Chapter 343 Why is he taking off his clothes?

A single-handed embrace, a touch and then a release.

This made Jiang Nian anxious.

“Wait, I have too many clothes on, give me ten seconds to take them off.”

He really was an idiot; why wear a jacket in the middle of the day? Since the sun was out, wearing less shouldn’t make a difference.

Li Qingrong separated from him, feeling a little dazed. Suddenly, it became quiet, and ripples spread across the lake in her heart.

Under the sunlight, Jiang Nian casually took off his jacket and coughed.

“Cough, it suddenly got a bit warm.”

Hearing this, Li Qingrong looked at him with a puzzled expression. She saw that after a cold gust of wind blew by, a certain someone shivered.

Yet, he still tried to act tough, stomping his foot.

“Today’s wind is truly…”

Li Qingrong wasn’t good at small talk and didn’t know how to respond to him. So, she simply stayed silent, standing still like a block of wood.

Jiang Nian felt a little awkward and put his jacket back on.

“It seems to be a bit cold again. It’s all Li Hua’s fault for his jinx yesterday. Let’s go back first, I can still ask you some questions.”

As soon as she heard the word ‘questions,’ Li Qingrong seemed to grasp a keyword. This she understood, so she nodded gently.

“Mm.”

Jiang Nian was actually just trying to lighten the mood. No matter how much he wanted to, he couldn’t just do whatever he wanted in broad daylight, as he was quite introverted.

“Then let’s go. Oh, what do you want to drink…”

On the fifth floor, by the window.

The fight had long since ended. Five or six people were gathered at the window, staring at the two people inside the wall below, pointing and whispering.

“Damn, did you guys see clearly just now? Did they really hug? And the class monitor was the first to…”

“What the hell are you talking about? What were they doing there?”

“Hugging.”

“Bullshit! They were climbing the wall! Ah Cheng and I climbed over from there!” Lin Dong declared confidently, pointing at the wall in the distance.

“No one can land steadily jumping down from there. So, the class monitor must have lost her balance and fallen forward.”

“When you put it that way… it seems to make some sense.” Yang Qiming stroked his chin, “It can’t be that the class… you guys agree, right?”

“Yes, yes.”

“What the hell is he taking off his clothes for?”

“Maybe it’s too hot. It’s perfectly reasonable for it to be a bit warm when the sun is out in winter, right?”

“Yes, yes.”

“Heh heh, a bunch of cowards unwilling to admit reality.” Sun Zhicheng sneered, “I saw it clearly, they definitely hugged.”

He was different from these other guys; he didn’t think it would be that hard for Jiang Nian to win over the class monitor. On the contrary, he felt a sense of relief.

If Jiang Nian really got together with the class monitor, then wouldn’t Chen Yunyun…

He really didn’t believe that he could still lose after all this.

Sad? Painful?

In reality, no. Sun Zhicheng just wanted to howl; he wanted to howl.

“What’s he doing?”

“Who knows, he’s a lunatic.”

“Then… should we spread this news?”

“Let’s not. Maybe it’s a misunderstanding. Rumors can turn false into true, and that kid would benefit.”

“Damn, just thinking about him being hugged by the class monitor, I probably won’t be able to sleep at noon.”

“Stop talking, damn it!”

“Alright, alright, disperse! I knew I shouldn’t have come out to watch the commotion, damn it.”

At noon, the classroom was empty.

The math joint exam was scheduled to start promptly at three o’clock. There was no need to take attendance in the classroom; students could go directly from home or their dorms to the exam hall.

Therefore, most of Class Three had gone back to rest.

During the lunch break, not many questions could actually be discussed. Jiang Nian only asked the class monitor three questions in total, not because he didn’t have many questions he couldn’t do.

On the contrary, there were too many he couldn’t do.

Asking would be pointless anyway; even if he learned this question, he’d still be tricked by a different format.

Trying to improve math scores in a short amount of time was inherently a gamble. Gambling on question types, gambling on whether they were questions he knew how to do.

Li Qingrong lowered her gaze, “Are there any more you don’t understand?”

Yes, there are.

I don’t know how to kiss, so can you teach me how to do it step-by-step?

Of course not.

Jiang Nian felt a headache coming on now, with less than two hours until the afternoon math joint exam, even with every minute counted.

He might as well sleep during that time.

The lunch break was long.

Jiang Nian woke up to find it was already two o’clock. The classroom was still quiet. Normally, the afternoon break would have ended by now.

He went out to relieve himself and came back to find Li Qingrong also awake. A few new people had appeared in the classroom, seemingly having just arrived.

“Why didn’t you sleep more?” Jiang Nian sat down in his seat.

Li Qingrong shook her head, “I couldn’t sleep.”

“Mm, there are about twenty minutes left before we need to head to the exam hall.” Jiang Nian nodded, turned around, and continued to flip through the test papers.

Li Qingrong stared at his back for a few seconds, then reached out and tapped him.

“Jiang Nian.”

“What’s wrong?” He turned around, a little surprised. It was the first time he’d heard the class monitor call him by his name.

She lowered her gaze and said softly, as if to comfort him.

“Math isn’t that hard.”

In the exam hall, half an hour remained before the end of the joint math exam.

“I still need to install the anti-fraud app.” Jiang Nian picked up his pen and muttered to himself in his seat, “Who the hell set these questions?”

Some things can’t just be solved by shouting “bond, village, everyone” and then instantly gaining power and sweeping through everything.

Facts proved that math was still king.

Furthermore, the teacher’s words only rapidly increased in value after the exam was over. The math paper… was a bit Heaven-Defying.

Due to cheating, all the test papers were changed.

The Chinese exam’s difficulty wasn’t apparent; it just felt very elegant. But as soon as the second math exam started, the feeling immediately changed.

Walking out of the exam hall, Jiang Nian heard someone cursing the math paper.

“Which idiot set these questions! Damn those cheating bastards! If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t have had to change the test papers this time.”

“Please, please, can I get eighty points?”

“Damn it, I started laughing while doing the questions. I’ve never seen anything so absurd in my life, those damn conic sections.”

“The geometry diagrams were too abstract. I suspect the conditions were set using some obscure method. It was just a black mess, how are you supposed to see the structure!”

Jiang Nian’s mood was complex; he felt uncertain about his performance this time. Lucky in love, unlucky in exams, he only hoped to maintain 120 points.

He wouldn’t drop drastically, but he couldn’t expect any improvement either.

Back in the classroom.

A group of people surrounded Li Hua or Lin Dong, fiercely discussing the test paper. They pointed at their own papers, talking and laughing wildly.

“Holy cow! My brain must have short-circuited then, why would I choose C!”

“No, I don’t understand, how can the answer to this question be square root of 2? Then I ask you, then I ask you!”

“If this were the college entrance exam, I’d definitely be finished.”

“Let’s go, let’s go, back to the dorm to play games. The exam’s over, what’s the point of checking answers? It’s boring.”

Yang Qiming shook his head and left the classroom with Huang Cailang after speaking.

“These people are so boring, what’s the point of wailing after the exam?”

“Hehe, Brother Yang.” Huang Cailang smiled and echoed, “I heard Dong Wensong messed up the exam and is going to ask for leave.”

“Ask for a hammer!” Yang Qiming laughed loudly, “That idiot, always half-assed, he deserves to mess up.”

Mid-sentence, he immediately realized something.

“Cailang, you mean that girl from the liberal arts class also messed up her exam now? Girls are easily moved to tears, she might be crying right now.”

Hearing this, Huang Cailang immediately understood his intention.

“Brother, if you go comfort her now, wouldn’t you be able to take advantage of the situation?”

“It’s lending a helping hand in a time of need!” Yang Qiming corrected him, then immediately put it into action, “Let’s go, let’s go check.”

The two rushed up to the fifth floor, and their luck was good.

Lu Xuan was leaning alone on the railing, playing with her phone. The evening breeze of the sunset blew through her long hair, and in the distance were vast red evening clouds.

It was breathtakingly beautiful.

Yang Qiming’s heart began to pound violently, and he suddenly became nervous. In that instant, what he felt was surprise.

Perhaps, time had smoothed everything over.

Huang Cailang was very discreet, stopping in place. He watched Yang Qiming slowly approach Lu Xuan, silently cheering on Brother Yang in his heart.

The next second, Lu Xuan noticed something.

She turned her head and saw a strange boy smiling at her. She was startled, clutching her phone tightly.

“You are…”

Yang Qiming was also nervous. Suddenly seeing her turn her head and stare at him warily, he became flustered.

“I, I, I… I am.”

A thought flashed through his mind, and he blurted out.

“I’m from the student council. We’re doing a survey on exam mentality. Classmate, how did you do on this math exam?”

Hearing this, Huang Cailang secretly admired Brother Yang’s quick wit.

Lu Xuan was a little embarrassed, “It was alright, I should be able to get around 140. It was slightly harder than usual. What about you guys?”

A single “What about you guys?” left Yang Qiming stunned.

Fortunately, in the end, he still managed to get Lu Xuan’s QQ number under the pretext of a thank-you follow-up, and she agreed to keep her name private.

When they went downstairs, Huang Cailang suddenly realized.

“Brother, liberal arts and us don’t use the same test paper.”

“Cailang, your focus is a bit strange.” Yang Qiming patted his shoulder, “We got her contact info, who cares what test paper it was.”

“Awesome, Brother Yang.”

“Haha, her name is Lu Xuan, such a beautiful name.” Yang Qiming waved his hand, “Let’s go, I’m treating today afternoon!”

A beep, card swipe successful.

Jiang Nian was a bit confused. He was eating alone in the cafeteria when he happened to run into Yang Qiming and his buddy passing by and was directly “treated.”

He watched Yang Qiming’s joyful departing back, lost in thought.

Won the lottery?

Just then, his phone vibrated again.

After sitting down, he took out his phone from his pocket and glanced at it. Seven or eight unread messages, and the number of red dots was still rapidly increasing.

Lu Xuan had been persistent, insisting on asking questions every day.

The reason Jiang Nian hadn’t deleted her was, firstly, because they were indeed junior high classmates. Secondly, her legs were very fair, the kind that glowed.

He opened it and saw that it was all urgent messages.

“Are you there? Are you there?”

He felt speechless and replied.

Lu Xuan was a bit triggered and replied instantly.

“Can you stop sending me question marks? I just want to know some things. You’ve seen them, you can’t go back on your word.”

Jiang Nian typed back: “I only agreed to accept your friend request, what else did I promise you?”

The other party is typing…

After a long while, no message was sent.

Jiang Nian just assumed the other party had given up and didn’t pay much attention. He continued to eat, taking the opportunity to browse videos at the end of the month.

Soon, Lu Xuan’s message popped up.

“Just help me out (aggrieved).”.

Jiang Nian glanced at it, not paying much attention.

“You have so many people supporting you; it’ll be the same without me.”

Lu Xuan: “?”

“I don’t know what you want to ask, and I won’t say anything bad.” Jiang Nian was also curious what this person wanted to ask.

“You and Li Qingrong are together, aren’t you?” Lu Xuan asked.

Jiang Nian replied instantly, “Good friends.”

As soon as he sent it, footsteps sounded behind him.

Jiang Nian turned his head and saw Lu Xuan walking over, holding a bottle of drink. She was wearing a light-colored windbreaker, which made her look very ironic.

“Aren’t you, sis, stalking me?”

Lu Xuan immediately flushed with anger and said indignantly.

“I was just passing by and happened to see you. What stalking? Don’t talk nonsense!”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian immediately waved her away.

“Alright, alright, you hurry up and go.”

“With that attitude, I have nothing to say to you. If you don’t understand anything, go search it up on Baidu yourself.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan immediately softened.

“I’m sorry…”

“Who are you apologizing to?” Jiang Nian was a little impatient, “Hurry up and leave, don’t ruin my mood for eating.”

Lu Xuan’s mouth was slightly agape, thinking to herself why he was so fierce. But then she thought of her sunk cost and immediately wilted.

“Brother, I was wrong. I just wanted to ask about something.”