Chapter 492: Qiao Mu Private High School
Fifteen minutes later, in the boys' dormitory.
When Bai Liu walks down the halls of the dormitory, other students in the corridor look at him with disgust and then walk away from him indifferently. Bai Liu used to walk past such stares, but now he can't help but look at the ankles of these students with a subtle gaze.
...... There was a mass of puppy lines trying to attack the ankles of these passerby students who were looking at him indifferently and obliquely with their own threaded hands and feet.
But each time the lines brushed through the emptiness of these students' ankles, and these students walked past Bai Liu as if they hadn't even seen the mass of puppy lines.
After fifteen minutes, Bai Liu was sure that he was the only one who could see and touch the lines of the puppy that had failed to ask for ice-cream and stuck to him.
But he still wasn't sure what this sudden mass of puppy lines was.
"Where did you come from?" Bai Liu closed the door to his dormitory, he ripped off the ball of puppy dog string that was trying to climb up into his lap, and calmly questioned, "Why did you come here, and for what purpose?"
"I am from the future." The puppy thread ball was forcefully held down by Bai Liu, deflated into a ball, and its voice became urned, as if Bai Liu had covered its face, "I came here to keep you company."
"Stay with me?" Bai Liu raises a subtle eyebrow, "Never came here to keep me company? Why?"
Puppy Threads said seriously, "Because I like you."
"I don't want any time in your life, so I've come to this time to be there for you."
"I don't need to." Bai Liu coldly refused as he waved the mass of lines away, "You can go back."
The puppy's threads grew strangely large, and it toppled over Bai Liu's hand to hold him down, his voice becoming a little clearer, "You're lying."
"I'm a soul because of your love, and if you really don't need me, I'll disappear."
"But if you need me, and like me, and love me, I'll get bigger and more molded little by little."
Dark eyes appeared on the puppy line's face, "I will turn from monster to human because of your love."
"I'm used to being alone." Bai Liu remained indifferent, "Whatever you are, you can go back from wherever you came from."
The puppy line didn't speak, but just grew a little bit bigger again, and it stared straight at Bai Liu with a pair of black eyes that were □□/nakedly provocative-
[You're lying.]
[Because I can sense that you don't like being alone.]
Bai Liu's breathing rose and fell slightly, the thoughts in his head swirled between [This thing is so annoying can I get rid of it] and [Am I really mentally ill? Then calmly stopped in the middle of the two thoughts and chose one---.
[I've probably been playing too many horror games lately and fantasizing about a horrible monster I want to get killed.]
"Whatever." Bai Liu decided to ignore the bizarre mass of lines as he got up and began to pack up the notebook Lu Yizhan had left under his bed.
The puppy threads quickly climbed up Bai Liu's back in a few clicks, and he lay on his back, sprouting two threaded hands to encircle Bai Liu's shoulders, like a grown man embracing his partner from behind.
Bai Liu paused and went back to packing his laptop.
But then this mass of puppies started asking, "What are these?"
Bai Liu pretended not to hear, so--
"What are these?" "And what's this?" "Is that Lu Yizhan's name on it?" "Isn't your name Bai Liu?" "Why are you taking Lu Yizhan's things?" "Are you playing a prank on Lu Yizhan, stealing his things so he can't find them?"
This dog is a living kangaroo, and he can keep asking questions obsessively until he gets the answer he wants.
Bai Liu took a deep breath, his temples pounding from its noise, and had to raise his head to answer its question, "This is the teaching aid Lu Yizhan prepared for me."
"Oh." It was quiet for a second, then asked, "What's the teaching aid?"
"Didn't you come from the future?" Bai Liu asked coldly in return, "Never been to high school? Don't even know the teaching aids?"
The two lines of the puppy's threads slowly gathered together and merged, and it lay on Bai Liu's shoulder, revealing only a pair of black eyes as if it was a bit confused: "Should I go to high school?"
"Not only should you go to high school." Bai Liu's tone was light, "You should also get four hundred points and at least a bachelor's degree."
"What's ...... undergrad again?" The puppy grew more and more confused, "I've only ever fucked you, why do I need an undergraduate degree?"
"I don't want to go to undergrad, I don't want to go to high school, I just want to go to you."
As if the puppy threadbare understood something, it slowly looked at the team of teaching aids, a murderous aura flashed in its black eyes, and its attitude resisted to show its refusal, full of hostility, it flung its threadbare hand on those teaching aids as if it were flinging a whip, "You can't go to high school or undergraduate school, either, you're only allowed to be with me... ..."
"Enough!" Bai Liu interrupted the dog's words, he took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, his voice was a little muffled as he felt a place inside his brain bursting with pain from the overshock, "...... What is the relationship between you and the future me?"
Puppy Threads thought for a moment, and he replied, "The relationship where you would let me in the shower."
Bai Liu: "......"
What a disgusting relationship.
Bai Liu returned to the classroom with his teaching aid, and the mass of puppy lines that had grown a little more lay on top of his head like a puddle of hats, their dark eyes looking around like large animals inspecting their environment.
The moment Bai Liu was about to step into the classroom, he was shouted at, "Bai Liu, stop."
Xu Wei stood on the podium, lesson plan in hand, and looked at Bai Liu with a smile on his face: "Very good, skipping my class again. "
Bai Liu knew what had just happened as soon as he scanned the sparsely seated, tired and bored group of students in the classroom.
Xu Wei takes up the free time in gym class to talk about the paper, but in his absence, he is seated as a truant.
"How dare you still be so rampant after scoring 278 points on the exam, just because you were stuffed in the school can't expel you, right?" Xu Wei commented, "Since you don't want to listen to me talk about the paper, then don't listen and go stand outside."
Bai Liu turned from his kindness and walked out to stand outside the door, he dropped his school bag at his feet and rummaged through it to read a copy of the English notes Lu Yizhan had made for him.
From time to time, Xu Wei's mocking jeers were echoed by the laughter of her classmates in the classroom:
"Well, kick out those who don't want to listen to the lesson, and if you want to listen to the lesson, listen carefully."
"English is the most important course for you, your future development will be international and globalized, and you will come into contact with elites from all over the world, if you can only score 45 points in English, you will only be able to introduce yourselves to each other with a few phrases like "I am Bai Liu, fine, and you"?"
"The orphanage orphans in these developed countries have more than this level of English when they are two or three years old, so think what people will think of you?"
The students below laughed loudly and quickly.
The tip of Bai Liu's pen that was sketching out the notes paused for a moment unnoticeably, and he continued to read on without much expression on his face, very faintly.
"I am Spades, fine," the mass of puppy lines on his head suddenly moved forward a little, his head peering down, his dark eyes looking at Bai Liu, "and you?"
The puppy lines' English pronunciation is awkward and broken, obviously modeled after Xu Wei's pronunciation just now.
Bai Liu didn't answer.
Puppy Threads doggedly repeated again, "I am Spades, fine, and you?"
"and you?"
"AND, youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!"
Bai Liu spoke slowly, "i am Bai Liu, fine, stop."
After getting the answer he wanted, Puppy Threads subsided for about two seconds and soon began asking questions again, staring at the notes in Bai Liu's hand and asking, "What is this?"
"English." Bai Liu replied.
The puppy realized, "Oh, that's what that monster woman just said she wanted to learn."
The corners of Bai Liu's mouth quirked up very lightly, and then were pushed down again as he gave a hmmm as if nothing had happened.
"Why do you need to learn English?" Spades became covered with scabies, "Can I learn it so I can play the game better?"
Everything Spades has learned from the beginning of his birth until now has been about getting better at winning in the league, and in his mind, learning has only one purpose - and that's to get better at playing the game.
Lu Yizhan tried to teach him literacy, teaching Spades a little bit more about other things, like math and biology, but Spades realized it was useless for the game and skipped school.
"......" Bai Liu replied after a pause, "You can't learn English to play the game better."
Spades asks rhetorically and from the bottom of his heart, "Then why learn English?"
"In a broader sense, it's to remove barriers to communication, to broaden the scope of your future ability to exploit others, and to become proficient in English so that you can exploit human beings who use it as their native language." Bai Liu explains in a flat tone, "In a narrower sense, it's to get ahead of the short-term competition, so that you can be at the forefront of exploiting other people and better enrich yourself."
"Uh-huh." Spades ponders for a moment and replies honestly, "Can't quite hear you."
Bai Liu paused, "Simply put, it allows you to communicate with foreigners."
"Is it great to communicate with foreigners?" Spades asks.
"That's how the group behind me feels." Bai Liu's tone was flat, "It gives one a sense of vanity to interact with people who are not from one's own region and who they perceive to be of a higher class without barriers."
"Then wouldn't you be more powerful than all of them?" Spades nodded seriously, "You can communicate with me, an alien, without difficulty."
Bai Liu: "......"
How in the world did he end up with such a mess of human-animal, line-obsessed, game-playing, no-high-school, and brain-dead aliens in his future?
After a full day of classes, Bai Liu went back to the dormitory with a puppy doughnut on his head that had grown bigger.
The dormitory was empty, Bai Liu was accustomed to this scene, he put down his book bag and habitually walked into the toilet, just about to zipper down his pants to use the toilet, he paused for a moment and turned his head with an indifferent expression to look at the puppy doughnut that had climbed up to his shoulder and was staring straight at his right hand that was in the process of zipping up his pants.
Bai Liu: "......"
Two seconds later, the puppy doughnut was thrown out of the toilet by a hand.
A minute later, Bai Liu, who had finished washing his hands, pushed open the door to see the puppy doughnut lying on his pillow, looking like he wanted to sleep with him.
Bai Liu, who was wiping his hands, gave another beat.
Three seconds later, ripped from the pillow and thrown to the floor, the puppy doughnut looked confused, "Why can't I sleep in the bed?"
"Because I don't like people sleeping in the bed with me." Bai Liu sits on the edge of the bed, he doesn't even look at Spades on the floor, "Neither do pets."
"I want to sleep on the bed." Spades very rebelliously stretched out a line jio touched the edge of the bed, dark eyes staring straight at Bai Liu, "I want to sleep next to you."
Bai Liu gave Spades a nonchalant squint, "You can try."
Spades: "......"
He detected murder in that glance.
Line jio slowly retracted back into the mass again, and Spades balled up onto Bai Liu's instep, sounding a bit depressed, "I can sleep with you, why can't I sleep in the bed?"
Bai Liu calmly retorted, "...... You can't sleep with me now either."
"Oh." Spades thought for a moment and asked seriously, "So I can sleep with you in forty-five minutes, one period later?"
Bai Liu : "Neither can ......."
During the previous class Bai Liu explained to the inquiring Spades that a class is forty-five minutes long, and that the rules of the class would be different from the previous one as each class would have a different person and a different lesson.
In Spades' head it becomes [the rules will be changed after forty-five minutes in this copy], so in his case, the rules can be changed in forty-five minutes.
What you can't do forty-five minutes ago, you can do forty-five minutes later.
"Then I can ...... in ninety minutes," Spades persisted.
"I can't." Bai Liu interrupted coldly, "You can only sleep on the floor."
Spades let out an oh-so-quiet sound as he climbed off of Bai Liu's feet and crawled to a position roughly thirty centimeters away from him, turning his back on Bai Liu and not saying a word.
That look started the gamble.
After gambling for about fifteen seconds, a thread jio suddenly stuck out of Spades' doughnut body and wiggled on Bai Liu's instep, hooking Bai Liu's hand for a handshake, but Spades still had a cold, I don't want to talk to you look on his face.
Bai Liu has spent a day with this guy and already fully understands that this is a sign of making up after a bet.
Just like the dog, with a handshake, the previous thing where you made him feel bad about gambling can be erased.
Bai Liu: "......"
Having a dog is such a hassle.
Bai Liu thought with an expressionless face, but he shook it anyway.
Spades quickly turned around and came over to lie on the backs of Bai Liu's feet and began to ask questions, "There are four beds here, are there three other people staying with you?"
"Uh-huh." Bai Liu responded nonchalantly.
Spades continued, "And where are they?"
"I was having a late night snack and didn't come back." Bai Liu's tone was light, and to prevent Spades from asking the next question [why didn't you go to eat then], Bai Liu continued, "I didn't go because I didn't have the money to eat."
The standard of food here at Qiao Mu Private High School is very good, but again the price is quite high. The orphanage prepares a basic set meal for each child who comes to the school, with three dishes and one soup, two meat and one veggie at each meal, which is more than enough food for three meals.
But it's the nightly snacks that aren't included.
Qiao Mu Private High School has a special late-night snack window that starts after 9:30 p.m. It serves a wide variety of dishes, ranging from fried chicken and coke to eight different cuisines, but of course it's also expensive, with the cheapest beef noodle dish costing eight yuan a bowl even with Bai Liu's poverty subsidy.
It's twenty bucks a bowl when it's not open.
However, for students with excellent grades and ranked in the top four hundred in the school, the school can give a $50 night snack allowance every day, but only for their own use.
In their freshman and sophomore years, Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian would try to use the allowance to make late-night snacks for Bai Liu to eat, and once they were reported by someone who saw them, suspending the late-night snack allowance for Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan for three months.
Bai Liu never ate late-night snacks again.
But it's actually hungry.
Seventeen or eighteen years old is the age of growing body, even if the three meals eat even more full, to eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening will be hungry, so Bai Liu their dormitory of superior students basically evening self-study class once to the night snack window to run, eat until almost 10:30 will not return to the dormitory.
"Squeak-"
The door of the dormitory was pushed open, the other three students who had been talking happily saw Bai Liu in the dormitory with his head lowered, who was reading his notes, as if he had seen something extremely upsetting, his words stopped at once, and the smiles on his face also disappeared.
They walked into the dormitory with cold faces, all carrying food packed back from a late night snack that they hadn't finished, which was placed on the table by one of them, which the other hastened to stop.
He eyed the man to look at Bai Liu and mouthed the words, "Watch out for stolen food."
The other man glanced at Bai Liu, his eyes growing more and more disgusted as he put the food he had packed back into the cupboard and locked it up, then turned his head back and deliberately walked past Bai Liu: "Please move over, I'm going to go wash the dishes."
Bai Liu feet lifted a little, eyes indifferent, as if giving way to some kitten or dog.
This person see Bai Liu this side did not put him in the eyes of the appearance, the heart of the fire a moment up, he violently raised his voice: "Today my bowl was moved a little position, the whole dormitory only you do not have a bowl, is not it you move?"
Bai Liu raises his eyes, "I moved it."
The man who was about to accuse Bai Liu froze, he didn't expect Bai Liu to just take it.
"That bowl was touched by me, it should be dirty." Bai Liu flipped through the book with his eyes downcast as if nothing had happened, "You throw it away."
He bought that bowl for over three thousand dollars! It was a bowl he took out specifically to raise his face for a late-night snack! The other two guys in the dorm thought he was rich because of the bowl!
This man was dying of anger, face red, but a look at the other two people look at their own bowls are a dirty you quickly throw away the look, he died to save face, but also really distressed bowl, actually to the face red and Liu Bai argued up: "You touched the words indeed dirty, but maybe I remembered wrongly, it seems that its position did not move."
"I really touched it." Bai Liu looked up, his eyes were sincere and innocent, "That bowl looked so expensive, I just couldn't help but touch it several times, I touched it from the inside out, I'm sorry, it should be dirty beyond repair, throw it away."
The man's face went a shade of green and white as he gritted his teeth and said, "That is indeed dirty, I'll throw it away now!"
Bai Liu gave a nonchalant hmmm, "That bowl looks so fine and pretty I couldn't help but touch it a lot, you better smash and throw it or I won't be able to stop touching it again."
Shit!
The man cursed angrily in his heart twice: now he couldn't even pick it up and wash it to bring it home to use!
The student physically smashed the bowl as the other two looked on, eyes brimming with tears, wiped them away, gritted his teeth and walked away with the garbage bag, "You really can't have anything if it's dirty, I'll take it down to the dump."
...... I don't know what it's smashed into, so I'm not sure if it's possible to pick up the pieces and still patch them up.
The man was puking and picking up debris at the garbage dump, and because the light was dim and the trash can smelled bad, and his fingers were cut several times by the debris, he couldn't help but howl and curse, "Shit Bai Liu!"
--It was as if he was the one being bullied.
When he got back, the man huffed and puffed, took a shower, lowered the curtains, and got inside his bed, and within a few moments there were suppressed sobs coming from the curtains, as if someone inside was smothering their head and hugging the covers.
The other two looked at Bai Liu with embarrassment and slight trepidation, and then at the man in the curtain, and then they silently showered themselves, not daring to be a demon, and also lowered the bed curtain to get inside to study.
Bai Liu alone occupies a whole desk in the dormitory, leisurely setting out his notes to study, and the other three don't even dare to probe and stare at him.
-The scene, as if Bai Liu was the one who school bullied the three of them.
All three had curtains for their beds in order to isolate themselves from Bai Liu, and inside the curtains there was a layer of blackout cloth, in order to make it easier to study in bed at night.
Qiao Mu Private high school rules do not allow students to turn on the night light at night to study, but privately for the dormitory of honors students, the dormitory manager is to turn a blind eye, as long as you do not turn on to one or two o'clock in the morning, and generally see your dormitory light will not be too pursued.
Bai Liu is currently taking advantage of this, there are three honor students in his dormitory, and no one comes in to bother him when he reads Lu Yizhan's notes with the light on.
Gradually, the other three went to sleep, leaving Bai Liu alone with the light on.
Bai Liu looked at the sheets of physics notes written by Lu Yizhan with a grave expression.
It's a big magnetic field question with two magnetic fields superimposed at the same time, and at this time a positively charged particle from inside a particle emitting machine in some kind of haunted day's eye, accelerates through one magnetic field, then turns through another, then falls back into the last field and spins around, hitting a plate.
Knowing the distance this particle has turned, ask, what was the acceleration of this particle at the very beginning (particle gravity is not negligible).
Below is a full A4 page of Lu Yizhan's problem solving and diagramming process, accompanied by various knowledge points.
Bai Liu, who had read such a question in two hours this evening and hadn't understood it yet, put down his notes with a smooth expression, nodded fervently, and said, "...... Studying is really the least cost-effective thing you can do."
Spades was lying on Bai Liu's shoulder, he had just asked Bai Liu a lot of questions which Bai Liu didn't answer, but he kept on asking:
"What's this?" "Why did they just say the bowl you touched got dirty?" "What are you drawing?" "Why is this dot spinning three times in a pile of dots?"
After making sure the other three were asleep, Bai Liu answered Spades' questions one by one in a soft voice:
"It's physical."
"They're trying to ensure their superiority over me, so they say that anything I touch gets dirty."
"I'm drawing a magnetic field analysis diagram."
"I don't know."
Spades mused for a moment, he wasn't interested in physics and chose the next question he most wanted to know then asked, "But you're not dirty, you're cleaner than they are, why do they think you're dirty?"
"It's not that they think I'm dirty, exactly, it's just a stupid way of saying that they simply don't want to touch me, and that they don't want me to touch their stuff to find it." Bai Liu explains in a tone that doesn't fluctuate, "Of course, it's also true that I don't have this need for skin-to-skin contact ......"
Before Bai Liu's words fell, his pupils suddenly shrunk violently.
The little black blob on top of his head became a threadbare mass the size of a grown man, and the man sat behind him, his hands passing from his waist to open and clasp together in a tight embrace, the man's chin resting on his shoulder, his voice muted, his tone quizzical, "You don't have one?"
"You obviously love cuddling with me in bed."
Night.
Bai Liu faces the wall, his eyes are a stare close to blankness, and behind him there is a thread in the shape of a grown man with his head against his shoulder, his arms wrapped around his waist, his legs clamped around his legs, his breathing rising and falling calmly in a deep sleep.
...... Bai Liu has no recollection of exactly how the situation evolved.
This dog threadbare suddenly became a human threadbare, then played hardball with an attitude, slowly rubbed up against his bed, and now it's in this pattern.
"Get off." Bai Liu pushed the large threadbare mass backward with such force that he was breathing a little faster, and did his face not maintain its calmness but a repulsion as if he were being invaded in his own private sphere, "You can't sleep in the bed."
"You can't cuddle with me like that."
Spades' voice was dazed and sleepy, and you could tell it wasn't awake at all, "You don't like being cuddled up like that?"
He took hold of Bai Liu's shoulders in a familiar way, flipped Bai Liu, who was originally resisting to face the wall on the ground, and rubbed Bai Liu's cheeks in a daze, then pressed Bai Liu's head, whose eyes were completely blank, onto his chest, and put his hands around Bai Liu's lightly trembling back, and gently patted Bai Liu's shoulders with his broad palms, his voice still slurred, "You like to sleep in this way, don't you? was still muffled: "You like to sleep cuddled up like this, don't you?"
"Sleep."
Bai Liu's posture was as if he had been completely embraced by a giant doll, nothing in his eyes, and his hands, which he had wanted to push away, were pinned by the Spades, so he couldn't move at all.
After a long interval, Bai Liu's vision moved slightly as he looked toward the three beds with thick bed curtains hung to purposely isolate him.
[So unlucky to be in a dormitory with an orphanage student.]
[...... eh, found a relationship, can not turn the dormitory, can only make do.]
[I've heard that orphanage-borns also have unclean hands and feet and bodies, and will eat fodder.]
[Grass, wouldn't that be dirty?]
[I really don't want to live with this kind of person, ask if there's anyone who wants to share a dormitory with him, right?]
[Who would want to live in a dormitory with such dirty people?]
Who lives across the street from him?
[I don't want to.
[I wouldn't want to.
[Fuck, that can't be helped, no one wants to live that close to him, let's draw straws, whoever's unlucky!
Bai Liu blinks slowly, all the places on his body that would be said to be dirty if he touched anything else are tightly embraced by Spades, and his fingers curl up a little, and very, very slowly, rawly, he hugs Spades back.
He closed his eyes.
...... Having a dog seems to be a bit of a benefit besides the hassle.
Seems like this thing he picked in the future isn't that bad.
Hou Tong realized that Bai Liu had changed a lot recently.
Before, Bai Liu would often turn his pen in the classroom alone with his eyes scattered, and when he was punished, he would also lean against the wall with his eyes half-closed and pretend to sleep, and there was a sense of perfunctoriness in the whole person from top to bottom.
It's as if there are no favorite things, no favorite people, no future to aspire to, just a careless existence in the world.
But lately that sense of perfomance has disappeared.
Hou Tong was almost surprised to find that Bai Liu had begun to study.
He is no longer in the classroom, but the expression of calm page after page looking at some teaching aids, notes, and occasionally borrowed her English paper to correct the wrong questions, and occasionally turn the pen out of the window out of focus when the face is not a little expression, but the corners of the eyes are with a very shallow smile.
That smile made Bai Liu's entire face light up in general.
He will start to do a lot of things seriously, Xu Wei almost every practice test are unwilling to find Bai Liu's grades in the rise, from 278 rose to the beginning of the three hundred, from more than three hundred rose to almost four hundred, eyes will be close to the undergraduate line.
The people in the dormitory were even more surprised to find that Bai Liu actually started to stay up late to study.
They were initially cynical and sarcastic about Bai Liu's behavior, but Bai Liu didn't respond to them at all, and soon they felt a sense of urgency at Bai Liu's regular learning and rapid progress.
When these people see Bai Liu staying up late, they can't help but want to overpower Bai Liu, so they start competing on how long they stay up late.
Bai Liu stays up until 12:00, they stay up until 12:15. Bai Liu stays up until 12:15, they stay up until 12:30.
Soon their grades slipped.
These people broke down and stopped their own late-night behavior, and still stayed up steadily to study until 1:00 a.m., grades are still rising Bai Liu generated a kind of fear, even if these people did not stay up late at night, as long as they are in the curtains can hear Bai Liu immobile turning the pages of the book sound, the thought of Bai Liu, this poor student hard to study these people will be so anxious that they can not sleep.
After the emergence of the first housemate whose grades slipped outside the four hundredth percentile and broke down and took a break from school due to chronic anxiety and insomnia, the other two housemates almost felt a sense of awe at Bai Liu, who was still staying up all night and whose grades were still going up, and whose insomnia was getting worse and worse.
Bai Liu would sometimes hear them secretly crying in the tent from the stress while studying, and others would call their parents from the balcony, cowering in fear, to report their scores when they slipped dozens of places in the monthly or weekly exams and scored only 567 points.
After the debriefing, and I don't know what his parents said to him, the man would sit stagnantly next to the tent for a while, and then begin to study while shedding tears and gritting his teeth.
Bai Liu doesn't quite understand this state of affairs, he's not under much pressure, and scoring four hundred points on the exam is his goal.
But this state of affairs didn't last long, and soon after the two remaining housemates' grades had steadily declined in five consecutive weekly exams, two monthly exams, and one mock exam, their parents came to the dormitory with grim faces to get their things in order and pick them up.
While organizing things, these two housemates stood with their heads down, glancing very quietly at Bai Liu next to them, trying to shake off the blame: "Because my housemates stayed up all night studying, I'm a bit rested, that's why my grades are slipping ......"
"Everyone else stays up late to study and their grades go up, you stay up late to study and your grades go down?!" Both pairs of parents reacted in much the same way, waving their hands in annoyance, "It's your senior year of high school, and we didn't spend all that money to pay for you to study at Qiao Mu to hear you make excuses like that."
"You can go to a day school if you want to." The parents indifferently gave them an ultimatum, "But if your grades still slip after attending a day school, just wait!"
These two housemates lowered their heads and followed their parents' asses without a word, and before they left, they looked at Liu Bai, who sent them away with a complicated look, opened their mouths as if they wanted to say something, but in the end, they didn't say anything.
After that, Bai Liu's dormitory was completely empty.
Bai Liu's life was very different compared to his roommate's desperate family situation.
Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian both sat down beside the flowerbed, they were sitting upright and looking at Bai Liu standing in front of them with a tense expression : "...... You called us down to show us your monthly exam results this time, right?"
Bai Liu hmmm'd, "The grades aren't out yet, but the papers were sent out for you to look at."
Lu Yizhan began to tremble in his voice, so nervous that a cold sweat began to break out on his face, he took two deep breaths and clenched his fists before he opened his mouth and asked, "...... Bring it."
Bai Liu handed over his own paper, Lu Yizhan didn't dare to look at it, he squinted with one eye and gripped the score column of the paper, next to him, Fang Dian was anxious and reached out to break his hand: "Open it up and let me have a look!"
Lu Yizhan finally opens the exam paper, and as they go through it, one by one, Fang Dian's and his expressions become more and more trance-like, and at last Lu Yizhan sees his eyes reddening, and he lowers his head, lifting his hand and wiping his eyes with the palm of his hand.
"No talent." Fang Dian punched Lu Yizhan in the back of the head and she tilted her head, she had very light tears in her eyes, "351 points, you're good, Bai Liu."
Bai Liu pursed his lips and averted his eyes, "...... make do."
Fang Dian couldn't hold back her laughter, she rubbed Bai Liu's head vigorously, "You're just fooling around!"
Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu's paper repeatedly from the side, his brows gradually serious: "Wait, although there's a lot of progress, there are still a lot of wrong questions, let me help you analyze it first ......"
"Analyzing shit now!" Fang Dian impatiently interrupted Lu Yizhan as she excitedly hugged Bai Liu, "Let's go for a late night snack to celebrate!"
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 05/08/2025 11:00