Chapter 118

Strictly speaking, the first person to pick up Jiang Yunu was Joeysen.

When Joyson first met Jiang Yunu, the white-haired girl was like a stray animal peeking in front of the Chat City Library, with an obvious "sneaky" feeling.

It is very conspicuous and attracts the attention of passers-by.

However, with so many people coming and going at the library entrance, only Joyson watched Jiang Yunu for a long time. Finally, he mustered up the courage to go up and ask her if she needed help.

Jiang Yunu's stable resident status was given by Qiao Daisi. In this world, she came into contact with the crystallization of human civilization - knowledge. The door to the palace of knowledge was first opened for her by Joyson.

"I'm really angry." Joyson sat across from the small dining table, his neck still stiff, as if fighting an invisible enemy in the air. "I'm angry that you're leaving so suddenly. I'm angry that you're only informing me now about this. I'm still..."

Jiang Yunu couldn't help but interrupt him and defended himself: "I just received the notice."

Jiang Yunu spoke in a weak tone.

Joyson said fiercely, "Don't interrupt me!"

The tone of this sentence was a bit high, attracting the attention of people around.

A flash of regret flashed across Qiao Yisen's face. He didn't seem to want to yell at Jiang Yunu, and in the next moment he tried to control his voice: "...I'm still angry about why I can't do anything about it."

After saying the last half of the sentence, Joyson was like a balloon with a needle prick. It looked inflated when he came, and it deflated silently while talking to Jiang Yunu. By the time he finished speaking, the air was almost gone.

"...I was really angry. I wanted to find a way to stop you from leaving and to prevent you from losing your chance." The red-haired boy lowered his head, and his neck, which had been stiff for a long time, finally softened and relaxed. "...But I didn't find it, so I got even angrier. I was mad at myself. I was also mad at why my abilities couldn't catch up with yours, why you were about to go to a higher place, but I seemed useless as a brother. I couldn't help you, and I had to hide away and be angry all by myself."

As Joyson spoke, his words became increasingly incoherent, and he seemed to be speaking whatever came to his mind.

But Jiang Yunu understood. She understood the emotion conveyed in the other person's words.

——After all, Joyceen also hopes that she will not miss the opportunity, which is why he becomes restless, angry and anxious when he cannot find a solution that has the best of both worlds.

Jiang Yunu's silence gave Qiao Yisen the best space to talk. He poured out all his thoughts of the past few days, and finally turned into a deflated balloon, collapsing into the dining chair with a backrest in the cafeteria.

"...Am I funny?" Joyson said wearily. "I'm angry at my own incompetence, but I act like you don't deserve this opportunity."

Jiang Yunu shook his head.

"I'm just worried about you," she said.

"Are you worried that I'm going to look like an idiot and suddenly jump out of nowhere and yell at you, 'You can't leave,' 'You have to stay in Chatham with your family,'" Joyson said.

"I'm worried that 'The Phantom of the Red Attic' will no longer talk to me online or offline," said Jiang Yunu.

“…”

Joyson had an expression as if he hadn't eaten dinner and was choking on the air.

"I'm sorry." Jiang Yunu put away her dry humor at the right moment. She lowered her head in front of the red-haired boy. "I shouldn't have interrupted you just now. I didn't doubt that you would stop me from doing anything."

Qiao Yisen lowered his head even lower than hers: "Why are you apologizing to me? I was angry with myself, and as a result, I have been... deliberately avoiding you these days."

Joyson also apologized: "I'm sorry."

"What else can we do?" - This sentence Joyson said when he just sat down was a compromise and the best expression of his current mood.

He had no way of suddenly soaring into the sky and catching up with Jiang Yunu to complete his unprecedented academic advancement. He also couldn't ignore everything and even leave his mother in Xiate City to chase Jiang Yunu.

Joyson has to complete his studies, live up to the subsidy given by Enge Primary School for Special Abilities, and walk his own path at his own pace.

Joyson hid for three days, and took three days to accept the fact. He sat in front of Jiang Yunu again and tried to talk things out with her. After that, he sighed again.

"I should have known that," said the red-haired boy.

Jiang Yunu asked: "What?"

The skipping-level exam came about suddenly, and Jiang Yunu herself had only just received the news. After Qiao Yisen finally calmed down, she mentioned to him that she had only received the news on the night of her return to school.

Could it be that Joyson suddenly awakened to the power of foresight?

"If I had this special ability, I would have made my family rich by fortune-telling for others." Joyson said realistically.

...That’s true!

The red-haired boy looked at Jiang Yunu, his thoughts flying back to the day when they were still undergoing a physical examination in the hospital before they entered Enge.

"Do you remember?" Joyson said, "the day we went for the physical exam, everyone thought that as my sister, you couldn't apply for school until at least next year, that you must not be 11 yet."

Of course Jiang Yunu also remembered that day, and a little golden retriever also appeared in her mind - Xue Zhanxing also met them on that day.

She was distracted for a second, thinking that Master Xue probably already knew that she was going to take the exam for a higher level, and that was why he came to remind her that day.

Since Young Master Xue knows, and Senior Sister Zhou also knows...is it likely that the other young master in our school also knows?

"But you also remember what happened back then, right? You're like a miracle."

Joyson was still thinking back on that day. He had made Jiang Yunu a miracle. "A checkup with the medical examination equipment revealed that you were actually 11 years old, which made you eligible for this round of primary school applications. It just so happened that we were at the hospital that day, so you could have taken the ability classification test. And the classification test quota just happened to be included in the resident benefits provided by the administration when you registered your household registration."

Everything is full of "just right".

It was as if someone couldn't bear to see Jiang Yunu have to delay for another year before she could enter junior college, so they accelerated her life and cleared all obstacles for her.

Jiang Yunu was unexpectedly "accelerated into school" at that time, and now, under the arrangement of some unknown fate, she can suddenly "accelerate her studies".

"You don't need the ability to predict the future," the red-haired boy said. "No matter who it is, as long as they know you for a while, they will definitely notice this - you always achieve results with unexpected efficiency."

Jiang Yunu felt that the hat was a little too big for her, and she was not sure if she could carry it in the future.

"Maybe this is the last time?" Jiang Yunu tried to tear off the character label that Qiao Yisen gave her.

Joyson snapped the label shut and said firmly, "No, there will be a next time!"

Joyson adjusted his mood, let go of his mental burden, and regained the confidence that he would support Jiang Yunu in whatever she did and felt that she would do well.

The next person on Jiang Yunu's notification list was Xie Shi, the "local young master" who was very likely to have known about the skip-level exam.

Xie Shi has been very well-behaved these days, looking like a good student who is diligently preparing for the final exams. He did not deliberately come to Jiang Yunu's side, nor did he take the initiative to approach her like Zhou Jinxue did, stating that he already knew that she was going to take the exam at a higher level and congratulating her.

Xie Shi's silence made Jiang Yunu almost confused, and this confusion became even more serious when Xue Zhanxing sent her a cross-star message remotely, asking her, "It seems that the news is good news?"

After Jiang Yunu finished replying to Xue Zhanxing, he thought to himself: Could it be that Young Master Xie's intelligence system has failed this time?

It shouldn't be.

But Xie Shi did not take the initiative to find Jiang Yunu.

Given Jiang Yunu's relationship with Xie Shi, it wasn't entirely surprising that she'd approached him about taking the skip-level exam. On reflection, Jiang Yunu realized she wasn't that close to Xie Shi. She and Xie Shi were friends, but her closest opposite-sex friend was Qiao Yisen, a family member. Among her same-sex friends, Zhou Jinxue was her closest friend; she could share her accomplishments and celebrate her successes without hesitation.

As for Shesh...

From the very beginning, Young Master Xie appeared as a man who disliked Jiang Yunu's confidence and had lost his limelight and ranking to her.

Jiang Yunu put him on the notice list, figuring that with Xie Shi's personality, he'd be 200 percent upset if he wasn't informed ahead of time that his friend might be leaving after the next semester. Jiang Yunu hesitated to contact him, wondering if he'd find her new grades a bit glaring, worried she was showing off, and then, at the same time, felt a pang of pain at her skyrocketing grades.

...Oh, it’s difficult!

Why not focus on the final exam first!

Jiang Yunu found a reason to make herself feel at ease and simply suspended her notification action.

Then this pause lasted until the end of the final exams of the last semester at Enge Primary School for Supernatural Powers.

The one-month finals month passed by unknowingly.

Jiang Yunu looked up from her exam review and found that winter vacation would start next week. Tomorrow was the day for her and Qiao Yisen to pack their things in the dormitory, organize the things they needed to take back in advance, and put all the things they would not take home into the dormitory closet to prevent dust.

She walked out of the hall of the bishop's building and was blinded by the cold wind blowing in her face.

When she opened her eyes again, there was a figure in front of her, brought by the cold air.

Shesh stood at the steps in front of the bishop's hall, looking at her with his chin slightly raised.

Shesh asked, "When are you and your brother planning to go home?"

Jiang Yunu said, "The day after tomorrow."

Young Master Xie nodded, and Jiang Yunu almost thought that the young master was going to recommend his private vehicle next.

But the young master said, "I'll be home the day after tomorrow, and the next time we meet will be when the next semester starts—is there anything you forgot to tell me?"