Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 222 - 191 Where Do I Sleep

Chapter 222: Chapter 191 Where Do I Sleep?

Chapter 222: Chapter 191 Where Do I Sleep?

A sensational piece of news spread throughout Technology University.

“You heard about it? The popular store near the school gate, someone offered four million for it!”

The transfer post for the store was initially posted on Technology University’s forum, prompting some busybodies to spread the word there, informing everyone about this information.

For university students, four million was already an astonishing figure!

Of course, the shock was primarily because it was so close to their own lives.

Cheng Zhu was basically everyone’s schoolmate, and the store was located not far from the school gate.

The most fatal thing was that ever since the store opened, everyone had been following along.

There were juicy gossips of romantic entanglements, disputes with the student union’s external relations department, and discussions about turnover and online influence…

It could be said that everyone watched it grow and prosper.

If the store had nothing to do with them, then whatever the price was it was.

But it was too close to everyone’s lives, so the shock was more direct and the feelings more intense.

Especially for the students in Computer Science Class 2, it was utterly mind-boggling.

The guy sleeping in the dorm next to mine, his goddamn shop by the school gate was now being offered four million!

Damn it, my monthly allowance is only 1200!

Don’t surf the net too much and lose the concept of money.

Four million is about equal to 3333 months of living expenses for such folks! Equivalent to 278 years of living expenses!

Among boys, sometimes things are very straightforward—some male classmates upon hearing the news would just go and ask Cheng Zhu directly, and Cheng Zhu would confirm to them that it wasn’t a rumor.

However, do you think that was scary enough?

The most lethal part was—he! simply! refused! to! sell!

A whopping four million, and for such a small store, he even thought it was too little.

Dong Dong had already impersonated him several times in front of classmates when Cheng Zhu was not around.

Impersonating Cheng Zhu’s tone and demeanor.

“Ah, I didn’t agree.” He lowered his voice, trying to sound casual, as if four million was just spare change.

Liu Feng and Zheng Qingfeng both agreed that Dong Dong couldn’t quite nail Cheng Zhu’s casual and indifferent demeanor.

This way of not seeing money as money looks a bit too deliberate.

But after this incident, Dong Dong kind of understood why Cheng Zhu said he wasn’t worthy to sponsor the autumn outing while he himself was.

Because if it were him, some people would benefit, but behind his back, they’d curse him for showing off; believe it or not?

But Cheng Zhu was different, he was simply not on the same level as anyone else.

To put it bluntly, he wasn’t even in the same class of people!

Ordinary students go to work after graduation—how much can they earn in a lifetime?

How long did he spend to start this shop?

Cheng Zhu accidentally leaking something through the gap between his fingers, that’s a benefit for us classmates!

In addition, Liu Feng also informed everyone that because the autumn outing location had been switched to a guest house, the schedule had been rearranged and adjusted with the guest house owner, which had been changed to the weekend after next.

By then, “Sheep” would definitely be ready.

The students from Comp Sci Class 2 would help Cheng Zhu test it and give some feedback.

Everyone was okay with this.

No choice, Cheng Zhu’s game was just too intriguing.

We’re all studying computer science, and while we’re just beginners, he’s already starting to develop games.

If it really takes off, it feels like after we graduate, we could go directly to his company for job interviews…

The chance to playtest a game ahead of everyone else was naturally a good thing!

And the next thing Liu Feng said got the nearby boys even more excited.

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“Brother Zhu also said the game is quite challenging; this playtest is to check if the difficulty is up to standard. If anyone can clear the second level that day, they get a 1000 yuan bonus.”

In an instant, the enthusiasm among the students was ignited.

Damn, maybe this autumn outing could even make me some money!

Activities like this are the really fun ones, and unexpectedly, they felt a bit more competitive!

Is it just a game? Does our class lack game masters?

Suddenly, Liu Feng felt it might not even be necessary to specifically go to a guest house for the autumn outing. Just picking any classroom at the school and letting everyone sit and play games might be enough for them to have a great time…

Initially, when he had gone to discuss the autumn outing plan with Chen Jieyu that morning, he was worried that Mr. Chen might not agree to it.

But unexpectedly, she quickly approved.

Liu Feng didn’t know that after Cheng Zhu asked for the name of the guest house, he had searched it online.

How to put it, it was of average standard, not one of those expensive and uniquely designed guest houses.

But it looked wildly charming.

How to say, it’s a bit like city folks abandoning good houses to live in mountain mud houses.

Yet paradoxically, if you fix up those old mud houses nicely, lots of people would want to stay in them.

Cheng Zhu saved some photos and sent them all to Chen Jieyu.

“Going to this guest house for a day? How about it?”

His tone, wasn’t like reporting to a counselor at all, but more like inviting a friend out for a happy outing.

And just Chen Jieyu seeing this message from a man who had self-declared as a “male BFF” made her mood all the more cheerful.

After the previous events, didn’t she really want to go out and play?

Her situation wasn’t quite like the ordinary students.

What are ordinary students like?

They get super excited about anything!

Maybe it’s watching a movie organized by the school or going to a concert—everyone just feels super happy and looks forward to it.

She’s already at the age of a mature lady; she shouldn’t really feel this way.

But for some reason, she was already looking forward to the outing the weekend after next, staying overnight no less.

Cheng Zhu later also texted her: “Oh, by the way, the entire guest house is reserved for us, but there’s still a difference in the payment. Other students will be in twos in each room to split the room cost.”

“If we calculate like this, there are 4 rooms that could accommodate single occupants. I plan to stay alone; don’t want to hear others snore.”

“I was thinking you probably wouldn’t want to sleep with another female classmate either, right?”

“How about we just take two rooms?” he asked.

“Um, okay.” Chen Jieyu thought for a moment and agreed.

Although she was really short on cash now, she indeed didn’t want to share a room with one of the female classmates; it would feel awkward.

She could only think about economizing more elsewhere, living a tighter life.

“Okay, then let’s settle it like this for now, we two will live in rooms across from each other when we get there.” Cheng Zhu typed.

“Living across from each other?” Chen Jieyu hesitated.

But she began to wonder why she was even paying attention to this?

Someone surely would stay across the door.

After calming some strange feelings in her heart, she replied: “Okay, let’s go according to your plan.”

The class president, Liu Feng, who was also from Comp Sci Class 2, racked his brains but wouldn’t have guessed that someone had already chatted privately with the counselor, and even where the counselor would sleep had been clearly arranged.

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Time flew quickly, and two days passed in a blink of an eye.

During these two days, the news about Cheng Zhu not willing to sell his claw machine shop for four million had completely spread across the school.

Even the teaching staff had caught wind of this matter.

Here’s a person coming to ask Chen Jieyu, coming to her for gossip.

At first, Chen Jieyu learned that Cheng Zhu wanted to sell the shop while she was traveling back to Hang City from her hometown in Sichuan Province, through a familiar female counselor who had sent her a post.

It just so happened that the person asking her about it now was this very counselor.

Her name was Zhao Xiaoqian, a somewhat chubby woman, one year younger than Chen Jieyu, the type of person who’s very familiar.

Chen Jieyu generally had an average relationship with her colleagues, rarely interacted with them privately, and hardly ever participated in many gatherings and such.

Still, rumors about her never ceased at the school.

But people like Zhao Xiaoqian, who were overtly familiar, were somehow a bit better.

“Mr. Chen, this student of your class has again made the big news! I heard that someone offered four million for that claw machine shop off-campus and he refused; is that true?” Zhao Xiaoqian asked.

“This… I’m not really sure,” Chen Jieyu honestly didn’t know.

Cheng Zhu was her creditor, apart from topics involving her own debt, she actually avoided talking about money with him.

“Quite impressive, earning so much money in freshman year.” After praising him, Zhao Xiaoqian shifted the conversation: “Looking at the chat in my class group, a lot of girls still say he’s very handsome!”

Chen Jieyu looked at WeChat, picturing Cheng Zhu’s face.

Truth be told, she also found Cheng Zhu quite handsome; in Computer Science Class 2, and even in the entire School of Information, he could be described as a standout.

“Four million, that’s a lot of money.” Chen Jieyu, a person burdened with debt, sighed inwardly.

Perhaps it’s also why he so nonchalantly lent her fifty thousand yuan.

After chatting a bit more, Zhao Xiaoqian, the chatterbox, quickly moved from this campus gossip to another.

“Mr. Chen, have you heard, that Professor Li, he’s keeping a junior girl from our school as a mistress, and guess what?”

“This girl, while taking his money, was secretly dating another boy, and then the fact that she was kept by Professor Li, the boy found out! He snooped through her cellphone.”

Chen Jieyu: “…”

She always had a poor impression of this Professor Li, finding him sleazy and his gazes revealing undue interest. He had messaged her many times late at night, the language sometimes pushing boundaries, always steering the conversation towards certain topics, giving many implications.

Zhao Xiaoqian continued sharing gossip unabashed, “And guess how much he gives that girl a month?”

You don’t need to interact with her, because she would just pick up the conversation herself, not letting her words fall to the ground.

“5000, only 5000!”

“That Professor Li is already fifty, bald, probably even older than her dad; how could she agree to it!”

“I heard before that a few thousand could keep a female college student, I didn’t believe it, but here we are, it really exists in our school!” She sounded somewhat angry.

For some reason, Chen Jieyu suddenly thought of Cheng Zhu, including his threats of not returning her money and spreading rumors on the forum that she was kept by him.

“He just transferred fifty thousand so casually, seems like compared to this Professor Li, he does give a lot more.” A thought popped up in Chen Jieyu’s mind.

“And that Professor Li is both old and ugly, but he is good-looking, and tall and strong.”

At that thought, she suddenly found it somewhat amusing.

Teachers keeping students, not exactly fresh news.

But a student keeping a teacher, would anyone believe it?

—Hard to tell.

Eventually, she didn’t know what got into her.

Chen Jieyu, wearing golden-rimmed glasses, appearing a bit stern, exuding a somewhat abstinent aura, actually picked up her phone and skillfully used Baidu, typing in a question:

“Are there teachers kept by students?”

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(ps: First update, request for monthly tickets.)