Chapter 336 Win or Lose (Two in One)

"Hate it! Sweet talk!"

Zhu Zhixue smiled and patted her head lightly, her eyes filled with the soft and warm spring color.

"I say this with a clear conscience!"

"Touch my conscience, huh?"

Li Zhuangsheng retracted his hand in dismay: "You were the one who asked me to touch you..."

It’s strange, there are always people saying that no matter how beautiful a girl is, you’ll get tired of looking at her after a while, but few people say that you’ll get tired of touching a conscience.

"I asked you to touch me, and you could have refused!"

"If I refuse, wouldn't that be a betrayal of your kindness?"

The two chatted and joked, and Li Zhuangsheng looked at his phone and suggested, "Why don't we go out and find some other place to sit."

"Where can you go if you go out? There's no one guarding the school."

"Let's go sit in a milk tea shop. I'll buy you some milk tea. It's a bit cramped here."

Li Zhuangsheng looked around. This was a typical small private room on the second floor of a roadside fly restaurant. The space was very small and was sandwiched between two cracks. There was only an old air conditioner and no windows.

"Don't buy me milk tea. It's a waste of money. You really don't know how to live... and it will make you gain weight!" Zhu Zhixue muttered, "I think it's good here. It's quiet and no one disturbs me."

"That's fine."

Li Zhuangsheng shrugged indifferently. It was indeed quiet here. He lowered his head and typed a novel on his phone, while Zhu Zhixue leaned against him and played Temple Run.

"Oh, yes, yes." Zhu Zhixue said.

"What?" Li Zhuangsheng asked back with a smile.

"You said you like Ikaros..." Zhu Zhixue smiled with narrowed eyes, and suddenly waved her hand, "Oh, forget it, I won't tell you yet."

"What do you want to say? You're so mysterious!"

"I'll tell you during the summer vacation!"

"What has to wait until summer vacation?"

"You'll know when the time comes! Hehehe!"

Li Zhuangsheng curled his lips and did not ask any more questions. Zhu Zhixue hummed a song softly, exited the Temple Escape, and started playing 2048.

"Oh, how could I forget!" Zhu Zhixue suddenly stood up, slapped her forehead, and said coquettishly, "It's all your fault!"

"Why blame me?"

"I was so mad at Hu Mengdie that I was confused!"

Zhu Zhixue took out a pair of nail clippers from her pocket and stretched out her hand, saying, "Give me your hand!"

Li Zhuangsheng blinked and said, "What are you going to do? Cut my nails?"

"Didn't you say yesterday that your nails were a little long and it was not comfortable for you to type on the keyboard? Look, I bought you a new one specially! Doesn't it look good?" Zhu Zhixue raised the nail clippers in her hand. The end of the pliers was covered with a plastic shell with a cartoon puppy printed on it.

Did I say that? I really can’t remember... I guess I just mentioned it casually.

Although nails are not very long nowadays, for people who need to type quickly for a long time, slightly longer nails will have a greater impact on the feel of typing.

Anyway, every time Li Zhuangsheng cut his nails, he felt that his typing speed had increased to a higher level.

"It does look good, but I can do it myself." Li Zhuangsheng smiled and wanted to take over the nail clippers.

It has been a long time since he had his nails cut by anyone. The last person to do so was Li Xiuyu, and the one before that was Chen Lanying. Apart from that, there really was no third person.

Besides, even for Chen Lanying, the last time she cut his nails was more than ten years ago.

It always feels a bit embarrassing to let others come.

Zhu Zhixue held the nail scissors in her hand and shook her head: "No, no, I'll cut it for you. I promise to cut it well for you!"

"Hey... okay!" Li Zhuangsheng stretched out his hand helplessly, "Just don't take advantage of this opportunity to mess with me!"

"Tsk, who would mess with you?"

Li Xiuyu! She would! She would cut halfway and then grab my hand and threaten me that if I didn’t want to cut the flesh, I would have to treat me to a big meal as service fee or something!

Of course it wasn't all fancy meals. One time I asked her to give me a foot massage in a not very formal place. It was a very formal foot massage.

That was the only time Li Zhuangsheng had his feet massaged. He was extremely embarrassed the whole time. He felt uncomfortable all over as he watched a pretty young girl lower her head and massage his stinky feet in front of him while he lay there like a big boss. He felt like a big boss of the exploiting class who should be overthrown the most in the past, moving around and feeling restless.

It was really embarrassing to talk about that time. I was doing internship in Nanjing as a senior. When we met, Li Xiuyu said that he was very tired after standing all day and his feet were sore, so he wanted to try foot massage. He also slandered Li Zhuangsheng, saying that as a boy, he must be very familiar with these occasions.

Li Zhuangsheng was of course unfamiliar with it. Although he had a lot of spare money during his college years, he never had the guts to mess around. So he called Zhang Qixiang to ask him to recommend a foot bathing place. In order to prevent Zhang Qixiang from making random recommendations, he also specifically emphasized that he wanted to take Li Xiuyu to a formal place.

Unfortunately, Zhang Qixiang did not believe what Li Zhuangsheng said and thought that he was just hiding his shyness as a virgin. So he specially introduced a store that he had the highest opinion of, and generously allowed Li Zhuangsheng to swipe his membership card and made sure to mention his name in advance.

Later, Li Zhuangsheng found out that the store did not accept new customers and only received regular customers or customers introduced by acquaintances.

Li Zhuangsheng walked into the box and saw the mama-san leading a row of sexy girls in. Then he realized that something was definitely wrong. But it was too late to leave. Li Xiuyu also expressed interest in this place, so he had to stay. Under curious and suspicious gazes, he had a very formal foot massage in a very informal occasion.

To be honest, it was totally unenjoyable that time. Although the girl was quite pretty, Li Zhuangsheng had to suppress his embarrassment and uneasiness, block all kinds of hints from the girl, and be on guard against whether the girl next to him would take the opportunity to take advantage of Li Xiu Yu.

After the party, Li Zhuangsheng paid and left in disgrace, without using Zhang Qixiang's membership card. But Zhang Qixiang complained to him, saying that the manager had called him several times to confirm whether he was an acquaintance, and that he brought his sister to such an event and played vegan, fearing that Li Zhuangsheng was bringing people to sting the law.

Li Zhuangsheng was so angry that he scolded him on the spot.

It was too far away. Zhu Zhixue would not be as tasteless as Li Xiuyu, threatening him halfway through the haircut. After all, people have a sense of propriety, and there is only one Li Xiuyu.

After getting Li Zhuangsheng's permission, Zhu Zhixue happily lowered her head and cut Li Zhuangsheng's nails bit by bit, carefully, as if she was carving some work of art.

"Just cut it casually, no need to cut it so carefully." Li Zhuangsheng couldn't help laughing as he looked at Zhu Zhixue's meticulous look.

"That won't do. You're a great writer, and your hands are very important!"

Zhu Zhixue smiled, carefully cut the nails, and then gently polished them with the file that came with the nail clippers.

Li Zhuangsheng watched silently, as if there was a big river in his heart flowing into the sea.

"Well, well, now it's perfect!" After finishing all this, Zhu Zhixue held up her masterpiece with great satisfaction, "This will make typing on the keyboard much more comfortable in the future!"

"Haha... my nails have never been so exquisite." Li Zhuangsheng looked at the round and beautiful shape of his nails and laughed for no reason. He felt inexplicably disappointed. "But they grew longer after a few days."

"I'll cut it for you when the time comes." Zhu Zhixue didn't care.

"Why, do you want to cut my nails for the rest of my life?"

"Who do you want to give you a haircut?"

"Little classmate, isn't your bag on it?"

"Ah."

"Your classmates are still upstairs. Didn't they come down with you?"

"Ah."

The restaurant owner looked at the star-like girl in confusion. She had just walked in and said that she had left her bag in the store and asked the owner if he had seen it.

Of course the boss remembered these three people, and immediately said that her two previous companions were still there, and asked her to go up and get it herself.

But who would have thought that the other party actually came down empty-handed. I guess the bag was thrown somewhere else.

Looking at the depressed look of this girl, it seems that she lost some important game, or failed some important test... Is there something so important in her bag? How come she was so cheerful when she came here, but now she can't even lift her head.

Hu Mengdie left the restaurant empty-handed. The afternoon sun shone through the shade of the trees on the roadside, making her eyes a little blind. The conversation between Zhu Zhixue and Li Zhuangsheng when she was cutting his nails came to her mind again, and she couldn't help but raise an inexplicable expression at the corner of her mouth:

"Indeed, it's different."

……

In the evening, after finishing his meal in the cafeteria, Li Zhuangsheng wandered alone on the playground. Zhu Zhixue was with her friends today, which was also Li Zhuangsheng's wish, and he didn't want to see her neglect her friends.

Yao Xingyu and Zeng Chen were Zhu Zhixue’s best friends. In Li Zhuangsheng’s impression, although these two people gradually drifted away from Zhu Zhixue after her "fall" in her previous life, they did not follow the crowd and say bad things about Zhu Zhixue.

He still remembered that when he graduated, the person who asked "Who is the white moonlight in this picture" under Zhu Zhixue's post was Yao Xingyu.

There were many messages below at that time, and Zhu Zhixue only replied to her.

Li Zhuangsheng wandered aimlessly on the playground. The sky was dark and gloomy, and he could not see anything in the distance. On the rostrum was still hanging the banner of the 100-day oath-taking meeting for the senior class. It was a few days ago, and it has not been taken down yet.

The Hundred Days Oath-taking Ceremony should be quite far away, but why does it feel so close? It seems that I will be the next one.

Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. I'd better pass the junior college entrance examination first, it won't be long.

Li Zhuangsheng took a breath of fresh air and walked back to the classroom.

Lin Yuehua, who sat next to him, was as serious as ever, not feeling nervous at all. Li Zhuangsheng remembered that she got 4A in the last junior college entrance examination, so she didn't need to be nervous.

But last time, even 4A was useless because she did not take the college entrance examination, and those 5 points were ultimately not used.

"Why are you back so late?" Lin Yuehua frowned, "Zhu Zhixue came back earlier."

"I wasn't with her today. Hey, the junior high school entrance exam is coming soon, do you have any goals?" Li Zhuangsheng asked knowingly.

"At least there should be an A." Lin Yuehua said indifferently.

"Huh?" Li Zhuangsheng was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly became alert and looked at Lin Yuehua as if he had seen a ghost. "What did you say? Your goal is only an A?"

No, those who dare to label themselves as Tsinghua University only dare to think of an A in the junior college entrance examination? Are you sure you are Lin Yuehua?
"1A3B, I think that's about right."

"I think your goal is too conservative. Did you take the wrong medicine today?"

With your ability, even if you perform poorly on the exam day and fart and have diarrhea, you should still get 4A!

"Conservative?" Lin Yuehua tilted her head.

"Too conservative! You can be bolder!" Li Zhuang nodded vigorously.

"Okay, since you are so confident, then just give you two A's and two B's. If you fail, I will punish you." Lin Yuehua said.

"Eh?" Li Zhuangsheng was stunned. "Aren't we talking about your goal?"

"My current goal is to get you two A's and two B's." Lin Yuehua's face was cold, "Do you have a problem?"

Li Zhuangsheng's mouth twitched slightly: "No, I'm asking about your own goals."

Lin Yuehua glanced and said, "I don't have a goal myself. 4A is easy to get. My current goal is to make you at least 1A3B... Oh, no, it's two A's and two B's."

"Well, isn't this a bit..."

"It's rare to see you have such ambitious goals. I will speed up your progress and spur you on." Lin Yuehua yawned and handed over the outline in her hand. "I asked the teacher for this new chemistry outline. Based on your test scores in the past few times, I have highlighted the key points for you. Just refer to this for your chemistry outline in the future."

Li Zhuangsheng was startled and glanced at the faint dark circles under Lin Yuehua's eyes. His heart twitched slightly, but in the end, he just accepted it silently.

"Master, your kindness is so great that I will never forget it!" Li Zhuangsheng deliberately used a funny voice and clasped his fists to Lin Yuehua.

Lin Yuehua lowered her eyes and said, "Well, if you don't have two A's and two B's, I will expel you from my sect."

Zhu Zhixue looked at him from a distance, then quickly looked away.

Days passed one by one, and under Lin Yuehua's urging, Li Zhuangsheng prepared seriously for the junior college entrance examination. Li Zhuangsheng really didn't want to disappoint Lin Yuehua, so he worked extra hard.

In the last few days, every day was filled with exams, discussing test papers, exams, and discussing test papers.

Finally, the junior high school entrance examination arrived.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous!"

On the eve of the exam, Zhu Zhixue and Li Zhuangsheng were together on the playground. Zhu Zhixue held Li Zhuangsheng's hand and encouraged him.

"I'm certainly not nervous."

Li Zhuangsheng smiled. After such a long period of practice and testing, he had a general understanding of his own level. The two A's and two B's he had agreed on some time ago were not impossible.

"Well, I'm not nervous either!" Zhu Zhixue thought for a moment and sighed, "But 4A is a bit difficult!"

"It's just two or three points at most. I can make up for it by studying the main subjects a little bit." Li Zhuangsheng was calm.

"Well, that's what I said..." Zhu Zhixue's tone was tangled, but then she shook her head, full of anticipation, "Forget it, don't think about it, calm down and do your best! After the exams at the weekend, we will have a month-long holiday on Monday and Tuesday! Then we can go hiking!"

"Yes, we have an appointment. Let's go on Tuesday."

"We're going on Tuesday, what about the first day?"

"Oh, on the first day, Xiu Yu and I made an appointment." Li Zhuangsheng said casually.

"Ah?" Zhu Zhixue was stunned. After a while, she said, "You and your sister?"

Li Zhuangsheng nodded: "This was the original plan. After all, it's a weekday and my parents are not at home."

"But……"

Zhu Zhixue didn't want them to go out alone, like they were on a date. They were obviously not siblings.

(End of this chapter)