Chapter 115: It's a good thing your boyfriend has a bit of a fortune

For the next period of time, Shen Li had one more thing to do than usual: eat, sleep, attend class, and date Xie Qin.

In the past, she would always have dreams, dreaming that she was standing in a desolate field, so quiet that she couldn't hear a sound, only the wind blowing the corners of her clothes.

Sometimes there might be blurry figures passing by her side, but they walked very fast and would never stop for her.

She had also tried to get closer, but they would only move further and further away from her...

In the end, it was still just her.

Later, someone clearly appeared in her dream, and he walked toward her step by step, carrying that beam of light...

The next day.

Shen Li slept until she woke up naturally. The first thing she did after waking up was to send a message to Xie Qin, and then he would come to find her to go back to the classroom for class together.

The head teacher was getting stricter about attendance, so during this time, no one was skipping class.

Today, everyone arrived especially early.

On the way to the classroom, Xie Qin bought her breakfast, and it was almost different every day.

Shen Li read a book while eating a bun, and there was also a bottle of warm milk.

He watched her eat, and the voice on the podium was irrelevant.

Wang Chunmei walked into the classroom and announced something: "Regarding participating in the Mathematics Competition, other students can listen in. The time for this year's Mathematics Competition is out. The class monitor should note it down: the competition time is 8:00 AM on November 8th, the exam duration is two and a half hours, and the exam venue is to be determined."

As soon as the words fell, not many people below cared, because everyone knew clearly that the difficulty of this competition was immense; if you weren't that kind of material, listening more was useless.

So one by one, they were either chatting or playing on their phones.

Finally, the head teacher added: "As long as you reach the passing line of the preliminary round, there is also prize money."

"Class monitor, don't feel too much pressure; just do your best."

In order to prepare for this exam, Zhao Zhouyuan didn't dare to waste a single bit of time. Whenever she had free time, she was mostly doing problems, sleeping only six hours a day, just to get a good ranking. Seeing that there was less than two months left until the preliminary round, it would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous.

It made her palms sweat slightly.

"Okay. I will strive to get a good ranking."

Over the years, the best result for Chengde University was only 150th place, and that was six years ago. Since then, no one had broken that record.

But for the school, as long as one passed the preliminary round, it was already considered a pretty good result.

After all, in this kind of low-academic-level vocational college, everyone was just here to kill time; the probability of producing talent was one in a thousand, and not many people had a serious attitude toward learning.

After the head teacher left the office.

A girl in the classroom suddenly mentioned: "I just saw the news pushed to my phone, saying that this year's Mathematics Competition is being held in conjunction with a listed group company. Damn! The first place in the individual preliminary round has a prize of 200,000, and the first place in the four-person team competition has 500,000."

"By then, the first place in the city-wide competition—how much money would that be?"

Someone echoed: "First place in the city? With this result, you could probably be directly recommended to Qingbei. If you count the prize money, wouldn't that be over a million!"

"Nothing worth looking at; it has nothing to do with us academic scumbags. Better to think about what to eat for lunch."

"I think you're right. Hey, what was the name of that milk tea place you recommended last time..."

This topic was quickly skipped over.

For them, there really wasn't anything to talk about; they couldn't understand it anyway.

Better to talk about food.

At Chengde University, the least worth talking about was grades.

After eating lunch outside, Shen Li felt a bit sleepy and wanted to rest for a while, otherwise, she wouldn't have any energy for the afternoon class.

Xie Qin sent her downstairs to the girls' dormitory and touched her face with his fingertips: "Why do you get sleepy every time at this hour, and you're not focused in class either."

"Didn't rest well last night?"

Shen Li half-lowered her eyes, shook her head, and told him in a low voice without much energy: "I was studying."

She was still grinding through the national exam mathematics competition problems, so she went to bed a bit later than usual.

Suddenly, Xie Qin leaned down, looked at her sleepy eyes at eye level, and his tone became a bit more serious, coaxing her: "I'll send you to repeat a year, okay?"

"Let's take the exam again."

A flash of imperceptible emotion crossed Shen Li's eyes, and she lowered her long eyelashes, not wanting to talk.

He was doing it again...

Xie Qin didn't understand what she was resisting.

During this time, he had always had this idea and had told her several times. Last time, Shen Li said it was because she was sick and performed poorly in the college entrance exam, which was why she only scored 149.

She still had plenty of opportunities to repeat a year.

Staying at Chengde—how good could it be?

"What are you worried about? Afraid there's not enough money? Or that your family won't allow it?" Xie Qin speculated about her concerns and then continued: "I can find you the best school, hire the best tutors, and I have the ability to support you through university..."

"Xie Qin!" Shen Li suppressed her emotions and interrupted what he was saying: "Can you stop mentioning repeating a year?"

Every time this topic was mentioned, an indescribable atmosphere spread between the two, and it would become unpleasant.

Xie Qin didn't speak, just stared at her.

Shen Li didn't like this. Realizing she had a problem just now, she dodged his gaze and didn't look at him.

A moment later, she took the initiative to speak, telling him in a very light tone, "I don't want to repeat a year."

Xie Qin curled his lips and looked at her with a smile: "If you don't want to repeat a year, then what do you want to do? Stay with me every day?"

Shen Li nodded and admitted: "Yeah."

Being with him, her mood would always be a little better; she wouldn't have to take medicine anymore, wouldn't be unhappy, and wouldn't think of bad things at night.

As long as she was with him, doing anything was fine. Even if they just sat quietly without talking, she would be very happy.

She would feel that it wasn't so hard to endure.

Xie Qin had never seen such a stubborn person.

Such a big spender was placed right in front of her, and she couldn't even figure out how to cling to him?

As long as she asked, no matter what it was, Xie Qin could give her anything she wanted without reservation.

He was defeated in an instant.

He rubbed the top of her head a few times: "Fine!"

This word could be considered a compromise.

"It's a good thing your boyfriend has a bit of a fortune."

"If you don't want to repeat a year, then don't go."

As soon as this sentence was spoken.

Seeing that she seemed to be in a better mood again.

Xie Qin: "I'll give you a task."

Shen Li looked at him suspiciously.

Xie Qin turned his head, met her eyes, and said: "Think about what we're going to eat tonight!"

"Once you've thought of it, tell me."

Shen Li: "Okay."

She agreed to this without hesitation.

Skipping this topic, the unpleasant atmosphere between the two quickly dissipated.

Shen Li accepted this difficult task and went upstairs.

She was the only one in the dormitory. Zhao Zhouyuan was nearing the exam and was basically soaking in the library doing problems, and Zhang Zixin had gone shopping with Xu Zhouyuan today.

In this dormitory, there was one more person who didn't attend to her proper duties.

When Xie Qin mentioned repeating a year, Shen Li's heart would inexplicably be replaced by a terrible mood.

It was resistance! It was a retreat she couldn't face.

This feeling was indescribable; it just felt very stifling, as if a shackle had fallen on her, and no matter how she tried to shake it off, she couldn't.

Even though she had come to Wuchuan, this shackle seemed to still be there... ===== CHAPTER 116 =====