On the dim street, Jiang Nian and Qianqian each held a bowl of hot pot stew.
"I’m starving."
Qianqian tilted her head back, mumbled with a steaming hot fish ball in her mouth, puffing out white smoke into the air like a fish blowing bubbles.
"Hahaha, you crack up." Jiang Nian laughed, "You’re like a reincarnated starving ghost, Qianqian."
"Laugh at your head!" Qianqian swallowed the fish ball and glared at him, "The howork and exams keep piling up recently, the pressure of senior year has really hit."
"I get so hungry every day, by the third period of night study my head is spinning from hunger."
Hearing this, Jiang Nian nodded.
"I’m hungry too, feels like I could eat a whole pig in three bites."
"You’re just bragging."
Senior year students are different from those in their first or second year; once the real preparation phase begins, they’re almost studying from dawn to dusk, with endless exercises and howork.
Three als a day aren’t enough at all, and sotis they lose track of ti while doing exercises in the afternoon and miss al tis completely.
So having a late-night snack becos quite necessary.
When you’re really hungry from studying, even a cup of instant noodles tastes divine.
As for the fear of gaining weight...
For soone as competitive as Qianqian, who even does howork at ho, she uses all her energy and doesn’t gain any weight at all.
"Oh, by the way, our horoom teacher said after the joint exams, night study will be extended to ten twenty." Qianqian mumbled after swallowing a radish.
"What? That’s four periods of night study!" Jiang Nian was shocked.
"Yeah, an extra forty minutes." Qianqian’s cheeks puffed up, "I heard the cafeteria at the new campus offers free late-night snacks for seniors after night study."
"Why don’t we have that!"
"They only need a score of six hundred or above... or be low-inco students."
"Whatever, I’m not really missing that bite of food." Jiang Nian suddenly took a broader view, "Paid hot pot stew isn’t bad either."
"I treated you to that!" Qianqian was shaking with anger and chill!
"Stingy, now you’re dividing between you and , I’ll treat you back tomorrow night."
The two walked slowly towards ho, chatting about things happening in class. Qianqian was sharing so gossip, but it clearly wasn’t as juicy as Jiang Nian’s stories.
Jiang Nian shared an anecdote about Wu Jungu, leaving Qianqian surprised.
"He won’t be expelled, will he?"
"You’re overthinking, he’s in the Olympic class, got a warning by calling in parents the first ti." Jiang Nian’s shadow flicked at the street corner, slanting past the trash can by the roadside.
"It’s tough living at school, that boy is quite infatuated too."
"Do you think it’s infatuated?"
"Hmm? What’s up?" Qianqian stopped on the road, a fish ball dangling by her lips, pondering for a mont, "If it were , I wouldn’t let my boyfriend stay at the school with ."
"What would you do?"
"There are many ways to manage water, you can pay soone, or lick... or make friends with a buff girl." Qianqian made a noise and bit into the fish ball.
"#￥%.....eh, there are always more ways than problems, that girl is good at pretending."
Jiang Nian laughed, this was just like Qianqian, always having the right idea.
....
Building 5 in the North District, a certain male dormitory.
The lights were long out.
In the dim dormitory, Huang Cailang stood at the dorm window.
Across from him were two group rental buildings outside the North Gate, one looked like an illegally constructed migrant worker apartnt with tin roofs, and the other was a local’s house.
An old, dilapidated house with peeling walls.
But because it’s close to school, every year failed students co back humbly to repeat the year, along with various students in their senior year or co-living for exams, it’s endured for many years.
The college entrance exam is quite magical, even a lousy building can turn to gold.
It’s filled with senior boys and girls, these houses don’t have bathrooms, each floor’s shower room is at the end of the corridor.
"Hey, studying biology again?" Lin Dong swaggered over in his underwear after a shower, "Putting in so much effort every day, all your scores are just..."
Halfway through his words, Lin Dong froze, staring at the dimly lit bathroom at the end of the sixth floor across the street, swallowing hard.
"Holy crap!"
Even Lin Dong, who could be a pervert, felt unnerved, retreating behind his roommates.
"You’re damn peeping at soone’s bathroom, are you sick?"
At this, the other five in the dorm made a noise of disapproval and began a heated denunciation.
"Cailang, you’re kinda gross now."
"You’re thinking with your lower brain, go to the toilet and take care of it, don’t let desire affect your studies."
"You’re done, you’re totally done, there’s no cure for soone like you, just try pouring cent down the pipe."
"Why can’t you be like , studying through the night?"
"Yeah, don’t let desire pierce your will, do you want your soul to rot and stink?"
Faced with the disdain and denouncent of his roommates.
Huang Cailang turned around, his gaze sweeping over his roommates. His lips trembled slightly, and with just one sentence, he shattered their resolve.
"There’s a girl across the street, probably a repeater, who often cos out wrapped in a towel after a shower."
For a mont, the dorm was silent, then they rushed forward eagerly.
"Damn, gotta see that."
"When does she co out? Did she go in yet?"
"Don’t push, you’re about to end up in my... Nantong it!"
Lin Dong was the quickest to run, and after a few minutes, the boys collectively took a sharp breath. Almost instinctively, they shouted in unison.
"She runs so fast, although her room is next to the shower room, why doesn’t she wear clothes."
"So white."
"Didn’t even see clearly, white my ass, boring."
"It’s just a kink, seen enough of it, nothing interesting."
Lin Dong turned his head and secretly sent a photo to Jiang Nian.
Jiang Nian: "?"
"The building opposite us."
Jiang Nian: "(Thumbs up), I’ll talk to Lao Liu for dorm registration tomorrow."
Lin Dong chuckled, thinking it would be great if Jiang Nian moved into the dorm. With him around, the dorm definitely wouldn’t lack jokes, it would be a cody show at night.
Way more fun than Sun Zhicheng, all Ah Cheng does is brag.
Huh, why would I think that way.
Putting down his phone, he vaguely heard soone saying they’d go to a milk tea shop tomorrow afternoon, so he asked.
"Hmm? A date? With whom?"
"A girl from a parallel class, we’ve been chatting on QQ for a few months." The roommate scratched his face shyly, "We went out during the sumr."
The dorm fell silent, all eyes on the shy boy.
"Did you kiss?"
"Baa."
You’re baa-ing! Go to hell!
The group pin him down, "Co on, spill it, did you touch her?"
All they got was silence.
The roommates were breaking down defensively, squeezing the shy boy hard.
"What, who gave you the nerve to touch her!"
"Brother Dong, I’m thinking of writing an anonymous letter to the office, you in?"
Lin Dong thought for a mont and declined, shaking his head.
"No need, we’re all dorm mates. Seeing you guys so anxious, what would the office do? Just go for a direct report, drop it in the principal’s suggestion box!"
"Give a break guys, I’ll bring you food when I co back." The shy boy quickly pleaded.
"Enjoy your bliss, sigh."
"Hey, aren’t you afraid you’ll run into soone from our class at the milk tea shop?"
"Oh, have you ever run into any of the couples from our class?"
"I’ve seen one or two...uh...but I can’t na nas." The shy boy stuck to his principles, "Caught them coming out of the milk tea shop bathroom together."
"Damn, what were they doing in there?"
"That kind of stuff, what else, making milk tea?"
"Zhen Nan’s morale is really rotten, sigh...brothers, anyone want to go to the milk tea shop with ? I’m not picky."
Everyone engaged in lively discussion, and Lin Dong asked the most crucial question.
"Did you...?"
The shy boy was quiet for a mont, "I can’t say."
Once again, the dorm erupted in frustration, neither envious nor upset, just felt appalled at the thought of how he managed to do that kind of thing with a girl...
At eleven, the nightti chatter in the dorm continued as the shy boy shared his dating experiences.
"Zhen Nan’s so small, where else can you go, it’s either the riverside or a milk tea shop."
"If you’re climbing, it’s Qingmu Ridge, but the mineral water there is three tis the price. And once you’re up there, it’s crowded, holding hands up and hugging down."
"Honestly, after my first date, my balls felt like rocks, painful and uncomfortable."
.....
Sunday morning.
Jiang Nian was in the bathroom brushing his teeth and rembered two things.
The first was to find ti in the morning to submit his biology tutorial test paper, the second was a lunch date, Zhang Ningzhi was treating him to a al.
Life is actually quite fulfilling, and if he had to choose one, he’d.... go to the al while doing test papers.
To be harsh, it seems the only value of a senior student is exams.
If you don’t study, and just date and flirt, in the eyes of the school and parents, you’re pure trash, and among classmates, just gossip fodder.
Jiang Nian was different, he was a genuine sex enthusiast.
Back to basics.
As for his opinion on senior year lovers, Jiang Nian just found it hypocritical, going for a relationship? Hands already slipped into clothes, still calling it a relationship?
Can’t they be a bit more honest, actually... as long as they look good, dating soone else would be just the sa, right?
No, should say it’ll be quite delightful.
Heading out, he glanced at the shoe rack opposite, Qianqian had already left.
Alright, though you’re pretty, more hardworking than , I’ll still have to mutter you’re such a hardworking dog.
Jiang Nian arrived at school, eating a bun as he walked upstairs.
He happened to catch a side view of Zhou Haifei walking downstairs, head bowed and hurried. As they were about to pass each other, she seed to recognize his lower half.
Though this sounded weird, but... she looked up. Their gazes t in the air, surprisingly exchanged a familiar cliché.
They never even talked, yet it felt like an acquaintance.
Perhaps just a coincidence.
Jiang Nian thought this as he made his way to the fourth floor, entering the classroom and started doing exercises.
But being Sunday, no matter how much he cald himself, he still felt the restless atmosphere in the classroom. Especially after Li Hua entered, it beca completely restless.
"Nian, are you going to the internet cafe after school?"
"No."
"What are you doing this afternoon then?"
"Studying."
The morning passed quickly, but Li Hua felt the two around him were excessively quiet. Zhang Ningzhi was motionless during breaks, writing on her task.
But Jiang Nian also wrote tasks all morning, strange? Was everyone going full speed ahead suddenly?
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