Chapter 276: We’re going to create a new version of “Exhortation to Learning”!

Outside the cafeteria, it was still raining.

Jiang Nian held an umbrella, a little surprised by her strong reaction; he hadn’t touched anything he shouldn’t have.

“It’s nothing, your collar wasn’t straightened properly.”

“Oh, alright.” Zhang Ningzhi’s voice was soft and gentle, her Face flushed crimson, and her eyes darted around, “Thank you, but if next time—”

“Next time. Next time, could you tell me first?”

“…Alright, I guess.” Jiang Nian glanced at her, sensing something, and tentatively asked, “Is your neck very sensitive?”

That single question made Zhang Ningzhi instantly blush, and she denied it three times on the spot.

“No way! Don’t talk nonsense! Pervert!”

Honestly, Jiang Nian actually felt a little good being scolded.

“I knew it, I knew it.”

“You!!! Ungrateful wretch!” Zhang Ningzhi was furious, punching his arm, “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you, you should have gotten wet!”

“Hehe, I hit the mark.”

“You’re so annoying!” Zhang Ningzhi punched him again.

She took the umbrella but didn’t immediately turn to leave. Instead, holding the umbrella, she forcefully pushed Jiang Nian to the cafeteria entrance before finally departing.

Jiang Nian stood at the cafeteria entrance for a while, watching the small pink umbrella disappear from sight.

Only then did he turn around with relief and plunge into the cafeteria line.

The cafeteria was crowded, the floor wet from the rain, yet still bustling.

The rain on the playground outside the cafeteria showed no signs of stopping, so how was he supposed to get back?

“Borrowing a familiar person’s umbrella.” That’s something you tell kids to comfort them; he was a lone wolf in the cafeteria. With so many people eating, the probability of meeting someone he knew was very low.

As for forcefully borrowing a stranger’s umbrella, he was just kidding.

Since things were this way, he might as well eat first.

After getting his food, he found a quiet spot to sit down and eat.

He liked to scroll through short videos while eating, thanks to the recommendation algorithm. The first recommended video usually featured less clothing.

This wasn’t because he was lustful; quite the opposite! It was because he was eager to learn!

It just so happened that the knowledge-sharing influencers on Douyin tended to dress rather revealingly. Their explanation for this was cross-dressing, and he had no choice but to respect that.

After all, knowledge was more important.

When he took out his phone, he subtly lowered it and had already muted it. This was to avoid anyone nearby seeing what he was watching; later, it wouldn’t matter.

Suddenly, a voice spoke beside him, sounding quite surprised.

“Senior!”

“Don’t call me (Senior)” Jiang Nian was a little helpless, putting away his phone. He turned to see a familiar Face, who else but the Low-Scorer.

“Do you live in the cafeteria? How do we keep running into each other?”

Jiang Nian’s tone was a bit harsh, but she didn’t care.

On the contrary, if Jiang Nian were extremely soft-spoken, a gentle, warm man, she wouldn’t be interested. The harsher he was, the more she wanted to pursue him.

“Because I always do ten minutes of homework after school before coming down to eat!” Lin Yuxi clenched her fists, looking very studious.

“Low-scorer.”

“Don’t call me Low-Scorer!” Lin Yuxi’s temper flared, wishing she could turn and leave immediately, “Senior, if you keep this up, I’m going to get angry!”

“And then what?” Jiang Nian asked curiously.

“I’ll get angry, but only a little bit.” Lin Yuxi’s bottom line was quite flexible, “I’ll save it up, and we’ll settle old scores once we’re more familiar.”

“How dare you assume we’ll have a future?”

“We won’t?” Lin Yuxi put on a pitiful expression.

Jiang Nian glanced at the umbrella at her feet, then thought for a moment and said,

“Today, for now, we do.”

Lin Yuxi: “????”

They were both speaking Chinese, but why couldn’t she understand?

In reality, a woman adorns herself for her beloved.

Lin Yuxi liked Jiang Nian’s type: good-looking, good at studying. He also played basketball, which meant he was physically fit, a well-rounded individual in intelligence, virtue, and physique.

Just as men like women with large chests, but when asked what kind of girl they like, they’ll surely say something different, claiming inner beauty.

So, she had no reason to be consistent in her words and thoughts.

She liked good personalities, but that didn’t stop her from liking good physiques. Effeminate men were out of the question; put a skirt on them, and they might have more feminine charm than herself.

There were a few handsome guys in first year who were good in all aspects, but they were either too soft or simply not interested in women.

So being too perfect isn’t a good thing. If a guy is too perfect, he either wants to be on top of another guy or wants another guy on top of him.

Directly changing from a crush to a competitor.

My idol, you’re so handsome!

Holy cow, how are you more flamboyant than me?

It gives no chance to eighty-percent girls; they can’t snatch them, nor can they out-flirt them.

Looking at it this way, Jiang Nian was quite outstanding. He was practically a guiding star in the night, his hormones undeniable except for his coughing.

Of course, one first had to set aside that venomous mouth of his.

More importantly, Lin Yuxi was sure that Jiang Nian was currently a single dog. And he was very lustful, a male with extreme sexual orientation.

A one-way plug, not a two-way one.

Those god-like handsome guys in first year almost made her confused. First meeting, a male god; second meeting, a female god; and then there were the super handsome guys with dual plugs.

Can’t stand it, can’t stand it, straight girl slides to her knees.

There were no alternatives, so she had no choice but to work hard.

She herself never imagined that the first major hurdle preventing her from falling madly in love would actually be madly studying!

Jiang Nian also never expected to become a Great Master of persuasion for studying. First, he “persuaded” Zhou Yuting onto the Olympiad track, then led the academic underachiever Le Zhi onto the right path.

Now he was putting pressure on the Low-Scorer Lin Yuxi, who sought him out repeatedly.

Whether there would be a future was unknown, but her future prospects were bound to be bright.

He wanted to create a new “Exhortation to Learning”!

Did Xunzi take a car when he went out? He walked too!

Halfway through his meal, Lin Yuxi put down her spoon, turned to Jiang Nian, and said seriously,

“Senior, you’re not allowed to call me Low—”

“Low-scorer.” Jiang Nian enthusiastically completed.

“Didn’t I say not to say that!” Lin Yuxi almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Although Jiang Nian didn’t know why those three words struck a nerve with the Low-Scorer, he was a kind person, so he readily agreed.

“Alright.”

“You can call me by my full name, or Xixi.” She played a little trick.

“Xixi?”

Lin Yuxi: “…Senior, that’s not funny at all.”

“It’s fine, I think it’s pretty funny.” Jiang Nian said with an indifferent expression, “How about this, if we’re changing names, let’s change together. You don’t have to call me’Senior’ either.”

“Then what should I call you?” Lin Yuxi thought to herself, ‘Annoying Senior.’

He pondered for a moment, then said to Lin Yuxi,

“I’m usually quite socially awkward, so you can call me by my nickname.”

“Mhm mhm.” Lin Yuxi nodded.

“When I was little, I liked to pee everywhere, so my nickname is Xixi.”

Lin Yuxi was utterly speechless. What was wrong with this person’s mouth? But it didn’t matter, she endured it; even the most venomous mouth would be soft when kissed.

“Let’s try another one.”

“Oh, it seems you don’t understand my humor.”

“What you just said was quite humorous, ha.” Lin Yuxi didn’t understand why someone could be so absurd, but overall, the person was still interesting.

“Alright then, from now on, you can call me Jiang Nian, or Brother X, either is fine.”

“Okay, but you’re also not allowed to call me Low X-Scorer.” Lin Yuxi said.

“Holy cow, you learn fast.” Jiang Nian exclaimed, “You’ve even figured out the usage of X. Your future is promising, Lin Yuxi.”

After dinner, Lin Yuxi held an umbrella and walked Jiang Nian to the third-year building.

She didn’t find it strange; instead, she was quite happy.

The first step of a Genius: looking cool holding an umbrella in the rain.

Anyway, the two of them had reconciled their relationship, and by approximation, they were friends. This thought persisted until they reached the third-year building, where Jiang Nian used her and then left.

“Thanks for the umbrella, bye bye.”

“Ah! That’s it?”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian suddenly understood and said to the umbrella in her hand,

“Mine, mine. I thanked the wrong object. Thank you, Brother Umbrella.”

After saying that, he turned and went upstairs, leaving Lin Yuxi alone and bewildered in the wind.

She didn’t know why, but she felt a bit like a turtle.

Dog-man, I’ll get my revenge another day!

Jiang Nian was in a good mood, having persuaded someone to study again.

So, people still need to strive upwards. No matter what, at least there are no commoners in their interactions.

As the saying goes, a first-tier university is merely the threshold to seeing him. Only by entering a first-tier university is it like a mayfly seeing the blue sky. Have you ever seen a seven-hundred-point sun?

He hadn’t seen it either.

But it didn’t matter, he had the class monitor to borrow prestige from.

To be honest, few in Class Zero could outperform Li Qingrong. It was just that the class had higher benefits, but academic achievement was inherently the iron fist that broke shackles.

The limit of Class Zero was not Li Qingrong’s limit.

During lunch break, the classroom was quite crowded. Some students couldn’t go home and ate snacks from the cafeteria or convenience store nearby for lunch.

Chen Yunyun, like elementary school students, washed her hair on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and with the rain, she naturally napped in the dorm.

Jiang Nian enjoyed the peace and quiet, sitting alone in the back row. He closed the back door and shoved a folded piece of paper tightly into the crack.

The wind couldn’t get in, and neither could people.

Since he had used a healing skill once after staying up late to study for subject one, the cooldown hadn’t reset yet. There was also a comprehensive weekly test in the afternoon, so he could only rely on sleep to recover his state.

He drifted off to sleep, but was still woken up by someone.

He looked up and saw Yu Zhiyi looking embarrassed. She was steadying herself on a desk, appearing as if she had tripped over it and forcefully regained her balance.

Jiang Nian glanced at the watch in Li Hua’s desk drawer: 1:37.

There were still twenty-three minutes until the end of the lunch break bell, what a disaster. It meant he had wasted half of his golden sleep time.

“You woke me up! How do you plan to compensate me?” he asked in a hushed voice.

Yu Zhiyi was only a little embarrassed, but not afraid of Jiang Nian. If it were anyone else, she would worry about them getting angry, but it was Jiang Nian.

Although Jiang Nian was lustful, spoke nonsense, and didn’t act like a human, with a host of flaws, she knew that Jiang Nian was a good person, very easy to appease.

“I didn’t do it on purpose. Look for the reason within yourself.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian initially wanted to get angry.

But seeing her sit down in front of his seat, something flashed by as she sat, and his anger flared then subsided immediately.

He thought about it, and it was all Li Hua’s fault!

Why did he covet his group member’s ex-girlfriend! That damn blonde dragged him down. He should go to Hell.

Yu Zhiyi looked at Jiang Nian with a puzzled expression, wondering why he wasn’t angry anymore. Originally, she hadn’t wanted to lose Face just now and had planned to say a few soft words quietly.

Why did his anger seem to dissipate so quickly?

She thought for a moment, reflected, and said softly,

“I might also have a little responsibility.”

“Forget it, forget it, maybe I also have some fault.” Jiang Nian was soft once, mainly because he actually saw it, so it was fine.

Give her some Face; after all, both of them were responsible.

Yu Zhiyi didn’t understand, but… solving the problem was enough. To be honest, it would be quite terrifying to be on Jiang Nian’s blacklist forever.

When lunch break ended, the classroom gradually filled with more people.

Zhang Ningzhi brought a box of drinks when she arrived. Without Jiang Nian having to pester her, and without saying why, she voluntarily placed it on his desk.

“For you.”

“Ah, thank you.” Jiang Nian thought she might have forgotten the drama from after school at noon, and her sensitive neck, “Your neck—”

Zhang Ningzhi’s voluntary offering was to divert his attention. She didn’t expect this person to be like a dog, with such a keen sense of smell, striking directly at her Achilles’ heel.

“Ah! You’re not allowed to say it!”

In reality, she wasn’t sensitive in the neck like a manga character. She was just naturally ticklish, and a light touch on her neck would make her shiver uncontrollably.

After a good while of playful teasing, she finally temporarily suppressed Jiang Nian. At least, he wouldn’t be staring at her neck for a while; it was too embarrassing.

Soon, Li Hua and Ma Guojun arrived.

Yao Beibei wasn’t too concerned about the weekly test. As soon as she arrived, she started talking to Zhang Ningzhi, discussing hand cream, then Face masks, and by the end, it was all just nouns.

The Fruit Trio gathered together, once again talking about the apocalypse.

Ma Guojun said, “I watched a movie about the apocalypse yesterday. If the apocalypse came, there’s no way we’d survive.”

“Not necessarily. If it’s a zombie outbreak, I’ll just occupy the school convenience store. If it’s an ice-bound world, I’ll put my hands in my pants to keep warm.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian was instantly stunned.

“Did you wash them before you put them in?”

“I’m putting them in my own pants, what does it have to do with you?” Li Hua said defiantly, “It’s a backup hidden energy source, I can use it however I want.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian could understand.

After all, some boys, upon waking up in winter, don’t open their eyes first. Instead, they pull their hands out of their long johns and then sniff them.

“What if there’s a pretty girl next to you, and she wants to put her hands in too?”

Li Hua didn’t hesitate, scoffing,

“Why should she?”

“She likes you, and she looks like Eriyi.” Jiang Nian continued to add to the Void Realm, “With a figure like Rangiku from Bleach, helping you to be self-reliant.”

“Damn it, isn’t that a no-brainer then? What else is there to say.” Li Hua didn’t hesitate, “Alright, come on, I’ll just stand on my head with my pants.”

Lin Dong put away his umbrella and hung it on the window outside the classroom.

He walked into the classroom full of energy and in a good mood. He was supposed to get wet at noon, but he happened to meet the math class representative from the next class.

He knew she seemed to have a boyfriend, so he deliberately brought up some topics she might be interested in, and the atmosphere was indeed good at the time.

During the ten-minute walk, she complained about her boyfriend seven times.

Lin Dong originally planned to take the opportunity to eat with her, but then she mentioned something about her ex-boyfriend…

“Ex-boyfriend?”

“Yeah, we broke up, I’m single.”

“Hmm, my roommate seems to have hanged himself in the dorm. I need to go check.”

Making up for yesterday; something came up, but it won’t affect today’s update.