Clapping hands followed the music.
This disturbed the guests who were quietly listening to the music in the class. They turned their heads and glared at the newcomers.
Oh my god, it’s the principal!
Immediately, both students and staff withdrew their gazes, and to avoid embarrassing the principal, they joined in the clapping.
“Very good, very good,” the principal said excitedly. He looked around, wanting to sit down and continue listening, but found no empty seats left.
A cafeteria aunt immediately stood up: “I have something to attend to, Principal, please take my seat!”
The principal nodded in satisfaction and decided to give the cafeteria aunt extra responsibilities.
Xia Yu hesitated for a moment, deciding to pretend he hadn’t seen the principal. After resting for a while, he picked up the violin.
His violin skills were as excellent as his piano playing, but the principal showed no excitement this time. He only smiled again after Xia Yu switched back to the piano.
At two forty in the afternoon, the Culture Festival officially ended. The principal stood up and said to Xia Yu, “Come to my office next Monday.”
“??? What are you planning to do?”
Watching the principal’s back as he left, Xia Yu felt uneasy.
“Xia Yu, don’t you have a part-time job? You should go now,” the class monitor said.
The remaining clean-up work didn’t require Xia Yu’s help, as the others would handle it.
After working at a corner café until five thirty, Xia Yu returned home.
Opening the skill menu, he discovered that Dexterity had upgraded to level 2.
Sure enough, playing piano and violin could increase the Dexterity level.
However, since it wasn’t specifically for training dexterity, the efficiency was somewhat low.
With dexterity at level 2, Xia Yu could play the piano and violin more skillfully.
But that wasn’t the main point. The key was that at midnight, he could go to Xu Youxiang’s place to learn programming!
The Internet empire of the Xia family would begin right here!
At midnight, he couldn’t wait to press the game button.
Xu Youxiang, activate!
He had thought Xu Youxiang would already be asleep, but after the switch, he found a notebook computer in front of him.
On the screen was a forum webpage, and Xu Youxiang was replying to a post.
Xia Yu glanced at the content of the posts and then closed his eyes again.
They had been exchanging insults, greeting each other’s families for hundreds of posts.
“What’s going on here?” Xia Yu scrolled up, trying to find the reason Xu Youxiang had started arguing with the other person. He found out that this wasn’t even the original post where the fight happened—the original post had been deleted by the poster who couldn’t bear their verbal fight anymore.
“Hmph, what else could it be? The cripple was unhappy and started flaming online!” Xu Youxiang refused to explain further.
From their fragments of conversation, Xia Yu already knew the other person had insulted Xu Youxiang first, apparently over the issue of whether chip packaging should be opened directly or torn along the perforation.
What a ridiculous reason!
“Why would you argue with someone like that? Just use your hacking skills to take down their account!” Xia Yu suggested.
“…” Xu Youxiang was momentarily at a loss for words, not expecting Xia Yu to say something so malicious.
This made Xia Yu shake his head.
Although she had a bad temper and liked to swear, Xu Youxiang was, just like her appearance, a pure-hearted girl.
“Alright, I transferred 100,000 to you. Have you received it? Now it’s time for you to keep your promise,” Xia Yu was ready to start learning programming.
Xu Youxiang was silent for a moment and said to Xia Yu, “In the wardrobe next to you.”
In the nearby wardrobe? You actually hid the programming learning materials in a wardrobe! No wonder I couldn’t find them!
Walking to the bed, Xia Yu tucked two crutches under his armpits, leaned against the wall beside the wardrobe, and used one hand to open it.
What caught his eye first were various kinds of western-style dresses.
They were real western dresses, with lace trimmings and elaborate craftsmanship.
So she’s into Lolita fashion too? These must cost at least ten thousand dollars!
But that’s not the point. Where are my programming books?
After rummaging through the wardrobe inside and out, Xia Yu still couldn’t find the books.
“Where are the books?” Xia Yu asked Xu Youxiang.
“What books?” Xu Youxiang asked in return.
“The programming books,” Xia Yu replied.
“…Let me ask first, why did you come to my body?”
“Of course, it’s to learn programming! Otherwise, did you think I came for you? Didn’t I start learning the first time I came here?” Xia Yu looked helpless. “Although I don’t know what misunderstanding you have, didn’t I already prove it before? I’m the same as you, a girl. I have no interest in your body—I just want to learn!”
“I thought you wanted to wear little skirts with someone else’s body,” Xu Youxiang said, showing some embarrassment in her voice.
Switching bodies just to wear skirts with someone else’s body?
Xia Yu couldn’t understand Xu Youxiang’s female logic.
“For programming basics, you can just search online. I’ll tell you which book to look for,” Xu Youxiang started teaching.
Xia Yu returned to the bed, opened the laptop, and began studying.
He didn’t activate the experience card immediately.
Thinking about the experience card made him feel a bit heartache. Since he hadn’t expected things to be resolved so quickly at Xu Youxiang’s place, he had used most of the experience cards during the previous night.
Now, he had half an hour left on each of his three double-experience cards and an hour and a half left on his single quintuple-experience card.
He endured his grief, first clarified the basic concepts, and then, under Xu Youxiang’s guidance, began hands-on practice.
Luckily, programming in this world used the Chinese language. However, this wasn’t immediately intuitive. The programming language differed greatly from everyday language to avoid ambiguity and multiple interpretations.
At this point, he activated all his experience cards.
After using up all the experience cards, Xia Yu successfully achieved Programming Level 1. This speed was much slower compared to learning piano from An Siyao. One reason was that programming knowledge was much broader than simply playing the piano, and the other was that Xu Youxiang’s programming skills were far inferior to An Siyao’s piano proficiency.
Xia Yu was somewhat dissatisfied with this speed, but Xu Youxiang was astonished.
“You learned this fast—do you really expect me to believe you’re not just making fun of me?” Xu Youxiang asked suspiciously.
“I have my own methods,” Xia Yu said.
Xu Youxiang remained skeptical. While teaching the basics, she indeed felt that Xia Yu was a complete novice. His level wasn’t something achieved overnight, but rather he learned at an incredibly fast pace.
“At this speed, when can I develop my own mobile apps?” Xia Yu eagerly asked. His bank account was already impatient.
“You can do it right now,” Xu Youxiang answered.
“Really?” Xia Yu was surprised and felt something was off.
“But how long it takes to develop and how many bugs you’ll have is another question,” Xu Youxiang added.
Without even seeing her face, Xia Yu could tell she was smirking.
He stretched out his hand and touched his thigh.
“What are you doing!” Xu Youxiang panicked immediately.
“Revenge!” Xia Yu declared solemnly.
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