CHAPTER 342: CHAPTER 300 LYING IN SOMEONE’S ARMS WATCHING THE TANGLED EARTHWORMS

"Why did the first round end so quickly?" Jiang Nian complained.

After saying this, he poured a small cup of hot water into a glass cup that Zhang Ningzhi had given him. He also took out a small handful of Jasmine Tea from the drawer and brewed tea on the spot.

Zhang Ningzhi just glanced at him, and a cup of Jasmine Tea appeared in her hand as well.

Her ears turned red, and she whispered softly.

"Thank you."

In the afternoon, the clouds hung low, and there was no sun starting from two o’clock.

The classroom seemed cool and quiet, especially for those sitting by the back door.

Li Hua, half-awake, lay on the desk, listening to Lao Liu talk endlessly about the first round. He had a look of indifference, like a dead pig not fearing boiling water.

"What’s Lao Liu babbling about?"

Jiang Nian took a sip of Jasmine Tea and calmly said.

"Probably has a crush on you."

Li Hua smacked his lips, "Teacher-student romance is not encouraged, I should warn Lao Liu not to have unrealistic dreams."

Ma Guojun, across the aisle, couldn’t help but speak.

"Burned your brain with fire-drilling, huh?"

Jiang Nian held the cup in one hand and sipped the hot tea while writing a problem.

"Probably got beaten dumb by Lao Liu in the office."

Li Hua leaned over to take a look and saw several biology test papers stacked on Jiang Nian’s desk.

"Why are you starting to study biology?"

"Is it any of your business?"

"Chi Shi!" Li Hua got a little angry but quickly became enthusiastic, "I made an appointment with the boss to pick up clothes this afternoon..."

Upon hearing this, Ma Guojun adjusted his glasses with interest.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Lao Liu on the podium staring in their direction. He immediately shrank his neck, not daring to make any further moves.

Zhang Ningzhi secretly peeked at Jiang Nian’s test papers, blinking and whispering.

"Special tutoring?"

Jiang Nian half-lay on the desk, solving problems while turning his head to give her a deadpan stare.

"Jealous?"

Zhang Ningzhi thought for a while and shook her head.

"I can score over eighty in biology, but it’s hard to improve further. Some one or two point questions just can’t be remembered, no matter how much I practice."

That doesn’t apply to Jiang Nian, who never loses points on memorization questions.

Because... he remembers it all.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Nian couldn’t help but get lost in thought, wondering when he could be as good as Zhizhi.

Breaking through six hundred points is difficult; a solid foundation isn’t enough. You also have to face a sea of questions and master various problem-solving approaches.

No strategy means memorizing the textbook won’t help.

From Zhang Ningzhi’s perspective, Jiang Nian seemed silent in thought. His profile looked like he was daydreaming, perhaps a bit overwhelmed.

"What’s the matter with you?"

The benefit of sitting in the back is not being monitored.

"Doing test papers is tiring, needs some friendly hugs," Jiang Nian said cheekily, no longer content with just holding hands.

"Then go hug the group leader!"

Jiang Nian’s tone was listless, "What’s so special about hugging my son?!"

"Damn you, Chi Shi!"

"Eavesdropping again?" Jiang Nian pointed at Li Hua.

"Chi Shi, who cares about listening to your gossip!" Li Hua gave in, "You’re right next to me; it’s hard not to hear. Do you want me to cut off my ears?"

"Eat some pig’s head meat, have good luck..." Jiang Nian chimed in.

Suddenly, Lao Liu on the podium shouted angrily.

"Li Hua! Stand up!"

"Huh?"

"Digging holes or making fire all day, not doing proper work," Lao Liu said sternly, "You love talking so much? Then stand up and say it."

Li Hua was stunned, was he the only one being singled out?

Jiang Nian also spoke up, here there’s another one!

"Teacher, someone else was talking too."

Lao Liu didn’t expect Li Hua to talk back and got angry.

"Others commit crimes, so you follow them?"

Li Hua thought for a moment and nodded.

"Yeah, teacher, haven’t you heard that the law doesn’t punish the masses?"

The class burst into laughter, and amidst their laughter, Li Hua couldn’t help but feel a bit proud of his wit.

In the end, he stood at the podium for a whole class.

.....

Zhou Yuting and Yu Zhiyi had agreed one would wear a qipao, the other a dress. Naturally, Zhou Yuting would wear the qipao; her large bust didn’t look good in it.

Yu Zhiyi initially planned to wear a gown, but after seeing that almost all the rented gowns were half-revealing, she was scared into choosing a form-fitting dress.

The two had planned to pick up their clothes in the afternoon and stand together at tomorrow’s coming-of-age ceremony.

For tomorrow’s coming-of-age ceremony, Zhou Yuting was quite looking forward to it.

Even though she was struggling to balance the worries of study and life, the coming-of-age ceremony felt like the first breath of cool air in a hot summer.

The more anxious she was, the more she craved a breather.

In choosing the qipao, she deliberately picked the style with the highest "boy-slaying" effect. What do novice chefs know about form-fitting qipaos, anyway?

Could it impress Jiang Nian?

This thought inevitably popped into her mind, making her sigh a little. Half a year ago, maybe it could have.

Half a year has passed, and everything has changed.

Yu Zhiyi, on the other hand, was worried about her pictures and was concerned about looking bad on camera tomorrow.

Her phone was confiscated by Lao Liu last week, but she borrowed another phone from a friend in class two. Fortunately, she removed the SIM card before handing it in, so her web surfing wasn’t affected.

Online, everyone else’s coming-of-age ceremonies involved princess gowns.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t fit into those, and there weren’t any as exquisite offline either. After much selection, she could only choose a form-fitting dress.

The dress felt a bit like a stepmother’s dress, but didn’t carry that kind of cheap feeling.

With nothing else to do, she happened upon a post by Yang Qiming that morning. Strangely, none of class three liked it.

Just a glance, and Yu Zhiyi chuckled.

"Big monster and little monster?"

What a bizarre clothing combo. Is there no one they care about at school anymore?

Honestly speaking, she’s quite curious.

Because if someone else drew the crowd’s attention, then her small worry about her figure would disappear into thin air, no longer an issue.

Thanks to her naturally good rapport with the opposite sex, Yu Zhiyi knew a bit about boys’ psyches.

With a big monster to look at, who would stare at a stepmother dress anyway?

Maybe... Jiang Nian?

Just a bit perverse.

As soon as school ended in the afternoon, most of the class scattered.

Jiang Nian, uncharacteristically, remained at his desk writing problems, reverting to last month’s state of preparing for the county-wide exams!

Yao Beibei came to find Zhang Ningzhi; the two girls had arranged to pick up clothes at the dry cleaners.

"Lao Jiang is so diligent?" Yao Beibei casually wandered over Jiang Nian’s desk and teased, "Studying hard to collect bride price tokens?"

Jiang Nian nearly spat out blood upon hearing this and turned to look at her.

"byd, can you speak human language?"

"I can’t, because I’m an evil baby," Yao Beibei raised her hand, making a peace sign next to her eyes, acting cute, "The flower of human evil."

"Flower of evil, huh? You’ll probably end up a stepmother," Jiang Nian, with his sharp tongue, "You’ll have nothing better to do than scold the husband’s kids and husband."

"Works for me, I’ll just scold yours," Yao Beibei, indifferent to offensiveness.

Jiang Nian didn’t even look up, "Well, Li Hua will get a share of that."

Zhang Ningzhi stood between the two, glancing first at Jiang Nian, then at Yao Beibei. Nervously blinking, her head spun from their back-and-forth.

"Why would she hit the group leader anyway?"

.....

Lin Dong and Sun Zhicheng left school to pick up clothes, running into Yang Qiming and Huang Caicai.

Upon seeing each other, Yang and Sun immediately felt their rivalry.

After their previous fight, their relationship has remained tense. Even with Lin Dong there, they couldn’t avoid exchanging greetings.

"Hey, isn’t this Brother Dong?" Yang Qiming saluted crow-style, "Skipping lunch to walk the dogs?"

Sun Zhicheng’s face changed, and he sarcastically smiled.

"Is this your girlfriend standing next to you?"

Then he apologized.

"Oh dear, sorry, Caicai, my mistake, it’s too dark to see clearly."

"My bad, I forgot Yang’s girlfriend dumped him. Now he’s cuddling with a sophomore, watching tangled worms together."

Lin Dong, a professional mediator, even couldn’t hold back at "watching tangled worms in someone’s embrace."

Dang, that’s a vicious shot, Cheng.

"What the hell did you say!" Yang Qiming was about to charge but was held back by Huang Caicai beside him and blocked by Lin Dong in front.

"Peace is precious, let’s talk this over," Lin Dong, wiping his sweat, signaled for Huang Caicai to pull Yang Qiming away, "We’re all brothers, no need for this."

"I’m just stating facts; why’s someone getting worked up?" Sun Zhicheng, having bottled up grievances, finally found an outlet.

"Does this mean what I just said is true?"

"Damn it, do you want to get hit, you miserable lapdog!" Yang Qiming wished he could punch Sun Zhicheng flat.

Suddenly, a bright laugh sounded.

"What are you all doing here?"

Both groups stopped and turned to look. They saw Yu Zhiyi and Zhou Yuting watching them, the two beauties standing together quite pleasingly.

Lin Dong immediately perked up, no longer interested in Yang Qiming, and walked directly towards the two girls.

Let them fight, can’t compare to one hair of Yu Zhiyi.

"We’re going to pick up clothes, where are you heading? Dinner?"

"No, we’re also picking up clothes," Zhou Yuting couldn’t help but smile, "Where are you picking up, is it on the way?"

"It’s a bit far, in Zhennan Diagonal Street," Yang Qiming’s mood brightened at Zhou Yuting’s healing smile, "And you?"

"Not on the way, we’re at the North Market," Yu Zhiyi quickly said, truly not wanting to try on clothes with the big and little monsters.

"That’s a pity," Yang Qiming sighed.

"We’re also going to the North Market for clothes, it’s on the way," Sun Zhicheng flashed a victorious smile and said to the two girls.

"Brother Dong and I were just about to hail a cab, why don’t we go together?"

"Sure, we were planning to take the bus," Zhou Yuting and Yu Zhiyi exchanged a glance, then agreed happily, "We’ll split the cab fare four ways."

Sun Zhicheng flipped his hair, warmly said.

"No need to split, I’ll cover it."