Chapter 324: Arrested on the Spot — So You're the Palm-Reading Expert, Are You?

"You aren't secretly in love with me, are you?" The moment Yao Bei Bei walked into the classroom and took the gloves from someone's hand, her face flushed red.

"Us being like this... isn't right."

"You f*cking..." Jiang Nian was done with this bunch of idiots, reaching out to snatch it back. "Take it or leave it."

"On the contrary — even if I reject your pursuit, I still have to accept the gift." Yao Bei Bei pulled her hand back, not letting Jiang Nian succeed.

"Actually, that's not true — you're pretty low-effort too." Jiang Nian couldn't be bothered to argue with her. "Nezha has three heads and six arms; you have one head and two arms."

"Look at the gloves you gave them, and see how they're different from mine." Yao Bei Bei glanced over, only then leaving satisfied.

"Thanks." She waved and left.

After going through such a cringe scene, Jiang Nian stepped out for a breath of fresh air. When he came back, he found Li Hua had already put the gloves on.

"Nian ah, let me tell you something wild." He lowered his voice, his gaze drifting. "I suspect someone has a crush on me."

Jiang Nian: "

Holy sh*t, no wonder you two can play together.

"Are you usually this confident?" Jiang Nian was a bit speechless, pointing at the drawer. "Keep looking — there might be a love letter in there."

"Good point, almost forgot!" Li Hua ran back to his seat, rummaged around for a while. "Who the hell stole my love letter?"

By comparison, Ma Guojun was much more normal.

", wild gloves!"

Jiang Nian: "Born."

Fortunately, Zhang Ningzhi understood emotional value — her face showed a genuinely delighted expression as she unwrapped the gloves and tried them on.

"What cute gloves, thank you."

Cute?

Jiang Nian looked at those fluffy white gloves, thinking to himself that they probably did count as cute.

In fact, these were just gloves thrown in to meet the order minimum. Though the price wasn't cheap either, he hadn't seriously picked out the style.

He had simply picked the best-looking pair out of five pairs of gloves and given them to Zhang Ningzhi.

Of course, Jiang Nian had a pair himself too. Stowed in his desk, mainly for wearing to school in the mornings.

As for Xu Qianqian, she had long since bought matching best-friend pairs with Song Xiyun.

Morning reading time.

Jiang Nian was still doing his test paper, occasionally glancing back to sneak a peek at what book the class monitor was reading. Stealing a bit of study experience to strengthen himself.

A scholar's business — how could it be called creeping?

Li Qingrong was a little nervous at first from his behavior, but after a few more times she became desensitized. She let him look, not even lifting an eyelid.

Jiang Nian turned back around and continued working on the problems with his head down.

He thought to himself, did the class monitor put on lip balm today? Her lips looked especially pink and soft. Even from that distance, she smelled sweet.

What about Zhizhi then? Oh, she didn't put any on.

This counts as one win for the class monitor.

But Zhang Ningzhi's complexion was already naturally good, and her whole body carried a light floral fragrance. She was also very serious during morning reading, meticulous.

This counts as one win for Zhizhi.

He had lost miserably — five hundred points.

Thinking it over, it was all that dog Li Hua's fault.

Monday's routine weekly test — the whole morning flew by.

After lunch let out, Jiang Nian ate and went straight back to the classroom. He kept racing against the clock to do problems, fighting for more review time.

He'd been very busy this week.

First, the weekend would hold the Six-City Joint Exam; Monday was the weekly test. Tuesday was a full day of going over test papers — two days would pass in the blink of an eye.

Wednesday was PE class, and he had arranged with the class monitor to play badminton together. Thursday, he had to take time off to sit the Subject One exam.

All in all, the time left for him to review was only about three days.

"Hiss! How come you've been working so hard lately?" Yu Zhiyi came in through the classroom's front door and was struck right at the opening.

Jiang Nian hadn't even looked up yet, feeling a bit puzzled in his heart.

Why was her voice swaying like that?

"Didn't you also come to the classroom?" He turned and glanced at Yu Zhiyi — his gaze stopped once it reached below her neck.

Jiang Nian was rather traditional, feeling that looking at her face wouldn't be very polite.

"Also, why do you sound so tea-like when you talk?"

"Do I?" Yu Zhiyi leaned over, took a look. "Isn't your physics grade decent? Why are you doing open-book?"

"The top-tier student is showing off here, huh?" Jiang Nian raised an eyebrow.

"No no no!" Yu Zhiyi immediately stepped a bit farther from him, waving her hand — her clothes swayed gently along with it.

She thought for a moment, and, for the sake of getting on good terms, asked with her hands clasped behind her back.

"I got 87 on last week's physics test — guess.......

how I did it?"

Hearing this, Yu Zhiyi's expression turned complicated.

"Is that really how you see me?"

"Not really — normally I still use my eyes to look." Jiang Nian was getting a little impatient. "Stop beating around the bush, just say it."

Yu Zhiyi glanced left and right, then said mysteriously, "I recently got my hands on an upperclassman's physics score-boosting notebook — it's pretty good."

"Want it? Let me show you."

Jiang Nian hesitated, then asked.

"Are you really that kind?"

"What do you take me for? If it really helps you raise your score, how will you thank me?" Yu Zhiyi deliberately teased him.

"In your name, write a love letter to Li Hua."

Yu Zhiyi: "

The physics secret manual ultimately fell into his hands—a thin printed booklet, looking rather legit.

He flipped it open: a compilation of various problem-solving techniques and mid-difficulty knowledge points.

Jiang Nian studied it carefully for a few minutes and felt its approach overlapped with his own. So he silently accepted it, thanking Yu Zhiyi in his heart.

Both products of the elite class, fellow Daoists of the same realm.

As expected, their needs were similar too.

Afternoon comprehensive-science weekly test.

Jiang Nian once again put down his pen at the last minute and let out a deep sigh.

He turned to glance at Li Qingrong's answer sheet—neat, clean handwriting. Every spot that should be filled was filled, no blanks.

On that day, Jiang once again recalled the terror of being dominated by a 700-point great being,

Li Qingrong had never scored 700, but Jiang Nian had never seen her push for total score either. Whatever she did, it looked like she was just going through the motions.

School was almost out—the last afternoon self-study period.

The class had just finished the comprehensive-science weekly test, and hardly anyone could settle down to do homework. Almost everyone was chatting or leaving their seat to use the restroom.

Jiang Nian's mood was a bit restless too. He folded up the weekly test paper neatly.

He turned to look at Zhang Ningzhi and said with a serious face.

"Believe it or not, I actually know how to read palms."

Zhang Ningzhi's face was written all over with disbelief; she knew he just wanted to hold her hand again. She had already thought of a counter for this and directly shook her head.

"I don't want a palm reading."

"What a pity. Excuse me, I need to go pee." Jiang Nian stood up, face full of regret. "All these skills and no one believes me, sigh."

Hearing that, Zhang Ningzhi immediately blocked his path again.

"You're not going!"

"Why?"

"Be... because school's not out yet." Zhang Ningzhi casually made up a reason. She knew Jiang Nian definitely wasn't just going to pee.

"Doesn't everyone do this? No one's doing homework." Jiang Nian was baffled.

"Then... everyone does it, so you have to do it too!" Zhang Ningzhi's face turned red. Then she bit her lip and stretched her hand out.

"You... you go ahead and look!"

Seeing this, Jiang Nian couldn't help but be pleased.

He took Zhang Ningzhi's hand, turned it over and examined it. He felt it up and down, even tickling her palm.

"Your hand....

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"What about it?" Zhang Ningzhi glared huffily at the "liar."

"You've got hand cream on, can't really make anything out." Jiang Nian brushed it off with a couple of lines, preparing to let go of Zhang Ningzhi's hand.

Suddenly, a figure flashed past the classroom door.

The moment Old Liu entered the classroom and saw Jiang Nian holding a female classmate's hand, his whole body stiffened and he nearly fainted from anger.

He would have liked to turn a blind eye, but Group Six was right beneath the podium!

His face instantly darkened. He thought to himself how he lectured about it every day, every month. Puppy love is no good—it ruins one's ambition, no matter who's doing it to whom.

In short, the school does not encourage and even explicitly forbids puppy love!

The moment Old Liu suddenly appeared, Zhang Ningzhi was scared stiff. She stood there like a wooden post, forgetting to pull her hand back.

Only when Old Liu stepped up to the podium did she wake as if from a dream. She yanked her hand back, her face blushing crimson in an instant, rouge staining the roots of her ears,

The classic head-down, pretend-to-do-homework move.

Jiang Nian, on the other hand, barely reacted, acting as if nothing had happened. He propped his hand on the desk, seemingly ready to hear what Old Liu had to say.

Old Liu coughed once but didn't criticize Jiang Nian.

He just called for quiet first, mentioned a few minor class matters, then moved on to the key announcement about the joint exam.

"Ah, this weekend, our school will hold a joint exam simultaneously with City No. 1 High, City No. 2 High, No. 9 High... and other county partner schools."

"First, I must emphasize exam hall discipline. Cheating is forbidden! The school has already set up an inspection team to patrol every exam hall."

On the podium, Old Liu spoke sternly about what would happen to cheaters.

Down below, Zhou Yuting couldn't help feeling a bit guilty.

She couldn't help but realize that clown account hadn't been logged into for a long time. The joint exam was coming up, and she had a bad premonition.

The six-city joint exam date was still Saturday and Sunday.

After Old Liu finished announcing things, he glanced at Jiang Nian again and said with a slight frown.

"You, come outside with me."

Hearing that, Zhang Ningzhi's body couldn't help but tremble. She was so nervous her teeth were chattering, and she couldn't help turning to sneak a peek at Jiang Nian.

Yet Jiang Nian simply stood up directly and said with a grin.

"Excuse me."

Zhang Ningzhi bit her lip and slowly made way for him. Her gaze followed his back, her heart both worried and afraid.

Afterwards, Zhang Ningzhi saw them talking at a spot a little farther from the classroom door.

Originally Old Liu's face still looked stern, even a bit angry. But after Jiang Nian muttered a few words—who knows what he said—

Then they saw him pull out his phone right in front of the homeroom teacher.

At that moment, Zhang Ninzhi couldn't help but draw in a sharp breath.

She wondered what he was doing.

However, Old Liu suddenly calmed down,

even nodded at Jiang Nian, then patted his shoulder. He seemed to be saying something, his expression a little awkward.

A minute later, Jiang Nian returned to the classroom.

Just in time, the dismissal bell rang.

A group of people in the classroom immediately swarmed out, no one paying attention to what was happening by the podium.

Zhang Ninzhi voluntarily made room for Jiang Nian, letting him return to his seat, watching him with a tense face.

"Homeroom teacher..... what did he say?"

Jiang Nian waved his hand, "Nothing happened."

Zhang Ninzhi first let out a sigh of relief at his words, then asked in annoyance,

"What....... did you say?"

"Nothing much, just that I guarantee I'll score over six hundred on the joint exam this time."

"Oh, I see." Zhang Ninzhi nodded, then suddenly felt something was off. "Then why did you suddenly pull out your phone?"

"Oh, because Old Liu asked how many minutes until class ended." Jiang Nian rubbed his face, "I figured I didn't have a watch on me....

Zhang Ninzhi: "..

..:.. You almost scared me to death just now."

"Really? Was your heart beating fast?" Jiang Nian got the urge to tease, and turned his head to meet the girl's bright gaze.

Her eyes were sparkling, like a smile blooming like a flower,

In Ye Yanqing's straightforward eyes, he saw his own reflection. The smile on the girl's lips didn't fade, the light in her eyes radiant.

In fact, what he told Old Liu was that if he were dating, it wouldn't just be holding hands secretly, but openly holding hands in broad daylight.

Apart from the six-hundred-point guarantee, pulling out his phone wasn't to check the time.

He didn't say anything, just directly opened....... the photo album image he'd already blindly opened in his pocket.

That was a photo of him and the class monitor together.

In the photo, the boy and girl's heights were different, making them look especially like a couple.

Seeing this, Old Liu immediately dismissed his suspicion of Jiang Nian's early romance. He thought that if this guy really wanted to date, he would have done so long ago.

"Teacher, class is almost over."

"I...... I see, you can go back first, and review well."