Chapter 172: Brother Yang, you really are a sentimental man.

Chen Yunyun: “…”

She was truly speechless at Jiang Nian; some people were just born to be trolls.

A casual strike from the Sword Saint was enough to silence everyone.

“Why aren’t you talking? Are you naturally aloof?” Jiang Nian, shameless as ever, waved his hand and said, “Perfect, aloofness goes best with physics. Come take a look at this problem.”

Chen Yunyun was left between laughter and tears by him and could only go along with it.

“Which problem?”

“Oh, oh, I’ve done a similar problem type before. First, force analysis…” Chen Yunyun leaned in, her hair falling onto the desk.

Her dark tresses were dense, looking like a black skirt hem, carrying a faint fragrance.

Jiang Nian brushed her hair aside, as it was blocking his view of the physics problem. He couldn’t help but twist it, and a shy, low gasp immediately exploded in his ear.

“What… are you doing?”

Jiang Nian looked up, his face full of confusion. Is a girl’s hair some kind of accessory? This reaction was like a beast-eared girl having her ears touched; it was way too sensitive.

“Didn’t you see? Your hair was covering the problem. I’m studying here!”

Chen Yunyun: “…Then wash your hands later.”

“That’s not necessary, right? You just washed your hair, it’s quite clean. I don’t mind.” Jiang Nian said with a straight face, “Let go of your inferiority and sensitivity, and rebuild healthy self-confidence.”

“You—” Chen Yunyun was speechless.

When it came to shamelessness, she had never been able to beat Jiang Nian, so she could only let it go. She could only brush the stray hairs from her ears and tuck them behind, her face serene.

“Stop messing around. Let’s finish this problem first.”

The noon was quiet; the sunlight in the corridor was blocked, leaving the classroom cool and still.

Yu Zhiyi looked at her problem while glancing from time to time at the two people explaining the problem in the first group. Are these two a couple? They don’t look like it, how strange… Does a person like that have a partner?

How can they stand it? Can they keep going just by looking at his face? Are they being that harsh on themselves? As long as they look good, it doesn’t matter even if it’s a monkey spitting water.

In the second half of the lunch break, Yu Zhiyi dozed off on her desk, waking up with a sore neck and back.

Before she was fully awake, the lunch break bell rang.

People in the class woke up one after another, though half were still missing.

Jiang Nian woke up and realized both his desk mates hadn’t arrived. He sat there for a while to recover, and then Zhang Ningzhi walked in quickly from the classroom door with her head down.

His gaze followed her lively ponytail until the owner of the ponytail walked up to him on her own.

Zhang Ningzhi had noticed someone’s gaze from afar and felt embarrassed by his staring.

She knelt one foot on Li Hua’s chair, then shifted her body forward, and as she entered her seat closer to Jiang Nian, she lowered her voice and said with dissatisfaction.

“Why do you keep staring at me?”

As the girl approached, a scent of early spring wafted over—she must have washed her hair at noon. He didn’t know what brand of shampoo it was, but the fragrance was quite faint.

Jiang Nian wiggled forward a bit, making room for the little girl.

“Can’t I take a look?”

“No.” Zhang Ningzhi stepped over from behind him; this was the only way back to her seat.

“Fine, since you mind, then I’ll look next time.” Jiang Nian said sincerely, “Actually, there is another way if you don’t want me to see you.”

Even though Zhang Ningzhi knew that nothing good would come out of that person’s mouth, she couldn’t help but ask.

“What way?”

Snap, Jiang Nian clicked his fingers.

“Carry an umbrella.”

Zhang Ningzhi sat down, her cheeks puffed out, and said testily.

“That would be worse than letting you look.”

Jiang Nian laughed out loud, got up from his seat to go relieve himself, and ran into Li Hua just as he stepped out. He blocked him directly and dragged him to the restroom without explanation.

“Damn, I’m not going, I’m not going.” Li Hua resisted fiercely, “I just bought this milk tea, why would I go to the restroom?”

“What are you guys doing?” Ma Guojun walked over from the corridor, grinning as he adjusted his glasses, “I saw your overflowing bromance from far away.”

Yao Beibei appeared from behind, took a look, and then asked,

“What are you doing?”

“I said I’m not going. You’re such a grown-up, can’t you go to the restroom yourself?” Li Hua struggled loudly, a sudden thought occurring to him, “Seriously, do you have to have Daddy accompany you?”

Jiang Nian chuckled and, together with Ma Guojun, dragged the rebellious son toward the restroom.

Halfway there, he seemed to think of something, turned back, and looked at Yao Beibei to ask.

“Are you going?”

Yao Beibei frowned and thought for a while.

“I’ll go.”

Then, the three of them dragged Li Hua toward the restroom.

In the corridor, people coming to class looked at this scene with strange gazes. They stopped and turned back to watch this group of three men and one woman, wondering which class they were from.

Zhou Yuting had just come upstairs and was shocked by this scene.

She didn’t know the others, but even if Jiang Nian were turned to ash and brewed into coffee, she would still recognize him. As for the others, she had an impression of the fat guy; he looked like Baymax.

The other carefree girl seemed to have been seen at noon.

Without a doubt, these were people from her own class.

Are all Top Students this abstract?

No, that shouldn’t be it; they were just the bad friends hanging around Jiang Nian. You are the company you keep; people who hang out with Jiang Nian are just degenerating.

Jiang Nian was just an ant that she would eventually step over.

Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but shake her head and continue walking toward the new classroom with her head held high.

At noon, she returned to her original class and received countless envy and praise. Her friends from the previous class were too enthusiastic, and she chatted with them until almost lunch break.

In reality, it was just her and her best friend chatting in the classroom until everyone had left before she went home.

Someone mentioned words like “Jiang Nian” in the middle of it, making jokes similar to 【It’s so great that you are in the same class】.

Zhou Yuting kept a polite smile, while thinking “Jiang Nian, heh.”

Being poor is one thing, but he’s also fragile and holds such a grudge. It was such a small matter, yet he’s held a grudge until now; he doesn’t act like a man at all.

He used to be so warm, now he’s so toxic; the dog is rotten to the core.

Speaking of which, she was unlucky; someone splashed water on her head at noon. The people in the Senior Three Building were quite wicked; she didn’t know who had filled the water and poured it out casually.

Stepping into the classroom, Zhou Yuting saw Li Qingrong checking the multimedia situation at a glance. She happened to see her bending over, her dense high ponytail enviable.

Such healthy hair volume.

Zhou Yuting thought to herself, it was still hard to believe that such a beautiful girl was the class monitor. But she certainly looked attractive to both men and women; she couldn’t imagine how she managed the class on a daily basis.

Is she decisive and swift, or quiet and introverted?

For her, everything in this class was fresh. She had been too busy nervously listening to lectures during the two morning classes, and during the break, she only had time to roughly get to know the people around her.

By now, the effective intelligence she had gathered was that there were many beautiful girls in this Olympiad Class.

As for the boys, she couldn’t comment without knowing the full picture.

On the way to the classroom just now, she had received new intelligence from a friend. That was that Olympiad Class Three had very good overall grades, ranking first on the same floor.

Zhou Yuting couldn’t help but feel happy about this; changing classes was worth it.

Although she had just transferred into this class and hadn’t contributed to the last joint exam, she set her sights on the next city-level joint exam, vowing to break into the top of the class.

Her own grades shouldn’t be bad either, right?

Thinking this, she poked the boy next to her—what was his name? Oh, oh, Brother Sorrow.

“Ah, hey, um, excuse me.”

Yang Qiming turned his head, his eyes hiding a Big G.

“What’s wrong?”

The second he saw Zhou Yuting at noon, he remembered his estranged ex-girlfriend, and sorrow couldn’t help but well up from within. Not long ago, he had also possessed the love of a cute girl.

He had originally just intended to play around, considering himself a playboy in the field of romance. But after separating from her, he realized. Some people only understand the value of something after losing it.

If he could get her to turn back, he would be willing to do anything.

Unfortunately, when he used his roommate’s phone to call her at noon, he only received angry rebukes. He had curled up on his bed the entire noon, unable to figure it out.

Why.

Listening to Yang Qiming’s slightly raspy vocal fry, Zhou Yuting was about to break into a cold sweat.

This guy is really pretentious.

What a turn-off; what era is this, still using these tactics to attract a girl’s attention.

However, considering she had just changed classes and was unfamiliar with class affairs, she still needed to maintain a good relationship with her desk mate to avoid affecting her next plan.

“It’s nothing. Your voice sounds very distressed. Did something happen?”

After Zhou Yuting said this, she was almost gagging herself.

She was basically selling emotional value; she could close her eyes and know that the person in front of her would definitely make up a sad love story to win a girl’s sympathy.

Hearing this, Yang Qiming was slightly stunned, then deeply moved, sighed slightly, and said in an extremely world-weary tone.

“Sorry, I… broke up a while ago.”

Zhou Yuting was embarrassed, her toes curling into the ground.

“You—”

Yang Qiming tilted his head up at a forty-five-degree angle, his eyes slightly red.

“I have loved.”

It was red stone; Zhou Yuting felt goosebumps all over her body hearing that. She cursed in her heart, isn’t this guy embarrassed saying that? She felt awkward for him.

However, another honest-looking man in the group poked his head out and said.

“Brother Yang, you really are a sentimental man.”

Yang Qiming shook his head and smiled bitterly.

“I’m not.”

Huang Cailang revealed a simple, honest smile and said firmly.

“Brother Yang, you are!”

Stuck between the two, Zhou Yuting had never been so speechless in her life.

How could her two male desk mates be such weirdos? Is this still the Olympiad Class filled with Top Students?

“Um… cough, cough, I’d like to ask who has the joint exam grade sheet?”

“Oh, oh, you have to find Lin Dong for that.” Yang Qiming detached himself from his emotions and pointed the way for her, “See him? The one eating spicy strips.”

Zhou Yuting: “…”

Why are the Top Students not quite what she imagined? Forget it, perhaps this is the curse of knowledge.

Taking advantage of the time before class started, she hurried to stand up and walked over to Lin Dong’s group.

“Um, classmate Lin, sorry to bother you.”

Lin Dong was engrossed in eating the spicy strips brought by Sun Zhicheng when he suddenly heard a sweet female voice. Thinking about how the beautiful transfer student had just seen him wolfing down food.

The spicy strip he had just swallowed suddenly got stuck in his throat.

“Cough, cough, cough!!!”

Zhou Yuting was startled. Why did this guy suddenly start pounding his chest and coughing? Could he have been so scared by her words that he choked?

“Who has water? Give him a drink, he, he, he…”

“I have some.”

Sun Zhicheng had just returned after refilling his water and, seeing Zhou Yuting at a loss, instinctively felt the urge to protect the flower.

A small matter, a bit late.