The classroom in the early morning, sunlight filtered through the windows onto the desks but was blocked by stacks of textbooks piled higher than a person’s head.
With 15 minutes left until the morning reading session, the early arriving students took this final chance to rest their heads on their desks.
The lifeless classroom resembled a giant furnace, where each young student languidly lay inside, as serene and peaceful as corpses, hoping one day the school would go bust along with the rest of the world.
"Yong."
No sooner had Lin Tian sat down than he placed a bag of McDonald’s on Xu Yong’s desk.
"It’s on ."
"?"
Xu Yong’s sleepiness vanished in an instant, as he lifted his head and looked at Lin Tian in shock.
"There’s a burger and soy milk, it’s all in there," said Lin Tian.
Xu Yong opened the bag and indeed found it was McDonald’s, his expression turning even more horrified:
"Have you given up on life?"
"I have no future left."
"Are you going to get a vasectomy?"
"Your mom’s vasectomy."
Even the ordinarily well-mannered Lin Tian couldn’t help but spew so harsh words in front of Xu Yong.
He composed himself and spoke earnestly:
"After giving it so thought, we’ve been deskmates for two and a half years now, and I’ve never treated you to breakfast."
"Oh, you’ve grown up!"
When Lin Tian suddenly got sentintal, Xu Yong’s face turned red, he patted Lin Tian on the shoulder with an expression of bashful reproach as if to say, "Heh, talking about things like that..."
"Truly, we’ve almost been deskmates for three years now."
Xu Yong unwrapped the burger, took a bite, and said emotionally,
"Hey, I’ve been thinking about starting up a business recently and I need a piano. Without this piano, I have no future. If soone could lend so cash..."
Xu Yong suddenly spat out the mouthful of food, stuffed the burger back into the bag, and thrust it back into Lin Tian’s arms as quickly as lightning.
"Hehe, you little rascal~!"
Xu Yong pointed at Lin Tian, flashing a brilliant smile.
"Ah, Yong~"
Lin Tian also smiled awkwardly.
"I knew sothing was off. You were too kind, treating to a burger?!"
Recalling how he had nearly been fooled, Xu Yong’s mouth instantly filled with so ’courteous’ greetings for Lin Tian’s parents,
"You really have a dead mother..."
Halfway through the curse, Xu Yong quickly rembered that would make Lin Tian too pleased.
He hastily corrected himself:
"Your dad and mom are both so well and alive!"
"That’s a pretty harsh curse."
Even Lin Tian had to grit his teeth and acknowledge Xu Yong’s attack,
"No joke, Yong, I’m really in a bind this ti."
"Don’t even think about it, that’s my computer assembly money!"
Xu Yong was not like Lin Tian who had to fend for himself when it ca to food, lodging, and other necessities.
His family was sowhat middle class, and generally, he lacked for nothing.
The reason he still worked with Lin Tian was to build a cool gaming rig and to play the ga he longed for, Black Horse Lo.
Originally, Xu Yong’s parents had given him 3000 yuan to build a computer, but at that price, even if he haggled, those scrappers wouldn’t be able to put together a config that could run Black Horse Lo smoothly.
Out of options, Xu Yong ended up just getting a graphics card.
Finally, with the kind souls at the forum adding on to it again and again, they settled on an RTX 4070 paired with an i5-12400, and the cost skyrocketed to 8000 yuan.
The shortfall was made up by Xu Yong working his tail off.
After more than three hard-working months, he was just about to save enough for his PC build...
And now Lin Tian had his eye on his money!
So dark-hearted! Could he really go through with it?!
Wasn’t this the sa as scamming an old man’s retirent fund?!
However, after cooling down and thinking it over, Xu Yong recalled that Lin Tian wasn’t the kind to casually borrow money.
So, he still asked with so patience:
"What do you need the piano for? What kind of business are you starting?"
Lin Tian didn’t hide anything, and took out his phone.
He showed Xu Yong the video he had posted a couple of days ago, explaining the current situation.
"So you an to say, right now you’re shooting short videos with that girl, and you’ve started to gain so traffic. As long as you can get a piano, you’ll be able to blow up on Douyin?"
"That’s right." Lin Tian nodded.
After hearing what Lin Tian had to say, Xu Yong lapsed into thought.
If it were anyone else telling him this, Xu Yong would think they were spouting nonsense.
But Lin Tian was different, Xu Yong always knew him to be a person who was highly practical when it ca to studies.
That guy, with his seriousness and effort, was as enviable as his good looks—damnably so.
Thus, Xu Yong truly began to seriously consider it.
He had witnessed Lin Tian’s piano skills just last week, and indeed, there was one video that had gone viral.
It was Xu Yong who had educated Lin Tian on shooting for Douyin, and to think that they had already started practice so quickly...
Looking at the video with 29,000 likes on his phone, Xu Yong noticed the na of Lin Tian’s account.
He pointed to "Moonlight and Cat" and asked Lin Tian:
"Who’s Cat?"
"Gan Yanyu."
"And Moonlight?"
"That’s ."
"Why would you call yourself Moonlight?"
"Should I be calling myself Cat?"
"..." Xu Yong was speechless.
Sound reasoning, quite convincing.
"But I must tell you, making money on Douyin isn’t that simple."
"I know."
"...."
Seeing Lin Tian’s determined gaze, Xu Yong eventually let out a sigh.
"How much are you short of?"
"About 8000 or so."
Lin Tian had checked; a sowhat decent piano would cost sowhere between twelve to fifteen thousand.
Though at this stage, spending so much money on a piano was sowhat irrational, Lin Tian didn’t care.
Those who want to achieve great things sotis indeed need a bit of reckless courage.
After success, this little amount of money wouldn’t matter at all!
"You really aren’t leaving any room for , huh."
Xu Yong couldn’t help but say,
"Although I’d like to help you right away, I put my money with my mom to prevent from squandering it before building my PC, I’ll have to explain the situation to her if I ask her for it now."
"Mm-hmm."
Lin Tian expressed his understanding.
After all, eight thousand really isn’t a small sum.
Any parent, upon learning that their child secretly lent such a large sum of money to a classmate, would probably faint from anger.
"During the long break, I’ll give my mom a call and get the money."
Xu Yong’s excitent gradually built up as he spoke, his body couldn’t help but tremble.
That’s eight thousand, eight thousand!
"Lin Tian, are you sure you want to spend over ten thousand yuan to buy a piano?"
A poor high school student, borrowing money to buy a piano for filming Douyin videos.
That’s too crazy!
If any teacher or parent heard about it, they would think these two high school students must be out of their minds and need to be sent for so internet addiction therapy.
But Xu Yong just unreasonably believed in Lin Tian.
If he could witness Lin Tian’s success one day, Xu Yong would feel a sense of accomplishnt as well.
....
In a blink of an eye, it was ti for the long break.
The two got up and went to the chemical laboratory on the top floor, which was usually empty and suitable for doing so secret things.
After waiting for nearly fifteen minutes at the door, just as the bell for class was about to ring,
Xu Yong finally finished his call and walked out of the lab.
"How did it go?"
Lin Tian imdiately went up to inquire.
Xu Yong let out a deep sigh and said:
"Damn!!"
"Huh?"
"My mom disagrees, she said at most, the most, she can only let lend you three thousand yuan."
"This..."
Three thousand yuan could probably only buy a toy piano.
Now they were really out of options.
With no choice left, Lin Tian consoled Xu Yong that it was okay, and then headed back to the classroom.
On the way back, Lin Tian reflected as he walked.
Did he rush things too much?
At this stage, barely managing to make ends et, and already thinking about buying a piano.
Could it be possible that even without accompanint, if the next video was well made, it still had the potential to go viral...
As Lin Tian was engrossed in these thoughts and reached the classroom door, he was suddenly stopped by a female classmate.
"Lin Tian, where did you go just now?"
"So girl was looking for you during the long break."
"Looking for ?" Lin Tian couldn’t believe it.
"Yes, a girl with long hair, quite pretty, she said she had sothing very important to tell you, and she left after she saw you weren’t here..."
Hearing this description, Lin Tian had a bad feeling.
He checked his phone and indeed saw a ssage from "Sunshine After Rain."
What the heck is that silly girl doing at school?!
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