Chapter 132? (High-definition version)

“Jiang Nian, have you finished reading the ‘Mathematics 45 Sets’ I lent you last time?”

It was Monday, so most of the class wore school uniforms for the flag-raising ceremony.

Chen Yunyun was no exception; her uniform was exceptionally clean. Her flashy, half-tied waterfall ponytail particularly attracted the attention of the high school boys, except for Jiang Nian.

“Not finished. You can take it back. Remember to return it to me.”

He put down his bag, half-knelt on his chair, and reached into the desk compartment for his glass water bottle.

“Those are my 45 Sets!” Chen Yunyun was bewildered by his words so early in the morning. “What do you mean, ‘read it and return it to you’? Those are mine!”

Jiang Nian found his glass water bottle and said seriously,

“Don’t get too smug; they’ll be my 45 Sets soon.”

Chen Yunyun: “…”

She shouldn’t have spoken to him so early in the morning. She had almost used up her quota of exasperation for the entire week.

But she couldn’t help but want to talk to him; it was too boring at her seat.

To put it bluntly, it was the group leader’s lack of effort. The group’s seating arrangement had bad Feng Shui, and he didn’t even think to ask the teacher to change seats.

Lin Dong was truly useless, but never mind, he was the group leader after all, so give him some Face.

“Give it back to me, I need it.” Chen Yunyun knew Jiang Nian was teasing her and bit her lower lip. “Which test paper are you working on? Take it out, and I’ll return—Pooh, I mean, lend it to you tonight.”

“Here you go.” Jiang Nian casually pulled the ‘Mathematics 45 Sets’ papers from the book basket. “Don’t get them dirty, okay? And remember to return them on time.”

Chen Yunyun grew anxious. “You’re dead!”

Jiang Nian returned with water. Before morning self-study began, the classroom, which had been relatively empty moments ago, suddenly filled with people, heads down, either solving problems or memorizing vocabulary.

“Ma Guojun, why are you here so early too?”

“Get lost, don’t disgust me. There’s a big joint exam this weekend.”

Ma Guojun got goosebumps. He admitted that Jiang Nian’s provocations had some Dao. One sentence made him feel completely uncomfortable. He and Li Hua were truly a pair of scoundrels.

Speak of Li Hua, and Li Hua arrived.

“Oh, oh, oh, why is old Ma Guojun here so early?” Li Hua entered from the front door with a bag slung over one shoulder, his smile as bright as an old widow getting married.

Ma Guojun retched. He knew this scoundrel had estimated his comprehensive science score to be over 280 during last night’s evening self-study.

He came to disgust people first thing in the morning, the dog!

“Li Hua, why don’t you just drop out of school!” Ma Guojun said. “Jiang Nian too, you two are truly disgusting, just die!”

Hearing this, Li Hua stopped in the aisle, stunned. He looked up.

“Hmm? How did you know my comprehensive science score was 280?”

“Who asked you that!”

Li Hua guffawed, striding with a swaggering gait to his seat. He was full of pride, waiting for Jiang Nian to talk to him so he could then utter that classic line:

How did you know…

He waited for a long time. Zhang Ningzhi even arrived, but Jiang Nian didn’t say a word.

This made Li Hua quite miserable. Showing off in front of others depended on the audience. Ma Guojun couldn’t provide any emotional value at all, only incessantly spewing insults.

Jiang Nian was different. He needed to get that man’s approval!

He wanted Jiang Nian to say, ‘You’re amazing!’

Seeing that morning self-study was about to begin, Li Hua grew increasingly anxious, wriggling like a maggot in his seat.

Why!! Why isn’t he talking to me!!

This made Ma Guojun, who was next to the narrow aisle, quite disgusted, his eyelids twitching. Finally, he couldn’t hold back.

“Li Hua, did your hemorrhoids flare up?”

As soon as he spoke, the surroundings erupted in laughter.

“You’re the one with hemorrhoids!” Li Hua’s Face flushed. This morning, nothing was going right for his showing off!

Walking in fine clothes at night—isn’t that as good as nothing?

Similarly, if Jiang Nian wasn’t shocked, envious, jealous, and hateful, with his eyes glowing green with sourness, wouldn’t his 280 comprehensive science score have been for nothing?

Jiang Nian was currently explaining a problem to Zhang Ningzhi and didn’t notice Li Hua scratching his head in frustration at all.

“Because of compensatory input, without going through…”

“Mm-hmm.” His lips curved slightly upward. Hehe, Branch Branch Baby smells so good. “By the way, why is the answer to this question B?”

Zhang Ningzhi: “Ah? o.O”

Her cheeks puffed out slightly, but she still said softly,

“Then I’ll explain it again.”

This time he really understood, but he just wanted to linger next to Zhang Ningzhi. After asking, he didn’t turn back to his normal position, shamelessly saying,

“I generally understand it. I’ll rephrase it, and you can see if what I say is correct, okay?”

Zhang Ningzhi nodded seriously, her small Face solemn.

“Okay.”

She was genuinely worried that Jiang Nian didn’t understand, as his comprehensive science score was indeed worrying.

The big joint exam was this weekend. For the native students in the class, it was just another major exam, but for those like her and Jiang Nian who had been promoted to this class,

it was both a quality check and an Undergoing Tribulation.

Therefore, they couldn’t lose!

Jiang Nian saw her serious expression and was momentarily stunned.

Oh no, she took it seriously.

Then he’d better explain the problem quickly, lest she actually think he’s an idiot.

Jiang Nian quickly and simply rephrased it, and Zhang Ningzhi’s eyes immediately sparkled, as if she had saved an idiot.

Never mind, I won’t play like this anymore.

It’s getting too abstract; I’m really going to be taken for an idiot.

Ring, ring, ring. Morning self-study began.

On Tuesday, they read Chinese. Jiang Nian had long since memorized everything he needed to. So he was still correcting test papers, which made Li Hua next to him increasingly agitated.

Why isn’t he talking to me!

During morning self-study, Li Hua had no mind for studying and sang loudly.

“The satisfied sparrow, sleeping naked on the telephone pole.”

Jiang Nian turned his head at the sound and glanced at him. What was he singing? It sounded so strange.

Not sure, listen again.

“Explosively dry in the wind and rain…” Li Hua’s reputation as a singing king continued to rise. He turned his head and saw Jiang Nian staring at him with a puzzled expression, and couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

“How did you know I…”

“Stop singing your dirty songs. Every day, it’s nothing but lewd words.” Jiang Nian said with a look of disgust, “Don’t contact me anymore. I’m afraid Ma Guojun will misunderstand.”

Li Hua: “…”

He opened his mouth, just about to say something.

Suddenly, he saw Jiang Nian turn his head and ask the class monitor behind him,

“Class monitor, what did you estimate your comprehensive science score to be yesterday?”

Li Qingrong usually read silently during morning self-study, staring at her book without making a sound. Hearing Jiang Nian’s voice, she slowly put down her book, stared at him for a moment, and then replied,

“Maybe… 280?”

“Hiss~~” Jiang Nian gasped, exclaiming, “That high?”

Li Hua almost vomited blood. Ask me! You bastard!

Why didn’t you ask me first!!

Those should be my lines! I really want to call the police. Someone’s being bullied in school, who’s going to do something about it!

Li Qingrong thought for a moment and asked,

“Is it high?”

Li Hua completely quieted down. His desire to show off was extinguished by one sentence. It made him miserable for half of morning self-study, leaving him listless, like a frost-bitten eggplant.

The morning basically consisted of going over test papers. After reviewing the weekly tests for each subject from yesterday, it was over.

The third period, math class, ended.

Jiang Nian was confused by the third sub-question of the derivative function that the teacher had just explained. Zhang Ningzhi probably understood it, but he didn’t want to disturb Zhang Ningzhi’s nap during the break.

So, Jiang Nian poked Li Hua on his left, waking him up. It didn’t matter if he was sleepy or not; he still scored over 140 even if he didn’t listen in class.

“Brother Hua, I need help from the Jianghu.”

Li Hua was still brooding over his failed attempt to show off that morning.

He was currently slumped over his desk, his head slightly turned to glance at Jiang Nian. Only one eye was visible, looking like an idiot, but his voice was unusually aloof.

“I’m sleepy, grandpa.”

Jiang Nian sighed, “Alright then, you sleep well. I was originally going to send you some Caribbean…”

Ding ding ding!!!

Li Hua’s mind exploded with awareness, as sensitive as a radar. His eyes snapped open, and he almost instinctively scrambled up from his desk.

“Really?”

“Mm.”

After speaking, Li Hua lowered his voice again and leaned closer.

“Is the picture quality good?”

Jiang Nian: “High-definition.”

Li Hua was startled by him and quickly shushed him.

“I really give up on you, this is a classroom!”

“Ah, you’re right.” Jiang Nian scratched his head and whispered, “Brother Hua, first tell me how to solve the third sub-question, and I’ll send it to you when I go back at noon.”

“Hey, we’re brothers, it’s only right.” Li Hua coughed. “The third sub-question, right? f(x)…”

In the same classroom, people’s joys and sorrows were not the same.

Lin Dong shivered all morning. The thought of last night’s scene made him feel as if his head had been hit by a heavy hammer, and he suddenly felt nauseous with fear, especially the latter half of the night.

Yang Qiming’s bunk, he didn’t know what was happening there, but there were constant suppressed growls.

Although the sound was extremely faint, the entire dorm should have been asleep. But he wasn’t asleep! He didn’t dare to close his eyes for a moment, not even blinking, only daring to do so one eye at a time.

The most terrifying horror movie he had ever seen couldn’t compare to one second of last night.

The thought of having to return to the dorm at noon made his legs feel weak. Perhaps there might be a misunderstanding, but did he really want to gamble on that?

With his connections, changing dorms was as easy as drinking water.

It was better to change early, lest delays cause trouble.

What reason should he find?

Ring, ring, ring. The preparatory bell for the fourth period at noon rang.

Huang Cailang rubbed his stomach. He had eaten Brother Dong’s wontons last night and Brother Dong’s breakfast this morning. Usually, he would be hungry by now, but he still felt full.

Brother Dong is so good to me.

But why didn’t Brother Dong eat his breakfast? Was he not feeling well?

He looked from the back row towards Lin Dong’s seat and saw Lin Dong rubbing his head with both hands. He seemed a bit agitated, even though he had been fine last night.

After thinking for a moment, Huang Cailang turned to ask his deskmate, Yang Qiming.

“Brother Yang, do you know what’s wrong with Brother Dong?”

Yang Qiming was also agitated at the moment, but his internal struggle and pain had already run their course during morning self-study and the first two periods. Now he was in the numb phase.

“I don’t know.”

After speaking, he felt a bit like he was prioritizing a woman over his friends. For the sake of a mere woman, he had spoken to his brother in such a cold tone.

This was not good.

Women are like clothes, brothers are like limbs. He was truly foolish.

It was at this moment that he had a sudden realization!

“Ahem, I mean…” Yang Qiming added, “He probably didn’t do well on the exam. He came looking for me yesterday, but I didn’t see him.”

“Sigh, you’re right.” Huang Cailang sighed. “Brother Dong is the math class representative, and with Li Hua and Li Qingrong above him, the two Lis are suffocating him.”

“Tsk tsk, if I were the class representative, I’d definitely tremble before every exam, after all, the pressure on my shoulders would be too great.”

Yang Qiming nodded; he had already come to terms with it.

“We’re all brothers. I’ll talk to him at noon.”