Free Web NovelChapter 169: Chapter 131: Listen! Shake Hands
However, just as Shen Yuan was taking out his keys, he suddenly heard Li Zhi’s voice from behind him.
Her voice wasn’t loud, but it carried a mock-authoritative tone. "Go on, tell them. Mommy here was planning to visit them every day during the National Day holiday. But now... it seems today is the only day I can come."
Shen Yuan turned around, a confused look on his face. "What do you mean? If you come today, you won’t come during the holiday?"
Li Zhi shrugged, a faint smile playing on her lips. "It’s one or the other. Oh, dear, what a difficult choice. You tell me, when should I come see them?"
The pretty girl’s gaze fell directly on Shen Yuan, her eyes shimmering with a teasing light as if waiting for his answer.
Shen Yuan thought for a moment, then said without hesitation, "The holiday."
His tone was firm.
’After all, the holiday is three days long!’
"You’re the one who said it. I won’t come today, then."
The smile on Li Zhi’s face grew wider. She seemed very satisfied with his answer.
Shen Yuan nodded in agreement.
Li Zhi gave a small smile, then gently closed her door.
However, the moment the door clicked shut, she didn’t leave. Instead, she stood silently behind it, peeking at Shen Yuan through the peephole.
She saw Shen Yuan just standing there, looking adorably dazed, as if he still hadn’t processed what had just happened.
Watching his foolish expression, Li Zhi couldn’t help but let out a laugh, a mischievous smile spreading across her face.
"Dumbass Shen Yuan!" Li Zhi muttered under her breath. ’I say I’m not coming, and he actually doesn’t want me to come!’
Although that’s what she said, she wasn’t really angry. In fact, she found this kind of interaction quite amusing.
"Hmph!"
Li Zhi huffed softly and turned toward her room, still muttering to herself.
"Fine, I won’t come then."
Staring at the closed door across the hall, Shen Yuan clicked his tongue twice.
Just as Shen Yuan was about to close his own door, he suddenly realized something. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
’Didn’t she just say she wanted to come over?’
Realizing this, Shen Yuan slapped his forehead and couldn’t help but curse, "Stupid brain."
When Shen Yuan returned to his room, the two kittens immediately lifted their heads from their nap, meowing and circling him to beg for food.
They hadn’t eaten lunch and were hungry.
After skillfully refilling the food bowls for his fur babies, Shen Yuan went into the study and took out the Huanggang practice tests Li Zhi had given him.
The glow from his phone screen illuminated his focused profile. His fingertips tapped the screen, setting an alarm for a two-and-a-half-hour mock exam.
’Time to do a practice test. The monthly exams are coming up.’
Soon, the only sound in the study was the rustling of his pen scratching against paper.
Shen Yuan always started the Comprehensive Science section with the easiest questions first.
He did this because he was afraid of burning out his brain on the major physics problems later.
Partway through, San Geng leaped onto the desk and tried to rub against his hand, but was driven off with a light rap on the head from Shen Yuan’s knuckles.
He lowered his head, and by the time he looked up again, two and a half hours had passed.
When his phone buzzed and vibrated, the test paper was already covered in neat lines of work.
Shen Yuan picked up the test paper. The afternoon sun shone through the window, hitting the paper and casting a strange pattern of light across his face.
"C’mon, knowledge, get into my brain!"
With that, Shen Yuan placed the test paper on the desk and began checking his work against the answer key.
’What the hell, how did I get this wrong?’
’Hiss—This... I can’t let Young Master Li know about this. If she finds out, I’m pretty much dead.’
Shen Yuan looked at the answer key, correcting his solution process.
Fortunately, each answer came with a detailed explanation, so it wasn’t like Shen Yuan couldn’t even understand the provided solutions.
After checking his answers, Shen Yuan also calculated his score.
"Physics 89, Chemistry 87, Biology 81. Damn it, still only 257!"
Shen Yuan leaned back in his chair. "Damn, this test was hard!"
After finishing the entire test, Shen Yuan had a very clear feeling.
This practice test was harder than the first monthly exam.
’If the actual college entrance exam is this hard, I’m totally screwed, aren’t I?’
Shen Yuan let out a breath.
He knew one thing for sure: the difficulty of the Comprehensive Science section of the college entrance exam was unpredictable.
It could be high, or it could be low.
But he couldn’t just pray for the exam to be easier.
The college entrance exam was a battle, and you couldn’t pin your hopes on your opponent going easy on you.
After copying down his incorrect answers, Shen Yuan took out another practice test.
Of course, he wasn’t going to do it now. This one was to take to class.
By the time Shen Yuan finished all this, it was already past 4:00 PM.
He took out his phone and gave Li Zhi a call.
"What’s up?"
"Let’s go eat. We’ll head back to school after."
Tonight, Li Zhi’s parents were going to her maternal grandfather’s house, while Shen Yuan’s parents were still in their hometown.
The two of them had no choice but to eat out.
"Got it," Li Zhi said before hanging up.
The fluorescent light in the stairwell seemed especially bleak as evening approached. Shen Yuan leaned against the mottled wall, his knuckles tapping unconsciously against the edge of his phone.
A moment later, the door to Li Zhi’s apartment opened.
Upon seeing Shen Yuan, Li Zhi glanced at him for a second before immediately looking away.
Seeing Li Zhi crouch down to tie her shoelaces, Shen Yuan was suddenly struck by a mischievous impulse.
"Li Zhi," he called her name in a deliberate whisper, the last syllable seeming to curl in the air above her head.
"What?" the girl asked without looking up.
As Li Zhi answered, Shen Yuan extended his hand in front of her. "Shake."
He curled and uncurled his fingers, a gesture reminiscent of asking a pet for its paw. free𝑤ebnovel.com
In the next second, the air suddenly froze. Li Zhi’s movements to tie her shoes stopped abruptly. As she slowly raised her face, her almond-shaped eyes were brewing a blizzard.
His chuckle died in his throat. The hand he had extended felt like it was freezing under her gaze, but it was too late to pull it back.
The next second, a crisp sound echoed from Shen Yuan’s hand.
SMACK!
"Hiss—"
The sound of Shen Yuan sucking in a sharp breath of cold air echoed in the stairwell.
The young man clutched his hand, his mouth open in a silent cry of pain.
