Chapter 123

The two-day midterm exam came to an end with the ringing of the bell for collecting papers. Li Zhuangsheng stretched himself and queued up for food in the nearby cafeteria.

The first time he took an exam in the cafeteria, he saw all kinds of people. Some people slept as soon as they opened the paper, and handed in a blank paper when the time was up. Some people seemed to be busy writing, but no one knew what they were writing. Some people whispered answers or made cheat sheets, as if they had not given up on their poor grades.

I feel a little pitiful...but they don't need my condescending pity. After all, I am one of them now.

After preparing the meal silently, Lin Yuehua arrived late.

Li Zhuangsheng was sitting in the corner. He waved at her and she came over quickly.

"Tomorrow is the month-long holiday, I'll go to your house. You can learn a lot in two days. Don't slack off after the midterm exam, you're far behind."

Lin Yuehua did not ask for Li Zhuangsheng's opinion at all, but announced the result lightly as if it were a trial.

Li Zhuangsheng shook his head and smiled apologetically: "I have something to do tomorrow, please come the day after tomorrow and I will pick you up."

"Is it something important?"

"That's it."

Lin Yuehua frowned slightly: "It's up to you. Don't think you can relax after the midterm exam. Your goal is the college entrance examination."

"I know, I know!"

Li Zhuangsheng nodded rapidly. He looked around and saw that Hu Mengdie was no longer beside him. After being pestered for a month, she suddenly left. He was not used to it.

"Are you confident this time?" Lin Yuehua asked again.

"The first 800?" Li Zhuangsheng sighed, "To be honest, it feels difficult."

"Idiot." Lin Yuehua cursed softly.

Although Li Zhuangsheng said he was not sure, she was not angry.

From the beginning, she didn't expect Li Zhuangsheng to get back to the top 800 in one go, so she said this just to put some pressure on him. After all, the best is the best.

Now that the test was over, the result itself was not that important. After all, she had always been watching Li Zhuangsheng's progress.

"It's too difficult. It still feels too difficult!" Li Zhuangsheng lamented, trying to win Lin Yuehua's sympathy. "You spoke big words before the test, talked nonsense during the test, and remained silent after the test. I suspect you've made my brain stupid all the time!"

"Don't blame others for your own stupidity." Lin Yuehua squinted and said, "If you had listened to me at noon, you would have done well in the exam this time."

"People are not machines. I have to rest at noon." Li Zhuangsheng said unconvincedly, "Don't you sometimes take a nap at noon? You're drooling!"

"I only sleep occasionally, don't compare you with me!"

Lin Yuehua lowered her head and bit the chicken leg, then reached out and knocked Li Zhuangsheng on the head. After a moment, she remembered something and looked Li Zhuangsheng up and down, wondering, "How do you know that I sometimes sleep at noon?"

Although she and Li Zhuangsheng had sat at the same table for a long time, the other party disappeared after lunch and did not return to the classroom until the bell rang in the afternoon. He probably didn't know what she was doing at noon.

Li Zhuangsheng was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that he had let the cat out of the bag. The one who would sleep on his arm at noon was Lin Yuehua, and the one he leaned on to sleep when he was sleepy was also Lin Yuehua.

"I saw it before we became desk mates!" Li Zhuangsheng reacted quickly.

"Oh." Lin Yuehua nodded, no longer doubting.

However, what made her feel strange was that Li Zhuangsheng always knew some of her little quirks and habits that she had never revealed, as if he knew her very well, as if they had known each other for a long time. This feeling was a bit strange, not entirely joyful.

During the evening study session after the midterm exam, the lights in every classroom were turned off, and the big screen playing a movie reflected stars in the eyes of every student.

"It's still "Chinese Partners"..." Li Zhuangsheng yawned. He had watched this movie several times.

He glanced at Lin Yuehua beside him, who was watching intently.

He became playful and poked Lin Yuehua.

"What?" Lin Yuehua asked curiously.

"Among these three men, which one do you like best?" Li Zhuangsheng asked in a low voice with a smile.

"Huang Xiaoming plays Cheng Dongqing."

"You actually know Huang Xiaoming?"

“Isn’t he a big star?”

Lin Yuehua asked back, and suddenly realized that the other party treated her as an ignorant bumpkin, and she was so angry that she punched him on the arm.

Li Zhuangsheng gave a spoiler with a sly smile: "Cheng Dongqing didn't go to the United States, but Meng Xiaojun did. The heroine also wanted to go to the United States, so she broke up with Cheng Dongqing and married someone else. Then Cheng Dongqing founded an English cram school, which was very successful and had many students. Meng Xiaojun couldn't make it in the United States, so he came back to join him. In the end, the three brothers made the cram school big and strong, and they all became millionaires."

Lin Yuehua was stunned, then realized Li Zhuangsheng's sinister intentions, took a deep breath, and punched him twice. Not satisfied, she punched him twice more.

"Why did you hit me?" Li Zhuangsheng asked knowingly with a look of grievance on his face.

Lin Yuehua snorted and turned away, ignoring him.

Time flies, it’s only been ten years. Today’s “international students” seem to have a shining halo, as if they are all favored by heaven, but ten years later, people will finally understand that most of the international students are ordinary in ability, just because their families are rich. Now the word “foreign” is also a dimensionality reduction blow to the domestic masses, as if foreigners are born noble and civilized.

It's really funny.

But this is not the fault of the masses. After all, in Li Zhuangsheng's junior high school geography textbook, China's GDP is far less than Japan's. Europe, the United States and Japan are the three major drivers of the world economy. Anyone who sees the annotation in the textbook that China's per capita GDP is less than one twentieth of Japan's will feel a strong and shocking gap.

"Did Su Mei and Cheng Dongqing really break up?" Lin Yuehua suddenly asked in a low voice.

"Yes, they broke up. Su Mei wanted to go to the United States, but Cheng Dongqing couldn't get a visa. When they met again, Su Mei's child had grown up." Li Zhuangsheng said.

"Oh..." Lin Yuehua was silent for a moment, "They were not suitable for each other at the beginning, and the reason why they were together was also strange."

"Hey." Li Zhuangsheng gently patted Lin Yuehua's arm, "If you were Su Mei, what would you choose? Break up and go to America, or stay in China and give up the American dream."

"Why break up if she wants to go to America?" Lin Yuehua thought for a moment and answered seriously, "I think she can stay together and return to China to be with Cheng Dongqing after finishing her studies abroad."

"She didn't study abroad just for the sake of studying abroad. Studying abroad is not the goal. Her ultimate goal is to stay in the United States."

“Why do you want to stay in the United States?”

Li Zhuangsheng smiled and shook his head: "Back then, the material conditions in the United States were very good. The gap between the two sides was huge. Many people were like this and never looked back."

Lin Yuehua looked into Li Zhuangsheng's eyes with a strange expression: "No matter how good America is, it's not as good as Cheng Dongqing who likes her."

　Sorry, I haven't slept for 48 hours. I still owe you chapters. I will start making up for it tomorrow.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)