Chapter 434: Learning Still Has to Be Learned, After All

Jiang Nian bared his teeth in a silent grin.

He looked at the pale-faced Wang Yuhe and thought... Showing off? I'll make you fly!

Wang Yuhe, for the sake of face, braced himself to the very end.

"Tch, who's... afraid of who!"

When the lunch break bell rang, Chen Yunyun sat beside her for a while. She also brought Wang Yuhe back to her seat, ready to do homework.

The classroom was quiet, the winter sun slanting in.

Time slipped by, approaching 1:50 in the afternoon.

Quite a few day students had gathered at the front gate, all waiting for it to open. Among them, several gazes drifted again and again toward one direction.

At the end of those gazes stood a cool, aloof figure.

Li Qingrong had fair skin and a tall, slender figure.

Her gaze was distant, her face expressionless as she stared at some spot in a trance. Her bearing was a little cold, radiating an aura that warned strangers to stay away.

After changing seats, no matter how she tried to adjust, she just couldn't get used to it. To be precise, it was once she had free time that she couldn't get used to it.

Walking on the road, the thought of returning to a classroom with no one in front of her suddenly made it feel utterly pointless, and she no longer really wanted to go to class.

1:50.

The sound of the lunch break bell ending rang out, and the school gate opened.

"It's open, it's open!"

Li Qingrong moved, walking into the school with the flow of people. The few gazes resting on her drifted along with her.

"Class monitor!!"

Nie Qiqi burst out from the crowd behind, charging at a speed that could knock several people dead, sprinting wildly along the crowded campus path.

Li Qingrong stopped walking and glanced back.

Hmm?

The meek-faced tiger had already lost all human form, her face wearing an Anya expression, and with one great stride she lunged forward.

But just as she leapt, a hand grabbed her by the back of the collar.

Stare—stare— Nie Qiqi turned her head and met a pair of exasperated eyes. She was utterly shocked, eyes wide as she stared at the other person. "When did you get here?"

"I've been here the whole time." Cai Xiaoqing was exasperated.

From the school gate onward, she had already spotted Li Qingrong. But seeing the class monitor lost in thought at the time, she hadn't gone up to greet her.

Nie Qiqi behaved, swallowing her grievances.

"Class monitor, what a coincidence, what a coincidence."

"Don't screech, the class monitor is thinking." Cai Xiaoqing gave Nie Qiqi a light-not-light pat. "Don't disturb her."

"Oh, what is the class monitor thinking about?"

"Maybe... a problem?"

"Really? Class monitor."

Li Qingrong watched the two of them in front of her, earnestly discussing what was going on in her own head, even turning to her for confirmation.

Her eyes lowered, but she didn't want to tell anyone, so she nodded.

"Mm-hmm."

"I'm planning to confess to that girl from the liberal arts class in a few days."

"Mm?"

"Cough cough cough!!!"

Afternoon, the north-area dormitory bathed in sunlight.

Near class time, on the crowded campus path.

Yang Qiming's confession instantly shocked Lin and Huang on either side, and Huang Cailang, who was eating spicy strips, choked so hard tears came out.

Like a great ape, he pounded his chest thump thump thump!

"Bro, why?"

"Sigh, it's a long story." Yang Qiming sighed.

Huang Cailang scratched his head, squeezing out two sentences with his meager knowledge of romance.

"That kind of thing, shouldn't it be planned carefully? I watch TV dramas, the male and female leads always fall in love over time." Hearing this, Yang Qiming's face was overcast with worry.

He couldn't help but recall the scene of Lv Xuan and Jiang Nian roughhousing at the stairwell, and an inexplicable pang twisted in his chest. Falling in love over time—well said!

But precisely because of falling in love over time, he couldn't drag it out any longer!

"My mind is made up, no need to say more."

Since Lin Dong got his hair permed, he had matured. He knew about Lv Xuan's situation—in simple terms, it was unrequited love.

In the past he would have tried hard to dissuade him, but now he would only smile and wish him well.

"Then I wish you success, just don't make the scene too big. Girls nowadays don't like flashy gestures, just buy a bouquet and confess."

Blocking is worse than redirecting, and anyway a bouquet won't waste much money.

"Good bro, you really get me!" Yang Qiming was overjoyed, declaring boldly, "Wait till I succeed, I'll treat you all to karaoke!"

To this, Lin Dong didn't take it to heart.

That phantom karaoke session—he'd probably never get to sing at it in this lifetime.

Huang Cailang, on the other hand, was quite looking forward to it. Back during New Year in the past, he had heard his older cousins brag about how delicious the fruit platters and snacks at karaoke were.

"Bro, you gotta give it your all!"

"Don't worry!"

On the fourth floor, Jiang Nian had just come back after draining the snake.

He was flicking his wet hands as he walked inside, and happened to run into Yang Qiming and his two companions coming up the stairs at the corridor entrance, so he greeted them.

Strangely, Yang Qiming's eyes flickered with a hint of avoidance.

Jiang Nian: "?"

Class Three's abstract divine beasts, one after another, really are...:.. weird all day long.

After returning to the classroom.

Zhang Ningzhi had already arrived, sitting in a back-row seat sipping water. Jiang Nian's eyes lit up at the sight, and he was just about to step forward for their combined attack.

The dual-sword united attack, the kind from Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit.

Suddenly, someone entered through the classroom's back door.

Li Qingrong walked past Jiang Nian, then stopped directly. She turned her head to look at him, her vermilion lips parting slightly as she asked, "Would you not be used to it after changing seats?"

Jiang Nian was stunned.

?? took two seconds to process the question.

Actually, the back row is pretty nice.

But he definitely couldn't say it like that—after all, history has its precedents. Liu Shan said one line about being happy and not missing Shu, and it's been recorded until now.

"Indeed, I'm not used to it. There aren't many people in the back row either. And the seats happen to be so far apart, it's inconvenient even when I want to find you to ask questions."

Li Qingrong nodded and gave a soft "mm."

"You can ask me after school in the afternoon."

Jiang Nian thought about it, and indeed it wasn't a loss. Grabbing both study and beauty with both hands, not delaying either. Tall and hard, hard on both sides.

So he nodded and agreed directly.

"Okay."

Zhang Ningzhi was sitting holding a glass cup, sipping hot water in small mouthfuls.

Out of the corner of her eye she glanced toward the classroom's back door, saw Jiang Nian standing there chatting with the class monitor. She couldn't help but purse her lips—as expected, a tomcat on the prowl!

Hmph!

Later she would definitely not give him a pleasant look, would thoroughly ignore him!

Jiang Nian had just sat down, just about to talk to Zhang Ningzhi. But seeing her turn away, he directly patted Li Hua's shoulder.

"Hua, any cars you can recommend?"

Li Hua was stunned for a few seconds, then pointed at him.

"You're getting more and more fond of showing off, just any pretentious line comes right out of your mouth!"

"Sincerely asking."

"You're buying a car?" Li Hua stared at him, suddenly feeling Jiang Nian had become a stranger, "No way, you're really buying one?"

Zhang Ningzhi pricked up her ears too, liking to hear a bit of gossip.

"Renting a car." Jiang Nian didn't keep up the act, afraid Li Hua would be jealous to the point of deforming, "Getting my driver's license at the end of the month, my hands are a bit itchy."

"Awesome, daring to rent a car right after getting your license." Li Hua gave a thumbs up, "You find that rental company....

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Zhang Ningzhi, hearing the end of it, couldn't help but poke him.

"You're getting your driver's license at the end of the month?"

Suddenly, the class bell rang.

Jiang Nian glanced at her, but didn't reply immediately. He pointed at the teacher at the door, a mysterious smile on his face—class is starting, so the mission is starting too.

"Hmph, if you won't say it then don't say it." Zhang Ningzhi puffed up angrily and turned away, then said uneasily, "Drive carefully, better not go alone."

Hehe, Baby Zhizhi really has a soft heart.

"Don't worry, I won't take risks alone." Jiang Nian nodded, "I'll bring Li Hua and Ma Guojun and the others."

"Red stone red stone!" Li Hua's face instantly went pale, "We treat you as a brother, and you treat your brothers as Japanese, is that it!"

Jiang Nian smiled without speaking, stared at him for a few seconds, then asked.

"Just say whether you're going or not?"

"Going."

A girl may not believe her boyfriend of seven years,

A boy will get on a dog-riden motorcycle, with trust as the main theme.

Bruce, you wouldn't harm me, right?

Woof!

That's good then.

On the podium, the physics teacher slowly opened the textbook.

Just then, Zhang Ningzhi heard Jiang Nian beside her. Out of nowhere he said, "Really didn't expect we could be desk mates."

"Huh?" She was completely baffled.

Sat for three months and you're only now discovering we're desk mates? (fists hardening)

Jiang Nian didn't bother with all that, going on with his prepared lines on his own. He was usually crazy anyway, no explanation needed at all.

"Really nice, if it had been like this from the start that would have been great."

Zhang Ningzhi looked left and right, the teacher up on the podium teaching. The back row was empty, confirming Jiang Nian was talking to her.

"From the start?"

Ding!

【Mission: Ningzhi revisits old place with Zhang Ningzhi, sit as desk mates and attend a class together. (Completed) Reward activated successfully.】

Jiang Nian opened the system panel and checked. Sure enough, in the skills column, he saw a brand-new skill 【Good News】.

The skill's icon was a small megaphone, identical to the ones used in supermarkets.

He nearly lost his composure, and with trembling fingers tapped it open. A string of instructions popped up, which summed up to a single sentence.

Trash-Picking Megaphone.

Once every seven days, it activates a 【Good News】, randomly refreshing ownerless items. Basically, it meant picking up treasures and snagging overlooked bargains.

This inevitably made him think of the little coin-collecting bee from Doraemon, which also went around picking up people's dropped change.

Ownerless items, hmm...:.. could it be graves?

Strictly speaking, yin-zhai from a few hundred years ago. By today's standards, those could also be called ownerless items — this is what I pick up!

But this was way too illegal, easy to get locked up.

Refreshing opportunities, hmm...... that phrasing was more fitting.

After snapping back to reality, Jiang Nian met Baby Zhizhi's round, bright eyes. She was blinking at him right now, staring at him with a puzzled look.

"Oh oh, I was reciting movie lines."

"What movie?"

"Can't remember, a short video I scrolled through last night." Jiang Nian scratched his head. "I like scrolling through weird videos before bed to help me sleep."

"Sometimes my brain recalls them, and my mouth just unconsciously recites them."

Jiang Nian took the opportunity to patch things up in advance, thinking that if he ever let something slip later, he could use today's excuse as a shield.

"Liar!" Baby Zhizhi frowned.

"If you don't believe me, you can observe Li Hua." Jiang Nian said. "He often shoots hoops and jumps up to touch tree leaves in places where no one's around."

Li Hua turned his head: "?"

School let out in the afternoon.

Baby Zhizhi had already forgotten Jiang Nian's sophistry, and left with Yao Bei Bei to grab a meal, waving at him happily as she went.

"Bye-bye, we're going to eat now."

"Alright, I'll do some problems for a bit." Jiang Nian waved back, watching them leave. "A personality that doesn't hold grudges is really nice."

Zhizhi is really cute, and Yao Bei Bei can at least count as a person.

After finishing all this, Jiang Nian stood up and walked to the front row of the classroom. There, Li Qingrong sat in her seat waiting for him.

Studying — you've still got to study.