Chapter 491: Qiao Mu Private High School

"So what do you have to do to get away from me?" The little man in the draft asked coldly as he lifted the puppy floss out of the way.

"You like me a little." The raptured puppy threads said, "And I'll stay away from you a little bit."

The little man in the draft had a series of ellipses next to him and then said, "Why should I like you?"

Under the moonlight, the puppy thread in the draft suddenly moved like an animation, it looked up, it was a pair of silver-blue eyes, "Because you in the future just love me."

Sitting on the desk Bai Liu in the pair of silver-blue eyes on the moment, everything around them became lines instantly distorted, Bai Liu clearly heard his brain came a folded things were opened snap sound, countless memories come out.

The floor beneath his feet sinks and reappears, the moon turns into the sun, the blackboard in front of his eyes turns from black to yellow, and from a sleeping Mu Sicheng behind him, he is surrounded by his staggering, intermittent classmates, and the air is sweltering hot.

Bai Liu slowly turns his head to look around, then back to the countdown in the upper right corner of the board--

-[Three hundred days until the college entrance exam.]

He went back to the first semester of his senior year just before school started.

Bai Liu has a strange feeling that he is re-cutting into his own memories from his own point of view, and as the scene around him becomes more and more concrete, Bai Liu's memories fade away and recede little by little.

What happened after he turned eighteen gradually became a blank in his mind.

Bai Liu's memories have receded to the age of eighteen, his original calm gaze has become cold and detached with the disappearance of his memories, and he has become what a real eighteen year old Bai Liu would look like.

The class was whispering and excitedly discussing, "Will any of this group of seniors who just went up the hill go to that high school lake?"

"They're all straight-A students, and their grades are so good that they probably wouldn't be interested in a place like High School Lake, would they?"

"Not necessarily, right? What if you're helping someone else with the questions for a while?"

Someone's unsuspecting gaze swept over the back of Bai Liu, who was sitting in the front row, his voice purposely amplified a bit, "What if one of these top-ranked extraordinarily gifted students has a friend who needs their help to look at this year's Advanced Placement exam questions?"

The boy sitting next to this person followed his gaze and also looked at Bai Liu, he couldn't help but poof out a laugh, and then waved his hand, "This is still forget it, some people are getting the original question on the examination center may not even know how to do it."

"I don't even understand Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian, the two of them are chasing after him like ghosts." The man muttered in a disgruntled whisper, a look of obvious malice and jealousy on his face, "And he's all lovey-dovey and pretentious, does he deserve it?"

"Now that people have gone up to the mountains, I don't see how he's going to keep up this hang-up by himself when no one's coming for him."

Bai Liu sat impassively.

Qiao Mu Private High School is a place where the cult of achievement is strong, which is a direct result of the fact that Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian, who are both incredibly exceptional in every way, are both very popular within the school, and both honors and power students are very friendly and want to make friends with them.

But these two seem to get along well, but are actually very good at keeping people at arm's length.

Every time they came to the class to see Bai Liu, they would be accosted by a number of people trying to strike up a conversation, but they usually smiled and politely declined, basically only interacting with Bai Liu.

This led to some of the ones that couldn't be accosted again and again to get annoyed, like the student to his right rear flank.

This student is from an average family and came to this school more to socialize than to study, eager to make friends with all kinds of powerful and privileged students, and has a good relationship with Bao Kangle, one of the peasants.

This person began to chatter: "I think Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian before probably just because of sympathy will be with him, they are not a world of people, and now they went to the mountain, the mountain those are really helpful to them in the future, will be friends with these people, Bai Liu forgotten, never care about the ......"

"Bai Liu--!!!" Fang Dian's voice came joyfully from the front of the class as she poked her head in through the class door of class seventeen with a big smile, winking playfully at Bai Liu, who was sitting by the window, "Old Lu and I escaped down the mountain to look for you, come out for a bit!"

The student who was still complaining choked violently as he looked incredulously at Fang Dian, who appeared at the class entrance, as if he was seeing something he couldn't comprehend at all.

Bai Liu packed up his things familiarly, walked out amidst the trance-like gazes of the student to his right and back, and walked up to Fang Dian, still with the same indifferent and cold hangover, "Let's go."

"Old Lu is waiting for us downstairs." Dian Fang said as she walked, "I looked at your class schedule and knew that your next class was gym class and you could escape, so I deliberately chose this time to come down."

"What are you guys doing down here looking for me?" Bai Liu asked.

Fang Dian grinned broadly and put her hands on Bai Liu's shoulders, she smiled, "Isn't it that Lao Lu and I have gone up the mountain, afraid that it's not fun for you to stay down the mountain alone, so I came down to play with you."

"That's not the reason, is it?" Bai Liu asked calmly in return.

"I came down to see you for that reason." Fang Dian stroked her chin, "But Old Lu doesn't seem to be, he looks like he's got a lot on his mind."

They walked to the flower bed next to the playground, directly opposite was a whole vast artificial grass playground, today's weather is also very sunny, blue sky and white clouds, green grass like grass, on it ran high school students male and female who were exercising and laughing, youthful and energetic, by all rights it should be a very relaxing scene.

"Lu Yizhan!" Fang Dian waved.

A Lu Yizhan with deep circles under his eyes, a haggard face, a mouth so dry that it burst open, and clutching a large pile of books slowly turned his head, his eyes full of emptiness and trance, his body radiating a dusty aura that was about to go into the ground, and with an out-of-body expression he slowly ejaculated in response to Fang Dian's call.

"How long did he stay up?" Bai Liu asked.

"I don't know." Fang Dian spread her hands, "It must have been a week."

Lu Yizhan holding a pile of heavy books, full of sadness sitting on the edge of the flower beds, a look at Bai Liu walking over did not say anything, first sighed: "Bai Liu, I saw the results of the first simulation test of your senior high school."

"278."

Lu Yizhan Just as if his heart was in the right place, a faint light called anticipation shone in his eyes, "Did you scribble the wrong answer card?"

Bai Liu poured cold water on the light without hesitation: "No, just can't do it."

Lu Yizhan scratched his face as he took a deep breath, "...... I know, did you deliberately do a lot of questions wrong in order to hide your points."

"Am I sick?" Bai Liu swept Lu Yizhan a breathless glance, "Why would I do such a stupid thing?"

Lu Yizhan, who always does the stupid thing of hiding marks on exams: "......"

"It shouldn't be ......" Lu Yizhan was in a trance, "You're Bai Liu, how could you only get 278?"

"What's wrong with that." Now even Fang Dian looked at Lu Yizhan strangely, "Bai Liu freshman and sophomore basically did not study ah, to be able to test 278 is already very impressive, okay?"

"But 278 is also too low." Lu Yizhan scratched his hair miserably, then quickly, he rummaged through the pile of books next to him and handed them to Bai Liu one by one:

"These are my notes on the test points for my freshman and sophomore years with Dian Fang."

"This is a summary of eighty percent of the percentage of simple questions in the college entrance exam, see should take this part of the question marks will not be a problem, I organized in accordance with this year's syllabus."

"This is a summary of the question types of medium difficulty questions, this part of the question is not forced, you have time to look at it, no time even, but you can look at the question types that appear more frequently, in case you are lucky enough to hit it this year."

"This is a common answer template for Biology, Biology is a subject where the big questions are very word stingy in terms of giving marks, and it is important that you answer the questions with words that match their marking criteria, otherwise you will lose small marks when marking the paper, and it will not be cost-effective on top of what you would have done."

"Don't count the last one of the genetics questions if you're short on time to count probabilities, they come up with a lot of little points to watch out for, like what is the prevalence rate among what populations, companion x or companion y. It's not good to get it right."

"It's chemistry, the big inorganic salts question is good for points if you don't have offbeat metal classes and reactions, just familiarize yourself with a few of the most common metal reactions and you'll be fine, at most you'll lose three points for that one where you're told to write some wacky metal reaction to match up a chemical equation."

"Just give up on the big organic questions as appropriate, there's a lot of calculations and reasoning here, and exothermic combustion doesn't work out too well, it's more time consuming."

"Conic curves for math figure out the equation for the first question and get those two points."

Lu Yizhan rambling, one by one, pulling out a variety of reference books and notebooks, which are neatly written full of test points and questions and notes, and many of the handwriting on the notebooks of the water pen is new, and it seems to be recently organized.

"You've been staying up late lately doing this?" Bai Liu asked softly, looking down at the thick notes.

Lu Yizhan sighs, "I didn't mean to stay up all night to make it for you, so you don't have to take it to heart."

"The main thing is that I learned that you scored a 278 on the test." Lu Yizhan s eyes were grim, full of bitter hatred, "I just had insomnia, I couldn t sleep, I had a hard time in my heart, so I simply climbed up and made the test points for you."

Bai Liu: "......"

It doesn't have to come to that.

"I don't understand." Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with disappointment and let out a long sigh, "You're so smart, you learn everything quickly since you were a kid, and you can pass even the hardest horror games in one go, so why did you fail in your studies?"

"I don't think the problem is that Bai Liu can't." Fang Dian pressed her elbow on Lu Yizhan's shoulder as she thoughtfully, "I feel it's because he's not willing to learn."

Lu Yizhan followed closely and asked, "Bai Liu, why don't you want to learn?"

Bai Liu flipped through the notes Lu Yizhan had made for him, and he looked up with little expression on his face, "I can't find the need to study in high school."

Lu Yizhan was stunned, "How can there be no necessity? If you get good grades, you'll be able to choose your favorite college and your favorite major, and when you go to a good college, you'll choose to go to your favorite job, and then live an ordinary yet happy, normal life."

"I don't have a favorite college or major." Bai Liu rolled his eyes as he trailed off his jaw in a loose manner, "I also have no aspirations for what you call a normal and happy normal life."

"So what do you like?" Lu Yizhan asked.

Bai Liu replied crisply, "Money."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and tried to wind Bai Liu up, "If you study hard, you'll be able to go to a top university, get exposed to the most and fastest earning avenues and specialties, and become the fastest to get rich."

"But now there's a problem." Bai Liu raised his eyes absently, "It's true that this is a normal and legal avenue for rolling in money, but it's an avenue that's far too cost-effective for me."

"I'm better at something less socially compliant, but thousands of times more likely to bring me money, than this path of long hours of paying and waiting ......"

Lu Yizhan's heart jumped as he violently interrupted Bai Liu, "Enough!"

Rarely did anger appear on his always gentle and helpless face as he stood up, "But such a channel comes at the cost of millions of injuries and even deaths, so will you choose this path as well?"

Bai Liu paused for a moment and he looked away, "That's none of my business."

Lu Yizhan chest rose and fell quickly twice, the anger on his face gradually subsided, turning into an indescribable expression of sadness, and his voice lowered, "...... You just have to go down this road against me, don't you?"

Bai Liu's lips pursed for a moment as he opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end said nothing.

There were no words between the two men for a moment.

Lu Yizhan silently rummaged through the plastic pockets placed aside, he handed them to Bai Liu: "Bought you a popsicle, eat it and go back to class."

"If you don't want them, I'll collect these notes and put them back in the dorm."

After saying that, Lu Yizhan bowed his head and collected and organized the notes he had been working on for a week, and left first, going back to the dormitory without looking back.

Fang Dian looked at Bai Liu who did not look at Lu Yizhan, she also seemed to be a bit helpless, stretched out her index finger and pointed at Bai Liu's forehead: "You, you don't want to study, just say it straight, you have to say it in such a desperate way, which caused Lu to be so sad."

"He's really worried about you."

"I don't think Lu Yizhan would have given up on letting me study until it came down to this." Bai Liu lowered her eyes and said softly, "But I'm really not cut out for this, I don't like studying."

"Was that the reason just now?" Dian Fang asked tentatively, "Do you really think it's better to go through those channels than to study?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time before answering, "No."

"What was that about?" Fang Dian rips open a popsicle and hands it to Bai Liu, "Noo, here's half."

Bai Liu took it and he took a bite, his eyelashes dropping, "Studying itself is a boring thing, I don't know what kind of life I want or what I'm going to study for, and forcing myself to do something I'm not good at just isn't worth it to me."

"The kind of life Lu Yizhan was talking about ......" Bai Liu bit down on a piece of ice and swallowed it, his heart flooding with a very shallow coldness from the ice that slid down, making his voice cold as well, "I don't hate it."

"But I don't like it either."

Diane Fang asks softly, "So what kind of life do you like?"

Bai Liu's lips rested against the popsicle, and he paused for a long time, long enough for his lips to flush red from the cold before he spoke, "I don't know."

"Then think again." Fang Dian touched Bai Liu's head, she was not worried about anything, smiling as cheerful as ever, "You're only seventeen, there's plenty of time to figure out what you want for your life, just take your time."

"Is it okay if I only take 278?" Bai Liu swept Fang Dian a glance with his afterglow, "Is it okay that you failed the college entrance exam and couldn't get into college?"

"Well, how should I put it, it might not be appropriate for me, the first in my grade, to say this to you." Dian Fang bit into the already finished ice-cream stick, she rested her hands on her face, biting the ice-cream stick, but her eyes and tone were serious, "But I really think it's nothing to take the college entrance exam only 278."

Bai Liu looks at Fang Dian: "Aren't you afraid that if I don't go to college and don't have a good job, I'll start to go astray, fall, and become a social scum?"

"There are so many kids in this world, it's not like every kid has to get 278 or above to be considered a good kid." Fang Dian turned over and winked at Bai Liu, "It's not like the kid who scores last will necessarily break the law."

"Then everyone just needs to arrest the kid who takes the last place test and there will be no criminals in the world."

Dian Fang turned her head over again, a smirk in her tone as she looked out at the high schoolers scampering across the playground:

"It's not like you can't live if you finish last in the exams... people who finish last in the exams still have the right and time to choose the life they like, too."

"But what!" Fang Dian slapped Bai Liu's back, sending him stumbling as she smiled brightly, "I still recommend you study hard when you haven't figured out what kind of life you want to live in the future."

"Because when you come across a future that you like and you want to go for that future, you don't miss out on that future because you're not prepared for it."

Fang Dian glanced at her watch and wowed, "It's already this time of day, next class is math, I have to get back to class."

"You've messed with Old Lu, lately I guess he won't come down the mountain to see you." Fang Dian pilfered his finished popsicle stick to Bai Liu and waved his hand as he ran up the mountain, "I have to prepare for the physics competition recently, so behave yourself and spend some time alone for a while, and talk to us if there's something going on."

After saying that, she ran away in a huff, Bai Liu sat alone by the flower bed with her head down looking at the two sticks in her hand.

The two sticks were given to him by Lu Yizhan and by Fang Dian.

Both of them won, and it says one more.

Bai Liu looked at the two popsicles he was holding up in his hand, and was just about to get up and leave when he realized that there was a book where he was sitting that the Road Stage hadn't had time to pack up and leave because it was being sat on by him.

He paused for a moment, then took the notebook and flipped it open.

This is a very small book, open inside is a line by line of chemical equations, seems to be in order to facilitate Bai Liu understand shorthand, each equation next to one to two lines of concise instructions, above are Bai Liu before the missed equation, wrote a small half of the book, handwriting is very new, it seems to be working overtime all night to rush out.

Bai Liu flipped to the last page of the book and he stopped, this book had a Scholar's Prayer stuck in the inner pages.

It was a red paper talisman that the stationery store in their neighborhood would give away with a purchase of ten dollars or more, and it seemed like a cheap feudal superstition ritual that would serve no purpose other than self-psychologizing.

Bai Liu unfolded the paper talisman, and inside was Lu Yizhan's elegant and powerful handwriting--

-[I hope Bai Liu can study hard, get 400 points in the exam, and do what he likes.]

Bai Liu pinched the paper talisman, he blinked slowly and clenched it slowly.

Playground people come and go, there are four classes at the same time in the physical education class, playing basketball playing volleyball playing ping pong, this group of raucous and childish high school students are in groups playing with each other, laughing and talking even Bai Liu this side of the flower beds can be heard, lively and extraordinary.

There should have been one Bai Liu in here, but he stood out just as much on the playground as he did off of it, whether he was in the center of the crowd or not.

And this one is in a state that should last a while.

Bai Liu put the notebooks into his pants pocket, didn't even look at the group of high school students on the playground, turned around and prepared to go back to his dormitory - he remembered that Lu Yizhan had just put those notebooks back to his sophomore dormitory.

He was just about to leave when he felt a tug on his pant leg, Bai Liu turned back, his expression stilled as he looked down his tugged pant leg.

In front of the flowerbed appeared a fluffy, puppy-sized ball of thread, like a draft that had been randomly scribbled out in circles with a 2b pencil, which stretched out a small foot of thread and tugged on the corner of Bai Liu's coat, tilted up what should have been his face to look at him, and emitted a peculiar, muffled sound like that of an animal whose vocal cords have not yet been formed:

"Can I have one of those popsicles you're holding?"

Bai Liu stared at the dark mass of lines and fell into a bizarre stasis.