Chapter 46: Catching the Bag "Now that things have come to this, let's get some midnight snack." ...

Jiang Ci looked at Yu Xiang's increasingly brilliant expression with a puzzled look on his face, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Just say it."

Yu Xiang couldn't directly tell him, "I want to sleep in. Please don't bother me with homework so early in the morning." So he tried to cover it up by saying, "I'm just afraid that the standard answer sheet is sitting next to me and I won't be able to resist copying it."

Jiang Ci was startled, and felt even more puzzled: "Don't you copy a lot every day?"

He was referring to the fill-in-the-blank exercises they usually did. In order to implement the principle of "a good memory is not as good as a bad pen", the teacher printed a lot of fill-in-the-blank questions for them. Many times, when Yu Xiang was tired or too lazy to flip through the book, he would just copy his answers - anyway, he would have to take the test in the end, so he just kept reading to memorize them, so he just copied them.

Yu Xiang also thought of this at this time. His face changed, and he didn't know how many brain cells died before he could utter these words: "Well, well, how about I come find you and write in your room? My room is a bit messy, and your room has a better study atmosphere."

However, Jiang Ci was not moved at all: "Then go back and clean up tonight."

Yu Xiang: “…” No, why is he so stubborn and unyielding?

"Why do you have to come to my house?" Yu Xiang asked depressedly.

"My mom is going to clean my room tomorrow, which will take quite a while. My dad is going to use the study room because he has to work from home tomorrow for some reasons," Jiang Ci explained.

"Then you can go downstairs. There's always room." Yu Xiang's confidence grew weaker as he spoke. Finally, he sighed deeply and told the truth: "Well, actually, I just couldn't get up this morning."

"It's okay, I can come and wake you up." Jiang Ci replied calmly.

I'm just afraid that you'll wake me up!!!

"Well, don't you think we need some boundaries sometimes?" Yu Xiang's words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "It's too inhumane to not let me sleep during the holidays."

Jiang Ci just raised an eyebrow after hearing this: "I hope you still remember what Teacher Lei said before the holiday."

Yu Xiang was speechless for a moment.

Of course he remembered what Lei Gong said before the holiday.

"The Gaokao holiday isn't really a holiday. It's simply a necessary measure to free up classrooms for you, the seniors in your third year of high school, to use as exam venues. So, the essence of these few days of vacation is to allow you to study at home. You must keep pace with the school's schedule and be strict with yourselves. While other students are just relaxing and having fun, seize the opportunity to overtake them..."

That being said, in reality, few people would really take it to heart. However, Jiang Ci didn't seem to fall into the category of "few people". Being able to hang out with them today was probably a huge indulgence for himself.

"Grandpa wants me to help you more with your studies, and it would be best if we could be admitted to the same university in the future." Jiang Ci suddenly looked away calmly and said lightly.

The mention of Mr. Jiang touched Yu Xiang's heart, and a complex feeling welled up inside him. Unconsciously, his resistance vanished. "...But you should also know that the probability of me and you going to the same university is infinitely close to zero."

"But this doesn't stop you from working towards this goal." Jiang Ci turned his head back and looked at him steadily. "Besides, your luck has always been very special, so it's not completely impossible."

Yu Xiang also recalled the experience of being in the same school and class with Jiang Ci over the years, as if by coincidence his mother opened the door for him—coincidentally, he had just arrived home. His eyebrows twitched: "...He shouldn't be strong enough to go to college, right? By the way, how is Grandpa doing lately?"

"It's the same as before. Tomorrow, his private doctor will come to his house to give him a routine checkup and condition assessment. Later, we can go and talk to him together." Jiang Ci answered without hesitation, "He should be very happy to see you."

"good."

"Remember not to stay up late at night. Clean up the room if you have time."

"no problem."

However, Yu Xiang agreed at the time, but when he played games at night, he forgot all these words.

At 12:30 in the morning, when he had just finished the game he didn't know how many times and returned to the team room, he saw a familiar avatar suddenly light up in the friend list, and he knew that his team was probably finished.

This would have been doomed enough, but who would have thought that he was not afraid of a great opponent but only a bad teammate? As the owner of the room, Zhang Miao saw Jiang Ci online and shouted "Fuck, look who I found, Brother Jiang is online" while pulling him into the room faster than his mouth.

Yu Xiangsheng looked up at the sky with despair: "...Sanshui, you're a complete scoundrel."

The absolute biggest scumbag himself was completely oblivious: "What's wrong, Brother Yu? I know I shouldn't lead Brother Jiang astray, but even a genius student needs to relax. Since we don't have to study tomorrow, let's play together - come to think of it, I didn't know Brother Jiang could play this game before."

Yu Xiang no longer wanted to listen to him rambling on about things that were not the main point of the problem at all. He silently threw his phone onto the quilt. The cold air from the air conditioner blew on his face, chilling his heart as well.

This guy wouldn't go online to play games in the middle of the night. It's obvious that he came online specifically to catch him staying up late.

"Yu Xiang, I remember you promised me a few hours ago that you wouldn't stay up late." Sure enough, Jiang Ci turned on the team voice chat, and a cold and low voice came out through the mobile phone speaker. With every word, Yu Xiang felt more guilty.

Finally, he resigned himself to his fate and picked up his phone again. He thought about his words and then said, "...I regret it, but don't worry, I will get up as soon as I'm called tomorrow. I won't stay in bed."

Zhang Miao: “???” What the hell are you doing getting up?

Fang Chengyu: “???” What happened?

Lu Ziyang, who was also on the team but had just finished replying to someone else's message and had just returned to the screen, was unaware of the situation. "This is weird! Why do I seem to hear the voice of our class genius? Am I hallucinating?"

Zhang Miao enthusiastically answered his doubts: "You're not hallucinating. Open your eyes and look carefully. He's right here."

Only then did Lu Ziyang notice that there was an extra avatar and he couldn't help but exclaimed "Oh shit".

"Ahem," Yu Xiang said, clearing his throat awkwardly, trying to save his dignity. "Well, I think I'm a little sleepy. You guys continue playing. I'm going to log off. Good night, everyone."

But before he could finish his words, his stomach rumbled loudly.

What's worse is that the sound was transmitted to other people's ears through the mobile phone microphone. After a strange silence, Zhang Miao asked with a puzzled look, "What's that noise?"

Yu Xiang was numb: "...It's the sound of me being hungry."

Fang Chengyu hesitated and said, "Well... now that things have come to this, why not just have some midnight snack before going to bed?"

"I want to, too." Yu Xiang sighed, "But there's nothing ready to eat at home, and I'm too lazy to cook."

Just bear with it and it will pass. You won’t be hungry when you fall asleep anyway.

Just as he was thinking this, he heard Jiang Ci say indifferently, "Come to the balcony for a moment."

"What are you going to do?" Although he was a little confused, Yu Xiang still quit the game, got out of bed with his phone, put on his slippers, turned on the balcony light, then pulled open the curtains, opened the balcony door and walked out.

But when he went out, he saw that the balcony opposite was empty, with only the lights on, but there was no sign of Jiang Ci.

"I was called out for you, but you're nowhere to be found." Yu Xiang muttered softly. After waiting for a minute, there was still no movement from the other side. He stretched out his voice in dissatisfaction and said resentfully, "Where's the person—"

Could it be that Jiang Ci was deliberately standing him up in revenge?

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense. This guy shouldn't be that boring. This petty person usually takes revenge on someone by giving them a taste of their own medicine instead of standing them up.

Thinking so, he calmed down and waited for a while. Finally, two minutes later, he saw the curtains opposite being opened from the inside. Jiang Ci, wearing pajamas, opened the door and came out.

"Next." Then he threw something in his hand towards Yu Xiang.

The latter reflexively raised his hand to catch it. It was wrapped in plastic and felt soft. He lowered his head and took a closer look, and found that it was a loaf of bread.

This also explains why Jiang Ci appeared now - he probably went downstairs to "look for food".

"So that's what you took just now?" Yu Xiang felt warm in his heart when he realized that Jiang Ci had listened to his unintentional complaints just now. He tightened his fingers holding the bread slightly and asked hesitantly.

"What else? Did you think I asked you to come to the balcony to watch the stars?" Jiang Ci raised his eyes, met Yu Xiang's gaze, and said calmly, "Do you want some milk?"

"You still have milk?" Yu Xiang was even more surprised.

"Why not?" Jiang Ci asked back with a curl of his lips.

A second after he finished saying this, Yu Xiang saw him pull out a bottle of milk like a magic trick: "Can you catch it?"

Does this guy have some kind of magic pocket?!

Yu Xiang, a milk lover, was so happy that his eyes lit up. He couldn't hide the surprise on his face. "Just throw it right."

So Jiang Ci threw the bottle of milk over, and Yu Xiang caught it smoothly. He found that it was still cold, and guessed that it had just been taken out of the refrigerator not long ago.

"Thank you." Yu Xiang took both items in his hands, biting his lip with a complex feeling of guilt, shame, and gratitude, and said hesitantly, "Then, you... um... aren't you angry?"

After he asked this question, he was even a little afraid to look directly at Jiang Ci's face, and could only observe Jiang Ci's expression secretly with the corner of his eyes.

However, Jiang Ci simply repeated Fang Chengyu's words in his own way: "Now that things have come to this, let's get some supper."

This kind of joke sounded weird and ooc when it was said seriously by Jiang Ci, and Yu Xiang was stunned when he heard it.

Jiang Ci frowned in confusion: "Isn't it funny?"

Yu Xiang: “…” It’s not funny at all!

But as the saying goes, a good eater should be grateful, so he still laughed twice in a flattering manner: "Haha."

"Yeah. A little reluctant." Jiang Ci casually placed his hands on the balcony railing. After thinking for a moment, he brought the topic back on track. "If I get angry, what are you going to do?"

Yu Xiang lowered her eyes to avoid Jiang Ci's gaze, trying to get away with it, and said awkwardly, "Then you're not angry."

"I never said I wasn't angry." Jiang Ci observed Yu Xiang's series of guilty little movements. "If it were you, wouldn't you be angry?"