Chapter Index

    Jiang Nian and Li Hua exchanged a knowing look, oh wow.

    They’re calling the parents.

    During the bustling evening reading session, Zhang Ningzhi perked up her ears, ready for some gossip.

    “Is the homeroom teacher calling parents?” Huang Fang, who was in the front seat, turned around, then shook her head to herself, “What a pity, Wu Jungu used to be quite good.”

    Empress Fangfang, are you reminiscing again?

    He’s not dead yet!

    “He’s been assigned to our dorm. I heard he pestered Old Liu for a long time until he finally relented,” Zeng You covered his phone on the desk with a textbook, then turned around to proactively spill the beans.

    “Brother Jun’s parents agreed, but his aunt has always been against it. He was telling me at noon that he was worried his aunt would interfere, and now it seems she’s making her move.”

    His biological aunt, he really should kowtow to her.

    “Then wouldn’t Brother Jun’s efforts be in vain?” Li Hua, using the evening reading as a cover, gossiped uninhibitedly, “It’s going to be a scene of star-crossed lovers.”

    Jiang Nian glanced at him. Why did Li Hua have yellow hair on his head?

    He couldn’t hide it anymore, could he?

    “Why are you gloating?” Huang Fang asked, puzzled.

    “No, how could I be?” Li Hua laughed heartily.

    Jiang Nian suddenly interjected, “A love triangle, you know what that is?”

    Zhang Ningzhi looked shocked, putting down her biology textbook. She looked at Li Hua, then at the absent Wu Jungu, and her mouth slowly formed an ‘o’ shape.

    “Oh~!!!!!”

    Zeng You and Empress Fangfang instantly understood and started to act all Yin and Yang.

    “No wonder, you’re coveting someone else’s girlfriend, aren’t you?”

    “My favorite campus romance drama.”

    “Shit, shit! Shit!” Li Hua instantly panicked, grabbing Jiang Nian, “Don’t talk nonsense, I’m innocent, how will I find a partner later?”

    “Classic, I didn’t say you were in a love triangle, you just jumped out yourself,” Jiang Nian added another jab.

    “Damn it! You—”

    Zhang Ningzhi, on the side, didn’t speak. She quietly glanced at Li Hua and Jiang Nian. Her eyes blinked, as if she had discovered something outrageous.

    You like gossip too, don’t you, transfer student!

    Jiang Nian was also a transfer student, but under his guidance, Zhang Ningzhi had perfectly integrated into class life. As long as she passed the monthly joint exam, she would truly be a member of Class Three.

    “Handing out test papers now, okay? It’s not me who wants to hand them out, the math teacher said so.”

    A new class representative suddenly appeared on the podium.

    Immediately after, two more class representatives, one for chemistry and one for biology, stood up. Both had indescribably shy smiles on their faces as they gracefully walked to the front of the classroom.

    “Two chemistry test papers, due Acquired, okay? The teacher said so.”

    “One biology paper, also due Acquired, okay.”

    In the brightly lit classroom, wails immediately resounded. A group of people shouted, “No, no, I don’t want it!”

    When the test papers were handed out, there was another chorus of shouts.

    “How many papers?”

    “I’m missing some, our section didn’t get any. Are there answer sheets?”

    “Are they handing out English papers? I already saw the test papers.”

    Jiang Nian was a bit annoyed because Wu Jungu, who sat in the middle of the first row, wasn’t there. He, in the second row, had to stand up, reach for the papers, and pass them back.

    After passing them back, someone would still shout, “Missing xxx,” and he would have to make a note of it.

    Li Hua, while organizing the test papers, sighed, “Who would dare to ask for leave? When Wu Jungu comes back and sees a table full of test papers, he’ll probably be dumbfounded.”

    Jiang Nian turned to look at him, but before he could speak, Li Hua stopped him.

    “Hold on, I know what you’re going to say.”

    “What?”

    “Wu Jungu is probably kissing and touching right now, you know, those unspeakable scenes between lovers.”

    Jiang Nian snapped his fingers, “I’ve conditioned you with Pavlovian reflexes.”

    “Get lost! You’re the dog!”

    The English class representative wasn’t sure whether to hand out test papers, probably wanting to join in the fun. Unable to make up his mind, he simply came to Jiang Nian and asked him to ask Xibao.

    “No, you’re the class representative, why are you asking me?” Jiang Nian looked up, utterly bewildered.

    The English class representative hummed for a while, “I thought, you have Xibao’s WeChat.”

    He really did.

    No, who added Xibao’s WeChat to my phone!

    I wouldn’t dare send a single message!

    “No such thing, how could it be?” Jiang Nian said without changing his expression, and kindly suggested, “This is English evening self-study. When she comes, you can just ask her directly.”

    “She said she’s not coming, she’s supervising our evening self-study online,” the class representative said.

    Jiang Nian heard this and said, “Then get a piece of paper, write the words big, hold it under the camera, and ask her directly. Tell her to move if she agrees.”

    “Good point.”

    Political Work Building.

    Xibao was having a meeting with the English group teachers, and the leader’s droning was giving her a headache. They were mainly discussing the English weekly report and how to deal with inspections.

    Feeling bored, Xibao opened her phone and clicked on the live monitoring of Class Three. She wanted to see what these little brats were doing, and if anyone was secretly playing with their phones.

    She looked, huh?

    The person bouncing under the camera, why did he look so much like her class representative?

    And he was holding a note, “Hand out test papers or not?”

    Jiang Nian said to turn the camera if she agreed to hand them out?

    Xibao’s fist clenched. Jiang Nian was too arrogant, ordering her around! Only he could come up with such an idea. She was getting angry!

    In the classroom, the camera squeaked and turned its head.

    “Hey, hey, it turned! It really turned!”

    “English—also handing out test papers!”

    In the meeting room, Xibao was already so angry she was biting her nails. Thankfully, she hadn’t gotten a manicure this month, otherwise she would have lost another hundred yuan. These little brats were too much!

    Wuwuwu!!! So angry, so cold!

    It was mainly Jiang Nian’s fault.

    Just wait, tomorrow!

    The three evening self-study sessions passed like flowing water, and Wu Jungu still hadn’t returned.

    Jiang Nian grabbed his backpack and walked out, going home to sleep, sleep. He was exhausted every day. He had written three test papers in three classes. If he dragged it out even a little, he definitely wouldn’t finish.

    Zhang Ningzhi glanced at Jiang Nian’s slightly messy desk, several test papers piled on the table, askew.

    She thought for a moment and tidied up Jiang Nian’s desk for him.

    On the way home.

    Jiang Nian looked at Xu Qianqian beside him and suddenly remembered the task panel from the afternoon.

    The task was simple enough: revisit old places.

    When they got home, as soon as Xu Qianqian entered the door, this task would automatically be completed. Didn’t expect that, did you, deep blue baby with double standards, zero-cost freeloading.

    I’ll even pull off your wig!

    But would receiving the reward turn him into some kind of super male, two eighteen-year-olds stacked together? Would he directly have four kidneys? How embarrassing would that be.

    Middle-aged men, sigh. They all like these low-brow things.

    Tsk tsk, fortunately, he liked them too.

    Besides that, there was one more thing that bothered him. Xu Qianqian was very fierce. Although it wasn’t reality, the kick she gave him, how much damage was that?

    No, he had to correct this temper from a young age.

    “Xu Qianqian,” he called out.

    Under the streetlamp, Xu Qianqian was mumbling to herself, reciting a book, when he suddenly interrupted her.

    “What!”

    “Did you pin me against the wall at noon?” Jiang Nian asked with a straight face, sounding rather accusatory, “Don’t you think that’s inappropriate?”

    “It was all you,” Xu Qianqian said, indignant, but then trailed off, unable to speak further, “Fine, you can pin me once and that’ll be it.”

    “Really?” Jiang Nian reached out to grab her, “I’ll pin you against the streetlamp!”

    “Jiang Nian! You really want to pin me?” Xu Qianqian dodged, fuming, “Heartless, and here I was thinking of making you a math guide!”

    “What do you mean? Can math have a guide?” Jiang Nian just wanted to curb her temper, lest she become unruly in the future. He hadn’t expected to straighten her out so quickly.

    “Of course it can, you just don’t know it,” Xu Qianqian hummed.

    “Like what?”

    The two walked together, carefully avoiding the uneven paving stones.

    “Go back to the textbook. Many questions in the joint exam will come from the textbook,” Xu Qianqian said like a proud little swan, “But current textbooks are not for humans to read.”

    “Without a lot of understanding, going back to the textbook is completely incomprehensible. Those who can understand it usually have no pressure getting 140 and don’t need to go back to the textbook.”

    “So, math textbooks are very unfriendly to those with weak foundations who want to self-study. Only I am kind enough to be willing to re-compile a guide for you.”

    Jiang Nian initially just listened casually, but then he became serious.

    “You’re so good to me, so I’ll just—”

    “Ptooey! Ptooey! Get rid of that dead look on your face!” Xu Qianqian showed a disgusted expression, ran ahead with her backpack, “Jiang Nian, you’re so perverted!”

    Jiang Nian didn’t care and followed her all the way home.

    As soon as he stepped through the door, he heard a “ding,” and the task panel popped up.

    “【Task: Revisit old places with Xu Qianqian, return to the old apartment building where you lived twenty years ago. Reward: Repair physical wear and tear, revitalize flesh and blood (eighteen-year-old state) (Completed)】”

    Gulp!

    He stood at the door, not daring to move, waiting nervously for a long time.

    He touched his crotch; no change.

    He then ran to the full-length mirror and looked at himself; still the same.

    He ran his hand through his hair, then suddenly started doing push-ups in the living room. After forty push-ups, his body hadn’t changed, and his stamina hadn’t x2.

    Jiang Nian felt it slightly, and there was no irritable urge to hit people.

    So. Where exactly was this B-grade reward stacked?

    Could it be that because he was eighteen, the reward of returning to an eighteen-year-old body state was directly… canceled out? If that were truly the case, he would really lose his temper!

    Is there a System court-martial!

    The accounts don’t match!

    I demand an audit team intervention!

    Buzz, buzz, Xu Qianqian suddenly sent a WeChat message.

    “I forgot to give you the guide, knock on the door to get it.”

    Jiang Nian thought for a moment and replied.

    “I’m already showering. I’ll knock on the door later.”

    Xu Qianqian was typing for a while, and then a message popped up.

    “My dad’s asleep. If you’re showering, get it later. Just send a message then, and stand there waiting for me to open the door.”

    “OK.”

    Jiang Nian wasn’t actually showering, but to save trouble, he habitually did things all at once. After getting the guide notebook, he could read it in bed for a while.

    After showering, he didn’t have time to blow his hair dry, so he wiped it with a towel. Then he opened the door and went out, having already sent a message to Xu Qianqian, and stood at the door waiting.

    About five minutes later, the door creaked open a crack.

    Xu Qianqian had also finished showering. She was wearing thin pajamas and holding a blue A4 notebook.

    “Here.”

    She was about to casually hand it to him, but she looked up at him and inexplicably blushed.

    Friendship book recommendation: “I’m Just an Extra, What the Hell is the Movie King Counterattack System?”

    An old author of Chinese entertainment novels.

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