Chapter 103 The most frightening thing is a friend’s sudden concern.

The sunset outside the window was a pale purple, gradually fading into blue.

During evening self-study, the classroom was completely silent.

Jiang Nian was numb from solving problems; he gently put down his pen and knelt.

Mathematics truly isn’t something that improves just by effort; it only allows for small, short-term progress. If the foundation isn’t solid, trying to raise scores above 110 is incredibly difficult.

Under the bright lights, he turned his head to look at Zhang Ningzhi.

His rare daily pleasure was looking at beautiful girls, and the side effect was wanting to lick them as he watched.

How embarrassing.

But he couldn’t blame himself; Zhang Ningzhi’s skin was too perfect.

It was like buying a bowl of ginger milk curd, staring at it for a while, and always wanting to try how smooth and tender it was.

“Stop fantasizing, you pervert.” Li Hua, to his right, suddenly seemed to have mind-reading abilities, “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking, kid?”

“What? I didn’t.” Jiang Nian denied.

The word ‘fantasize’ was too vulgar, tearing through his disguise and exposing his thoughts. Such a vicious sharp comment, hearing it again would make him depressed.

“The biology teacher is so pretty, and one-on-one tutoring, you’re lucky, kid!”

“Huh??” Jiang Nian was baffled.

Oh, so he wasn’t talking about Baby Zhizhi, then it’s fine.

“Still pretending? Don’t tell me you don’t know that the next self-study session is biology!” Li Hua was like a husky pointing in an emoji.

“I’ve been observing you, kid. It’s still early before self-study ends, and you’ve already dropped your pen.”

“Are you already looking forward to close contact with the biology teacher? Damn pervert, you disgust me!”

Jiang Nian looked at Li Hua with a puzzled expression, “I really didn’t expect you to like older women?”

“What are you talking about!” Li Hua immediately panicked, changing the subject, “You’re the one, don’t put that hat on my head.”

Haha, a young boy’s thoughts are so easy to guess.

After self-study, the classroom was bustling, and Jiang Nian prepared to leave his seat to go to the restroom.

Just as he was about to get up, Zhang Ningzhi poked him with her finger.

“Will the content taught in the advanced class be different from regular classes?”

Every time Zhang Ningzhi turned to talk to him, her colors were vibrant.

Like a lively spring day, giving off a sense of well-protected purity.

“This… how should I put it, I haven’t attended yet, so I don’t know.” Jiang Nian’s abstract heart was occasionally touched, and his perverted brain temporarily took a back seat.

“Our biology scores are similar, so I’ll explain it to you again after it ends.”

“Will it be too much trouble for you?” Zhang Ningzhi asked cautiously.

Jiang Nian didn’t speak, just stared at her and smiled, until Zhang Ningzhi herself felt embarrassed and turned her head away. She lay her head on the desk, like a fish bubbling underwater.

After returning from the restroom, Jiang Nian didn’t immediately go back to the classroom.

There were still a few minutes until the bell, so he leaned against the corridor, gazing at the distant lights.

He casually opened the task panel, the red ‘To Be Completed’ text was a bit glaring.

The phone that Old Jiang suggested buying for Xu Qianqian last time was never given to her by his mother. Xu Qianqian wouldn’t accept it if it was too expensive, so it ended up being used by Jiang Nian.

Only seven months were left until the college entrance examination, and every day was difficult.

Xu Qianqian’s scores were stable for a 985 university, though there was a significant gap to Tsinghua or Peking University. But with a bit more effort, she could choose popular schools and majors within a 985 university.

Jiang Nian couldn’t score that high, but he wasn’t worried. The System had given him some help, already letting him take off.

As long as he worked a little harder, getting into a good 211 university was no problem, and even higher could mean going out of the province.

He would worry about the future later; he had the System anyway.

Even if the System was gone, it didn’t matter. When necessary, he would slack off, leaving fate with no way to interfere.

Ring, ring, ring, self-study began.

“Blowing on it again?” Chen Yunyun popped up from beside him.

“Yeah, I got pee on my hand, just drying it.” Saying that, Jiang Nian reached out as if to pull her, “I’m not sure if it’s dry yet, let me wipe it on you.”

“Eww! How disgusting.” Chen Yunyun quickly retreated, made a face, and ran off.

Jiang Nian smiled, preparing to pull out his phone to check the logistics information.

He had bought a lot of things these past two days, large items like a range hood, and small items like a JK skirt.

Suddenly, he turned his head and saw Sun Zhicheng, who was entering through the back door of the classroom with his head down.

Before entering, he turned his head again and gave Jiang Nian a faint glance.

Hm?

Jiang Nian was stunned, his brows furrowing little by little.

Could this Sun Zhicheng and Chen Yunyun be some kind of secret couple? If they were a couple, then he would need to keep some distance from Chen Yunyun.

He had always kept his distance from high school couples, never curious, and only chatted with Chen Yunyun as classmates.

Brothers don’t get involved in cuckolding; it’s too scary.

Blondes usually don’t end up well.

After loitering outside in the corridor for a while, Zhong Qing arrived, telling him to move a stool and take out his textbook.

After doing so, besides Zhong Qing, another girl suddenly appeared outside the classroom.

The key was that this girl looked familiar; it seemed she was someone he had just seen today.

It was already the second evening self-study session, and it was completely dark outside the classroom.

Zhong Qing took the stool from his hand and sat in the middle of the table.

Then she pointed to the two small empty seats next to her, signaling for them both to sit closer.

So, the serious Qing Bao was in the middle, with one person on each side sandwiching her.

“Jiang Nian, turn to…” Qing Bao’s words were halfway out when she seemed to remember something and paused, “Oh, I forgot to mention, this is Yu Zhiyi from the next class.”

“You’re from the advanced class, so you probably don’t know, but I teach both classes. I pick one person from each class for advanced tutoring, and you two are the chosen ones.”

“In the future, if you have any questions, you can come directly to the comprehensive science office to find me. Yu Zhiyi should know where my seat is; Jiang Nian, if you don’t know, you can ask other teachers.”

Zhong Qing always spoke with utmost precision, delivering twelve parts of rigor for every ten parts of speech.

Concise and to the point: one person per class, taught together for convenience. Come directly to the office if needed, no close private communication, this isn’t a matchmaking service.

Jiang Nian, of course, wouldn’t interact with a succubus. He affirmed, closely following Qing Bao’s words.

“Okay!”

Zhong Qing was extremely diligent in her work. She meticulously marked knowledge points in Jiang Nian’s and Yu Zhiyi’s textbook indexes, instructing them to do more related problems.

Her requirement for Jiang Nian was to do more problems, and she produced a handwritten problem guide she had prepared earlier.

“Follow these requirements to find problems; I’ve clearly marked which page and which problem. Do two major problems a day, is that okay?”

Facing Qing Bao’s question, Jiang Nian instantly became a ‘Qing Party’ member. Good teachers are truly all in the Olympiad!

“No problem.”

“Hmm, as for you, Yu Zhiyi. Your problem volume is sufficient, but your foundation isn’t…” Qing Bao turned to formulate a study plan for Yu Zhiyi and organize her knowledge points.

As soon as class was over, Jiang Nian took his things and returned to the classroom, keeping Qing Bao’s teachings in mind.

Suddenly, Yu Zhiyi called out to him.

“Classmate Jiang Nian, please call Wu Jungu for me.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian looked back at her, and hummed in acknowledgment.

Monday girlfriend, succubus?

Returning to the classroom, he happened to run into Wu Jungu, who was about to leave his seat, so he relayed the message to him.

The latter nodded and quickened his steps out the door.

Jiang Nian glanced curiously, then retracted his gaze.

Recently, the people he encountered always felt strange. In short, high school couples were generally quite peculiar.

All sorts of unspeakable feelings, hiding and sneaking around.

Back in his seat, before he could speak to Zhang Ningzhi, Li Hua pulled him.

“Hey, how come I just heard Yu Zhiyi’s voice?”

Jiang Nian rolled his eyes at him, his mouth twitching slightly.

“She’s the other advanced student Qing Bao is tutoring, no big deal.”

“You!! How dare you call her Qing Bao?!” Li Hua was greatly alarmed, reacting even more strongly than when he was furtively asking about Yu Zhiyi earlier, “Could it be that you—”

Jiang Nian rubbed his chin, “That’s right, Qing Bao is so pretty, and her voice is so gentle.”

He looked at Li Hua’s heartbroken expression, feeling so happy that he felt he could eat a few more bowls of rice tomorrow. He patted his shoulder and laughed wantonly, saying,

“Do you have something on your mind? You can tell me, I’ll pass it on to Qing Bao.”

“Ah!! Why!” Li Hua pounded his chest and stamped his feet, looking like he’d lost his wife, “Why doesn’t Qing Bao look at me? Is it because my grades are too good?”

“Damn it, you can still put on an act at a time like this!” Jiang Nian was speechless, turning to talk to Zhang Ningzhi instead.

On the way home from evening self-study, everything was as usual.

Only, for some reason, Xu Qianqian bought a small bowl of Oden. She gave him a fish ball with a pained expression, which made Jiang Nian look at her strangely.

But no matter how he asked, he couldn’t get an answer.

Before going to bed, Xu Qianqian felt that her guilt towards Jiang Nian had largely dissipated. She smiled happily, deciding to forgive herself on Jiang Nian’s behalf.

She pulled up her small blanket and drifted off to sleep.

In the middle of the night, half-asleep, she was suddenly woken up by her phone.

Xu Qianqian turned her head and saw that Jiang Nian had sent her a few messages.

“Am I going to have something happen to me recently? Why are you so nice to me? What did the Great Master tell you? How much longer do I have to live? Damn it, I can’t sleep.”

“Xu Qianqian, are you asleep?”

“How can you sleep?!”

She stared blankly at the messages on her phone, and after a moment of confusion, her fists clenched.

“Go die! Sending messages in the middle of the night!”

“What the hell is wrong with you!”

About three seconds later, 【The other party is typing…】 appeared in the chat box.

Jiang Nian: “I just want to know why you’ve been so abnormal lately?”

Xu Qianqian felt guilty, “No, I haven’t.”

Three seconds later, a message popped up in the chat box, “What I fear most is a friend’s sudden concern. At least one of us doesn’t have much time left, and I’m very scared right now.”

Disturbed by Jiang Nian, Xu Qianqian also lost her sleepiness.

“You’re the one who doesn’t have much time left!”

“Huh? How long did the Great Master say I have to live?”

In the dark room, Xu Qianqian gritted her teeth. She wriggled and turned over in bed, the screen light falling on her face as she lay on her stomach to reply.

“One day.”

“Holy crap, then can we discuss something? (Wriggles)”

Seeing the squirming emoji Jiang Nian sent, Xu Qianqian immediately had a bad feeling. This bird-person, no, let me retract that, this jerk definitely had nothing good to say.

“What is it?”

“You know, I’m still a virgin. Don’t waste it.”

“Get lost!” Xu Qianqian furiously tapped the screen, sending over a dozen 【vomit】 emojis, “Stay away from me! If you disturb my sleep again, I’m blocking you!”

“Blocking me? Does that mean you want me to use my phone less and spend more time with you in real life? So thoughtful, Xu Qianqian, you really do care about me.”

“Stop disgusting me, bro, I beg you.” Xu Qianqian surrendered, “Didn’t I mock your math scores the day before yesterday? I felt a tiny bit guilty.”

【Panda meme with a tiny bit of Universe emoji】

“Oh~ So your guilt is… one breakfast plus two fish balls.” Jiang Nian was typing, “Wait, you wouldn’t have already forgiven yourself, would you?”

Hit where it hurt, Xu Qianqian suddenly felt guilty, but still replied.

“I did nothing wrong!”

“Holy hell, you’re so shameless, Xu Qianqian!” Jiang Nian replied very quickly, “You made me severely depressed with just one sentence, and you…”

“You actually forgave yourself without my input?”

Xu Qianqian’s lips were soft, but her bones were hard.

“What wrong has this Empress committed?”

“Haha, Xu Qianqian, you just wait—” Jiang Nian quickly sent a message, “Don’t let me catch you tomorrow, or you’ll be in for it.”

“Pfft!”

Ending the chat, Xu Qianqian, however, found herself unable to sleep.

It was all Jiang Nian’s fault, so she grabbed the stuffed animal from her bed and punched it twice with a bang.

“Die! Pervert!”

Early in the morning, Xu Qianqian quietly opened the door with her backpack on.

She held her breath at the door for a while, and after confirming no one was around, she immediately slipped away. She wasn’t feeling guilty; she just didn’t want to encounter that jerk first thing in the morning.

Sun Zhicheng walked to school, swaying slightly with each step.

He had returned home at ten last night and spent an hour on mental preparation.

He spent two hours writing the confession text. Then he lingered at Chen Yunyun’s QQ chat window for two more hours.

Finally, at three in the morning, he made up his mind and sent the edited confession message.

As soon as he sent it, he threw his phone aside.

He hugged his quilt tightly in the room, holding his breath.

The phone notification sound was turned up to maximum; any slight disturbance would make it ding-dong!

The senior high school academic affairs office stipulated that boarding students must hand in their phones, only allowed to take them back during holiday breaks.

But Sun Zhicheng knew Chen Yunyun always had a phone; she handed in a dummy phone. And she liked to be invisible on QQ, but her account was always online.

However… three minutes passed, five minutes passed.

Not a single sound.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes.

Sun Zhicheng finally couldn’t resist, picked up his phone, and opened the messages. He was confused by the time for a moment, then slapped his head, realizing it was still the middle of the night.

He finally forced himself to sleep, and the first thing he did when he groggily woke up in the morning was check his phone.

Ding, a notification sound rang.

But when he opened it, 【QQ Reminder: Three friends have birthdays recently】.

He had been checking his phone all morning, even repeatedly refreshing QQ on his way to school. Chen Yunyun must have seen it, so why didn’t she reply? Was her phone out of battery?

Could it be that his confession was too long? It was only thirteen hundred words, every word from the bottom of his heart.

Even if she was rejecting him, she should at least reply with a smile.

The confession message sank like a stone, a feeling like taking a few hooks, throwing them into the water to fish. Afraid the fish would bite, and also afraid the fish wouldn’t bite.

In a daze, he had already arrived at the classroom door; there were only a few people in the class.

Sun Zhicheng plucked up his courage and walked in, just seeing Chen Yunyun walking towards the podium with a white charger.

Suddenly, another girl stopped Chen Yunyun.

“Yunyun, can I borrow your phone to log into QQ after morning self-study?”