Chapter 202 Extra
For several days in a row, Jiang Xuan was very careful when going to and from school. He carefully observed who was hostile to him in school, so much so that he was distracted even in class. His grades were good, but he was only in the top 20 in the grade. This was the result of his hard work. He dared not be distracted in class and worked hard after school just to be qualified to walk by Qin Huai's side.
When his mind was not on class these days, his grades obviously dropped. At this stage of senior year, especially in his top class, a gap of more than ten points could be left behind if one was distracted.
Qin Huai has been the first every year and his grades have been very stable. He refused to go even when the provincial key school offered him a scholarship. He chose No. 4 Middle School only because it was close to his home and his younger brother could reach the passing score if he worked hard. However, the teachers have always been both strict and lax with Qin Huai's studies. Strict means using all resources in the hope of cultivating a top student, and lax means being like now. He said he doesn't want to waste time on tutoring, so he really doesn't have to come for tutoring.
That's the real academic master, who can learn anything easily. For someone like him who works later, it's really tiring to catch up. If he doesn't work hard and keeps tense, he will easily be surpassed by the people around him.
Seeing that his ranking in the class quizzes had dropped because he had been distracted by other things during this period, Jiang Xuan became more and more upset. He couldn't find the person who threw his garbage, his grades were declining, and Qin Huai didn't come to make up lessons. He felt that he was caught in a vicious cycle and couldn't concentrate on studying.
He had never expected that a small prank would have such a long-lasting effect. He had just stepped off the plane and stepped on foreign soil. Although the people coming and going were all oriental faces, Mu Nan still found it quite novel. After careful observation, he whispered in Qin Huai's ear: "I thought those comments on the Internet were other people's stereotypes, just like many countries' impression of us is still at the stage of long braids. But now I see with my own eyes that they are really short."
At this moment, they were walking on the streets of a foreign country. Qin Huai, who was almost 1.8 meters tall, stood out from the crowd and looked particularly outstanding. I don't know if it was because the houses here were relatively short, so Qin Huai's standing out from the crowd was even more obvious.
Seeing the people who were looking around excitedly on their first trip abroad, Qin Huai held Mu Nan's hand tightly and said, "You are not tall, and you laugh at others. Hold on tight. You are not good at English, and you can only say hello and goodbye in Japanese. If you lose this, you won't even be able to find the police station."
Mu Nan was not afraid. He was not the kind of person who would run around. But he still had to be careful. After all, there was a language barrier, and without Qin Huai, the translator, he would be unable to move forward.
During the time he was applying for a visa, Mu Nan had already searched for a lot of travel guides on the Internet. Some anime actually have a lot of real-life locations. Some places are very beautiful and worth checking out. There are also anime streets and game cities. He listed all the places he wanted to go, and then Qin Huai looked up the geographical routes and planned a tourist route that went straight forward without looking back.
Fortunately, Qin Huai can speak Japanese, and he can understand most of the Japanese. He can even guess the general idea by guessing. However, the transportation routes here are so confusing that Mu Nan will feel dizzy after just one look at them.
But with Qin Huai here, nothing is a problem.
But playing is one thing, but morning jogging is still necessary.
Traveling is a very tiring thing. Although they did not travel with a tour group and had complete control over their own time, they still had to visit at least a few attractions a day. They could not stay in the hotel all the time. As long as they moved, they would consume physical energy. Therefore, it became even more difficult to get up in the morning, not to mention going for a morning jog early.
Mu Nan was lying in bed, refusing to get up. It was too much torture. Even though he had developed the habit of jogging in the morning, it was not something he could maintain while traveling.
However, Qin Huai already has a way to deal with Mu Nan.
"Be good and get up and run. I'll buy you an extra action figure or game card today. Pick one."
Mu Nan, who had been trying desperately to get into the quilt, suddenly stopped moving. He slightly opened a corner of the quilt and looked at Qin Huai, bargaining, "Two."
Qin Huai raised his eyebrows: "Are you asking for a higher price?"
Mu Nan snorted, "That's different at home and outside. You took up my lazy sleep during the summer vacation, so you compensated me with a raise in pocket money. That's fair. Now you've taken up my lazy sleep during the summer vacation plus my lazy sleep during the trip, so you compensate me with both, isn't that fair..."
Seeing Qin Huai's expressionless face, Mu Nan's arguments became quieter and quieter, but they finally got together to play once, and she didn't know when the next time would be, so she pulled Qin Huai's clothes and acted coquettishly: "Brother, you are the best, okay, two more?"
Qin Huai couldn't resist seeing her being so soft and sleepy, pulling you to act like a spoiled child. Not to mention just wanting two figures, Qin Huai would buy a whole set if she wanted one. But even though it hurt, he couldn't indulge her, so he said, "Then you are not allowed to pick out the vegetables today. You have to eat them all."
Mu Nan cheered and immediately got up from the bed, going for a morning run in high spirits.
Qin Huai followed behind with a smile, took out his mobile phone and took a photo, then selected some of the photos he had accumulated and posted them on WeChat Moments.
Since the Moments feature came out last year, many people like to share their lives on it, and like to post something whenever they have time. There are not too many micro-businesses now, and purchasing agents have not developed to the point of dominating the Moments. Most people can still see other people's lives.
However, Qin Huai never posts, and he doesn't have the habit of posting on Moments. Every day after school, he helps Mu Nan with homework and participates in some competitions. There is nothing much to post, so his Moments are always empty.
But this time, he started posting from the first day of takeoff. He posted pictures of Mu Nan sleeping against him on the plane, holding a bunch of action figures of all sizes, testing a game console, taking photos and checking in at an anime location, eating at an izakaya, and all kinds of things. Some were taken with the same pixels as a mobile phone, and some were taken with SLR cameras with post-editing. There was a post on WeChat Moments almost every day, and they were all of Mu Nan.
Mu Nan's circle of friends used to be quite clean, at most he would post something about getting first place in the game, or drawing some top-notch equipment, etc. But this time, Qin Huai directly guided him to post one message every day. In each message, there had to be at least one photo with himself, and the rest were all about delicious food, new clothes and shoes, comic books, game consoles, game cards, small toys opened from spinning capsules on the street, etc., and he had to post something different every day.
Especially in maid shops and cosplay costumes, I saw many girls adding him and asking for shopping on their behalf, but he didn’t add any of them. His own suitcase was almost full, and he was still carrying things for others. How is that possible!
Although Mu Nan didn't quite understand why Qin Huai asked him to post these things, he was still very happy when he saw the envy of his friends and classmates under each comment. He enjoyed eating, drinking, having fun and shopping every day.
At first he was a little worried. A trip abroad costs a lot of money, and air tickets and hotels are so expensive. He was worried that he would spend all his money if he bought too much. He was also worried that Qin Huai had no money, but he didn't want to let him down, so he would empty his family's savings.
As a result, Qin Huai told him that he had taken some programming order and earned more than 200,000 yuan, which was enough money for him to spend. It was the first time that Mu Nan knew that Qin Huai could even make computer software and make so much money. After confirming that their family had no financial burden, Mu Nan began to enjoy this trip. Unfortunately, there was limited space in the suitcase and some comics were not allowed to be taken out of the country, otherwise he would like to buy a set of all the comics he liked.
Qin Huai didn't tell Mu Nan that he had earned one million US dollars. He wanted to give Mu Nan enough material life and let him enjoy everything he could in this limited normal stage. But Mu Nan's current age is a period of forming his worldview. He wanted Mu Nan to get the happiness he deserves, but didn't want him to lose himself in material things, so Qin Huai has been trying to control the degree.
Of course, he asked Mu Nan to post on WeChat Moments not to show off, but because both he and Mu Nan had Jiang Xuan on their phones. Qin Huai's ultimate goal was to let the right people see these things.
Even though the things that happened in the previous life have not happened in this life yet, theoretically the causal relationship of the chicken and the egg cannot be established, but he has never been a very generous person. He cannot and will never forgive everything in the previous life just because things have not happened in this life.
But there is not much he can do now. This is still a society ruled by law. He can't violate the law for a person like that. He also won't be as childish as Mu Nan and just throw away two bags of garbage. Don't think he doesn't know that Mu Nan's friends can get anything out of him with just two words.
True revenge is never physical torture. Even if he does nothing, he can still destroy a person.
For so many days and nights, he stared at the other person without being able to touch her. All the other person's fear, longing, torment, and struggle were spread out bloody before his eyes. Every minute and every second was like a knife stabbing his heart. How could such hatred be eliminated by a rebirth?
The more Jiang Xuan wanted something, the more he would prevent him from getting it. The mental collapse was the best revenge.
Just as Qin Huai expected, Jiang Xuan was obsessed with looking at their circle of friends every day, especially seeing that Qin Huai's circle of friends was full of Mu Nan, his every frown and smile, even when feeding a deer he had to find the best angle, and even used various filters to retouch the photos. Mu Nan in the photos looked like a little prince, delicate and youthful, with a bright and carefree smile, but he was just an orphan whose parents had both passed away.
Not to mention the action figures that Mu Nan had photographed on his social media accounts. He checked the prices of any of them online and found that they all started at over a thousand yuan. This made him even more jealous. He was so jealous that in the last week of tutoring, he dropped from the top five in the class to seventeenth. If he were ranked in the whole grade, he would probably be ranked in the 30th or 40th place.
There was no summer vacation in the third year of high school. The school started early after the holiday remedial classes. Qin Huai didn't have to go to the remedial classes, but school still had to start, so they only played outside for half a month, almost visited the small place, and indulged in the game city for two or three days before returning home. Because they bought too many things, they chose to mail the things that could be mailed, but there were still many things that could not be mailed. They went with one box and returned with three boxes, which made Mu Nan's heart fly.
Unfortunately, as soon as he returned to China, Mu Nan had to face the critical blow of military training.
If Qin Huai hadn't forced him to keep the habit of jogging in the morning when they were traveling, and if Mu Nan hadn't gotten up early and exercised, it would have been really hard for him to adjust.
When Mu Nan was in military training, the results of Qin Huai's pre-school test came out. Qin Huai did not attend any make-up classes during the entire holiday, but he was still number one. Others had long been accustomed to it. It would be strange if the academic god was not number one one day.
Qin Huai looked down the list until he saw the 45th grade student. He hid the cold smile in his eyes and turned to look at Jiang Xuan who was also looking at the results: "The test paper this time was not difficult. How come you only got such a low score?"
Jiang Xuan's face turned pale, and he smiled a little embarrassedly: "I had a stomachache those few days, and I didn't feel well during the exam, so I was a little distracted."
Qin Huai seemed to be just asking casually and didn't say anything else. The second-best-ranked rich second-generation guy came over, glanced at the total score and ranking on the list, and sighed, but he was used to it. Compared with someone who could often get full marks, he would always be the second.
Bai Jun used to go to the same junior high school as Qin Huai. They were rivals back then, but Bai Jun never won. Bai Jun's family was rich and he was handsome, so he was always a celebrity in school. Qin Huai, on the other hand, although his family was ordinary, looked okay and had good grades, so Bai Jun always wanted to beat him.
When Qin Huai refused the provincial key school, he also refused. Although people outside said that he refused it to defeat Qin Huai, he knew that if he was not in the same school as Qin Huai, his chances of meeting Mu Nan again would be zero.
His family is well-off, so it doesn't matter whether he studies or not, he can go abroad at any time. He has never been interested in any person or thing in his life, not even Qin Huai who has always suppressed him. But for some reason, he just likes to tease Mu Nan. Bai Jun attributed this interest to the desire to conquer, because so far, he has never won Mu Nan's favor.
He came to find Qin Huai not for the ranking, but because he saw Qin Huai's circle of friends. After all, they were classmates and in the same class. Even though he and Qin Huai were strangers in the eyes of others, they still had basic social connections such as contact.
When the people around thought that Bai Jun would have a conflict with Qin Huai because he was dissatisfied with the second place result, they unexpectedly heard Bai Jun ask Qin Huai: "Your brother likes figures. I have a complete set of digital figures. Please bring them to him tomorrow as his birthday present."
Qin Huai still remembered that in his previous life, because of a word he said, Mu Nan had always refused to make friends with Bai Jun and never gave him a good face. He actually didn't hate Bai Jun. Although Bai Jun was a little high-profile and impetuous, he had never done anything to bully others, nor did he look down on anyone because of his good family background.
But at that time, he didn't think he would be friends with someone like Bai Jun, because they had no overlapping worlds, the same arrogance, and they had known each other for so many years but had never created any sparks. So when Mu Nan asked them if they were friends, he casually said no.
Just because of his casual remark, Mu Nan has been constantly rejecting Bai Jun with the idea that he would not make friends just like his brother did. Until now, he has not even taken a bottle of water from Bai Jun, let alone a figurine. He probably thought that Mu Nan would not want it, so he gave it to him. Maybe he could send a signal to Mu Nan through him that this person is worth making friends with.
The little tricks of this teenage boy were too obvious, but Qin Huai didn't take it: "You can give him the gift directly. He is in the first year of high school, it's easy to find him."
Bai Jun thought, how could he not know that Mu Nan was in the first grade, in the fifth class of the first grade? Because he was a little tall, he was assigned to the second to last row. He had gone to see her and even knew where their class's military training was held on the playground! But knowing was useless if they didn't want to accept him.
So Bai Jun endured it again and again, and finally softened and said, "Help me?"
Qin Huai smiled and said, "I will hold a birthday party for Nan Nan this weekend. You can come and attend then."
Bai Jun's eyes suddenly lit up, but he was a little worried: "Then he won't chase me away in public, right?" He felt that this was something Mu Nan could do. That guy was a brother-con, an extreme one.
Qin Huai: "If you are worried, you don't have to come."
Qin Huai turned around and walked towards his class. Jiang Xuan, who had been watching the whole process, glanced at Bai Jun, followed Qin Huai and walked out of the crowd. He then said, "You are going to hold a birthday party for Mu Nan. He just went abroad and you bought him so many games and held a birthday party for him. He has become too distracted and has no time to study."
Qin Huai glanced at him and said nonchalantly, "If he doesn't want to study, then don't study. With me here, he doesn't need to work hard."
Jiang Xuan thought, what if you were gone? Of course he couldn't say this out loud. It was clearly a curse, and he shouldn't say it, but he definitely felt bad.
Evening self-study in high school basically involves summarizing, doing homework, and previewing. Normally, the senior students here don't finish school until 10:30 p.m., and they have to attend three evening self-study sessions after class. Most of the time, the evening self-study sessions are used to review homework and test papers, which is also a waste of time for Qin Huai, so as soon as school started, he directly applied to not attend evening self-study sessions.
Although the school would be lenient with him, it was impossible for him to do whatever he wanted. With such a good candidate for the top spot, the higher-ups were afraid of any mistakes. But seeing Qin Huai's firm attitude, they finally decided that his monthly grades would determine whether he would come to evening self-study the next month. Once his grades dropped, he would lose the freedom to decide his own time.
Qin Huai agreed, so after class, while others ate and went back to study, he took Mu Nan to eat after class, sent Mu Nan back to school, and then went straight home.
If he didn't need university as a stepping stone, he wouldn't even want to waste his time on it. He needed a place where he could learn and improve. His ultimate goal was for him and Mu Nan to live a good life, but there are many kinds of a good life. Not having to worry about food and clothing can be considered a good life, but a difficult and oppressive environment will always put a heavy burden on people's hearts.
Another way to live a good life is naturally to lean on a big tree, and what could be bigger than the tree of the country? So he needs a stepping stone to cross this threshold. He doesn't want Mu Nan to suffer from natural disasters and the test of human nature in the future. Only when his abilities are valued, his family will be protected.
In addition to these two types, there is actually another one which is the simplest one, that is, superpowers. He knows the future development, and whether he takes the open way or the secret way, he can create enough income to become a god in a short period of time. It is not impossible to spend money to buy stability, but this is to hand over the autonomy to others. For him who is used to being in control, this can only be the worst option.
Although he had always told Mu Nan not to put too much pressure on his studies, and that he would send him to an art school even if he failed the college entrance examination, high school was a time of intensive consumption, with both physical growth and academic pressure. Even if he did not put any pressure on Mu Nan, such an environment was a high pressure on Mu Nan. He had no other way for the time being, so he could only try his best to give him dietary supplements.
Especially when he thought about the Mu Nan he met after his death in his previous life, who had very little meat on his body, he wished he could feed him into a little fat man right now to feel comfortable.
The vegetable market was basically closed at this time, so if he wanted to buy some pork ribs for soup, he could only go to the supermarket. While he was selecting pork ribs, Qin Huai received a call from abroad.
As soon as the call was connected, Yao Xianqun asked, "You said a month, but now the whole summer vacation has passed. Qin Huai, you broke your promise."
Qin Huai smiled when he heard this: "Excuse me, Mr. Yao, what do you want me to do now? I agreed to go there before because you could give me a rich life and turn me from a poor boy with nothing into a rich second generation. So what about now? Do you want me to wash dishes to support you?"
Yao Xianqun's face changed. He didn't expect Qin Huai in China to know his current situation. He asked coldly, "Who contacted you? Was it Qiong Na?"
Qin Huai: "No one has contacted me. As long as you don't come to me, I will have nothing to do with you. I advise you not to contact me in the future, and don't come to me. I will never give you the father-son relationship you want in this life. Yao Xianqun, you played with my mother. Do you think I will treat you as my father? You are not the one who gave birth to me and raised me. At best, you just provided a pleasure. Now you want to recognize me, are you worthy?"
Listening to the obviously angry breathing on the other end of the phone, Qin Huai said bluntly: "Your best choice now is to stay abroad and coax that rich girl into being a gigolo. Maybe you can still have a meal. Out of gratitude for you, the partial gene provider, I give you a piece of advice. Don't return to China if nothing happens. Your statute of limitations has not expired yet. The child of the person who committed suicide has grown up. You'd better be careful."
Qin Huai hung up the phone right after he finished speaking. For someone like Yao Xianqun who puts profit first, he would never easily return to China before he has absolute ability and confidence. After solving one problem, Qin Huai pushed the trailer and happily went to pick snacks for the poor high school students at home.
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