Chapter 521: You Seem Pretty Miserable
After finishing his call with Bai Shishi, Lin Tian put away his phone and cooked himself a bowl of beef noodles. After eating, he drove his Porsche to school.
This afternoon, there’s a class by Zhao Xuefeng. The old man has called him several times already with many questions, but they couldn’t be explained over the phone, so he kept urging him to attend the class.
If it weren’t for having questions to ask, Zhao Xuefeng’s attitude towards Lin Tian would be ’come if you want, or just go back to sleep if you don’t.’
Zhao Xuefeng lives in the faculty dormitory on campus. Lin Tian did not go directly to find him for two reasons.
The first is because he doesn’t know which dormitory Zhao lives in, as there are just too many buildings on campus. The second reason is that in the middle of the day, the old man is surely taking a nap.
Zhao Xuefeng is a man of great principles, meticulous about his daily schedule. He also has a penchant for health cultivation, and he must nap at noon. Last time at the hospital, he chatted too eagerly with Lin Tian and forgot.
Lin Tian parked his car downstairs of the girls’ dormitory, looking through the car window at Liou Qingcheng’s dorm room window, pondering if it would be silly to take her for a ride in this midday heat?
Eventually, after parking his car, Lin Tian returned to his own dormitory.
He walked all the way to the dorm, finding the door locked, and had to knock a few times before it opened.
Opening the door was Meng Nan, whose bed was right by the door, so he could reach it with a stretch of his arm. But he was particularly busy at this time, with one earphone on, tapping away at the keyboard and mouse, engrossed in his game. He didn’t even glance at Lin Tian but went back to playing after opening the door.
At that moment, Meng Nan was playing as the Blind Monk, taking down towers on the top lane. Lin Tian took a glance at the mini-map and saw that only one of the five enemy players was defending the bottom lane turret. He calmly said, "Stop demolishing, they’re coming to catch you."
Upon hearing Lin Tian’s voice, Meng Nan quickly lifted his head, then continued to stare at the screen and ran off.
Sure enough, after two seconds, all four of the enemy players rushed to the mid lane. Had he not retreated quickly, he’d already be dead.
Then Meng Nan shouted loudly, "You’re finally back, old two!"
Meng Nan’s loud voice soon caught the attention of Li and Wang Sicong. Lin Tian was slightly stunned, Wang Sicong is back?
Li took off his headphones, nodded at Lin Tian as a greeting, then put them back on and resumed reading.
Wang Sicong exchanged a look with Lin Tian, his eyes still showing a fierce gleam. Clearly, the current state of the Wang Family was making his life difficult.
Facing such a gaze, Lin Tian naturally wouldn’t back down. With a playful smile, he said, "Oh, isn’t this Mr. Wang? How come your highness is willing to stay in the dorm today?"
It would’ve been better if Lin Tian hadn’t spoken. His words made Wang Sicong even angrier.
The family’s three companies had all been taken away by Lin Tian, and now his life was nowhere near as comfortable as before.
Wang Daoran had already said, "This brat only has a monthly allowance of a hundred thousand now. No more living outside the school, just stay in the dorm and find a way to get rid of Lin Tian, or don’t ever think about getting more allowance in your life!"
Ten thousand a month sounds like a lot, but for someone like Wang Sicong, accustomed to extravagantly squandering money, ten thousand is pathetically little, hardly enough to make a difference.
Before, ten thousand wasn’t enough to even woo a girl, and now it’s his monthly allowance?
Forget girls, he can’t even afford a slightly upscale hotel anymore.
And as for cars, it used to be an eight million Bentley, but now it’s just a three hundred thousand Volkswagen.
To describe this disparity as earth and sky wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
The only way to change this lifestyle is to get rid of Lin Tian!
But how to get rid of him? This has been the biggest puzzle in Wang Sicong’s mind.
He knows that Lin Tian is already wary of him, drugging him is absolutely impossible. Last time when they drank together, he secretly drugged him, yet didn’t Lin Tian switch it?
To this day, Wang Sicong still hasn’t figured out how Lin Tian managed to switch the drinks last time!
As for whether to stab Lin Tian at night.
He’s had the thought, but absolutely can’t carry it out, not just because of his insufficient courage, but also because committing murder in the dorm is a glaring path to self-destruction, isn’t it?
Not to mention whether he could kill him, even if he did, he’d either get shot or thrown in jail.
As for killing him outside the school? That’s possible, but still not easy.
Just as Wang Sicong was racking his brains to the point of explosion.
The person he loathed most appeared, and most irritatingly, he was even smiling!
Wang Sicong wished he could be like the superhero and Ultraman in movies, use just his pinky to squash Lin Tian to death, press into the cement seam, and then let a steamroller run over him a thousand times, making sure he never reincarnates!
"Old two, you’re finally back. With you not in the dorm, I’m bored to death! Genius is just a dullard, spending time either chasing girls or reading. I asked him to play games with me, but his skills are worse than AI! And old three, ever since you got hospitalized, he went who knows where, just returned two days ago, and doesn’t speak, as if he’s depressed." Meng Nan started complaining.
Meng Nan’s raspy voice was loud enough that even Li, who was sitting on the bed with headphones on, heard him. He removed his headphones, adjusted the black-framed glasses on his nose, and scornfully said, "This game is too childish. If I put my mind to it, you couldn’t even last a second against me."
Lin Tian believed that. Although he didn’t have much contact with Li, he had a decent understanding of his personality. He’s someone with a really sharp mind. Not to mention other things, his standardized test scores alone were 680, slightly trailing compared to Lin Tian himself, but generally, somewhere else he’d barely make Top Scholar.
Li’s logical thinking is exceptionally strong, and he’s even shared his girl-chasing strategies with Meng Nan.
To say the least, Li the beast had thoroughly analyzed Sisi and gave Meng Nan a few pointers.
Start with this, and then do that. He explained each step clearly.
Of course, Meng Nan followed his advice verbatim, went there with confidence, and returned looking no different than a defeated rooster.
Ask him what happened? He just flopped on the bed in a haze and said, "That girl’s too slick, doesn’t follow the playbook at all! Once outside, she just focused on eating, anything I said she acted dumb, you should’ve seen her pretending, way dumber than me!"
Hearing this, Li slammed the table, shouting, "You blockhead! If she acted dumb, couldn’t you just follow her lead? She might’ve already been overwhelmed by your offensive, and this is the time to act swiftly, scoop up the little beauty and toss her onto the bed!"
The response Li got was just two words, "I chickened out..."
Lin Tian enjoyed spending time with the two of them, always a relaxed atmosphere, and filled with constant laughs.
Of course, the dorm would be even better without Mr. Wang.
Lin Tian turned his gaze to Wang Sicong and asked with a smile, "You seem rather miserable..."
(Dear brothers and sisters, in the new year, may you all be prosperous. Wishing everyone all the best, abundant wealth, success in studies, congratulations on getting rich... and countless words of blessing.)