Folding Xia Yu’s exam paper neatly, Gui Zixiao placed it on Xia Yu’s hand and said, “Sorry to disturb you.”
After saying that, he turned to leave.
However, after walking a couple of steps, he came back, grabbed Xia Yu’s shoulder, and said, “Da Jiang said you couldn’t even solve the easy questions. You said you forgot all the formulas!”
“Da Jiang” was the nickname for the math teacher, because his surname was Jiang.
Xia Yu unfolded his exam paper and pointed at a trigonometric function problem, saying to Gui Zixiao, “I forgot the formula here and couldn’t solve it.”
Gui Zixiao looked and indeed saw it was left blank; this question was indeed simple.
But this was so different from what he had imagined.
Staring at Xia Yu, Gui Zixiao felt immense sorrow in his heart, “Earlier when I asked what you were doing at home, you told me you were just having fun like crazy. But you secretly studied at home!”
Gui Zixiao felt deeply deceived.
“I truly didn’t study at home at all; I was just playing,” Xia Yu said truthfully. He had only studied for fifteen minutes two nights ago.
“If you were just playing at home, how did you manage to score 137!” Gui Zixiao questioned.
“…I left four small questions unanswered?” Xia Yu replied straightforwardly.
Gui Zixiao stared at him in disbelief.
“We’re over, let’s break up!” He pushed Xia Yu away, leaned on a nearby table, and fell into melancholy.
“Come on, let’s go have lunch. I’ll treat you to spicy hotpot.”
“Okay, okay, okay.” Gui Zixiao immediately returned to his usual self.
After having lunch in the cafeteria, Xia Yu returned to the classroom to continue practicing problems. When school ended, the math teacher handed out the corrected exam papers.
Gui Zixiao scored ninety-nine.
Patting his shoulder, Xia Yu asked, “You promised you’d get one hundred and twenty. What happened?”
“One hundred and twenty can’t even beat ninety-nine!” Gui Zixiao’s face turned red, “Don’t you think ninety-nine is great? Nine is the ultimate number. Ninety-nine is just right—not arrogant, not biased, not deviating…”
Understanding Gui Zixiao’s need to save face, Xia Yu didn’t press further. They parted ways, and Xia Yu returned directly home.
After studying again at home until evening, Xia Yu walked out of his room at eight o’clock.
He knocked on You Xue’s door.
After pushing the girl into the bathroom to get ready, Xia Yu took over her body.
“Time to sleep,” Xia Yu yawned.
With that, he lay down on You Xue’s bed.
“Brother, tie your hair up,” the girl reminded Xia Yu.
Xia Yu simply tied his hair on top of his head and asked why.
“In the morning, sometimes your hair gets pulled when you wake up,” You Xue’s voice sounded somewhat distant, indicating slight embarrassment.
Xia Yu touched the girl’s hair. If left down, it would reach her waist—an appealing length for a boy, but a troublesome one for the owner to manage.
Turning off the light, Xia Yu went to sleep again.
“Brother, you haven’t drunk your milk yet,” the girl spoke again.
Xia Yu got up to drink the milk and then returned to bed.
“Brother, don’t sleep on your side.”
Xia Yu wanted to ask why, but he decided not to.
Changing to a supine position, Xia Yu continued sleeping.
“Brother, don’t put your feet outside the bed. It’s scary. It feels like a head might suddenly roll out from under the bed and bite my foot.”
Xia Yu pulled his feet back onto the bed.
“Brother, talk to me a bit. It feels like I’m dead or something, which is kind of scary.”
Xia Yu seriously considered whether to let the girl take over his body so she wouldn’t bother him anymore.
A moment later, he chose a quicker and more convenient solution.
He hummed a lullaby, calming her down.
One minute later, the body fell asleep, and both consciousnesses drifted into slumber.
At seven o’clock in the morning, You Xue’s alarm clock rang.
Returning the body to the girl, Xia Yu returned to his own body.
Stretching lazily and seeing the one-and-a-half times game points, Xia Yu smiled.
By sleeping in another place, he gained an extra half of the game points—an extremely worthwhile deal.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t An Siyao.
Xia Yu missed An Siyao a little.
He hadn’t eaten the white rice balls for quite some time.
If it weren’t for Xu Youxiang needing to produce medicine, which required more experience cards, he would definitely go to An Siyao’s place for delicacies whenever he was free.
Should he go today?
While thinking, Xia Yu dressed himself. He came to the toilet, where You Xue was already inside.
This house was too small.
An Tianfeng’s side should start a new collaboration soon. They could begin with a web game, like QQ Farm.
Although this game wasn’t great for monetization, the user traffic could be used as leverage to sell the game package to other internet companies.
Walking around the living room, Xia Yu went downstairs and retrieved a newspaper from the mailbox.
It was the Polaris Daily.
Opening the newspaper, Xia Yu went straight to the advertisement section.
A missing person notice was posted there.
“Looking for cousin Akalin”
This was An Siyao’s code.
What trouble had the girl encountered? Why hadn’t Xu Youxiang told him?
Taking out his phone, Xia Yu sent a message to Xu Youxiang, asking about the situation.
Xu Youxiang didn’t reply immediately, probably still asleep.
Xia Yu then directly entered An Siyao’s body.
An Siyao was still asleep.
Getting up from the bed, Xia Yu asked, “What happened?”
“She ran away from home,” the words spoken from An Siyao’s mouth made Xia Yu’s heart tighten.
An Siyao, who usually had such a gentle temper, actually considered running away from home. What had happened?
“Feng Yujia and Feng Yumo wanted to run away from home, and they wanted to bring me along,” An Siyao explained the complete reason.
Xia Yu relaxed a bit, realizing it wasn’t An Siyao’s issue.
“What happened with those two sisters? How did you respond?” Xia Yu asked.
“Apparently, their father wanted them to study abroad, but they didn’t want to. Yesterday morning, when they asked me, I said I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t answer,” An Siyao felt that “not feeling well” was a universal excuse, and she was increasingly fond of using this reason.
“Why go abroad?” Xia Yu was surprised. This world was different from Earth. The technology in District One was already top-notch. It was normal for people from other districts to come to District One for studies, but the reverse wasn’t common.
“I don’t know. It seems to be for business reasons,” An Siyao wasn’t particularly interested in such matters, and neither were the Feng sisters.
“Do you want to go?” Xia Yu asked again.
“Will you be with me?” An Siyao’s voice carried hope.
“I’ll be quite busy for the next four months,” Xia Yu really wanted to experience it, but he still had Xu Youxiang’s matter to resolve quickly.
“Then I don’t want to go,” the girl clearly stated.
Compared to changes, she preferred stability. Changes brought the unknown, and the unknown brought fear. She couldn’t imagine how her regular life would change after running away from home.
“Then just say no directly,” Xia Yu took out his phone, “You can be a bit spoiled. If anything happens, I’ll handle it.”
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