Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 32: Chapter 32: The Poor Guy Sympathizes with the Rich and Beautiful Girl

Zhao Linlin stared intently at Zhao Yi and began to ponder, her eyes circling about.

Marriage?

Only ancient boudoir maidens would go to temples to pray for marriage!

Career?

Career is about the future; there’s no way to prove it wrong no matter how you argue it.

Love?

"Aren’t love and destiny the same thing?" Zhao Linlin found a loophole in the conversation.

"Of course not."

Zhao Yi put on a self-assured face, "Love is love, and marriage is marriage. Do you think dating and getting married are the same thing?"

"Uh, that’s true!"

"Alright, I’ll predict your career then!"

Zhao Linlin looked around, turned, grabbed her pencil case, zipped it up, and wickedly grinned, "Why don’t you guess how many pens are in my pencil case?"

"What does a pencil case have to do with a career?" This time, it was Zhao Yi’s turn to ask. freёwebnoѵel.com

"Of course it does."

Zhao Linlin smugly answered, "Remember your speech? How can one take a test without a pen? How can one talk about grades without a test? Grades and work are directly related!"

"Fine, fine, fine, you’re right!" Zhao Yi sarcastically curled his lips.

Everyone in the class looked over.

Hu Tianyan, who usually didn’t talk much, even leaned in to listen; Lin Xiaoqing simply lazily sprawled across Zhao Yi’s desk.

Zhao Yi sat up straight, put his hands together in front of his forehead, and performed three mysterious bows.

"Blessings!"

"Blessings!"

"Blessings!"

This was truly sincere.

After experiencing a time travel back to his high school days, he could no longer be an atheist; no matter which god or gods blessed him, showing respect certainly wouldn’t hurt.

"Have you calculated it yet?" Zhao Linlin impatiently urged.

Zhao Yi laughed, "After just now communicating with heaven and earth, I’ve got the answer."

"Four, right?"

Zhao Linlin looked down at her pencil case and suddenly widened her eyes, immediately shaking her head in disbelief, "This one doesn’t count! This one doesn’t count!"

"One more time! One more time!"

Zhao Yi refused, "Even for a woman, you should keep your word."

Zhao Linlin was angry and about to reach into her pocket again.

Zhao Yi shook his head and refused, "This is fortune-telling, not ga-mbling! With a competitive attitude, it won’t work." The implicit meaning of his words was ’there’s no way you’re getting your money back.’

Zhao Linlin gritted her teeth in anger.

"By the way, classmate Zhao Linlin." Zhao Yi said seriously, "Seeing you reminded me of Teacher Shen Yan."

"Ah?"

Zhao Linlin touched her cheek and asked, "Are you praising me for being pretty?"

"Pfft!"

Lin Xiaoqing couldn’t help but laugh and quickly reminded her, "He... he’s calling you dumb!"

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The others didn’t understand either.

Lin Xiaoqing immediately began telling the story between Shen Yan and Zhao Yi, using vivid descriptions that left Zhao Linlin shaking with anger.

"I can’t let this go!"

Zhao Linlin glared at Zhao Yi and quickly looked at Lin Xiaoqing, her tone full of vulnerability, "Xiaoqing, help me out! Ask this scam artist to predict for you too."

Lin Xiaoqing looked at her and tried to negotiate, "Why don’t you give the money back to Linlin?"

Zhao Yi flatly refused, "That money was earned based on my abilities; even the monkey went to buy drinks with it!"

Lin Xiaoqing pouted immediately, took out money from her pocket in anger, and then quickly turned to comfort Zhao Linlin, "I’ll help you win it back!"

"Go, Xiaoqing!"

Zhao Linlin turned from anger to joy and clapped her hands with a smile.

Zhao Yi calmly pocketed the money, "I usually only do one divination per day, but if you insist, it’s okay to make an exception. So what do you want me to predict?"

"I want a career prediction too!"

Lin Xiaoqing looked around and suddenly picked up the "National College Entrance Exam Comprehensive Practice Test" from the table. She flipped it open to a brand new page, picked up a pen, and hastily jotted down answers to the multiple-choice questions.

ABCD...

She finished twelve questions.

Lin Xiaoqing said confidently, "Why don’t you predict how many questions I got right?"

Is there such a thing?

Zhao Linlin excitedly hugged Lin Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, you’re so clever!" After saying that, she raised an eyebrow at Zhao Yi, "Go ahead, God Zhao, do your thing!"

"Alright."

Zhao Yi sighed, "Although you two are very unreasonable, I’ll give it a try for the sake of my reputation. I, the god of divination, will give it a go!"

Putting his hands together, he closed his eyes, and bowed three times.

"Blessings!"

"Blessings!"

"Blessings!"

Zhao Yi opened his eyes and scrutinized Lin Xiaoqing as if trying to see something in her face. After a long time, he finally spoke, "Young lady, your complexion is fair and tender, but there is a hint of redness hidden within..."

"Isn’t that just a healthy glow?" Zhao Linlin exaggeratedly laughed as she added.

"Don’t interrupt!"

Zhao Yi fiercely reprimanded her, then continued, "...it shows that your luck today is not good, even terrible. Out of the twelve questions, it would already be impressive if you guessed one correctly!"

Lin Xiaoqing rolled her eyes and found the answer sheet in the practice test and began comparing it.

The first five questions, all wrong.

Another five questions, all wrong.

The 11th question, correct, the last one is still wrong.

Lin Xiaoqing raised her stunned head, her slightly open mouth now stiff.

"Did you really only get one right?"

Zhao Linlin saw something was wrong, took the "National College Entrance Exam Comprehensive Practice Test," and carefully compared the answers several times, exclaiming in surprise, "You really only got one right! How did you guess it?"

"The Buddha says, it cannot be told."

Zhao Yi shook his head.

Now two people were angry.

Hu Tianyan had been watching all along. She was a quiet person, always keeping to herself. Smiles were rarely seen on her face, making her a well-known cold beauty in the school.

Now she was interested.

Zhao Yi guessed right twice in a row just now, which couldn’t be explained by mere luck.

She hadn’t understood either.

But she felt that she should expose Zhao Yi’s little trick and not let Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin suffer a loss. After all, their seats were close together, and they could be considered friends.

Zhao Yi, a frivolous boy, was their common enemy.

Hu Tianyan took out her exquisite small bag, pulled out a stack of bills, casually took out one, and slapped it onto Zhao Yi’s desk.

"Huh?"

Zhao Yi looked up in surprise, "Hu Lengleng?" He quickly covered his mouth after saying it.

Hu Tianyan seldom smiled and rarely talked to boys. That’s why people nicknamed her "Lengleng."

Hu Tianyan’s expression grew even colder. She moved her stool over, sat down seriously, and said, "You can calculate something for me, just casually, about family, career, or love. If you’re right, the money is yours. If not, you give them their money back."

Hu Tianyan stepped up to help!

Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin immediately beamed with joy, standing on either side of Hu Tianyan, like two bodyguards.

Now it was 1 vs 3!

"Uh..."

Zhao Yi felt it wasn’t fun anymore, and the joke had gone too far.

Things were going awry.

"How about this, I’ll give you your money back." He said, trying to take out cash from his pocket.

Lin Xiaoqing immediately refused, "No way! We have to win it back!"

"Right! We want to win it back, not have you give it back!" Zhao Linlin chimed in. They didn’t care about ten or twenty yuan at all.

The key was being frustrated!

If they didn’t win the money back fairly, wouldn’t they be seen as sore losers?

No way!

Looking at the icy expression before him, Zhao Yi suddenly smiled and said, "Fine, I’ll read your fortune. Give me your hand!"

"What for?"

Hu Tianyan furrowed her brow.

"Reading your palm, of course!" Zhao Yi naturally replied, "They both had me guess things, but when it comes to you, it’s real fortune-telling. So, I have to look at your palm."

"You’re not just trying to take advantage, are you?" Lin Xiaoqing asked suspiciously.

"Am I that kind of person?" Zhao Yi spread his hands with an exaggerated expression.

Sun Liang walked over with drinks, plunked a bottle on the desk, and his eyes practically screamed, "You’re such a master, using palmistry to take advantage of girls!"

"Not just any girl, but Hu Lengleng, no less!"

Everyone’s eyes were more or less the same.

Zhao Yi simply shrugged and said, "Anyway, if you want your fortune read, I have to look at your palm!"

"Fine!"

Hu Tianyan decisively stretched out her hand, her gaze as sharp as a knife.

Zhao Yi smiled, pinching her hand and looking down at her palm lines.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds...

Hu Tianyan was getting impatient, and yanked her hand back.

Zhao Yi furrowed his brow in surprise, "You’re an only child. A single-parent family?"

"Your father... "

Zhao Yi hesitated, figuring out that Hu Tianyan’s father was still alive, and the situation was likely a normal divorce.

There were many people listening around, so it wasn’t good to continue talking.

"Your love life... Have you had a boyfriend? Your first... "

"Stop talking!"

Hu Tianyan fiercely pulled back her hand, her face visibly worse, and sat back down on her stool.

No one else could concentrate on the "fortune-telling" anymore.

Sun Liang leaned over and whispered, "How did you know Hu Lengleng comes from a single-parent family? Did you have a crush on her and investigated her background or something?"

Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin also looked over.

Sun Liang continued, "Her parents are divorced? Poor thing!"

Zhao Yi, hesitating on whether to pocket the money on the table, heard Sun Liang’s words and looked incredulous, "What are you talking about?"

"Monkey, not bad!"

"How could you, a poor loser who doesn’t even know what a fifty yuan bill looks like, pity a rich beauty with a stack of hundred yuan bills in her wallet?"

One lethal blow!

Sun Liang, annoyed, hurriedly walked back to his seat.

Everyone else laughed out loud, and even the corner of Hu Tianyan’s mouth curled into a small smile.

Zhao Yi glanced to the side and calmly pocketed the money.