CHAPTER 353: CHAPTER 311: THE WOUND OF BETRAYAL NEVER HEALS

"Li Hua, let’s go through the Dragon Gate with Jiang Nian," Ma Guojun suggested.

"Alright, hey, with my two sons," Li Hua pretended to be modest, and then started acting up wildly, "My sons, none of you are as handsome as me."

Ma Guojun was speechless, "byd, you’re transporting by land, aren’t you?"

Li Hua shook a finger, "No, I usually go by sea."

"Thrown into the sea?"

"Damn, Old Ma, why do you speak so crudely?" Li Hua hugged his head, started to shake frantically, "I’m a 1.5-meter-tall little loli, not listening, not listening."

Ma Guojun genuinely thought, wearing a trench coat and standing next to Li Hua was awkward.

If Jiang Nian was there, he could somewhat offset the dumb aura Li Hua brought. At least with the three of them together, he wouldn’t look too stupid.

He turned to look at Jiang Nian, just about to speak.

"Jiang..."

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a girl approaching them.

Huh?

He instinctively looked back again and realized it was the class monitor.

Ma Guojun couldn’t hold it in anymore; the class monitor was looking for Jiang Nian... could it be that they were going to pass through the Dragon Gate together? Then wouldn’t it be just him and Li Hua left?

With Jiang Nian’s characteristic of being unreliable when attracted to beauty...

Made bad friends indeed.

Just as Ma Guojun resigned himself to fate, he saw Chen Yunyun pulling Wang Yuhe towards Jiang Nian. He froze for a moment and then couldn’t help but laugh.

Chen Yunyun and Jiang Nian have a good relationship and often play together.

He was aware of that.

Although saying good things come in pairs makes sense, Jiang Nian might not find it enjoyable.

Taking another look, Zhang Ningzhi was also dragging Yao Beibei along.

Ma Guojun was dumbfounded, was the small group directly isolating him and Li Hua? He turned to Li Hua, finding Li Hua, who was mildly slow, also in a daze.

"Damn, Li Hua, say something!"

Li Hua watched as three groups of girls ran towards Jiang Nian, instantly angered, biting his sleeve.

"Damn it, the wound of betrayal will never heal!"

It all happened in an instant, and neither knew what to do.

Since you could group up with partners to pass through the Dragon Gate, the teams within each class were a bit chaotic. For instance, the couples in the class had already started teaming up.

The boys’ and girls’ lines that were originally separate became mixed up all at once.

Now it seemed, Jiang Nian couldn’t be relied on.

The Fruit Trio has fallen!

Ma Guojun was a bit numb, turning to look at Li Hua.

"What do we do now?"

"Wrong, it’s not what we do, it’s what you do?" Li Hua pinched with an orchid finger, "I’m a 1.5-meter-tall beast-ear little loli, I’ll just join them."

"You’re damn crazy, aren’t you?" Ma Guojun was speechless.

"Beast-ear loli? Where, where?" Tao Ran, wearing rimless glasses and looking like a refined scholar, "I heard it, where?"

Li Hua pinched an orchid finger, "That’s me."

"Chi Shi, you freak." Tao Ran, boiling with rage, cursed and walked away.

"You guys are both utterly crazy," Ma Guojun surrendered, intending to find someone to team up with, he looked at the equally dim-witted Nie Qiqi.

Cai Xiaoqing had long abandoned her, leaving the little fox powerless in anger.

Jiang Nian was also dumbfounded, looking at the six girls around him.

Including him made seven dwarves, afraid there would be no space for a trip.

Knock knock, the guesthouse owner asked, "Who are you guys?"

Answer: .....

Can’t fit in anyway.

Naturally, theoretically, seven people couldn’t pass through the Dragon Gate simultaneously. Because it’s hard to take a photo, who would want to not be the main character at such an event?

Jiang Nian didn’t want to. He would have loved to stand aside.

If there were a path through the sewer, he’d walk through the sewer to pass the Dragon Gate.

In the small Zhenan Middle School, there weren’t really school flowers or grass, but if he pulled six girls with him through the Dragon Gate, he’d become the talk of others.

He looked at Li Qingrong beside him, as well as Chen Yunyun, and Zhang Ningzhi who came later.

He did have quite a few friends, but back to the point.

Friends of friends are not my friends.

Those pulled over temporarily: Wang Yuhe, Yao Beibei, Cai Xiaoqing, no, Cai Xiang followed the class monitor voluntarily; these three had nothing to do with him.

...

"Ah Cheng, did you see?" Lin Dong, in a small suit, patted Sun Zhicheng’s shoulder, "You know what I mean, it’s never too late to turn back."

Sun Zhicheng looked puzzled, glanced at Lin Dong.

"I don’t understand..."

"How can you not understand? Brother." Lin Dong and Sun Zhicheng stood at the edge of the track.

Surrounded by noise, there was no fear of being overheard.

"Brother Dong, you don’t get it." Sun Zhicheng merely smiled.

He looked towards Chen Yunyun, thinking that even though Brother Dong prides himself as an experienced one, ultimately he is free in the virtual online world, unable to see through real-world rules.

Just like chatting online, he could go and stop as he wished.

Liking something doesn’t mean getting it immediately. Life’s journey is seventy years long. Why agonize over tiny gains and losses?

So regarding pursuing Chen Yunyun, he firmly believed in enduring tests over time. Who knows what the future holds; they might not even really be together.

Previously, he had the upper hand, he carelessly fell behind. Now the roles changed, Jiang Nian is the defender, who knows who will win?

On the way, besides pursuing Chen Yunyun, he could also pursue others.

As long as no one knew, there’s no problem at all.

So, he won.

Seeing that Sun Zhicheng showed no sourness or pain, but instead a hint of a smile, Lin Dong shivered inside, thinking that Ah Cheng had gone mad.

Done for, couldn’t save him.

Since Class Three is the class led by the Olympic class, the combined arts and sciences of Class Zero only had four classes in total. With not many students, it quickly became their turn.

Class Three soon had their teams formed, in groups of twos and threes.

Lao Liu stood next to the grade group leader Ji Ming, holding an Apple phone grinning and recording the Dragon Gate. He previously mentioned that he would take photos and record videos of class activities.

Once their class of 2023 graduates, he would make it into a digital memoir. If they wanted to print photos or use video materials, they could contact him to get them privately sent.

From this point, while Lao Liu didn’t hide his longing for progress, he still had a sense of humanity; it’s just that everyone has different goals.

For Lao Liu, progress is akin to cultivating immortality.

Struggling just to break out of the school might take his whole life, and joining the county committee... that’s beyond reach, with no hope in sight.

But fish do not ask other fish about the joys of being a fish; the immortal path eternally green is only a blessing. It motivates people like Lao Liu to relentlessly advance.

At the very least, with constant progress, life and circumstances improve continually compared to before.

He turned to look at Ji Ming, whose face was almost breaking into a smile.

"Group Leader Ji, it’s almost time for our class."

Ji Ming glanced at Lao Liu, knowing what nonsense he was up to.

In the senior year group, it’s still about achievements. Among them, Class Zero and the Olympic class are the cornerstones of bachelor’s, first-rate, and key-program acceptances.

As for the Qingbei candidates, they are the crown jewels. Not to mention Qingbei candidates, even C9 candidates are incredible.

And the Olympic Class Three has such a candidate, the class leader of Class Three.

Logically, Li Qingrong should have moved to Class Zero. However, due to some old issues, this treasure ended up with Liu Liangsong.

With the overall performance of the Olympic Class Three, after they finish the college entrance exams next summer.

Once the results are out, Liu Liangsong wouldn’t need to do anything at all to become the leader of the language group. If he settles down for a few years, he could join the academic affairs as an assistant.

Truly... lucky.

In an instant, Ji Ming retracted his gaze.

"Class Three’s students look really impressive; Teacher Liu, you teach them well."

Upon hearing this, although Lao Liu’s face remained unchanged, his heart carried a small pride.

The students in his class were indeed quite good, at least not as troublesome as the students from Class Four. It was said that Class Four often got into arguments, tsk tsk tsk.

"Group leader, you’re being too kind. If those little monkeys don’t cause trouble for a day, it’s a miracle."

The first pair from the class had passed through the Dragon Gate, and Lao Liu focused, holding the phone for video recording, watching the screen and smiling.

Class Three’s students, in groups of twos and threes, passed through the Dragon Gate.

The first to pass was a pair of girls, whom Lao Liu didn’t have a strong impression of. Only because they were relatively introverted, didn’t speak much in class.

If he had to write an evaluation for them, it would naturally be: You’re a lively and lovely girl... uniting classmates, respecting teachers, smart and clever.

The second pair consisted of a mixed-gender group of three, where two were a heterosexual couple. If it were a homosexual couple, he, the class advisor, would be finished.

His comment on this was: I don’t want one less or one more person in the class.

As long as the little couple stays out of trouble and doesn’t dare cause trouble, Lao Liu wouldn’t deliberately give them a hard time. Perhaps if they married in the future, they’d even invite him.

Assessed: Little couple and a bromance.

The third group to pass were Liu Yang along with two female classmates and a male classmate. The fourth was Tao Ran, huh? Why was he passing through the Dragon Gate alone?

Why, when alone, was he pretending to hold someone’s arm?

Lao Liu’s expression changed, thinking this kid might have caught something dirty? But how could this happen in broad daylight, was it really that fierce?

Next came the dramatic entrance of the Grand Marshal Weird and the Small Sergeant Weird.

And those academic stars from Class Zero, who had already passed the Dragon Gate, didn’t scatter but chose to stay and watch. Partly because Class Three had some good-looking students.

When Yang Qiming and Huang Caicai passed the Dragon Gate, the academic stars’ excitement reached a pinnacle.

"Whoa! Grand Marshal Weird!!"

"Grand Marshal Weird!!!"

Someone raised both hands over their head, moved to tears. Damn, the era of the hard-core is indeed far from over, arts and culture have revived once again!

When Yu Zhiyi and Zhou Yuting passed the Dragon Gate, they also drew quite a lot of cheers.

"Hold me, the Dragon Gate is so big it makes me dizzy."

"Whoa, are you really having a nosebleed?"

"Take pictures, take pictures."

"The qipao is truly top-notch, I still love the qipao style."

Lao Liu sighed internally, thinking that while these are his students, seeking external beauty isn’t wrong, as long as their grades are good enough.

The group of four boys with Lin Dong and Sun Zhicheng in suits also attracted many people’s attention. The four walking together looked quite mature.