Chapter 120: I told you to live well, not to drive a Land Rover!

The mottled, old hallway was dim, mixed with the slightly cold night wind blowing through.

Xu Qianqian just glanced at Jiang Nian as usual, and their eyes met. His eyes, in the not-so-bright light outside the door, appeared particularly dark.

His eye sockets were a bit deep, and the moment their gazes met, her heart skipped a beat. She didn’t know why, even though she had just come home with him half an hour ago.

After just taking a shower, she suddenly felt a little concerned and a little greedy.

She didn’t know how that thought came to her, but seeing Jiang Nian’s semi-dry black hair and damp collar, that feeling was like…

A guy looking at a black silk stepmother dress on Douyin.

No matter how you looked at it, it was a bit suggestive, with a hint of seduction.

Her gaze could hardly move from Jiang Nian’s jaw, and for a moment, her fingertips felt a little numb. After her heart thumped a few times, she suddenly snapped back to reality.

“What are you spacing out for?” Jiang Nian asked curiously.

“Ah?” Xu Qianqian’s face turned red at the same time the orange sound-activated light in the hallway went out. She seemed a little flustered, “N-nothing.”

The door closed in a hurry, letting out a “goodnight.”

Goodnight?

The corridor light turned on again because of the sound of the door closing. Jiang Nian looked confused, wondering if his ears had misheard just now.

Never mind, it doesn’t matter.

Math is more important.

He turned and went home. After opening his notes, he was immediately delighted. It wasn’t necessarily a Martial Forest Secret Manual, but it would save him the pain of flipping through textbooks.

Xu Qianqian was indeed a top student; she had something going for her.

The math teacher also loved to talk about returning to the textbook, saying things like, “Seeing the textbook should be like coming home. After all, it’s the ‘mother problem,’ and you boys all play that ‘Biochemical Mother’ game, right?”

Anyway, CS or whatever rice noodles, it’s all pretty much the same.

Ah, only by returning can you find happiness. In all major exams and the college entrance exam, the questions are all found from the ‘mother problems’ in the textbook. Master the ‘mother problems’ and their variations, and you can adapt to anything.

When Jiang Nian heard these words, he was completely bewildered.

Too exhausted to complain.

If I can’t even score 130, do you expect me to understand a math textbook?

Other top students would glance at the small print in a math textbook, point, and start grinning, “Isn’t this what was tested in XXX? And there was a similar question in XXX.”

But for a clueless person like Jiang Nian, the ‘mother problems’ were indeed simple.

But as soon as they changed form, he’d be stumped.

Jiang Nian flipped through the notes as he returned to his room, his phone tossed aside. He meticulously looked at the problems, feeling like Piggy Hero who had found the Evil-Warding Sword Manual.

He didn’t understand it, but he could tell it was good stuff.

“Amazing! They can even set questions like this?”

The next day.

Jiang Nian woke up groggily and splashed cold water on his face. He had stayed up too late last night scrolling Douyin… no, looking at problems. Studying was truly an exhausting thing.

Wiping the water off his face with his school uniform, Jiang Nian had only one thought in his mind.

Where did she buy those perfectly rounded jeans?

He was almost possessed.

I’m not a butt fetishist!

He left his house and happened to run into Xu Qianqian, who was also leaving.

“Oh? What a coincidence?” Jiang Nian asked curiously.

Normally, unless there was a heavy rain or strong wind, Xu Qianqian would leave for school fifteen minutes earlier than him, belonging to the diligent early-bird group of top students.

“Mm.” Xu Qianqian’s face was a little red, and she looked a bit strange.

Jiang Nian leaned closer, “Xu Qianqian, do you have a fever?”

“Get lost, you do!” She choked, unable to utter the word, and her face grew even redder.

That word was a taboo for high school girls.

However, her blush wasn’t because of the taboo word, but because Jiang Nian was so obnoxious. He had said almost every Heaven-Defying thing imaginable, so a mere taboo word coming from his mouth…

Even seemed innocent?

Xu Qianqian was just hit by her own thoughts. After that glance last night, she had been a little bit haunted by it, and this morning, by some strange impulse, she wanted to take another look.

She felt like a female ghost coveting Yang Qi, which made her blush.

“Alright, let’s just walk together.” Jiang Nian didn’t notice anything unusual. Xu Qianqian was still easily provoked.

It was himself who was still so sleepy…

Can’t watch anymore. Douyin’s recommendations were almost turning into a cesspool; it was unbearable.

What about Chinese New Year then?

Your cousin asks for your phone, “Big Cousin, can I scroll Douyin? Mama won’t let me play.”

No, no, Big Cousin is a pervert.

Open it up, and it’s all bodycon dresses, ‘little mom’ dresses, and curvaceous high school girls.

Damn, instant disgrace.

Walking to school, Jiang Nian suddenly said,

“Xu Qianqian, when are you going to wear a JK uniform?”

“What’s it to you?” Xu Qianqian had already sobered up, no longer having lustful thoughts. “If you want to wear one, you wear it and record a video.”

“So you’re into that?” Jiang Nian was shocked, then became coy, “I’ve never cross-dressed before, but if you strongly insist…”

Xu Qianqian: “…”

She quickened her pace, wanting to stay far away from the pervert with strong sexual tension. She must have been lightheaded from hunger last night to even find Jiang Nian handsome.

As she lowered her head, she still couldn’t help but recall the scene from last night that was imprinted in her mind.

It was just an ordinary gesture of handing something over, something that had happened before. But in that instant, she didn’t know why, she suddenly really wanted to kiss his Adam’s apple.

Hmm. The sexual tension, it felt like it exceeded the scope of a high school boy.

She was probably really lightheaded, maybe her period was coming, and her hormones were a bit out of whack.

Jiang Nian was terribly sleepy all the way, munching on a bun as he walked into the school gate. He wanted to activate Deep Blue, but then he thought of the comprehensive science class in the afternoon and held back.

He loathed it, and it served as a warning.

No more Douyin!

Before going upstairs, he turned his head and looked.

“Hey, Xu Qianqian.”

“Ah?” She suddenly snapped back to reality, then realized Jiang Nian was leaning in. The distance between them rapidly shrank, and her pupils widened slightly. “Wh-“

It happened too suddenly, and the sound caught in her throat.

Jiang Nian plucked a small piece of paper from her head, showed it to her, and then unceremoniously tossed it away.

“It’s nothing.”

Xu Qianqian’s heart was still pounding, and she could only force it down.

“Mm-hmm.”

It wasn’t until they reached the third floor and parted ways that she finally let out a sigh of relief.

She patted her cheeks and quickly walked into the classroom.

Going upstairs, Jiang Nian’s heart was filled with pain.

How degenerate! Wine and women injure me so!

The time lost yesterday must be recovered from Li Hua! If I feel sleepy this morning, I’ll just drag him into talking during class.

After all, the college entrance exam is like thousands of soldiers crossing a single-plank bridge; if we die, we die together.

At the restroom entrance, Li Hua, who had made a special effort to get to class early, looked refreshed.

He shook the water off his hands, then stood in the corridor with his hands on his hips. The morning glow in the distant sky was like thin silk, and everything was so full of Life Qi.

He looked at it, felt a surge of heroic Qi in his heart, and immediately had a new realization.

“The day’s plan is in the morning; I will definitely get into Wuhan University!”

“Li Hua!!!”

A tragic sound echoed from the stairwell, seemingly carrying a heavy resentment. One might have thought the gates of hell hadn’t closed, and some red-clothed ghost had crawled out.

“Woah!” Li Hua turned his head, suddenly seeing a figure charging at him at high speed. “…Damn, what the hell!?!”

With a bang, he instantly felt like he had hit the jackpot. No, is the method of transmigration to another world so crude now?

Two seconds later, Li Hua was pinned against the wall.

“Jiang Nian, you…”

“Betrayal! How did you get here so early? Who told you to come so early?” The blood vessels in Jiang Nian’s eyes thickened, and he said in a rough voice, “You’re not going to start studying seriously, are you?”

“I just woke up early to memorize some English.” Li Hua was sweating profusely.

“Just woke up early to memorize some English.” Jiang Nian spoke in a strained voice, almost grinding his teeth. “Damn it, you’re almost getting a perfect score in comprehensive science, and you’re still studying English!”

“You’ve already taken all the points! Go to Peking University!”

Upon hearing this, Li Hua’s mouth gradually twisted into a smile.

“When summer comes, on the eighth of June, after my flowers bloom, all other flowers will be slain.”

The two walked together in the corridor towards the classroom. Jiang Nian suddenly said something that made Li Hua’s heart tighten.

“You didn’t… you know, last night, and in your sage mode, you felt terrible. Did you even make a study plan and wake up early to study as atonement?”

“Hey… you really say the most…” Li Hua’s back was drenched. He was like the sweating emoji.

Damn it, his bottom line was completely seen through.

Did Jiang Nian install a camera in his room? This pervert! He always disposed of the paper by his bed from his ‘Lu Kingdom’ activities directly; such matters of ‘children sharing a towel’ could not be leaked.

In the corridor, Li Hua asked in a low voice,

“Want a license plate number?”

Jiang Nian waved his hand, “I only watch, I don’t participate.”

“You haven’t, you know, done it so much you’re impotent, have you?” Li Hua reasonably expressed his doubt.

“Hey, you damn…”

Chen Yunyun was eating a bun outside the classroom, holding a vocabulary book. Occasionally, she would look up at the distance, and occasionally she would look down at the vocabulary book to review.

Upon hearing Jiang Nian’s voice, she instantly became happy.

She turned her head and saw Jiang Nian walking from that direction. He stood in the morning light, talking to an ordinary classmate beside him, and suddenly, a filter seemed to be applied to him.

Chen Yunyun’s gaze moved from his school uniform to his throat, and then to his palms. As he approached, a faint sense of suffocation gradually spread throughout her body.

Until…

“Second Senior Brother, are you choking?” Jiang Nian’s voice rang out.

Hearing this, Chen Yunyun suddenly snapped back to reality. Looking at Jiang Nian again, she immediately felt a little better. Remembering what she had just done, she couldn’t help but blush slightly. Damn it! Censor heavily!

“You are!!!”

“You were standing there motionless, I thought you were choking on your bun.” Jiang Nian was still being a jerk.

Chen Yunyun was speechless, then remembered something.

“Tomorrow, Saturday afternoon.”

Jiang Nian made a gesture that Korean men couldn’t accept, “OK, didn’t forget.”

Li Hua’s curiosity was immediately piqued, and he kept leaning over to ask,

“What, what?”

“Why are you so curious? It has nothing to do with you.” Jiang Nian gave him a sideways glance, carrying his bag into the classroom. “You don’t want to know.”

“Tch, it can’t be a date, can it?” Li Hua pouted.

Two seconds later, seeing Jiang Nian say nothing, Li Hua immediately stopped smiling. His expression cleared, and he suddenly felt his legs go weak, as if the sky was falling.

No, are you serious?

Li Hua slumped into his seat. Zhang Ningzhi hadn’t arrived yet; it seemed she was a little late.

“Bro, is it real or fake? Will you tell me?”

“No.”

“I don’t mean anything else, but you just got promoted to this class, and your grades are important.” Li Hua was anxious. “Are you really going on a date? Tell me, what good will dating do for your grades?”

“Cancel it, it’s really not worth it. I’ll let you play with my account that has a hundred skins, okay?”

Jiang Nian lifted an eyelid, seeming a little tempted.

“It’s not impossible, but… they’re two people.”

Li Hua’s eyes immediately lost their focus. He stared at Jiang Nian for a while.

“How many?”

“Two.”

“Two! Damn, two!!!” Li Hua was in a daze for a moment. “No!!! Bro! Isn’t getting two a bit too avant-garde? Where’s your sense of propriety and shame?”

“Is it Lin Dong’s group, Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe?”

“Yes.”

“No, Nian, are you really doing this?” Li Hua was almost fainting. He leaned closer and grabbed his collar, saying, “You can’t!! You can’t be that much of a beast!”

“Lin Dong’s group only has two girls. If he finds out, won’t he jump?”

“I might as well stop studying too. Pack my things, and just jump with Lin Dong. Brother, are you a succubus!”

“Why are you so anxious?” Jiang Nian chuckled, smoothing out the test paper on the desk.

“I’m not anxious, I want to die. What’s the point of living in this mess?” Li Hua rubbed his face. “Buddy, just fall in love, I can’t stand you like this anymore.”

“Third year of high school, what’s there to fall in love about?” Jiang Nian took out his sky-blue notebook.

“Damn it, you… Go fall in love properly! You’ve taken all the points, how am I going to get into Wuhan University!” Li Hua grabbed Jiang Nian’s collar and shook him wildly.

Jiang Nian couldn’t take it. “Stop, stop, stop. I was just messing with you, no date.”

“What then?” Li Hua let go of him.

“They’re going out to play. They helped me with a small favor before, and I happened to have a ticket.” Jiang Nian spoke vaguely. “They did invite me, but I figured I’d catch up on math.”

Hearing this, Li Hua’s face turned even redder.

“Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!!!”

“Hey, hey, why are you still like this…” Jiang Nian looked up and saw Zhang Ningzhi had arrived, so he stopped teasing Li Hua. Zhizhi Baby was more fun.

His gaze followed Zhang Ningzhi, and the girl noticed as soon as she entered. She immediately felt a little embarrassed, lowering her head as she walked past the podium to her seat.

“Why are you so late?” Jiang Nian asked, propping his head up.

Zhang Ningzhi had just sat down and hadn’t even hung her backpack on the back of her chair. Hearing his question, she instinctively turned her head, about to say she was late, but the words caught in her throat.

She didn’t know why, but she instinctively swallowed.

“I… I overslept.”

After saying that, her heart pounded. She lowered her head, her hand on her backpack, her eyes slightly widened, recalling the scene she had just witnessed, and couldn’t help but feel a blush.

So close.

So close.

It seemed like it used to be like this too, but today… it felt more special.

Morning reading.

Jiang Nian was extremely sleepy. After standing for five minutes and yawning, he lay down to catch up on sleep. He figured Qian Bao probably wouldn’t mind, so he just slept soundly.

The faint autumn morning light seeped in through the window little by little.

Qian Bao, holding her phone, strolled into the classroom entrance.

Standing at the podium, she immediately saw Jiang Nian sleeping at his desk and instantly got angry.

Too lawless!

After thinking for a moment, she walked out of the classroom and then asked the English class representative by the door to call Jiang Nian out. Thinking of yesterday’s events, Qian Bao became even angrier.

If the tiger doesn’t roar, they’ll think I’m a sick cat!

She was almost bullied into a marshmallow by her students; today, she must strike hard! Catch a troublemaker and criticize him severely!