Jiang Nian turned his head to look at Zhang Ningzhi.

"What's up?"

"Nothing, just wanted to ask you something." Zhang Ningzhi looked pitiable, "Can you accompany me to pick up a package this afternoon?"

"What about Huang Beibei?"

"She's busy this afternoon; someone called her away."

Jiang Nian didn't think much and simply agreed, "Then you have to treat me to something to eat this afternoon, and I'll go."

"Deal!!"

After this small exchange, Jiang Nian glanced at the system panel again. The groove system remains silent unless three tasks appear all at once.

Assigning tasks is one thing, but why is it incomplete?

Where's the reward?

Jiang Nian even suspected this thing was broken. But after fiddling with it, it seemed more like it was temporarily offline.

Just after class, Old Liu called a few people out.

"Ah Tao Ran, and Jiang Nian, Li Hua... alright, just you three, come with me for a moment."

After speaking, he walked out of the classroom with his phone in hand.

Li Hua craned his neck, "No, why is Old Liu calling us?"

"To give out gold bars." Jiang Nian said.

"Chi Shi!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Tao Ran also came over, being very serious. He happened to hear the conversation and casually said.

"It's a pre-exam motivational meeting; he's probably asking us to represent the class."

"Just the three of us?"

"The meeting room isn't large; if everyone went, the stairs would be blocked."

As expected, Old Liu was waiting for them outside in the corridor. Hands behind his back, he explained the task and added.

"Don't wander around after the meeting."

"Oh oh, okay." The three nodded in unison, and once Old Liu left, they immediately changed their posture.

"Let's head to the convenience store later?"

"What about the meeting?"

"The usual plan, stand in the back, then disperse to go to the bathroom and meet up at the store."

"Okay."

Tao Ran agreed too; after all, for him, the pre-exam motivation was completely meaningless.

He'd rather go home and watch a couple of anime episodes.

The bell rang, and the three leisurely ambled over. If they arrived too early, they might be dragged to sit in front.

After dawdling for ten minutes, they finally started moving in.

"Not a lot of people." Li Hua looked around, a bit worried, "Can we sneak out easily?"

"Hard to say."

"Let's go in first." Jiang Nian walked inside, staying close to the wall, "Follow my lead, I'm from Class Four."

Tao Ran: "..."

"Class rep, what's with that face?" Li Hua lowered his voice, "Don't embarrass Class Four, huh."

Ahead, Jiang Nian glanced around. He didn't see Xu Qianqian; he guessed she had been pushed out of this task.

After all, there's no money handed out at motivational meetings.

"Ahem, quiet down please." Ji Ming said, holding the microphone, "Now we'll start calling roll for classes."

"When your class is called, raise your hand."

"Class A103."

"Here!" The boys from the honors class raised their hands, quite a few came, looked like seven or eight, with a carefree attitude.

Ji Ming continued calling, and soon reached the zero class on the second floor.

"Hmm?"

He casually glanced over and saw a long-unseen "jail", and Xu Shuang, who had just shared a bed at noon.

With so few people in zero class, just two showing up seemed reasonable.

As Xu Shuang raised her hand, she subconsciously turned her head. She also spotted Jiang Nian, and couldn't help but pause.

Then, she said something to Xu Yuanshan.

After that, she came directly over.

Ji Ming had already moved on to the third floor, with Le Zhi representing A304, currently third in the parallel four classes.

As for the Olympic competition's Class Four, Zhou Haifei was among those who came.

Just as Jiang Nian was withdrawing his gaze, Xu Shuang was already in front of him, forcing him to greet her earnestly.

"What a coincidence, you're here too."

"Hm." Xu Shuang nodded, then looked towards the two next to Jiang Nian.

"This is my....." Jiang Nian casually started to introduce, but Xu Shuang interrupted, "I know."

She said, "This is your deskmate, Li Hua."

With that, she greeted Li Hua. Li Hua appeared a bit nervous, as if he were meeting a stepmother, all stiff and formal.

"Hello, hello to you too."

"Hua, you greet people like an idiot."

"Chi Shi!"

"This is our class rep, Tao Ran." Jiang Nian patted Tao Ran on the shoulder, not backstabbing him.

Even though the Furui officer never cared to remove his mask.

"Hello." Tao Ran was quite normal when he was being normal, "You guys really have something going on?"

Jiang Nian turned to him: "??? "

The hell, what do you mean by 'something going on'?

"Oh oh, Li Hua told me."

"Chi....."

Jiang Nian pointed at him, "Stop 'ch'ing, it's all your loudmouth's fault."

"It was Old Ma, always talking about quintessence." Li Hua retorted, "How can you blame me?"

Xu Shuang: "??? "

"Enough, you byd thing." Jiang Nian glanced at Xu Shuang, thoroughly embarrassed.

"They..... my friends, have a rough-and-tumble personality."

Xu Shuang chuckled, waving it off, "No worries, I'll head over there first. By the way, which exam room are you in, I'm in... Room 17."

"96, a bit far from each other." Jiang Nian thought, isn't Room 17 next to the elementary school exam room?

"Yes."

Once Xu Shuang left, Jiang Nian turned to look at Li Hua, who immediately went into a blocking position.

"Really not my fault! You have to believe me!"

"Hehe, you byd." Jiang Nian said lightly, "Forget it, it's not a big deal anyway."

Seeing this, Li Hua put on a serious expression.

"Hm?"

"Are you guys really that close?"

"What?"

"Don't pretend, I know you too well!" Li Hua said, full of heartache, "You're really such a damned fool!"

"So she's really Jiang Nian's girlfriend?" Tao Ran interjected, "But she's definitely pretty."

Li Hua sighed, "If only she were just pretty, Jiang Nian this broke fool has financial dealings with her."

"Who's the one giving, who's receiving?"

.....

The three listened to the pre-exam motivational talk for a while, then quietly dispersed while the leader spoke, sneaking away one by one.

After coming downstairs, the three reunited.

Tao Ran asked, "Jiang Nian, are you being kept?"

"Chi Shi!"

"Hey, isn't that my line?" Li Hua pointed at him, "We're about to graduate, still pretending?"