Chapter 323 Everyone Scolds Me, But I’m No Good Either

In the back seat, Li Qingrong looked up.

Her gaze towards Jiang Nian was deep, yet also seemed to carry a hint of inquiry. She didn’t seem to quite understand what he wanted to say.

After waiting a few seconds, she looked at Jiang Nian, who was frozen.

“Hm?”

“Nothing, is there a weekly test tonight?” Jiang Nian skipped the address, originally planning to just call her ‘baby,’ but then canceled it at the last minute.

“Yes.” Li Qingrong nodded.

In this era of devalued language, ‘baby’ means anyone. Just like Taobao customer service, everything can be ‘dear.’

Its value is similar to the Gold Yuan notes of the Republic of China, weighed by the sack.

Li Qingrong was clearly not someone who could keep up with the devaluation of modern language; ‘baby’ might still be a normal term of endearment for her.

Behind the self-congratulation of profiting from an unequal currency exchange was a visible future currency System collapse.

So, Jiang Nian temporarily withdrew a misunderstanding.

Evening reading began.

Li Hua suddenly started seriously memorizing words, memorizing English words during chemistry evening reading, so diligently that it felt strange. “Abandon!!!” (He read it aloud three times).

Pfft.

Jiang Nian couldn’t help but laugh, pointing at him, laughing as if he were watching a clown.

“The most important thing for you right now is to make a call to Jiaoxian.”

Facing his brother’s vicious sarcasm, Li Hua’s expression remained unchanged. Like a Xuanhuan novel protagonist, he smiled calmly.

“I am the Heavenly Emperor, I shall suppress and kill all enemies in the world.”

As his words fell, it wasn’t just Jiang Nian anymore. Even the listless Zeng You in the front row, and Ma Guojun across the aisle, burst into laughter.

“Hahaha, he’s even a Heavenly Emperor now, you bastard, did you take land transportation?”

“Li Hua really has something going on; he starts fantasizing about being invincible after memorizing the first word. How much did you record this afternoon, are you still not fully awake?”

“Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter.”

Facing the ridicule, Li Hua couldn’t hold back anymore. He pointed at the ‘little haters’ around him, gritting his teeth and swearing.

“Today’s deed, I will repay a hundredfold!”

“Hahaha, just memorize ten words first.” Jiang Nian was almost dizzy with laughter. “Hua, you’re still so entertaining.”

“If the Spring Festival Gala invited you, they wouldn’t even need to make dumplings.”

“I’ll memorize them, ten words in ten minutes!” Li Hua didn’t laugh, he propped up his word book as a shield and continued to loudly memorize words.

“Hua, your shield is as funny as you are.” Jiang Nian kept laughing. School was incredibly tough, and these abstract comparisons were the only things that livened up life.

Evening reading ended.

Li Hua silently put down his word book, trying to hide it in his drawer as if no one was watching. His main point was that if no one found out, it meant it didn’t happen.

Suddenly, he heard a burst of laughter.

“I told you, he’d sneak around pretending nothing happened.” Jiang Nian’s voice rang out like a demon.

“The group leader has a three-minute attention span, it was only ten words.” Zhang Ningzhi whispered, sounding particularly grating.

“red stone, red stone!!!” Li Hua stamped his feet in exasperation, he couldn’t stand these two anymore, ganging up to suppress the group leader.

They’ve rebelled! They’ve all rebelled!

However, he felt that it was mainly Jiang Nian’s fault. He was so idle, was there really anyone who would stare at someone else memorizing words for more than ten minutes?

Jiang Nian scoffed, too lazy to bother with Li Hua.

Everyone curses me, but I’m not a good person either.

The study committee member, Tao Ran, walked in from outside the classroom, carrying a stack of Chinese test papers. Standing on the podium, he said weakly, “&*￥%, weekly test.”

The class immediately began to clear their desks with muscle memory, picking up their things and getting ready to find their weekly test seats, whispering among themselves.

“What’s wrong with Tao Ran? He’s so weak after a half-day holiday?”

“Who knows, I heard he has a life-sized beast-eared girl figurine at home. That’s just what I heard, he probably turned in his homework.”

“Damn, is that true or false?”

“I don’t know, what if it’s true?”

Zhou Yuting walked past the classroom aisle, her expression somewhat displeased as she listened to these malicious comments.

She had finally found a boy who was excellent in both appearance and conversation, but he just wasn’t interested in anything two-dimensional.

The people in this class… one more outrageous than the last, what kind of atmosphere was this?

Before the weekly test began, test papers and answer sheets rustled like snowflakes, passed from front to back.

Jiang Nian and Li Qingrong’s weekly test seats were still next to each other.

Li Qingrong took the answer sheet, her long eyelashes slightly lowered. Her body subtly shifted, and the corner of her eye briefly swept over Jiang Nian’s face.

He was resting one hand on the test paper, meticulously filling in his name.

【Li Hua gets it】

Seeing this, Li Qingrong paused for a moment.

It took her a few seconds to realize that “Fa De” was a Chinese phonetic transliteration of an English word. But she still found it strange; this was a weekly test that would be graded.

The next second, she saw Jiang Nian begin to fill in his name and student ID on the answer sheet. She almost subconsciously held her breath, hesitating whether to remind Jiang Nian not to mess around.

However, Jiang Nian did not write randomly, but honestly wrote his name and student ID on the answer sheet.

Li Qingrong lowered her eyes, somewhat speechless.

If the test paper doesn’t need to be submitted, you just write whatever you want, right?

Her expression was calm, showing no emotional fluctuations. Her quick-drying pen moved to the information section, and she quickly filled in her details.

Two hours later.

Jiang Nian finished the last word of his essay with a tap, then tossed his pen with another tap. He completed the test half an hour early, without changing a single word.

Let alone checking, if he looked at it one more time, he’d lose.

So… the remaining half hour was entertainment time, and some quick shooters in the class had also finished their papers.

Buzz, buzz, buzz, the sounds of talking and chatting layered over each other.

He whistled brazenly, habitually leaning over to look at Li Qingrong’s test paper. Then he saw Li Qingrong stop moving, as if she had been frozen.

“Why aren’t you writing?” Jiang Nian asked.

The class president, who had been “time-stopped,” did not respond to him. Her gaze remained fixed on the essay answer sheet, like a wooden figure.

Li Qingrong turned and glared at him, saying faintly.

“You… don’t stare at me.”

“Oh, oh, okay.” Jiang Nian covered his face with both hands, then slightly turned his head, peeking at the class president’s essay through his fingers.

Li Qingrong:

Some people only know who will splash first, oil or a certain person, after they’ve been thrown into a hot oil pot.

With ten minutes left until the end of the exam, Li Qingrong finished her paper early. She didn’t check the answer sheet, but instead stared at the test paper in a daze.

Ten minutes ago, Jiang Nian had already pulled out Li Hua’s shoelaces, taking advantage of the moment when Li Hua took off his shoes during the exam to his front right.

Now he was negotiating with the other party, with both sides pulling back and forth.

“Damn it, hand it over!”

“I didn’t take it.”

“Damn, don’t you have any shame!”

“No.”

Suddenly, Jiang Nian felt his arm being poked.

He turned around but found Li Qingrong still in the same posture, seemingly checking her answer sheet. He couldn’t help but wonder, why was she poking him?

He looked down and saw the class president’s test paper extending over the desk.

A line of delicate handwriting was written on it.

【Want to play badminton during Wednesday’s PE class?】

No, Class President… is the Chinese test paper meant to be used like this?

The main point was clearly not this.

Jiang Nian’s gaze swept over the small line of text, his expression hesitating for a moment.

The major joint exam was coming up this weekend, and study time was actually a bit tight.

He had actually planned to use PE class, an insignificant minor subject, for doing problems, as his motivation for secretly studying hard was very strong.

Everyone else is playing, and you are studying.

Directly transform into a—【Super Saiyan】!!! Just keep studying without a break!

But… the class president invited him to play, and Jiang Nian didn’t want to give up the opportunity to play with the beautiful girl. After all, playing ball enhances feelings, and who knows what might happen as they play.

Goodwill accumulates little by little, and maybe one day it will naturally come to fruition.

Thinking of this, he inevitably had some unsavory thoughts in his mind. Just like when he was hugged by two girls during the mountain climb, he couldn’t help but look up.

No, the class president wasn’t old enough to be in a relationship yet, just a few months shy.

Then forget it.

He cleared his throat, intending to refuse with the excuse of studying.

He turned his head and met Li Qingrong’s gaze.

Her expression was slightly dim, not very obvious, like the most minute flaw in celadon.

Jiang Nian thought for a moment, then said with some regret.

“I was planning to do problems that day, but if it’s playing badminton with you, then I won’t do problems. It’s just… we can’t play on that court anymore.”

Hearing this, Li Qingrong was slightly stunned.

It turned out that his momentary hesitation wasn’t an excuse to refuse. It was because of the court; the one near the teaching building had been banned for badminton.

She pursed her lips and wrote below the line of text on the Chinese test paper.

“We can go to another court.”

Jiang Nian agreed without thinking, “Okay.”

“Mm.” Li Qingrong’s expression eased slightly.

After the papers were collected, everyone in the class returned to their original seats.

Jiang Nian went to the restroom and checked his phone messages. His coach had sent him a message asking if he had time to take Subject One next Wednesday.

He typed a refusal, asking if he could change it to Thursday.

Coach Lao Tian replied instantly, “(Fist bump) Yes, I haven’t made an appointment yet. Once it’s set for Thursday, I’ll tell the boss.”

“OK.” Jiang Nian replied with an OK emoji that a Korean man couldn’t accept.

CEO Jiang is very busy.

He put away his phone and opened the System, which hadn’t popped up any messages for several days. After he arranged a random purchase benefit last time, the System had been silent.

It seemed very generous, but in reality, it was the same principle as a Jingdong consumption card.

The System was also stingy; what if it gave him a car? He was eighteen, wouldn’t having his own Porsche be more successful?

He stood in the corridor for a while, enjoying the breeze, before returning to the classroom.

Fourth period of evening self-study.

Having just finished the weekly test, the classroom was a bit restless.

Jiang Nian glanced at Zhang Ningzhi beside him and kindly asked.

“Are your hands cold?”

Zhang Ningzhi was writing problems and couldn’t help but eye him suspiciously. She thought to herself, if she said she was cold, he would definitely put his hands on her.

So, she shook her head and said.

“No, not cold.”

“Oh, really? I’m quite cold.” Jiang Nian said, then reached his hand into her clothes pocket to warm himself.

Zhang Ningzhi was dumbfounded, speechless for a moment.

“You—” “What? You said you weren’t cold, you stingy person.” Jiang Nian pulled his hand back, then leaned on the desk and started mumbling.

Zhang Ningzhi was almost fuming, she punched his leg.

“Go to hell!”

Soon, Old Liu came in from outside the classroom.

The last evening self-study session on Sunday was the usual class meeting, still the same old tune, after talking about fire prevention, electrical safety, and drowning prevention.

Suddenly he said.

“Ah, there’s a study excellence seminar tomorrow, two people from each class will participate. There are academic requirements, as the name implies, ‘excellence.’

“I don’t think we even need to choose; let’s just pick two from the advanced students.”

Old Liu walked to the door and looked at the test scores from last week posted on the wall for a while. He didn’t ask who the advanced students were, he just looked at the scores.

“Yu Zhiyi, and the other one is…” Old Liu hesitated for a moment, then suddenly saw Jiang Nian’s name. He remembered that Jiang Nian seemed to have given up his advanced student spot, so out of compensation, he said.

“It’ll be… Jiang Nian. The location is on the sixth floor of the administration building…”

Jiang Nian was a bit confused, he looked up at Old Liu.

Old Liu! I’m not an advanced student anymore!

Is he going through menopause and getting senile?

Old Liu had already started talking about other things, and Jiang Nian was too lazy to correct him.

He clipped eleven biology test papers together, feeling a sense of accomplishment. He had specifically made annotations, just waiting to gain experience points tomorrow.

Reviewing seems very simple.

It’s actually like Little Chunnan’s first intimate moment, pretending to be relaxed. If you ask, it’s simple, but in reality, you don’t know where to start.

After studying all night, even math problems would be solved.

Important matters, no clue at all.

So similarly, the entry point for review is very important.

Jiang Nian’s advantage lay in his solid foundation in memory-based subjects, blindly tackling physics. It’s not that it’s useless, just that its effect is minimal.

After a week of practice, what you know isn’t tested, and what you don’t know is all tested.

Biology is different; if you practice problems and master problem-solving techniques, your scores will increase, no matter how the questions are posed.

A good start in the comprehensive science section is at least secured, which can free up more time for chemistry and physics later.

From both a short-term and long-term perspective, it was relatively cost-effective.

Nearing dismissal.

Jiang Nian glanced at Zhang Ningzhi again and asked again.

“Are your hands cold?”

Zhang Ningzhi immediately pursed her lips, thinking he wanted to use her pocket again. She didn’t want to warm up a bad guy, let him freeze to death.

“Cold!”

Saying that, she put her left hand into her pocket in advance.

“Coincidentally, I’m cold too.” Jiang Nian brazenly put his hand into her clothes pocket, quietly squeezed her hand, then took it out.

Zhang Ningzhi widened her eyes, “Don’t you have your own pockets?”

“My family is poor, and my pockets aren’t as warm as yours.” Jiang Nian chuckled, then remembered that he still had several pairs of gloves at home.

Last month, to complete the System’s consumption task, he bought some home appliances and clothes, just to make up the order.

Because the weather wasn’t cold at the time, they had been stored in the closet. He only remembered them now, and they could be used to return the favor.

After all, the cushion on his chair was given by Zhang Ningzhi.

He’d bring them tomorrow, just in case she refused.

So the question was, should he just give them to a few more people?

For example… good friends.

After a moment of thought, he still gave up on this dangerous idea. Being overly clever wasn’t a good thing; if the styles were too similar, it couldn’t be hidden.

Li Hua put on a fawning expression, twisting and saying.

“I… I’m cold too.”

“Really, baby? Which hand is cold? Show me.” Jiang Nian said, “I’ll give you a punch, you useless thing!”

“red stone!” Li Hua turned away.

This reminded Jiang Nian; there were exactly five sets, and since they weren’t expensive, he could give one pair to each of the five-person group.