Chapter 129 Surrounded by Prodigies

“No, so, what does this have to do with Jiang Nian?”

“I didn’t say it had anything to do with him.” Yang Qiming defended.

“It still has a little to do with him, right? After all, if Brother Yang had admitted that Jiang Nian was handsomer than him back then, maybe he wouldn’t have argued with his girlfriend, and they wouldn’t have broken up.”

Yang Qiming was speechless. “…I’d rather argue.”

What a joke, admitting to his girlfriend’s face that another guy was handsomer than him. If he said something stupid like, ‘Yeah, he’s handsome,’ he could forget about ever getting hard again.

“So brave, truly worthy of a Zhennan native.” Lin Dong fanned the flames, not caring about the trouble. “It’s just a woman, isn’t it? If they broke up, they broke up. Brother Yang can find another one.”

He was a man of principles, always trying to reconcile Yu Zhiyi and Wu Jungu. It was only because she was special, very feminine, very much so.

Lin Dong wasn’t interested in anyone else, let alone Yang Qiming’s girlfriend. So he was genuinely sincere in suggesting that breaking up early was for the best.

However, Yang Qiming shook his head earnestly.

“No breakup.”

In the dormitory, where the lights had long been out, the roommates couldn’t hold back. Huang Cailang poked his head out of the bathroom, still covered in bubbles, and asked loudly with squinted eyes.

“Why? Brother Yang, you’re not a simp, are you?”

Quick-witted and straight to the heart.

“Simp my ass!” Yang Qiming retorted, flustered.

Huang Cailang was the most inwardly perverted person in the dorm. If he thought that, then it was basically assumed that everyone else in the dorm thought the same of him.

“It’s really not.” Yang Qiming looked at his roommates who were watching the show. “Do you know how much I invested to be with her?”

“Bubble tea shops, breakfast, bringing her meals… I spend over two thousand a month. If we break up now, I won’t even get my costs back.”

The damp dormitory fell silent for another second.

In the darkness, Lin Dong spoke up.

“When you say ‘get your costs back,’ do you mean…?”

“Of course, that! I’m not…” Yang Qiming lowered his voice. “I’m not Wu Jungu. Am I supposed to be a simp with no expectations of return?”

“Go to sleep, go to sleep. I have to get up at 5:40 tomorrow morning.”

“That early? The dorms just open, what are you going to do?” Lin Dong asked.

Yang Qiming wrapped his blanket tighter and turned his back, going to sleep.

“Buy breakfast. She wants the rice noodles from the shop by the river.”

“No way, the river is three kilometers from school!” Huang Cailang exclaimed. “Brother Yang, you’re not much better, are you? And you say you’re not a simp?”

“I said I’m not. Forget it, say what you want.” Yang Qiming said, “A bunch of virgins who haven’t even touched a girl, what do you know? I’m a battle wolf.”

Lin Dong and Huang Cailang exchanged glances, feeling rather helpless.

The simp was hallucinating.

“By the way, Jiang Nian running to the bubble tea shop, was he also on a date?” Huang Cailang found a blind spot and poked Yang Qiming’s butt on the upper bunk with a clothes pole.

“I don’t know, with two girls. I even thought they were the two girls from Lin Dong’s group.” Yang Qiming shifted, not turning over, and mumbled against the wall.

“And then?” Lin Dong continued to ask.

“I didn’t recognize them, they weren’t from our class anyway.” Yang Qiming sighed. “They were even playing cards and singing there, really going all out.”

“Brother Yang, were they pretty?” Huang Cailang asked.

“How could I be in the mood to look? I was breaking up then.”

The next day.

A few minutes into morning reading, Jiang Nian left his seat to use the restroom. Returning through the back door of the classroom, he saw Lin Dong hiding in the corner eating rice noodles and couldn’t help but approach him.

“You’re eating that stuff in the classroom first thing in the morning?”

“Yang Qiming gave it to me. His girlfriend wouldn’t accept his rice noodles.” Lin Dong chuckled. He had been much more well-behaved since he was pinned against the wall by Hei Liuli last time.

He had been enjoying the show lately and didn’t expect to even get to eat the simp’s rice noodles.

This gave Lin Dong an idea. Maybe he could encourage Yang Qiming to simp even harder. Since advising him hadn’t worked, he might as well give him a push, and he himself could also…

“Yang Qiming?” Jiang Nian was slightly stunned. The name sounded familiar.

“You just saw him yesterday, at the bubble tea shop.” Lin Dong swallowed a mouthful of rice noodles, not forgetting to share with Sun Zhicheng, “Ah Cheng, do you want some?”

“No, no need.” Sun Zhicheng’s expression looked a bit unnatural.

He stood at his seat, holding a vocabulary book for morning reading, his feet nervously rubbing under the table. Eating market rice noodles, Lin Dong was truly bold. The enemy had already reached the opposite bank.

Still eating rice noodles? Eat your mom’s!

No, why is Jiang Nian coming to our group for no reason?

Was the English class representative just there for show? Did he just watch this person disrupt morning reading order? He scored 140 in English, so he didn’t have to memorize words, but others were still studying!

Thinking this, Sun Zhicheng took a deep breath.

He glanced at Jiang Nian, who was bathed in the morning light, his short hair neat and not covering his eyebrows. In the pale yellow morning sun, he wondered if Jiang Nian’s school uniform had been altered.

Damn, male slut!

“Oh, oh, I remember now.” Jiang Nian thought to himself, so that person was called Yang Qiming. “He and his girlfriend seemed to be arguing. I bumped into them then.”

Chen Yunyun was eager to speak up.

When Jiang Nian first came over, she wanted to talk. But the airhead group leader had cut her off, chatting while eating rice noodles, not giving her a chance.

So annoying!

They changed seats, and the further they changed, the more distant they became, like heaven and earth apart.

She asked curiously, “Did you go to the bubble tea shop yesterday afternoon?”

“Two girls invited me over, so I went to play for a while.” Jiang Nian omitted some details. “How were you guys yesterday? Was it fun?”

“It was fun. That older sister wanted to give us free lessons.” Chen Yunyun was careful despite her bluntness. “But we didn’t let her teach us, after all, she looked quite busy.”

“Then, we played for a while and went back to the dorm.”

“Hmm, she was indeed quite busy.”

Sun Zhicheng in the back row had his face almost pressed against his vocabulary book. Thinking of yesterday’s experience, he just wanted to die.

The professional knowledge he had prepared early on was completely useless with that female coach. And he was severely suppressed by Wang Yuhe when using the equipment, his stamina even inferior to Chen Yunyun’s.

His whole state was… running back and forth.

Finally, he returned defeated, emo all afternoon.

However, what made him happy was that he and Chen Yunyun didn’t seem to be affected by his awkward confession. So, everything returned to the starting point.

He still had a chance, starting as friends.

After Jiang Nian left, Sun Zhicheng cleared his throat.

“He went to the bubble tea shop with two girls?”

After saying that, he glanced at Chen Yunyun from the corner of his eye. He couldn’t say he was secretly delighted, but at least a little happy. This showed that Jiang Nian had no intention of competing with him.

He had already exposed himself, so why compete?

Girls cared a lot about one trait in boys: faithfulness.

He was very faithful and persistent.

However, Chen Yunyun just looked at Sun Zhicheng with a puzzled expression.

“Didn’t you also go to the gym with us yesterday?”

Hearing this, Sun Zhicheng’s words were immediately stuck in his throat.

Yes, he also… Why couldn’t he be happy at all?! His was between friends, going to be abused together.

No, can these two things be of the same nature?

Jiang Nian was at the bubble tea shop, with two girls! Was he also lifting dumbbells? With a face like his, anyone would know, it must have been R-rated, right?!

After a morning of exams, Jiang Nian was exhausted.

After school, Li Hua came over.

“Nian, what did you choose for the last multiple-choice question in math?”

“Get lost! Don’t talk to me about that!” Jiang Nian’s vision went black when he saw Li Hua. He directly grabbed his collar. “If you dare to say the answer, I’ll drag you from the fourth floor…”

“Alright, alright, I’ll go discuss with others.” Li Hua slipped away, then joined a group.

Jiang Nian watched as this bastard took the center position, already holding a pen and gesturing on the test paper, surrounded by a circle of buzz-cut, black-rimmed glasses wearing boys.

Damn, being good at math was awesome.

“Jiang Nian, can I check my English paper with you?” A girl tugged his sleeve. Jiang Nian looked back. It seemed to be a girl from the class monitor’s group.

What was her name? Nie Xiaoqian? No, Nie Qiqi.

Why did it sound so much like a fox’s name?

“Sure, take it.” Jiang Nian handed it over.

“Oh, thank you~.” Nie Qiqi took the test paper and skipped away.

Jiang Nian was about to go eat. Seeing a third of the people still in the classroom checking answers after school, he couldn’t help but wonder, weren’t they hungry?

After lunch, when he returned, Chen Yunyun and the others weren’t there.

He remembered Chen Yunyun saying that the Monday exam had a long lunch break, and noon was suitable for washing hair. She probably dragged Wang Yuhe and ran off right after the exam, going back to the dorm to get water and wash her hair.

There were only a few people in the classroom. Jiang Nian saw a boy writing homework by the back door of the classroom. He was tall and thin, with a buzz cut, dark skin, and wearing a school uniform jacket.

His name seemed to be Luo Zhongping, he had a slight impression.

It was a bit inappropriate to say hello now, so Jiang Nian simply sat in his seat, pulled out his Physics 5.3, and seeing its purple, generally depressing color, he really couldn’t hold back.

A thick stack, you’d have to kneel for half a day to burn it for your ancestors.

High school homework was truly endless. As long as you wanted to do it, there was never any extra time.

Green must-do questions, blue one-pass, yellow crazy small questions, test surveys, 45 sets, final questions, fifteen years of real questions, guaranteed to make your eyes glaze over.

Textbooks were also diverse, what with textbook helpers, top student notes, various handwritten notes, knowledge checklists. Guaranteed to buy and cry, one look and one silence.

Jiang Nian basically didn’t buy much, only one Physics 5.3. The Math 5.3 was a gift from Xu Qianqian, but so far, its effect was minimal; he barely touched it after buying it.

For Biology, he bought the one-pass, recommended by Qingbao. She said the “must-do questions” were too basic, and this one was more difficult, suitable for someone with a good foundation like him.

As for English and Chinese, he didn’t spend a single cent.

Because of this, Jiang Nian’s book basket didn’t look too heavy. It mainly consisted of the review materials issued by the school, large and small books, and a pile of test papers.

While writing the test papers, he silently calculated in his mind.

Aside from Chinese and English, his weaknesses were actually quite obvious. Ultimately, he needed around 600 points to qualify for a Double First-Class university outside the province.

Hmm. Keeping his love within the province wasn’t impossible. Jiang Nian actually loved his hometown very much. But there were too many people who loved his hometown, and he couldn’t make the cut.

So, if possible, he wanted to go love someone else’s hometown.

Holy crap, cuckold.

No, he wasn’t going to destroy other people’s hometowns, but to join them.

Not only was Jiang Nian not loyal enough, but everyone around him was pretty much the same.

If Li Hua’s English improved, he might go to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, or Harbin Institute of Technology. Fangfang Dadi’s future was unknown; the value of the Mortal Stream was still rising.

Yao Beibei said she wanted Xiamen University, and Fairy Zhang Ningzhi wouldn’t stay in the province. Devil King Qianqian was even more so, though neither of them said where they wanted to go.

As for Jiang Nian, he just wanted to go out of the province and secure a 211 university. That was it.

It seemed not difficult, but the Gaokao had many variables.

First, his comprehensive science score had to reach around 250, and math had to be stable at at least 130. Chinese also had to be kept stable at 110, and English would lose a few points.

Ideally over 600, but in reality, he’d have to cut that down. To stably get into an out-of-province 211, if he ranked high. A 985 depended on luck.

Jiang Nian was quite satisfied with this, after all, with a science score of 200, what was he fantasizing about?

Just keep moving forward with the lantern, that’s all.

Afternoon comprehensive science weekly test.

In the last minute of the exam, Jiang Nian hurriedly filled in the last few multiple-choice questions. His heart was pounding, but luckily he made it just in time.

Finally, it was over.

A very dark thought suddenly popped into Jiang Nian’s mind: he hoped Li Hua’s comprehensive science score would be lower this time. Of course, only for this weekly test. He wanted to hear his broken voice.

Watching him run around the classroom like a madman with the test paper, making Uchiha-like crazy laughter, “Abba Abba.”

He’d grab anyone, “Look, I was such an idiot on this question!”

“Missed four in a row! Hahaha, I’m even laughing at myself!”

During evening self-study, checking answers.

Li Hua suddenly stood up, looking at the test paper and gasping.

Several class representatives were still copying answers on the blackboard, but Li Hua had already gotten the complete set of answers from the office. It just went to show that the son of science indeed had privileges.

Jiang Nian, the benevolent father, and Ma Guojun, the older brother, noticed their good son’s abnormal mental state immediately.

Both turned their heads, offering friendly concern.

“What’s wrong? Missed ten?”

“Did you fill in the answer sheet incorrectly?”

Li Hua flicked the test paper, his face beaming with joy.

“All multiple-choice questions correct.”

“Sigh, let’s give him an Aruba after class.” Jiang Nian looked at Ma Guojun.

“Alright.”

Suddenly, a loud slap on the thigh echoed in the classroom.

“Oh yeah! All biology multiple-choice questions correct!”

Li Hua was speechless. “Dong Wensong is an idiot, shouting so loudly.”

Ma Guojun pushed up his glasses. “Brother B is like that. Just wait, he’ll be howling again in a bit.”

Sure enough, Brother B started howling again.

“Damn! I got the last physics multiple-choice question wrong! My reasoning was clearly correct! Oh, I’m so frustrated, seriously!”

“I clearly knew this question, I just misread it!”

In the noisy classroom, someone deliberately lowered their voice and cursed urgently.

“Shut your mom up, Stick Figure!”

Immediately, the whole class burst into laughter. Dong Wensong couldn’t find the person for a moment, feeling both angry and helpless.

Jiang Nian also laughed, recognizing that it was most likely Lin Dong.

Zhang Ningzhi was still slowly checking her answers, her small face tense.

Better to watch the high school girls.

“How many multiple-choice questions did you get wrong in comprehensive science?” he leaned in and asked.

Zhang Ningzhi frowned, “Two.”

Jiang Nian: “…”

He sighed. Both his deskmates were abnormal. He turned his head and saw the class monitor behind him.

“Class monitor, how many multiple-choice questions did you get wrong in comprehensive science?”

Hearing this, Li Qingrong looked up, her pink lips slightly parted.

“Zero.”

It’s over, he was surrounded by science Prodigies.