Chapter 141
Translator: Kyotot
"It' okay I'll sing with Suno. What do you want to sing?"
Shi Ning walked to the place where the song needs to be inputted.
"Love confession, I think it's by Jay Chou."
Lin Suno replied.
And you're singing love song?
Love confession at that!
What wait for two years before telling her, all this little moves is a petty maneuver!
Suno you really are the greatest hypocrite!
Jin Sihan continued to curse in his heart.
This world and her world were like two parallel time and space, the content in each books were the same, many well-known building were also the same, and even may well-known stars were the same as her original world.
But the places were not same, for example on her original worlds there was no city of Yangcheng.
It turns out that this author was using figurehead to write the novel, and she actually wrote everything about Jay Chou.
"Then that's it, it just so happens that I can sing it too."
Shi Ning responded.
"Give me the microphone."
Shi Ning said to Nan Xiao.
Nan Xiao then reluctantly handed the microphone to her.
"You sing the first verse, I'll sing the second verse and then we'll sing together."
Shi Ning really wanted to hear him sing, so she let him sing a part alone.
"Go."
As the accompaniment played, Lin Suno opened his mouth.
To everyone's surprise he sang not only good but very good. Even the bass was particularly magnetic, only because he rarely sing he could not let off his voice making it very muffled.
It was only when he go into the chorus part where he would sing with Shi Ning that he slowly set of a bit and release the volume of his voice slowly.
Neither of them has any skill in singing but the tone was basically right, the boy's voice was deep and gentle while the girl's voice was sweet and delicate.
When they sing together, they were particularly pleasant to hear.
Jin Sihan and Nan Xiao sat on the sidelines watching the handsome man and beautiful woman singing their part, with a very complicate expression on their faces.
"Brother Xiao, do you feel that Suno is a little different?"
"Heh, do you know what we three look like in front of Shi Ning?"
Nan Xiao snorted coldly.
"What?"
Jin Sihan asked, following his words.
"Just like a peacock with an open tail, using every means to attract her attention. He, Lin Suno is the same."
It was well-known that peacocks open their tail as courtship behavior.
Were the three of them so obvious in front of Shi Ning?
After hearing this, Jin Sihan covered his lips and coughed twice.
After the song, a few of them went to the chess board and played chess.
From chess to Go and finally to gobang, no one was Lin Suno's opponent.
Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan still don't believe in evil and finally even played checkers but still lost to him.
"I can't sing like you guys but still know how to play board games."
After playing, Lin Suno the king of ten consecutive victories said faintly.
"Don't be complacent, or you'll suffer later."
Nan Xiao said with narrowed eyes.
Shi Ning let them played while she peeled fruit for them to eat.
They played for a while, Shi Chen on the other hand had just finished his paper and came up from downstairs looking at the little kids who were playing around together.
"You guys are really nice, staying at my house at this late hour."
When Jin Sihan saw Shi Chen, he hurriedly pulled him over.
"Brother Chen, I remember that you are also good at chess right? Come and frustrate him."
After hearing the story, Shi Chen hooked his lips and smiled.
"Who wants to play with you kids, I'm just her to see my sister."
Shi Ning brought the peeled orange to her brother.
"Brother, do you want to eat?"
Shi Chen pulled her over and pointed at the three boys.
"Why did they all come to our house today?"
Shi Ning said innocently.
"I don't know, they didn't tell me beforehand."
"Have these three boy been a little too enthusiastic about you lately."
Shi Chen frowned.
Shi Ning thought for a moment and nodded.
"They all seems to be treating me quite well lately."
Hearing her say so, Shi Chen feels more like the three people sitting over there were like three giant wolves that were leering at his sister.
"Hey."
Shi Chen went in and knocked on the table, with the impatient look as if hinting the guests to quickly go home.
"You guys don't play too late get home by ten o'clock."
"Huh? We still want to cross the New Year with Ning Ning."
Jin Sihan whispered.
"You still want to stay until twelve o'clock? You don't want to sleep so you want Ning Ning to not sleep either?"
Shi Chen asked rhetorically.
In the end, the three boys have to bow their heads after looking at Shi Chen terrible glare and each nodded.
"No, no, we're definitely gone by 10:00"
"Hmmmm."
Shi Chen answered and went back downstairs.
Shi Ning said to them.
"My brother must have felt a little unhappy that I accompanied you all across the New Year and did not accompany him. You guys play up first, I'll go down and coax my brother."
Chapter 142
Translator: Kyotot
After that, Shi Ning didn't want to wait for them say anything and the man followed.
The tree men playing chess all stopped moving.
Nan Xiao then said.
"Sometimes I really envy Brother Chen. Do you guys remember the Christmas card Shi Ning sent us earlier?"
Jin Sihan also said.
"Remember, remember, I remember. I have the least number of words."
Nan Xiao then continued.
"It's more than 200. Don't worry about that much, do you know how much Shi Ning wrote to Shi Chen?"
"…..how much?"
"There is a piece of stationary in the greeting card. I saw it with my eyes, it's about one or two thousand words."
"F𝔲𝔠𝔨, why don't I have a sister like that?"
Why doesn't he have such a cute sister and have such perverted brother instead? Thinking of these just make him angrier.
After Shi Ning left, the three of them didn't feel like playing chess and originally sat down to play on their own.
Jin Sihan and Nan Xiao suddenly had the same glint on their eyes as they thought of something similar. Nan Xiao spoke.
"Let's play cards, if you lose, you will be punished."
Li Suno replied.
"I won't play, I'm sure I can't win against you guys."
"That's not necessarily true, you play everything pretty quickly maybe you'll win again."
Jin Sihan encourage.
"We can't just play what you are good at, right? It's give intake when play together, so shouldn't you also get close to our world."
Nan Xiao also put pressure on him.
Lin Suno looked at them both for half a minute and finally nodded gently.
Shi Ning accompanied Shi Chen for a chat and went back upstairs and also stopped by to find them a few drinks.
"What kind of drinks do you guys drink, I only have coke and juice at home….."
She just pushed the door open and bumped into this scene.
Lin Suno whose forehead and face were covered with all sorts of strange notes, burst out from the under table, his watery peach blossom eyes looking at her with some panic.
And over there, the two of them Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan were laughing with glee.
When Lin Suno saw Shi Ning walked in, he hurriedly pulled off all the messy stuff on his face and hid behind.
Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan also stopped laughing and returned to their normal appearance.
Nan Xiao hid his smile and coughed.
"How did you get up here so quickly?"
Jin Sihan: "Yes, I remember that brother Chen is also not very good-tempered it should be quite difficult to coax."
Shi Ning put the drinks heavily on the table.
"What were doing just now?"
"Playing games, and the loser will be punished."
Shi Ning looked at both of their clean, dry faces.
"So, the only one being punished for this game is Suno?"
Jin Sihan's eyes began to drift from side to side.
"So far, it looks like this…."
Shi Ning stood next to Lin Suno as she grabbed him and glared at the two men sitting leisurely.
"You guys are really too much, why are you bullying Suno?"
Nan Xiao and Jin Sihan almost vomited blood.
Boys, when girls were not present and play with themselves they naturally open a lot and of course there were some small bad interest hidden.
For example if Shi Ning was present, they wouldn't let Lin Suno do such things. After all the three of them have been used to attracting attention inside the campus since childhood, and they have a little burden being an idol.
"We bullied him? You are unaware of what he used to make us do when he won a bet with us."
Nan Xiao was furious.
Shi Ning said.
"I don't believe it, Suno is so well behaved. What he could do to you guys? It's you guys, I've seen you bully him with my one eyes."
"𝓑𝓾𝓵𝓵𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽, I've even been force to eat whole lemons by him before and whatever mustard-flavored fries, all as punishment for losing to him."
Jin Sihan complained.
Shi Ning turned his head and asked Lin Suno.
"Really?"
Lin Suno shook his head.
"No, all these things he said was force by him for me to do."
Jin Sihan: "?"
He has seen shameless person before, but not this kind of shameless person.
Shi Ning grabbed his hand more tightly and patted it like a comfort.
"Don't worry from now on I'll be on the same side as you, if they both bully you, you'll come to me."
"Okay."
Lin Suno responded with a faint smile.
"Okay? Suno now that you're all grown up, you're starting to learn how to lie huh."
Nan Xiao scowled dangerously at him.
Lin Suno returned without changing his face.
"I can't understand what you're saying."
Shi Ning glared at someone who was still threatening people with his eyes.
"Don't look at him fiercely, don't you think you've bullied him enough?"
"I bullied him once or twice, and you just saw it then thinks that he was the victim. Only you will really think that he is that simple and harmless good baby. I think you are the stupidest among us."
It's too stupid to see that he was only bullying Lin Suno with Jin Sihan because of Shi Ning.
Really so stupid I could have not imagine being jealous be crazy like by you.
Chapter 143
Translator: Kyotot
Shi Ning saw that he was really a little angry and touched her nose.
"What's wrong with me?"
Nan Xiao wanted to continue talking but his phone in his trouser pocket vibrated at this time, and saw that the caller was his mother.
"I'm going out to take this call."
Nan Xiao said and directly went out to and went next room to answer the call.
Before leaving that look of displeasure was still hanging on his face.
Shi Ning looked at Jin Sihan and Lin Suno.
"Why is he so grumpy today?"
Jin Sihan answered.
"Brother Xiao has always had a big temper, when have you ever seen him with good temper?"
Shi Ning then said.
"I think his temper has been good lately."
She couldn't joke with him before, because if she did Nan Xiao would surely blow up.
But now that they were sitting together, they could smile and even laugh at each other, Nan Xiao would also let her make fun of him to the point that Shi Ning forgot that this young master has a bad temper.
Jin Sihan laughed.
"Ning Ning, brother Xiao is right. Although you are very smart sometimes you are really stupid."
"Where am I stupid? You say it clearly."
Shi Ning frowned and turned her head to ask Lin Suno who was standing next to her.
"Suno, do you think I'm stupid?"
Lin Suno didn't even think and just answer decisively.
"Not stupid, you are the smartest."
Shi Ning looked at him askance.
"Why can I hear perfunctory words from you?"
Lin Suno smiled faintly and did not speak again.
What does it matter if she was silly or not, if she were smart and sensible, if she were ignorant and simple—she were still and forever be the cutest of all.
After Nan Xiao left, Shi Ning continued to play card in his place.
Shi Ning could not play the card tricks they were playing before and could only play simple landlord so the three of them began to play the landlord.
After playing for a while, Lin Xuemo pushed the door open and entered. She was carrying a tray with several steaming bowl of soup in her hands.
"The pigeon soup is stewed in the kitchen, come and try."
The three of them were still playing cards, Shi Ning looked at the card in her hand and said to her mother.
"Mom, put them there we'll come over for a drink after this game."
Lin Xuemo urged,
"Then you remember to drink ah, do not play too long. It is not good to drink it cold."
"Hmm."
The three of them responded with their mouths, without actually raising their heads.
In the end, they were still a group of children who couldn't care about anything when they started playing.
Lin Xuemo helped them put the soup on the table and said again.
"If you drink this soup, you'll have more healthy body. The weather is cold so you should drink the hot soup to warm your body and later when you go out it wouldn't be too cold."
After looking at the people in the room Lin Xuemo said to Shi Ning again.
"Ning Ning where is Nan Xiao?"
"He went out to answer a call, he should be back later on his own."
"Then later you remember to call him in for soup too, this is specially prepared for you by mom."
"Okay, okay, I know mom. You go out quickly."
Mom were good with everything but sometime she nags a bit much, and repeating the same things many times.
When Shi Ning first cross over and came to this house, she enjoyed her mother's nagging. It was an experience she hadn't been used to before.
But as time went on, she found out that a creature like mother—their nagging was really endless.
"You have to remember that."
Lin Xuemo said the last sentence again before walking out and helped them close the door properly before going out.
"Wang Zha!"
Shi Ning throws out her final bottom card to win this last game.
Jin Sihan said.
"It's no fun, the landlord has lost several sets. Ning Ning, you and Suno colluded to bully me, didn't you?"
Shi Ning looked at the stack of cards in her hands that she hadn't able to use in the game a few times.
"I am just incredible, you are just so bad at this game. Why do you grab the landlord all the time?"
Jin Sihan raised his eyebrows.
"I just like being the landlord."
"So you deserve to lose."
"Again, let's play again. I don't believe I can't win against you."
Jin Sihan said and was about to start shuffling the deck and start over.
"You guys wait, let's drink the soup first. My mom specially prepared it for us, if you don't drink it she'll will nag me again."
"Okay, let's play again later."
Jin Sihan said and stood up, Lin Suno also followed after him.
At this time, Shi Ning then notice that Nan Xiao was still not back. She said.
"What's taking Nan Xiao so long on his phone call? I'll go and look for him."
Chapter 144
Translator: Kyotot
She went out and searched around the living room but did not find Nan Xiao when she faintly heard the sound of someone in the billiard room next door.
She pushed the door opened and walked in.
"Mom, don't tell me about this. I'm not going."
"What do you mean it's not like that, don't think I don't know. You just want to make a business connected by marriage."
"And now you know I'm young? But then you want to bring me to meet someone."
"I don't want to attend your dinner party with your sisters at all, I'm at Shi Ning's house."
"If you're really in a hurry to help me find a fiancée this early why not go to the Shi Family. I'll only accept Shi Ning as my fiancée."
"Who said I do not like her, I now like her. Can I not marry her until l like her? Don't put anyone else in front of me, I can't see any of them."
Nan Xiao was talking to his mother with a cold face and he speaks too fast. Shi Ning had no place to interrupt him, and when she heard what he said Shi Ning was confused.
Nan Xiao also seems to have sense someone behind him, he turned around and coincidentally saw Shi Ning.
The moment the two eyes met, both side saw unspeakable embarrassment in each other's eyes.
"I, my mother made a soup for us, I just came to inform you. I'll leave first."
Shi Ning quickly withdrew from the scene after saying this sentence.
Nan Xiao's face was still dignified as he said in a calm manner on the phone.
"Mom. I have something to do, I'll hang up first."
He hung up the phone and went straight to the room next door.
Shi Ning did not make a sound and pretended that nothing happened, she was sitting on the sofa while looking at her phone.
As Nan Xiao came in, Jin Sihan said to him.
"Brother Xiao, auntie made soup and wants you to drink it all. You should drink it, we already drink ours."
Nan Xiao looked at Shi Ning, who did not dare to look at him. He went straight to the table, picked up the bowl of soup and drank it all at once.
Jin Sihan was surprise.
"Is it not hot? It was quite hot when I was drinking it."
Nan Xiao didn't talk to Jin Sihan nor mind him as he walked straight over to where Shi Ning was and stood in front of her.
Shi Ning act as if she did not see him, and continued to play with her phone with her head down.
"Let's go out and talk."
Nan Xiao said.
Hearing him, Shi Ning looked up. Her eyes averted as she glance at her phone as if nothing was wrong.
"It's after nine o'clock, shouldn't you guys be going home now."
Lin Suno responded.
"It's time to go home, let's go now."
Jin Sihan could a see a hint of something wrong, he frowned and called out.
"Brother Xiao?"
"You guys go first, I'll go back by myself."
After he finished saying these, he walked around them and pulled Shi Ning who was sitting on the seat, out.
"What are you doing?"
This sudden movement of his was a bit scary, and this was her house. Shi Ning was even more flustered when he thought of her parents and brother.
Nan Xiao dragged her directly from the fourth floor to the first floor, where Shi Pingzhan and Lin Xuemo were still watching TV in the living room.
Seeing Nan Xiao and Shi Ning's feverish appearance, they couldn't help but ask one more question.
"Where are you guys going?"
Nan Xiao smiled at them.
"Uncle, Aunt, I'll go back first, let Shi Ning see me off for a bit."
Shi Ning could only follow Nan Xiao while smiling.
He then pulled out her out of the door.
The two were just out of the villa, and Shi Ning said with her head still down.
"I'll send you here, you go back."
"Stop."
She hadn't taken two steps when Nan Xiao called her out to stop.
"Just now while I'm on the phone, you heard it all?"
He asked bluntly.
It was really what to come that Shi Ning was afraid of, although her feeling were a piece of white paper but she was not completely ignorant.
It's just that her mind right now was not like her own, and she didn't want to think too much. If she could go through earlier like nothing happened then she could do it this time to.
In order not to embarrass herself and him, she squeezed out a smile.
"Don't worry, I know you said those words on purpose to your mother. We have known each other for so long, I am willing to be a shield for you."
"Who said you were a shield."
Nan Xiao said in a deep voice.
He looked at her dodging look that made him inexplicably upset, he pulled her over and pressed Shi Ning arms forcing her to face him.
Nan Xiao lowered his head as the snowflakes fluttering around them making them a beautiful picture. She looked up to his line of sight and at that moment she felt hot inside that seems to melt this winter snow.
"Listen well Shi Ning."
"What I told my mom on the phone is true, I don't see anyone else in my eyes but you."
"I like you and even if you don't like me now, I still like you."
Chapter 145
Translator: Kyotot
He was originally very aggressive, and the force on his hand holding Shi Ning down was not small, causing Shi Ning to unable to move under his yoke.
But when he said the words "I like you", his grip on her loosened as if she was a fragile object and there was tenderness in his eyes.
A person's eyes don't lie, and when he looked at her while saying this Shi Ning could feel the light shining in his eyes looking at her.
She didn't know how to respond all of a sudden, this move by Nan Xiao was too sudden.
Falling in love was something she hadn't even thought about before today.
He was so serious that she don't know how to respond in return.
Her mind went back and forth, full of swing and turns. Shi Ning thought of many ways to respond to him but didn't seem to be able to think of which one could be said without hurting him.
"I…"
Nan Xiao saw that her expression was awkward and helpless, he suddenly snorted and said.
"It's just a confession, do you need to be this bitter and had a painful expression?"
Although he was mocking her, Shi Ning felt relief. Just now she was really nervous that she could die.
"Can I not be embarrassed if you suddenly tell me this kind of thing?"
"I like you, what's there to be embarrassed? I'm the one who suffers."
Shi Ning frowned.
"No, you, Suno and them are my lifelong friends. But after you said that I now feel strange about this."
"What's strange, in this day and age, pure friendship between men and women is strange, okay."
He was embarrassed to tell her that Lin Suno and Jin Sihan had also long been harboring romantic feelings for her.
"But now I just want to study hard, there are still so many exercise and books that I can't finish if I think about this again. I'll go bald."
Shi Ning felt very aggrieved, why would her childhood friend like her? Even if they like her he shouldn't told her yet.
Nan Xiao looked at her about to cry expression and panicked a little.
"Okay, okay, if you feel embarrassed just pretend I didn't say it. Let's continue to be friend. I was not forcing you to fall in love with me now, ah, I just cannot hold back and told you."
He really does not know how Lin Suno endured it. When he saw Shi Ning, he wanted to talk to her, want to be openly good to her, spoiled her for an obvious reason of liking her.
Shi Ning raised her eyes to look at him, and saw his face was frozen red.
"Really?"
"Really, let's talk about it after graduation. You continue to be a school genius and I promise I will not affect your study."
Nan Xiao couldn't win against her.
Shi Ning tilted her head for a moment and said.
"If you like me and I like to study, why do you like me when you don't like studying?"
"?"
Nan Xiao was confused.
What kind of terrible logic is that?
However the more Shi Ning thought about it, the more she felt that was more logical. Her heart relax as she stomped her shoes on the snow and continued.
"So think about it, you do not seem to like me very much."
Nan Xiao did not expect that he would confess his feelings and the final reversal would involve learning.
What he hated most in his life was learning, in fact he did not find it difficult to study on the contrary he learned things faster than others. As long as he was serious in learning things, being good at studying was not a difficult task.
But those teachers and his parents always forced him to study every day and it made him feel annoyed. Anyway in the future he would inherit his family's property and he thinks that learning this trivial things in school was not very useful so he doesn't learn them.
Later, because he sat next to Shi Ning, he had to study but he didn't take it seriously.
Now, the girl that he likes was telling him seriously about this learning and studying things. Not to mention her twisted logic.
What I love the most is learning, and if you don't like learning, you don't like me.
Nan Xiao suddenly regretted not studying properly.
"Heh."
Nan Xiao suddenly laughed as he lowered his eyes to look Shi Ning.
"Don't think I don't know you're provoking me."
Shi Ning as if she did not hear him, landed her gaze on the side.
Nan Xiao stood up straight.
"For so many years, my old man followed me with a whip and forced me to study but I did not listen to him. Now you want to force me in studying for a 𝒷𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓉 reason?"
Shi Ning muttered in a small voice.
"Who wants to force you, learning is your own business."
"But you really succeeded, I'll be serious about my studies from tomorrow onwards, oh no from tonight. I'd like to see what kind of ghost logic you can come up with to stall me next time."
He said.
After he finished, he looked at Shi Ning. The little girl was suddenly pulled out by him, she didn't wear layers of clothes as he had just drag her outside. She only wore a not so thick plush pajama, her face was red due to cold while talking to him for a while now.
Nan Xiao instantly regretted it, he took off his jacket to have Shi Ning wear it.
"We'll talk about this later, so get inside."
Shi Ning returned him the jacket.
"Are you stupid? My house is right there, you can wear it yourself."
After speaking she hurried back to the house.
Nan Xiao couldn't help but smile as he watched her back.
How strange to feel in a good mood when you've obviously rejected me?
With this thinking, Nan Xiao was still relieve. At least he now has a purpose and knows what he should do.
Maybe it's good to be a school master.
They could only have common language in the same world, he couldn't let Shi Ning think that he was just a dreg.
In order to enter her world, he could only be a school genius.
Chapter 146
Translator: Kyotot
All the people in Senior A class could see that Nan Xiao was not the same as before.
This big brother began to engage in serious study today.
In the beginning, they all thought that it was just a three-minute impulse and wouldn't hold out for two days.
But after a week had passed, Nan Xiao was even more serious than the two hardest-working academics in the class.
Learning was a long process and never happens overnight.
Nan Xiao's foundation was too poor, he was aware of this. He hasn't done anything these says but reading textbooks again and again.
Fortunately he was only a freshman in senior high school. Many basic things were mentioned in textbooks and good for him he could understand textbooks all by himself.
Only a few days before the final exam, Shi Ning saw him carrying a large box approaching the classroom.
"What's all in here?"
Shi Ning asked.
"Our junior high school textbook."
"…"
It's almost the end of the period, why are you still reading junior high school textbook?
Nan Xiao seemed to read her question and explained.
"I have little knowledge before. I'm going to read the mathematics and chemistry book in junior middle school these two days."
"Foundation is the most important, if you don't lay a solid foundation. It's easy to ignore the details."
Hearing what Nan Xiao Shi Ning was quite surprised.
She thought he was studying so hard because he wanted to get immediate result from this exam.
She didn't expect him to have such patience, but also know that it was true that if the foundation was well laid studying with be more efficient.
Now it seems that he doesn't really care about the test scores but really wanted to study well.
And because of this, there was a popular saying in Class A now.
"Look at Nan Xiao, he was seriously studying yet you still don't work hard."
She don't know how many people were encourage by these words but the whole class A has the learning atmosphere, and they improve more than when the teacher was teaching them.
Because he studies too hard, Nan Xiao had a rare dark circle on his handsome face especially three days before the exam.
His eyes themselves were now particularly smaller added with dark circles which were distinctly visible on that fair face.
Everyone looked at him like watching national treasure enter the city. The male students in the class joked.
"Brother Xiao, you really become a panda if you continue like this."
"Our Brother Xiao is still brother Xiao, usually very fierce and even fiercer when studying."
"Are you tired? I'm tired of watching you."
In the face of these voices, the reply of Nan Xiao was always only one sentence.
"I'm not tired, learning makes me happy."
It's not clear whether he's saying this to others or brainwashing himself.
One time during lunch break, Nan Xiao couldn't hold on and close his eyes for a while leaning on the table.
When Shi Ning's pen just ran out of ink.
"Nan Xiao, do you have an extra pen or refill, lend it to me."
Then she saw Nan Xiao raised his head from the table drowsily, topped with two groups of black and blue circle around his eyes looking at her seemingly half asleep and half-awake and said.
"Study makes me happy."
Shi Ning was silent for a few seconds, get the pen out directly in his pen bag, and then spoke to him.
"Although it can be true but you don't want to go crazy."
On the day of the final exam, Shi Ning returned to class after the first language exam.
"I told you to choose A for this question!"
"No, it's not A, it's clearly B."
"We all picked A."
"No way, it's B. I remember reading this questions!"
The class was very familiar with this situation where they discuss the questions and answers.
Before each test, the teacher had to tell them.
"Don't correct the answers until you've take one test and lose one and don't let your last test affect your next one."
While everyone was arguing on what was the correct answer some of the student couldn't resist and went back to the classroom to check the answers.
Shi Ning on the other hand did not expect that in her lifetime she could see Nan Xiao also involve in these 'discussion' he was working with three or four classmates on the answers to the language exam.
And even argued with several other students.
Chapter 147
Translator: Kyotot
Remembering Nan Xiao's previous image, she felt inexplicably happy about the way he believe that he was right.
Shi Ning originally wanted to spectate but the result, as she walked in she was dragged by Nan Xaio, and asked.
"Shi Ning, what did you choose for the first question of your language multiple choice?"
Shi Ning answered honestly.
"B."
"Yeah!"
Nan Xiao instantly lightened up and dejectedly said to a few other students.
"I told you it was B, didn't I? You're all wrong."
The students had a puzzled look on their faces.
"No way, I still think it's A."
Nan Xiao sneered.
"A my ⓐⓢⓢ, my deskmate's test paper is the standard answer. If she said it was B then its B."
Shi Ning didn't know if she would laugh or cry at this statement.
"There's a catch to this question, and it's really easy to get it wrong. You can turn to the practice questions in Unit 3 of the language workbook to see that there's a similar question."
After hearing this, they immediately took out the book and flipped through it and after turning to. They all had a painful face.
"Hey I remember this topic at that time! How come I forgot it on the exam!"
"I was careless!"
After they finished lamenting they all looked at Nan Xiao with admiring eyes.
"Good for you Nan Xiao! You got all the questions right that were so easy to get wrong, so it seems like your studies have been very productive lately."
Nan Xiao pointed his eyes.
"Can't you see I'm damn near becoming a panda? I stayed up for two or three all-nighters, this test is not test, it's life."
After saying that he also looked at Shi Ning.
"But what can I do, I just have such big love for learning."
Shi Ning coughed and said.
"Body is also important, you also have to have life to learn."
"I don't work like this every day, I can't help it. My foundation is too poor so I need to work hard for this final exam and have progress."
Since Shi Ning said that, since he does not love to study then he does not love her that much.
So he must let her believe that his love for her was stronger than gold.
After the final exams were over, it's winter break.
But before the official winter break they still have to go to school to get their report card and winter break homework.
When they return to school again, the results came out.
The teacher handed out report cards to each person.
Shi Ning came in second again.
As expected no matter how smart she was, she knows that there were people who could outdone her. Some things couldn't be obtained only by hard work.
She carefully calculated the last time she was twenty-six points behind Lin Suno, this time she was only twenty points behind.
Being able to close the gap by six points was also a satisfaction for her. At least she was one step closer to first place.
As for Nan Xiao, he was also progressing at an amazing rate.
Straight from the end of the rank to the middle level of the class, Shi Ning knew that her rapid progress was due to her crossing over the original body.
But Nan Xiao's rapid progress shows that he was originally good at studying but wasted his time.
"Brother Xiao is so awesome he progress so much. Is he going to get the third best student next time?"
"【F】【u】【c】【k】, Laozi seem to be far from the word three, right?"
"What I learned is that last time you made a progress of ten, and this time you made progress of more than ten in the class. At your speed, I am afraid you will take the third place in our class next semester."
"Brother Xiao is awesome, I think you're an immortal."
"Brother Xiao, I hope I can be as powerful as you then I can have my father double my allowance several times."
Nan Xiao usually has more followers, most of the boys in the classroom were his 'disciples'.
Usually when Nan Xiao's grades were very bad, they could only blow flowers for him but now that his grades improved everyone was giving him praises.
Shi Ning has a hunch that he scored a little better but hearing this group of people, she estimated that they were brainwashing him and making him believe that college entrance exams was not a dream anymore.
"Sigh."
Shi Ning sighed behind the scene, she could only hope that Nan Xiao would not be too complacent because of what he was hearing now and would continue to maintain this studying enthusiasm.
"Shi Ning, how did I do on the exam?"
Nan Xiao dismissed the group of people, he then turned sideways to Shi Ning while spinning the pen in his hands as he asked her.
"Your progress is quite big, it proves that you are able to learn ah, keep going."
Nan Xiao frowned slightly.
"That's it?"
Chapter 148
Translator: Kyotot
In order to study, he had to become a panda. She did not even praised him with few words?
"You don't think the fact that I can progress so fast means that…"
Nan Xiao brewed, ready to side-step the implication that Shi Ning had forgotten to compliment him.
But the result, the figure beside him was nowhere to be found. Shi Ning went to Lin Suno, all the papers had just been handed out and Shi Ning was discussing the last problem in mathematics with Lin Suno.
Obviously, he was her desk mate but she had to go far to find Lin Suno to discuss this topics.
Nan Xiao looked at his math score of 75 and saw Lin Suno's math score.
100 points, no red marks at all.
All right.
It's normal for Shi Ning to look for Lin Suno. He has to work harder to get to the point where one day his tablemate wants to discuss the topics she doesn't have to run to someone else.
Shi Ning scored 95 points in math this time and the five points deducted were from the last question.
She was able solve two easy questions from three questions and the last one took half an hour for her to solve.
Lin Suno: "It's normal that you didn't solve it right, this problem is beyond the outline. It's difficult to calculate it, even if the teacher tell us it will take another discussion to explain it clearly. Where can you have so much time to do it during exam?"
"At your level, if given another half hour, you will certainly be able to do it."
"Then how did you do it? I saw your test paper, this question seems to have written four or five lines."
"The method used in high school is difficult to do but it is easy to use the calculus method in advanced mathematics."
Lin Suno looked up to her and asked.
"Do you want to listen? I can tell you both ways."
Shi Ning seriously doubts that the school came up with this topic for the students but him alone instead.
Shi Ning did not want to make it difficult for herself, she would probably choose liberal arts in high school.
And it's not certain whether she would study advance mathematics in college. There's no need to understand calculus now.
"No, since it's not easy to talk to about it, let's discuss it next time."
Lin Suno retrieve the test paper.
"Okay."
"You did very well on the test this time, throwing off the third in the grade by twenty points."
Lin Suno then added.
Shi Ning sighed.
"The third place in our grade is 20 points behind me and I am 20 points behind you. These 20 points are really a lot."
"Is even our gap narrowing?"
His long thick ebony eyelashes fanned gently as he said in a warm voice.
"Before you, the smallest gap between me and the second place was thirty points."
"And in the whole grade, the gap between second and fifth is very small every time."
Shi Ning laughed.
"Then you're really riding high."
"Before you, yes. I even thought I would stay this way forever."
His eyes locked with hers.
"But now, not anymore."
"I didn't review arts before but I am doing it now because of you. I didn't think that after I reviewed our gap was still narrowing."
"But you have improve ah, don't you find that your total score is insane?"
Lin Suno suddenly held out his hand to her."
Shi Ning looked bewildered.
"What are you doing?"
It look like the two of them met for the first time.
"Shi Ning you are welcome to be my competitor."
He said solemnly.
She froze for a second when she heard it.
Then slowly took a hold of the straight and slender hands.
The word, competitor—was his greatest encouragement to her.
"Then I'll have to work harder to be worthy of being your competitor."
Shi Ning responded with a smile.
His light brown eyes looked at her, as if he hadn't thought about he asked thoughtlessly.
"It take you quite a bit of time to teach Na Xiao, doesn't it?"
"It's okay, as long as he's willing to learn."
Shi Ning did not expect him to suddenly jump to this topic.
Lin Suno continued.
"Why don't I ask Lao Yang to transfer him to sit with me so that what he costs is my time? And you'll win the first place in next semester's grade, what do you think?
Chapter 149
Translator: Kyotot
During the month of winter vacation, except for two days off at the beginning of the vacation, Shi Ning still planned her time strictly according to her study schedule every day.
And because of this, she was able to finish her three winter vacation homework in a week.
Then she began to study the next semester's textbook content on her own. Winter break has the freest time and Shi Ning not only prepares for the next semester to study them but also takes two hours every day to study on Mathematics Olympiad topics every day.
Though she didn't think she'd have to be like her brother or Suno in the future who got extra points on the National College Entrance Examination.
After all, both her brother and Lin Suno have been exposed to Olympiad since junior high school and their achievement was the result of sweat and talent.
She was a semi amateur player who really doesn't dare to have such extravagant expectations.
She insists on doing these now was just like when she liked to learn those strange talents in her last life—it was pure hobby.
In addition, even if she studies liberal arts in the future mathematics was also most scoring subject in liberal arts.
If she could even solve the Olympiad problem, wasn't it easier for her to learn liberal arts as well as mathematics?
Every year, Father Shi and Mother Shi would go on a trip and Shi Ning often tag along while Shi Chen didn't want to mingle with the family before and didn't want to deal with them.
But with Father Shi insistent and forced, he went with them for two to three times.
This year he would soon face the college entrance exams and it was no mind to travel.
Shi Pingzhan asked Shi Ning.
"Ning Ning would you like to go abroad with your mom and dad to play?"
Shi Ning: "I'll stay at home."
Shi Pingzhan tried to convince her.
"Staying at home is more meaningless, you rarely take a long vacation. Do you even go out to play and have fun?"
"You still have time to play while you're only a freshman in senior high school. Look at your brother, when you're in your senior year, you don't have time to play."
Shi Ning smiled lightly.
"Mom and Dad you usually work hard, you should play more when you have a holiday. As for me I'm still young, I'll have opportunities to play in the future. Now I just want to study."
Lin Xuemo scolded.
"You child, why don't you go out with your parents to relax rather than to study more, your brother is not even going with us."
"It's good for you and dad to have a trip with the two of you only. I'd better stay with my brother."
It's so sad to have my brother studying so hard, leaving him all alone at home.
Shi Pingzhan looked at his daughter and smiled.
"Now ah, the most important thing in your heart is your brother. You're so dependent on you brother, how can you marry out in the future?"
Seeing his dad making fun of her, Shi Ning grunted.
"How can that be, mom and dad and brother are most important people in my heart. It's just that brother make Ning Ning very distressed that's why Ning Ning wants to accompany him more. When he go to college, brother won't be home much. As for marriage…"
Shi Ning paused at this point and her eyes narrowed slightly at her father.
"Dad, you really want Ning Ning to marry?"
Shi Pingzhan: "As long as you're happy, there's nothing Dad won't give up!"
Lin Xuemo couldn't help but laugh at the father-daughter bickering in front of her.
"Your father won't marry you out, don't listen to his talk now. When you get married, on the day of your wedding your father will cry worse than me."
"Your father also told me that the boy you will marry must pass his tests first, otherwise he will never deliver his daughter. What else did you say? Even if the best boy in the world marries you, he's afraid of crying on the spot of your wedding day and shamed himself."
Shi Pingzhan hurriedly covered the mouth of his wife.
"What are you talking about, this kind of things that we talked in private should not be told to your daughter!"
Shi Ning then jokingly covered her ears.
"Don't worry dad, I didn't hear anything."
"Then don't marry, it's not like our family can't afford it."
Shi Chen who they did not notice walk down from upstairs was now behind them, suddenly saying this.
Shi Pingzhan glared at him.
"Nonsense! What kind of girl doesn't get married, I don't want to raise an old girl for life."
Shi Chen: "Then I'll raise you."
Shi Pingzhan looked at his son's expression was quite serious although he also do not want his daughter to marry but his son of his really dared to say it.
"Ning Ning ah, don't listen to him. He may say that he wants to support you all his life but if he found a girlfriend in college, there will be no sister in his eyes."
Shi Chen then went back to topic.
"Go to your foreign country and don't keep provoking me and Ning Ning."
Girlfriend?
Girlfriend are nothing and can be changed at any time, but I only have one sister.
Shi Pingzhan glared.
"What are you talking about? You are all my children so why should I provoke you and Ning Ning? Are you sick?"
"In this family, my little sister sticks to me more and doesn't pay much attention to you, father. You've been jealous of me for a long time now."
"I'm jealous of you? Heh! This is my own daughter! Why should I be jealous of you!"
Shi Pingzhan looked like he had heard some kind of joke as he turned his head to ask his baby daughter.
"Baby, you can only choose of the two men in this family who do you choose?"
Chapter 150
Translator: Kyotot
"Baby, you can only choose of the two men in this family who do you choose?"
Is the new million problem that parents asked their children?
Of only choosing one, between mother and father?
Shi Ning felt her head ached.
"Why should I choose between dad and brother when I want both?"
Shi Chen and Shi Pingzhan, the father and son almost spoke in unison.
"No, you can only chose one."
Shi Ning quickly wrapped her arms around her mother's hand and leaned her whole body over.
"I choose mom."
Time flies and it's already the eve Spring Festival.
On the Spring Festival, naturally it was a family reunion day and the family went to the old mansion for the Spring Festival's Eve.
Grandfather died early so in the big old mansion it was only her grandmother living alone and for the past two years the old madam's health was also deteriorating.
She had forgotten many thing but also remember things wrongly.
One time when Shi Ning went to see the old madam she asked her,
"How is Ning Ning getting along with her classmates at her new school? Has she been bullying her brother again lately?"
Shi Ning did not quite understand what she said, she was not new to her school and had not quarreled with her brother for a long time.
It turned out that after talking to the old madam for half day, she realized that Grandma Shi was talking to her about her junior high school years.
After dinner, the family watched spring festival dinner with grandma. The old madam's eyes were also bad and could not see the TV clearly.
Shi Ning then told her what was performed in the TV.
"It's acrobatics grandma, look the boy lifted the girl and spun her in the air."
"It's a special effect, not real."
"Grandma, this singing boy not only sings well, he is also very handsome with white skin and very three-dimensional features."
As the old madam listened, she became emotional.
"I'm really old ah, my eyes are not useful anymore and my ears are getting worse and worse this year. Fortunately I have my granddaughter who is very patient to accompany her grandmother to watch the spring festival gala."
Shi Ning hold the old madam's hand, the grandma in front of her was the same with her grandma on her memory.
She lowered her head and tried not let everyone see her red eyes.
"Grandma, from now on, Ning Ning will accompany you every year to watch the spring festival gala. If you can't see clearly Ning Ning will be your eyes, if you can't hear clearly Ning Ning will be your ears."
Old Madam Shi listened and held her hand tightly.
"It's grandma's fault that she didn't love you enough before. Now when grandma reflects, I'm really afraid that the days will be too short to watch my little granddaughter grow up and get married."
"Mom, don't say such words during the Chinese New Year."
Shi Pingzhan interrupted her.
"Blah blah blah, these unlucky words don't count. Grandma will definitely live a long life! Ning Ning has heard that as long as you keep a good mood, your body will get better and better."
"So grandma just needs to get well and be happy every day."
Shi Ning said in a hurry.
"Okay, grandma listens to you."
Old Madam Shi said with a smile.
Elderly were prone to sleepiness after watching TV for a long time.
Shi Ning was planning to help her up to bed, when old Madam Shi said.
"Let you father accompany me to bed. There are fireworks sent by others at home, so you and Xiao Chen can take them and set them off later. Let housekeeper Ming accompany you."
"I can set of the fireworks!"
Shi Ning was very happy to hear this, and asked her grandmother where the fireworks was then pulled her brother and went to look for them.
The Old madam and Shi Pingzhan went upstairs together.
"Mom you be careful."
Shi Pingzhan helped the old madam slowly walk upstairs.
"Did I really treat Shi Ning poorly before?"
Old Madam Shi asked her son suddenly.
Shi Pingzhan: "They are all our children, there is no such thing as treating them poorly. In the past Ning Ning also did not know how to behave and did not see much filial respect to you, now it's good that she's all grown up and understand."
"But I always feel that I have treated the child badly. These days I heard the housekeeper say a lot of good things, the child has become so hardworking and excellent."
"The most important thing is that she still remembers me when she studies hard, she comes to see me when she is free and I am the happiest when I have time with her.
"It's good that you are happy, Ning Ning is indeed the happy fruit of our family now. Shi Chen that gloomy child has also become a lot cheerful because of her."
"Yes, it's good to have a daughter. Unlike me, I only have a son like you, not thoughtful at all."
Shi Pingzhan smiled bitterly.
"You taught me a lesson, mom."
When they almost reached her room, old madam Shi suddenly grabbed Shi Pingzhan's hand.
"Pingzhan, although it is the son who inherits the Shi family he must not treat Ning Ning poorly. You'd better be able to end the water evenly in one bowl."
"This is natural, as long as Ning Ning is willing I will hand over the company to the two of them."
Old Madam Shi nodded and waved her hand at her son, signaling that he could go.
After Shi Pingzhan left, Old Madam Shi dialed out a phone call.
"Lawyer Xu? I want to amend my will."