Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Someone’s Hitting People! The Childhood Sweethearts Are Hitting People

Sunday morning study hall ended.

"Yuan, do you have a crush on me?"

Zhou Shaojie looked shyly at Shen Yuan, who had leaned in close.

"If you’re that desperate for affection, go join the Kissing Association! Why are you acting crazy here?!" Shen Yuan cursed.

Zhuo Peipei, who was standing to the side, felt somewhat offended.

"Hey, Lao Yuan, show me a little respect, will you?"

Shen Yuan turned to look at Zhuo Peipei. "Sorry, I shouldn’t have said that."

Just as Zhuo Peipei was about to accept his apology, she heard Shen Yuan continue his tirade: "The head of the Early Love Prohibition Association is not only in a relationship, but is also gay! If the Kissing Association hears about this, they’ll laugh you to death!"

For a moment, Zhuo Peipei was at a loss for words.

Ah Jie continued to look shyly at Shen Yuan. "Then why else have you been seeking me out so much these past two days? You even treated me to a meal."

Zhuo Peipei was just about to shoot him a shocked look, but Shen Yuan blocked her line of sight with his hand.

"How could you mistake this father’s paternal love for... something like that!"

Shen Yuan said, heartbroken, "Son, you’ve changed."

Sure enough, as soon as Shen Yuan played the "father" card, Ah Jie’s true colors were revealed.

"Screw you! Paternal love, my ass! You’re just after my body!"

"Drop dead, you homo!"

Shen Yuan looked disgusted.

"You’re the homo!"

Looking at Ah Jie, Shen Yuan was suddenly overcome by a malicious impulse and put him in a headlock.

"So I’m gay, huh! After your body, am I!"

"Ahh! Brother Yuan! Don’t, Brother Yuan!!" Ah Jie started screaming.

"Go ahead and scream! It’s useless even if you scream your lungs out!"

At that moment, the crowd of onlookers burst into applause.

"Yeah, that’s the spirit!"

"I approve!"

"Now THAT’S gay!"

"Count me in! I want to join! I’ll form the head!" Ah Ze quickly jumped in to join the fun.

"I’ll form the legs!"

"I’ll form the d..."

"Get lost!"

It was just as Shen Yuan himself had thought.

After he started seeking out Ah Jie to chat after every class, Ah Jie started thinking he was gay.

The upside was that on Saturday, Shen Yuan managed to rack up 10 hours for his mission, grinding out over five hours in a single day.

In fact, the reason Shen Yuan was able to grind so much was because of Ah Jie himself.

The guy had gotten addicted to proctoring exams.

He pulled the same trick during the physics exam and was called up by the physics teacher to proctor.

If the biology and chemistry teachers hadn’t ignored him, Shen Yuan could have ground out another two hours.

In any case, it was still pretty good.

After all, there was no way he could have scraped together over three hours just from the ten-minute breaks between classes.

Shen Yuan only got that much time by treating Ah Jie to two meals.

Ever since Li Zhi had told him on Friday night that if he didn’t get the score, he’d have to do a full set of Huanggang Secret Test Papers, Shen Yuan had been panicking.

Those were the Huanggang Secret Test Papers, and a full set at that!

A full set of papers covering Chinese, Math, English, and Comprehensive Science!

What little confidence Shen Yuan had would likely be utterly destroyed when faced with them.

And given Li Zhi’s temper, Shen Yuan was sure she would absolutely go through with it.

’She’s probably already placed the order.’

That was why Shen Yuan had pretended to be gay to get close to Ah Jie. Oh, wait, he wasn’t pretending, he was just approaching him normally.

After all, the mission required 72 hours. Even if Shen Yuan ground it out at a normal pace, it would take him at least four or five days to finish.

The monthly exams were only two days long, Friday and Saturday.

By the time he finished grinding, the math exam would already be over.

’I can’t just sit here and wait for death! I have to take the initiative!’

After returning to his seat, Shen Yuan was met with Li Zhi’s gaze.

"Still in the mood to fool around?"

"It won’t stop me from getting a 620." Shen Yuan made a gentle pressing-down motion with his hand, signaling for her to calm down.

A cool smirk appeared on Young Master Li’s lips. "Since you can’t even break 600, of course it won’t stop you from getting a 620."

"Say that again!" Shen Yuan shot her a husky-like warning glare.

"What’s wrong? You enjoy being insulted?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Mingyu, who was sitting in the front row, turned around, having smelled drama in the air. He Zhiyu also quietly leaned her body against Li Zhi’s desk.

Shen Yuan snorted coldly. "Woman, if you’re trying to get my attention this way, then congratulations, you’ve succeeded."

Hearing Shen Yuan’s overbearing-CEO-style remark, Li Zhi didn’t hold back either.

"Bleh~ You win. You’ve managed to disgust your daddy."

A corner of Shen Yuan’s mouth lifted.

Ever since their showdown on the rooftop that day, the two of them would face off several times a day, with varying results.

Seeing Shen Yuan remain silent, Li Zhi launched a sneak attack: "So you admit that I’m your daddy?"

"Hey! A sneak attack, huh? Young Master Li, your sparring has lost its elegance."

Li Zhi chuckled. "Losers must be humiliated in every way possible."

"If you’re going to be that way..." Shen Yuan pretended to straighten his nonexistent long sleeves.

"Then I’ll have to get serious."

Li Zhi’s expression sharpened as she struck first. "Instead of studying, you’re messing around with guys. The real reason you broke up with that Tong girl wasn’t because of English, but because she didn’t fit your ’XP,’ right?"

"How can you assume my gender and my XP? I’m biologically male but psychologically female. However, I’m a cross-dresser, so I present as male. But my psychological orientation is lesbian, so my partners are female!"

Shen Yuan’s salvo left Li Zhi a little dizzy.

However, her excellent sparring experience quickly took over her brain.

"If you’re a ’lesbian,’ then what are you doing pestering Zhou Shaojie every day? Could it be that your dual personas are collapsing?"

"Slander! My relationship with Ah Jie is purely one of deep father-son affection. But for Young Master Li to be watching my every move so closely," Shen Yuan leaned in close to Li Zhi and whispered, "could it be that you’re jealous?"

Li Zhi jabbed a Great Wilderness Heaven-Imprisoning Finger at him. "So you admit you’re gay!"

"So you admit you’re jealous!" Shen Yuan retorted, pointing back at her husky-style.

"Hey! Don’t use me as material for your arguments!" a passing Ah Jie yelled angrily.

"Shut up!"

Shen Yuan and Li Zhi simultaneously shot him a husky-like warning glare, and Ah Jie ran off, yelping.

"They’re ganging up on me! The childhood sweethearts are ganging up on me!"

He Zhiyu, standing to the side, shrank back.

’Damn, the bickering scenes I write are way too tame.’

The intensity of their verbal sparring was completely beyond her comprehension.

But Chen Mingyu was thoroughly enjoying the show.

’This is the kind of intensity I’m talking about! Cursing each other out with this much passion.’

’If I were the one getting chewed out like that, just thinking about it is thrilling.’

Just as Shen Yuan and Li Zhi were about to continue, the class bell rang.

"RING RING RING..."

"Truce for class!"

"We’ll continue after class!"

With that, they both snorted coldly in unison and turned away, refusing to look at each other.

The first period was Old Zhou’s class.

Old Zhou graded papers at lightning speed; he walked in with a stack of tests tucked under his arm.

Looking at the math test in front of her, a smile spread across Li Zhi’s lips.

"Shen Yuan, the character ’hui’ has four different ways of being written. Do your open-ended math problems have four different solutions?"

Shen Yuan’s defenses crumbled. "Fuck! Didn’t we agree to a truce? Have you no sense of martial ethics?"

The beautiful girl stuck out her tongue. "Bleh. I’m a girl, so I don’t have to play by the rules."

But when the math tests were handed back, Shen Yuan felt better again.

points.

’Heh! I passed!’

Li Zhi glanced at Shen Yuan’s score, then at the upturned corners of his mouth. "Congratulations on mastering the essence of college final exams ahead of schedule."

Long live passing grades!