An empty street.
Li Lanying didn’t play around anymore, and began to fret over excuses for going out, eventually dragging herself back.
Ding, the elevator door opened.
The Jing Mansion is a residential complex, and the residents are mostly families with kids. After midnight, most lights are off.
Knock, knock, knock.
The door opened from inside, and the light from the dining room spilled out like threads, illuminating a corner.
Li Qingrong looked expressionlessly at her older sister.
"Where did you go?"
"Went to buy water." Li Lanying giggled, her smile a bit stiff, still holding a bottle of mineral water.
Didn’t buy drinks, because neither she nor Li Qingrong drink them.
"Don’t we have it at ho?"
"Can’t get used to it, prefer the water from outside." Li Lanying didn’t want to argue further and burst through the door.
"Sleepy, sleepy, I’m going to bed."
Li Qingrong stepped aside, looking at her silhouette thoughtfully.
Bang, the door closed.
After washing up, right before bed.
Li Lanying couldn’t resist knocking on the master bedroom door, then dashed into the bed and settled in.
"I want to sleep here tonight."
Li Qingrong glanced at Li Lanying, who already tucked herself in.
"...I have school tomorrow."
At this, Li Lanying grumbled discontentedly.
"You have school but went out to relax?"
"There’s PE class."
"...Fine." Li Lanying conceded and squird over, "Okay, let’s draw a line in the bed and sleep."
Li Qingrong: "..."
In the end, she compromised.
In the dark room, only the sound of Li Lanying’s restless turning and slight movent could be heard.
"What are you doing?" Li Qingrong’s annoyed voice rang out.
"Hey, don’t be so an." She giggled, "Let ask you sothing, where did you just go?"
Li Qingrong’s voice sounded in the dark, "To relax."
"Went out at night and did nothing?" Li Lanying asked the question in her heart, "What’s the point?"
The room fell silent, about half a minute passed.
She said, "I went out to relax because I wasn’t happy. Seeing him makes happy. When he sees , he’s happy too."
Hearing this, Li Lanying was stunned.
A warm corpse in its twenties, hadn’t felt like this in a long ti, made her feel a bit sour.
"Really nice, venting frustrations."
"I didn’t vent." Li Qingrong said flatly, "Just chatted for a while, he dug up fishhooks to play fishing by the river."
Li Lanying listened in bewildernt, "What’s the point?"
"I don’t want him to be unhappy with ." Li Qingrong paused, "He never tells either."
....
The next day, Wednesday.
Two periods of English class back-to-back, Zeng You was constantly refreshing. Muttered about the test papers being taught but no scores released.
Jiang Nian was quite calm, completely unconcerned about the grades.
He tried it out last night, pretty sure. Even if it’s a few points off, the class leader will likely accommodate.
Great, going to get a kiss from the class leader.
For this reason, he wasn’t obsessed with the scores anymore.
The only fun was waiting to tease Li Hua.
Can’t beat the class leader, but can’t lose to Li Hua! Double Li Double Li, how co one Li is such a misfit?
"Hua, why not ask when the English scores will be out?"
"Nothing worth asking about, not interested in foreign language." Li Hua waved his hand, "Don’t disturb my studies, buzz off!"
So aloof yet courteous, amusing to think about.
Jiang Nian pondered and then turned to Zhang Ningzhi.
"Want to play ball in PE class later?"
At this, the previously a bit grumpy young girl imdiately lit up, looking at him brightly.
"Really?"
Next second, she coughed and tried to act composed.
"Why not ask soone else?"
"Then I..."
"You!" Zhang Ningzhi pinched his arm hard, annoyed, "You always lie!"
"No, last ti you bailed on ." Jiang Nian pointed at her, "Saying this, aren’t you embarrassed?"
Hearing this, Zhang Ningzhi’s face flushed, she lowered her head.
"It... it was an accident."
"No more accidents, stubborn." Jiang Nian pinched her leg in return, "Just bailing."
"No, I wasn’t!"
During the noisy break ti, the two continued to banter.
Suddenly, Zeng You stood up.
"Whoa, scores are out!"
At this, Zhang Ningzhi’s eyes lit up. Instinctively wanted to take out her phone to check, but hesitated.
She looked at Jiang Nian, seeking his help.
"Don’t look at like that." Jiang Nian waved her off, "You know I’m a good student following class rules."
"Tch, then I’ll do it sneakily after school." Zhang Ningzhi said halfway, lowered her voice, and said embarrassedly.
"No one can catch then."
"Alright, alright, let you see." Jiang Nian took out his phone, closed all pop-up notifications.
"Not gonna check yours first?" Zhang Ningzhi curiously asked.
Of course, Jiang Nian couldn’t say it. While everyone was checking scores, no one ssaged him, let her check first.
"Good desk mate goes first."
"Thank you then." Zhang Ningzhi didn’t suspect, took the phone and logged into the app, "Internet is slow..."
Watching the cautious girl checking her scores, he wondered when to complete that task.
Just making a al, perfect chance to see Zhizhi’s mory Fragnt.
Last ti he finished viewing Xu Qianqian’s mory Fragnt. Saw all her years of entrepreneurship and experience joining the company.
Amidst that, there were monts of stress causing holy showers.
Mr. Xu’s struggle diary.
No doubt, Xu Qianqian is a born businesswoman.
Everything went smoothly, earned enough then stopped imdiately. Joined the company, started a stable work life.
Made money early, over thirty but seed like a young girl in her twenties. Smart people tend to stay smart.
Back to reality.
Zhang Ningzhi saw her score, 130. She imdiately breathed a sigh of relief, but regretted a bit.
"Listening is so annoying, always thunder and can’t hear clearly."
"True, but everyone is like that." Jiang Nian took back the phone, smoothly logged in to his account.
"No, you’re not like that." Zhang Ningzhi stared at him, "Your listening was full score."
"Huh?" Jiang Nian glanced at the score, quickly covered the phone, "Cough cough, hiss~ How co so low."
"How much?" Zhang Ningzhi curiously asked.
"ssed up."
Hearing this, Zeng You in the front got interested.
"Let see."
His English was all weak, not many questions he knew how to do. With so basics, most were guesses.
Yet, even this scored 75.
"Oh don’t don’t don’t.....! Really, no."
"Let see, let see!"
After so tussles, Zeng You saw the number on the screen. His eyes blurred, lost the sparkle.
"Whoa, you’re really a jerk!"
Zhang Ningzhi on the side watched puzzled, tugged on Jiang Nian’s clothes.
"Let see."
"No, not good, really." Jiang Nian tried to stop, then sneakily showed Zhang Ningzhi a glance.
Zhang Ningzhi’s expression froze instantly, eyes went blank.
"Bad person."
"Right, he uses his tricks on people around him!" Zeng You couldn’t stop cursing.
Jiang Nian is the most cunning, shaless person he’s seen.
At the classroom door, Li Hua and Ma Guojun walked in together.
The forr looked smug, happy as can be, smiling at everyone, seeing Jiang Nian directly grabbed his collar.
"How did you know I scored eighty-three in English?"
Li Hua indulged in extre bliss, fantasizing the happiness of adding up to over six hundred thirty with six subjects.
"Hmm?"
"Why aren’t you talking, byd?"
Jiang Nian sighed, looked regretful.
"ssed up the English essay, made look dumb."
At this, Li Hua leaned back tactically.
"Really?"
"Let see!"
"No, no, better not... brother, don’t do this."
Zhang Ningzhi and Zeng You watched the drama repeat, numb.
Until Li Hua glimpsed at the screen.
"Chi Shi!!!"
"Damn it! Scoring one point off the whole paper is called looking dumb!"
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