballet-hop,” she couldn’t hold back.

She couldn’t help but imagine the scene in her mind and burst out laughing. After attracting Jiang Nian’s attention, she immediately pressed her lips together.

But because it was so funny, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster’s, and now it was Jiang Nian’s turn to laugh.

“Stop laughing.” Zhang Ningzhi covered her face. Seeing him still laughing non-stop, she immediately put her head down on the desk.

Li Hua next to her asked curiously, “What’s so funny?”

“Nothing, just saw a hamster run along the wall.”

Zhang Ningzhi, with her head on the desk, immediately turned beet red, and her chest felt like it had been filled with warm syrup. She decided to speak less with Jiang Nian today, or rather, for the next two days.

Ring ring ring.

After school, Jiang Nian dragged Li Hua along, violently opened his umbrella, and ran into the rain.

As expected, Young Miss Li Hua indeed started ballet-hopping across the puddly sports field.

He was tiptoeing while shouting, “I’m a brand name, damn it, Anta!” which made Jiang Nian’s prostate feel like it was on fire.

“…Anta on your feet would make their stock price drop!”

The scrubs from first and second year streamed out, and the rainy sports field was dotted with colorful umbrellas. From above, they looked like rotating tarpaulins.

The sky was gloomy.

Li Hua and Jiang Nian walked out of the cafeteria together. After frowning for half a minute, Li Hua still couldn’t help but ask.

“We both ordered the same dish one after another, so why did you get half a ladle more than me?”

He watched with his own eyes as the cafeteria auntie shook half a ladle off his plate, then turned around and filled Jiang Nian’s plate to the brim, even adding another half ladle, although he later got that half ladle back from Jiang Nian.

But…

There was something fishy going on! He never thought Jiang Nian was this kind of person, selling his integrity for a ladle of food.

Jiang Nian glanced at him sideways and asked.

“What did you call her?”

Li Hua stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and said.

“Grandma, braised eggplant.”

“Haha, you loser.” Jiang Nian chuckled. “She’s only fifty, hahaha, her grandson hasn’t even been born yet, and you call her grandma.”

“Wait, how do you know so much?”

“Neighbor downstairs.”

These four simple words pierced Li Hua’s heart, completely breaking his defenses. Seriously, there are connections everywhere! Can this society of favors just die already?!

At that moment, Li Hua completely forgot that his father worked at the procuratorate.

On their way back to the senior year building.

Jiang Nian encountered Zhou Haifei again. Coincidentally, their gazes met in the rain as they held their umbrellas.

Her umbrella looked a bit worn, just like her ugly black-rimmed glasses. They hadn’t exchanged a single word, yet they had met many times, the last time being on the stairs.

Jiang Nian didn’t think much of it, gave a quick glance, and moved on.

In the classroom, not many people were there for the lunch break.

He and Li Hua returned early, chatting and doing homework. Ten minutes later, Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe also entered through the front door of the classroom, hand in hand.

“Hey, you guys eat so fast,” Chen Yunyun said.

“It’s alright, you two are pretty fast too.” Jiang Nian said casually, “Mainly because Li Hua was wearing Anta; he stepped on one junior after another, trampling everyone in line.”

“Let the world’s injustice bow before him; we were the first to eat.”

Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe both laughed, only Li Hua was anxious.

“Can we stop mentioning Anta? You got paid, didn’t you!”

“Hahaha, Li Hua is really fierce,” Wang Yuhe joked.

She had long heard that boys loved to fight for food; eating alone was bland. When two people ate together, no matter how bad the food was, they wouldn’t leave a bite for their brother.

“Don’t believe him, he’s talking nonsense.”

Chen Yunyun originally wanted to chat with Jiang Nian, but girls were thin-skinned.

The classroom was mostly empty during lunch break, and with Li Hua nearby, it would seem too deliberate if she went up to him. After some thought, she returned to her group to do her homework.

Wang Yuhe was more introverted, but she had interacted with Jiang Nian a few times these past days. As she passed by his aisle, she politely asked a question.

“Have you finished your homework?”

Jiang Nian didn’t even lift his head, “Haven’t written it, waiting for Li Hua to write it.”

Li Hua said, “Haven’t written it. Jiang Nian isn’t writing it, so why should I rush?”

Hearing this, Wang Yuhe smiled and left.

She thought to herself that these two were quite interesting. If they could sit next to each other next time they changed seats, there would definitely be no shortage of fun during classes.

Girls felt embarrassed not to hand in homework and were generally more diligent about it. They usually finished the homework assigned by the teacher in the morning by noon.

Jiang Nian, on the other hand, didn’t care. He would copy what he knew how to do, conserving his energy.

If he really couldn’t, he just wouldn’t hand it in; they couldn’t kill him for it anyway.

Since Chen Yunyun didn’t look for him to chat, he was happy to have some peace and quiet. He even spent half an hour correcting all the physics, chemistry, and biology problems that would be discussed that afternoon.

He circled and noted the points he didn’t understand with a blue pen, and even managed to take a half-hour nap.

Jiang Nian had perfectly assimilated into the Olympiad tier, becoming one of its natives.

The afternoon was still about discussing test papers. During self-study after the three classes, the entire class was adding up their total scores. The academic committee handed out a form, passing it from the first row of the first group backwards.

In a regular class, filling in scores might feel a bit shameful for students who didn’t do well.

But this was an Olympiad class.

Even a bottom-ranking student here could place in the middle of a regular class. So there wasn’t much shame, but everyone who got the form would glance at others’ scores.

For example, the first thing they’d look at was the person they liked, then the class’s top scorer, and finally the one with the lowest score. Soon, the conversation would start with, “Holy cow, XXX almost got a perfect score.”

The form was passed back in a single file, and by the time it reached Jiang Nian, it was pretty much done.

Li Hua held the form, filling it in while exclaiming, “Holy cow!” First he looked at the class monitor’s score, then at Yu Tongjie’s score, and immediately grinned.

“Nian, look at this for a laugh.” Li Hua flicked the list, wiggling his eyebrows, and whispered, “This little Sword Tomb only scored this much, always shouting like a good-for-nothing in class.”

Jiang Nian found that Li Hua’s mouth was getting more and more venomous for some reason; his character was concerning.

He glanced at Yu Tongjie’s score, only 527, and immediately said sternly.

“Why are you always staring at other people’s scores? How boring.”

Li Hua was exasperated, “Before you say that, can you please control the corners of your mouth?”

After everyone in the group finished filling it out, Jiang Nian took a quick look.

The highest score within the group was Zhang Ningzhi with 632. Baby Zhizhi was the Outer Realm Demon of Class Three. She ascended from a regular class and still trampled Prodigies under her feet in the Olympiad class.

Next was Li Hua with 614. This person mainly lost points in English and Chinese, a withered bone beneath Fairy Zhizhi. An old-timer in Class Three, leader of the sixth group.

Now no longer the group leader, his prestige was completely lost, merely a withered bone in a tomb.

Huang Fang 586. Fangfang purely relied on grinding problems to improve her score, a Mortal Emperor. It was hard to imagine if she had a proficiency panel, she would probably grind her way to Tsinghua and Peking University.

Jiang Nian only scored 563, not high, not low. Xiao Yan of the regular class, don’t bully a young man for being poor. He summarized it and felt that his grades couldn’t improve mainly because he was too sleepy.

Once he completed the System’s task, he would eliminate fatigue once a day.

No, buddy, are you really going to use it for studying?

Zeng You 524, a Genius who embraced slacking off. The Emperor roamed between two worlds, one of novels and games, the other of the actual college entrance exam, handling both with ease.

“Fellow Daoist, why did you only score this much? It’s not like you?” Jiang Nian poked his back, asking curiously.

Fellow Daoist was Zeng You’s nickname, simply because of his immortal-cultivation-like lifestyle. He sat on the throne of human potential’s limit, mocking Death’s incompetence.

Zeng You turned around, also unable to maintain his composure, and said aggrievedly.

“I think it’s the test order. Comprehensive Science should be on Sunday night. But they put Chinese at night, which is too boring, so I just thought about going back to the dorm to read novels.”

“Hmm?” Li Hua asked, “And then?”

“I thought about the English exam the next morning, and since my English isn’t good anyway, why sleep at night? Might as well read novels. I ended up reading all night.”

“The next morning was the English exam. I fell asleep during the listening comprehension, but I don’t understand it anyway, so it didn’t matter. Math was normal.”

“During my lunch break in the dorm, I originally planned to read just one chapter and then sleep well. But I accidentally read too much, so I was dazed and confused during the Comprehensive Science exam in the afternoon.”

“I looked up and saw Old Liu invigilating, and in a daze, I thought it was my mom and almost asked when dinner would be ready.”

“Hahahaha!!” The whole group burst into laughter at this.

“What a character!” Huang Fang laughed.

“It’s okay, do better next time.” The comfort came from Zhizhi.

“Awesome.” Jiang Nian was simple and direct.

“I’m dying of laughter, seeing Old Liu as your mom, hahaha.” Li Hua laughed non-stop, roaring like a monkey.

He was immediately reprimanded by the discipline committee, “Sixth group, quiet!”

Logically, Zeng You should have been at the bottom, but there was also Wu Jungu with 509. When they saw the score, the five members of the group were stunned.

They all turned their gaze to Wu Jungu. From the beginning, he hadn’t participated in the group’s recent fun. He had been lying on his desk, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing this, they didn’t say anything, as he might have run into some trouble. However, with such a significant drop in grades, a talk with the homeroom teacher was definitely unavoidable.

Before evening self-study.

The classroom lights were bright. Everyone in the sixth group was there except Wu Jungu. Self-study hadn’t even started yet, and the classroom was bustling and exceptionally noisy.

Huang Fang turned and looked at Li Hua and Jiang Nian, who were fooling around in the back row, and couldn’t help but ask.

“Group leader, what do you think happened to Wu Jungu?”

Li Hua, the child of a slut, stroked his chin, a grin on his face.

“Of course, it’s love, Fangfang.”

“Don’t call me Fangfang, it’s disgusting.” Huang Fang made a disgusted sound, then turned to ask Jiang Nian, “His girlfriend seems to be from the next class, I think I’ve seen her once.”

Jiang Nian looked puzzled, pointing to himself.

“You’re asking me?”