Chapter 109 Tears Wet the Blank Paper, Vowing to Participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad

“Brother Nian, isn’t that true?”

“If Yu Zhiyi broke up with Wu Jungu, wouldn’t her charm be greatly reduced? She actually doesn’t understand my good intentions, I just want them to be happy!”

In the bedroom, Jiang Nian held his phone, laughing and rolling around on the bed.

Happy my ass.

Are you really wishing them happiness? I’m too embarrassed to expose you; you’re clearly trying to satisfy your pure-love cuckold fantasy!

What a married-woman enthusiast!

He replied to Lin Dong, “You like virtuous women?”

“No, how could I! I don’t have that kind of fetish!” Lin Dong sent seven or eight messages, a classic triple denial, “You misunderstood me, Brother Nian.”

“I’m being kind, genuinely considering Yu Zhiyi.”

Jiang Nian replied with a husky pointing emoji.

He glanced at the photo Lin Dong sent again, and seeing the magnified image of the boy struggling to carry water, he couldn’t help but smile.

He wouldn’t send it to Wu Jungu.

Originally, just casually helping to ask about the transfer to boarding school was simply to build a good relationship. After all, Wu Jungu and he were in the same group; they saw each other all the time.

Later, he just got a whim and helped him with emotional counseling once.

At the time, he spoke rather euphemistically, but still offered some practical advice.

For example, make more friends with the opposite sex, and don’t care too much about what Yu Zhiyi does.

But Wu Jungu couldn’t do it, and he couldn’t let go.

People’s joys and sorrows are always different; this guy’s headache was love.

His own grades were a notch higher than Jiang Nian’s, and his weekly test scores looked like they were written carelessly due to a bad mood.

Jiang Nian was still worried about the eighteen-county joint exam at the end of the month, and he had done his best.

Seeing that Wu Jungu’s situation was complicated, he withdrew directly to avoid being affected himself. As for how others were doing, he couldn’t control that.

Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Nian quickly ended the chat.

Eleven thirty at night.

Lin Dong lay on his bed, looking at the red exclamation mark on his phone.

He didn’t understand why he was still deleted by Yu Zhiyi even though he was clearly telling the truth.

In this world, people’s hearts are no longer what they used to be.

Did the boys who played with Yu Zhiyi not know she had a boyfriend?

It was very obvious that they all knew; in fact, it was precisely because of this reason that so many people liked her.

This was the root of her charm.

Yu Zhiyi had boundaries, which elevated this layer of charm even further.

If she really fell in love with someone else, she would only be considered a pretty girl with a good figure.

What a joke, from first year to third year at Zhennan Middle School, were there a lack of pretty girls?

The answer was no. Let alone Zhennan Middle School, just in Class Three, you couldn’t count the good-looking girls on one hand: the class monitor, Zhang Ningzhi, Chen Yunyun, and others.

Yu Zhiyi was truly muddled! Giving up her biggest advantage!

Lin Dong tossed and turned all night, still unable to sleep well. Although Yu Zhiyi deleted him, it didn’t matter, as he didn’t usually chat with her online anyway.

He decided to help Wu Jungu; he couldn’t let down an honest person!

Jiang Nian went to school alone in the morning, and on his way upstairs, he had a sudden thought. He peeked into Xu Qianqian’s class on the third floor and saw Xu Qianqian Lying down at her desk doing homework.

He couldn’t help but be a little surprised; was even the top student getting anxious?

But then he thought about it, and it made sense. After all, it was the eighteen-county joint exam, and an official ranking would be released.

Zhennan was just a small, obscure county town, and its educational resources were truly mediocre.

It was like a Cultivator from a small Sect participating in the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony of the Cultivation world, a frog in a well looking at the bright moon. Without being on the rankings, one wouldn’t know there was always a higher peak.

The more talented a person was, the more he wanted to know his limits.

Jiang Nian didn’t feel much; he was just a mid-tier student in the Olympiad class. In the eighteen-county joint exam, when the final list came out, he probably wouldn’t see his name.

Not to mention the six-city joint exam in November and the provincial joint exam at the end of the year.

By next year’s college entrance exam, the rankings would be even more terrifying.

A provincial ranking of over ten thousand, below ten thousand people, would probably not even cause a ripple in his heart. Looking up, all were provincial Prodigies, and if one looked nationwide, even Prodigies were unknown.

Jiang Nian lay down and let nature take its course, not thinking that far ahead.

As long as he didn’t get demoted from the class, it was fine.

As soon as he arrived in the classroom, Zhang Ningzhi was already there, as usual. She turned and saw Jiang Nian enter through the front door, and couldn’t help but smile happily.

“You’re here?”

Her tone, why was it so strange? Like a young wife returning home.

“Yeah, that idiot… that liberal arts class guy, didn’t bother you today, right?” Jiang Nian put down his backpack and casually asked, his gaze sweeping over the lemon tea on the table.

Actually, he didn’t really like to drink it, but after drinking it once, he got a little addicted.

It needs strict investigation.

In fact, at first, he just had some ideas about that transparent straw, hoping that one day when Baby Zhizhi handed it to him, the straw would be bitten.

Unfortunately, the other party was dull and never understood his intentions.

“No.” Zhang Ningzhi was in a good mood.

She was usually a bit slow and had never experienced such a thing before. As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Nian immediately led her to find someone and stood up for her.

At that time, she was completely dazed. She spent all three evening self-study sessions doing practice papers and homework.

It wasn’t until she got home that night, slowly immersing herself in the bathtub, that she closed her eyes. The scenes replayed in her mind, and her face instantly turned beet red.

“Oh, oh, that’s good.” Jiang Nian leaned back in his seat, sprawled out, as if all his strength had been drained.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he was instantly assimilated by the magnetic field. He always felt like someone had died in the classroom. A lingering ghost, coming out early in the morning to suck the Yang Qi from the students in the classroom.

“Want some cookies?” Zhang Ningzhi offered a box of long, stick-shaped cookies, the kind you dip in sauce.

Jiang Nian was still adjusting to the low-pressure atmosphere of the classroom. He turned his head and looked at her.

“Are those your leftovers?”

“How could that be!” Zhang Ningzhi shook her head vigorously. How could she be so petty?

Jiang Nian immediately lost interest. “Oh, I don’t like cookies.”

“Alright.” Zhang Ningzhi pouted and turned away.

Looking at the ceiling of the classroom, Jiang Nian truly wished a beautiful girl would kiss him. To pass him some Yin Qi, to balance the gradually depleting Yang Qi in his body.

Sigh, going to school is like visiting a grave.

He struggled to sit up and took out the Golden Sun math practice paper from his desk.

Just then, Li Hua also arrived. Seeing his two deskmates both doing practice papers, his scalp tingled. “No. What are you two doing?! Can’t you just date?!”

“Early in the morning, are you two doing homework together?”

Jiang Nian ignored Li Hua’s sour tone and turned his head.

“The eighteen-county joint exam is coming up soon, aren’t you going to be serious? I’ll fine you a 388,000 betrothal gift in the future!”

“Holy crap, don’t be so vicious, alright?” Li Hua was scared and immediately sat down, pulling out his English vocabulary book from his desk and skillfully flipping to a page.

After memorizing ‘acceptable’ for a while, he thought of Jiang Nian’s vicious curse again. He felt a bit uneasy, and after squirming for a bit, he said,

“Can you take back what you just said?”

“What did I say?”

Li Hua: “.”

In fact, Li Hua’s worries were completely unnecessary.

This thing doesn’t cut into the county’s Brahmins; if anything, it’s easier to cut into those in towns and below, or the county’s lower class, or families on the decline.

Decline means each generation is worse than the last, and there are no mountains to live off.

Like the Jiang family.

Jiang Nian himself realized that without the System, if he couldn’t get into a good university, his life would just be like that. Even if he met a good person, he wouldn’t be able to hold onto them.

Even if he was given a chance, it would be useless.

Thinking of this, the speed of his calculations on the scratch paper slowed down. He inexplicably thought of Xu Qianqian, then turned to look at Zhang Ningzhi next to him.

He suddenly realized that the tasks released by the System, in addition to the fragmented information brought by the tasks themselves, were like drawing trajectories for a blank life map in the future.

He clicked on the task panel, browsing the completed tasks.

Twenty-eight years old, midsummer, with Zhang Ningzhi in Guangzhou.

He broke his leg in winter and broke up the following year.

There was too little information about Xu Qianqian; he only knew that she should be successful in her career at thirty-eight. The rest were his own counterattack tasks: losing weight and reading.

It looked strange; why was his life so dark?

Flipping through, his gaze settled on his ex-wife.

Jiang Nian couldn’t understand. His family didn’t seem to lack money, gritting their teeth and pulling out nearly a million. Why go through all this? Did he have to marry that person? Or was it for other reasons?

He wasn’t worried about things ten years later; the fate line had already changed.

Let’s wait and see for new tasks.

After morning reading, Jiang Nian napped at his desk. Lin Dong came to find him. To be precise, he was looking for Wu Jungu. Seeing Jiang Nian asleep and Wu Jungu’s seat empty, he left.

On the other side, after a morning of classes, during the third class break.

Zhou Yuting was a bit annoyed.

The joint exam at the end of the month was about to begin, and she had been busy doing practice questions during this time. She even reduced the number of times she looked in the mirror during class. She swore she would definitely get into the Olympiad class!

This was her last chance. That idiot in Olympiad Class One was dating. Not long after being promoted to the class, he was cheated on because of an inter-class relationship and was in unbearable pain after breaking up.

This was simply a god-given opportunity; she had to seize it firmly!

Although Zhou Yuting wanted to replace Jiang Nian’s position more than filling in for that big idiot in Olympiad Class One, Jiang Nian’s grades were very stable, and he didn’t date.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuting couldn’t help but raise her head, feeling quite smug. Jiang Nian should thank her; it was she who raised his aesthetic threshold.

Otherwise, if he got a little bump from any cat or dog and his heart fluttered, his fate would only be the same as the idiot in Class One.

Only idiots date in their third year of high school!

Suddenly, that sentence, “Baby, I’m not angry, I’m getting promoted,” inexplicably echoed in her ears. Zhou Yuting was instantly furious, grinding her teeth, her gel pen creaking in her hand.

Jiang Nian deserved to die!

When she got into the Olympiad class, he would definitely regret it! At that time, she would dress up every day, flaunt herself in front of him. Good grades and pretty, she would mesmerize him!

When he apologized to her, she would humiliate him severely and return all the pain!

Jiang Nian, die!

She looked up and saw Le Zhi going to the podium to hand in his test paper. As he turned around, their eyes met for a moment, and Le Zhi’s face was almost completely devoid of emotion.

He naturally saw the slightly disheveled Zhou Yuting; her hair wasn’t as neat as before. She looked a bit haggard, and seemed to have faint dark circles under her eyes.

Why hadn’t he noticed before that Zhou Yuting was just so-so? Not a Heavenly Immortal at all.

Heh heh, boring.

Zhou Yuting also saw Le Zhi, looking like a weak, listless man, walking sloppily. The more she looked, the more dissatisfied she became. Why did she used to think he wasn’t bad?

Putting aside his family background, he was even worse than that scoundrel Jiang Nian!

Annoyed, she took out her phone from her backpack and glanced at it. A strange boy added her yesterday. She was too lazy to bother at first, but the other party kept adding.

Well, that was his own fault. Zhou Yuting accepted, and a few words led the other party to send breakfast. They agreed to meet in the small woods, but she didn’t go to pick it up at all.

She waited until almost morning reading to send a message, “(Guilty) (Guilty) I overslept and arrived just in time, (bowing).”

Actually, she was the first to arrive in the classroom that morning. She just wanted the other party to stand in the small woods for a while longer. What an idiot, they were all idiots! Especially Jiang Nian!

The boy from the liberal arts class sent another message, his name seemed to be Zhou Haifei. But Zhou Yuting hadn’t changed his remark at all. She glanced at his latest message.

【I’ll treat you to milk tea at noon, (grinning), is there anything you’d like to drink?】

Zhou Yuting glanced at it and replied.

“(Awkward) (Awkward) I’ll treat you, I’m already so sorry for making you wait for me this morning.”

“No need, I’ll treat you!”

Zhou Haifei hid in the restroom to reply to the message. As soon as he finished sending it, a red packet message suddenly popped up. He was stunned for a moment, then clicked on it and saw 30 yuan.

Instantly, a warm current surged through his heart.

He had pursued many people, suffered many cold stares, or been nervously rejected, and even encountered a lunatic. But! He had never met such a considerate girl!

The other party even reminded him to remember to finish the steamed bun from the morning. Otherwise, if it got cold, eating it would upset his stomach.

Warm! So warm!

She wasn’t extravagant or opportunistic, and she had good grades and was pretty. She was simply…

Zhou Haifei was almost moved to tears. Looking at the address she sent, he silently vowed!

Even if it was to the ends of the earth, he would bring back the milk tea! He looked closely—eleven kilometers away? No, was he going on a pilgrimage for scriptures here?

However, the next second, Zhou Yuting sent a message.

“Forget it, it’s too far. I suddenly don’t want to drink it anymore. Keep this money and treat yourself to two cups. (Awkward)”

Just eleven kilometers! What the hell was that?!

Zhou Haifei’s fighting spirit reignited. Even if he pedaled his bicycle chain until it broke, he would definitely bring back the scriptures… Oh, no, he would bring back the milk tea!

“(Grinning) No need, I’ll go buy it at noon.”

“Wouldn’t that be too much trouble?” Zhou Yuting, at her desk in the classroom, used a book to block herself, her lips slightly curved, casually typing, “I still won’t drink it. (Awkward)”

“No trouble! I’m in good shape! (Grinning)”

“Sorry, only that shop has the most authentic strawberry snow top (awkward). I forgot that shop is too far from school.” Zhou Yuting was still fishing. Spending thirty yuan was nothing to her.

“It’s fine! Less ice, right? I guarantee the ice won’t melt by the time it reaches you! (Grinning)”

“Mm.”

By the end of it, Zhou Yuting had lost interest. If it were Jiang Nian on the other side, she could still get her revenge, but now it was truly boring, better than nothing.

Ring, ring, ring, the bell for the fourth period rang.

She turned to look out the window, resting her chin in her hand, thinking about the joint exam. This thought was mixed with another: she must make Jiang Nian regret it!

Amidst the deafening sound of the class bell.

The earthy yellow basketball was thrown high, arcing gracefully through the air, accurately passing through the netless iron hoop.

“Holy shit, nothing but net!” Li Hua’s voice rang out on the concrete basketball court. He turned to look at Jiang Nian, who had just shot a three-pointer, “Such a good touch?”