Chapter 48

On the way to school, Zhai Da held his hands out flat in front of him. One hand pinched a deck of 【Joker Playing Cards】, his thumb rubbing quickly to push the cards one by one through the air to his right hand.

If the speed was fast enough, it would look like a bridge had been built in the air.

But he couldn't get fast; after all, his nickname before his rebirth was the Oriental Slow Rocket.

Compared to ordinary paper cards, 【Joker Playing Cards】 were tougher and wear-resistant due to their special tin-alloy material, but they were also heavier and more strenuous, and some small issues with the feel were far from what the books described.

Proficiency is the only antidote for a rookie, so if you want to be fast, practice more.

He paused slightly when passing a certain bus stop.

The sign read "Sunmazhuang," and Zhai Da couldn't help but think of those notebooks of Lu Wei's that were suspected to be "special items"...

Wu Yue, that guy, has watched so much Conan, shouldn't he start putting it into practice?

You raise Wu Yue for a thousand days to use him for a single moment.

While he was lost in thought, a bus pulled to a stop.

Lin Shuyao stepped down from it.

As she looked up, her eyes met Zhai Da's.

Zhai Da thought to himself, what bad luck! He turned and walked away.

The originally sleepy Lin Shuyao was instantly wide awake; she hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes subconsciously to check herself.

After all, even a beauty gets corn mush in the corners of her eyes when she wakes up early.

On the bus, a tall boy who had gotten off with Lin Shuyao asked in confusion, "Shuyao, what's wrong?"

Lin Shuyao didn't reply, just silently followed behind Zhai Da.

Wang Feng looked forward, following her gaze, and narrowed his eyes.

He had heard some rumors recently that Lin Shuyao had confessed to a boy in her class and been rejected, but he naturally didn't believe it.

Wang Feng, 188cm tall, a starter on the school basketball team, and also a sports student; every school has athletic assessments, and Maofang Middle School is no exception, and the basketball team is the most presentable one, capable of placing in the top few in city competitions.

Although this achievement is ten Black Mambas away from being a professional athlete, and not even worth writing down when applying for a fitness coach job in the future, for the present moment.

He is a little celebrity in school.

So... what a joke! Lin Shuyao didn't even look at him, how could she look at someone else?

Wang Feng deliberately raised his volume a bit and said, "Is this the guy from the rumors? So lame."

Lin Shuyao was terrified; she was already afraid Zhai Da would turn around: "You! Shh!!"

Zhai Da yawned; he could actually hear them, but he didn't even have the mood to acknowledge them.

It's really like boredom burning paper for boredom's mother, boring to death...

Lin Shuyao's management of her simps is really poor; if it doesn't work out, just send her to the Pan Hong Industrial Park...

At the intersection, a Mercedes S350 stopped in front of him, and Lu Siwen hopped out of the car: "Student Zhai! Good morning! Have you seen the news!"

Inside the driver's seat, there were still eyes sizing Zhai Da up, but the dark glass made it hard to see clearly.

Zhai Da rubbed the corner of his eye: "News? What news?"

Lu Siwen immediately took out her phone.

Behind them, Lin Shuyao watched that girl fluttering around Zhai Da like a flower butterfly, and the hand gripping her schoolbag strap couldn't help but tighten.

Because she knew that girl.

Lu Siwen from the experimental class; many people compared her with Lu Siwen.

They considered them the two prettiest girls in this grade, and the other girl even had a cute nickname among the girls called "Little Deer."

But in Lin Shuyao's eyes, Lu Siwen was just someone who was better at making friends with girls, better at studying, had a better family background, had more hobbies, knew instruments and writing, and wore designer brands.

Other than that... how could she compare to herself!

It would be a lie to say she wasn't jealous; after all, the car that picks her up, even if you pried off the emblem, would be enough for her to ride the bus from high school until menopause...

For some girls, beauty is the greatest opportunity to change their fate; for others, beauty is just an embellishment gifted by fate.

But... why would Lu Siwen be hanging around Zhai Da!

Lin Shuyao suddenly thought of a question... if Zhai Da, who is so close to Lu Siwen... ended up liking her.

Wouldn't that prove that she is even more outstanding than Lu Siwen...

The more she thought about it, the more it made sense..

Anyway, the whole school is spreading that she likes Zhai Da and was rejected after confessing.

It's already impossible to wash clean, so might as well go all the way!

She turned her head and said to Wang Feng: "Wang Feng, let's not go to school together anymore..."

"Shuyao! Why?"

"I'm afraid Zhai Da will misunderstand..."

Wang Feng stood frozen on the spot... feeling like the sky had collapsed.

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"What the heck! The homepage?"

Lu Siwen held her phone up to Zhai Da: "Yes! The homepage! And there are so many comments! I can't see the backend view count, but this definitely counts as hot news."

Although the blog doesn't have a mobile version, the Sina News homepage can be opened on a phone.

Zhai Da looked at the photo of his back on the screen and thought to himself, is this "Micro-Fiction Contest" of such a high standard?

He looked at the headline: The buried genius of the Han Han style...

Good grief, no wonder, media people can really make up stories...

A short line of text, gathering satire on education, the curiosity of ordinary people, and also riding the traffic of Han Han, the currently popular writer regarded as an idol by countless teenagers.

That Li Tiantian yesterday was really something...

It would have been better if the headline was directly "Shocking! A high school boy is actually in this kind of relationship with Han Han."

He flipped through the comments and messages; almost all of them were echoing the sentiment, saying what a big problem education has, why our education can't cultivate Nobel Prize winners.

Currently, it is the period when the "uselessness of studying" theory is most prevalent, and Han Han rose to the peak because of this; this news can be said to have hit the itch of netizens just right, and the discussion was exceptionally heated.

Zhai Da irritably tugged at the hair on his forehead... feeling like it was very troublesome, it shouldn't have any impact, right?

There was no name, no address, and he didn't say a word about the school name or family situation last night.

"Listen, don't spread this news everywhere; there are two months left until the college entrance exam, and I don't want to be distracted."

He was telling the truth; it was just a piece of trash news, get the prize money and be done with it; is there any benefit to being an object of discussion?

It would only make him exhausted from dealing with it.

After all, there's no money to be made, what's the use of just being famous? It will only be consumed as gossip by a bunch of high school students.

If he could make 208 a day, he would be willing.

Zhai Da's reason was extremely legitimate, and Lu Siwen immediately patted her small chest: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else; this is our little secret."

Zhai Da's gaze lingered slightly.

Hmm, this question should be C.

Can't tell.

The two parted ways again on the third-year floor, and Zhai Da walked into the classroom.

And then he felt the sky collapse...

He didn't even react when he was bumped by Lin Shuyao, who had followed him the whole way.

Wu Yue stood on the podium, loudly recounting the secret he had discovered.

"I'm telling you guys! Zhai Da is on Sina News!"

"Holy crap! For real! What did he do!"

"Bullshit, Dazi is famous! First place in the Micro-Fiction Contest! Achievement surpassing Han Han!"

Even Fan Junwei, who usually lay on his desk as if he could never sleep enough, raised his head.

"I don't believe it, let me see."

Wu Yue proudly took out his phone; wasn't this walking right into the line of fire? He was waiting for this:

"I kept evidence yesterday, I'll read it to you~"

Zhai Da went up and gave him a kick: "Ah ah ah, ah your head!"