Chapter 177: Baby, don’t sleep on the floor, it’s cold.

Zhang Ningzhi clutched a sticky note in her hand, lowered her head, and said softly.

“Don’t worry about the drink; after all, I was the one who first proposed that we supervise each other before the Joint Exam. So… I’m just keeping my promise.”

“But I really like the gift, thank you.”

“Mm, I’m glad you like it.” Jiang Nian picked up his bag, ready to head home. He looked back at her, smiled, and said, “You should get home early too, stay safe.”

He knew Zhang Ningzhi was picked up and dropped off for school every day, so he wasn’t worried.

“Mm-hmm!” Zhang Ningzhi nodded.

She had already packed up, but she needed a little time to compose herself.

Watching Jiang Nian leave the classroom, her breath, which she had been holding slightly, finally flowed freely. The lingering sourness and gloom that had built up in her heart during Evening Self-Study were instantly smoothed away.

Those hidden details were traceable, like bubbles blown by a fish—rising bit by bit, spreading ripples across the surface of the water.

“School is so tiring, I really want to blow up the school.” Xu Qianqian walked on the way home at night, looking up at the streetlights. “Jiang Nian, why don’t you go report the school?”

“That would get me expelled.” Jiang Nian walked forward with dead-fish eyes.

Xu Qianqian thought for a moment and said seriously.

“I will contact you often and send you packages.”

“Expulsion isn’t the same as going to jail; why would you send packages?” Jiang Nian glanced at her. “Aren’t you afraid of tripping and falling while walking like that?”

“Don’t you know I’m very brave?” Xu Qianqian retorted.

Whether she was brave or not, he didn’t know. But as for other things…

Actually, Xu Qianqian wasn’t very brave; she was practically walking right next to Jiang Nian. Because she knew that if she were to trip or stumble, Jiang Nian would definitely not stand by and watch.

So she could mess around as she pleased.

A few seconds passed, but she didn’t hear Jiang Nian respond, and she instinctively felt something was off.

She turned her head and caught someone’s gaze right on her.

“Where are you looking?”

“Your gallbladder.”

Xu Qianqian: “…Nonsense! Do you even know where the gallbladder is?”

Jiang Nian’s eyes became serious, and he said confidently.

“Below the chest.”

“Go to hell! You pervert!” Xu Qianqian shoved him hard, blushing as she overtook him. “You’re never serious, I’ll give you two punches!”

Jiang Nian laughed and took a few quick steps.

“Xu Qianqian, actually, I’ve always thought you were a very magnanimous person, someone who can hold a boat in their stomach.”

Xu Qianqian didn’t even look back, walking fast again to put some distance between them.

“I can’t, my waist is too thin.”

“Is that so? Show me the evidence.” Jiang Nian could keep any conversation going. “Or you can send it to me secretly when you get back, and then we’ll have a little secret.”

“Who wants to have a little secret with you!” Xu Qianqian walked fast with her head down.

Jiang Nian was speechless. High attack but low defense, what the hell are you playing at? I give you chances, but you never take them.

The walk home wasn’t long, and in the blink of an eye, they reached the dimly lit alley entrance.

Usually, Xu Qianqian wouldn’t dare to dive straight into the alley. But thinking of Jiang Nian right behind her, her courage suddenly grew.

She had just lifted her leg and hadn’t even put it down when she suddenly felt a great force grab her schoolbag from behind, then pull her backward by the strap.

At the same time, an electric scooter with no lights on rushed out from around the corner.

Xu Qianqian was stunned, her heart pounding, and she finally began to feel scared in hindsight.

“You scared me to death.”

Jiang Nian let her go and gave her a speechless look.

“Are you going to rush out again next time?”

“I’ll consider it.” Xu Qianqian’s mouth was harder than iron; even though her legs were weak, her Aura remained undiminished. “Actually, I saw it a long time ago, it’s just…”

“Just what?” Jiang Nian glanced at her.

“…Just testing your observation skills.” Xu Qianqian stood at the alley entrance, refusing to go in, and looked back at Jiang Nian. “Aren’t you going?”

Jiang Nian clicked his tongue and sauntered into the alley.

Now, Xu Qianqian became the little follower.

However, she didn’t have the strength to hold onto Jiang Nian, so she could only silently pray in her heart that he wouldn’t get hit by a car. As they were close to home, she felt she shouldn’t be so superstitious.

“I’m off, going home.” Xu Qianqian said this while opening her door.

Jiang Nian was also opening his door, fiddling with his keys unhurriedly.

“Mm, see you in my dreams.”

“You dream about me?” Xu Qianqian had already opened the door, pulling it ajar, light spilling out like threads. “What do you dream about me?”

Jiang Nian’s door-opening speed seemed even slower; separated by the distance of two floor tiles, he turned his head and asked with a smile.

“Do you really want to know?”

Bang! The response was the sound of a door slamming shut. A moment later, Jiang Nian’s phone lit up.

After Xu Qianqian closed the door, she must have sent a message immediately.

“You are not allowed to use my image rights in your dreams.”

Jiang Nian opened the door with one hand and typed a reply with his right hand.

“You can’t see faces in dreams.”

Xu Qianqian didn’t reply for a long time; she must have been fuming.

Jiang Nian walked into the living room and put down his schoolbag. The simp disease he’d been holding back all day suddenly flared up, and he wanted to send Xu Qianqian a thoughtful voice-bubble message.

“Baby, don’t sleep on the floor, it’s cold.”

Thinking of this, he began to dance around, so excited he was practically crawling in contortions.

Buzz! Before he could send the voice message, Xu Qianqian replied—it was actually a sixty-second voice message.

Looking at that long green message and that glaring red dot.

Jiang Nian couldn’t help but shake his head. He didn’t play the voice message, but sent a voice-bubble message directly.

“Baby, don’t love me too much.”

Xu Qianqian: “???? Are you sick or something?”

Jiang Nian: “Does having poor sleep lately count? Maybe I didn’t sleep enough during the day, and I’m too tired to sleep at night.”

Xu Qianqian sent a speechless emoji, followed by a sticker of someone pounding away fiercely.

“Anyway! You are not! Allowed to! Dream about! Me!”

“Oh, actually, I don’t want to dream about you that much either.” Jiang Nian grabbed his clothes to go take a shower, typing a reply with one hand. “Guess who I plan to dream about today?”

Xu Qianqian: “…I’m going to take a shower.”

“You need to report this too?” Jiang Nian curled his lips slightly, replying while washing his hair. “Actually, I’m not that controlling of a person, I like…”

Xu Qianqian: “Aren’t you taking a shower?”

Jiang Nian replied instantly, “Actually (blushing) I can chat while taking a shower.”

Xu Qianqian: “…”

After showering, Jiang Nian put on his earphones, ready to scroll through Douyin for a while.

He just happened to scroll onto a video of a cat scratching someone. He had just replied, “This probably hurts a bit, huh,” when a reply popped up.

【(Smiling) Dear, if you don’t have humanity, I suggest you cancel your human registration.】

Jiang Nian was stunned and quickly replied.

“Then don’t you have no biological father?”

The other side obviously didn’t expect Jiang Nian’s aggression to be so strong, and it took a minute before they replied to the comment.

“Maybe my family raised me better, so I don’t go around talking about parents all the time. (Bye)”

Jiang Nian didn’t even use his brain, reflexively replying.

“Press Shift to switch your parent forms.”

The person got anxious. “Are you reasonable at all? You’re just spewing filth. (Smiling) Did you grow up like this unfortunate mess because you weren’t taught by parents?”

Jiang Nian thought for a moment and replied.

“Come to Location, you idiot. See if Young Master Yu doesn’t deal with you. If I let you walk out with all your limbs intact, your parents are raised by my stepmother.”

“Do you think you know who you provoked? This is the wrath of a god!”

A few sentences directly silenced the other side.

When opinions clash online, using profanity easily leads to being banned, and it’s not conducive to the city’s spiritual civilization construction.

So now, he had restrained himself a lot. As long as he opened the skylight and talked some nonsense, the other side would have nothing to say.

He held a ‘6’ in his hand, unable to send it, feeling so anxious.

Meanwhile. Liu Feipeng had just come out of the shower when his phone suddenly rang.

He looked down and saw it was the girl from the nursing school he had casually hooked up with a while ago. Her face was quite average, but her figure and temperament were quite good; she had the potential of a vixen.

The call connected, and the person on the other end suddenly started crying.

Liu Feipeng’s expression changed drastically; whenever a woman cried, it meant hundreds of dollars. Without a gift, there was no way to coax her. He thought to himself that he was going to bleed money again.

“What’s wrong, baby?”

To be honest, he quite liked this vixen. Although she couldn’t compare to Zhou Yuting, she could help pass the time when he was lonely.

And seeing as they were about to reach the final step, even if he was annoyed, he had to force himself to coax her.

“Who bullied you? Tell me, and I’ll help you teach them a lesson.”

Over the phone, the girl sobbed.

“Brother Peng, someone is scolding me.”

“This internet stuff, I’ll help you scold them back.” Liu Feipeng promised full support and said gently, “Bad people are bad, Brother will help you scold them away.”

“Wuwuwu, that person seems to be in Location.” Over the phone, the woman wiped her tears. “He said he’s called some Young Master Yu. Brother Peng, can you find his address?”

“Yu?”

The smile on Liu Feipeng’s face disappeared. He was unwilling to offend Yu Tongjie, let alone look for trouble with him online.

The person on the other end was still crying, so he could only patiently persuade her.

“Pingping, things in society are very complicated. Listen to Brother’s advice.”

After comforting her for half an hour and sending a red envelope, Pingping finally hung up the phone, still sobbing.

He lay on the bed and let out a long sigh.

Scrolling through his phone, no one was talking in the Joint Exam question group; the latest message was still from a few days ago.

He thought for a moment and typed.

“The questions are good, very smooth.”

When Jiang Nian woke up in the morning, the first thing he did was reach for his phone. He checked to see if the person he had argued with last night had replied while he was asleep.

However, there was nothing.

To his surprise, the Joint Exam leak group chat had become active. From last night until now, there were twenty more group messages.

Jiang Nian roughly scrolled back and didn’t see any posts from a secondary account that looked like Yu Tongjie.

He decided to wait a little longer.

While washing up, Jiang Nian was lamenting that the 18-county Joint Exam was full of loopholes, yet it had come to an end.

And while thinking about the next 6-city Joint Exam, suddenly—Ding!

Damn it, why do you have to do this while I’m brushing my teeth?

Almost simultaneously, the panel popped up.

【Standing at the crossroads of thirty-eight years old, you have persisted in fitness and achieved some success. Full of spirit and vigor, your body has been adjusted to its optimal state. Task: Play a basketball game. Reward: Precision (Elementary).】

Jiang Nian looked at the reward on the task panel, and his hand brushing his teeth slowed down.

Precision, that should refer to all throwing, right?

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