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Sixth 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!
Jiang Huihui attempted to ease their relationship, “Maybe there’s some misunderstanding. Why don’t you two find a time to nicely talk it out later?”
He was annoyed, “Talk my ass.”
Jiang Huihui had a helpless look.
Qin Yu excitedly turned around, “Boss, the injuries on your face must be from fighting those thugs outside the school yesterday, right? I already heard, you fought one against five and even won. Holy shit, I, Qin Yu, swear to follow you for the rest of my life. You are our Pingjiang High School’s new king.”
Zhou Yanli’s face was full of disdain. He attempted to frown, but there were injuries all over his face. Even the slightest bit of facial movement would hurt.
He could only expressionlessly warn him, “Get lost.”
Qin Yu obeyed him without question, “Alrighty.”
And afterwards turned around.
After morning study ended, their homeroom teacher came to the classroom, holding a blank registration form in hand. Seeing Zhou Yanli looking like this, “Aiyoo, what happened to your face? How come it’s this messed up?”
Zhou Yanli said, “Last night, on the way home, accidentally got bit by a dog.”
Their homeroom teacher told him to be careful, saying that Pingjiang City has a lot of stray cats and dogs in the winter.
Afterwards, he shook out that registration form and asked him, “When does your parent have time to come over? The enrollment procedures still haven’t been taken care of yet.”
At the time, when entering the school, he’d made up a bunch of excuses, saying that his dad was busy with work, having no time, but he was eager to study, so could only come over on his own first.
As for the student registration, they still need to wait until after his dad comes to handle.
When the principle heard, what a studious good kid! He immediately just nodded his head and agreed.
But no matter how studious, the student registration was still a top priority. They can’t just keep putting it off forever.
Zhou Yanli made up an excuse, letting the homeroom teacher give him two more days.
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
The young man was sturdy-looking, tall, and also energetic. The homeroom teacher was very fond of him, thus nodded his head and said, “Next Monday is the final deadline.”
Zhou Yanli nodded, “Of course.”
After the homeroom teacher left, Jiang Huihui looked at him with worry, “You still haven’t completed the student registration?”
The student registration has always been handled by the parents. His mom looked even more useless than him.
Zhou Yanli had no other way. He could only go look for that person.
Thinking about how he’d just suffered a beating, and immediately after, needed to go look for the other party’s help……..
Damn it, the more he thought about it, the more pathetic he felt.
Today’s morning study was language arts class. There was also a quiz in the morning. If normally, Zhou Yanli certainly would’ve slept all the way through school.
However, today was different from the past. The one sitting by his side was his actual mom. He can’t just act too lazy.
Thus, he forced himself to focus and have the test paper filled out.
After school, Jiang Huihui praised him, “I took a glance just now. You actually filled out the entire test. I originally thought that your grades weren’t that good.”
He smiled.
It indeed wasn’t that great.
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The following days went by peacefully. Zhou Yanli also gradually got used to life here.
Jiang Huihui started making her own lunch at home to bring to school, even two portions.
One for herself, one for Zhou Yanli.
Her cooking skills were alright. Although unable to compare with the chefs at home, but because she had the buff of being his mom, Zhou Yanli was able to finish it every time.
Jing Huihui was worried that he won’t be full, so would also give him half of her own share.
In the blink of an eye, it was Friday, soon to welcome the weekend.
Jiang Huihui reminded him, “Next Monday is the final deadline. If you don’t complete your student registration soon, you’ll get expelled.”
In the distance, the basketball team was training on the court, preparing for next month’s basketball match.
This match was being taken very seriously by the city. The school naturally also want a good result. Unfortunately, Pingjiang High has never had an advantage in this kind of competition, not even able to make it through the preliminaries.
Jiang Huihui had the containers and chopsticks put away.
Seeing Zhou Yanli looking at the court, she also looked over.
“They’re the school’s basketball team.” She said.
The basketball team has a height requirement for their selection, so everyone in the basketball team was tall. At the age where one was brimming with youth, as long as the facial features weren’t too ugly, all were considered handsome.
The basketball team also became the place where many of the girls’ at school had their hearts set on.
Jiang Huihui thought that he was interested in the basketball team, “If you want to join, you can go apply. Right now, should be………”
He took a sip of water and retreated his gaze in disdain, “Really played like crap.”
He got up and took the food container from Jiang Huihui’s hand, also ruffling her hair, “Come on, go back to take a nap.”
Jiang Huihui silently fixed her ruffled hair, reminding him, “You forgot your jacket.”
He had already gone far, his voice coming from ahead, “You wear it for me, too hot.”
Today was this cold, how come he was even feeling hot? Her teeth were already clattering from the cold.
Jiang Huihui quietly mumbled as she lowered her head, looking at that black jacket in her arms.
It carried the fresh scent of detergent. Zhou Yanli not only resembled Zhou Jinwei in appearance, even when it comes to cleanliness, he was also particularly like him.
They didn’t have that strange and unpleasant smell that other boys would have.
Instead, they smelled refreshing and clean, like the sparkling lake under the sunlight.
Jiang Huihui put on his jacket. She was like a child secretly wearing adult clothes.
She giggled to herself for a while before running over to look for him.
Zhou Yanli finished washing the food containers. Seeing her come over, the two of them said something. He then flicked the water droplets on his hand at her, while she used her arms to block. In the end, she truly was unable to dodge, so directly went around to his backside. He had the person pulled out from behind him, like picking up a little chick, easily bringing her to the front.
She put her hands together, smilingly begging for mercy. Her almond eyes curved into a crescent, even revealing a pair of little fangs from the corner of her mouth.
On the third floor balcony of that building next door.
Zhou Jinwei merely came out to smoke when he saw this scene. Sun Ju was standing next to him, his body leaning over the railing, saying with a sigh, “It’s still more interesting seeing good-looking guys and pretty girls in love, very pleasing to the eyes.”
Zhou Jinwei glanced at him. Sun Ju strangely made out from that soundless stare the subtle warning to shut up.
He immediately stopped talking, making a gesture to keep silent.
Zhou Jinwei’s gaze once again returned to that corner just now, but the ones that were messing around there a moment ago couldn’t be seen anymore.
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The recent quiz was aimed at assessing the learning progress over these past few months.
The scores in the top ten will receive extra credit.
Zhou Jinwei took advantage of his position to freely access the reference room.
He located class 8 according to the numbering.
He flipped through the test papers one by one. After seeing Jiang Huihui’s name, he stopped.
Pulling out the test paper, he glanced at her score. In the top right corner, a very big 138 was written in red marker.
This kind of grade, for him, wasn’t considered anything, but it was more than enough for the national exam.
Jiang Huihui has always been number one of the ordinary class.
Reasonably speaking, he’d seen what he wanted to see. But, he didn’t leave immediately. Instead, after falling silent for a few seconds, he continued flipping through.
Flipping to the end, he finally saw that headache of a name.
——-Zhou Yanli.
His handwriting was extremely sloppy, just like him as a person, both unpleasant to look at.
With a frown, he had the test paper pulled out.
8 points.
His brows furrowed even more.
Giving the test to an illiterate homeless man by the road to randomly fill out, it would all be more than 8 points.
8 points, exactly how did he manage to get such a score?
Zhou Yanli sneezed. Hearing this, Jiang Huihui asked him, “Caught a cold?”
He rubbed his nose, shaking his head.
The end-of-school bell had already rung. Today was Friday, having the next two days off.
Zhou Yanli asked her where does she plan to go play.
Jiang Huihui packed her books into her backpack, “My aunt is sick, so mom went to take care of her. But, she didn’t ask for a leave on her employer’s side, so I need to go in her place.”
“What employer?”
Jiang Huihui said, “My mom works as a live-in housekeeper in someone else’s home.”
Looks like the wealth gap between his parents was indeed quite big.
“I’ll go together with you. It’s quicker with an extra hand.” Zhou Yanli bravely volunteered.
Jiang Huihui had a skeptical look, “You know how to do chores?”
“I don’t.” He then added, “But I can learn.”
Unknown as to why, towards his requests, Jiang Huihui had a hard time rejecting.
Even if she was skeptical towards his words.
He clearly looked like that kind of rich young master that grew up spoiled. Not causing trouble for her would already be considered a great relief.
But, Jiang Huihui still agreed. The two of them arranged to meet up at the bus stop the next morning.
Two backpacks hung from Zhou Yanli’s shoulder, one black, one pink.
He asked her the address.
Jiang Huihui told him, “23 Xiping Road.”
Xiping Road?
How come this place sounded so familiar?
A moment later, he revealed a hard to describe look.
…..F#@$, no way, this coincidental?
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