Chapter 447: Pure Junior Sister's Crushing Defeat

Scary?

Is it really that absurd?

Jiang Nian's pupils dilated in shock, but the moment he thought of his own IP, it suddenly felt reasonable again. Whoever suggested making IPs visible was a genius.

Looks like I'll have to leave home now.

But to be fair, not everyone in Zhennan is like that. The county town and the countryside are different—ten miles apart, ten different customs.

In the old days, this kind of thing would've earned you a bullet.

"You guys over there......." Jiang Nian started, then hesitated. Even a pervert like him found this perverted. "Do they really force you to marry?"

"No." Zhou Haifei shook her head, then frowned and said, "But going back would be a hassle, and I don't want to go back."

True enough—if they secretly accepted the bride price back home, even if things got resolved in the end, the process would be pretty disgusting.

"Oh, right, that's true too." Jiang Nian nodded, then said, "I remember during winter break, the dorms kick everyone out, right?"

"Mm."

"Then if you're not going home, where do you plan to stay?"

"Save up money."

"Huh?"

"There's always somewhere to stay. Some people are willing to rent out their place when they go home for winter break, and when school starts there's a place to live again."

The two walked together, stepping through the school gate.

"That's nice, I can hang out with you during New Year." Jiang Nian smiled. "Have you found a suitable place yet?"

"No." Zhou Haifei shook her head. "It's still too early. I'm planning to save up money first—food and rent are both expenses."

"You could sell some stuff. During New Year there are plenty of second-hand vendors." Jiang Nian chatted casually, as if seriously discussing business.

"Get some little glowing trinkets and sell them to kids."

"Then I'll ask around this weekend." Zhou Haifei hesitated. "But I don't have much money on hand. If the cost is too high....."

"Asking doesn't cost anything."

"True."

The two chatted all the way, and naturally split up at the third floor.

"Bye-bye." Zhou Haifei waved, thought for a moment, then said, "I watched the match yesterday. Congratulations on winning the championship." Jiang Nian hadn't expected her to have watched the match too. Surprised, he couldn't help but brag.

"No trophy, no championship."

Zhou Haifei: "?"

"Nothing, I'm talking nonsense." Jiang Nian waved his hand and slowly sauntered up from the third floor. "Bye, heading upstairs."

"Mm." Zhou Haifei watched him go up, then pulled her gaze back and began thinking about how to save up more money.

Jiang Nian doesn't ask nosy questions.

He's a good person.

Should go ask around this weekend too—earn a little money first.

"Where's the beast-ear girl?"

"Where?"

Morning self-study. The classroom was bustling.

1/11

After sobering up, Tao Ran went home and took stock of the prizes. He discovered that Jiang Nian, that bastard, had tricked him—there was no beast-ear girl plushie at all.

Jiang Nian in the back row looked up and let out an "ah."

"Beast-ear what?"

"You little punk." Li Hua pointed at him with a grin. "To be fair, no matter what, you shouldn't lie to people."

"Ugh, let me tell you the truth." Jiang Nian said helplessly. "The plushie was taken by Li Hua. He said he wanted to take it home to derive it."

"Eat shit!" Li Hua nearly jumped up and shouted, "I swear on my romantic luck for the rest of my life—this is a lie."

Ma Guojun laughed, like a bloodthirsty spectator.

"Li Hua, isn't this just pure deception? Swearing on something that doesn't exist at all—trying to dodge heavenly retribution, huh?"

"Eat shit, eat shit!"

Jiang Nian couldn't be bothered to make excuses and just laid his cards on the table with Tao Ran.

"Let me be honest—there is no plushie."

Hearing this, Tao Ran felt as if struck by lightning. He stared blankly at Jiang Nian and let out a long, mournful sigh.

"Fine, it's okay."

"Honestly, I didn't really want it that badly. Back in middle school I had a girlfriend. Later she moved away and only left me a beast-ear girl plushie......"

"Alright, alright, I'll get you one." Jiang Nian gave in.

"Deal." Tao Ran turned and left.

He had no girlfriend in middle school, and no beast-ear girl plushie either. He'd made it all up—back then he wasn't fully a furry yet.

To deal with a byd, you have to use some underhanded tricks.

"The class rep is so pitiful. What happened to his girlfriend in the end?" Baby Zhizhi loved eavesdropping on gossip like this.

"Maybe she became his right hand?" Jiang Nian said.

"Huh?"

"Don't be surprised yet, think about it carefully." Jiang Nian explained. "How could someone go from beast-ear girl to girlfriend—"

"in the blink of an eye?"

Zhang Ningzhi blinked her eyes and nodded in innocent confusion.

"Seems like it."

"So, Tao Ran actually doesn't like catgirls." Jiang Nian said with a serious face, "So, he likes Zeus."

"Genius." Li Hua suggested, "Then find him a Zeus plushie."

"Great idea, makes my belt spin." Jiang Nian turned and patted Li Hua's shoulder, "Hua, I'll take you to the national highway someday to scare the dumb semi-truck drivers."

"Hide in the bushes and take photos?"

"No, you go scare them."

"Shit!"

The two of them jumped topics too much; Zhang Ningzhi couldn't understand what they were saying. After the two finished cursing each other, she poked Jiang Nian.

"You

...... played games with the class monitor yesterday?"

"Oh, right, yes." Jiang Nian said unhurriedly, "Li Hua is genuinely trash, Ma Guojun even more so..... fell asleep and started snoring."

"Left the few of us wandering around everywhere, thinking there was a snoring zombie nearby."

Hearing that, Zhang Ningzhi snorted out a laugh.

"Really?"

But she quickly restrained herself again, face stern, chin raised, looking at him.

"Then why didn't you come find me to play?"

"Never played that game before, wanted to scout it out first." Jiang Nian told a small lie without blinking an eye, "If it's fun I'll call you."

"Was it fun?"

"A pile of crap." He shook his head and answered, "I straight up deleted that game, way too much of a waste of time, and not fun at all."

At this, Zhang Ningzhi was completely dumbfounded.

"Then....

She felt like she'd been played by this bad guy Jiang Nian, but couldn't pinpoint where exactly, so she could only huff twice and ignore him.

Little liar!

The soccer match ended.

Li Hua had already prepared himself: kick the ball, blow up overnight, hit the local trending list. In the end, successfully stir-fry some noodles, and appear on the homepage of the gossip site.

From ruined reputation, to being forced to transfer schools next semester. Put on a little campus romance drama, burning through spring, summer, autumn, and winter!!!

Later he realized he was overthinking; one whole night passed, not a single bit of peach blossom luck came, but quite a bit of "Nantong luck" rubbed off on him.

He always had this illusion lately, inexplicably attracting the gazes of guys.

Especially when walking through the corridor to go to the bathroom. There were always a few guys who turned back, then just looked at Li Hua like that.

Damn, this school isn't normal.

Noon long break, running exercises.

Li Hua frowned tightly, watching as two girls glanced at him. Then they left giggling, leaving behind a trail of chirping and chattering.

He turned to look at Jiang Nian, face looking constipated.

"Nian, have you noticed lately it seems like a lot of people are paying attention to us, I keep feeling like someone's about to confess to me."

Jiang Nian was puzzled, "Male or female?"

"Shit!" He instantly got triggered; Jiang Dog's words stepped right on his biggest worry, "Definitely female!"

After saying that, he seemed to think of something else, lowered his voice and asked.

"There are guys looking at you too?"

Hearing that, Jiang Nian turned his head, looking at him with a face full of shock. Although he didn't say a single word, Li Hua at this moment already wanted to die.

Damn! Fuck! Shit!

Should never have trusted this bitch Jiang Nian! Fell into his verbal trap so easily, his reputation is done for!

"Huh-?" Jiang Nian was like a sloth.

"No..:.. I was kidding, you know me

right." Li Hua's face was strained, "Humorous little prince, Nantong joke."

Jiang Nian nodded, then stepped back three steps.

"I respect your joke, bro. You know me, I've always been such a person who really respects others—" he said this, then turned and whispered to the big fatty.

"That bastard Li Hua is a faggot."

"Holy shit?"

"Jiang Nian you fucking—!" Li Hua's face was almost red, pointing at him, "Keep this up and I'm activating Bloody-Handed Manslaughter."

After a bout of noise, the running exercises ended.

The group had just left the sports field in a cluster when two underclassmen girls boldly blocked their way, coming right up to Jiang Nian.

Lin Dong took one look, and his entire expression instantly turned pained. Damn, they're the rare pure-and-obedient type of underclassman girls.

He liked this type of underclassman girl the most, especially the ones who already had boyfriends.

They actually came to find Jiang Nian, instantly agonizing. The wound of betrayal ripped open directly, ripped wide enough to share with the bros.

"No way, people actually pull this stuff!" Li Hua was even more pained, wishing he could spin around, "Where's Ji Ming, what the hell is he doing?"

The girls were also socially awkward types, hemming and hawing for ages.

"Um..... um...."

Jiang Nian saw the situation and suddenly understood.

"I got it."

Hearing that, the underclassman girls' delighted expressions were written all over their faces.

"Really?"

"Yes, way too well." Jiang Nian stepped to the side, revealing Li Hua. "That one, that one, just him."

"He's the darkest among us. You can add him on QQ and chat in detail."

"Red Stone!" Li Hua clearly couldn't accept that, but the corners of his mouth were twitching too. "Ah, let's go, let's go."

Great, the brothers won't get any!

The few of them walked away from the two junior girls, leaving two awkward faces behind.

When they got downstairs to Gao San, Li Hua instantly turned into a clown again. Without any windup, he pointed at Jiang Nian and started cursing.

"Jiang Nian, you fucking deserve to die, rejecting such cute junior girls."

He was both envious and resentful—why did he only attract Nantong types? What on earth was on him that made them so obsessed!

"Indeed, Jiang Nian really is a dog." Ma Guojun expressed his agreement, adjusting his glasses. "Two straight-shooter junior girls, what a waste."

Jiang Nian didn't mind. Junior girls were cute, sure. But compared to the Gao San senior girls above, and compared to Lin Yuxi the low-scorer below, they fell short.

What was he after, insisting on adding their QQ?

"I'm just this kind of person—my heart only loves studying." Jiang Nian said. "Otherwise, how would I be the Star of Inspiration?"

"When does the prize money get handed out?" Lin Dong asked.

"Liu Yang went to make an appointment, said it's in the afternoon." Jiang Nian walked to the first floor, then stopped. "You guys go up first, I'm heading to the office."

"Sneaking off, huh?" Ma Guojun saw right through what he was up to. "Running to the office all day long, you damn dog!"

"Nah, I'm just checking if the biology teacher's in." Jiang Nian wouldn't hog the glory alone—a person shouldn't use someone when needed and toss them aside after.

Without a doubt, Qian Bao and Qing Bao had helped him tremendously.

No need to mention Qing Bao—even with the old woman, he'd tend the cold stove when he had nothing going on, after all nothing good in this world comes without reason.

"Off to be a lackey again, damn it." Li Hua hit the nail on the head. "Jiang Nian, you really can kiss ass like no one else!

3

"It's networking upward." Jiang Nian slipped away.

He circled past the office to take a look—Qing Bao wasn't there. In the English office, Qian Bao was, since her class was next period.

"Hey Jiang Nian, come here! Why were you wandering around out there forever, saw me and still tried to leave? Am I gonna eat you or what?

"

"O-O-O-O... O-O-O..."

"You want to die?" Qian Bao smiled without smiling, her knuckles cracking. "What's gotten into you? Got a championship and now you're getting cocky?"

"No.....

The old woman really dared to think and act—during third period she let Jiang Nian teach for half the class.

Slacking off on the clock, prettily called "training the student."

Yet even so, the class progress didn't fall behind. A few girls who didn't pay attention also raised their heads and listened seriously.

Tut-tut, the effect was pretty good.

A world where only Jiang Nian is hurt—achieved.

After school.

Jiang Nian bought a pack of Furong Wang, found a decent residential area near the school, handed out cigarettes and asked around about housing.

He made a few calls, looked at one apartment, then headed back.

Before lunch break.

"Jiang Nian!"

Wang Yuhe leaped out from the fourth-floor corner like a ghost.