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Nineteenth Period (2)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Zhou Yanli’s daily routine in class was just sleeping. Sometimes Jiang Huihui would wake him, letting him listen seriously in class.
And so he would force himself to listen for about ten minutes.
The classes twenty years ago were different from the classes twenty years in the future. He although had been studying in Pingjiang for almost half a year, he previously had always been attending international schools, so the learning model wasn’t the same.
His dad planned to directly send him to study overseas as soon as he graduates high school. By randomly donating a few buildings, even if scoring a 0 on his exams, he similarly can get a degree from a prestigious school.
That’s why, listening to the classes now, it was like a lullaby, making him more and more sleepy.
The boy’s bathroom after class was quite lively. Quite a few people were squatting in there smoking.
As soon Zhou Yanli went in, he just smelled a suffocating smell of cigarettes.
He slightly frowned, letting them put out their cigarettes.
Those that dared to smoke in school definitely weren’t good students. As soon as they heard his voice, they were instantly annoyed.
The blondie in the lead pointed at his nose with the hand holding the cigarette and arrogantly yelled, “Who the f#%$ do you think you are, even daring to order around your grandpa? You wanna die?”
Their heights clearly weren’t equal. He was short and skinny, even insisting on having the school uniform altered to be tight-fitting, making him look like a narrow strip.
Zhou Yanli had wide shoulders and long legs. Even if wearing winter clothes, you can still tell that he wasn’t frail.
He was an athlete and had even stayed in the province’s swim team before. However, afterwards, because of frequently getting into fights, he got kicked.
The muscles on him weren’t overly pronounced, that type of extremely youthful, lean build. The contours were all very defined.
He was the typical case of where he appeared slim in clothes, but muscular underneath.
Never mind his height, just his presence alone was able to suppress the other party.
There was a bit of restrained anger in his eyes, “I don’t want to get physical, so while I’m still asking nicely, have that cigarette put out.”
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Someone to the side recognized him, going over to stop that blondie, “Forget it, this the new guy that had Li Ao beaten into the hospital last time. It’s better to not get into a fight with him.”
Zhou Yanli had instantly become famous among all the girls in school because of his looks, and at the same time, because of that fight last time, he also became known among the boys.
Li Ao was an infamous delinquent, always hanging out with those thugs outside the school all day. No one in school dared to offend him.
However, despite all this, as soon as this person arrived, he just had the other party beaten up. That face had swollen into a pig’s head. They even heard that his nose and chin both got shattered.
The person that got beaten up was still lying in the hospital, while the person that did the beating walked away completely unscathed.
No one knew where the rumor came from, but it’s said that he was related to Zhou Jinwei in some way.
Considering everything mentioned above, this person was practically just the words ‘don’t provoke’ written in bold letters.
F*%k.
The blondie inwardly cursed and could only have the cigarette put out.
Zhou Yanli, like looking at trash, swept a glance over the crowd, warning them in a menacing tone, “If I were to see someone smoking in school again, I will immediately let him go become hospital roommates with that moron.”
Everyone was clearly aware inside that the ‘moron’ from his mouth was referring to Li Ao.
Sun Ju returned to the classroom, excitedly saying that the transfer student sure was brazen. He’d only transferred here less than a month ago, yet already had those delinquents in school completely subdued and put in their place.
When Zhou Jinwei heard, he slightly frowned, “He got into a fight again?”
“Actually no.” Sun Ju said.
Zhou Jinwei’s expression returned to its usual indifference, as if that subtle change just now was just a misperception on Sun Ju’s part.
He was curious, “How come I feel you care about the transfer student a lot?”
Zhou Jinwei sneered, “Do I?”
Sun Ju suddenly wasn’t sure again. Zhou Jinwei was someone he has known since childhood, both from the capital. Their families’ social status was also more or less the same. Just, the Sun family naturally can’t compare with the Zhou family.
If not for him having extraordinary self-discipline, Sun Ju would’ve even started to suspect whether or not this person was some sociopath.
He has never seen anyone with a colder personality than him.
“Oh right, heard that the other side is doing some sports festival. When time comes, want to go watch?”
Although they attended this school, their educational resources and curriculum were all separate from the other side.
“No time.” The laptop in front of Zhou Jinwei was opened, the screen filled with all kinds of graphs and confusing data.
Sun Ju couldn’t make sense of it.
Sun Ju although didn’t know exactly how high this person’s IQ was, this person was undoubtedly an extraordinary genius. After all, for second-generation rich like them, even if having received the best educational resources since childhood, compared with him, they were practically just like toddlers that had just graduated from kindergarten.
Sun Ju spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, “Fine then.”
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Ten o’clock at night, Zhou Yanli got woken up by the racket next door again. He angrily banged the wall, “F#$%!! Can you be quieter?!”
The day before yesterday, a couple moved in next door, staying for four nights in a row. Whenever night came around, it was always like this, but the soundproofing here was absurdly bad.
He truly couldn’t take it anymore.
The racket next door breifly paused for a moment, then afterwards, as if deliberately provoking him, grew even louder.
Zhou Yanli put on his clothes and directly went over to kick the door, “You f$%#*%, get the f#$% out here!”
The person inside leisurely put on their clothes and opened the door. The other party just had a coat wrapped around them, the tattoo underneath clearly visible. It was a dragon, and on the dragon, there were even a few red mark, presumably having just gotten scratched by the woman inside.
Seeing that the person kicking the door was just a high schooler, he wore a sleazy grin, “Your grandpa is just having a bit of fun, letting you listen in and jerk off a few times. Not only are you not deeply grateful, you’re even getting angry?”
Zhou Yanli glanced at his body that was like a skinny boiled chicken up and down, the corner of his mouth aptly hooking, revealing a mocking smile, “Even a dog in heat knows to rest a little, but you’ve been at it for four days straight——what, took drugs?”
It was blatant provocation.
Probably having hit a nerve, that guy’s grin disappeared, his face filling with anger, directly giving Zhou Yanli a punch.
However, even his punch was soft and weak. Looks like taking drugs was also useless. That punch didn’t even make Zhou Yanli turn his head. His tongue pressed against the side of his cheek where he got punched, softly chuckling under his breath.
Afterwards, he glanced at the end of the hallway.
Pointing straight at them was a camera with a blinking red dot. After confirming that the scene just now got captured, he kicked the person, sending him flying three meters. The other party knocked over two chairs and a table.
The guy lay on the ground groaning in pain. It was more than enough to show just how powerful Zhou Yanli’s kick was just now.
He walked in. Finding the coat on the other party hindersome, he directly took it off.
Every punch landed hard, each fiercer than the last, “Then I’ll play something even more thrilling with you.”
The man’s painful cries instantly came from the room, as well as a woman’s terrified screams.
Sounding through the night.
Xiping Road, which was more than an hour away from here, was actually rather quiet.
Zhou Jinwei had just finished showering. His phone on the table lit up. It was a call from the capital.
He looked down and used the towel to wipe his wet hair, answering the call and putting it on speaker. He then walked to the fridge and took out a bottle of water.
Over the phone, the other party told him the test results, “The probability is 99.9999%. This is for sure a parent-child relationship.”
The paternity test was done in private. After all, this matter was too absurd.
And he who believed this matter was even more absurd.
The other party was Zhou Jinwei’s childhood friend in the capital, whose father worked at a medical research facility. That’s why, Zhou Jinwei would look for him to help him with this.
Hearing the results, Zhou Jinwei froze for a long while. A moment later, he twisted the bottle cap back on, casually placing it aside, “Is it accurate?”
“Of course it’s accurate. My dad’s research facility is the largest and the most prestigious in the capital. It’s not like you didn’t know.” That person was curious about the reason behind him conducting this test, “Could it be that there’s also an illegitmate child of your dad’s in Pingjiang?”
“No.” He rubbed his brows, feeling an unprecedented headache.
Hearing him deny, the other party was even more curious: “If not your dad, then who else can it be?”
Zhou Jinwei wasn’t the type to care about other people’s family affairs.
Since he’d brought up this matter himself, then it had to be related to him.
Zhou Jinwei didn’t answer him. He felt inexplicably annoyed inside and directly hung up the phone.
The absurdity of this matter made him began to question his mental state.
He was seventeen years old, yet had a similarly seventeen-year-old son?
How can that be possible?
But the outcome of the paternity test directly solidified this absurd to the point where it was somewhat laughable truth. He felt that his seventeen years of understanding had been shattered.
He stood there, falling silent for at least half an hour, yet still couldn’t find an answer that he could believe in.
In the end, he finally couldn’t endure anymore, going out to smoke. The fish in the backyard pond swam around regardless of the season.
Today, he didn’t bring any fish food. Those koi swam up to him, but when no food came, they swam away again.
Zhou Jinwei silently stared at the snowy landscape in the distance.
The light gray smoke swirled before him. Amid the swirling smoke, he narrowed his eyes. However, unknown as to what he thought of, he put out the cigarette.
He actually had already unconsciously began to quit smoking, even though he’d always felt that those words from Zhou Yanli’s mouth were nonsense.
However, just thinking about how he said that Jiang Huihui would die of lung cancer six years later, even if he didn’t believe him, he still subconsciously stopped touching those things.
But today, he had a kind of hard to describe emotion that he couldn’t get rid of. He desperately wanted to find an outlet.
His brows furrowed.
Several minutes later, he let out a curse, “F#%$.”
When he went back inside again, his phone that was on the table was lit, the screen displaying five missed calls, all from the same person.
As soon as he picked up the phone, the other party’s call came through again.
He answered the call. The voice on the other side was very solemn, “Is this the owner of the phone? This is Pingjiang Police Station. Your son had gotten into a fight, please come down to the station.”
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