Chapter 415 Is my cousin pretty?

The next day.

Jiang Nian opened his eyes, didn’t even look at his phone, and directly threw off the covers to get up.

This was absolute trust in his biological clock.

While brushing his teeth, he glanced at his phone.

Five o’clock.

Oh my god!

He immediately spat out a mouthful of foam, then looked out the window and froze.

So, after washing up, he spent a little more time on a practice test before heading out.

“Perhaps, it’s really necessary to hang a ‘Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence’ calligraphy piece at home.”

It was still dimly lit, and he yawned.

He had many good friends recently, and he had to reply to messages every day. But unless it was an urgent message, he usually concentrated on replying before bed.

Yesterday, Xu Qianqian said those words, then disappeared like a hamster, with no follow-up.

Jiang Nian wasn’t in a hurry about this.

Xu Qianqian was thin-skinned but stubborn, and would get angry if rushed. Even if she was covered in iron, she couldn’t withstand him hammering in rivets one by one.

In front of the bun shop.

Jiang Nian and the owner exchanged glances, then he lifted his foot and, in front of the owner, openly walked towards the wrap shop next door.

Honestly, he was tired of buns.

The owner’s eyes were numb, completely used to it by now. His peripheral vision caught another semi-regular customer, and he immediately perked up.

“What kind of bun would you like?”

Zhou Haifei looked up, then lowered her head again under the owner’s eager gaze. She walked towards the wrap shop and stood beside Jiang Nian.

“Is the three-yuan one good?”

“Add one yuan, the four-yuan one is even better,” Jiang Nian, in the manner of a Senior, accurately pointed out the most cost-effective wrap.

Hearing this, Zhou Haifei hesitated for a few seconds.

“Okay.”

The bun shop owner stood dumbfounded, watching the two take their wraps and leave together, the light in his eyes extinguished. The wound of betrayal would never heal!

“The taste of wraps is really good,” Jiang Nian exclaimed, then asked, “Did you get your bonus yesterday?”

“Mm, six hundred yuan,” Zhou Haifei replied.

Jiang Nian stepped into the school, taking a bite of his wrap.

“Then you’re quite impressive.”

He took his championship prize and left, not even bothering to check who won second place, let alone the results of the women’s competition.

“Did you watch my match?” Zhou Haifei asked curiously.

“No, I guessed,” Jiang Nian said, “The two experimental classes squeezed the spots, so if you could still earn money, that’s definitely a thumbs up.”

(Thumbs up).

Hearing this, a slight smile appeared on Zhou Haifei’s face.

“After all, there’s money to be made.”

What, prioritizing money over people? Are you a professional assassin too?

On the third floor, the two were about to part ways.

“Alright then, next time there’s an event with money, I’ll call you,” Jiang Nian waved his hand, preparing to go upstairs and continue his intense studying.

“Wait… wait a moment,” Zhou Haifei called out to him.

“Hmm?”

“That… when are you free, and when your girlfriend won’t misunderstand, I’d like to treat you to a meal in the cafeteria.”

Jiang Nian: “?”

What kind of patch-up monster was this? It seemed Qing Bao had a successor.

“Is there a possibility that I don’t have a girlfriend?” Jiang Nian held up a finger, “Do friends eating together also need to avoid suspicion?”

Zhou Haifei thought for a moment, then bit her lower lip.

“Even between friends, there’s a first-come, first-served order, and… a love triangle.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian was stunned.

Sister Feifei was also a forward-thinking player, with such a deep understanding of friendship, truly embodying the idea of great skill appearing clumsy.

He scratched his face, “It shouldn’t… be that serious.”

Zhou Haifei looked up, exceptionally serious.

“I don’t want to get beaten up.”

Indeed, Jiang Nian also didn’t want to get stabbed.

Yandere characters were best locked in the two-dimensional world; if they broke through the dimensional wall into reality, they would at least be urban legends on the level of Tomie.

“Alright then, let’s arrange a safe time,” Jiang Nian nodded, showing his approval for Feifei’s philosophy.

She didn’t want to get beaten up, and he didn’t want to get stabbed.

Although it sounded like a secret rendezvous, it was actually a very pure friendship, and the underlying reasons were heartwarming.

“How do I contact you?” Zhou Haifei couldn’t help but ask.

“Q…” Jiang Nian saw her pull out a flip phone and immediately changed his words, “I don’t use QQ much, just text me directly.”

Saying this, he gave her his number. Soon, a number called him, and he saved it with a note.

“No, you send me messages,” Zhou Haifei said very cautiously, “I’m afraid of being caught and not being able to explain.”

“Okay,” Jiang Nian was almost breaking out in a cold sweat.

Excellent, she was a saint of secret rendezvous!

One could only say it was very suitable for three people to live together.

Jiang Nian stopped fantasizing; after all, Feifei was just his placed River Crab.

“What are you guys doing so early in the morning?”

Li Hua saw a group of people gathered at the interactive whiteboard at the podium, walked over, and couldn’t help but be stunned.

“What the heck, chess?”

“Yeah, who let the dog in?” Jiang Nian turned around, patted Liu Yang’s shoulder, “What’s the phone number for our school’s security office?”

“red stone!” Li Hua squeezed in.

“Checkmate!” Lin Dong began his decisive move.

Tao Ran looked up at the ceiling, thought for a moment, and then directly closed the interface.

“There’s something dirty, I’m not playing anymore.”

“What the heck?”

Li Hua was wounded a second time and returned to his seat with a dejected look.

“A bunch of bastards.”

“Why is Huazi so resentful?” Jiang Nian also returned to his seat, looking left and right, finding that Zhang Ningzhi and the class monitor hadn’t arrived yet.

He had been doing practice tests all morning, and to avoid being labeled a’study freak,’ he had just gone along with the crowd for a bit, watching the commotion.

One could only say that the ‘Qing’ scent on him was getting stronger and stronger.

He just didn’t know how to repay Qing Bao. If it were Old Liu, it would be easy. Send a banner upon graduation, and he’d be all smiles.

A banner from an individual usually wasn’t as effective; it was best to have an official seal.

“I’m not resentful, I want to laugh,” Li Hua’s mouth gradually twisted as he pulled out a woman’s phone, “How are you guys even playing on the whiteboard?”

“Where did you get that phone?” Jiang Nian was stunned.

Li Hua had always been portrayed as having strict parents; they only gave him cash for living expenses. Even online shopping required friends to make purchases for him.

He even watched videos on a broken phone without a SIM card, which was completely unpresentable.

“Oh, my cousin gave it to his blind date,” Li Hua said, “The other person wasn’t interested, so my cousin gave it to me since he didn’t need it.”

“Your cousin… he really deserves to die, inflating prices.”

Hearing this, Li Hua was stunned. He thought about it and also felt that Jiang Nian made sense, so he nodded solemnly.

“Don’t worry, I’ll use this simp phone with a critical mindset.”

After a while.

“Old Ma, do you think tenosynovitis will affect my ability to use my new phone?”

“Where did you get that phone?”

Such conversations occurred many times throughout the morning.

After morning self-study, the whole class was slumped on their desks, catching up on sleep.

Zhang Ningzhi poked Jiang Nian’s arm, lowering her voice and asking curiously.

“Is the group leader crazy?”

“Don’t mind him, he’s having hallucinations from being single,” Jiang Nian said, continuing to write on his test paper, but then noticed a gaze on him.

He turned his head, and Zhang Ningzhi was staring at him intently.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh, nothing,” she turned her head away again, muttering, “Nothing at all, perfectly normal.”

Jiang Nian was directly confused, “?”

He reflected on himself and found that he hadn’t done anything wrong. He hadn’t secretly rendezvoused with a friend, nor had he casually bothered her.

As for other things, they were no different from before.

So, what was wrong?

Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, two consecutive English classes. Qing Bao entered the room, first glanced at Jiang Nian, and a smile of anticipation for praise appeared on her face.

Some people in the class were confused, not knowing why Qing Bao was in such a good mood today.

“Teacher, why are you so happy today?”

“Is there good news?”

“Yes, yes, it’s a friend’s child,” Qing Bao covered her mouth, smiled for a while, and then said, “I feel like they’re a good match.”

Jiang Nian lay on his desk, rolling his eyes.

That old woman really lied without batting an eye. If he had even eight-tenths of Qing Bao’s mastery, he wouldn’t have to worry about being stabbed.

No, what was he even learning from the teacher?

【Ding! Standing at the crossroads of thirty-eight…】

A mechanical synthesized voice rang in his mind again, and in the early morning, it immediately jolted the drowsy Jiang Nian awake.

He suddenly straightened up from his desk, looking at the task panel that popped up before him.

It’s here!

【Over half a year, your appearance and temperament have undergone drastic changes, and your relationships with the three girls have become increasingly close.

Congratulations on completing your first transaction from scratch. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Please continue to build your business Empire.

Task: Complete one transaction and accumulate 1,000 yuan in effective profit. Reward: Hundred-fold return, ex-wife’s memory fragment.】

Jiang Nian finished reading, and couldn’t help but be confused.

He had guessed the hundred-fold reward task, and earning a thousand yuan wasn’t too difficult; he’d try to see if he could continue to transfer money from one hand to the other.

But… ex-wife’s memory fragment, this was a bit hard to deal with.

He remembered last seeing his ex-wife in 【Xu Qianqian’s Memory Fragment】. As for when they met, Zhennan was too small.

So small that you could find anyone through a third person.

With this fragment, it would have… zero effect on him. Whether his ex-wife appeared or not, it wouldn’t affect his studies.

“If I really find her, should I beat her up first, or…” Jiang Nian muttered, “But she doesn’t seem to be able to trick me anymore.”

“Trick who?” Li Hua’s ears were sharp.

“Your sister.”

“Huh? My cousin?” Li Hua shivered, pointing at him, “You really are a bastard, my cousin is only in junior high.”

“My dad is five years older than my mom, and didn’t it still…” Jiang Nian was extremely calm, his gaze suddenly falling on Li Hua’s pocket.

“By the way, can your phone sell for a thousand yuan?”

“You animal, it’s bad enough you’re eyeing my cousin,” Li Hua said with a look of horror, “Damn it, you won’t even spare a classmate’s phone.”

Jiang Nian ignored him, only thinking about his desire for the hundred-fold return, and casually said.

“Let me see your cousin.”

“red stone!”

“If the class finds out you added a freshman last time…” Jiang Nian blurted out, “You even said…”

Li Hua immediately felt guilty and grabbed Jiang Nian.

“Let’s discuss it, she has photos in her space.”

“Who are you looking at?” Zhang Ningzhi leaned over, then asked Li Hua, “Group leader, is your cousin pretty?”

“Pretty… not pretty, I don’t know,” Li Hua chickened out, “I’m face-blind. Oh no, my phone’s broken.”

Jiang Nian, however, didn’t feel guilty at all, as he was only looking at photos.

“Oh, let’s look at his cousin.”

“By the way, Zhizhi, do you have a cousin? I heard you mention last time that you had an older cousin who got married, so you should have a younger cousin too, right?”

People from Zhennan should be tough like this!

“Look at your head!” Zhang Ningzhi pouted, unable to contain her anger, and pinched his waist, “Don’t talk to me!”

During the long break, Li Hua secretly pulled out a photo of his cousin.

“Pretty, right?”

In the photo, a pure, single-lidded girl smiled like a flower. A little further back in time, she could have been a QQ Space internet celebrity.

The kind of pure girl whose photos, even after being reposted until the quality degraded, could still be used as avatars.

“Ah, why don’t you look alike?” Jiang Nian was surprised, “Are your looks so ordinary that Auntie and Uncle picked you up in the snow?”

“red stone, you’re the one who was picked up!” Li Hua put away his phone, “My cousin has a lot of people chasing her in junior high.”

“And then?”

“They can’t catch her, my uncle is…” Li Hua stopped mid-sentence, “Forget it, let’s not talk about this. And don’t even think about my sister.”

“No, not thinking about her,” Jiang Nian said, “Is QQ 24746?”

“What the heck, you animal!” Li Hua was shocked, turning to look at him, “When the hell did you memorize that?”

“Just now.”

The bell for morning exercises had rung for a long time, and most of the class had already left.

Liu Yang shouted, “The rest of you, hurry down for morning exercises!”

Jiang Nian walked up to Liu Yang, threw the six-hundred-yuan cafeteria meal card Old Liu had given him onto Liu Yang’s desk, and said lightly.

“Help a brother check in.”

Li Hua witnessed this scene and was utterly shocked.

“Damn it, so arrogant?”

He silently put the new phone he was about to pull out to show off to Liu Yang back into his pocket, thinking, ‘Does having money make you so great?’

“Hua, are you eating?” Jiang Nian asked.

“Eating, bro, I’m eating,” Li Hua immediately changed his expression, then warned, “But don’t get any ideas about my cousin.”

“Although she’s pretty, she has some personality issues. She’s been spoiled by her family, so she’s not easy to get along with.”

“Oh, oh,” Jiang Nian didn’t take his words to heart.

During the long break.

Almost everyone went for morning exercises. Jiang Nian strolled to the office alone and got a new meal card from Old Liu.

A balance of a thousand yuan, which made him feel great.

This was a genuine teacher’s cafeteria meal card, offering food that couldn’t be bought with money and was much tastier than the regular cafeteria food.

“Thanks, teacher.”

“Mm, you deserve it,” Old Liu didn’t ask him why he hadn’t gone for morning exercises, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

“There’s one more thing.”

“Hmm?”

“It’s just that… it’s fine for classmates to interact and be friendly. But try to keep it friendly, and don’t let it turn into romance.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment.

“Oh… okay.”

Old Liu watched Jiang Nian’s departing back, his brow almost furrowed. High risk, high reward, could he still reach the other shore?

Whoosh, whoosh, the Senior high students finished their morning exercises.

A crowd of people noisily went upstairs, laughing, chatting, and bustling, a lively scene.

Yu Zhiyi and Zhou Yuting were chatting, and the topic happened to turn to romance. As someone with experience, she said earnestly.

“A boyfriend who only apologizes is not a good boyfriend. A truly qualified boyfriend should be the type who can communicate effectively.”

Zhou Yuting nodded in agreement, smiling awkwardly.

“Just being able to apologize should be enough, right?”

“Wrong, that’s a false apology, and it doesn’t solve the problem,” Yu Zhiyi said seriously, “I feel this deeply.”

Jiang Nian emerged from a nearby stairwell, habitually saying.

“This won’t do, that won’t do, just give you two slaps and it’ll be fine.”