Chapter 153: Fulfilling a Wish

In the dim stairwell, Yu Tongjie’s mind began to heat up rapidly.

He was really about to overheat!

Who the hell took my book basket? Fine, take it, but don’t be such a jerk! At least leave me one book. What kind of person takes the entire basket?

Wait, calm down. Maybe the book basket was moved upstairs.

After all, leaving it on the stairs is dangerous. Maybe some kind person… he looked down and saw the fragments of his book basket, more than just one piece, lying there.

Yu Tongjie: “…Damn it, I’m never going to smile again in this life.”

F*ck, f*ck, f*ck!!!

Fourth floor, the stairwell entrance piled high with book baskets.

Li Hua looked at the agitated Yu Tongjie below the stairs. Although he didn’t want to watch the drama, they were classmates after all, and his curiosity outweighed his disgust, so he asked.

“What’s wrong with him?”

The big fatty Ma Guojun held his glasses further away to clearly see the situation in the stairwell below.

“I don’t know.”

“He lost his book basket, I heard it,” Lin Dong walked past, holding his Comprehensive Science review materials. “It seems like the basket and all the books vanished, leaving nothing behind.”

“Oh, wait, there are a few fragments left.”

After speaking, Lin Dong grinned and left.

He was purely a Spectator, having no particular interest in Yu Tongjie. He only knew that Jiang Nian and Yu Tongjie had bad blood, and Yu Tongjie himself was quite unsociable.

But that had nothing to do with him. Lin Dong also didn’t plan on provoking Yu Tongjie. Squirtle’s dad was one of the Three Great Families of Location; he couldn’t afford to offend these Location connected people.

Currently, he was busy watching the gossip surrounding Yuan Zhengchuan.

To be honest, he just loved watching couples break down. Since he hadn’t done anything outrageous, he didn’t even feel guilty, although he still thought it was a bit strange.

But Lin Dong couldn’t pinpoint exactly what the problem was.

Who was the problem?

“Tsk, that’s too brutal,” Jiang Nian remarked, holding his books. “I saw his books this afternoon, but the basket was already exploded into pieces.”

“That explosive?” Li Hua also clicked his tongue in wonder, standing at the stairwell entrance watching the excitement. He shook his head and said, “BYD, there are still many good people in this world.”

Ma Guojun felt a little guilty. He wanted to speak but was too embarrassed to say it directly.

“Ahem, I think maybe some kind person stepped on and crushed his book basket. Then the person behind stepped on it a second time, and then a third time…”

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Nian and Li Hua both turned their heads to look at him.

Ma Guojun immediately whistled, hugged his books, and left.

That wretched thing is actually quite cute.

“Let’s go, let’s go, it’s biology Evening Reading Session,” Jiang Nian urged, leaving on his own.

It didn’t matter whether the fatty stepped on it and crushed it or not; in any case, there were still many good people in this world. Just enjoy the moment, and leave the rest to Karma.

Deduct the Karma from Ma Guojun, don’t make a mistake.

Ma-Guo-jun, the big fatty, a student in Class A403 of the Third Year at Zhennan Middle School, ID number is xxxxx. The rest of the information is written on the three-page confession.

During the Evening Reading Session, almost the entire class was standing up and reading.

Jiang Nian was too lazy to stand and too lazy to read; everything the class was reading was already imprinted in his mind. Currently, the only thing he needed to review was Comprehensive Science.

Whether he reviewed English or not made no difference.

Li Hua was the same.

Zhang Ningzhi stood for the Evening Reading Session, occasionally glancing at Jiang Nian, who was sitting and looking at practice problems. She had so many questions bottled up inside, and so many things she wanted to share with Jiang Nian.

Unfortunately, it was the Evening Reading Session. She was starting to hate the Evening Reading Session. She wondered if she could secretly talk later during the Evening Self-Study.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ningzhi hesitated again.

If the Discipline Committee Member caught her, it would definitely be embarrassing.

So she started agonizing again: should she pass a note during the self-study session, or wait until after the session to talk? However, Jiang Nian might run off as soon as the session ended.

While she was struggling with her dilemma, Jiang Nian suddenly poked her arm with a Baoke Gel Pen.

“How did you feel about the exam?”

The sound of the Evening Reading Session was very loud—the ‘loud reading to elevate the family tree’ method learned by the wretched school leaders from Hengshui. Students were required to read loudly, reading with Aura.

The Aura was too strong, and Zhang Ningzhi couldn’t quite hear him.

“What?”

She could only lean down and tilt her left ear toward him.

“What did you just say?”

“I said,” Jiang Nian looked at her Face so close to his, fighting the urge to lick her, and shook his head, “How did you feel about the exam today?”

“Oh, oh.” Zhang Ningzhi straightened up, her Face feeling a little warm.

When she had leaned in, she felt Jiang Nian’s breath. His voice wasn’t loud but it was clear, thrumming against her eardrums like a drum.

“Pretty good. It didn’t feel too difficult.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian understood.

He estimated that after the two exams today, Zhang Ningzhi scored around 130 or 140 in math. If nothing went wrong, he projected her final score could achieve a Breakthrough past 630.

Zhizhi Baby’s Joint Exam score was basically solid. A score of 630 was top-tier even at the Olympiad level.

As the Evening Reading Session ended, the moment Zhang Ningzhi sat down, she leaned slightly to the side and asked.

“What about you?”

“I gave it my absolute best in math. I wrote down everything I could.”

Just as he finished speaking, a person suddenly appeared on the podium.

“Who saw my book basket!!”

Hearing the noise, everyone preparing for the Evening Self-Study looked up simultaneously. They saw Yu Tongjie, eyes bloodshot and Face full of indignation, his hair messy and disheveled from anger.

“Who!! Saw my book basket? All my books are gone!”

Rage, shock, inhumanity!

A whole basket of books! With so many people, why steal mine? Animals, animals!

“I didn’t see it. Where did you put your book basket?” a classmate in the front row responded kindly. “If you don’t say, how would anyone know what your book basket looks like or where it was?”

Yu Tongjie said, “It was on the section of stairs below the fourth floor, a blue book basket, bought on Taobao.”

“I don’t know, I didn’t see it.”

“Why did you put your book basket in a place like that? Why don’t you go check with the Grade Group? Maybe it was collected.”

“Exactly, who would want books? They aren’t worth anything.”

The chatter of the classmates made Yu Tongjie, standing on the podium, feel both furious and embarrassed. Trembling, he spoke to the class below.

“All the other books on the stairs are fine, only mine are gone. If they were just carried away, fine, but my book basket was smashed into pieces!”

“Someone must be targeting me!”

“Who is so wicked as to do this! They truly…” Yu Tongjie was about to swear, but he glanced at Li Qingrong’s seat and immediately swallowed the rest of his words.

He said fiercely, “Whoever stole my books! May they never eat more than three dishes for the rest of their lives!”

Hearing this, Ma Guojun breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he had only stomped on the basket once and hadn’t touched Yu Tongjie’s books. Poor Squirtle was truly miserable. He wondered which kind person had scattered his books.

“This is really too much!” someone in the class said.

“Yeah, seriously. If the books are gone, you won’t even know where to buy replacements,” Lin Dong chimed in agreement. “You should hurry and look for them. Maybe you can still find them now.”

“Stealing books is truly wicked,” Ma Guojun said, adjusting his glasses and stirring the pot.

Listening to the class’s sympathy, Yu Tongjie felt much better.

“Go check the surveillance footage. That many books couldn’t just vanish into thin air,” Sun Zhicheng suggested. “Just take a look, and you’ll know who took your books, right?”

“Yeah, what’s the point of talking about it here?” Yang Qiming said, annoyed. “Are we supposed to skip self-study and play a Conan Game with you?”

Yu Tongjie clearly agreed with this idea and hurriedly left.

Logically speaking, when this kind of situation occurred in the class, the class monitor or vice monitor should accompany him to the Third Year Grade Group to review the surveillance footage.

After all, it was a whole basket of books, and buying replacements was clearly unrealistic.

Li Qingrong didn’t move; she didn’t even lift her head.

Class Three had its own internal dynamics, and these matters were usually managed by the Jiedushi, Cai Xiaoqing. Yu Tongjie wasn’t an ordinary student; he definitely had ways to view the surveillance footage if he wanted to.

Cai Xiaoqing was even less inclined to bother. If it were an ordinary classmate, she might help, but Yu Tongjie? Forget it. Young Master Yu would figure it out himself.

As for being reported, Cai Xiaoqing wasn’t worried; no one at her level could supervise her.

Not even Old Liu.

Jiang Nian watched the whole show. When he saw Yu Tongjie’s Face turn red with anger, he almost burst out laughing. Fortunately, he held it in; that would have been a bad look.

The Sword Tomb is truly fitting.

It wasn’t that Jiang Nian was constantly targeting him, but rather, the reason the Sword Tomb could become the Sword Tomb…

The key point is that he would never clash with you just once.

It’s like living under the same roof as a mad dog. It bites you once. You hit it with a stick, but one stick isn’t enough to make the mad dog realize its mistake.

The prerequisite for peaceful coexistence is that you occasionally hit it a few more times, until it only dares to look at you, not even daring to whimper. Then you’re set.

Jiang Nian believed that if he hadn’t given Squirtle a harsh lesson last time, Yu Tongjie would be standing by his desk now, pointing at his nose and making accusations of guilt.

But now, he didn’t even dare to look in his direction, because he knew that if he dared to open his mouth, he would definitely be the one to suffer, and the stick would certainly fall.

Pure Sword Tomb behavior.

Li Hua also found it amusing and leaned over toward Jiang Nian.

“Haha, he’s so panicked.”

Jiang Nian thought for a moment. “You should have told him not to worry—if he’s pregnant, everyone can help figure it out.”

“Don’t say that, it really does look a bit like it.”

During the second Evening Self-Study, Yu Tongjie, wearing a long, Sullen Face, walked past the classroom’s front door holding a stack of books.

Lin Dong, in the back row, was curious and asked loudly.

“Where did you find them?”

Yu Tongjie ignored him, which made Lin Dong lose Face. Feeling awkward, he slapped Sun Zhicheng on the back. After Sun Zhicheng cried out in surprise, Lin Dong cleared his throat and said.

“Sun Zhicheng, you’re being utterly outrageous.”

“Damn it! What’s wrong with you!” Sun Zhicheng turned his head, then glanced at Chen Yunyun in the front seat.

Chen Yunyun hadn’t spoken to Jiang Nian all day, which filled Sun Zhicheng with fighting spirit. He wondered if they had quarreled; if so, that would be wonderful.

During the ten-minute break of the third Evening Self-Study.

Chen Yunyun got up to go to the bathroom. Still thinking about the problems she had just solved, she habitually looked for Jiang Nian as she passed the classroom’s front door.

With a glance, she saw Jiang Nian was still bent over his desk working on problems.

She spent her entire lunch break in the classroom every day, constantly watching Jiang Nian solve problems, and she knew well that this day and a half was very important to him.

So she didn’t go to disturb Jiang Nian. Although she wanted to know how his exams went, after thinking it over, she decided to wait until tomorrow noon after he finished the Comprehensive Science exam to ask.

The last Evening Self-Study.

Jiang Nian looked around. For some reason, he felt like something was missing today.

What was missing?

Oh, he hadn’t chatted with Chen Yunyun.

Shoot, he hadn’t completed the daily task. Was it still possible to do it now?

Probably too late, unless he followed her back to the girls’ dorm and chatted for ten minutes before leaving.

Never mind, she must be seriously reviewing.

After the Evening Self-Study, Xu Qianqian and Jiang Nian walked home together.

“Our newly replaced homeroom teacher is a bit… never mind. How did you do on the math exam?”

“I probably won’t be able to get 150. I wasn’t sure about the answer to one problem.”

Jiang Nian fell silent for a few seconds when he heard the number 150. She had swapped her normal attack for an ultimate move. The question he had asked earlier didn’t seem to contain the phrase ‘perfect score.’ Next time, he should ask about Chinese instead.

“I said, I *might* not be able to get 150,” Xu Qianqian said, giving him a look, speechless. “What kind of expression is that? Is it my fault if you don’t score high?”

“Don’t even mention it. The road ahead is truly long and arduous,” Jiang Nian said, swaying past the streetlamp.

“What, are you so desperate to catch up to me?”

“Not exactly. My wish is just to score over 600 points. It doesn’t need to be too high; 600 is enough. If you feel bad for me, you could score a little lower.”

The two walked side-by-side on Zhennan Street, the streetlights shining brightly and dimly yellow.

The night wind rustled the leaves.

“No way. How about this: if you can score over 600 on this exam,” Xu Qianqian stopped walking, falling behind Jiang Nian, “I will grant you one wish.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian also stopped.

He stopped and looked back. Xu Qianqian stood next to the guardrail, carrying her school bag. The girl’s Face was fair, her eyes bright and teeth white, and the streetlights outlined her delicate jawline.

“I want to…”

Just as Jiang Nian opened his mouth, Xu Qianqian forcefully interrupted him.

“If you utter anything remotely eighteen-plus, I will kill you on the spot and dump your body in this black trash can.”

The black trash can was labeled “Toxic Waste,” but clearly no one was bothering with garbage sorting.

Jiang Nian withdrew his gaze and said seriously.

“Then I can’t think of anything.”

“Go die! Is your brain filled with nothing but smut?” Xu Qianqian was so angry her teeth hurt. This was why her temper was so explosive!

It was all Jiang Nian’s fault!

The two figures disappeared into the alley, and Jiang Nian’s fragmented voice drifted away with the night wind.

“When I score over 600, I’ll treat you all to a meal…”

Midnight, North Building, fifth floor of the boys’ dormitory.

Yang Qiming suddenly opened his eyes and rolled over to stare at Huang Cailang snoring on the opposite top bunk. He cursed in the darkness and received responses from his other roommates.

“Why is he snoring specifically these two days?”

“Did he snore yesterday?”

“I did.”

“Who asked you that? Damn it, I mean Cailang’s snoring.”

“Oh, oh, I don’t know. I went to sleep quite early last night.”

The roommate woke Huang Cailang up, and Yang Qiming managed to get half an hour of good sleep.

However, in his grogginess.

Yang Qiming opened his eyes again, his Face haggard. He had already endured this once last night; he almost fell asleep during the first Chinese exam. Tomorrow’s first exam was Comprehensive Science!

His anger and resentment had nowhere to be vented.

Yang Qiming rolled over and turned on his flashlight. Seeing that Huang Cailang was sleeping facing the wall, a plan suddenly formed in his mind.

He turned on the flashlight and projected his shadow onto the white wall of Huang Cailang’s top bunk. Having done all this, he began to softly call Huang Cailang’s name.

“Cailang, Cailang?”

Huang Cailang woke up groggily. Hearing someone call his name, he opened his eyes.

A shadow was projected onto the white wall of his bunk, sticking out a tongue and licking toward him.

*Slurp slurp.*