After the Dean and Qin JiaShu left, Wen ZhiChu heaved a sigh of relief. Since the love letter has been opened, it’s probably unusable now. He planned to take out his cellphone and contact the other party to cancel the commission.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he took out the cellphone, he received a 30 yuan transfer. The time stamp showed that it was five minutes ago. He instantly opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Oh no, now not only did he have to contact the other party to cancel the commission, he needed to refund the money.
Wen ZhiChu instantly felt like he was struck in the head by a bat. The money that he received wasn’t even warmed by his hands and it was already leaving him.
At the time, the female student had unknowingly already left the classroom some time ago. Just as Wen ZhiChu planned to refund ‘The Most Handsome in the World’, a voice spoke up next to him: “Wait.”
Wen ZhiChu looked skeptically towards the sound of the voice. He saw the male student in the front row puffing up his chest and standing up: “Do not refund the money!!!”
Stunned, Wen ZhiChu looked at the male student incredulously and said: “You’re…The Most Handsome in the World?!”
That male student walked over: “What did you say? Speak a bit louder.”
Wen ZhiChu raised his voice: “You’re The Most Handsome… in the World.”
The male student gave a lopsided smile: “That’s right. It’s me.”
Wen ZhiChu: ……
Skycat Genie: [……]
He dared to bet that the other definitely heard him the first time.
Since the commissioner was right in front of him, this made things even more convenient.
Wen ZhiChu said: “You…you also saw it. The love letter has already been opened… it can’t be used anymore. I will refund you right now.”
“No need.”
“Ah?”
The male student said: “I am very satisfied with this love letter. You can keep the money.”
Saying this, he took the love letter from Wen ZhiChu’s hand: “Leave the love letter.”
Wen ZhiChu felt incredulous for a moment: “Real…really?”
“En.” Saying this, he patted Wen ZhiChu’s shoulder: “I just wanted to tell Meng Yan that I like her, but I also don’t want to disturb her. That’s why I didn’t leave my name. Commissioning you to write a love letter is only because I couldn’t bear not telling her.”
“I never imagined the ghostwriter to be you. Although I don’t like you, thank you for not ratting me out.”
[System: Talk about slapping you across the face and then offering a sweet jujube.]
The two of them only had a business relationship. Since the other person accepted the product, Wen ZhiChu did not have to interact with him anymore. However, in the end, he still refunded half of the money.
Just now, he was in a constant state of high tension. After returning to his classroom, Wen ZhiChu immediately collapsed onto his desk like jello to let himself relax for a bit.
There were only 2-3 minutes left until the end of class.
[System: You should get up.]
Wen ZhiChu shook his head.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
[System: It’s almost time for lunch. There’s sweet and sour ribs today in the cafeteria.]
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Seeing him, the other frowned slightly, but still ended up walking over.
“Wen ZhiChu, can we talk?”
Wen ZhiChu was surprised: “Al…alright.”
The two of them walked to a shady area. Meng Yan got right to the point: “I heard someone say that you sent me a love letter today. Wen-tongxue, I will say it one more time here, I don’t like you. It’s impossible between us.”
Wen ZhiChu nodded: “I’m sorry…for what happened in the past.”
Although the original owner was the one that did those things, right now he was this world’s Wen ZhiChu, so he needed to apologize to Meng Yan for the original owner.
Meng Yan looked at him in annoyance: “I hope you will stop bothering me in the future. I will never like you. You are heavens apart from the person I like. I like someone who shines brightly.”
Saying this, she left. When she turned around, her ponytail almost smacked Wen ZhiChu in the face.
[System: Who’s the shiny person that she likes?]
Wen ZhiChu didn’t know either. He thought briefly and then: “Maybe a computer programmer?”
Skycat Genie: ?
“Because the top of their heads shines brightly.”
For the afternoon nap, he practically fell asleep as soon as he got in bed. When he woke up, he was almost late. Getting up quickly, he returned to the classroom. There were still 5 minutes left before class. When he walked in, 2nd-to-last was busy looking at something on his cellphone.
Wen ZhiChu was somewhat curious and shot over a curious glance.
“What…what are you looking at?”
Seeing that it was him, 2nd-to-last waved his cellphone in front of Wen ZhiChu’s face: “Looking at my horoscope. Do you want to see?”
Wen ZhiChu shook his head: “I… don’t use it.”
2nd-to-last: “You don’t believe in horoscopes?”
Wen ZhiChu: “En, I believe in science.”
As he looked, 2nd-to-last spoke out loud: “Here it says that Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini, and Aries will suddenly become filthy rich in the second half of the year!”
Wen -Aries- ZhiChu scooted back over again silently.
2nd-to-last was surprised: “Didn’t you say you don’t want to see it?”
Wen ZhiChu: “Beyond the limits of science is metaphysics.”
“……”
After watching the video about astrological signs, Wen ZhiChu returned to his seat giddily and sat down properly. Just thinking about how he’ll get rich in the next half of the year made him feel extremely satisfied.
[System: You don’t really believe in horoscopes, right?]
Wen ZhiChu: “It’s better to believe in its existence than to doubt its existence.”
However, after being notified that there was an English quiz next week, Wen ZhiChu very quickly forgot about believing in astrological signs.
In the next few days, not only did he study English during the evening self-study period, even after returning home, he’d review English vocabs before going to sleep, terrified that the English teacher would call him into the office for a chat after the quiz.
Hard work paid off. Although his English quiz score wasn’t amazing, it still improved by 20 points.
As Wen ZhiChu looked at the 75 on his quiz paper, the English representative walked over and rapped on his table: “The English teacher wants you to visit the office.”
Wen ZhiChu: ……
History always seems to repeat itself.
He heaved a sigh. Like a salted fish resigning to its fate, he stopped struggling and walked towards the English department.
After walking into the office, the English teacher gave him a glance and then went to grab the report card.
“No…no need.”
The English teacher: ?
Wen ZhiChu: “I brought it myself……”
Saying this, he took out the neatly folded English quiz from his pocket.
“……” The English teacher cleared her throat: “Summarize the result yourself.”
Wen ZhiChu: “Some…some improvement, but only a little.”
Saying this, he squeezed his two fingers together, leaving a small gap to express this small improvement.
However, before the English teacher started commenting on Wen ZhiChu’s quiz score this time, the door of the English department was shoved open from the outside. The force was so enormous, it slammed directly into the wall, scaring quite a few people to a jolt.
Class 1’s English teacher was seen walking inside furiously with a stack of honorary certificates and medals in his hands, which was slammed indignantly onto the table.
It was with such a bang that Wen ZhiChu’s heart trembled at the sight.
Stunned for a moment by this view as well, Class 11’s English teacher comforted Wen ZhiChu: “Sit here and wait for a second. I will clarify the main points for you in a bit.”
Wen ZhiChu obediently found a place to sit down and curled up slightly, doing his best to decrease his presence.
Class 1’s English teacher was also the head of the English department. Charging inside so angrily like this, who knew what happened.
Someone asked: “Li-laoshi, what’s going on? Why so angry?”
Li-laoshi’s complexion was terrible. He placed the honorary certificates onto the biggest table in the English department, so angry he didn’t want to explain: “Look at it yourself.”
Several teachers walked forward, class 11’s English teacher included.
“Isn’t this the result of the Provincial English Essay contest?”
“Isn’t it pretty good? So many people got rewards.”
“That’s pretty impressive already.”
Just as everyone chatted rambunctiously all at once, one of the teachers flipped to Qin JiaShu’s honorary certificate. After opening the red cover, a golden certificate was inside– it had 2nd place written on it.
Out of the Provincial rewards issued, there was one 1st place prize, two 2nd place prizes, and four 3rd place prizes.
Seeing that Qin JiaShu was awarded 2nd place, some people felt somewhat surprised. That teacher immediately blurted out: “How did Class 1’s Qin JiaShu get 2nd place?”
“2nd place?!”
“Impossible. I’ve seen his essay. It was definitely outstanding. No matter what, it had to have been 1st place.”
“Isn’t it written right here, 2nd place.”
“Is there an even more exceptional student this time?”
Listening from the sidelines, Wen ZhiChu knew that this was talking about a world of great gods.
“Li-laoshi, so there’s actually a student that writes better than JiaShu? What an eye-opener. Here I already felt Qin JiaShu was extraordinary enough. Alas, no matter how good one person is, there is always someone better.”
Unexpectedly, Li-laoshi’s face blackened: “Bullshit!”
Stunned by this curse, plenty of people realized that something wasn’t right here: “What’s going on?”
Li-laoshi said indignantly at the injustice: “What else can it be? Underhanded tactics!”
“No way, is this really underhanded tactics?”
“That’s impossible. Isn’t this a provincial level contest?”
“How could it not be possible?” Saying this, Li-laoshi continued to speak: “Some students don’t want to work hard and only know how to take backdoors, take shortcuts. I refused to believe that someone could cover him for a lifetime. The selection this time has no meaning at all. There’s no fairness to it at all. It shouldn’t even have been conducted in the first place!”
This kind of thing was very common to see in society. However, no matter how many times, people still felt indignant at the injustice for the people who try their hardest while simultaneously detesting those petty crooks who engage in behind the scenes trickery.
Seeing that some people didn’t believe him, Li-laoshi directly sent the files that he had saved into the English department group chat.
“Look for yourselves.”
Saying this, he stood up and paced around the office in anger.
Class 11’s teacher was charging their cell phone. Therefore, she returned to their desk to examine it on the computer. Wen ZhiChu was somewhat curious and peeked out his head slightly to take a look.
He saw the mouse click open the file. Large paragraphs of English entered his eyes. Wen ZhiChu’s was dazzled unexpectedly and for a moment, he couldn’t even recognize abcd properly.
The official website only announced the names of the winners. It didn’t publish the essays. When Li-laoshi headed over there, they had specifically saved the files.
After swiping the mouse around on the page slightly, the 1st place English essay finally opened.
Although Wen ZhiChu had very limited English vocabulary, he was still able to recognize, barely, the title of this 1st place English essay.
<<My mayor”s father>>
My father, the district mayor.
—pfffft
They provoked the wrong study tyrant!
Who is this first place, as a person who uses proper grammar and English at all times, I am outraged! Why write it wrong on purpose!? 😤 😤
Wait what? No, I mean the author wrote it wrong to show that the person who got first place is actually terrible at English, but they won bc their father is the district mayor
i can’t tell if you’re joking, so i’ll answer it prima facie: the person who won first place actually made a mistake in the title of the essay, itself. And he STILL won #1 due to … well, his mayor father.
The “written wrong on purpose” part is a comment by the TL-er, conveying that they deliberately used wrong punctuation to reflect that there was actually a mistake in the raws itself.
Sorry sorry, yes I was joking! My bad, thank you for being kind though! 😅
lol what is the essay topic though. Is first place really off? I doubt that is even the topic LOL
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
They mess with wrong people here XDD
Thank You for the new chapter♡〜٩( ╹▿╹ )۶〜♡
My mayor’s son, here’s your award…hahaha! Bad people! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
For some reason I really wanna read this 1st place essay… props to that student tho, honestly. I wouldn’t have the guts to be so proudly wrong… also judges??? Is it alright to be so blatant in your nepotism???
Thanks for the chapter!!!
lol
Thank you so much for your hard work!
yep definitely bribed
he already has a mayor as a father, he doesn’t need 1st place >:(
HAHAHA damn that kid got so lucky to have a father as district mayor 🤡
thanks for the chapter!