Chapter 284 You’re clearly not cut out to be a traitor.

Are you there? Of course I am.

If the Class President sends a message, even if he’s asleep, he has to crawl out of bed to reply.

“What’s up?”

However, the message he sent was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no reply.

Jiang Nian was confused but didn’t pay too much attention.

He hadn’t spoken to Li Qingrong since he changed seats. He had originally planned to share some interesting news with her, but he turned his head and forgot about it.

Ultimately, space limited distance.

Online, he didn’t know if Li Qingrong wanted to chat. After all, some people found replying to messages online annoying and didn’t want to touch their phones.

There were many people in their third year of high school in this situation; some only replied to texts and didn’t log into QQ, some only replied to WeChat and not QQ. Everyone had their own circumstances.

So, he couldn’t be too proactive.

After a while, Jiang Nian was scrolling through some suggestive short videos.

His phone buzzed, and a message popped up.

Li Qingrong: “(Smile).”

Jiang Nian casually replied, “What’s the Class President doing during the day?”

The other party was probably typing.

“Doing homework.”

Class Three operated under a ‘monarch offline’ system; all trivial matters were handled by the Minister of Rites, the Right Prime Minister, and the Directorate of Ceremonial.

The Son of Heaven sat in the Bright Hall, untouched by wind and snow.

Jiang Nian was accustomed to this, so he rolled onto his bed and replied to messages while holding his phone.

“Have you done the physics homework?”

“Mhm.”

“Can I copy it tomorrow?”

“Mhm.”

On the other side.

Li Qingrong held her phone and looked at it for a while. Seeing the chat end there, she couldn’t help but lower her gaze and space out for a moment.

She didn’t know what to chat about and couldn’t think of any interesting topics. After much thought, she eventually covered her head with her blanket and sighed.

The next day.

Hu Nianzhong was in a good mood and woke up early.

Aside from being scolded by Old Liu in the office during last night’s self-study session, everything else went smoothly. He had repaid Yu Tongjie’s money and given the compensation money to his family.

As for that software, he deleted it in the morning.

After pulling back from the brink, the first thing he wondered was how he would survive this month.

All the compensation money had been given to his family, using the excuse that he had been hit by a car. He told a half-truth, even showing the injury on his leg, and his family believed him.

They even specifically told him to thank the classmate who stood up for him.

He agreed to this.

However, he was too excited at the time and gave all the money to his family, leaving only a few tens of yuan. Twenty-five yuan was spent on the bus, so all in all, only forty-five yuan remained.

Forty-five yuan to live for a month.

The school would also deposit a sum of money into his meal card this month. This was money given to everyone on the poverty assistance list, so he wouldn’t starve.

If he was frugal, he should barely be able to make it through.

He did some mental calculations and, looking miserable, went downstairs in the early morning mist to buy steamed buns.

Just as he was about to go up to the dormitory cafeteria, he looked up and saw a girl.

He couldn’t help but be stunned. Firstly, the girl was beautiful, and secondly, why was she holding a brown sugar steamed bun? That stuff was for pigs, no, not even pigs.

He was so poor, but even if it were given to him, he wouldn’t eat it.

Poor as he was, no one starved to death these days.

But that brown sugar steamed bun was truly awful, just a pure packet of powder. It could only be swallowed with soup. Its only advantage, besides reminiscing about past hardships, was…

It was cheap.

Twenty-five cents or whatever, and it was limited, which meant it was practically free.

Going upstairs, he hesitated for a moment, then also chose two brown sugar steamed buns.

He swiped his meal card, beep!

Jiang Nian looked at the rolling numbers on the hot water dispenser, but not a single drop of water came out, and his eyes widened.

“Damn it, how is it broken?”

The people who maintained the water dispenser, no, there was no one maintaining it at all. These maggots only knew how to collect money, and their attitude was terribly bad, like idiots.

When he was in his second year of high school, the people who recharged water cards would go door-to-door to each classroom asking if anyone wanted to recharge.

As a result, no one in the class paid attention, which angered the person to the point of cursing, “Damn, a bunch of poor students.” He was immediately surrounded by the boys.

It was a good thing the homeroom teacher was right outside the door, otherwise, someone would have gotten their head cracked open.

He couldn’t stand it and kicked the hot water dispenser.

Dong!!

The corridor, filled with a thin white mist, was silent, with only the echoing thud of the metal plate being violently struck.

Soon, footsteps came from the corridor, along with a teasing voice.

“Such a temper so early in the morning?”

Jiang Nian turned his head and saw someone emerge from the misty stairwell.

Ji Jiayu’s long hair was draped over her shoulders, her bangs held back by a pink squirrel hairpin. She wore a brown jacket paired with white pants.

Walking over with a smile, she had a certain delicate and refined charm.

Jiang Nian glanced at her and spoke.

“Where’s your husband?”

Hearing this, Ji Jiayu almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

This person really knew how to rub salt in a wound, his words as venomous as if smeared with arsenic. They say you don’t hit a smiling face, but he just swung his arm and slapped.

Her good mood was instantly ruined so early in the morning.

“Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t have a husband.” Ji Jiayu frowned, quite displeased, “Is this something you just can’t let go of?”

“No, I just mentioned it casually.” Jiang Nian waved his hand, carrying two thermoses, and walked back, “This water dispenser is broken, let’s go to the third floor to fill up.”

Hearing this, Ji Jiayu’s expression softened slightly.

Her dating life had become a black mark in his eyes; this person was too annoying. But he was indeed joking, not faking it.

How to put it, he wasn’t bad, just purely mischievous.

A born prankster.

“Alright, got it, I’ll go downstairs.” She took a deep breath and turned to walk down the stairs.

But after only two steps, she suddenly heard an “ouch” from behind her.

She turned to look at Jiang Nian, forcing a smile.

“What’s wrong?”

Jiang Nian pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked.

“Is your husband having internal heat?”

Ji Jiayu’s smile instantly vanished. She stomped up to the fifth floor to get hot water, her silver teeth almost shattering from anger. She was going to die of fury.

A great prankster!

Seeing Ji Jiayu go to the fifth floor, Jiang Nian grinned and whistled as he went down to the third floor to get hot water.

No need to queue, yay!

After all, he had two thermoses, so filling them took longer. Downstairs, he also glanced at Class Four but didn’t see Xu Qianqian.

Most likely, she was memorizing something in some corner of the teaching building and hadn’t returned yet.

Song Xiyun was even further away; her home was distant. Zhao Qiuxue usually drove her to school in the morning and evening, and if she woke up too early, her mother wouldn’t have anywhere to go either.

A quick glance, though, and he saw Zhou Haifei.

The girl with black glasses was hunched over a tall desk doing her homework. Perhaps she heard the movement outside the classroom.

She inexplicably looked up, and their eyes met.

The boy smiled at her, waving his hand in a rather showy manner.

The girl with glasses instantly became flustered.

Before she could react, Jiang Nian had already sauntered past.

Waking up early still had its advantages.

Jiang Nian returned after getting water and sat in the back row of the brightly lit, mostly empty classroom. He glanced at the spacious classroom, and a sense of satisfaction from ‘involution’ naturally arose.

Although he hadn’t done any homework, it didn’t matter.

Just ask, did he wake up early or not?

Zhennan Middle School had a jokingly called ‘chain of contempt,’ or rather, a ‘learning talent chain.’ Those who were not good at studying but worked hard were placed at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

These people were often called ‘dead readers’ or ‘fake hard workers.’

Those who were good at studying and worked hard were called ‘bookworms.’

Those who were good at studying and slacked off every day were called Geniuses with good brains. If you asked, they were playing games at home, but when it came to exams, they were first in class.

These people often also dated or did little things like playing with their phones in class.

All in all, just one word: cool.

Jiang Nian was none of these; he was typically unaligned.

If you had to ask, he was the ‘cheat-user’ type.

He had a cheat but didn’t show off, preferring to ‘involve’ those clever and talented guys. He came early, but he didn’t do problems. If you asked him, he’d say:

Have you seen Zhennan at 4:30 AM? (Smoky voice)

Slowly climbing scores, are you afraid or not?

Wanting to show off, they found Jiang Nian, this strange fellow, in the class. It was like a phlegm caught in their throat; they couldn’t show off their talent, nor could they show off their effort.

It was disgustingly unbearable, red stone.

Li Hua jumped into the classroom through the back door, and the cold wind howled across Jiang Nian’s face.

“Children, your father is back!”

“Close the door.”

“Alright.” Li Hua closed the back door, and at the same time realized a problem, “I say, Nian, aren’t we going to be enduring cold wind for a week?”

Jiang Nian looked up at him, a little speechless.

“You’ve been here for two days and just noticed?”

“That’s different, it wasn’t that cold the first two days.” Li Hua put down his backpack, “With people coming and going, opening the door, and such strong wind, wouldn’t it break your heart?”

“What the hell?” Jiang Nian felt like this guy was hinting at him.

Li Hua glanced at Zhang Ningzhi’s empty seat and chuckled.

“Nothing.”

This bastard said yesterday that he wouldn’t date in his third year, who knows if that statement would hold true.

Damn it, there were only four boys in the group.

Zeng You was an online eunuch, so he was temporarily out of the question. Wu Jun’gu had already dated Yu Zhiyue, leaving only himself and Jiang Nian with zero dating experience.

As the group leader, how could he watch his good brother fall into the Demonic Path?

He must awaken him sharply!

Jiang Nian felt that Li Hua was somewhat Yin and Yang, his eyes turning green with jealousy.

“Hua, you misunderstood.”

“How so?” Li Hua twitched his eyebrows.

“Ahem, I’m a good student.” Jiang Nian said seriously, “Third-year students have their mission. If everyone goes dating, who will build our hometown?”

Building a hometown, but it didn’t say whose hometown.

Zhennan was out of the question.

Hearing this, Li Hua was greatly moved.

He felt the sincerity in Jiang Nian’s words; he truly thought that way. It seemed the first person to indulge in promiscuity in their group was none other than that bastard Wu Jun’gu.

Damn it, he dated a big-breasted girlfriend, he could brag about that for twenty years.

“Good brother, I can tell you’re not the type to be a traitor!” Li Hua tightly grabbed Jiang Nian’s arm, “Together, we will create a world only for single dogs!”

“Alright!”

Suddenly, the back door was pushed open.

Chen Yunyun smiled at Jiang Nian, placed a candy on his desk, and greeted him with a smile.

“Morning.”

“Morning.” Jiang Nian replied.

Wang Yuhe walked out from behind and punched Jiang Nian in the back.

“Morning.”

“Morning.”

Li Hua was stunned. He looked at the two girls who had already left, then looked at Jiang Nian.

“Damn it, I’m going to kill you!”