Chapter 858: Chapter 411: I’m Not Calm or Composed, I’m Just Out of Options_3

"Teacher, want a portion? You can cut in line if you want." Lin Li wasn’t flustered at all, just flashed a dazzling smile and asked.

Xue Jian didn’t answer, just stared at the liangpi and cake on the podium...

Xue Jian: "(•́へ•́╬)!!"

Fuck.

Knew it.

Still don’t know where he hid it! But of course he smuggled it in!

But then Xue Jian felt a bit of weird relief.

Because all his cautiousness hadn’t been for nothing. If he hadn’t come to invigilate this afternoon, it probably wouldn’t have been long before Lin Li’s name showed up in the work group again.

He had, in fact, stopped Lin Li.

If it were just between classes, Xue Jian couldn’t even be bothered to care. He only shook his head and left one sentence: "Sooner or later the school’s gonna ban day students from bringing food to campus. I’ll come back next period, don’t think about pulling any tricks."

With that, he turned and went back to the office to rest.

He still had to come back and sit here for another hour; he needed the break.

Watching Xue Jian leave, Lin Li let out a disdainful chuckle.

Lin Li was absolutely not worried the school would add a new rule banning day students from bringing food because of him.

Because,

That rule was already in the student handbook.

It’s just that no one actually bothered to enforce it.

The security guards make 3,500 a month, what are they gonna risk their lives for? Sometimes they even asked Lin Li to bring them breakfast to change up the taste.

...

After everyone interested in Class 20 took some, more than half of it was still left.

Honestly, it’s not like everyone really loved eating liangpi and liangfen; what they were after was the thrill in a specific situation.

The scene really matters; it can give you a totally different experience.

Like, smoking in a normal place feels great.

But if you go smoke at a gas station, that’s "great to death."

Right now it was just an ordinary break between classes. There wasn’t the rush and taboo of eating during an exam, and everyone had already eaten lunch, so of course they weren’t that interested and couldn’t eat much.

Looked like all this leftover stuff could only go in the trash.

Lin Li walked out of the classroom, heading for where the trash can was.

According to memory, he went downstairs and arrived at the entrance of Class 9’s exam room.

Standing in the corridor, he looked in through the window and found the Trash Can hadn’t handed in his paper yet and was still taking the test.

Since the invigilator was still there, Lin Li bounced around, waved, and coughed in the teacher’s blind spot. Finally, he managed to catch Zhou Baowei’s attention.

"What?" Zhou Baowei raised an eyebrow.

"Come out." Lin Li hooked his thumb outward, signaling him to hand in his paper and come out.

"I still need to review, let’s talk later." Zhou Baowei shook his head, pointed at his test paper, eyes firm.

Lin Li raised the liangpi and cake in his hand.

"I’m coming." Zhou Baowei got up, handed in his paper and left the room, eyes firm.

Zhou Baowei: (｡•﹃•｡) ← (but not nearly this cute).

"Where’d you get this?" Once out of the exam room, taking the two boxes of food from Lin Li, Zhou Baowei asked.

"Bought it just for you, to show some care. Thought you worked hard on the exam."

"..."

Zhou Baowei: "You can literally see with the naked eye that you already ate more than half of this shit."

Lin Li: "I didn’t eat any."

"Then who did?"

"Ten-something people, I’m too lazy to list names."

Zhou Baowei: "?"

This leftover was even more "left" than he’d imagined.

"Anyway, I’m dumping all this on you, that okay?" Lin Li asked.

"I’ll give you three seconds to take back that insulting question." Zhou Baowei’s face went cold. He did not appreciate being doubted like that.

"Cool, I’m off then."

"Lin Li, wait."

"No need to thank me, Bao Wei. We’re brothers, we’re brother." Lin Li turned back with a gentle smile and said affectionately.

That smile just looked downright gross to Zhou Baowei; his face was full of disgust:

"Who the hell wants to thank you, dumbass. I just wanna ask, will I still have my self-heating hotpot tonight? You’re not giving me this and then not bringing the hotpot tonight, right?"

Lin Li burst out laughing and gave him a thumbs-up. As expected of Bao Wei—his steadiness about food was as reliable as his and Bufan’s steadiness about being born.

"Yeah, yeah." Lin Li nodded with a grin. "Bao Wei, ignoring the facts for a second, you’re actually kinda cute. It’s decided! I’ll bring you two boxes tonight!"

"Thanks, Dad! Love you three thousand times!"

"Alright, go find a place to eat or stash it somewhere first, I’m heading back." Lin Li said goodbye.

"OK."

After parting ways with Zhou Baowei, Lin Li headed back to his exam room.

"Classmate!"

Just as he reached the stairwell and was about to go upstairs, he first spotted Qin Zeyu who was also at the stairwell. But before he could say hi, a girl bounced out from the corner, looking at him with a face full of expectation and excitement.

"What’s up?" Lin Li stopped, a bit surprised.

"Have you joined any clubs? Interested in joining another one?"

"I just saw you can jump really high, so I wanted to invite you to join our club!"

The girl immediately stated her purpose and looked at Lin Li expectantly.

Nansang Middle School technically has clubs, but they have zero presence, so Nansang Middle School basically doesn’t have clubs.

As for high jump... She probably noticed him just now when he was calling to Zhou Baowei outside Class 9’s exam room?

But he didn’t even jump that high—Lin Li usually kept his level in check, especially in places like corridors with cameras. He definitely wouldn’t jump to some inhuman height.

Maybe this girl just had a good eye.

But even though Lin Li hadn’t joined any clubs, he didn’t plan on joining these pointless ones in the future either.

So, looking at the enthusiastic girl, while he was thinking of how to turn her down, he first politely asked, "What club are you guys? High jump? Or long jump?"

Girl: "Jump chess."

Lin Li: "(;☉_☉)?" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Lin Li’s brain blue-screened for a moment.

"W-wait a sec!"

"If my jumping ability is good, why are you inviting me to Chinese checkers! They kinda look related on the surface, but they’re actually not related at all, right!" Lin Li couldn’t hold back the roast.

"They’re related, they’re related," the girl said with an embarrassed smile, then the look of anticipation returned to her face:

"Classmate, if you yourself can jump so amazingly, how could your pieces not jump amazingly? Classmate, believe in yourself. Give me your contact info; we can try it out this weekend. You never know."

Wait a second, something feels off.

Lin Li narrowed his eyes and probed, "I have a girlfriend."

"..."

"Why didn’t you say so earlier?"

The girl froze for a split second, her lips twitching almost imperceptibly, then she quickly put her smile back on:

"It’s fine, see you around, classmate~"

She turned around and left.

Without a moment’s hesitation.

Lin Li: "..."

Fuck your mom.

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End of the month, asking for monthly tickets~