I am a Big Player-Chapter 40 - why did you start crying_1
Chapter 40: 40, why did you start crying_1
Chapter 40: 40, why did you start crying_1
Duan Xiaolou stood under Ren He’s building and looked up at the 5th-floor window: The light was off, no one was home.
These past two nights, she didn’t encounter Ren He on her runs, yet she couldn’t bring herself to ask why Ren He had stopped running. Her sadness had nowhere to be voiced.
It seemed like life returned to its original track before Ren He, where she should just follow her plans, smoothly getting into high school, then continuing to excel and get into the nation’s top university, strive to be the student council president, and graduate with an impressive resume.
Was this to be her whole life? Never making a mistake, being praised by everyone, and eventually picking the best from her admirers to marry and have children with?
But she once thought she saw another choice in Ren He’s presence, which she now denied herself.
Just then, the sound of running approached from the distance. She looked towards the intersection and saw Ren He, his face covered with sweat, running into the neighborhood from the gate. Ren He saw Duan Xiaolou and smiled, “What a coincidence!”
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“You are…”
“Oh, I ran from quite a far place outside, and I thought I might as well save the time of night running by running back, it’s all just exercising the body anyway,” Ren He explained. He had roughly calculated that the distance from Yang Xi’s house was about just the right amount for exercise.
“Oh… I was wondering why I haven’t seen you these days,” Duan Xiaolou thought to herself. Was it because they were at the same place every day that Ren He made such a choice? It seemed the distance from Yang Xi’s house to here…
What was she thinking? Duan Xiaolou laughed at herself mockingly in her heart, then told Ren He, “Alright, you better head back then, I’m about to go for my night run.”
“Sure, see you tomorrow!” Ren He waved to Duan Xiaolou and went upstairs.
Duan Xiaolou ran forward a few steps when suddenly she lost interest, deciding not to run anymore and to go home instead.
When Ren He got home, he first wrote two chapters for the Divine Punishment System as a reserve. He now understood the importance of having a stockpile of chapters—when faced with a wealthy supporter, no amount of reserve is enough…
In the past few days, the average subscription for the Divine Punishment System rose to 18,000, and the monthly ticket rankings stabilized at 7th. Advancing further was not easy, nor was it easy to drop down; he was in such an awkward position.
But for most authors, Foolish Deer, the author of the Divine Punishment System, was already about to join the ranks of the supreme gods, at least a quasi-supreme god.
To become a supreme god, one needed a divine battle to prove oneself. However, Ren He wasn’t in a hurry as such a battle wasn’t likely to occur shortly. It was a time to accumulate influence.
The next morning, Xie Miaohan arrived in class a bit earlier as usual and saw Ren He, once again the first to arrive at school, and a familiar scene: doing squats with a desk hoisted on his shoulders…
This scene sent thousands of alpacas stampeding through Xie Miaohan’s heart. The last time Ren He jumped from the building, wasn’t he squatting in the morning too? Was this a sign he was going to jump again? Wasn’t he just warming up?
Xie Miaohan carefully asked Ren He, “What, warming up again?”
Warming up? Ren He was awkwardly amused by Xie Miaohan’s assumption that he was about to jump off the building again. He quickly reassured, “Don’t worry, Mr. Xie, I will behave myself today!”
“Don’t tell me that… Weren’t you promising the same each time before? No worries, go ahead and jump, I’m mentally prepared…” said Xie Miaohan with a resigned expression.
Ren He awkwardly smacked his lips, “You see, how come you don’t trust me anymore.”
“You are not trustworthy…”
When Director Liu met Xie Miaohan in the morning, he asked, “Mr. Xie, have you done any ideological work with that kid? The principal is alarmed and demands that we ensure his safety at all costs!”
“I did. I just had a talk with him this morning,” Xie Miaohan said calmly.
“What did you say to him?”
“I said, ‘Go ahead and jump, I’ve mentally prepared myself,'” Xie Miaohan remarked indifferently.
Director Liu nearly pissed himself on the spot: “Mr. Xie, you can’t just give up like that!”
“Then freaking hurry up and change the homeroom teacher; I’m not doing it anymore, whoever wants it can have it!”
“Okay, okay!” Director Liu was a bit panicked, “I’ll go talk to the principal about it right away. Mr. Xie, you need to keep your cool!”
“Fine, then I’ll wait for your news. If there’s no change in two days, I’ll tell Ren He, ‘Whether you jump or not, if you don’t, I will!'” …and Xie Miaohan spattered Director Liu’s face with saliva…
At that moment, Ren He was still sitting in the classroom. He had reluctantly completed the task of 100 deep squats in the morning, but the reward from the Divine Punishment System was somewhat lame: Guitar Playing Skills (Expertise).
It was his first time seeing the Divine Punishment System specifically give a reward labeled with the word “expertise.” Could it be that the same reward came in different levels of quality? What would it be like if he got a higher level Emetic Water in the future…
And did the music theory knowledge he had received before have the level of expertise? Could there be something above expertise, like a master level? He was skeptical about this, and some rewards, no matter how advanced, were still lame to him.
However, the good thing about today’s reward was that he could not only study songs with Yang Xi, but also explore guitar playing…
When the other students gradually arrived in the classroom, they were all discussing the dinner Liu Yinghai had treated them to the previous evening. It was said to be expensive and high-class. When Liu Yinghai entered the classroom, many students greeted him proactively, some even made up conversations, probably because the dinner had made an impression.
Middle school students are so easy to bribe… satisfied with just a meal, Ren He couldn’t help but remark.
Liu Yinghai was very proud; he truly enjoyed the feeling of being the center of attention. After all, there are few teenagers who don’t. Although it was somewhat regrettable that Yang Xi, Duan Xiaolou, and Xu Nuo were absent, his heart still felt greatly satisfied.
He even deliberately discussed yesterday’s dinner loudly next to Ren He: “I feel that the abalone at the restaurant last night wasn’t fresh, otherwise I would have treated everyone to a taste.”
Great, now he’s bragging about eating abalone. I’ll treat you to beachside abalone for 20 bucks apiece until you throw up. Ren He just snickered to himself, enjoying it like he was watching a variety show, thinking that Liu Yinghai was just asking for it.
After finishing his sentence, Liu Yinghai glanced at Ren He out of the corner of his eye, hoping to see him with a gloomy face… However, at that moment, his tears suddenly started streaming down…
All the classmates were baffled… Why cry when you were just talking…
Then everyone looked on, wide-eyed, as Ren He suddenly stood up and started clapping: “Holy shit, that’s some intense emotion!”
