novelraw Chapter 168 : Don't Lose on Expression
Chapter 168 : Don't Lose on Expression
The music gradually subsided, and the fountain softened along with it. The water droplets were like dancing musical notes, falling gently onto the surface of the water with crisp sounds.
Perhaps restless hearts would also calm down with it.
"It's over. Let's go, time to head back and keep studying," Lin Li stood up and rubbed his butt against Bai Bufan's shoulder to wipe off the dust.
And then he received a "Thousand Years of Death" (Kancho).
"Is that it? It's as short as Lin Li." Retracting his hands, Bai Bufan ignored the screaming Lin Li and the girls who had no idea what just happened, looking reluctantly at the lake.
He was reluctant to let go of this beautiful time where he didn't have to study.
However, the break had indeed been long enough. The five of them obediently returned to the library to continue studying.
...
Melodious music played right on time at 8:50 PM, echoing throughout the library.
The library closed at nine, so they were starting to clear the place out now.
"Carpet. Car is car, pet is pet. The car ran over the pet, using a two-dimensional foil, so it became a carpet. Nice!"
With Lin Li's help, knowledge was entering Bai Bufan's brain through bizarre methods.
If you asked Bai Bufan how to spell "tadpole" or "inheritance" right now, he could answer accurately.
"The craziest day of studying ever. I'm truly stuffed full," Bai Bufan let out a long sigh and placed his textbook on top of his head. According to him, gravity would pull the knowledge into his brain this way.
Then, Bai Bufan suddenly sat up straight, dug his phone out of the trash can, and pulled Lin Li over. "Come on, Lin Li, let's record a video."
"Who are you trying to disgust?" Lin Li saw through his motive instantly.
"Baowei, of course."
"Then I have no choice but to support this," Lin Li gave a thumbs up and actively participated in the filming.
[Zhou Baowei: Are you guys fucking sick in the head? Studying at the library until now? Taking an exam with answers stuffed in your heads like this, what's the difference between that and cheating? Do you dare to have a fair and square battle of luck with me?!]
Seeing this reply, both of them felt very gratified.
Then, Lin Li looked up at Qu Wanqiu opposite him and asked, "Qu Wanqiu, are you coming to the library to study tomorrow too?"
"Hmm? What are you planning?" Qu Wanqiu, who was packing her backpack, immediately pressed her hands down on it upon hearing this. She stared at Lin Li warily, scanning him up and down.
Lin Li: "..."
*A look like that is somewhat hurtful, you know.*
"No, I'm not planning to be a troll this time. It's just that if you're coming, I'll come to the library with you again. That way, if there's something I don't know, I can ask you, and if there's something you don't know, I can type it out and ask the Class Rep for you," Lin Li explained.
He simply acknowledged the study efficiency of the library.
And Qu Wanqiu's science grades were decent. Since Chen Yuying couldn't come tomorrow, she could perfectly serve as a budget replacement.
"Oh, oh, sure, that works," Qu Wanqiu nodded nonchalantly.
"OK, I'll still come early to save seats tomorrow. Just send me a message when you're on your way."
"Alright."
Ding Sihan, who had already prepared herself for a conversation, coughed heavily as she watched Lin Li lower his head to pack his own bag right after finishing his sentence.
"The trash can is right here, and the phone has already been taken out. Feel free to spit your phlegm in it," Lin Li used his foot to kick the nearby trash can over to her side.
Ding Sihan: "..."
"What about me?! Why didn't you ask if I'm coming tomorrow?!" Ding Sihan slapped the table and said.
"My study group losing you is like a fish losing a bicycle," Lin Li didn't fully raise his head. Instead, he pretended to be wearing glasses, pulled the imaginary glasses down his nose, and looked at Ding Sihan with contempt.
Ding Sihan: "..."
*This bastard's words are so hurtful.*
"What about me, what about me?" Bai Bufan hurried over to get scolded too.
"The sprinting world losing Stephen Hawking. You're even more useless than Ding Sihan, you're practically a stumbling block," Lin Li naturally didn't hold back.
"It's not that bad, is it? Compared to Ding Sihan, I at least have *some* merits, right?" Bai Bufan denied.
"Oh—Ding Sihan, Bufan says he's more outstanding than you," Lin Li immediately repeated Bai Bufan's words loudly, then fanned the flames: "Is that so? Then tell us, in what way are you more outstanding than Ding Sihan?"
*Boring. I want to see blood flow like a river.*
Ding Sihan's gaze also locked onto Bai Bufan.
"In terms of interpersonal relationships, my desk-mate dares to eat poop. Does your desk-mate dare?!" Bai Bufan shouted super loudly, his face looking like *'Lin Li, you finally fell for it and asked.'*
Ding Sihan: "..."
Hearing this, Chen Yuying looked at Lin Li with amusement. How should she put it? As expected of the best of desk-mates, they were indeed exceptionally in sync when it came to certain angles of thinking.
"No, she doesn't." Ding Sihan surrendered.
"My desk-mate dares to drink pee. Does your desk-mate dare?!" Bai Bufan fought more bravely as the battle progressed.
"No, she doesn't."
"My desk-mate dares to— mmph, mmph— breathe— I can't breathe—"
Bai Bufan pulled at the jacket that had suddenly completely covered his head, trying to seek a sliver of survival.
...
"How are you all getting back?" Lin Li asked the group as they took the elevator downstairs.
"My dad is driving over to pick me up," Chen Yuying answered.
"It's only a ten-minute walk from here to my house, so I'll just walk back," Ding Sihan pointed in a direction.
"Walking back." The school wasn't far from the library either, about a twenty-minute walk, so Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu gave the same answer.
"Are we just dispersing like this? Not going to hang out a bit more?" After the others finished speaking, Ding Sihan started urging everyone to play a little longer.
"The school gates close at ten. Do you want them to sleep on the streets tonight?" Lin Li glanced at Ding Sihan.
"Worst comes to worst, they can just sleep at my place. My house has a guest room," Ding Sihan put her arm around Qu Wanqiu. Suddenly remembering there was also a Bai Bufan, she thought for a moment, looked at him, and added, "And an extra bathroom."
Bai Bufan: "..."
*Not even willing to offer the living room, huh.*
Lin Li, however, gave a thumbs up.
"Never mind, I think I'll just head back to the dorm," Qu Wanqiu waved her hand.
"Dammit. The main thing is my parents probably won't be back until midnight tonight. It's really boring and lonely being by myself," Ding Sihan sighed and wailed.
"If you feel lonely by yourself, why not turn off the lights and watch a horror movie? After a while, you'll feel like there's someone in the kitchen, someone in the bathroom, and someone under the bed. Maybe there's even someone... inside the concrete walls.
"Have you watched Conan? Maybe right now, on top of our elevator, there's a corpse lying there."
The bastard Lin Li suddenly turned on his phone flashlight, shone it on his face from below, and spoke in a gloomy tone.
*Damn, the library murder case in Conan really was my childhood trauma.*
*Good thing I'm grown up now. It's no longer a childhood trauma, it's become a youth trauma.*
However, in response to Lin Li's terrifying description, Ding Sihan looked at him like he was an idiot, and even sighed, as if caring for the mentally disabled.
Lin Li: "..."
*That look is so damn hurtful.*
"If a ghost really came to my house, I'd dare to play cards with it. If it was handsome, I'd even be willing to stage a 'Ghost' romance. Are you trying to scare me by saying this stuff now?" Ding Sihan sneered.
*What kind of female Ning Caichen is this?* He almost forgot, Ding Sihan was the one who stayed incredibly calm throughout the entire haunted house. Trying to scare her with ghosts was indeed a bit ridiculous.
Chen Yuying, on the other hand, pursed her lips and shrank back slightly.
*Dammit, what a failure—*
"Lin Li... I'll fuck your mom... I'm the only one in the dorm tonight..." Just as Lin Li was regretting his stupidity, a trembling voice sounded from beside him.
*Hey!*
*Not a total failure, there's an unexpected bonus.*
"Sorry Bufan, I didn't mean to. But Baowei kept telling me that when he sleeps, he can see a beautiful corpse sleeping back-to-back with you under your bed boards. Did he ever tell you that? Oh right, Nansang Middle School used to be a mass grave..."
"Fuck! Shut the fuck up!!"
Bai Bufan didn't have Wei Kun's courage. It didn't matter how beautiful it was. He angrily covered his ears.
"I almost forgot you're scared of ghosts. It's a real pity I didn't drag you into the haunted house at Pingjiang Amusement Park, you coward," Lin Li didn't continue building the horror atmosphere, but laughed and mocked him.
*You made your desk-mate dare to eat poop, didn't you know your desk-mate also dares to eat it?!*
"How can you ruin my innocence out of thin air like this..." Bai Bufan's face flushed red, the veins on his forehead bulging.
What followed were incomprehensible words, things like "not scared" and "should have basic reverence," causing everyone in the elevator and the corpse on top of the elevator to burst into laughter. The inside and outside of the elevator were filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
...
As soon as they walked out of the library, they saw a car in the distance honk its horn and flash its high beams.
"That's my dad's car, I'll head over first, okay?" Chen Yuying turned her head and said goodbye to her friends.
Lin Li looked from afar. The person picking up Chen Yuying seemed to be the same old geezer he had met once but never had the fate to chat with. But why had he changed cars? Was their family so wealthy that they had a surplus of vehicles?
And it must be an illusion, right? Why wasn't this old geezer looking at his daughter, but staring at him instead?
"Bye-bye."
"Alright, everyone go back to your own homes and find your own moms." After Chen Yuying got in the car, Lin Li snapped his fingers and prepared to walk toward where his bicycle was parked.
Then his hand was grabbed by Bai Bufan.
"Go back with me and Qu Wanqiu, I'm begging you," Bai Bufan leaned in and whispered.
"Huh?"
"Making me walk all the way back alone with a girl is asking me to die."
"Bufan, haven't you already learned how to chat normally with girls? What are you afraid of?" Lin Li was a bit confused.
"It's different. Right now, at most, I can open my mouth to respond. But making me be alone with a girl, I have absolutely no idea what to say. What if we just walk in silence the whole way, or she speaks and I just go 'uh-huh, yeah'? Just thinking about it makes me cringe. I absolutely can't do it. I'd rather go back alone."
Bai Bufan shook his head firmly.
*Still not enough Feifei therapy sessions.*
"Just train yourself a bit. Qu Wanqiu is very nice and can take a joke. Just treat her like a bro, you have to try," Lin Li was genuinely looking out for Bai Bufan, so he encouraged him.
"You have to step out of your comfort zone."
*Only after stepping out of your comfort zone will you realize how comfortable it actually was.* Lin Li didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Hearing this, Bai Bufan gritted his teeth and nodded.
Under Lin Li's expectant gaze, he walked up to Qu Wanqiu and Ding Sihan, who were chatting and laughing.
"Qu Wanqiu."
"Hmm?" Hearing her name, Qu Wanqiu looked up at Bai Bufan.
"What kind of porn do you usually watch?"
Qu Wanqiu, Ding Sihan: "?"
Lin Li: "!"
She couldn't answer, and she didn't need to answer this question, because Bai Bufan had already been put in a chokehold by Lin Li from behind and dragged away.
"What the fuck are you doing?!" After dragging him a bit further away, Lin Li choked Bai Bufan's neck and asked.
"Didn't you say to treat her like a bro?! Wasn't this the very first thing I said to you when we met?!" Bai Bufan argued strongly, even citing an example.
"You can't be *that* much of a bro! Not everyone in this world is a degenerate like the two of us! Porn diplomacy is useful, but it doesn't apply to normal people!" Lin Li was furious.
"But I already tried my best!"
Lin Li let go and sighed sadly. The road to Lu Feifei is long and arduous.
To make Bai Bufan tend towards being a normal dog, a lot, lot more effort was needed.
"Fine, I'll walk back to school with you two first, and then I'll go home. I'll show you the simplest way to make conversation while we're at it."
Although Lin Li suspected Bai Bufan was self-destructing to force him to come along, Lin Li was also worried that if he forced the two of them to go back together, he'd have to use Yang Liang's connections to visit Bai Bufan in prison tomorrow. So he had no choice but to agree.
Ding Sihan's house was in the opposite direction of the school, so the four of them said their goodbyes again.
"Stay safe. If something happens, remember to visit me in a dream. I've been in a pretty bad mood lately," Lin Li cursed viciously.
Hearing this, Ding Sihan turned back and made a face.
Then the three of them walked toward the school. Lin Li pushed his bicycle in the middle, with Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu walking on his left and right.
"Qu Wanqiu," Lin Li spoke up.
"What's up?" Although carrying a heavy backpack, Qu Wanqiu's steps were light. She asked upon hearing him.
Bai Bufan also looked over, ready for class, to learn the art of language.
"What kind of porn do you usually watch?"
Bai Bufan, Qu Wanqiu: "?"
*What the fuck are you trying to teach me?!*
(End of Chapter)