No one knows where Liu Mei heard about Lin Yi frequently ranking last in exams.
It seemed she wanted to show off her noble status, telling my mom that if he wasn’t cut out for it, he should just stop going to school and her husband would arrange a job for him or something.
It’s one thing for you to criticize your own child, but it’s another for someone else to call him a failure, and of course my mom didn’t like hearing that.
Now it’s come to this, even Liu Mei’s husband mentioned it when he saw me, and Lin Yi was immediately annoyed.
But considering it beneath him to argue with such uncultured people, Lin Yi felt it was his own immaturity.
"Oh, it’s Uncle ’Grandson’, thanks for the offer, Uncle ’Grandson’. I’ll definitely find you if I can’t get into college. I still have to go to school, so I’ll head off now."
After saying that, Lin Yi paid no more attention to that guy and pedaled off on his bicycle.
Watching Lin Yi ride away, Sun Zhi pretended to sigh and shook his head, saying, "Alas, he’s like a lump of clay that can’t be shaped into anything."
"Wow, Manager Sun! Is this your big Porsche? What, a few millions? Being a leader really is different, huh!"
Sun Zhi was just about to close the car window when a neighbor’s greeting rang out beside him.
Hearing the compliment, Sun Zhi felt quite pleased, immediately smiling smugly and waving his hand:
"Oh, just getting by, it’s a used car, not that expensive, maybe over fifty. I have affairs at the company, so I’ll head off now, Lao Wang."
After saying this, he rolled up the window, hit the gas, and drove off.
Watching the old Porsche emitting black smoke, neighbor Lao Wang sneered:
"This is a classic case of trying to look more impressive than he actually is. My son deals in second-hand cars, and this old 2000 model Cayenne is worth fifty thousand at most, thinking I wouldn’t know..."
...
This little episode passed quickly, and Lin Yi didn’t take it to heart at all.
Like yesterday, upon entering the classroom, he took out his books and quickly began flipping through them.
One book, five books...
Perhaps because a lot of the content in many of these books overlapped, by the time it was nearly lunch, Lin Yi had already finished all the study materials the head teacher had prepared for him, half a day faster than he had expected.
"Phew~ Finally done!"
He let out a long breath, raised his arms, and stretched.
Now Lin Yi could confidently say there wasn’t a single high school topic he didn’t understand; with his current skills, if he wanted, he could score full marks on the college entrance exam! That’s how confident he was!
Now that matters of studying were settled, next up was making money.
Ring, ring, ring...
Just as Lin Yi was considering whether to take the afternoon off, the school bell for dismissal rang.
"Boss, I’m treating to spicy hot pot, let’s go!"
As soon as the bell rang, Li Huiqun jumped up and invited Lin Yi to eat.
But Lin Yi had no appetite at the moment; his morning focus on the books left him all consumed with the idea of quickly selling the treasure from his backpack to make money!
Just as he was about to refuse, his gaze caught Xiao Zihan in the front row picking a lunch box out of her desk pocket, and he immediately changed his mind.
Earning money could wait for a moment, that treasure wasn’t going anywhere, but his lifelong affairs were important too!
"Come on, boss, what are you staring at?"
Li Huiqun was already at the back door of the classroom when he turned around, puzzled to see Lin Yi still sitting at his desk, and followed Lin Yi’s gaze.
In the next moment, Li Huiqun was stunned; was the boss really looking at the ugly girl, Xiao Zihan, in the front?
Sure enough, the next action Lin Yi took confirmed Li Huiqun’s suspicions.
Lin Yi shouldered his backpack single-strap style, stood up, and walked toward the front of the room.
His direction was aimed squarely at Xiao Zihan.
"Hey, I skipped breakfast, my stomach’s killing me. Huh? You have two buns, Xiao Zihan? Just great, let me borrow one to tide me over."
Amidst the students walking out, Lin Yi swaggered to the front and plopped down across from Xiao Zihan.
Seeing Xiao Zihan nibbling a bun with salted pickles, Lin Yi rubbed his stomach, then brazenly grabbed the other bun from Xiao Zihan’s lunch box and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing heartily.
This abrupt scene froze Xiao Zihan, who was focused on her own bun, even making her forget to chew the half-bun she had in her mouth.
And not just her, her deskmate Wang Lingling was also dumbfounded, vigorously rubbing her eyes. What the heck? Lin Yi actually snatched Xiao Zihan’s bun to eat?
"Woah! Boss, you..."
Standing at the back door, Li Huiqun cursed out loud at this sight, suddenly feeling embarrassed, thinking the boss’s head had gone mad from reading! That’s the uggo, right! Her stuff isn’t edible...
Suddenly, the previously bustling classroom turned eerily quiet.
Lin Yi noticed and furrowed his brow, glaring around. Before he could speak, the gawking classmates hurriedly turned their heads and slipped away.
Soon enough, there was massive gossip throughout the school: Lin Yi, the top guy at No. 3 High, had extraordinarily heavy tastes as he stole the bun of the school’s ugliest girl...
Seeing the crowd leave, Lin Yi turned back to see the still stunned Xiao Zihan. Without acknowledging her, he casually reached out and grabbed a few strips of salted pickles from her lunchbox, chewing them heartily.
Seeing Lin Yi’s bold actions, Xiao Zihan finally snapped back to reality but was still a bit at a loss.
But at that moment, as Lin Yi stuffed the rest of the bun in his hand into his mouth, he reached his hand out toward Xiao Zihan’s side.
Instantly, Xiao Zihan instinctively clutched the half-eaten bun in her hand tightly, as if afraid he would snatch her last bun too:
"No, I, I’m not full yet..."
Witnessing this act and hearing the meek voice, Lin Yi was momentarily taken aback, then couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Yet his hand did not pause, continuing toward Xiao Zihan, and under her somewhat terrified gaze, he picked off a crumb from the edge of her mouth.
Realizing what happened, Xiao Zihan’s cheeks flushed instantly, while Li Huiqun, who had observed everything from the back, blurted out a string of curses!
[To be continued...]