Chapter 532: Rainy Days and Finals Are a Better Match
Chapter 532 -230: Rainy Days and Finals Are a Better Match
Aside from the final, major math problem which caused the lovely girl to frown slightly, Li Zhi had a clear approach for all the other questions.
As for Ah Jie, that was another story entirely.
The proctor had even suspected the guy had given up, but upon walking over, he saw that Ah Jie was already finished.
It was utterly absurd.
As the bell signaling the end of the exam rang, the first day of testing came to a close.
The moment Ah Jie walked out of the classroom, Shen Yuan wrapped him in a chokehold.
“Gah! I can’t breathe! Need some air!”
“Not a single bit, you bastard!”
Shen Yuan dragged Ah Jie all the way to their classroom just like that.
“Get him!”
As soon as he entered the classroom, Shen Yuan, without another word, requested that the assembled students give Zhou Shaojie the Aruba treatment.
In response to Shen Yuan’s request, the students of Class 15 were naturally enthusiastic to oblige.
“To me, my guards! Protect your emperor! Your Emperor will give you the answers to check!”
Before Ah Jie could even finish his sentence, he felt himself being lifted up and carried toward the back door of the classroom.
“Your Emperor has done no wrong! The words of Your Emperor are the law of the land! This is Your Emperor’s right as the Son of Heaven of Mathematics… Aaaah!”
“Scream! Keep screaming and we’ll grind your great path of mathematics to dust!”
Ah Jie suddenly felt a chill shoot through his groin.
In the end, the group didn’t go too far with Ah Jie.
After all, they still had exams the next day.
Once he was let go, Ah Jie looked at everyone with a cheerful expression. “Hey, any thoughts on dinner? You guys up for the clay pot place over by the International Trade Center?”
A piping hot bowl of clay pot stew on a cold winter day was warm, comforting, and just the thing to drive away the chill from a full day of exams!
But thinking about the weather, Shen Yuan shook his head.
“Brother Jie, it’s raining! Are you really going out in this weather?”
Ah Jie opened his mouth, but ultimately gave up on the idea.
“Fine, to the cafeteria we go!”
On the first floor of the cafeteria, the group got some hot food and a bowl of the free hot soup.
Just as they sat down, they heard Yang Ze speak up.
“I’d just like to say, no discussing the math answers!”
“In that case,” Ah Jie looked up, “DBBCA, AACCB.”
“You’re dead!” Yang Ze grabbed Ah Jie by the neck.
“I think Ah Jie is the real masochist here. He’s always intentionally asking for a beating,” Chen Mingyu said, seriously observing Ah Jie, whose eyes were starting to roll back in his head.
Amidst the clamor of the cafeteria, Li Zhi turned to Shen Yuan, her eyes filled with a silent question.
Shen Yuan met her gaze, his lips curving into a familiar, confident arc.
“Don’t worry. It wasn’t a big deal. Much better than the midterms.”
The young woman nodded slightly, and her worries were immediately put to rest.
He Zhiyu’s gaze lingered on Shen Yuan and Li Zhi. She always felt like there was some secret between those two.
But she couldn’t be bothered to dig deeper. ‘It’s so annoying.’
…
The winter rain continued to drizzle. Inside classroom 211, the sharp ring of the bell for the final English exam pierced the silence.
Shen Yuan capped his pen and let out a long breath. The tension that had gripped him suddenly loosened.
The sky outside was dim, and an air of relief had begun to quietly blossom inside the classroom.
No matter what, the exams were over.
Whether they did well or poorly, it was all set in stone now.
Regardless of how he’d done, all he could do was wait for the final results.
Thinking of this, Shen Yuan actually felt a sense of relief wash over him.
He deftly packed up his stationery. After the proctor had collected the test papers, Shen Yuan turned his head to look at Li Zhi behind him.
The moment he turned, Shen Yuan saw Li Zhi’s smiling face.
It seemed the beautiful girl had been waiting for him to turn around all along.
English was nothing for Li Zhi, even though from Shen Yuan’s perspective, this English test was slightly more difficult than usual.
However, what was “slightly more difficult” for Shen Yuan and Li Zhi was something else entirely in Ah Jie’s eyes.
When Shen Yuan’s gaze fell upon Ah Jie, he was shocked to find him collapsed in his seat…
…looking like he was dead.
“That was so hard!”
After leaving the examination hall, Shen Yuan’s ears were filled with Ah Jie’s wails of despair.
Watching Ah Jie clutch his head and dramatically wail about how brutal the English exam was, Shen Yuan gave his shoulder a perfunctory pat.
“Alright, alright. It’s all over. We’re on break now. Go home and get some good rest tonight.”
As he spoke, Shen Yuan’s gaze had already turned eagerly to Li Zhi beside him.
He quickly took Li Zhi’s cool hand and said in a low, hurried voice, “Let’s go. We need to get back to the classroom, pack our things, and head home.”
Before he finished speaking, he was already leading Li Zhi away, walking briskly under an umbrella into the drizzling rain, heading purposefully toward their academic building.
Ah Jie turned his head only to see that the two of them had already vanished.
His heart, which had just been soothed by Shen Yuan, was instantly shattered again.
“Shen Yuan!!”
The reason Shen Yuan was in such a hurry to go home was because the end of final exams meant a break.
Although the third-years still had a few more days of class, a necessary break was still a necessary break.
The time from this moment, the end of exams, until the first period tomorrow afternoon was all free time.
In order to prepare for the joint final exams, Shen Yuan hadn’t been able to spend any quality alone time with Li Zhi lately.
Now that the exams were over, they finally had some time, so of course they had to make the most of it together!
“I’m ho—”
Shen Yuan had just pushed the door open and hadn’t even fully stepped into the entryway when he froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.
The smile on his face instantly froze. His pupils contracted, and his gaze locked onto the sofa in his living room.
‘Father-in-law?!’
‘Oh wait, not yet.’
‘Let’s try that again…’
Shen Yuan silently closed the door, then opened it again.
Old Li and Aunt Xu were still sitting on the sofa.
‘Alright, I wasn’t seeing things.’
‘Wait, are you two just visiting?’
‘Visiting at mealtime? Oh, they came to mooch a meal.’
‘Wait, then what’s Li Zhi going to eat?’
This completely unexpected scene made Shen Yuan’s mind go blank.
What was it like to unexpectedly find your future father-in-law and mother-in-law in your own home?
‘Are they here to propose a marriage?’
Shen Yuan shivered and violently shook the unrealistic thought from his head.
In that shocked instant, Shen Yuan almost subconsciously turned to look at the apartment door across the hall.
He saw that door was also cracked open slightly. A moment later, Li Zhi’s delicate little face poked out cautiously from behind it.
The beautiful girl’s face was filled with the same brand of confusion and bewilderment as his. Her long eyelashes fluttered, and her dark eyes were full of “Am I an orphan now?”-style question marks.
Just as Li Zhi was feeling confused, Shen Yuan opened his own door wider and stepped aside, making room.
Li Zhi raised an eyebrow.
‘What’s that supposed to mean?’
Shen Yuan gave a slight jerk of his head.
‘Come see for yourself!’
Li Zhi blinked, then stepped out of her apartment and cautiously peered into his home from behind Shen Yuan.
When she saw her parents on the sofa, the confusion on the beautiful girl’s face deepened.
“Mom! Old Li! You came to mooch a meal and didn’t even invite me?”
To Shen Yuan and Li Zhi’s surprise, Old Li and Xu Chan also looked completely baffled.
Just then, having heard the commotion outside, Ms. Zhang Yuyan walked out of the kitchen. Seeing the “young couple” at the door, she too showed the exact same confused expression.
“Why are you two back? Aren’t you eating dinner at school?”
Shen Yuan looked at his mom, astonished.
“We’re! Done with finals! We have a break!”
Old Li, Xu Chan, Old Shen, Zhang Yuyan: “Huh?”
Apparently, both sets of parents had completely forgotten that their children had final exams these past two days.