CHAPTER 166: CHAPTER 143: THE OLDER GENERATION OF ARTISTS ARE ALSO UNEASY

"Bye-bye, see you next week. Let us know in the group when you get home!" Lin Li hung the cold chicken salad on the bike handle and waved goodbye to the two people heading back to the school gate as she continued cycling home.

"Yeah! Bye-bye!"

"Damn Ding Sihan." Lin Li immediately changed her expression after getting on the bike.

She said she would treat us, but in the end, I paid for all three of us, and she still gritted her teeth at me, like a dog biting Lv Dongbin.

Hehe, women and girls, as expected, are evil and unreliable creatures!

No wonder when disasters happen, they usually let women and children escape first, because only that way can you quietly and effectively find a solution!

This weekend is a holiday, but Mom won’t be home until tomorrow morning or even noon, so Lin Li didn’t rush to eat dinner at the community cafeteria. Instead, she went home and downed all the cold chicken salad, then immediately sat down at her desk.

She set up her phone, adjusted the lighting, and lined up the textbooks on the desk, taking a deep breath.

[Memory Boost], activate!

After using it three times, an exhilarating sixty minutes of study came to an end.

Exhaling deeply, Lin Li liked the feeling of knowledge passing through her mind and actually leaving something behind.

Then Lin Li connected the phone to the computer, edited, accelerated, and sent the video—done in one go.

Bai Bufan, hehe.

...

Since he didn’t live in Xiling, Bai Bufan had just arrived downstairs at home, looking for a parking spot.

Seeing the phone notification that Lin Li had sent him a video, Bai Bufan immediately chuckled, dimmed the screen, and raised it up so that the back faced the driver’s seat where his father was. This way, even if he turned his head, he definitely wouldn’t see what Bai Bufan was watching.

He tapped open the ninety-second video after proper preparation.

Bai Bufan’s smile gradually faded, turning pale, lips began to quiver, and fear slowly swept over him.

The upper left corner displayed ’60x’, indicating this was a video at sixty times speed.

During the whole sixty seconds, the sped-up Lin Li in the video was constantly focused on studying!!

Not even a bathroom break!

After sixty seconds, the video speed finally normalized, but in the frame, Lin Li stared at the camera, with a sinister grin, speaking in a slow and eerie tone:

"Bai... Bu... Fan... I didn’t break our agreement, I’m studying at home, so you can’t stop me now, right?"

"I’m telling you! I’m going to study today, ·to·mor·row I’ll study, and ·the·day·after I’ll study, too."

"Every minute, every second, I’m going to study, no matter what you’re doing, remember, I! Am! Studying!"

"Remember—"

The screen grew darker, and the audio became intermittent:

"I... am... stu...dying..."

The video abruptly stops at the word ’studying’, with Lin Li’s terrifying face still close up to the lens, glaring intensely.

Bai Bufan tossed the phone aside, trembling in fear, as if he had touched something extremely ominous.

This... is way too terrifying...

What is Lin Li doing now? Could she still be studying?

"Come on, your mom finished cooking long ago and is just waiting for you to come back and eat." Father Bai finally found a parking spot, turned off the engine and closed the door, speaking to his son after getting out.

Only to see his son sitting in the back seat as if he’d lost his soul, like he’d seen a ghost, and immediately worriedly approached, "Bufan, what’s wrong?"

Bai Bufan snapped back to reality, fumbling several times before finally grabbing his phone, getting out of the car clumsily, even stumbling once, which scared Father Bai.

"Dad, I won’t eat dinner yet; I... I need to study first." Bai Bufan said weakly.

Father Bai: "?"

Slightly relieved, Father Bai took off his belt with a cold snort: "Tell me, what exactly are you hiding? What trouble did you cause during the excursion?"

Bai Bufan: "?"

...

After forwarding the video to the four-person group chat, Lin Li went downstairs for dinner.

Minutes later, Bai Bufan sent Lin Li three sixty-second voice messages, which Lin Li didn’t open.

See, he’s anxious again.

When Lin Li opened the group chat, Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu were sending him question marks, while Chen Yu Ying was cheering him on.

But afterwards, they continued talking about the photos, discussing how to post them on their WeChat moments tonight.

Lin Li’s video didn’t cause a stir, but that was expected.

Just like Zhuo Yongfei telling Lin Li he studied all vacation, Lin Li would just reply, ’You’re great.’

The only people Lin Li could influence were his few good buddies.

Speaking of which, should Lin Li send the video to Bao Wei as well?

Lin Li opened the chat with Bao Wei, but eventually exited.

Forget it, better not disgust him.

Bai Bufan mainly spent the entire excursion watching Lin Li, which was excessive, so this was a necessary punishment.

Bao Wei, count yourself lucky to evade this one.

...

At eleven at night, having just spent fifteen minutes defeating the inner demon in his heart, Zhou Baowei lay comfortably on the bed, ready for sleep.

"Bai Bufan: ’Video’"

Looks like there’s something good again, but this jerk couldn’t send it earlier; he sends it after I finish fighting that demon.

Guess I can only appreciate it with a pure artistic perspective.

Watching the video, when Zhou Baowei saw what Lin Li did within a minute, his expression turned unpleasant.

Upon seeing the back, it turned out to be disgusting Bai Bufan, and Zhou Baowei finally breathed a sigh of relief. He realized Bai Bufan was tagging him for a reason, preparing to join Bufan in snitching on Lin Li’s virtual family tree.

"Zhou Baowei: Finished watching, really disgusting."

"Bai Bufan: ’Video’"

Huh? There’s more?

Lin Li is truly a beast.

Zhou Baowei clicked on the second video.

The first 60 seconds were almost the same as the first video, except the lead was swapped to Bai Bufan. Although Bai didn’t appear as serious as Lin Li, he had indeed studied for a whole hour.

Then came the terrifying curse segment without any fast-forward:

"Zhou... Bao... Wei..."

"You called me to game just now~ I said I was booked~ Haha~ Actually I was lying to you~ I was studying~ Studying~ No, it should be—"

"I’m... also... studying..."

The creepy tone and pitch were exactly the same, the close-up shots were exact replicas.

"Ah!!!!" The phone was smashed onto the pillow, Zhou Baowei gasped for air.

Sending horror videos in the middle of the night, two of them, Bai Bufan is just as inhumane!

After a long time, his breathing finally calmed down.

"Two idiots, just study if you want, what’s it got to do with me, damn it!"

Zhou Baowei wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead, but after this commotion, he no longer had the mood to play with his phone. He turned off the light, preparing to sleep.

"I’m... studying..."

A minute later, in the darkness, Zhou Baowei abruptly sat up on the bed.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Lin Li’s page-turning sounded in his left ear while Bai Bufan’s writing sounded in his right.

The two simultaneously uttered demonic whispers.

"I’m... studying..."

Who the hell can sleep like this!

"Dogs!! Dogs!!" Zhou Baowei roared, then his gaze awkwardly locked onto the desk not far away.

He let out a bleak smile.

Then got up.

Damn you, Lin Li.

Damn you, Bai Bufan.

...

Father Zhou got up at night to go to the bathroom and found the light in his son’s room was still on.

He sighed and went to push open the door: "Why isn’t it..."

Damn, it’s a ghost in the middle of the night.

His own son secretly studying in the middle of the night.

Father Zhou closed the door and opened it again.

Damn! It’s real!

"Son, what’s going on? Why have you suddenly taken to studying?" Father Zhou asked concernedly as he stepped forward.

"It’s nothing, Dad, just suddenly felt like studying, really nothing." Zhou Baowei waved his hand, his expression indifferent and emotionless.

"Ah... Umm... Then... shall I make you some midnight snacks?" Father Zhou felt something stuck in his throat.

"... Okay." Zhou Baowei hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Father Zhou’s heart skipped a beat.

Why did he hesitate?!

Is this still Bao Wei?

...

As a teacher, Xue Jian basically never turned off his phone notifications.

Not fully asleep yet, he heard the notification sound and picked up the phone to check.

"Father Zhou: Teacher, did something happen during our kid’s autumn outing?"

"Xue Jian: Bao Wei? Is he having another stomach problem? Or is he studying too?"

"Father Zhou: Eh? How did you know that? Is nighttime studying actually a school requirement?"

"Father Zhou: Then I think it’s unreasonable for the school to make such a demand..."

Xue Jian sighed and scrolled down the chat.

Around seven in the evening.

"Father Bai: Teacher, did something happen during our kid’s autumn outing?"

"Father Bai: Why is he only thinking about studying?"

"..."

Xue Jian rubbed his temples with a headache, spent ten minutes chatting briefly with Father Zhou, and the other party finally felt a bit reassured.

Then he looked at the contact list, found "Lin Li’s Mom."

Next, he reverently bowed three times.

"Please, dear parent, don’t send me any messages, I’m begging you."