CHAPTER 701: CHAPTER 554: PERHAPS WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO HAVE THIS KARMA

Chen Yunyun said, "When I was little in town, there were people selling vegetables downstairs..."

The lunch break bell rang.

They still hadn’t finished chatting, exchanging words back and forth. It wasn’t until ten minutes later that they slowly returned to the classroom.

As soon as Chen Yunyun returned to her seat, she saw Wang Yuhe trying to use a "little green hand" to grab a pen.

"What are you doing?"

Hearing this, Wang Yuhe turned around and seriously said,

"When I’m done practicing, I’ll pass by Jiang Nian’s desk. I’ll use this to steal his pen and make him not look down on me!"

Chen Yunyun: "....."

"I’ve already mastered half of it now, soon I will have mastered it completely." Wang Yuhe said confidently.

"As long as you’re happy." Chen Yunyun chuckled dryly.

After a while, with a snap, a "little green hand" flew over and stuck to a pen on her desk.

With a pull, it rolled two circles and stopped.

"Yunyun, Yunyun." Wang Yuhe leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Are you in a good mood?"

"Just normal, why?"

Wang Yuhe’s eyes widened round and said softly, "Since you came back to the classroom just now, you’ve been smiling."

"Smiling?"

Chen Yunyun flipped open a small mirror on the table and took a look at herself.

Her mouth was indeed smiling.

.....

After the lunch break ends.

Li Hua slid into the classroom, holding a three-layered Rubik’s cube.

"I’ve got to tell you, I found something good."

"Found?" Jiang Nian was stunned.

"Yeah, I saw this guy gave it to someone on the road. After they parted at the intersection, the girl just threw it away."

Li Hua boasted proudly.

"There was an elementary school student who even wanted to snatch it from me."

Jiang Nian asked, "And then?"

"He got the instruction manual, I got the Rubik’s cube." Li Hua smirked, "Zero dollars, a lightning fast grab, too slow and you’ll miss it."

Jiang Nian: "....."

It’s hard to imagine a high school boy on the street, following a young couple and snatching things from an elementary school student.

A king of the Yue Kingdom... truly petty.

Small victories turned to failures, and that kid probably couldn’t sleep tonight.

"You truly never disappoint, Hua." Jiang Nian rubbed his chin and said, "But without the instruction manual... how do you play with it?"

"What is an instruction manual?" Li Hua leaned back tactically, "This thing, all you need is a brain."

Jiang Nian nodded on the surface, but the evil fire burned in his heart.

"Mm."

After a while, Zhizhi came by.

"Hello."

"Where’s my drink? x3" Jiang Nian exaggeratedly acted like a crazy fan, "Big star, look at me."

"Hmph." Zhang Ningzhi gave him a glare, tossed a box of drinks at him, and said dissatisfied, "Here you go, here you go."

Li Hua was still twisting the Rubik’s cube and looked up.

"Aren’t you embarrassed to keep mooching like this?"

Jiang Nian nodded and took a big sip, "True, next time, I’ll sell your book for scrap and buy my own drink."

Li Hua: "Then it’s better if you keep mooching."

The first class in the afternoon.

The lesson was halfway through, Jiang Nian glanced over. Seeing Li Hua had completed the second layer, he couldn’t help but marvel silently.

Li Hua may be mischievous, but his brain is indeed sharp.

As the class neared its end, Li Hua suddenly called out softly.

"It’s done, I did it!!"

"You little rascal, what did you accomplish!" Jiang Nian habitually responded, "Wow, did you actually solve it?"

"Of course, my brain is rock solid." Li Hua boasted proudly.

Zhang Ningzhi heard the noise and turned her head. Seeing the two playing with the Rubik’s cube, she immediately lost interest.

Before the class ended, taking advantage of Li Hua going away for a moment,

Jiang Nian took out the scrambled Rubik’s cube Li Hua had left in the desk and, without thinking, manually swapped a few corners.

Then, he sneakily put it back in place.

The second class was biology.

Qingbao was teaching, while the people at the back of the class were dozing off. Li Hua couldn’t take it anymore and started playing with the Rubik’s cube.

"Easy, too easy."

"Eh.....?"

"Wait, that’s not right, I think I remembered wrong."

All afternoon, Jiang Nian listened to Li Hua muttering to himself. Whenever he saw Li Hua itch his head, Jiang Nian would chuckle.

"Is your brain not functioning?"

"Chi Shi!"

Li Hua was so flustered, he became even more frantic. He even started drawing diagrams on paper, beginning his inference.

"There’s no problem with this step, and this step too..."

Jiang Nian could no longer hold back, turning his head to laugh in the direction of Zhang Ningzhi.

"Haha."

Zhang Ningzhi had no clue and poked Jiang Nian.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Your hairband is crooked."

"Huh?!" She hurriedly took out a small mirror, looked once, and then punched him twice, "You liar!"

After the third class, the number of people researching the Rubik’s cube increased from Li Hua to include Zeng You.

Two gifted guys, pointing and fumbling with the Rubik’s cube.

"I think it should be like this... like this...."

"That’s wrong."

"Chi Shi."

"When I was rotating that piece just now..."

During the self-study session.

Jiang Nian grabbed some questions and went to find Qi Xue, only to run into Qi Xue on the stairs.

She was texting on her phone and looked up at Jiang Nian.

"I was just about to tell you, don’t come."

"Teacher, why?"

Qi Xue didn’t know how to explain, "There’s something, how about this, come find me after the second evening self-study ends."

"Oh."

Jiang Nian watched Qi Xue’s hurried departing figure, wondering what could be so urgent. Shaking his head, he went back to the classroom.

After school, the sixth group cleaned the classroom.

After they finished, Li Hua and Zeng You went to take out the trash.

Jiang Nian, having nothing to do, casually took apart Li Hua’s Rubik’s cube. He then reassembled it, scrambled it back, and put it back as usual.

Thinking, next time I’ll swap it again on Li Hua.

Suddenly, his peripheral vision was covered by a shadow.

"Mm?" Jiang Nian was startled, thinking Li Hua had returned, but upon seeing it was the class president, he said, "Qingqing?"

She gave Jiang Nian a glance, lowered her eyes, and asked,

"Eat?"

....

Dormitory cafeteria, queuing.

"I think one of my classmates is about to get married." Huang Caicai looked at his phone, astonished, "It’s ridiculous, right?"

"How did they get married?" Lin Dong was curious.

"I don’t know, they didn’t go to high school." Huang Caicai said, "It seems they couldn’t get a certificate, so they just had a ceremony."

"They asked me to come home and have a drink if I’m free."

Upon hearing about marriage, Yang Qiming couldn’t help but sigh. A vague, world-weary sadness arose within him.

"Marriage, if those two words did not tremble....."

Lin Dong: "?"

"Brother Yang thought of his ex-girlfriend." Huang Caicai explained, "Brother Yang always thinks about it, truly deep feelings."

"But isn’t this..." Lin Dong was puzzled, "It’s been so long, why are you still holding onto the past?"

"You don’t understand, I can’t let go." Yang Qiming said somewhat melancholically, gazing at the ceiling of the cafeteria at a forty-five-degree angle.

"Perhaps we shouldn’t have had any cause and effect, perhaps I shouldn’t have just..."

"Stop singing!" the cafeteria auntie impatiently interrupted, tapping a spoon against a steel plate, "Next, what are you eating?"

"Oh oh, a drumstick and this stir-fried spicy pork." Yang Qiming returned to reality, scooping a bowl of tomato egg soup on the side.

While carrying his bowl to find a seat, he suddenly noticed Jiang Nian and the class president going up to the second floor of the dormitory cafeteria not too far away.

"What the heck, am I seeing things....."

After sitting down, he continued to gaze in Jiang Nian’s direction, deep in thought.

"Is that the class president?"

"What class president... are you seeing things?" Lin Dong turned in the direction of his gaze, "Holy crap, it really is the class president."

"Why did they come here?" Huang Caicai asked.

"I guess Jiang Nian brought her."

Even though Lin Dong was used to it, seeing Jiang Nian and the class president queuing together still made him unable to contain himself.

"Damn, Jiang Nian is truly sneaky!"

"Sigh." Yang Qiming sighed again.

Huang Caicai seeing this, said, "Bro, you must have faith in yourself."

"Okay?" Yang Qiming felt a brief comfort, taking a deep breath, "I’ll try my best."

Upon hearing this, Lin Dong instinctively advised against it.

"Plastic surgery is too risky."

Yang Qiming: "??"

On the other side, Jiang Nian, waiting in line, also noticed Lin Dong and the others on the second floor of the dormitory cafeteria, and couldn’t help but remark,

"Residential schoolers truly have great bonds."

Hearing this, Li Qingrong turned to glance at Lin Dong and the others, then looked back at Jiang Nian and said,

"We have a good relationship too."