"You guys have no idea! When I was in line, so of the people going up were hilarious..."
"There was this guy, over thirty, all grown-up and scared like a girl. Can you believe this? They had already put on the safety harness, what was there to be afraid of? He was shaking so much, kept yelling ’I don’t want to jump! I don’t want to jump!’ and then soone pushed him off. I couldn’t stop laughing!"
"When it was my turn, I kept rushing the safety guy. I couldn’t wait, honestly!"
"Jumping off was thrilling! Falling freely through the air and then swinging up and down on the rope... felt just like flying. It was so much fun!"
"I want to do it again next ti!"
"You guys shouldn’t be scared, it’s no big deal. You should all give it a try and build up so courage!"
As Sun Liang devoured skewer after skewer, his anger quickly dissipated. While munching on his food, he related his experiences.
Zhao Yi and the others nodded along as they listened.
Now, Sun Liang was the boss.
But his words were nothing but boasts, and Zhao Yi didn’t believe a word of it.
Niu Lianhua quickly warned, "Linlin, you mustn’t go, it’s too dangerous." She turned to the others, "None of you are allowed to go either!"
The three of them nodded in agreent.
Sun Liang’s expression suddenly beca full of resentnt.
They all had a great ti playing.
When Zhao Yi left, he felt refreshed. The ntality of a thirty-year-old can be just as childlike, deriving joy from play.
He had figured it out.
One million?
Only fools don’t take money!
The Apple Company wanted to use him for promotion, just like hiring a celebrity for endorsent. Cooperation involves both parties giving sothing, and expecting sothing for nothing is pure fantasy.
So...
Double the happiness!
"Let’s go!"
"Let’s head to the mall before we go ho!"
"To buy a computer!"
Zhao Yi hailed a cab and headed to the mall with Sun Liang.
The second floor of the mall was an electronics store. They went straight into the Apple shop. They spent a good while looking at the laptops, but no sales assistant ca over to serve them.
This...
Differential treatnt?
Zhao Yi glanced at Sun Liang’s school uniform and understood why. Who would expect two high school students to purchase an expensive MacBook?
They were not the target consurs!
Zhao Yi reviewed the specifications of the latest MacBook Pro and spent a long ti operating a demo model Air, even taking a note of the operating system’s version number.
They stayed in the Apple store for more than half an hour.
Then, they left.
"You were looking so closely, I thought you were going to buy it!" Sun Liang said sulkily, "Did you see that guy’s expression just now?"
"Who?"
"The one with the side-parting, standing next to you. He didn’t say a word, probably because he was afraid you’d break the computer."
Sun Liang said indignantly, "He looks down on us!"
"I guess that’s normal!"
Zhao Yi didn’t mind, "If I were the salesperson and saw two students intensely operating a computer, I would be worried too. The computer costs over ten thousand you know!"
Sun Liang remained discontent.
In the end...
Zhao Yi ended up selecting a high-performance desktop in a store next door.
Truthfully, he wanted to buy a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro. Compared to Windows, the Mac’s operating system is more stable and professional, making it the perfect choice for a programr with its support for various types of software developnt.
When using a Windows computer for developnt, one must install a Linux system.
However...
Zhao Yi realized his circumstances were different. He was not a programr from ten or so years in the future and had no need for software developnt tools.
Besides, he was invited to attend the Apple Company’s laptop release event.
Mr. Cavaleiro would almost certainly give him a brand-new MacBook Pro, right?
Once ho...
He installed the computer and set up the internet connection.
The next morning, Sun Liang arrived earlier than Zhao Yi. Instead of motivatedly tutoring Zhao Yi in math, he dashed to the computer.
"Let play!"
Sun Liang installed the Penguin Ga and began furiously typing away.
After Zhao Yi finished breakfast, he walked over and pulled out the plug.
"What are you doing? I haven’t finished playing!"
Sun Liang’s face was full of resentnt.
Zhao Yi said seriously, "You’ve been playing for an hour already. You played all day yesterday, and today it’s ti to study."
"Like this, I’ll look at math and you can study English!"
He tossed a copy of High School Vocabulary Summary to Sun Liang.
Sun Liang flipped through a few pages, each filled with words and their explanations. Feeling a bit overwheld, Sun Liang raised his head and said with frustration, "Zhao Yi, when did you beco so studious? Ever since we started high school, you’ve changed."
"Have I beco handso?"
"You’ve betrayed our circle of friends and our friendship!"
"Quit whining!"
Zhao Yi rolled his eyes, "Your gaming is disturbing my studying. Rember, you’re here to tutor , not to play."
"..."
Under conditions of ineffective protest, Sun Liang reluctantly started morizing vocabulary.
Zhao Yi chuckled.
In his mory.
Sun Liang did not get into his dream university, and he had to settle for a college in a remote area. He later found a job locally, settled down, and never returned as he gradually lost touch due to the distance.
Maybe learning more English now would enable him to get into a better University?
But...
Butterflies are quite powerful, aren’t they!
If Sun Liang had not been assigned to the remote area college, he would never have t his future wife. He would have split up a marriage pair, perhaps even a happily married couple, and snuffed out ... what wasn’t even a cell yet.
Zhao Yi’s eyes were wide open and a sense of guilt surged in his heart. He took a deep breath and turned his head to stare at Sun Liang seriously.
Should he, perhaps, try to snatch the book away?
...
After the holiday, the atmosphere in class had beco sowhat restless.
Sun Liang had beco the center of attention in the third class.
He bragged about bungee jumping in Happy Valley, constantly saying how brave he was. He almost described himself as a heroic martyr who blocks gunshots, all while complaining about how inconsiderate Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Yi were to go eat street food and forget to take pictures for him.
Lin Xiaoqing was dumbfounded.
Actually, they did think about Sun Liang, but the fortune-telling booth distracted them for too much ti. By the ti they thought of checking on him, they believed they had already missed their chance, so they decided to grab sothing to eat.
Zhao Yi was playing with a coin, seeming unbothered.
Tails.
Tails.
Still tails.
He flipped it six tis in a row and found a bit of a pattern.
"Class starts now! Be quiet!"
A stern shout ca from the doorway. Niu Lianhua walked in with a math textbook in her hands.
This math lesson was very ordinary.
Niu Lianhua taught so post-derivative concepts, asked everyone to solve so minor problems, and read her book after leaving few minutes for self-studying.
She walked around the classroom.
When she passed Zhao Yi, Niu Lianhua suddenly stopped and put on a friendly smile. She asked in a slightly strange, gentle tone, "Zhao Yi, did you have any trouble understanding what I just explained?"
"No no...no..." Zhao Yi was a bit thrown off but quickly responded.
"That’s good."
Sun Liang looked over in surprise.
Lin Xiaoqing also turned her head, glanced at the stunned Zhao Yi, pointed at Niu Lianhua with her fingers, and her eyes spelled out a question, "What’s happening?"
Sun Liang shook his head blankly.
Right after the math class ended and as soon as Niu Lianhua stepped out of the classroom, Lin Xiaoqing imdiately exclaid, "Zhao Yi! What happened! Demon King Niu just turned gentle!"
Sun Liang imitated her with a funny voice, "Zhao Yi, did you find anything difficult to understand in my explaining before?"
"Note that tone."
He said, grinning lewdly, "Did you two hit it off after hanging out together..."
"Hahaha!"
Lin Xiaoqing sank to her knees, laughing heartily.
Zhao Yi, hearing this, wore a dark face. Rembering the tone of Niu Lianhua just now, he shivered involuntarily.
In the afternoon.
The elite class had a combined math lesson.
Niu Lianhua walked into the classroom with a stack of papers, slamd them on the desk, and roared, "Last Friday’s test, I am very disappointed!"
"Unexpectedly!"
"In Class A, among the top fifty students in the whole grade, three people failed the exam!"
"How did you solve the problems? This test paper is not easy to score high on, but there are many easy questions. It should be straightforward to score over a hundred!"
"I won’t na and sha. If anyone failed, copy the incorrect questions ten tis and explain why you got it wrong. Hand it over to tomorrow!"
"Of course."
Niu Lianhua’s tone changed, "While so did poorly, others did well. There is one student in class who made noticeable progress!"
"Now, let’s give back the test papers!"
"The highest scorer, Sun Liang, achieved 142!"
Sun Liang took his test paper, and the comnt he received was, "You got one multiple-choice question wrong, weren’t you paying attention?"
"Hehe."
"He Ronghua, 135 points, you got one wrong on both the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank sections. The long answer questions were done well, only the final question lost so points."
"Zhao Yi——"
Seeing Zhao Yi step up to receive his test paper, Niu Lianhua imdiately put on a kind smile again, and with what she thought was a gentle tone, affably said, "131 points! Your improvent this ti is very significant! All of you need to learn from Zhao Yi!"
"You left a blank in the fill-in-the-blank section, and you did need to improve on the difficult questions. Additionally, so questions were scored down because you skipped so calculation steps."
"O-okay..."
Zhao Yi quickly retreated with his test paper.
Nobody in the class cared about Niu Lianhua’s tone of speech this ti. All of them stared at Zhao Yi in shock as he returned to his seat.
points?
It was indeed a ’significant improvent.’ He just barely used to pass the math test in the split class!
to 40 points improvent in less than a month?
You’re joking, right?
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