Chapter 47 Strategy: The Forty-Seventh Day of Innate Rationality and Liking
In fact, when Bai Jiangxin said this, he was already prepared to be suspected by Xiang Di.
He considered saying it more tactfully, such as reminding her to concentrate during the exam and not to get distracted. For high school seniors under high-pressure study conditions, their brains are in a state of tension for a long time, so it is normal for them to get distracted while studying.
But he didn't say that in the end. Instead, he told her almost explicitly that he knew what she was thinking about during exams.
Perhaps deep down he didn't want to be like his grandfather, choosing to forever sacrifice the other person's privacy just to make his own world less lonely.
However, Xiang Di didn't understand what he meant. She never expected him to have this ability, so naturally she wouldn't have thought of this aspect.
She even wondered if her expression had betrayed her, making him realize that she did occasionally drift off while doing her homework.
Could it be that I unconsciously drooled when I fantasized about him?!
She didn't understand. Feeling more relieved than disappointed, Bai Jiangxin said, "It's nothing, I just wanted to remind you to concentrate during the exam."
Xiang Di smiled knowingly and nodded: "Yes, I will."
How can I control myself? Sometimes I just can't help but get distracted...
She muttered to herself, but on the surface she still pretended to be a well-behaved person who had listened to her.
Bai Jiangxin knew that this simple reminder was useless unless he was willing to say it outright.
But that fleeting moment of relief couldn't fool him. If he had truly made up his mind to tell her the truth, he would never have done it in such a cowardly way.
Xiang Di was completely unaware of this. All she knew was that she was incredibly happy because she was in the same exam room as the person she liked, and she could see Bai Jiangxin for the next two days.
In the afternoon, after she finished the problems Bai Jiangxin had assigned her, she took them back to him for help.
Xiang Di asked somewhat nervously, "Did I calculate it correctly?"
She hoped she had done everything right, so she could impress him and, even better, receive a compliment from him.
But things didn't go as planned. Bai Jiangxin checked and said, "Two questions were wrong."
Xiang Di let out a disappointed "Ah".
“Your problem-solving approach is correct, but your formula is wrong,” he said.
Xiang Di quickly checked and found that it was true; he had substituted two formulas incorrectly.
What a basic mistake! It's true what they say, the more you expect to do something well, the worse you do it. Xiang Di sighed.
[What a pity! If I had just been a little more careful, I could have gotten them all right, and maybe he would have praised me.]
Bai Jiangxin said, "You've already done a great job."
Xiang Di suddenly raised her head and looked at him.
"What?"
Her eyes were bright, but when she looked over, she realized that her gaze was too excited, and she quickly blinked.
Bai Jiangxin said calmly, "Your approach is correct. Just be more careful next time, and this type of question won't be difficult for you anymore."
Xiang Di: "Oh, oh."
That's not what I want to hear. I want to hear you praise me...
Bai Jiangxin is neither a confrontational nor a praise-giving personality. He rarely cares about other people's needs and is used to being indifferent to things that don't concern him. Only now has he realized that praising is harder than refuting, and for him, saying something to praise someone is harder than getting angry at someone.
He added, "I only taught you once yesterday, and you've already learned to apply what you've learned to other situations today... That's great."
Xiang Di pursed her lips and gave a nonchalant "oh," though she was secretly overjoyed.
He actually complimented me!
[So happy.]
Hehehehehe.
Then, as if given unlimited motivation, Xiang Di crossed out the wrong steps and recalculated the problem.
She wrote very carefully, her grip on the pen a little tight, pressing it down so hard that her rounded fingertips turned red. Her eyelashes drooped, revealing only the tip of her nose and her slightly upturned lips.
Their school didn't have a rule that girls had to cut their hair short. Xiang Di's hair was very long and she always tied it into a bun. She almost never let it down at school. Bai Jiangxin hadn't seen her hair down many times. He only remembered that her hair was naturally slightly wavy, and whenever she let her long hair down, it looked thick and fluffy.
She wore a high ponytail today, her long hair obediently tied behind her head, looking pure and simple. Only the stray hairs around her ears slipped out from behind her ears and stuck to her face, almost touching her lips, because of her lowered head.
Doesn't she feel itchy?
Bai Jiangxin felt a tickle in his Adam's apple as he stared at her stray hair. His hand, which was resting on the desk, twitched slightly, and he curled his fingers.
But Xiang Di quickly realized it and skillfully raised her hand to tuck the stray hair behind her ear.
At the same time, she noticed that Bai Jiangxin was looking at her, and wondered if her hair was styled poorly today.
Xiang Di wanted to fix her hair, but she was too embarrassed to show off in front of him, so she could only give him a slight smile, her eyes still showing the shyness and evasiveness she hadn't lost.
She smiled at him, then lowered her head and continued working on her problems.
Empty fingers grasped at the air, and Bai Jiangxin remained silent with his eyes lowered.
The momentary agonizing thought he had at noon seemed pointless; in the end, his selfish desires defeated him. Bai Jiangxin thought he would still do the same thing as his grandfather.
If there is no better way to keep this person by your side without any reservations after they know your biggest secret, then you will have to sacrifice her.
Using his ability to read her mind, he blocked all possibilities of her leaving him or growing to hate him, thus keeping her firmly by his side.
Even though it was unfair to her, he couldn't do anything about it. Bai Jiangxin convinced himself that she was the one who had entered his world first, and that she was the one who had aroused his selfish desires.
He not only praised her, but he also did everything she hoped he would do in the future, as long as she didn't leave him.
-
On the day of the city's first mock exam, the weather was nice, and Xiang Di arrived at school full of confidence.
Because it was a city-wide mock exam, the teachers attached great importance to it. After all, every year the leaders of the Education Bureau like to use mock exam results to predict which schools will produce the top students in the city.
No. 14 Middle School is not considered a top key high school in the city, but it has produced some dark horses in previous years. Moreover, the teachers at No. 14 Middle School generally believe that this year's top scorer in the college entrance examination will most likely come from their school.
As long as Bai Jiangxin doesn't make any mistakes.
A few days ago, Chen Jinghua was spoken to by the principal, who told him to pay close attention to Bai Jiangxin's condition and to encourage Bai Jiangxin to do well in the exam and strive for first place in the mock exam. Chen Jinghua thought about it and decided not to put so much pressure on Bai Jiangxin in the mock exam, so he did not convey the principal's words.
With the exam time fast approaching, Chen Jinghua patted the lectern, reminding everyone that they could head to their respective exam rooms.
The classroom was instantly filled with the sound of desks and chairs clattering. After all, it was just a mock exam, so everyone was quite relaxed and left the classroom chatting and laughing.
Xiang Di was still debating whether to bring the key points to the exam hall so she could have more time to review them before the exam when her desk was suddenly tapped.
Bai Jiangxin: "I'm gone."
Xiang Di quickly stood up: "Coming."
Every major exam is like this: the corridors are packed with people, more crowded than a vegetable market, and everyone is looking for their exam room.
Xiang Di was squeezed and felt uncomfortable. She bumped into one of her shoulders and fell to the side. Her other shoulder then bumped into Bai Jiangxin's arm.
She looked up and saw that Bai Jiangxin's face was very unpleasant. He usually had a blank expression, but now he had a tense face and his brows were tightly furrowed, as if he was extremely impatient.
"What's wrong?" Xiang Di asked cautiously. "Did I bump into you and hurt you?"
"No." How could her tiny body possibly hurt him? Bai Jiangxin denied it. "It was too noisy."
Therefore, he hates any place with a lot of people.
It turns out they thought it was too noisy.
It was definitely noisy, since so many people were crammed into the hallway.
Just as Xiang Di was about to say something, she was so focused on Bai Jiangxin that she didn't watch where she was going and ended up bumping into a tall girl's... chest.
The girl was at least 1.8 meters tall. She was looking straight ahead and didn't notice anyone. When she looked down, she realized there was a cute girl in front of her and quickly asked with concern, "Are you alright, classmate?"
Xiang Di said blankly, "...It's nothing."
The girl left, but Xiang Di kept reminiscing about that soft touch.
Now I finally understand why male-oriented comics always feature buried chests...
[This feeling is so amazing! A girl's breasts smell so good and feel so soft.]
Before she could finish savoring the moment, someone suddenly tugged at her arm and pulled her behind Bai Jiangxin.
Bai Jiangxin said, "You walk behind me."
Compared to the soft body of another woman, Xiang Di would certainly prefer to be protected by Bai Jiangxin behind her.
She chuckled to herself and obediently followed behind him.
However, Bai Jiangxin could protect her front but not her back. When she was pushed by the people behind her and bumped into his hard back, her nose stung and she covered it.
Bai Jiangxin turned to look at her: "Are you alright?"
She shook her head: "...It's nothing."
Her nose felt a little sore, probably because his back was too stiff. When she smelled that girl's chest, her nose didn't feel sore at all; instead, she could smell a fragrance.
As Xiang Di thought about this, she couldn't help but savor the feeling again.
She truly doesn't discriminate between men and women. Bai Jiangxin walked ahead of her, and silently curled his lips where she couldn't see him.
While envying the tall girl, Xiang Di thought of herself and sighed inwardly.
[Sigh, it's a pity my chest is too small. If BJX buried his face in my chest, he definitely wouldn't feel that "being pounced on" feeling.]
[Ahhh, what a pity! I really want him to be obsessed with my breasts, to feel restless if he doesn't touch them every day.]
Bai Jiangxin, who was walking ahead, sighed silently.
...He's not a baby anymore; he's long past the weaning period.
She can steer things onto the highway with just a few words, catching people completely off guard.
Bai Jiangxin suddenly stopped, and Xiang Di, who was behind him, didn't realize it and bumped into him again.
The impact wasn't serious this time, and my nose didn't hurt. Xiang Di asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly stop?"
"It's nothing." Bai Jiangxin continued walking forward.
Xiang Di was puzzled.
He had already experienced it when he gave her a ride on his electric scooter before, but at that time he felt offended, so he deliberately ignored her touch.
Upon further reflection, she realized that she didn't need to belittle herself; to him, her size was enough.
Thinking like this, my thoughts inevitably became a bit scattered, so much so that I didn't notice a boy walking towards me.
Actually, most people had already found their way into the exam room by this time, and the corridor was no longer crowded. Perhaps the boy in front of her wasn't looking where he was going either, because he tripped and fell right on top of Bai Jiangxin.
Fortunately, Bai Jiangxin was taller and bigger than the boy, so he wasn't tackled to the ground.
Bai Jiangxin held the boy's arm, intending to apologize politely, but then frowned and suddenly pulled the boy away, quickly keeping her distance from him.
The boy looked up and glanced at him shyly, whispered an apology, and quickly left.
It was just a minor incident, and no one was hurt. Xiang Di tilted her head to look at him, only to find that his complexion was even worse than before.
Xiang Di: "What's wrong with you?"
The veins on his temples throbbed twice. Bai Jiangxin didn't say anything, but instead pulled Xiang Di in front of him again.
“You go ahead of me,” he said.
Xiang Di exclaimed. She had only enjoyed his service for a few minutes, how did it become her serving him again?
However, Xiang Di had no objection. Let him walk in front of her; she would be his protector this time.
However, he seems to really hate physical contact with people. Even when Ye Minjia touches him, she has seen him shake off Ye Minjia's hand several times.
Xiang Di couldn't help but worry that if they got together in the future, he might also hate physical contact with her.
She has an absolute physical attraction to him, though she also has some psychological attraction, but the physical attraction is stronger. If he doesn't allow her to touch him, she'll definitely make a scene.
No, she still wants to kiss, hug, and do *that* with him.
Bai Jiangxin: "..."
She has amnesia; has she forgotten that they kissed?
On the contrary, it's about whether she can overcome her physical shyness. When he's close to her, her heart races, and if she doesn't allow him to touch her, he'll make a scene.
Thanks to that guy from earlier, he now felt that the things Xiang Di was thinking about with him, as long as they weren't too explicit or unusual, were completely within his tolerance.
-
Under the protection of the grass protectors, Bai Jiangxin arrived at the examination site smoothly.
Whether it was Bai Jiangxin's reminder that really worked, or Xiang Di's serious attitude towards such a big exam, both of them did quite well in the first Chinese exam on the first day.
Xiang Di spent most of her time in Chinese class making up essays. Bai Jiangxin listened as she pieced together model sentences from here and famous quotes from there, occasionally using obscure words to show off her rich vocabulary, and finally adding a high-sounding conclusion, successfully cobbling together an essay.
The writing is quite good, very fluent, and the word choice and sentence structure are mature; it should get a high score.
Bai Jiangxin thought to himself, "It seems that reading more novels in my spare time is indeed useful."
After finishing writing, Xiang Di put down her pen, massaged her sore hands, and checked her name and student ID one last time to make sure she had filled them in correctly. She also took one last look at her beautiful essay before it was time to hand it in.
After the exam, Xiang Di had no time to think about anything else. Since she wasn't thinking about anything else, Bai Jiangxin naturally did very well on the exam as well.
In the afternoon, it was time for math. The math questions were particularly difficult this time. After finishing the entire math test, Bai Jiangxin had half an hour left. He was always too lazy to check his work, so he turned his head and glanced at Xiang Di, who was separated from him by two aisles.
Mathematics is merciless, leaving no room for her little yellow head to think outside the box. If you know it, you know it; if you don't, you don't. Xiang Di was struggling with several difficult problems, frowning and biting her pen cap hard, inwardly cursing the teacher who set the questions as a pervert.
So for the remaining half hour, Bai Jiangxin listened to her grumbling in her mind while silently noting down the questions she couldn't answer, where she got stuck in her problem-solving process, and which mathematical formulas she wasn't familiar with.
He planned to talk to her in detail after all the exams were over, hoping to save the mock exam examiners from being cursed by her ancestors and help her accumulate some good karma.
The first day of exams concluded successfully, much more smoothly than Bai Jiangxin had imagined. Xiang Di's attitude towards the exams was quite serious, so much so that he felt the following exams should also be no problem.
The time came for the second day of the English exam.
Xiang Di's weakness in English was her spoken English, but the college entrance examination did not test spoken English. After listening to the listening comprehension, she passed all the tests smoothly, except for a slight stumble in the reading comprehension. She then wrote the English essay very easily.
So many English model essays weren't memorized for nothing, so many long and difficult sentences and advanced words weren't memorized for nothing. Xiang Di looked at the essay topic and thought, "Oh, this time I'm cosplaying Li Hua, a senior high school student at Hongxing Middle School. I'm going to write a letter to my foreign friends again."
Without thinking twice, she immediately launched into a universal opening line: "Dear Jack, it's great to hear that you—"
As she memorized those well-known English phrases, she wrote with great enthusiasm. Bai Jiangxin, listening to her confident reading voice, felt that she was going to get 150 points in English this time.
In less than ten minutes, Xiang Di finished her composition. There were still several tens of minutes left. She didn't have time to check her Chinese and math, but she finally had time to check her English.
When I checked the reading comprehension questions, I was so focused on answering them that I didn't really read the passage carefully. Turns out, it was about the Lioness Alliance of the African World.
The article describes a family of lionesses who are sisters. Usually, the leader of a pride is a male lion, and the other lionesses are his harem. But this family is very different. The lionesses are the leaders. When the mating season comes, the lionesses go around looking for young and strong male lions and recruit them into their family to be responsible for breeding. Once the lionesses have successfully become pregnant, they kick the male lion away.
Once the offspring have grown up, the mothers stay to continue expanding the family, while the males are kicked out and left to fend for themselves.
It's mating season again. The lionesses go to find male lions of suitable age, and the cycle repeats. This matrilineal family has successfully become the first lionesse alliance on the savanna by discarding the father and keeping the son.
After reading the first reading comprehension passage, Xiang Di felt nothing but admiration.
She wants to be an independent woman in the future. Women can hold up half the sky, and she must learn from these lionesses.
Encouraged, Xiang Di silently made a vow in his heart.
Bai Jiangxin had no objection to her wanting to learn from the lionesses and become an independent woman, as long as she didn't follow those lionesses who abandoned their fathers and left their offspring behind.
Since he'd already finished his English exam, it wouldn't hurt to listen to her grand ambitions.
After reading the first chapter, Xiang Di moved on to the second chapter, which took a sharp turn in style, jumping directly to the topic of technology.
She didn't misunderstand the reading comprehension passage about a group of lionesses taking advantage of a male lion, and even gained positive insights after reading it. So, this one about technology should be fine too.
This technology article is about a mirror that can predict what people will look like in the future.
The previous section introduced some principles of mirrors. The following section provides examples, such as a young couple where the wife has a terminal illness and wants to take a photo of herself and her husband in front of a mirror to remember them as a memento.
The couple saw what they would look like when they grew old in the mirror and couldn't help but burst into tears. The husband kissed his wife's forehead tenderly, and the old man in the mirror also kissed his wife's forehead tenderly.
Although it had some fictional elements, it was generally a touching example, but then Xiang Di suddenly thought—
[This mirror can replicate actions? If they make love in front of a mirror, wouldn't their older selves in the mirror also be...wow, that's incredibly exciting.]
Bai Jiangxin: "..."
She can drive on any kind of terrible road.
As Xiang Di pondered, he thought of himself again.
[If only I could see BJX ten years from now! I wonder what he'd be like at twenty-eight. He'd definitely be much more mature than he is now, maybe even a suave, refined scoundrel, and he'd definitely wear wire-rimmed glasses! Tsk tsk, a mature man's body overflowing with hormones under that sharp suit, hehehe—]
...What is she? Is she a snake?
The thought was too much for her to bear, and she stopped checking the rest of the questions. Xiang Di cupped her face in her hands and began her blissful moment.
[I took off his suit jacket, revealing perfectly defined muscles beneath the tight shirt, barely concealed by the thin fabric. Then I touched his entire body, unbuckled his belt, and wow, his erection was towering high. I straddled him, eliciting a muffled groan from him—]
Bai Jiangxin covered his forehead; the image was gradually becoming clearer.
In Xiang Di's imagination, the twenty-eight-year-old Bai Jiangxin's temperament hadn't changed much; he still had that unapproachable look. However, he exuded a more mature aura, his facial features were more defined, and his eyes and brows were more cold and serious. Moreover, he now wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
The gold-rimmed glasses perched on his high, straight nose and hung on his extremely handsome face, adding a touch of credibility to the phrase "refined scoundrel."
But at this moment, his tightly furrowed brows from what he was doing, along with his slightly reddened eyes and ears as if he were drunk, made this supposedly refined scoundrel look anything but refined. He didn't look serious at all, but rather quite provocative.
He sat on the sofa, and Xiang Di sat on him, leaning back against the sofa, his shirt half-draped over his body, revealing an alluring collarbone and chest muscles.
A pair of soft, boneless hands rested on his shoulders. As the owner of those hands moved back and forth, his Adam's apple rose and fell with her movements, and the reddened mole on his face moved as he swallowed his hot breaths.
Thanks to his cultivation over the past period, Bai Jiangxin is now completely indifferent to his current unpresentable appearance.
...Anyway, the exam is finished, so as long as she's happy.
Bai Jiangxin sighed. Fortunately, Xiang Di was used to first-person perspectives, and since she only showed her own hands in the video, he wouldn't have any other strange reactions.
Until he spoke in the pornographic film.
He asked Xiang Di, "Want to try something exciting?"
"What's so exciting about it?"
He smiled and pointed to a spot.
"Isn't there a mirror there?"
Bai Jiangxin suddenly had a very bad feeling.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com