Chapter 140: I’ll See Where You Go First

Jiang Nian existed completely as a free agent, turning around to look.

Sure enough, a cute little girl was lying on the desk. Her cheeks were pale and tender, her large eyes were watery, and her hair was tied up in a small bun.

Ha, Zhizhi Baby used to look like this?

The little girl shook her head, pouting her lips.

“I’m unhappy, I can’t solve the arithmetic problem.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian approached curiously, leaned in for a look, immediately pointed a finger, and started laughing.

“Haha, you can’t even do this?”

The scene shifted, appearing to be a classroom.

Jiang Nian stood in the classroom aisle, surrounded by rows of tiny primary school students. A woman who had just graduated was writing on the blackboard, drawing out her tone.

“‘Peanuts’ are called ‘The Peanut’ because they bear fruit underground and fall to the ground.”

Oh, the scene has changed.

Primary school Chinese class. Let me see if Zhizhi Baby has previewed the text.

Jiang Nian leaned over and saw Zhang Ningzhi’s textbook covered densely in notes. Not only were the paragraphs marked, but Pinyin was also written for unfamiliar characters.

What are the double vertical lines after the paragraphs for? It’s been too long since I was in fifth grade primary school.

“Hehe, she even used the character ‘mu’…” Jiang Nian saw her using it in the compounds ‘envy’ and ‘admire’. Just as he was about to mock her fiercely, he suddenly realized he couldn’t think of any other compounds either.

He fell silent, feeling a little defeated.

He was a College Entrance Exam student!

Hehe. Before long, the scene changed again. The duration of stay seemed to be slowly increasing, and the jumps were quite sporadic, limited only to studying.

The thin mist dispersed, revealing a desk.

Jiang Nian looked along Zhang Ningzhi’s line of sight; there was a love letter on the desk.

The envelope was covered in stars of the Universe—the classic skin for a love letter. These junior high students were so cheap they wouldn’t buy a slightly more expensive one. If it were him, he would definitely buy an artistic-style envelope.

He was curious what Zhi Bao would do, but then he saw her open it.

Huh? The love letter didn’t have a name written on it.

【If you agree, meet me under the big tree on the sports field after school.】

The junior high version of Zhang Ningzhi frowned, leaned on the desk with a pen, and traced the handwriting. She wrote someone’s name at the beginning of the envelope, clearly knowing who had delivered the love letter.

Then, using tape, she carefully changed her name to another girl’s name.

Finally, she got up and cautiously tucked the envelope into the math lecture notes on the teacher’s podium.

Shortly after, a good-looking female teacher walked in. She opened the lecture notes, her expression freezing for a moment before her face immediately darkened.

Jiang Nian was embarrassed. Zhizhi Baby really was a clever little imp.

The scene shifted again; they were now in high school.

This time, the stay lasted longer. Jiang Nian initially stood watching Zhang Ningzhi solve problems, and seeing her tackle several major questions without the time flowing,

he simply found a stool and sat down, staring at her face at first.

After staring for a while, he got tired of it, and then looked around where everything was covered in white mist.

Since this was memory disclosed by the System, perhaps to save resources, there wasn’t much to see.

Within his field of vision, there was only Zhang Ningzhi sitting at the desk doing problems, working tirelessly, occasionally making cute little gestures.

After waiting a while longer, the scene still hadn’t changed.

Bored out of his mind, Jiang Nian could only participate in Zhang Ningzhi’s problem-solving process. English was instant, biology was ignored, but math—that required some serious work.

Jiang Nian never thought he would be so bored as to do math problems in a dream.

Perhaps benefiting from his recent practice, for several problems that made Zhang Ningzhi frown, Jiang Nian was the one who first figured out the solution, and then watched her check the answer.

“This must be first-year high school Zhizhi Baby, right?”

As the problems got harder, Jiang Nian felt his old habits resurfacing and rubbed his head.

“Second year of high school. It must be the second year!”

He waited for a long time, but he couldn’t wake up.

Jiang Nian reasonably suspected: Had the English class ended? He was sleeping on the desk; did Xi Bao not react at all? Or perhaps class hadn’t started yet?

Having nothing else to do, he went back to watching Zhang Ningzhi solve problems.

He didn’t know how much time had passed, but the white mist around him slowly began to thicken. Jiang Nian glanced at it, stood up, clapped his hands, and knew this damn dream was about to end.

Damn it, they said I’d watch Zhang Ningzhi’s memories.

They imprisoned me here to solve problems!

I thought I might see some bathing scenes, but it was all 16+ math, biology, and chemistry problems. Seriously, damn it. No wonder the System was so generous with fifty thousand yuan.

So, the way to understand a high school girl is through solving problems, huh!

Slowly waking up, Jiang Nian was groggy. The first thing he asked when he lifted his head was, “Has class started?”

“Not yet.”

“That’s good. False alarm.”

“You slept through a whole class! What false alarm are you talking about?” Li Hua glared at him. “I suspect you’re Xi Bao’s illegitimate son. Why does she completely ignore you?”

“The first class is over?” Jiang Nian exclaimed.

“Yeah, you just slept through a whole class.” Zhang Ningzhi had just risen from her desk, her brief rest over. “The English teacher kept hovering around us.”

“Then why didn’t you wake me?” Jiang Nian rubbed his temples, thinking that he should pay more attention next time.

What if he got another memory reward like this? He should sleep at home next time. If someone found him sleeping in the middle of class and couldn’t wake him up, that would truly be… scary.

“I don’t know. It was like she didn’t see you,” Zhang Ningzhi shook her head.

“Are you related?” Li Hua started getting jealous again. “That’s not fair! She scolds me like I’m her grandson, but for you, it’s like you’re her illegitimate son!”

Ma Guojun had been eavesdropping and couldn’t hold back his laughter from across the aisle.

“Hee hee hee, Li Hua, doesn’t that make you Jiang Nian’s son?”

“Get lost!”

The bell rang, and Jiang Nian rubbed his brow.

Even though he had slept through a class, he was still terribly exhausted. Considering he had math class at noon, after careful consideration, he used one instance of Fatigue Immunity, which finally restored his energy.

While listening to the math class, he felt his thought process seemed broader.

After class ended at noon, Huang Cailang quietly followed Lin Dong through the crowd of boarding students returning to the dorms and tapped his shoulder.

“Brother Dong.”

“Cailang?” Lin Dong turned around, smiling. “What’s up? What’s up?”

He was in a good mood today, feeling refreshed after changing dorm rooms. Although he had roughly figured out that Yang Qiming’s actions on the rooftop that night might have just been a misunderstanding,

since he had already moved, it wasn’t that his previous roommate was bad, but that his current roommate was better behaved.

Before moving, his only concern was Wu Jungu, who had recently become a boarding student. He and Wu had some conflict because of Yu Zhiyi, but after the move, it felt great.

He could get first-hand cuckold—no, first-hand breakup news. Every time he saw the worried look on Wu Jungu’s face, Lin Dong felt incredibly satisfied.

Next, Lin Dong planned to use a purchased secondary account to hook up with Yu Zhiyi. If he couldn’t cuckold her in real life, could he not cuckold her online?

The Valhalla of Online Dating was finally going to welcome its greatest monument.

Huang Cailang followed Lin Dong, licking his lips as he spoke.

“I do have something.”

Lin Dong took in his subtle movements and rolled his eyes.

“What is it? You first.”

“It’s about Yang Qiming. I just wanted to know…” Huang Cailang became awkward, humming and hawing for a long time before finally asking, “Why does he keep buying you food?”

Hearing this, Lin Dong’s expression visibly stiffened for a moment.

You’re a real conversationalist, you bastard, he thought.

Rubbing salt in the wound.

However, since he had already changed dorms and had no worries, his mindset was different. His expression only changed for a second before he calmly explained.

“It’s nothing. Recently, my Cousin Qiming’s girlfriend has been breaking up with him. He’s been trying to win her back by buying her breakfast and late-night snacks, but…”

“She didn’t accept them?” Huang Cailang prompted.

“Exactly. So Cousin Qiming gives them to me.” Lin Dong tried to keep his voice normal, then realized something. “Cailang, are you thinking…”

Huang Cailang looked a bit embarrassed and scratched his head.

“Brother, the wontons that night were really delicious.”

Hearing this, Lin Dong nearly threw up.

Ultimately, it was all Jiang Nian’s fault for sending those messages. If he hadn’t moved dorms quickly, his life would have been ruined by Jiang Nian. That guy was such a massive jerk.

“Isn’t that a bit much? He’s going through a breakup, and you’re trying to profit off him?”

Hearing this, Huang Cailang quickly grabbed Lin Dong’s hand, only to have it gently shaken off.

“Brother, I’ll treat you to lunch.”

If this were before, Lin Dong would definitely have refused. He was a man with principles, his family wasn’t short on money, and there was no need for petty schemes.

But now, because of Yang Qiming’s strange behavior, he had changed dorms and was exhausted from moving back and forth.

Although Yang Qiming was quite pitiful, wasn’t he also partially at fault?

Lin Dong secretly figured Yang Qiming’s bootlicking efforts wouldn’t last much longer. He might as well take a small bit of revenge, since the other party was a wealthy bootlicker anyway.

Thinking this, Lin Dong stopped in the crowd and coughed.

“Cailang, look at the web between my thumb and index finger. Does it look like the web of a hand that could hold a bottle of Pepsi?”

At noon, the leaves rustled.

Chen Yunyun lay on the sunlit corridor in the afternoon, resting her head on her arms, chatting with Jiang Nian.

“Jiang Nian, besides Location, where else have you been?”

“Does going abroad count?”

“Really?” Chen Yunyun instantly became excited. “I’ve always wanted to travel abroad too. Where did you go, Japan or Korea?”

Jiang Nian looked at her for two seconds and couldn’t help but laugh.

“Mondstadt.”

Mondstadt is one of the seven nations set in a certain two-character game.

“Go die!” Chen Yunyun blushed and hit him. “Seriously, where else have you been? I’ve always wanted to leave Location and see the outside world.”

“Just test your way out, right? With your scores, you can go anywhere you want.” Jiang Nian glanced at her. She had already outperformed ninety-nine percent of the people in Location.

A rich girl from a small town, scoring over 600 points. With a little effort, she could fly to another region. If she was lucky enough, she might settle down and marry in Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou.

A small county town like Location couldn’t keep people, at least not people like Chen Yunyun.

“Test… I don’t know where to test into. It would be great if my score was a bit higher.” Chen Yunyun lowered her voice, pretending to ask casually, “Where do you want to go to college?”

“Me?” Jiang Nian frowned.

Based on his current grades and the two hundred thousand yuan in his bank card, where to go? It no longer seemed to be a problem, as long as he had enough money.

Just head for the big cities; they’re all the same.

“I can’t even remember how many cities China has. We’ll talk about it when we fill out the applications. I’ll see where you go first.”

Classic. See what your classmates fill out first.