Chapter 137 (Third Update) I Don’t Have Time to Watch You Take a Shower

Jiang Nian held two packs of Suxile, feeling a little embarrassed.

Was his stress that obvious?

“Okay, thank you, Teacher.” After he finished speaking, he tucked the two packs of Suxile into his pocket, then turned and said, “Teacher, remember to pay the friend’s fee on time tomorrow, okay?”

“Pay your head!” Xibao threw her notebook.

The integrated science office was brightly lit.

Zhong Qing was not in a good mood; she had just gone to check on the evening self-study class.

When she entered through the front door of the classroom, Li Hua had four steamed buns on his desk. When she circled back, there were only two left, and after another circle, the buns were gone.

As she left, Qingbao kept repeating to herself: He scored ninety-five in biology, he scored ninety-five—her own student, she had to see him through, even if it meant gritting her teeth.

Knock, knock, a knock sounded.

“Teacher?”

“Mm, come in.”

Qingbao responded without lifting her head, maintaining her usual serious expression. This was the helplessness of a young teacher; she wasn’t qualified to lie flat like the other old hands.

She had to rely on herself, improve her abilities, and nurture her students like lush green seedlings.

She looked up at the doorway. Jiang Nian stood tall and straight, looking clean and sharp. She couldn’t help but nod inwardly; this was the kind of student she admired most.

Compared to her bun-guzzling student Li Hua, who scored ninety-five, Jiang Nian was his complete opposite.

Why couldn’t Li Hua learn to be better?

Yu Zhiyi glanced at Jiang Nian, their eyes meeting. She had no other intentions, merely thinking that Jiang Nian was quite handsome, and a bit aloof.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and breasts don’t grow in a day either.

She had many ways of dealing with boys since junior high. She had seen the eager, the friendly, the indifferent, but rarely the aloof.

A certain intuition told her that Jiang Nian had a prejudice against her.

There were plenty of people who had prejudices against her, and Yu Zhiyi didn’t care at all. But if the person was good-looking and also in the advanced biology class, she would care.

At least she needed to know why. Does Jiang Nian not tolerate C’s in his sight?

Jiang Nian paid no attention to her, having already moved to Qingbao’s side to listen to her targeted explanation of the test paper.

“Teacher, this question.”

“Alright, you look first.” Qingbao explained the question very seriously.

Even though Yu Zhiyi knew how to do the question, she still eagerly leaned in to listen. Re-experiencing Qingbao’s thought process would help her answer faster during the exam.

Integrated science was never a solo battle; time allocation was extremely important.

The second evening self-study session ended.

Jiang Nian left, carrying the test papers, with Yu Zhiyi following behind. Students rushing downstairs to buy late-night snacks almost instantly caused Jiang Nian to disappear.

Yu Zhiyi: “…”

This visible disdain made her very unhappy.

Forget it, there would be no advanced biology until after the weekend joint exam. Everything could wait until after the big joint exam was over.

The third evening self-study session was nearing its end.

Jiang Nian turned to look at Li Hua, a puzzled expression on his face.

“You’ve been looking at the weekly test results sheet for an entire self-study session. Can’t you do something productive?”

Li Hua put down the results sheet, his grin slowly widening.

“What do you know? If it weren’t for this moment, why would I have scored so high on the weekly test? It’s all about seeing my ‘godsons’ fall short of me; that’s what’s truly exhilarating!”

Jiang Nian nodded, giving a thumbs up.

“You make a good point. If you enter the classroom with your left foot tomorrow, I’ll tell everyone what you just said, and then find someone to Aruba you.”

“What about with my right foot?”

“Aruba you twice.”

“Damn!”

The evening self-study sessions went later and later, and the classroom grew more restless as night deepened. Especially during the fourth session, apart from those rushing to finish homework, everyone else was basically doing leisure activities.

Either chatting, reading extracurricular books, or doing some simple exercises.

Most of the time, the sixth group was quite silent.

Doing questions, then going outside for a breather after class, repeating this cycle.

Since Wu Jungu moved to the dorms, the ratio of boarding students to day students in the group was one-to-one. Logically, a row of boarding students would always have something to talk about.

But Zeng You was busy reading novels, Fangfang the Great was diligently studying. Wu Jungu didn’t speak, mostly silent lately.

The three day students in the back row—Zhang Ningzhi was introverted and rarely spoke first. The chat atmosphere largely depended on Jiang Nian and Li Hua; their conversations were like a breath of fresh air for the group.

Huang Fang would occasionally interject, and Zeng You would join the conversation when his eyes got tired. Zhang Ningzhi generally only participated in topics involving Jiang Nian, commenting softly.

Wu Jungu, on the other hand, was completely an outsider.

No one isolated him; he isolated himself. Every day he just buried himself in studying, and after class he would either sleep or leave his seat.

The group members didn’t find this strange.

After all, Wu Jungu’s gossip could no longer be called gossip. His girlfriend had interacted with all the males in the sixth group except Zeng You.

There was even a lust-filled goblin who almost became Wu Jungu’s love rival because of this. To protect that group member’s self-esteem, his name cannot be revealed.

But his father’s name can be revealed: Jiang Nian.

There isn’t a second person named Jiang in the group, is there? Too small, the scope is too small.

After school, Jiang Nian had originally planned to rush off. But his sugar mommy held him back, and his hurried expression immediately softened.

“What’s wrong? Something wrong?”

“Let’s go outside to talk, it’s a small matter,” Zhang Ningzhi said softly, carrying her bag.

“Okay.”

Outside the classroom, in the hallway, Zhang Ningzhi then timidly said,

“Do you have time tonight?”

“Yes, where are we going?” Jiang Nian asked smoothly, then he became more awkward, “I didn’t bring my ID, so maybe…”

“What are you talking about?!” Zhang Ningzhi’s face flushed.

“…I can’t get into an internet cafe.”

Zhang Ningzhi pursed her lips, silent for a few seconds. Then her face turned bright red, and she suddenly turned her back to him, covering her face with her hands, blushing all the way to her ears.

“What’s wrong with you?” Jiang Nian asked, feigning ignorance.

Your face is so red, you shouldn’t go to an internet cafe either. I feel like you’re not as fun as LOL.

“N-nothing, ahem.” Zhang Ningzhi composed herself, her face still red enough to drip blood. “I want to… I want to chat with you tonight.”

After saying that, she added another sentence.

“Only for tonight. I won’t keep bothering you.”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian really wanted to use the Buddha’s’spring, summer, autumn, day, night, every day’ meme. But on second thought, he decided against it; it would be a bit too much of a mood killer.

“Baby, I can chat with you until dawn”—that line was too lewd.

He thought for a moment, then opted for a standard reply.

“Anything is fine.”

After parting ways, Jiang Nian found Xu Qianqian.

Half the people had left the third-floor hallway, making it look a bit empty. Xu Qianqian stood at the end of the hallway by the stairwell, playing on her phone.

Seeing her slightly impatient expression, he proactively explained,

“Something came up.”

“Mm, let’s go.” Xu Qianqian put away her phone and walked down the stairs alongside him. “Don’t let it happen again. Don’t make me wait; everyone else is almost gone.”

“Mm-hmm, don’t worry. Next time I’m in a hurry, I won’t take the stairs.” Jiang Nian echoed, his voice gradually fading, “By the way, what should we eat tonight?”

Zhang Ningzhi walked out of the school gate and checked her phone for messages.

She looked around and found her dad’s car. After getting in, she called out “Dad” and then leaned back in the seat, scrolling through Xiaohongshu.

The big data was indeed accurate, pushing all the posts Zhang Ningzhi usually liked to see. Clicking on the recommendations, it was all shares of various campus romance posts.

There were high school and college ones, occasionally some from the workplace.

Her biggest secret was that every day after evening self-study, during the brief break, she would open these sickly sweet posts and happily absorb the sugar.

Scrolling and scrolling, before she knew it, she was home.

Buzz, her phone vibrated.

She couldn’t help but swipe away the Xiaohongshu page and sweetly opened QQ.

Jiang Nian had sent her a question mark, and then asked again,

“Are you home yet?”

“Mm, I’m home! 【Image】.”

Jiang Nian showered as soon as he got home, replying to messages while blow-drying his hair. He could even chat with Zhang Ningzhi and reply to Xu Qianqian’s messages simultaneously.

Even more impressively, it didn’t interfere with him blow-drying his hair.

Xu Qianqian: “Too lazy to argue with you, going to shower.”

Jiang Nian: “I don’t have time to watch now.”

A few seconds later, Xu Qianqian’s exasperated reply popped up.

“No one!! Said!! They were going!! To let you!! Watch!!”

Jiang: “Okay, then you go blanch yourself.”

“Get lost! It’s shower!”

“Isn’t this a bit ambiguous, baby? (Awkwardly)” As soon as Jiang Nian sent the message, a video call request immediately popped up, making him slightly nervous.

What’s going on, sis, you’re actually calling?

He answered, seeing Xu Qianqian’s cute face, but the video quality looked a bit blurry. The lens seemed to be covered by something, like a plastic bag.

“Jiang Nian.”

“Huh? Why did you put a plastic bag over your phone?”

Immediately after, Jiang Nian knew why.

Xu Qianqian spat towards the camera, which was towards him. A mouthful of cyber-spit, directly hitting his Soul through the network, completely stunning him.

No, Xu Qianqian, you…

The video call ended, and Xu Qianqian sent a middle finger emoji.

Jiang Nian: “So social, so social. (Cupped fist salute)”

Xu Qianqian: “Let’s see if you still act crazy.”

Jiang Nian smiled, switched to QQ, and instantly replied to Zhang Ningzhi’s message. Luckily, he typed fast, otherwise, the two of them wouldn’t be able to chat at all. Fast hands were awesome.

“Don’t worry, three days is enough. The big joint exam will definitely go well.”

Zhang Ningzhi was mainly anxious, and this anxiety was about the instability of class promotion. If she performed poorly in the big joint exam, those who were promoted would be demoted.

“Actually, I had a dream during my nap. I dreamed that I was demoted.”

Beep beep beep, the QQ notification sounded.

Jiang Nian glanced at it, then lay on his bed and typed a reply.

“Then I’ll get demoted to accompany you.”

Afterward, Jiang Nian saw Zhang Ningzhi constantly showing “typing…”. He waited for a long time without a result, waited for three minutes and still no message, seeing it was still “typing…”.

He couldn’t help but feel bewildered, typing a question mark.

“?”

Zhang Ningzhi’s reply hadn’t arrived yet when the task panel dinged and popped up.

“【Standing at the crossroads of thirty-eight, in Guangzhou, your date with Zhang Ningzhi has shown initial results. She smiles and asks if you remember promising her a gift.

Task: A Special Gift, A Late Love Song. Reward: 50,000 RMB + A Memory of Zhang Ningzhi.】”

Yesterday’s third update, I persevered and finished writing it, not a coward.