The piglet looked at the hair in his hand. For a moment, he couldn’t even believe that he was the one who had pulled it from his big brother’s head.
The corners of his mouth twitching, Qin JiaShu forced himself to stop his expression from darkening. It wasn’t until the sound of a door opening downstairs attracted everyone’s attention that a crack finally appeared on the mask that he wore.
“XiaoHe, papa is back.” Papa Qin’s greeting voice came from downstairs. Without even changing his clothes, he walked up stairs, footsteps hurried. Seeing Qin JiaShu, he was startled: “You’re back.”
His tone was completely different from when he first entered the door, like heaven and earth.
Qin JiaShu nodded and acknowledged indifferently: “En.”
He glanced coolly at the father and son chatting quietly together to the side and then turned to head upstairs.
Mama Qin went back to her room first. After washing up, she finally appeared. At the entrance before, she had seen Qin JiaShu’s shoes. She asked one of the servants on the side: “JiaShu is back?”
“Yes, madam.”
Mama Qin got up from her younger son’s bed: “I’ll go check up on him then.”
Unexpectedly, she was stopped by Papa Qin, who was holding their younger son to the side: “Just look at the time now. If you go up there, won’t you disturb his rest?”
Hearing this, Mama Qin felt somewhat complicated.
“Enough already. He’s back physically so it’s not like he’ll grow wings and fly away. You can see him tomorrow to your heart’s content.”
Mama Qin forced a smile: “That’s true.”
Since he made 100 yuan on Friday, Wen ZhiChu spent this weekend extremely relaxed and peaceful.
The main reason was also because the System was taking a two-day break as well; there was no mission on the weekend.
Wen ZhiChu’s good mood remained until Sunday night, when the System suddenly came online in his head.
At that time, it was currently 10:30pm. Wen ZhiChu was laying in bed looking at his phone.
[System: What are you doing?]
Wen ZhiChu felt like Skycat Genie was asking a rhetorical question, but he still answered patiently: “Playing on my phone.”
[System: I’m well aware that you’re playing on your phone. How are you in the mood to play on your phone right now!]
Wen ZhiChu instantly became dumbfounded: “Am…am I about to lose phone service?”
Saying this, he checked swiftly. Discovering that there was still 50 yuan left, he instantly heaved a sigh of relief.
Skycat Genie: [……]
[System: Don’t you feel like you’re forgetting something?]
Wen ZhiChu: “I finished eating dinner.”
[System: ……I’m talking about your English assignment.]
Wen ZhiChu: !!!
“When did this happen?”
[System: It was ordered on Thursday. There was no English class on Friday, so it has to be handed in on Monday. I’m honestly not surprised you forgot it.]
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.
With the English assignment popping up suddenly, Wen ZhiChu had no choice but to get up silently and rummage through his bookbag listlessly.
Vegf fcbeut, tf qeiifv bea atf Scuilrt jrrlucwfca ogbw atf ybaabw bo tlr ybbxyju. Mbg j rfmbcv, tf kjr raeccfv lc qijmf, mgslcu afjgifrris.
Rfnfgatfifrr, tf vlvc’a obgufa ab atjcx Vxsmja Xfclf: “Vxsmja Xfclf, atjcx sbe.”
[System: Isn’t it just a simple reminder to write your English assignment?]
Qfc ItlJte rtbbx tlr tfjv.
Lbk kjr atlr gfwlcvlcu tlw ab kglaf jc jrrlucwfca, atlr kjr mifjgis rjnlcu tlr ilof. Po atf Scuilrt afjmtfg xcfk jybea atlr, ktb xcfk ktja kbeiv tjnf tjqqfcfv.
English was his weak point. It took Wen ZhiChu until 2am to finally complete the assignment.
After completing the assignment, he placed the assignment into his bookbag and then looked at the time: “Didn’t expect time to pass so fast when staying up at night.”
He didn’t even feel like such a long time had passed already.
[System: That’s right, if you stay up consecutively for two more years, you can enter the coffin directly.]
“…..”
Because he stayed up late at night yesterday, Wen ZhiChu got up for school 15 minutes later than usual. After getting dressed and prepared, he finally went to the school carrying his bookbag huffing and puffing.
When he handed in the English assignment that he wrote last night, the huge stone in his heart finally landed and he let out a soft sigh of relief.
However, before he even finished exhaling this breath, he already heard the familiar sound in his head making its presence known.
[System: Villain’s mission. Take away one of the protagonist’s items. Completing the mission will reward 200 yuan. The villain’s score will increase 5%. Failing the mission will deduct 200 yuan.]
Wen ZhiChu instantly stiffened midstep, an alarmed look on his face: “You want me to steal the protagonist’s stuff?!”
[System: What steal? Why do you have to say it so unpleasantly? It’s take.]
“Taking without telling someone is considered stealing.”
[System: Then you can let him know.]
Wen ZhiChu: “Do you think I can take away Qin JiaShu’s stuff when he knows?”
Skycat Genie: [……]
Then this is really going to be stealing.
Wen ZhiChu walked to his seat and sat down. Thinking about how 200 yuan is about to fly away from him, his heart practically dripped blood.
[System: Young man, I believe in you.]
Wen ZhiChu didn’t frustrate over how to accomplish the mission this time, but rather rejected it with righteous convictions: “Skycat Genie, this mission… I’m not doing it.”
Skycat Genie was extremely shocked.
[System: Why?]
Wen ZhiChu folded his hands together: “This is illegal and immoral.”
[System: Then you should lower the bottom line of your morality.]
Wen ZhiChu: “The law is the bottom line of morality.”
[System: ……]
Wen ZhiChu mumbled to himself: “The Party and the People are watching.”
The meaning was extremely apparent. He was not doing anything illegal.
[System: Then I’ll change it for you to taking away an item while the protagonist is aware.]
Now it can’t be stealing.
However, Wen ZhiChu continued to remain silent over there like a nesting quail.
[System: Plus 50 yuan.]
Wen ZhiChu’s voice was loud and clear: “Deal.”
Skycat Genie: [……]
As soon as Qin JiaShu walked into the classroom and sat down, he was smacked on the shoulder. Ji FengChang appeared next to him: “Not bad, old Qin. So many crazy admirers.”
Qin JiaShu made an indifferent noise of acknowledgement.
Ji FengChang was curious: “Do you know the other person?”
Qin JiaShu lowered his gaze and said perfunctorily: “Don’t know.”
“Oh, then I’ll just take them as your crazy secret admirer.”
Qin JiaShu’s expression was unsightly: “Cheering me on means having a secret crush on me?”
Before, Chen Jun had also told him that there was a little stutterer who had a secret crush on him and later on, pointed the finger towards Wen ZhiChu. Qin JiaShu didn’t want to confirm the truth of the matter. He didn’t care. The other was trouble. He didn’t want any involvement with him.
If it were someone else, it wouldn’t matter; but it was Wen ZhiChu.
He didn’t want to be involved; even if it’s just a one-sided crush from Wen ZhiChu, it’s still out of the question.
Everyone knew what Wen ZhiChu had done a year ago; he was brewing with plenty of disgusting tricks inside. Not to mention, Wen ZhiChu was also one of the very few people who knew his true colors.
To him, this was considered having a weakness in Wen ZhiChu’s grasp. Even though no one would believe him if he ever revealed it publicly, it still made Qin JiaShu very uncomfortable.
Ji FengChang was briefly stunned after hearing that and smacked the table in surprise: “How does that not count as a crazy admirer. Holding up a huge loudspeaker to cheer you on in public in front of everyone like that, he practically has the words ‘I have a crush on you’ carved across his forehead.”
Qin JiaShu: “He was wearing a hoodie that day.”
It wasn’t possible to see his forehead.
Ji FengCheng: “……”
Alright, he figured it out now. This asshole clearly didn’t want the other person to like him, so obstinate that even thinking about it was not allowed.
“There are so many people with crushes on you. It really doesn’t make a difference if he’s included or not.”
Qin JiaShu didn’t speak anymore, but rather pondered over something unknown with heavy eyes. However, it was possible to tell from his face that he was very displeased.
Seeing this, Ji FengChang very astutely did not continue teasing him anymore.
The Dean stepped onto the podium as usual to make his speech during today’s flag raising ceremony. In order to decrease the pressure of schoolwork on students, every week will have at least two periods of schoolwide physical activity starting today.
The time was set on Mondays and Fridays, so there’s a start and an end.
With the second period of this afternoon suddenly changed to physical activity, which was unlike a noon break where people could enter and exit the campus freely, some of the students didn’t even know what to do; however, the basketball area was already surrounded full of people bright and early.
The school’s basketball team was currently preparing for a match. They had already switched into their sports uniform. Qin JiaShu stood on the right side of a team, big, tall, and upright. Even when not doing anything, he was still able to attract everyone’s gaze.
During his first year, he was part of the school team. After reaching 2nd year, he quit due to schoolwork. Although the team’s matches had nothing to do with him anymore, his former teammates still dragged him over to be a lucky charm.
As the name implies, Qin JiaShu always resided at the center of attention, and it’s every youthful guy’s fantasy to perform in front of a crowd of girls; therefore his existence itself created this opportunity for them.
The match began. The sound of the dribbling ball was smothered by the shouts and cheers. The first half of the match ended with the score of 4 v 3. Qin JiaShu walked off the field and into the resting area. He raised his hand and grabbed the water bottle placed on the bench. Adam’s apple rolling, he tilted his head back and took a few sips.
Because of his extended activity, his biceps bulged vigorously, blue veins climbing up his sturdy strong arms.
Ji FengChang spoke up from the side, his tone carrying a hint of wicked delight: “You guys are behind in scores.”
Qin JiaShu glanced at the scoreboard nonchalantly. Before he could reply, he heard the other continue to say: “Fuck, isn’t that the annoying pest? Why is he here?!”
Holding the water in his hand, Qin JiaShu halted mid-motion. Following the direction of Ji FengChang’s gaze, he looked over. Instantly, he looked into a pair of splendid star-filled eyes.
He saw Wen ZhiChu poking a head out and looking at him with eyes shining brightly.
Qin JiaShu frowned subconsciously.
However, Wen ZhiChu continued to stare at the almost empty water bottle in Qin JiaShu’s hand, eyes practically beaming with light.
[System: Don’t tell me, you’re going to take that.]
Wen ZhiChu nodded like a little chick pecking grains.
[System: Smack!]
Wen ZhiChu started to explain: “After he finishes drinking the water, he will definitely throw away the water bottle. Then I can go pick it up, and even sell the scrap for money.”
[System: Does this count as being a beggar?]
“This counts as being a middleman.” Wen ZhiChu smiled brilliantly: “Earning the difference.”
Skycat Genie: ……
Seeing Wen ZhiChu looking over here constantly, Ji FengChang said: “Why’s he here?”
Qin JiaShu said with a perfunctory tone: “Don’t know.”
Then he walked onto the field, planning to play the remaining half of the match.
For some unknown reason, Qin JiaShu’s team made mistakes frequently and ended up losing by 4 entire points.
Qin JiaShu pushed back the messy strands of hair in front of his forehead with a hand and walked off the field. Ji FengChang could clearly see that the other was somewhat aggravated.
Qin JiaShu walked off the field and finished drinking the remaining half of the water. As soon as he looked up, he saw Wen ZhiChu. The other switched to an even closer location this time. The light in his eyes shined even brighter than before, just like a cat seeing catnip, containing a deadly force of attraction.
Ji FengChang also noticed and said with some confusion: “Why’s he still looking?”
Qin JiaShu didn’t reply, too lazy to bother; however, internally he suddenly recalled a saying.
Perhaps when a person likes someone, it’s impossible to conceal the look in their eyes.
ahahhaha poor guy…. He’s not after you, he’s after the bottle in your hand
😂😂😂😂
LOL. IDK if he’s going to feel relieved after he finds out that WZC really doesn’t have a crush on him.
I read the mtl version and that part where he finds out is.. so… Laughing hysterically honestly you just gotta find out 😔
Is Papa Qin trying to keep his relationship with his son non-existent? Honestly, I don’t think he has any fatherly feelings towards Qin JiaShu. He treats him more like a roommate then a son.
Even less than one treats a roommate, honestly! He disgusts me!
Yeah, I’d greet a roommate at least!!! He doesn’t want to see his son
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Qin Jiashu’s father disgusts me, he doesn’t show even a bit of fatherly feelings for his elder son. The mother can still redeem herself it seems, hopefully.
Thanks for the chapter!
Haha it’s not you he likes, it’s the money he will earn 😆
The sparkle in his eyes ain’t for you. But the treasure (water bottle) in your hands…
Jiashu… does admiring to steal the water bottle count?
Thank You for the new chapter ( ˘ ³˘)♥
Poor jiashu and his little misunderstanding 😂 all in good time my boi, all in good time.. Papa Qin’a attitude pisses me off tho. Shouldn’t you be making up for the time lost with your elder son and not just your younger son?? 🙄 If i didn’t know any better, it’s like jiashu is an adopted son or smth
Does the father so used in being not together with his first son that he can’t at least pretend he’s trying to make up with the lost time? Well, I guess it’s kinda awkward after all they both choose their careers advancement instead of raising their unplanned first son.
Thank you!!!!🤭🏀
The water bottle is in sight! Hahahahaha! Ty for the update 🤣❤️
LMAO you’re unfortunately mistaken. Thank you for the chapter!
Are they really father and son?
We’re also getting closer to the scraps and junks today
thanks for the chapter!