Chapter 127 Seat Change Ahead of Schedule

Xu Qianqian glanced at Jiang Nian and scoffed.

“Did you pay?”

“No, I ordered a bunch of other things too, put it on your tab.” Jiang Nian set down the large bag of braised snacks and chose to go sit next to Song Xiyun.

He and Xu Qianqian’s horoscopes didn’t quite align, so they had to sit across a table from each other. Song Xiyun was immediately squeezed to the inside.

“I’ll smash your dog head!” Xu Qianqian said, her voice childishly fierce.

Jiang Nian leaned back on the sofa, a disdainful smirk playing on his lips, looking like a complete scoundrel daring them to come at him.

After a while, he seemed to remember something and asked with a smile.

“Oh right, you didn’t wet your pants just now, did you?”

Xu Qianqian pouted, “It wasn’t me.”

“Hmm?”

Immediately, Song Xiyun bore the brunt of two gazes.

She didn’t know why, but both of them were looking at her with strange expressions.

“No, of course not!”

Then, Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian exchanged another glance, communicating silently.

“You didn’t tell her?”

“*Eye-roll.*”

The atmosphere in Zhennan was worrying, but Jiang Nian didn’t care. He stood up.

“I’m going to take a leak.”

There weren’t many people on the second floor, and the restroom was unoccupied. The exhaust fan above hummed loudly.

When Jiang Nian came out, he glanced downstairs from the staircase.

On the first floor, a clerk was frying fries, making some of the snacks he had just ordered: bone-in chicken and chicken tenders.

Because Xu Qianqian and the others loved them, he had ordered them without thinking.

As for whether they were healthy, you shouldn’t look for health in a bubble tea shop. To be honest, the only healthy food in a bubble tea shop was a beautiful girl’s mouth.

Jiang Nian didn’t mind having two girls on his arms; it wasn’t like he couldn’t kiss both.

However, he could only think about it. If he acted improperly, Xu Qianqian would make him proper later.

On the way back to his seat, in the aisle.

Jiang Nian really didn’t want to look, but his peripheral vision still caught a glimpse of a couple hugging. The girl was holding the goblin’s arm.

The man’s body was clearly stiff, looking very embarrassed.

Seriously, buddy, I just looked at you, and you’re already shy?

To be honest, Jiang Nian wasn’t jealous at all. However, if the apocalypse were to arrive at this moment, such a couple, prone to dragging the team down, would definitely be the first to be eliminated.

Huh? Why does this wild goblin look so familiar?

As Jiang Nian pondered, his steps involuntarily slowed. His gaze fixed intently on the boy, making the girl clinging to him frown.

“Ugh, why isn’t he looking at me?”

It wasn’t until the boy couldn’t help but speak, forcing himself to say:

“Jiang Nian, you’re here too?”

Alright, confirmed. He must be a classmate he hadn’t spoken to much. He couldn’t recall his name at the moment, but he definitely had an impression of him. Dressed so flashy, he almost didn’t recognize him.

“Ah, yeah, what a coincidence.” Jiang Nian didn’t stop walking, chatting as he went, “Is that your girlfriend?”

“Mhm.” The boy had just finished his ‘mhm’ when Jiang Nian had already passed, so there was no need to continue the conversation.

His girlfriend, however, was a bit curious and turned to ask.

“Your classmate?”

“From my class, very good at English.” The boy stated the most prominent impression he had, and of course, as a fellow male, he subtly tried to diminish Jiang Nian’s most obvious advantage.

“He’s quite handsome,” his girlfriend said.

The boy nodded, “Boys who are good at English are quite rare. I suspect it’s because his girlfriend is good at English, or maybe he studies English while on dates.”

His girlfriend looked bewildered, “I wasn’t talking about his English.”

Hearing this, the boy stared at his girlfriend.

“Are you serious? Praising another boy’s looks in front of your own boyfriend?”

“Don’t be so petty.” The girlfriend felt a little guilty, rubbing against the boy and half-coaxing, “Oh, I’m just curious what his girlfriend looks like.”

“What do you care about other people for? It has nothing to do with you,” the boy said grumpily.

He wasn’t willing to face Jiang Nian. He felt that his girlfriend might be the type of person who liked to ‘get her hair done.’

Class 3 of the Olympiad was good at academics, but its atmosphere was worrying, full of ‘bullshit.’

Jiang Nian, with his advantageous appearance, made people even warier.

“Why are you reacting so strongly?” His girlfriend let go of his leash. Oh no, she let go of his hand, “Do you think I’m some kind of easy person?”

“No, no, that’s not what I meant.” The boy said the opposite of what he felt, and his head started to ache again.

Damn it, now he had to talk about ‘attitude’ again.

“Who were you just chatting with over there?” Xu Qianqian asked curiously.

Jiang Nian sat down and leaned back on the sofa.

“Are you very concerned about me?”

“Heh heh.” Xu Qianqian pouted, grabbed a braised duck wing with plastic gloves, and started deboning it, “Xiyun, let’s eat, don’t leave anything for him.”

Jiang Nian’s lips curved upwards, and he propped his head with his hand, lazily watching Xu Qianqian.

“Then you’d better swallow the bones too.”

“Only dogs eat bones.” Xu Qianqian rolled her eyes at him, “Perfect, I’ll leave them for you to eat. Here, have this.”

“What if I said I’d suck on every bone you’ve eaten?”

Upon hearing this, Xu Qianqian was completely stunned by his perverted words. Her body trembled, and she couldn’t utter a single word, shivering violently.

“You! Get lost! You pervert!”

“Hahaha!” Jiang Nian, shameless, successfully disgusted Xu Qianqian and was extremely pleased.

Song Xiyun silently ate her food nearby, trembling.

She was scared, but the child wanted to eat one more bite.

Soon, an argument erupted from the stairs. Jiang Nian curiously poked his head out to look. Xu Qianqian and Song Xiyun also crowded over, three heads peering out.

Unfortunately, the sofa backrest was too high; they couldn’t see anything.

“Do you know them?” Xu Qianqian asked.

“I know the guy; he’s from my class. Probably on a date with his girlfriend.” Jiang Nian didn’t pay much attention, “It’s normal for young couples to argue; they’ll be pressing kisses soon.”

“Sounds like you’re very envious?” Xu Qianqian asked.

“So-so,” he said dismissively.

Just then, a clerk came up with a tray of food. The two girls exclaimed, “Wow!” Jiang Nian also didn’t spoil the mood by stirring up trouble; occasionally, he had to provide some emotional value.

He needed to be a little more normal, otherwise, he’d truly become a pervert.

“Please enjoy.” The clerk turned and left.

Jiang Nian wasn’t very interested in eating. He skillfully shuffled the cards and said to the two girls who were eating in small bites:

“Let’s play Fight the Landlord. The loser has a penalty.”

The main event had finally arrived: singing, imitating pig sounds, squats. Physical contact was out of the question. Xu Qianqian and Song Xiyun wouldn’t agree and would call him a pervert.

Heh, getting scolded seemed pretty fun too.

“What kind of penalty?” Song Xiyun was a bit bewildered, clearly a novice.

“Kissing or something,” Jiang Nian said.

“Huh?”

“Don’t listen to his nonsense, it’s just singing songs, imitating animal sounds.” Xu Qianqian spoke up, “Or, for higher stakes, truth or dare or something.”

Hearing this, she immediately became nervous.

“Dare?”

“Small penalties, they can be changed.” Xu Qianqian spoke like an experienced player, though in reality, she hadn’t played many times. But girls also liked to pretend~.

Six minutes later, Jiang Nian was beaming with excitement.

“Oh yeah! I won!”

The two ‘peasant girls’ exchanged bitter glances, having no choice but to succumb to Landlord Jiang Nian’s tyranny.

“You cheated, didn’t you?” Xu Qianqian was still questioning.

“His hand was in his pocket just now,” Song Xiyun added.

Jiang Nian: “?”

“I was scratching myself. What are you two ‘chirping’ about here? You ‘downer’ girls!”

The argument about cheating continued for several minutes until Jiang Nian proposed taking off his pants to prove his innocence. Xu Qianqian and Song Xiyun’s attitudes immediately changed.

“Never mind, Xiyun and I will sing a song together,” Xu Qianqian said.

The penalty required the winner’s approval.

“Alright, sing ‘What’s Not Possible.'”

Xu Qianqian and Song Xiyun exchanged glances and reluctantly began to sing.

“The sky wants to rain, I want to live next door to your house~~~”

Jiang Nian sipped his fruit tea, listening to the girls’ tender and melodious voices. He leaned back on the sofa, a smile on his lips, and contentedly narrowed his eyes.

No wonder rich people loved listening to music.

Pure feudal dross, let me enjoy it first, oh no, let me criticize it first.

In the bubble tea shop.

Yang Qiming was in agony. He had only said one wrong thing, and his girlfriend immediately got angry. Her mood changed faster than the weather, and twenty minutes of coaxing had been useless.

While his girlfriend was in the restroom, he picked up the bubble tea on the table and gulped down two mouthfuls.

Just as he was about to sigh, Yang Qiming suddenly heard crisp singing from the second floor. He vaguely heard two girls singing Xu Song’s song?

There were few people on the second floor, not many in total, and that seemed to be Jiang Nian’s spot.

Was that Chen Yunyun and the others?

It didn’t sound like it.

As if to confirm his guess, two shouts suddenly came from over there.

“Jiang Nian, it’s our turn!”

“If you lose, you have to spin around!”

Jiang Nian’s debauched voice rang out, “Come on, come on, Dugu Qiubai, if you two lose, you each get one touch from me.”

“Don’t even think about it, go to hell!”

“So disgusting.”

Yang Qiming listened in silence. “Seriously, buddy, you…”

He looked up and saw his girlfriend emerge with a stern face, giving him a cold glance.

“Let’s break up.”

Yang Qiming: “…”

At that moment, his face was already flushed red like Tom Cat! She said she was going to the restroom, and came out like this. He was really fed up with these women who constantly talked about ‘attitude’!

Damn it!

They played two rounds of the game, with Jiang Nian winning and losing.

The punishments were harmless: he sang ‘Love Before BC’ while staring at Xu Qianqian, making her blush, and then did thirty squats.

Unconsciously, it was almost 4:30 PM.

He had intermittently replied to Chen Yunyun’s messages. They had left the gym after playing for two hours. They were currently heading back to the dorm and were almost there.

They had gone at 1 PM, so calculating the time, they could indeed only play for a little over two hours.

Because they still had a weekly test that evening.

The amount of time third-year high school students had for leisure was quite limited. After relaxing, they needed to save some time to rest. Otherwise, they might be too tired during the Chinese test on Sunday evening and fall asleep.

“I’m full, let’s go back,” Xu Qianqian said, rubbing her stomach.

“No need for dinner tonight, I can’t eat another bite.” Song Xiyun was tidying up the playing cards on the table, her movements slightly clumsy, “Qianqian, are you going straight back to the classroom?”

“Mhm, you too, right?”

Watching the two girls discuss, Jiang Nian propped his head and watched, not saying a word.

Girls were truly beautiful. If only they could cuddle, that would be even better.

Fragrant and soft.

Xu Qianqian caught a glimpse of Jiang Nian’s expression from the corner of her eye and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Huh?”

“What disgusting things are you thinking about now?”

“Thinking about you. Let’s go, let’s go.” Jiang Nian stood up, took the neatly stacked playing cards from Song Xiyun, “I’m going back to the classroom to catch up on some sleep too.”

Nanjing Bay.

Zhang Ningzhi woke up from a nap, feeling groggy.

She sat up from the bed, still a bit dazed. The room was dim, with only the faint blinking light of the air conditioner. Outside the window, the sky was a deep, watery gray.

After about two minutes, she got out of bed and stood up, feeling a bit dizzy. She walked to the window and looked out for a while, suddenly feeling a huge sense of loneliness wash over her.

As if forgotten by the world.

It wasn’t until her phone buzzed that Zhang Ningzhi suddenly snapped back to reality.

It was a QQ call from Jiang Nian.

She gently took a breath, then held it, and answered, her voice soft with a slight ‘clip’ to it.

“Hello?”

“Not coming tonight?” Jiang Nian’s voice was casual, accompanied by the noise of the classroom.

Li Hua’s voice was particularly sharp, accompanied by a sour, sarcastic tone of Yin and Yang.

“Oh, oh, oh, who are you talking to?”

Jiang Nian: “Your stepmom.”

Zhang Ningzhi chuckled, then turned to look out the window, suddenly feeling that the traffic outside was quite beautiful. It flowed continuously, like a ribbon of light.

“Coming, I overslept at home.”

“Then you’d better hurry. There are only about twenty minutes left until evening reading.” Jiang Nian seemed to be moving in the classroom; she heard Ma Guojun’s voice.

“Li Hua, you useless piece of trash, I keep losing points following this scumbag.”

“Okay, I’m getting up now.” Zhang Ningzhi should have hung up the call, but she still cautiously asked, “After you went back this afternoon…”

“…What were you doing?”

Jiang Nian casually said, “Playing cards with pretty girls.”

Zhang Ningzhi’s ‘little yellow bean’ sweat, but she was already used to his constant flirting.

“What do you want to drink later? Do you want me to bring you something?”

After saying that, she added another sentence.

“It’s free.”

“Anything is fine. Hurry up, we have a Chinese test tonight,” Jiang Nian said.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ningzhi turned on the lights, packed her schoolbag, and then went out to wash her face. Afterwards, she woke up her father, who had fallen asleep watching TV on the sofa, and asked him to drive her to school.

In the brightly lit classroom, someone suddenly shouted, “Old Liu is coming!”

Immediately, the class erupted, frantically hiding their phones.

Half a minute later, Old Liu indeed appeared at the classroom door. After scanning the class, his face couldn’t help but break into a smile, and he pointed at the students, saying:

“You were all playing with your phones just now, weren’t you?”

The class immediately burst into laughter, and several shouted loudly:

“No! No! Teacher, we were studying just now!”

“Yeah! Teacher! We were doing evening reading!”

Old Liu wasn’t a rigid person; he smiled and didn’t dwell on it. After walking to the podium, he first quieted the class, and people gradually slipped in through the back door.

“Almost everyone in the class is here, right? For those who aren’t, please inform each other. I’ll briefly mention two things. The first is that Monday’s class meeting is canceled and replaced with math.”

As his words fell, a chorus of wails erupted.

“No, teacher, we have math class on Monday morning already!”

“I’m going to die!”

“Who can handle this? Math class in both the morning and afternoon.”

“Quiet! Quiet!” Old Liu cleared his throat and announced the second thing, “From now on, class meetings will be held at this time, trying not to waste everyone’s time.”

“The seat change time will also be moved to this time, meaning seats should be changed before Sunday evening self-study.”