Chapter 446: A Woman's Revenge, from Morning Till Night

Xu Qianqian was also a master angler.

Paid massage.....

Jiang Nian knew it all too well—if he brushed it off, then this massage was exactly what he wanted, and he'd regret it to the point of jolting awake in a panic.

But if he took the bait, this massage might involve stepping on him or a rubber mallet.

Schrödinger's yellow.

He thought for a moment, then looked up at Xu Qianqian and said,

"Can I pay you to massage me?"

If you love her, say it out loud—don't wait until after you've lost her and go find a technician to clock in the reverse direction.

The key point: he knows how to give massages.

Wow, super warm guy.

Hearing this, Xu Qianqian froze, then her face flushed red all at once.

"Ew, pervert!"

She had originally thought: if Jiang Nian took the bait, she'd make him promise to cook late-night snacks tomorrow, then give him the rubber mallet.

If he didn't take the bait, she'd describe it the way he'd imagined it,

to keep him awake all night.

Now that neither side had landed a catch, they both narrowed their eyes at the same time. The atmosphere froze on the spot, and Song Xiyun trembled.

After leaving the late-night snack stall, the three of them headed toward home.

After going upstairs, Jiang Nian stayed at Xu Qianqian's place for a while. He chatted with the two girls for a bit, and when he figured the time was about right, he prepared to leave.

"Paid massage?" He refused to give up and asked one more time. "You kicked way too hard this afternoon, my whole body hurts now."

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Hearing this, the two young girls exchanged glances.

"?

Xu Qianqian didn't really mind—if Song Xiyun weren't here, she might actually have given him a quick massage, but now it was embarrassing.

She thought for a moment and proposed a compromise.

"How about we step on your back for you?"

This was a service that didn't seem suggestive at all—in fact, it looked a bit brutal. It sounded professional too, much better than a massage.

Xu Qianqian remembered those sports students always talking about stepping on backs. She didn't really get it, but figured how hard could it be to step on someone's back?

Isn't it just taking off your shoes and taking a stroll?

Hearing this, Jiang Nian froze for a few seconds.

"You're not the type who pretends to want to step on my back, then actually whacks me over the head and makes me say thank you, right?"

Song Xiyun's heart had already been in a panic the moment Xu Qianqian said "we" and "step on the back."

Now hearing Jiang Nian talk, she immediately felt a bit out of place again.

So perverted.

"How could that be possible?" Xu Qianqian said, a little guilty—she really had just had that thought. "If you're not comfortable with it, then just go home."

"Then let's do it." Jiang Nian started taking off his clothes.

"Ah?" Song Xiyun covered her eyes, leaving only a tiny slit. "Why are you suddenly taking off... taking off..."

"your clothes."

Jiang Nian didn't think much of it. "Just my jacket, making a fuss over nothing."

He lay flat on the sofa, his expression a little awkward.

"Actually, you guys don't need to wash your feet either."

Hearing this, both young girls immediately got goosebumps all over. Two pillows flew over and smacked Jiang Nian.

"Die, you pervert."

"Exactly."

The two girls hurried into the bathroom and washed their feet clean. Seeing Jiang Nian's regretful expression, they couldn't help but giggle.

As for anything else, they didn't really think that much about it.

The feet stepping on his back felt a bit heavy.

"We won't accidentally step him to death, right?" Song Xiyun voiced her worry, at a loss for where to put her feet. "What if we step on a bone."

"We won't."

The two girls stepped on him for a while, and it wasn't even tiring.

Jiang Nian felt the burden of endurance, and the sensation was also somewhat strange. Not knowing what to say, he simply played on his phone.

After a while, the back-stepping was over.

Xu Qianqian thought for a moment and brought up the condition for the late-night snack.

"Tomorrow night, I want to eat that thing, you know which one. Xiyun wants the same as me, so you need to buy some first tomorrow.:

"Deal." Jiang Nian agreed with Li Xinran.

Service for service, that's fair.

After getting home.

He had just finished washing up, and over there she was already playing games.

Several people in the group @'d Jiang Nian to come online and play games, messages piling up one after another. Seeing he wasn't responding, they pulled in others, and in the blink of an eye it became 99+.

Li Hua: "Where are you?"

Ma Guojun @Li Hua: "Where are you?"

Five minutes later, Li Hua finally showed up.

"@Ma Guojun, went to take a shower."

Messages kept popping up in the group chat, and in the end the people who formed a team became "Yu Zhiyi who can't play," and even pulled Nie Qiqi along.

Obviously, a guaranteed loss.

Yu Zhiyi died not long after the match started, and the underhanded Nie Qiqi was the last one eliminated, barely surviving by selling out her teammates.

She kept playing hide-and-seek in the game, never getting surrounded by zombies.

Jiang Nian sent the game to the class monitor, skimmed through the chat history roughly, and couldn't help but laugh. He started typing, inviting people in the group.

"Coming online @......

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Li Hua was the first to jump out and rant, "Damn you, you didn't come just now, who the hell still feels like playing with you now! (

Husky pointing at people)"

Ma Guojun also jumped out and posted a long dragon meme.

"Exactly, we waited for you forever and you didn't come online, where'd you go? Your home isn't far from school either, you didn't go on a date, did you!"

Gotta say, Fatty really does hit hard.

Jiang

Nian didn't know if Baby Zhizhi was lurking, so he had to jump out and explain.

"Nah, watched a movie and got warned by the FBI. I was a little scared at night, just went to the nearby police station to turn myself in."

The group chat immediately filled up with question marks, starting an infinite loop of copy-paste.

"?"

"?"

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"Speak human language, bro." Li Hua @Jiang Nian again, "I'm not playing anymore, play by yourself, I'm going to sleep."

After a few seconds, Yu Zhiyi @Jiang Nian.

"Invite me."

In the group chat, Li Hua instantly went silent and DM'd Jiang Nian directly.

"Bro, pull me in."

"I'll never show off again, pull me in just this once.

After a while, Li Hua was pulled into a small group. He had originally assumed it was a game group, but Jiang Nian initiated a group payment.

"Boarding passengers buy your tickets, first come first served."

Li Hua was instantly stunned, and took a careful look at the group members. Ma Guojun, Liu Yang, Lin Dong, Sun Zhicheng, Yang Qiming.

Holy shit!

What group payment!

After a while, Jiang Nian sent another message.

"Ji Jiayu is coming too."

Lin Dong @Jiang Nian: "Bro, then I'll pay for one more ticket separately."

Li Hua was done, but still decisively paid for his ticket. Five yuan per person boarding fee, directly entering the era of paid gaming.

"Damn, Jiang Nian, you really are black-hearted!"

In response, Jiang Nian sent a holding-back-laughter meme,

"A win-win deal, how is that black-hearted?"

A win-win meant he won twice. Gotta say, Yu Zhiyi really could stimulate the economy, directly covering his meal expenses for tomorrow.

Fog of War is a pretty socially-oriented game, basically a tailor game, both guys and girls can play.

Bad news, tailor.

Good news, fully tailored.

More aggressive players can play the game like CF, going all out smashing zombies. Raiding houses everywhere, snatching other people's resources.

The softer ones can hide and play hide-and-seek.

After a while, 【Pure Pure Green Veggie】 also entered the game. Clearly a default name, leaving several people completely baffled.

Li Hua: "Who is this?"

Lin Dong: "No idea."

Jiang Nian suddenly dropped a line, "Class monitor."

"?!"

"Holy shit, for real?"

"The class monitor plays games too? Why have we never heard about it before?"

Jiang Nian didn't answer, and once in the game he took Li Qingrong wandering around everywhere. This game's main selling point was a huge map,

and adventure.

Nie Qiqi wanted to join, but was rejected by Jiang

Nian.

Playing until the middle of the night, the few of them had their game mics on. They had already fought to the end, still a few zombies left unfinished, tanking.

4 searching everywhere.

"Found the Sleeper yet?"

"Nope, I can damn well hear snoring already. Just couldn't find where the Sleeper is, this damn zombie can really hide."

Why isn't Ma Guojun moving? Let's look for him together.

Jiang Nian was also searching for the "Sleepers" with the monitor, circling around. After listening carefully for a while, he finally broke.

It's Ma Guojun snoring!

Hearing this, the few survivors in the team finally broke too. They'd been searching for hours for the zombie boss, and it turned out to be Ma Guojun.

Fuck! I knew why he wasn't moving!

Chi Shi, I knew why we couldn't find him.

Hehe, I'm going to sleep too.

It was too late; the group logged out one by one after settling the bill. Whether they actually slept, no one knew.

The monitor really slept, because she hardly ever spoke in Class C.

After going offline, Jiang Nian received several photos from Zhang Ningzhi and Chen Yunyun—they were taken during the afternoon match.

He looked through them one by one, unable to stop murmuring in amazement.

You were fully focused on cheating, so your face showed almost no expression, yet the photos came out with great texture.

Calm throughout! (Wrong)

Cheating, no mental energy for anything else. (Correct)

"These photos are pretty good—I'm saving them." Jiang Nian replied to each one, spent twenty minutes chatting, then turned on the light to write his assignment.

Zhang Ningzhi had already said goodnight, but ten minutes later she sent another message.

Why didn't you call me to play? (Frowning)

A few seconds later, 【Message recalled】

Jiang Nian saw it immediately, but decided to pretend he hadn't. He replied with a question mark, then added the classic question.

What did you recall?

Zhang Ningzhi: "Nothing. Is Er asleep? (Cheerful smile)"

Jiang Nian smiled. "Just woke up."

He was actually writing his assignment, but that didn't stop him from telling a little lie.

Zhang Ningzhi: "Oh oh."

On the other side, Zhang Ningzhi, after replying to Jiang Nian, tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep thinking about the group chat.

Half-asleep, she had a dream.

In the dream, Jiang Nian told her to go to sleep, then turned around and opened the game to invite the monitor to play late at night—and she caught him.

Facing her accusation, Jiang Nian looked completely unconcerned.

Finally, Zhang Ningzhi woke up angry.

Jiang Nian, you bastard!

She stared at the pitch-black room, only then realizing she

had just been dreaming. But thinking back to what had just happened, she was still furious.

You blame him!

So she opened a certain chat box, typed out a long rant in a huff, then stopped herself just before sending.

He must be exhausted after finishing the match this afternoon.

It's late at night—what if he hasn't turned on Do Not Disturb?

Zhang Ningzhi bit her lower lip, then deleted every word in the chat box. Finally, she put down her phone and gave up, still fuming.

A woman's revenge comes from morning till night.

Just wait!

The next day.

Jiang Nian stood before the bathroom mirror brushing his teeth; his right eyelid kept twitching. He pressed it with his finger, but it still throbbed, throbbed, throbbed.

Superstition is nonsense...

Too much late-night staying up, eyelids just can't control themselves.

The street was dim and barely visible at dawn; a single light glowed before a steamed bun shop, and a figure stood before the steamer baskets, wreathed in white steam.

Sister Feifei?

Seeing her, Jiang Nian's mood instantly improved.

No other reason.

Simply because he woke up too early every day, and the streets had almost no living souls. Running into another disciplined acquaintance felt like opening a blind box—pure delight.

Besides, Sister Feifei still owed him a meal.

"What'll you have?" The bun shop owner beamed—regular customers were returning. "Whatever buns you want, fresh soy milk just made."

"Oh, do you have rice cakes?" Jiang Nian leaned forward, peering.

The owner: "."

Jiang Nian bought rice cakes from the bakery, then bought soy milk with richer flavor from the bakery's adjacent shop, and treated Sister Feifei to a cup.

"Why haven't I seen you lately?"

"Thank you." Zhou Haifei took the soy milk, silently adding another tally in her mind: "Saving up—when will I treat him to a meal?"

Hearing this, Jiang Nian suddenly felt uneasy.

"No, I didn't mean..."

"Ah? I didn't mean it like that..." Zhou Haifei grew awkward and hurried to explain. "These two things are separate."

Indeed, one meal in the cafeteria cost only five cents.

"Oh oh, I see." Jiang Nian felt a bit better inside, thinking to himself he wasn't born rich, "Then why are you saving up?"

Zhou Haifei glanced at him, hesitation flashing through her eyes. But the warmth from the soy milk in her palm made her confess without meaning to.

"Next month is New Year, I can't... go back."

"I-I'll get nagged by Xu."