Chapter 143: Poor Class Atmosphere

The three of them finished their bathroom break and sauntered back to the classroom.

Upon entering, they happened to see Lin Dong handing out test papers, while the Math Teacher was pacing around the classroom with his hands behind his back. The three of them immediately turned into quails and hurried back to their seats.

Just as Jiang Nian sat down, Zhang Ningzhi whispered a reminder from the side.

“There’s an exam during the second and third sessions of Evening Self-Study.”

“Got it.” Jiang Nian grabbed his pen and lowered his head to look at the questions.

Suddenly, Ji Jiayu’s voice came from the middle of the classroom.

“Lin Dong, there are no more answer sheets.”

After saying this, she didn’t hold out much hope. Usually, the Class Representative would only ask how many were missing, finish what he was doing, and then come over after counting everything up.

Even if he had an extra one in his hand, he wouldn’t go out of his way to bring it to her alone. After all, making a special trip would just mean extra work for nothing.

Yet, Lin Dong actually walked over and stuffed an answer sheet into her hand.

“Here.”

The person behind Ji Jiayu hadn’t received one, so they looked up and asked, “What about ours?”

“Wait a moment, start the test first.” Lin Dong brushed them off with a completely different attitude. “If you’re missing one, raise your hand. Don’t blame me if you don’t raise your hand.”

Ji Jiayu lowered her head to write her name on the answer sheet, unable to help but purse her lips and smile.

You couldn’t tell usually, but Lin Dong was actually quite gentle.

Not far away, Yuan Zhengchuan was staring coldly at his girlfriend. When Lin Dong walked over and gave the only answer sheet in his hand to Ji Jiayu, he didn’t feel much.

It was Ji Jiayu’s smile as she looked down that deeply irritated him.

What the hell are you smiling at! Smiling!

Yuan Zhengchuan began to doubt if there was something wrong with him, wondering if he was too suspicious. Lin Dong had left right after counting the answer sheets; it was as normal as could be.

But… he always felt that Ji Jiayu would contact Lin Dong in private. Would she?

He spent the two sessions of Evening Self-Study feeling restless, his mind not on the test. It wasn’t until close to dismissal, when Lin Dong stood up and asked the whole class to hand in their answer sheets, that he sobered up.

Yuan Zhengchuan took a close look and realized he hadn’t done two big questions!

It’s over!

“Yang Qiming, let me copy!”

Yang Qiming was also feeling irritable because of his girlfriend from another class, but fortunately, she had blocked him. There was no response from her side, which didn’t affect his ability to write the test.

After the math quiz, he felt calm and even performed better than usual.

“Here, feel free to copy!”

Yang Qiming waved his hand grandly. Defeated in love, he was triumphant in brotherhood; he was now focused on his bros.

He wanted his “ex-girlfriend (semi-broken up)” to know how well he was doing after leaving her. Surrounded by brothers, beauties everywhere, and his grades skyrocketing.

Make her regret it, make her beg him to get back together!

When the sun sets, you aren’t there to accompany me; when I rise again, who are you!

Yang Qiming had been scrolling through TikTok diligently lately, watching quite a few emotional “cool” stories. The kind of videos with game footage, AI voices, or WeChat chat screenshots.

The more he scrolled, the more energized he felt; the more he scrolled, the more he immersed himself, wishing he could take their place. Immediately go date a 1.6-meter-tall legal loli and hold hands until they’re sweaty!

Right in front of his ex-girlfriend, make her jealous until she’s twisted and distorted, crawling on the ground.

Although the progress bar was at zero, just thinking about it was satisfying.

The only downside was that his good brother Lin Dong had moved out, and the reason turned out to be just because of a dream his great-grandmother had.

That was too ridiculous; high school students still being that blindly filial.

Yuan Zhengchuan was busy copying the test, muddledly writing out the first two parts of the two big questions. He just copied some main steps for the third part without writing the answer.

After handing it in right at the deadline, he let out a sigh of relief and said to Yang Qiming back at his seat.

“Thanks, Cousin.”

The title “Cousin” was equivalent to “brother” in Southern Hakka dialect. It started with Lin Dong calling Yang Qiming that, and later, as he said it more often, the people around them started calling him that too.

“No problem, we’re all brothers.” Yang Qiming waved his hand, meaning there was no need for further words.

Lin Dong watched from afar and didn’t stop them.

Xu Qianqian was walking home with her schoolbag on her back. She turned to look at Jiang Nian and said with a serious face.

“Yesterday, I dreamed that you turned into a dog.”

“Shut up, Xu Qianqian.” Jiang Nian reached out to pinch her mouth, but Xu Qianqian dodged it easily. “If I’m a dog, you’re a dog too.”

“No, I’m your master.” Xu Qianqian clutched her schoolbag, walked quickly ahead, and looked back after putting some distance between them. “I dreamed we were on the street, and I was leading you as a stray.”

“red stone, red stone, red stone!” Jiang Nian used his rebound skill, 【Li Hua Exclusive】.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t win the argument, he just couldn’t be bothered to be serious with her… Xu Qianqian liked to be on top; if she fell into a disadvantage, she would be very cowardly, directly lowering her head and not speaking.

If no one spoke on the way home, what would be the point?

Better to let her take advantage verbally and collect it with interest later.

“…Why do you have such weird dreams every day?”

“I don’t know.” Xu Qianqian shook her head. “Maybe it’s ‘think of it by day, dream of it by night.'”

After saying this, she was already prepared to dodge.

Jiang Nian didn’t have much of a reaction, just shot her a sideways glance. His eyelids were very thin; when he looked at people, he naturally had a mocking buff.

“You don’t think ‘being a dog’ is some kind of insult, do you?”

“W-what do you mean?” Xu Qianqian was stunned, feeling like she might have overestimated his bottom line.

“Then I would choose to lick you from head to toe.” Jiang Nian said with an indifferent face, speaking quite abstractly. “What’s the difference between that and licking an ice cream?”

Hearing this, Xu Qianqian’s body stiffened, and certain memories flooded back.

To be precise, it was on a certain stormy day. Before some bitch spread rumors, she had covered his mouth with her hand. As a result, her palm was licked, and the hair all over her body stood on end.

“Jiang Nian! You’re so disgusting.”

“So what? Is this your first time knowing me?”

After their daily skirmish, Xu Qianqian walked on the road and suddenly asked.

“Are you ready for the Joint Exam?”

“I’ve got the cheat sheet ready.”

“Seriously, I’m not joking with you.” Xu Qianqian said with a serious face and earnest tone. “You’re still salvageable, don’t give up. Mommy loves you.”

“I don’t know if I can score 600 points.” Jiang Nian scratched his neck. “There’s a couple in class lately who loves to fool around in the second half of the lunch break.”

Like Jiang Nian, Xu Qianqian ate in the Cafeteria and took lunch breaks in the classroom. Just hearing him say this, she was already completely immersed in the scenario.

“That’s really immoral. Does no one say anything to them?!”

Jiang Nian shook his head. “No.”

Hearing this, Xu Qianqian frowned.

“Your class is really strange. A science class with no backbone at all.”

Jiang Nian felt a bit awkward and mumbled vaguely.

“Something like that. The class atmosphere is bad, but I’ve found a way to solve it.”

Xu Qianqian glanced at him. “Don’t get into conflicts with people.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian couldn’t help but laugh.

“Didn’t you just say our class had no backbone? Why did you change your tune now?”

“…That’s not it.” Xu Qianqian didn’t want to argue with him and nodded slowly. “I’m a bit double-standard, but anyway, don’t keep getting into conflicts with people.”

“If you win, you go to jail; if you lose, you go to the hospital.”

Jiang Nian squirmed. “I don’t really fight, it’s bad for the body.”

Xu Qianqian: “????”

Lin Dong woke up, washed up in the new dormitory, and looked at his phone while brushing his teeth.

Last night, he originally wanted to gossip with Jiang Nian about Ji Jiayu, especially since watching Yuan Zhengchuan’s depressed face gave him a sense of satisfaction that was beyond words.

He only dared to share such things with Jiang Nian.

And by the way, ask how Yuan Zhengchuan had offended Jiang Nian. How long was this going to go on? It didn’t seem like there was much pressure to keep going; it was just a convenient thing to do anyway.

It wasn’t his own girlfriend, heh heh.

It’s just that Jiang Nian had sent him a math problem last night that tortured him for over an hour. He didn’t know which test paper it was from and couldn’t find the question.

Waking up in the morning, the guy had sent him a message.

Jiang Nian: “I solved it.”

red stone! Lin Dong was about to overheat; send the process!

On second thought, he asked a question.

“Brother Nian, are we still doing it?”

Three seconds later, Jiang Nian replied.

“(Confused) Doing what?”

Lin Dong was even more confused. He was typing a reply, just having typed Ji Jiayu’s name, when he suddenly realized something and deleted everything he had typed.

“Are you still going to help the classmate?”

Half a minute later, Jiang Nian replied.

“Moved by you. Let me treat you to breakfast; what kind of buns do you want?”

Lin Dong, brushing his teeth in the dorm, laughed out loud and wiped the water off his screen.

“I can’t let you do that; this is what I should do as a Class Representative. Two braised pork buns, two mixed vegetable buns, and a cup of soy milk, please.”

Putting down his phone, his new roommate Zeng You leaned over and rubbed his eyes.

“Lin Dong, what were you laughing at just now?”

“Nothing, was I laughing?”

“Yeah, you were laughing for a long time.” The tall and thin Luo Zhongping walked over. He was a bit reserved but quite liked Lin Dong’s personality.

Lin Dong remembered Jiang Nian’s smooth moves, patted Luo Zhongping’s shoulder in imitation, and said with a serious face.

“I may have laughed for a long time, but the road of New China is even longer.”

Wu Jungu had just woken up. As a student who had transferred from commuting to living on campus, he wasn’t quite used to the collective dormitory life yet; let’s just say he could barely manage before winter set in.

Just as he walked into the middle of the dormitory and heard Lin Dong say that, he couldn’t hold it back at all.

The others in the dorm weren’t much better, staring blankly at Lin Dong.

No, it’s early in the morning…

You’re already starting with the progress?

Before morning reading, Ji Jiayu was getting water and happened to run into Sun Zhicheng.

“Do you need to use a water card?” he asked.

Ji Jiayu felt a warmth in her heart, but at the same time, some resentment.

What was wrong with her boyfriend? He had suddenly started getting jealous over nothing! And there was nothing going on! Fortunately, he wasn’t there, otherwise it would be awkward again.

“Thanks, no need. I borrowed someone else’s water card.” She felt guilty and, by some twist of fate, didn’t mention her boyfriend’s name.

Yuan Zhengchuan was pressed against the classroom back door and happened to hear the voice. He took a deep breath, shook his head, and chose not to go in and crash the scene.

Six minutes later.

Jiang Nian had brought buns for Lin Dong in the morning and was walking back after dropping them off.

He happened to run into Ji Jiayu looking for something and accidentally brushing her hand against her water cup. Obviously, Ji Jiayu had also seen that scene out of the corner of her eye.

“Ah!”

She screamed, only to see the falling water cup caught steadily by a hand.

Jiang Nian slowly placed the water cup back on her desk and glanced at her.

“Next time, put it a bit closer to the edge.”

Ji Jiayu stared at Jiang Nian’s slender, powerful hand holding the thermos and couldn’t help but feel weird. She subconsciously averted her gaze.

“Mm.”

Her official boyfriend, Yuan Zhengchuan, walked in from the front door of the classroom, glanced at them, and returned to his seat.