ryethenovel Chapter 77 Youthful Spirit, Lost and Regained
Chapter 77 Youthful Spirit, Lost and Regained
"Alright, let's go back to school."
Lu Zhaoye glanced at the time; the school gates were about to close, so he quickly urged them on.
But Zhang Xinhan, sitting at her own desk, couldn't listen to anything and just kept playing her little clothes-washing game.
It's a game on 4399 where you can do cyberpunk housework by clicking the mouse.
Seeing that Zhang Xinhan wouldn't listen, Lu Zhaoye turned off the computer and grabbed Zhang Xinhan by the collar, pulling her out.
"Please, please let me wash a little longer,"
Zhang Xinhan, speaking in a spicy-sounding accent, whined and clung to the computer desk, refusing to move.
Lu Zhaoye remained silent, his arrogance only growing stronger; his expression turned cold.
"Hurry up and go. You promised me when we were at school, and now you're doing housework here. Go back to your dorm and wash up."
"The school gates are about to close; if we don't get in now, it'll be too late."
Zhang Xinhan pouted and shook her head repeatedly.
"I... I can just climb over the wall, it's okay."
Lu Zhaoye clicked his tongue and decided to use a strategic retreat to release Zhang Xinhan.
"Okay, you can play now, I'm going home."
After saying that, Lu Zhaoye turned and left. Zhang Xinhan was a little flustered. On one side was a fun game, and on the other side was the "adult" who had brought her to the internet cafe.
Finally, Zhang Xinhan stomped her foot and angrily chased after him.
Chen Ziniu and Xiao Zifang were dumbfounded by what they saw. Wasn't this a perfect "Where Did Dad Go?" moment?
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After dropping Zhang Xinhan off at school, Lu Zhaoye said goodbye to Chen Ziniu and then went home.
He took his phone out of his pocket, opened QQ, and saw two new friends.
One is Xu Qingwan, and the other is Zhang Xinhan.
Without hesitation, I accepted the friend request immediately; it took less than five seconds.
Xu Qingwan sent a message first.
"Hello, Lu Zhaoye."
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xinhan sent another message.
"Lu Zhaoye, I'm at the dorm."
After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhaoye first sent a message to Zhang Xinhan.
"Good brothers."
He then replied to Xu Qingwan's message, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"Baby, isn't saying 'hello' to each other a bit too distant between us?"
Then came silence, and more silence.
Lu Zhaoye didn't wait for a message. He put his phone away and slowly walked home with his hands in his pockets.
In fact, with his experience, he had naturally seen through these girls' thoughts long ago.
But if you really had to ask him to pick a girl from among them as his girlfriend, Lu Zhaoye was actually quite confused, or perhaps he wasn't ready.
He grew up with Luo Xiao since he was a child, and Luo Xiao has such a good figure and personality, it would be a lie to say that he had no feelings at all.
Furthermore, the second girl he met since his rebirth, Xu Ziqing, the more he got to know her, the more he realized how pure her feelings were. She spent so much time making a study manual for him just because he needed to take the advanced class exam.
Lu Zhaoye originally planned to stay away from Xu Ziqing after the matter between Wen Ningning and Su Cheng was resolved, but what Xu Ziqing said in his arms that day made him unable to let go of it for a long time.
She just wanted to ease the burden on her family; what did she do wrong?
Lu Zhaoye is a very empathetic person. Perhaps it was his long period of loneliness and helplessness in his previous life that made him unable to bear seeing girls like Xu Ziqing suffer even greater hardships.
Therefore, it is unlikely that Lu Zhaoye would abandon it.
Looking at my deskmate Xu Qingwan, who is closest to me and perhaps the most familiar to me, it's the same.
In his youth, he was someone who was firmly trapped in a results-oriented mindset, and he had a great sense of identification with Hsu Ching-wan.
He still remembers that one day in his previous life, after getting off work in a high-rise building, he suddenly remembered that he had only scored twenty-something points in the physics section of his college entrance exam.
At that moment, he thought the sky had fallen and life seemed hopeless. Lu Zhaoye was carrying his computer when he suddenly smiled happily because those things had nothing to do with him now.
So when he first saw Xu Qingwan, it was as if he saw his past self.
She possesses an extreme quality: purity. Even when pushed to the brink, she remains defiant and determined to break free from her own obsessions, which deeply resonates with Lu Zhaoye.
Therefore, it's unrealistic to expect Lu Zhaoye to suddenly disappear right after he's put an umbrella over her.
He had to admit that he was a jerk; he couldn't bear to leave any of the girls he knew. He'd let time tell what the future held.
It felt like he had been in this world for almost ten days, and he originally thought he would find it very difficult to adapt to high school life.
But he realized he was wrong; even though his soul was mature, he acted like a child.
He felt sad because Xu Ziqing cried for her mother, he felt sorrow because Xu Qingwan collapsed in the rain because of her grades, and he felt sympathy for Zhang Xinhan's childhood experiences.
Everyone says that having a strong sense of empathy is a very bad thing. Lu Zhaoye in his previous life thought this was true, but Lu Zhaoye in this life thinks it is wrong.
It was this empathy that allowed him to integrate into such a youthful and spirited environment.
He has lived for decades, but his soul is now eighteen years old, that spirited eighteen-year-old.
Lu Zhaoye's lips curled up slightly, and his eyes gradually became clearer.
Therefore, the most important thing right now is to cure Xu Ziqing's eyes, cultivate Xu Qingwan's confidence, and suppress Luo Xiao's evil thoughts!
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"Luo Xiao, your brother is back," Lu Zhaoye opened the door, changed into slippers, and went in.
Luo Xiao had her hair tied in a bun, and was wearing a pink short-sleeved pajama top and shorts, revealing a section of her smooth calves.
She was sitting on the coffee table with a worried look on her face, holding a pen and writing something.
"Oh no, Ono, I'm doomed! I only got 90 on my math test!"
Lu Zhaoye walked up to her with a grin and said condescendingly,
"Come here, let your brother comfort you."
Luo Xiao frowned, then took off her slippers and threw them at Lu Zhaoye.
"Get lost, don't mess with me, I'm in a bad mood today, don't go looking for a fight."
Lu Zhaoye could tell that Luo Xiao was in a bad mood, but such opportunities were too rare, so he had to take advantage of the situation.
He lay back on the sofa, inhaling the fragrance emanating from Luo Xiao, and said...
"Let me tell you something to cheer you up. I did well on my exams and got into the advanced class."
"Stop making your sister laugh, get lost," Luo Xiao pushed Lu Zhaoye without turning her head. "I know you're trying to make me happy, but I really did terribly on the test this time."
Lu Zhaoye suppressed a laugh, and seeing that Luo Xiao didn't believe him, he slowly announced his score. Then he straightened up and pointed to the penultimate derivative problem that Luo Xiao was working on.
"I don't know how to do this problem, can I teach you?"
Luo Xiao didn't say anything, but she was very nervous because she felt that what Xiao Ye said seemed to be true.
Without wasting any time, Lu Zhaoye immediately started solving the problem, writing down two solutions.
Finally, Luo Xiao began to believe it, staring blankly at Lu Zhaoye's face.
Until Lu Zhaoye uttered his last words, Luo Xiao grabbed Lu Zhaoye by the neck, pulled him onto the sofa, and pinned him down.
"What did you say? Old Zhang is asking you to participate in a math competition?"
Caught off guard, Lu Zhaoye was pinned to the sofa and said in terror,
"Yes, we'll participate in the school's preliminary round this Sunday, and then go to No. 1 Middle School for the competition next Saturday."