Chapter 6 Strategy: Day Six - Day of Daydreaming (and maybe a big one)

After showing concern for the students, Chen Jinghua began his lecture.

Chemistry was Xiang Di's weakest subject, so she had to listen carefully, and she finally behaved herself.

It's finally quiet.

"I'm leaving after this class. Could you please tell the teacher for me?" Bai Jiangxin said.

"Didn't you just say you were fully recovered? Now you're gone again after the last class?" Ye Minjia was baffled. "Even the top student in the grade can't act like this, can he?"

Bai Jiangxin frowned, his tone slightly annoyed: "Me, acting like this?"

"Then who will do it?" Ye Minjia retorted.

Bai Jiangxin was speechless for a moment when asked the question.

never mind.

Not wanting to talk, Bai Jiangxin started working on the chemistry test paper that had been handed out yesterday.

Ye Minjia was puzzled.

What's wrong with this guy? His temper has been unusually unstable these past few days. Before, he was just aloof and didn't like to talk to people, but now it feels like he's developing bipolar disorder.

Could it be pre-exam anxiety?

Ye Minjia couldn't understand it.

After all, it was the homeroom teacher's class, so it wasn't appropriate to gossip in front of everyone. As the class monitor, Ye Minjia had an obligation to care about the mental state of his classmates, especially since Bai Jiangxin was his good brother, so he had to care even more.

Ye Minjia decided to have a good heart-to-heart talk with Bai Jiangxin after class.

Before he could even speak after finishing a class, Bai Jiangxin put down his pen and left.

Ye Minjia called out to him, "Hey, where are you going?"

Bai Jiangxin didn't even turn his head: "Going to the toilet."

Walking so fast, are you about to pee?

Ye Minjia pouted. She couldn't exactly have a heart-to-heart talk with someone in the men's restroom. She'd better wait until the other person came back.

He was looking down at his desk to find a test paper he might need for the next class when someone approached him.

"Class monitor."

Ye Minjia looked up and the first thing she saw was a slightly awkward oval face.

It's really strange that Xiang Di would actually come to him on her own initiative.

Girls always like to do things in groups, including when they come to see the class monitor. Next to Xiang Di was Liang Qianqian, who had been in the same class as him since the first year of high school; Ye Minjia knew her better.

So he looked at Liang Qianqian and asked, "Is something wrong between you two?"

"Oh, didn't our teacher say there's a lot of flu lately? Xiang Di heard from her mom that there's a medicine that cures the flu instantly. I was thinking of suggesting to our teacher that we use the class funds to buy a few boxes of the medicine and keep them in the classroom?"

That's a good suggestion. Anyway, their class has a lot of class funds, and they're just sitting there doing nothing. They might as well buy something useful.

"I didn't realize you were so thoughtful."

“It wasn’t me, it was Xiang Di who suggested it,” Liang Qianqian said.

Xiang Di immediately explained, "I just heard the teacher say during class that Bai Jiangxin had the flu, and that's when I thought of that."

Only she knew that it wasn't by chance; she used the whole class as an excuse, just to make her concern for that one person less obvious.

That way, we won't have to worry about Bai Jiangxin getting sick again.

-

Bai Jiangxin didn't enter the classroom until the bell rang for the second period.

"I thought you fell into the toilet," Ye Minjia said. "Come with me to the pharmacy at noon."

Bai Jiangxin: "Are you sick?"

"You're the one who's sick. You should go buy flu medicine, okay?"

"I'm not going," Bai Jiangxin refused outright.

Ye Minjia was not surprised at all. Normally, asking him to go with her to buy milk tea was like inviting a master, let alone buying medicine.

"Damn it, so heartless. Then don't even think about me asking the teacher for leave for you."

He can just go buy it himself. He's not a girl who needs someone to accompany her for everything.

"I think I forgot to ask what the medicine is called." Ye Minjia suddenly remembered and called out to the seat in front of her, "Xiang Di, Xiang Di."

Bai Jiangxin paused instinctively and looked up.

Xiang Di turned her head. Even though she had clearly heard the class monitor calling her, she couldn't help but let her gaze linger on Bai Jiangxin for a moment after turning her head.

Not daring to linger for too long, lest she reveal a flaw, she quickly looked away.

Ye Minjia asked, "What's the name of that flu medicine you recommended I buy?"

After answering the class monitor's question, Xiang Di continued with her own work.

She really wanted him to know that she suggested buying medicine to the class monitor because of him, but she was also afraid that if he found out, she would have nowhere to hide her feelings for him.

I like Bai Jiangxin.

But confessing my feelings is impossible, absolutely impossible in this lifetime.

Just thinking about it in your mind makes you feel shy, let alone saying it to that person's face.

【Ugh, this is so embarrassing!】

Xiang Di suddenly slumped onto the table, burying half her face in her arms, leaving only her eyes visible. She picked up a pen and wrote the initials of her name on a draft paper.

[bjx, I really like you.]

[...though you may never know in your lifetime.]

There is a kind of love that is silent and unassuming, and that is my love for you.

Obscure and unknown?

They were arguing so loudly.

The noise kept him from forgetting for a single second that she liked him.

Looking at the girl in the front row with her hair in a bun ponytail, which drooped down along with her owner's movement of leaning over the table, Bai Jiangxin curled her lips.

But what's the use of shouting loudly in her heart? She's still just a groundhog with lustful thoughts but no courage.

Bai Jiangxin suddenly said, "I'll go with you to buy medicine at noon."

Ye Minjia: "Huh?"

Bai Jiangxin patiently repeated, "I said I'd go with you to buy medicine at noon."

"My goodness, the sun has risen in the west!" Ye Minjia asked. "Are you still leaving later?"

"I'm not leaving," Bai Jiangxin said calmly. "After all, there are still eight hundred exam papers to write."

Considering her subtle concern for him, let him learn how to take tonic pills if he wants.

That was his way of thanking her for her concern.

Although she would never know.

However, Bai Jiangxin soon regretted it.

-

The biology teacher is in charge of today's evening self-study session.

The biology teacher walked into the classroom with a stack of test papers. Everyone knew at a glance that tonight's self-study session was already meticulously planned.

In the past, when self-study periods were taken over for exams, I could still complain like a normal person. But now that things have come to this, I'm completely numb.

The biology teacher rubbed his fingers together and began handing out the test papers.

"For this class exam, the students in the first row should pass the exam papers down. You don't need to use answer sheets; just write your answers directly on the exam paper."

"Take the exam, take the exam, I might as well kill myself with it." Ye Minjia complained as she passed the exam papers around. "I must have committed murder and arson in my past life, and now I'm preparing for the college entrance exam."

Looking at Bai Jiangxin next to him, he saw that he had already started writing and had already chosen the answers to the first two multiple-choice questions.

"Big brother, can't you have any human emotions and desires?" Ye Minjia couldn't help but ask, "Are you an AI?"

"Hurry up and write it."

Bai Jiangxin ignored him.

Ye Minjia glanced at the exam paper, and every cell in her body seemed to be resisting it.

"I don't want to write..." Ye Minjia said, covering her head. "If this continues, I'm really going to hate studying."

It wasn't just him who didn't want to write; most people didn't want to write either. They dragged their feet, and it took them about seven or eight minutes just to pass the test papers to the students in the last row.

The classroom finally quieted down.

Bai Jiangxin had already written down the last few multiple-choice questions when he finally heard a half-dead voice.

Ah, the exam has been going on for more than ten minutes already, and we're finally starting to read the questions.

[Which of the following descriptions of cell structure is incorrect? A. The cell membrane has selective permeability... Hmm, right. B. Mitochondria are the main site of aerobic respiration, Hmm, also correct... C. Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis, Wait, how come C is correct too?]

[Choose D? Ugh, why is the correct answer placed last? It forces me to analyze all four options, such a waste of time! Second question!]

Why did you choose D?! Is the teacher who set this question out of their mind?!

Such resentment! Just because someone chose D for two consecutive multiple-choice questions, it sounds like they're going to drag the question setter out and sell them off.

[The answer to question three is A. Hmm, not bad. I hereby personally designate question three as the "primogeniture question." For the rest of the questions, you'd better be sensible and mark the correct options for me yourself. Otherwise, they will all be relegated to "illegitimate questions," banished to the Cold Palace's wrong-answer notebook, and never to be seen again!]

"..." The Divine Cult of the Direct and Indirect Lineage began to invade the biology exam paper.

Fortunately, there were no more consecutive options with the number D, so the remaining multiple-choice questions escaped being classified as common questions.

[During the cell cycle, when does DNA replication occur? What time was it again? Oh no, I forgot.]

Bai Jiangxin was speechless.

S, S, such a simple basic question, where did you go to memorize all the knowledge points?

[It's okay, let's look at the options first and use the process of elimination: G1 period, S period, M period, huh? S|M? That's so weird.]

S represents the DNA synthesis phase, M represents the mitotic phase, and it's clearly her brain that's abnormal.

Whenever I encounter a problem I can't solve, I start thinking about all sorts of random things again.

Bai Jiangxin sighed.

However, Xiang Di finally finished the multiple-choice questions safely and smoothly moved on to the next question type.

Fortunately, biology doesn't have many complicated calculation problems. Although someone still muttered a lot during the exam, praising their own intelligence when they encountered easy questions and blaming the teacher for being unreasonable when they encountered difficult ones, it was still within Bai Jiangxin's tolerance range.

After a few days, he had even gotten a little used to Xiang Di's whimsical inner monologues.

As long as she doesn't keep thinking about him.

During the exam, although she was full of resentment and talked a lot, Xiang Di was actually quite focused until she got to a question about trait inheritance.

The original problem asks two guinea pigs of different colors to mate and calculate the probability of their offspring having different colors.

It's a simple question; she shouldn't cause any trouble this time.

But Bai Jiangxin clearly underestimated the extent of Xiang Di's troublemaking.

[Black guinea pigs are a dominant trait, and double eyelids are also a dominant trait. I have double eyelids, and Bai Jiangxin also has double eyelids. So, what is the probability that our child will have single eyelids?]

"..."

So you're going to become a guinea pig instead of a groundhog, huh?

Pressing his temples, Bai Jiangxin mentally told himself to forget it; it was just a problem to solve.

As it turns out, Bai Jiangxin once again underestimated Xiang Di's powerful associative abilities.

However, if Bai Jiangxin and I want to have a child, then we need to...

Xiang Di gently bit the tip of her pen, her gaze gradually becoming unfocused.

A short while later, she bit her lip, suppressing a laugh, and slapped her thigh hard.

Liang Qianqian, who was standing next to her, was startled and asked quietly, "What's wrong with you?"

Xiang Di snapped out of her daze: "Nothing."

I glanced guiltily at the biology teacher on the podium, who was playing on her phone. Then I looked around at the other students, who were all focused on writing their exam papers.

Xiang Di turned his head slightly again to look back.

Bai Jiangxin was also focused on writing the exam paper.

The biology teacher, who was looking down at his phone, looked up to stretch his neck and noticed a girl glancing around. He coughed and gently reminded her, "Everyone, write your own test papers. Don't look around. Do you think you can look around during the college entrance exam?"

Xiang Di blushed, immediately turned her head, and stared intently at the test paper in front of her, no longer daring to glance around.

At the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully it was just a fantasy, and no one but herself would know.

No, I can't think about this anymore; I need to focus on the problem.

She reminded herself, but this kind of imagination was like a poison; once you start, it's hard to quit.

Imagination is a magical thing; it can take people into a completely spiritual world, allowing them to experience pleasures that cannot be obtained in reality.

Whenever she feels stressed and tense, Xiang Di likes to think about random things by herself without restraint or inhibition. This is a private activity that she can indulge in and enjoy herself to the fullest.

Once the fantasy ends, she feels a special sense of satisfaction, and then she is full of energy to face real life.

Even though she knew that such fantasies were unrealistic.

But people just like to fantasize about unrealistic things. Anyway, it's just fantasizing. No one will know what she's thinking, and she's not afraid of losing face. Why not be bolder and fantasize about something bigger?

For example, being suddenly approached by the biological parents of a billionaire, or becoming a top-tier celebrity in the public eye—these are things that are practically impossible in real life, and that are worth fantasizing about. Otherwise, what would be the point of fantasizing?

Xiang Di bit the tip of her pen, and quietly squeezed her legs together under the desk.

In the quiet classroom, the ceiling light was as bright as day. The biology exam was still going on. Ye Minjia finally finished the first page and glanced at Bai Jiangxin next to her as she turned the page.

His paper was still on the first page.

What's going on? I was so much faster than him at the beginning, but now I've already finished the first page while he still hasn't finished?

Ye Minjia curiously leaned over to take a look.

What's going on? He hasn't even finished the fill-in-the-blank questions? It's been so long, and this kid hasn't done much at all.

Something was wrong. Ye Minjia shifted her gaze from the exam paper to Bai Jiangxin's face.

Bai Jiangxin's expression looked very off.

His lips were tightly pressed together, his face was pale, with an unnatural blush, and even the skin behind his ears and on his neck was red. His jaw was clenched, and it looked like his teeth were about to bite the inside of his lips raw.

Sensing that he was holding something in, Ye Minjia asked quietly, "What's wrong? Do you need to pee?"

Bai Jiangxin closed his eyes tightly for a moment.

When he opened his eyes again, his voice was a little hoarse, with an indescribable quality, and he almost said through gritted teeth, "I want to kill someone."

Ye Minjia grunted.

Is this test really that difficult?

Even Bai Jiangxin was capable of wanting to kill someone?