Chapter 91 The Destiny Ticket—that's a problem for my future brother-in-law, okay...?

The difference wasn't noticeable in the first four laps, but as the laps progressed, Wen Han completely left the others behind.

"Host, keep it up!" Although it wasn't the system running, it was even more excited than Wen Han. "Refrigerator! Refrigerator! Refrigerator!"

Teacher Wang from the next class pointed at Wen Han, who was running in the lead, took a sip of tea, and remarked, "Is that a student from your class? She runs fast enough."

The homeroom teacher squinted: "Yes, it's Wen Han. If I had known he could run so fast, I should have persuaded his father to let him be a sports student."

Fang Songxia stood watching the situation on the track and said happily, "Wen Han will definitely be able to get the refrigerator now. He's been excited for days."

Upon hearing this, the class monitor timidly glanced towards the gate on the other side of the playground.

Wen Han gritted her teeth and ran the last two laps.

Her lungs and nasal cavity felt burning hot with every breath, so Wen Han held onto the table to breathe.

Once he caught his breath, Jing Yu handed him a bottle of mineral water. Fang Songxia exclaimed excitedly, "Great! Wen Han, now you can get to the refrigerator! You came in first!"

Wen Han smiled. He was now wondering how to get the refrigerator home. Would it fit in the trunk of a taxi?

The top three winners went to the podium to receive their awards, and Wen Han, being in first place, naturally stood in the middle.

He casually placed the medals and certificates on the table, opened the small gift box, and found refrigerator magnets inside.

"Look, the school even gave out fridge magnets," Wen Han said with a smile. "These fridge magnets are modeled after our school's, how nice! They even come with matching decorations."

Since it was a free refrigerator, he reluctantly stuck it on the small refrigerator.

The homeroom teacher smiled and picked up the refrigerator magnet, examining it with Teacher Wang. "It's quite lifelike."

"Yes, yes, it looks like it was custom-made."

After they finished talking, they returned the fridge magnet to Wen Han: "You can put it on your fridge when you get home."

"Let's just stick on the new refrigerator sticker," Wen Han asked. "Teacher, where do we get the school's refrigerators?"

Taking it to the playground is definitely not practical, so did you put it in the library?

"Isn't it right here?"

"Huh?" Wen Han looked around the playground but didn't see the refrigerator.

The homeroom teacher asked in surprise, "Huh? Didn't I already give it to you?"

Wen Han fell silent when she saw the refrigerator magnet he was pointing to.

Refrigerator, refrigerator magnet.

Fang Songxia was still confused: "Didn't they say the first place winner would get a refrigerator?"

Teacher Wang laughed: "Refrigerator? Who misheard? How could the school possibly be willing to donate a refrigerator?"

As the head of the teaching department approached, Teacher Wang quickly stopped smiling and shut her mouth.

Wen Han then realized what was happening and quickly turned around. The class monitor had already run to the vicinity of the playground gate.

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“Actually, this fridge magnet is quite nice too,” Fang Songxia comforted her.

Wen Han held up a refrigerator magnet: "How much could this sell for online?"

"Uh, I guess only people from our school would buy it." Although Fang Songxia thought no one would love their school to that extent.

"I'm going to settle the score with him when I get back!" Wen Han said indignantly, hiding in the classroom and too scared to come out. "I ran three thousand meters, not one thousand!"

Yang Lanjun mocked, "He must be hard of hearing and misheard."

"Huh?" Fang Songxia nudged Wen Han. "How does Jing Yu know Chu Ji?"

Wen Han looked in the direction he pointed and saw Jing Yu talking to Chu Ji.

"Jingyu seems very polite."

"Who is Jingyu being impolite to?" Wen Han took a sip of water.

"Isn't it enough to talk for this long just out of politeness?"

Wen Han laughed. That wasn't a matter of politeness; it was a matter of how she would treat her future brother-in-law.

When Jingyu returned, he noticed that Wenhan was smiling from time to time.

"What's wrong?"

Wen Han whispered, "What were you talking about with Chu Ji just now? Your older brother?"

"Hmm." Jing Yu thought for a moment and then told Wen Han, "He told me to go back and tell my brother to meet at the coffee shop next to Qingyuan on the weekend."

Wen Han thought it was some kind of secret, but it turned out to be just a meeting. She couldn't help but feel disappointed and said, "Why didn't you just say it on the phone?"

"Maybe this is more interesting?" Jing Yu brushed the grass clippings off Wen Han's back. "He told me not to tell you."

"Ah, why?"

Jing Yu tilted his head slightly, his eyes filled with laughter: "Wen Han, will you tell Xiao Zhao when you get back, hmm?"

Wen Han: "......"

He definitely won't be able to resist telling Jing Zhao! Even if Jing Yu tells him, he still won't be able to resist.

After all, if Jing Zhao found out, he would definitely chuckle and then take Wen Han to their date spot. The two would order drinks and a snack, then hide in the shadows to secretly observe and enjoy the show, especially Jing Feng's embarrassed expression.

"Sigh," Wen Han said with a worried look, "You shouldn't have told me that."

What should we do now?

Knowing a secret, Wen Han temporarily forgot about the refrigerator. Yang Lanjun and the others were bored and played Monopoly in a circle. They were just one person away from bringing Wen Han in.

Fang Songxia also wanted to play, but he signed up for the kangaroo jump and left, looking back every few steps.

Jing Yu sat down next to Wen Han and watched her play. Following the principle of making the most of resources, Yang Lanjun had Jing Yu act as their bank, distributing money to them.

Wen Han usually rolled low numbers, but she managed to roll a six once, which landed her in jail for two rounds, leaving her unable to move. Yang Lanjun almost laughed herself to death: "Sigh, Wen Han, how could you be so unlucky?"

"Don't laugh yet." Wen Han had just stepped onto the path of fate. "Wait until I draw a ticket before you laugh."

The "Fate" ticket has both good and bad aspects; it can bring you money or six points, but it can also lead to fines or imprisonment.

As the bank's representative, Jingyu naturally held the "Destiny" voucher.

Jing Yu held a stack of coupons in his hand, and Wen Han kept giving him hints with her eyes.

Is this one okay? How about this one? This one?

Jing Yu didn't move until Wen Han picked out a coupon. He quickly blinked and smiled slightly.

Yang Lanjun was annoyed that Wen Han was taking her time choosing a ticket. She looked up and saw Jing Yu's expression, and immediately realized, "Hey, hey, hey, why are they pulling strings behind the scenes!"

The others immediately objected and protested. Wen Han's good ticket was taken away by Yang Lanjun, and Jing Yu's ticket was also reshuffled by her: "You draw again."

Wen Han hesitated before drawing a card, and Yang Lanjun read it out: "Move forward five spaces."

At least it wasn't a fine, Wen Han breathed a sigh of relief, picked up his little chess piece, and counted one, two, three, four, five...

Ding ding ding, Wen Han is imprisoned for the second time.

"I'm not playing anymore!" Wen Han was furious. "Why am I the only unlucky one!"

"At least you made it to the end," Yang Lanjun laughed. "Song Yi went bankrupt halfway through."

After Fang Songxia finished his kangaroo jump, Wen Han asked, "How did it go? What place did you get?"

Fang Songxia touched her head: "Fourth."

Wen Han exclaimed in surprise, "Not bad!" He had thought Fang Songxia was going to come in last place.

"Not bad my foot." Yang Lanjun prepared to start a new round. "They only have five groups in total."

Wen Han sent Fang Songxia this time, and that kid was incredibly lucky. He either got bank financing or landed a great deal of money, directly bankrupting Yang Lanjun and the others.

It was almost time to go back to the classroom, so everyone put away their toys. Wen Han didn't remember the class monitor tricking her into giving him a drink and some snacks until they got back to the classroom.

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"What's this? A fridge magnet?" Wen Qingke asked curiously. "It's quite pretty. Let's stick it on the fridge."

Wen Han ran 3,000 meters today, he was exhausted and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed as soon as possible. He put the refrigerator magnet on the refrigerator.

"Hmm?" Why can't I suck it up? Wen Han tried both the top and bottom, wondering what was wrong.

Wen Ruo originally wanted to take the milk he had chilled that morning, but seeing Wen Han randomly trying out refrigerator magnets everywhere, she asked, "Have you tried the side of the refrigerator?"

With a thud, the fridge magnet stuck to it.

Wen Ruo was finally able to open the refrigerator, and he was stunned for a moment: "Where's my milk?"

"Is that your milk?"

Wen Ruo asked, "You drank it?"

"No." Wen Han thought it was Wen Qingke who bought it, and that he had heated it up and given it to Fei Nai'er.

Fat Nai walked up to them with milk stains still on her lips after drinking the milk.

Wen Ruo couldn't argue with the cat, so she went to get a drink of water.

Aside from Wenhao coming over once during winter break, he hadn't visited again. This was because the community gate had been upgraded with facial recognition access control when school started, requiring residents to scan their faces to enter.

Wen Ruan would visit them with Wen Qingke during their holidays, but now they only get one day off every two weeks, so it's basically like they don't go at all.

"Sigh." Wen Qingke sighed as Wen Han came out of the shower.

For the hundredth time, Wen Han asked, "Is the company really going to lay off employees?"

Every year, the company lays off employees, targeting older, low-level staff or new, incompetent ones. Wen Qingke always managed to escape this fate. Now, thinking back, Wen Han suspects that it was Gu Cheng who gave the order.

“No,” Wen Qingke said. “Last time I went to see Hao Hao and the others, his grandmother was still lying in bed without moving.”

It's only been a month; how could someone who fell and hit their head recover so quickly?

"People really get old," Wen Qingke sighed. "It feels like my body has sunken in."

It's dented; are you sure it's not because you didn't eat enough?

Wen Han inquired about her enemy's miserable state: "Where's Wen Hao?"

“Every time we go there, he nags us for pocket money, but how dare we give it to him?” Wen Qingke said. “He also secretly takes coins to the supermarket to buy drinks. Luckily, his grandfather is strict and doesn’t allow him to spend money.”

It's likely that Grandpa Wenruan only took Wenhao for dialysis when Wen Qingke and the others visited, just to make a show of it so he could get child support. He was unwilling to spend money on him the rest of the time.

Wen Qingke wanted to say something, but he shook his head and decided not to say anything, which piqued Wen Han's curiosity.

Although Wen Han disliked her neighbor, Aunt Wang, for being a blabbermouth, she had a good relationship with Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng's son, and asked her directly on her phone.

Sure enough, Wang Sheng and Wen Han complained that the tenement building was already unpleasant enough, and they could hear the Wen family arguing.

Grandpa Wenruan never gave Grandma Wenruan any money to buy medicine. He would come home drunk every day, and Grandma Wenruan would scold him for going out to find a mistress, saying he should just die out there. Grandpa Wenruan would bring up old grievances, ask her about her son, and even try to hit her. In the end, it was Aunt Wang who couldn't stand it anymore and went to persuade her.

As for Wenhao, when his grandfather scolded his grandmother, this coward hid in his room, afraid of being blamed. He often came to their house to borrow money. At first, Aunt Wang gave him money, but later she was too afraid to open the door. When she went to ask Wenruan's grandfather for the money back, he questioned her, "Why did you lend him money?"

Thinking that Aunt Wang, with her big mouth, had also encountered an extremely difficult neighbor, Wen Han laughed so hard she almost fell off the bed.

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Author's note: Sigh, Wen Han is reluctant to drink the milk herself, but she gives it to her beloved cat!

Writing this chapter finally gives me the feeling that I'm writing a campus novel [sunglasses]. Although the sports meet is for everyone, students don't have to attend classes, which is a rare moment of relaxation in the otherwise stressful high school life.