Chapter 350 Winning the Prize

Late at night, at the school gate.

Xu Qianqian tilted her head, stared at someone, and said in a light, quick voice.

“The results will be out by Tuesday at the latest, there’s no point in hiding them.”

“Let’s talk about it later. Have you automatically conceded?” Jiang Nian looked at Xu Qianqian, “Don’t actually lick, you’ll be unhappy again.”

“Oh, then did your math score exceed 130?” She fished with a direct hook, trying to discern something from Jiang Nian’s face.

However, she failed.

Jiang Nian’s face held three parts smile, three parts sleepy dullness, two parts spirited confidence, and two parts frustration and loss.

It was like a face-changing act, colorful and varied.

“What are you doing?” Xu Qianqian was a bit speechless, “You keep changing, aren’t you afraid of ending up with facial paralysis like Takeshi Kitano?”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian instantly returned to normal, and pinched the soft flesh of Xu Qianqian’s arm, saying.

“Then forget it, the entire Asian entertainment industry’s good looks are supported by two men. One is Daniel Wu, he’s already old, I can’t have anything happen to me.”

“You’re talking, why are you pinching me?” Xu Qianqian got goosebumps all over, and slapped him hard, “Are you being a pervert?”

“Collecting some interest in advance.” Jiang Nian said with an indifferent expression.

Jiang Nian’s words instantly made Xu Qianqian nervous again.

Her expression changed slightly, and her heart couldn’t help but start pounding, thinking, he couldn’t have actually scored 610, could he?

The two ambled along, all the way home.

Just before closing her door, Xu Qianqian glanced at the door opposite. Jiang Nian, who was also about to enter his home, suddenly called out to him.

“Jiang Nian.”

Jiang Nian twisted open his door with one hand. Hearing her, he turned to look at Xu Qianqian. The hallway was dim, making it impossible to see the expression on his face.

“Hmm?”

Xu Qianqian clutched the doorknob, and asked weakly.

“Can I get a discount?”

“No, women are really harsh on themselves.” Jiang Nian sternly refused, “Tsk tsk, how would you go to school if your legs were broken.”

Hearing this, Xu Qianqian immediately turned red with anger.

“You big illiterate! That’s ‘dazhe’ (discount)!”

Bang! The door closed.

Jiang Nian scoffed, thinking, now that it’s raining, you know to bring an umbrella. A tie means losing half, why throw away an opportunity to win.

With a clang, he closed the door, and as he changed his shoes, he opened his game.

On the other side, Xu Qianqian put down her schoolbag. Absentmindedly, she picked out clothes for washing, carried them into the bathroom, and quietly took a shower.

Halfway through, she suddenly became enraged.

In the empty bathroom, she fiercely punched the stream of water.

“Go to hell! Jiang Nian!”

That night, Xu Qianqian tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

She both hoped Jiang Nian wouldn’t score above 610, and also didn’t want him to completely fail. Ideally, above 600, but below 610.

But Jiang Nian’s various reactions seemed to foreshadow a certain outcome.

The thought of the bet made Xu Qianqian uncomfortable.

Before the exam finished today, she always habitually flirted with Jiang Nian. Thinking that rather than letting him be flirted with by a ‘green tea bitch’, she might as well do it herself.

At the very least, it could motivate him to be more proactive.

Would she burn herself?

The next day.

Jiang Nian had a good night’s sleep and felt refreshed.

After washing up, he grabbed his bag and left.

As he looked up while changing his shoes, he saw the calendar on the wall. November had turned over, replaced by a brand new page.

December.

He was in a daze for a while, feeling somewhat lost.

Three major exams had transformed him from a middle-to-lower student with 400 points in a regular class to an ordinary top student aiming for 600 points.

The System had also changed him from a male high school student with 300 yuan to a wealthy person with 300,000 yuan in savings.

My worth is definitely high enough to be extravagant.

“What would you like to eat?”

White steam billowed in front of the bun shop, and the sky at the end of the street was still dark. The owner, with a plastic bag on his hand, stood before the young man.

“We have all kinds of buns, or the usual?”

Jiang Nian was slightly surprised, and a little embarrassed to realize the owner remembered him. After a moment of hesitation, he nodded.

“The usual, then.”

Soon, a combination of buns was freshly made.

With a beep, Jiang Nian paid and left. He pondered whether to try a different bun shop tomorrow.

Are you serious?

Quite the opposite.

If he always patronized this bun shop and then stopped going, he would feel guilty when passing by, as if he was letting them down.

After going upstairs.

Jiang Nian took out his test papers, thought for a moment, and put them back. Instead, he pulled out a compiled volume of A-Shuai from Li Hua’s drawer.

Outside, the sky was faintly lit, the classroom lights were stark white, quiet and empty.

He opened a page of A-Shuai and read it with great interest.

Half an hour later.

Yao Beibei hovered at the front door of the classroom, glancing inside.

Seeing Jiang Nian in his seat, she walked straight towards him.

Plop, she placed her schoolbag on Li Hua’s desk, and casually patted Jiang Nian, looking at him with a mysterious smile.

“I have news for you, you’ll definitely be interested.”

“What?”

Yao Beibei was secretive, pointed upwards, and uttered a few words.

“Enemy from the sky.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian couldn’t help but crack up.

“Damn ‘enemy from the sky,’ are you also like Zeng You, with Xuanhuan novels stuck in your brain?”

“Hmph, isn’t Class Zero ‘the sky’?” Yao Beibei pouted, “Someone from Class Zero is coming down, and they chose our class.”

“Huh? Why?” Huang Fang in the front row also turned around, her eyes showing strong Battle Intent towards the ‘enemy from Class Zero’.

Mortal stream, I have a sword.

“What else could it be, they couldn’t stand it in Class Zero,” Yao Beibei said, “The pace there is insane, I heard they started school in July.”

“While we were on summer vacation, Class Zero had already started their first round of review, and now I estimate they’re halfway through their second round of review.”

“Then why are they coming to our class?” Jiang Nian asked.

Yao Beibei was speechless, and explained.

“Who made us the first in the science Olympiad at the same level? If someone from Class Zero voluntarily drops a class, anyone with a normal brain would only come to our class.”

“People from Class Zero coming down can only go to Group Eleven, right?” Jiang Nian asked.

Class Three had a total of seventy-one people, including one who took a leave of absence at the beginning of the school year, and another bro who went home to study independently in September.

Apart from these two special cases, who were not in the class before Jiang Nian was promoted.

Class Three consistently had sixty-nine students, divided into eleven study groups, with the extra three people merging into the eleventh group.

One more person means they can form a new! Group Twelve.

“Wrong, and this is the second piece of news I have to tell you.” Yao Beibei once again showed an Anya-like smile.

At the same time, she lowered her voice.

“You two, don’t tell anyone, but someone in our class is going to be transferred out. Not promoted, but directly exchanged with the person coming down from Class Zero.”

“…Who is it?” Huang Fang’s pupils dilated, and her breathing quickened a bit, “No exam, just a direct exchange?”

Class Zero was the highest educational institution in Zhennan Middle School, with teachers and living conditions basically supplied by the entire school’s resources.

Boarding students in Class Zero could enjoy a double room dormitory with a refrigerator, washing machine, and private bathroom.

Poor students not only had their tuition fees waived but also had their living expenses mostly covered by scholarships, grants, and meal card subsidies.

That was the treatment Huang Fang had always dreamed of, sounding very money-saving.

Unfortunately, the path to Ascension had never been open, and promotion exams were only limited to below the Olympiad level. The Mortal stream also had its limits.

As a result, she discovered that someone in her class could actually be ‘exchanged’ directly into Class Zero.

In an instant, Empress Fangfang’s worldview was shattered.

“Cough cough, who else could it be?” Yao Beibei curved her lips, not keeping them in suspense, “Yu Tongjie, of course, who’s more awesome than him?”

“It’s probably happening today, just wait and see.”

Hearing this, the bewildered Huang Fang subconsciously asked.

“Why?”

Yao Beibei was about to speak, but Jiang Nian cut her off first.

“Because by Tuesday at the latest, the Chinese scores will be out. Once the grand joint exam’s total score rankings are released, changing classes will be controversial.”

Jiang Nian said, then paused.

“That damn Young Master Yu, he probably performed poorly in this grand joint exam.”

Bang!

Yao Beibei elbowed him, displeased.

“Ladies are present, no vulgar talk from you, man.”

Jiang Nian’s face immediately showed some embarrassment, and he quickly admitted his mistake.

Please… You… Collect _ (Six \\ Nine \\ Book \\ Bar!)

“I forgot Fangfang was listening, my bad, my bad.”

Yao Beibei was instantly furious, and gritted her teeth.

“What about me?”

Jiang Nian was silent for a moment, “I’ve actually never been sure, bro, whether you actually have a dick.”

“Jiang Nian!” Yao Beibei directly threw two heavy punches, hitting his arm, “I’m going to tell Zhang Ningzhi.”

“Go ahead and tell her.” Jiang Nian looked completely unfazed.

Only people who are two-faced are afraid of their persona collapsing, and he was a true gentleman who embodied the unity of knowledge and action.

As for Yao Beibei, useless thing.

Let her sit with Li Hua.

As morning self-study approached.

Zhang Ningzhi entered full of Origin Qi, walked to her seat and put down her schoolbag. The Origin Qi girl smiled brightly, greeting her group members.

“Good morning!”

“Good morning! (squeaky voice)” Jiang Nian squeezed his voice.

With a bang, Zhang Ningzhi, blushing, threw a heavy punch, a look of disgust on her face.

“Gross!”

“Good—” Jiang Nian tried to imitate a lazy voice.

“Copycat, I’m really going to get angry!” Zhang Ningzhi bit her lower lip, staring at him angrily, “How can you be so annoying!”

“Alright, I won’t copy you anymore.” Jiang Nian quickly knelt down.

A few minutes later, Li Hua also entered the classroom with his bag, but he didn’t look too good.

“red stone, red stone, I had such bad luck this morning, I fell.”

Jiang Nian turned a page of A-Shuai, and casually asked.

“How did you fall?”

Two-thirds of the people in the classroom had already arrived, making noise before morning self-study. The afterglow of the joint exam had not yet ended, and some people were still discussing the exam questions.

“Don’t even mention it, I ran into a cycling idiot on the way.” Li Hua sighed, “Almost got hit, good thing I reacted quickly and only fell once.”

“Tsk tsk, I sympathize with you for a second.” Jiang Nian shook his head, then shared the new information Yao Beibei brought with his two deskmates.

Zhang Ningzhi’s reaction was minimal, she just said “Oh.”

She was clearly still angry.

You really can’t trust women, she said she wouldn’t be angry!

“Yu Tongjie is a real idiot, but it’s good that he’s leaving.” Li Hua cursed, then patted his dirty pants.

Then he started fantasizing wildly about whether the new classmate would be a beautiful girl and so on.

“Nian, what if the person from Class Zero who comes down is a loli, how should I quickly greet her and break the ice?”

“You son of a bitch.”

“Huh?” Li Hua was speechless, “Seriously, do you have any suggestions?”

Jiang Nian glanced at him, “Hmm? Didn’t I just say it?”

“Say what?” Li Hua looked bewildered, suspecting he had also become King Crimson, “You clearly didn’t say anything.”

“You son of a bitch.” Jiang Nian repeated.

Hearing this, Li Hua was dumbfounded.

“Damn! You’re going to use ‘You son of a bitch’ as your first greeting with a girl?”

“Who said it’s a girl? It could be a guy.” Jiang Nian chuckled, “If a round-faced guy with a beard comes, you’ll be honest.”

Li Hua shuddered at the image Jiang Nian described.

“You son of a bitch.”

“You son of a bitch.” Jiang Nian cursed back.

For the next fifty minutes, the two fell into an endless loop, cursing at each other throughout the entire morning self-study, their voices rising and falling.

The morning self-study bell rang, and a large number of students in the class immediately slumped onto their desks.

“You son of a bitch—” Li Hua touched his throat, which was starting to hurt, “Forget it, I’m going to buy something to drink.”

Saying that, he left the iron throne of Group Six.

The king was going for a drink.

Jiang Nian touched his throat; it was fine, not very painful. Although he wasted time arguing with Li Hua, it was worth it.

“I won.”

He happily unscrewed his thermos, poured it into the small glass cup Zhang Ningzhi gave him, and after picking it up, happily blew out a puff of white steam.

“Heh, little Li Hua, useless thing.”

Zhang Ningzhi, beside him, was quite speechless, and rolled her eyes at him.

“You guys are so boring.”

After saying that, she also lay down, preparing to catch up on sleep. Before lying down, she even deliberately put her thermos into her desk drawer.

Jiang Nian: “…”

He felt like Zhang Ningzhi had some strange misunderstanding about him.

Forget it, peaceful years—

Before this thought could fully form, Jiang Nian’s mind suddenly dinged, and a translucent task panel popped up.

【At thirty-eight, you stand at a crossroads in life.

You completed a pleasant date with your ex-girlfriend Song Xiyun, but you still don’t know about Song Xiyun’s illness.

Looking at her increasingly thin face, and clean but old clothes, you recall her kindness, and your heart fills with even more guilt.

Therefore, you decide to have a heart-to-heart conversation with her.

Task: Find out the illness affecting Song Xiyun. Reward: Skill: Winning the Lottery (refreshes every five days)】

After reading the task, Jiang Nian’s gaze was involuntarily drawn to the reward.

Song Xiyun’s condition was not urgent; the period when she was diagnosed with the illness was most likely after university graduation, and everything was normal at present.

Moreover, Song Xiyun’s illness had already been ruled out twice by him using 【Verification】. It was neither Innate nor organ failure.

After a few days, when the 【Verification】 cooldown was over.

He would first carefully question Song Xiyun once, narrow down the scope, and then try again.

Basically, he would have a good idea of what the illness was. Since it was an illness that would only develop in the future, he could just spend some money on prevention.

The task wasn’t difficult, but the reward was unusual.

Winning the Lottery.

Most likely another minor conceptual skill.

Jiang Nian had almost figured out the pattern for this.

The skills given by the System always had a hint of conceptual abilities, but their actual effects were relatively limited, relying on him to slowly discover their uses.

Winning the Lottery, Jiang Nian’s first thought was to try some small lottery tickets. He might not win big money, but he should be able to win a few thousand or tens of thousands in small amounts.

Winning the lottery is good; 300,000 in savings can’t really withstand much spending.

“Ding dong! Classmates, it’s time for class.”

The preparatory bell rang.

Jiang Nian suppressed his excitement and took out his English test paper.

One more chapter, I’ll revise it and post it a bit later. Asking for votes at the beginning of the month.

Bowing to the big shots, orz