Chapter 281 : They Embarked on the Path of Crime, and Lin Li Decided to Place Righteousness Above Family Loyalty

The lunch break bell rang. The smart Yingbao, who knew how to do extension questions, sat up straight, gently shook her head to let her hair escape from between Lin Li's fingers, and raised her hands to stretch.

Even though it had been slightly altered, the school uniform was still on the loose side. However, this looseness made the curves that became faintly visible because of it appear even more charming.

Looks good, love to see it.

After spitting on the pervert Lin Li, who claimed to be appreciating openly and honestly and was an idiot who couldn't do extension questions, Chen Yuying picked up her things, stood up, and returned to her seat.

After watching her back for a while, until she went out to get water, Lin Li turned his head to look at the sunlight outside the window.

Although it doesn't matter if I lose, this medium request that can be a little bit unreasonable must be the best only if I hold it in my own hands, right?

Then it feels like I need to have grades in the top three of the grade to be considered steady.

This difficulty has been raised by another magnitude. Every point in every subject seems important.

I'll go back and buy a copybook.

Although Lin Li's handwriting wasn't as abstract as a doctor's, it definitely couldn't be considered good-looking.

In the past, it probably belonged to the category of: usually writing like a dog crawling, and writing seriously like a dog crawling seriously.

Now that his physical control ability had improved, it was a bit better, but not much.

And handwriting really can affect scores in liberal arts subjects, especially in subjects like Chinese where there often isn't a standard answer.

Especially for essays. For a 40-point essay with dog-crawling handwriting, if the content remains the same but it's written with clean and neat handwriting, 45 points wouldn't be surprising, and nearly 50 points is also possible.

The more irritable the grading teacher is, the greater the influence of handwriting.

Lin Li could actually [Imitate] neat handwriting, but once the handwriting was completely different from before, and a teacher or classmate noticed and got curious while the ability was on CD, it would be very troublesome to prove himself.

So it wasn't very advisable. He still had to practice handwriting solidly.

"Phew—" At this time, Bai Bufan walked into the classroom, sat in his seat, rubbed his eyes, and yawned.

"Bufan, why didn't you go back to the dorm at noon? Have you started coming to the classroom to study again?" Zhou Baowei, who arrived later, also sat in his seat and turned his head warily to stare at Bai Bufan.

"Don't mention it, I spent noon in the office." Bai Bufan lay exhaustedly on his seat and waved his hand weakly.

"Ah?" Hearing this, Lin Li also looked over curiously, "What happened? Didn't you go back to the dorm after eating?"

"Yes, at least that's how it was supposed to be.

"Before the sports meeting, didn't Binbin assign a complete test paper including an essay? I was a little lazy with the essay. As a result, after eating lunch and separating from you, I coincidentally ran into her.

"Then I was caught by her, who had already graded my paper in the morning, and dragged to the office to write for the whole noon."

Bai Bufan said weakly.

"You didn't write it?" Zhou Baowei suddenly realized.

"No, I wrote it." Bai Bufan shook his head.

"Then how did you write it?" Lin Li was even more curious.

"Wasn't the semi-open essay topic 'Challenge XX'? My essay title was 'Challenge Not Writing an Essay', and then at the eight-hundred-word mark, I wrote four words: 'Challenge Successful'." Bai Bufan replied, "To be honest, I think it fits the theme quite well. Binbin is still too unreasonable."

Lin Li, Zhou Baowei: "..."

"To be honest, Bufan, you are a certain distance from being a god, but you are already very far from being human."

"To be honest, Lin Li, you should pay attention to Bufan. I feel like he's not a real person. How about this, you feed him a packet of rat poison when he's not paying attention. If he dies, it proves my guess is right, he turned from a rat."

Zhou Baowei suggested to Lin Li.

"Okay, I'll add a portion to his breakfast tomorrow to try." Lin Li accepted the suggestion, then sighed softly, "I hope Bufan isn't a rat."

"Can you guys fucking not conspire loudly to kill me! This is no longer a question of whether I'm a rat or not!" Bai Bufan laughed out of anger.

Immediately following the lunch break was the afternoon classes. The class bell rang.

"Talking nonsense with you guys deprived me of my last sleeping time, fuck."

Sighing, Bai Bufan patted his cheeks, drew a cross on his arm, and cheered himself up:

"Come on, Bai Bufan, cheer up, you can do it!"

...

Good news, Bai Bufan cheered up.

Bad news, he hit too hard and killed his spirit.

The first class in the afternoon was History. It could only be said that the buffs were fully stacked.

"Lin Li, wake up your deskmate." The history teacher put down her textbook, lifted her chin towards Lin Li, and said helplessly.

Lin Li turned his head. He had been studying too seriously and only now realized Bai Bufan had fallen asleep.

"Teacher, you coaxed him to sleep, why should I wake him up? This is unfair. I think you should wake him up." But Lin Li didn't call him, instead speaking with good reason.

History Teacher: "..."

"Lin Li, you are the man with the most balls in the whole world!" Zhou Baowei gave a thumbs up and praised softly.

Although after his grades improved, in Xue Jian's eyes he was still the bottom of the class and the scum of the school, there were obvious changes with other teachers.

For example, Koukou.

In the past, Koukou often told Lin Li to roll to the back to attend class out of frustration that iron couldn't become steel.

But now, she always gently told Lin Li to roll to the back to attend class.

The change was too big.

And the history teacher originally had a good temper, and gave Lin Li even more preferential treatment after his grades improved.

So regarding Lin Li's joke, she knew there was no malice, so she just pointed at Lin Li from across the air and pretended to be angry: "You're so troublesome."

"Bai Bufan! Wake up!"

Lin Li also patted Bai Bufan's leg. Bai Bufan, who finally woke up, assessed the situation within three seconds and stood up abruptly: "Teacher, I wasn't sleeping!"

"Still being stubborn. Then repeat what the teacher was just saying?" The history teacher asked with a smile.

"Bai Bufan, wake up!" Bai Bufan repeated.

History Teacher: "?"

No, bro?

The history teacher laughed, pointed the infrared pen at the multimedia screen behind her: "Okay, you weren't sleeping. Then Bufan, tell the teacher, what ended in 1896?"

Bai Bufan, who hadn't previewed or listened to the class at all, looked at Lin Li for help.

Lin Li naturally wouldn't stand by and watch.

But after getting Lin Li's answer, Bai Bufan's mouth twitched.

Your mom.

Although he told me the answer which should be correct, Lin Li is still a pure animal.

Hesitating to speak, Bai Bufan finally just shook his head regretfully: "Teacher, I don't know."

"Alright, alright, it's normal to be sleepy in the first class of the afternoon. Go stand in the back for class. When you feel awake, go back to your seat yourself." The history teacher said helplessly and amusedly.

"Okay, Teacher. Thank you, Teacher."

"Come, Lin Li, tell your deskmate the answer to the question just now. What ended in 1896." The history teacher signaled Lin Li to answer.

Bai Bufan, walking towards the back, turned his head and looked at Lin Li with an expectant and provocative look.

—"Don't be a coward!"

Lin Li sneered.

—"No problem!"

Not disappointing Bai Bufan, Lin Li stood up and loudly announced the answer he had just told Bai Bufan: "1895!"

"What?" The history teacher didn't react immediately.

"Teacher, in 1896, 1895 ended!" Lin Li answered sonorously and forcefully.

Bai Bufan lowered his head and held back his laughter.

Your mom, Lin Li. You just told me this answer. Can you say it's wrong? It's not wrong, but right as it may be, I really didn't dare to say it out loud.

"..." After a brief silence, the class roared with laughter.

"Genius!"

"So true!"

"Lin Li, let me test you again. What ended in 1895!"

"It's 1894!"

"Good!"

The few people who were originally dozing off were all woken up by the laughter.

And the history teacher, amidst the class's laughter, was silent at first, and finally couldn't help but cover her face.

Irrefutable.

Lin Li was truly a history genius. No wonder he did so well in the last monthly exam.

"Lin Li, you also roll to the back and stand for class. Stand until class is over." But it didn't prevent the history teacher from issuing divine punishment.

"Alright, Teacher!" Lin Li, who actually knew the answer, happily rolled to Bai Bufan's side upon hearing this.

It could only be said that every time other teachers, including Koukou, gently told Lin Li to roll to the back, this gentleness was what Lin Li deserved, but rolling was also what Lin Li deserved.

"Heh, Bufan, you coward."

"Okay, you're awesome, consider yourself formidable."

...

Night.

The day of his birthday was no different.

Throughout the day, quite a few people wished him a happy birthday. Even Yao Qiaoqiao came to give her blessings and gave a bookmark she made herself as a small gift.

There weren't many other gifts. Boys rarely prepare gifts when the person involved doesn't make a big deal out of it.

As for the Class Rep's gift, it seemed he would have to wait until the weekend at the earliest to get it.

But today, whether it was eating or buying snacks and water, Lin Li didn't pay a dime.

That was enough.

What Bai Bufan said about returning gifts being troublesome was also true, especially for 'friends' who weren't very close. For example, Yao Qiaoqiao's birthday, Lin Li now had to remember it. He'd better remind himself in WeChat notes and his phone calendar when he got home.

It would be best to return a small gift on that day. There was no helping it, human interaction is just like this.

Evening self-study.

After comprehensively reviewing another subject, Lin Li stretched and exercised his muscles and bones.

He looked up at the classroom, scanning the whole class starting from Chen Yuying's seat.

The clock on the wall showed that there were less than five minutes until school ended, so the classroom seemed slightly noisy, with a lot more whispering and groaning sounds.

Study for the last five minutes.

Wait?

Did something strange mix in?

What the fuck, where are the groaning sounds coming from in the classroom?

Lin Li abruptly turned his head and looked at Bai Bufan, who was lying on the desk groaning.

(；☉_☉)?

Lin Li punched Bai Bufan heavily and lowered his voice: "No, bro, what are you doing? In heat and want to mate? Or is your workplace being investigated?"

This punch made Bai Bufan roll his eyes directly.

Bai Bufan tremblingly turned his head to look at Lin Li, his voice difficult: "No, I'm going to launch."

Lin Li: "?"

After realizing what Bai Bufan was talking about, Lin Li asked tentatively: "You want to poop?"

"Vulgar." Bai Bufan despised with a pale face, then, with a gentle expression, sighed softly: "I think, perhaps the large intestine's retention ultimately cannot match the toilet paper's gentleness, but I will cherish this last time spent with it."

You're being literary your mom.

But Lin Li didn't dare to continue hitting Bai Bufan, afraid that a punch would shatter his current critical point.

"You absolutely have to hold it in?" Lin Li asked with a complex look.

Bai Bufan nodded.

Under these circumstances, it was evening self-study, not class time. Plus, there was no teacher sitting in the class now. If he wanted to go to the toilet, he could just go directly.

The only reason Bai Bufan could still hold it in was that he wanted to go back to the dorm to go.

In Nansang Middle School, only the dorms in the Senior Three campus had sitting toilets. The teaching buildings and dorms for Senior One and Senior Two were all squatting toilets. But Bai Bufan's behavior was actually understandable.

Suppose on Lin Li's way home, when he was five minutes away, he suddenly wanted to go number two. And at this time, there happened to be a public toilet nearby. But as long as it wasn't a situation where it was about to burst out, Lin Li would also choose to go home to go.

Mainly for a sense of ease and comfort.

"Then good luck."

In this situation, Lin Li couldn't use the "Poop Holding Talisman" to assist. He could only wish Bai Bufan good luck. If he couldn't hold it, he brought it upon himself.

Fortunately, until the bell rang for the end of class, Bai Bufan had no other situation except for groaning all the time.

"Ring—" The bell rang, and Bai Bufan immediately rushed out like a runaway wild dog.

"What's he doing," Zhou Baowei beside him asked, "Running so fast?"

"Have you played Farting Brothers? He might have a jet accelerator behind him when he was running just now, how could he not be fast." Lin Li picked out the textbook he was going to favor tonight and said casually.

"Strategist! Prime Minister!" Wang Ze shouted while walking towards Lin Li with a book.

"What's wrong?" Lin Li, who had just put on his backpack and was about to get up, looked up.

"Are you in a hurry to leave? There's a question I don't know how to do, teach me." Wang Ze covered Lin Li's desk with his workbook and asked.

"No, bro? Did the sun rise from South Korea? Wang Ze, you're using your free time to study?" Lin Li couldn't believe it.

"Hehe, I've decided to become a more excellent person. By improving my grades, I'll make up for my flaws in emotional intelligence, so that the senior sister will willingly continue to pursue me." Wang Ze laughed proudly.

"I think instead of improving your grades, your direction of thinking should be figuring out how to blind the senior sister. The latter feels a bit simpler."

"You curse so dirtily." Wang Ze gave a middle finger, then lifted his chin: "Stop cursing, are you going to teach me or not."

"Which question." Lin Li asked.

"This question."

Lin Li looked at the question Wang Ze pointed to. It was the one he asked Chen Yuying at noon.

But Lin Li didn't answer immediately. Instead, he looked at Wang Ze and frowned: "You're asking this question?"

"What's wrong?"

"First tell me, do you know how to do this question?" Lin Li pointed to the previous question.

"Uh... no."

"What about this question?"

"Seems to know a little bit."

"Tell me which part of this homework you actually know how to do." Lin Li smiled.

"Class, Name, Student Number."

Lin Li took a deep breath, feeling his vision go dark.

"Then why the fuck are you asking about the extension question?" Lin Li questioned coldly, "Isn't this like a eunuch visiting a brothel? Wang Ze, besides getting saliva all over this question, what else can you do?

"Without the 'ding' (dick), don't think about the 'bi' (pussy)."

(Translator's Note: A pun on the Chinese characters 邒 and 芘, which look similar but have different meanings).

Wang Ze: "...The words are rough but the reasoning is not, but you're being too rough."

"Then just explain a few basic questions to me." But Wang Ze was thick-skinned and said nonchalantly upon hearing this.

"Studying can also be like opening blind boxes. Wang Ze, you're really something." Lin Li was amused. He felt Wang Ze didn't really want to study, probably just a three-minute passion again.

So he didn't explain the questions directly. Instead, he walked to the front row, took Wang Ze's textbook, found the examples in the textbook and marked them corresponding to the exercises one by one, added a few annotations, and handed it to Wang Ze:

"Explaining questions like this is meaningless. You compare and do it yourself like this now. If there's anything you still don't understand, come ask me tomorrow."

"So nice, thanks," Wang Ze raised an eyebrow, looked up at the clock: "I'll go back to the dorm to study for a while, you can roll home."

"Wasted five precious minutes of my time." Lin Li raised a middle finger.

But actually, there were still quite a few people studying in the classroom. After all, once exams approach, many students will study in the school until the teaching building turns off the lights.

It could also be couples waiting for fewer people to find a place to kiss.

But none of this was Lin Li's business anymore. He got up and left the classroom.

Residential area.

Tonight the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.

"I am a rebellious butterfly, a butterfly flying against the wind~"

Lin Li hummed a little tune, looking at the medical examination report sent to him by his customer service on his phone. He took out his key to open the door and pressed the entrance light button on the shoe cabinet.

Click, the light came on.

But the light coming on wasn't the only thing that happened at this moment.

"Happy birthday!"

"Surprise!"

Party poppers exploded with a bang. The ribbons in Chen Yuying's hands, wrapped with sequins, poured down like a waterfall, scattering around Lin Li and slightly distorting his vision.

Ding Sihan held a cake covered with candles, the firelight dancing in her pupils.

Lin Li froze in place, his hand still maintaining the action of holding the key.

Looking behind the three of them, the familiar yet unfamiliar living room curtains were tightly closed, but hung with star lights. On the wall were crooked ribbon letters "HAPPY BIRTHDAY".

A brief silence.

His Adam's apple rolled slightly, he pursed his lips, looking at the three faces filled with smiles and expectation. Lin Li, who had recovered his senses, stretched out an arm to block his eyes.

"Lin Li don't cry, don't cry, Mommy loves you."

"Being moved is also expected. This is a super big surprise. I would cry too if it were me."

Watching this scene, Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu chimed in with each other.

Chen Yuying, gripping the used party popper, didn't know what to do for a moment. After all, Lin Li rarely showed this kind of posture.

Just as she was about to tell him to take off his shoes and come in first before comforting him, Lin Li slowly backed out the door and sneakily started going downstairs.

Chen Yuying: "?"

Chen Yuying and the other two poked their heads out the door with confused faces.

They saw Lin Li quietly going downstairs while taking his phone out of his pocket. His voice was deliberately lowered but seemed a bit anxious:

"Uncle, it seems a thief has entered my house. Can you dispatch the police?"

"Really, really, illegal intrusion, absolutely illegal intrusion!"

Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, Qu Wanqiu: "?"

(End of Chapter)