Chapter 16: What If I Say No?
Liou Qingcheng said it as a joke, but Lin Tian took it seriously: "Is there a reward for being the first in grade?"
"You can have whatever reward you want!" Liou Qingcheng said casually.
Being the first in grade isn’t something you can achieve just by talking; there are nearly a thousand students in the senior year across the entire school.
𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
If you want to be the number one out of a thousand people, the difficulty lies in the hard work and sweat you put in.
"You said it, so I’ll aim to be the first in grade!" Lin Tian was determined to take the first place in this mock exam.
Whether it was for Liou Qingcheng’s reward or to make Mr. Gao take notice, or to slap Li Qiang in the face.
No matter the reason, Lin Tian was determined to strive for it.
"I’ll go back to study first; I’ll return the papers to you after I finish," Lin Tian said gratefully and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Liou Qingcheng called out to stop him.
"Is there anything else?" Lin Tian’s heart suddenly skipped two beats, thinking perhaps Wu Yong was right, and he had to sell his looks for these test papers?
"You borrowed my test papers, aren’t you going to leave something behind?" Liou Qingcheng looked at Lin Tian with a playful smile.
"As expected...!" Lin Tian’s face was full of black lines: "Anything but selling my looks is fine!"
"Selling your looks?" At first hearing this term, Liou Qingcheng laughed uncontrollably and said teasingly, "What are you thinking about? I asked you to leave something, not yourself!"
"I’m sorry, I misunderstood!" Lin Tian was extremely embarrassed.
"Your head is full of dirty thoughts!" Liou Qingcheng rolled her eyes at Lin Tian and said with a hint of frustration, "Leave your phone number!"
"Oh!" Upon hearing that it was just for a phone number and not his looks, Lin Tian’s heart, which was in his throat, returned to its original place.
After exchanging phone numbers, Lin Tian returned to the classroom with a pile of test papers and happened to run into Li Qiang.
Li Qiang glanced at the test papers and notebooks in Lin Tian’s hands and sneered, "Did you pick them up from the trash heap?"
Li Qiang knew very well that no one in the entire class who was good at studying would lend Lin Tian their test papers.
So if Lin Tian came back with a bunch of test papers, there was only one possibility—they were picked up from the trash heap!
"Picked?" Lin Tian was taken aback by the words, then smiled slightly: "These are Liou Qingcheng’s test papers, the first in grade. If her test papers and notes could be picked from the trash, I bet you’d have long run to the trash heap to get them, Qiang!"
"What?" Li Qiang exclaimed.
Liou Qingcheng’s notes and test papers?
Those were things many good students dreamed of seeing because Liou Qingcheng was the top student in grade, and her notes must have unique insights.
"Can I borrow them to have a look?" Li Qiang blurted out in excitement.
"Borrow?" Lin Tian laughed, happily and cheerfully.
"I’d rather not lend them; I’m afraid you, Qiang, won’t understand the first in grade’s test papers and notes!" Lin Tian shrugged, purposely returning the previous comments Li Qiang made about him.
This reciprocation felt incredibly satisfying!
"Damn it!" Li Qiang stomped his foot furiously, still not understanding how Lin Tian managed to borrow Liou Qingcheng’s notes.
A proud and aloof goddess, why would she have any connections with someone like Lin Tian, who doesn’t study?
Li Qiang truly couldn’t figure out this problem; isn’t it said that people are attracted to similar kinds?
Liou Qingcheng should be with excellent men like himself!!!
As soon as Lin Tian entered the classroom and sat down, Wu Yong approached with a gossipy look: "Yo~ you really borrowed them? Seems like our Miss Liou really fancies you!"
"Stop it; we’re just ordinary friends!" Lin Tian replied as he opened the notebook, ready to study.
"Ordinary friends?" Wu Yong curled his lips: "Lovers come from ordinary friends; my mom and dad were just ordinary friends back then, and look at me now!"
"Alright, alright~ enough with the nonsense, we’re really just friends—no way we’ll end up like your parents and have a kid like you!" Lin Tian waved his hand, signaling Wu Yong to leave him alone.
Seeing Lin Tian focused on the notes, Wu Yong no longer disturbed him.
Two notebooks, and Lin Tian finished reading them in half a class, memorizing them all.
It had to be said, Liou Qingcheng was a meticulous woman, as evidenced by her notebooks.
She missed none of the tiny details in the textbooks.
Of course, Lin Tian also discovered something from the notebooks.
That Liou Qingcheng seemed particularly keen on applying to the dance department of Kanyue City Music Academy.
Every few pages in the notebooks, there were little doodles of people dancing.
Her love for dance and aspiration for the Music Academy were evident throughout the notebooks.
"I hope you successfully get into Kanyue City Music Academy!" Lin Tian silently prayed in his heart for Liou Qingcheng.
All day, Lin Tian did nothing but study, so much so that when the bell rang for the last class in the afternoon, and everyone went to eat, he continued to study at his desk.
"Hey, are you so lost in studies? It’s time to eat!" Wu Yong patted Lin Tian.
"Oh~!" Lin Tian quickly tidied up his desk and left with Wu Yong.
Little did they know, someone in the front row of the classroom was still studying, and when Lin Tian and Wu Yong left, he turned to glance at Lin Tian’s spot with a sly smile.
In the cafeteria, Lin Tian and Wu Yong each had a plate of vegetables and rice, casually found a seat, and began eating.
While they were eating heartily, a dark figure suddenly sat beside Lin Tian.
Wu Yong, sitting opposite Lin Tian, was the first to see the dark figure. After realizing who it was, he gulped nervously.
Noticing Wu Yong’s strange expression, Lin Tian turned to look beside him.
"Lin Tian, right?" The dark figure sitting next to him was nearly two meters tall, wearing a vest with tanned skin and bulging muscles on his arms, very robust.
"And you are?" Lin Tian wasn’t intimidated by the other person’s strong physique.
"Xiong Tianlei!"
"I kindly don’t know you," Lin Tian said, not knowing who Xiong Tianlei was.
"You don’t know me, but I know you!" Xiong Tianlei stuffed half a bun into his mouth, his jaw muscles working as he spoke.
"Did you need something?" Lin Tian picked up chopsticks of shredded potatoes and asked calmly.
"Nothing major, just advising you to stay away from Liou Qingcheng!" Xiong Tianlei threatened.
"Ha~!" Lin Tian couldn’t help but laugh!
Beauty brings trouble, no doubt about that!
"What if I don’t?" Faced with the threat and aggressive demeanor from Xiong Tianlei, Lin Tian casually replied.
"Crack!" With no warning, Xiong Tianlei snapped the pair of chopsticks in his hand: "Then you’ll end up like these chopsticks!"