Shu Wangyue paused for a moment, somewhat surprised, and after a long while said, "I don't know either." If it wasn't intentional, she could have twisted her head down and used it as a ball to kick around.
"Wangyue, are you alright?" Zhou Mian walked over at just the right moment, interrupting Song Qi and Shu Wangyue's conversation.
"I'm fine," Shu Wangyue said, suppressing her nausea.
"Do you need me to come in and help you?" Zhou Mian looked somewhat uneasy.
Shu Wangyue smiled and said, "No need, I'm almost better."
She looked at the clothes she had changed out of, took a deep breath, and forced a smile as she walked out.
Shu Wangyue glanced at Song Qi, then smiled at Zhou Mian, and returned to her seat.
"Is she angry with me? But I really didn't mean to," Zhou Mian said in a low voice, sounding aggrieved.
"Mm." Song Qi nodded, returned to her seat, and looked at Shu Wangyue, "How much did you eat? Are you still hungry?"
Shu Wangyue rubbed her stomach: "It's okay, I'm about full."
"Um, I have a little money left over from last time I went to the beach. How about I buy you some more? You don't look like you've eaten much," Zhou Mian said timidly.
Just as Shu Wangyue was about to say no, Song Qi glanced at Zhou Mian and said, "Then go buy some. It's in the carriage up ahead."
Zhou Mian nodded, glanced at Shu Wangyue, took her bag, and left.
Song Qi returned to her seat, and Shi Xinyu glanced behind her and lowered her voice: "Did those two have a fight?"
"Who knows?" Song Qi glanced at Shi Xinyu. "Do you really enjoy paying attention to this kind of thing?"
"Oh, I'm just a little curious. Given Shu Wangyue's personality, she shouldn't be at a disadvantage." Shi Xinyu stroked her chin.
"Just leave it at that and eat."
Shi Xinyu rested her chin on her hand, looking at the softened instant noodles with an expression of utter disgust.
"If you don't like it, then go hungry."
"Sigh." Shi Xinyu sighed, "Actually, it doesn't smell that bad."
"Mmm," Song Qi replied casually, eating his noodles.
Zhou Mian returned quickly, bringing the exact same instant noodles, which he prepared and placed in front of Shu Wangyue.
The two people looked at each other.
"Thank you." Shu Wangyue gave a professional, fake smile.
"No need." Zhou Mian tugged at the corner of his mouth, and this time he didn't deliberately knock over Shu Wangyue's instant noodles.
After all, there wasn't much money left for spending money.
And if she overturns it again, everyone will know she did it on purpose.
After a five-hour drive, they arrived at their destination.
Having learned from their previous experience, they were much calmer this time.
Although there are more people here.
After arriving at the hotel lobby, they drew lots to be assigned rooms.
When Shu Wangyue saw that she was living with Song Qi, she wanted to jump up. Later, she found out that Shi Xinyu was also living with them.
His face instantly fell.
"But what if there are only two beds?" Shi Xinyu sighed, lamenting her bad luck.
"Let's go to the room first." Song Qi glanced at the two people's belongings and took them all back in two trips.
"I can sleep in the same bed as the captain," Shu Wangyue said, her expression seemingly reluctant, but inwardly she was bursting with excitement.
Shi Xinyu nodded and glanced at Song Qi: "Is it okay?"
"Whatever." Song Qi wasn't that particular. The room wasn't very big, and after a row of boxes were placed in it, it instantly looked a bit crowded.
She sat cross-legged on the bed, took out a tourist map and glanced at it. The hotel's location was pretty good, not too far from the five attractions.
Shu Wangyue came out of the shower and sat down next to Song Qi, looking at her: "Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Not at the moment."
Shi Xinyu looked at the two people standing close together next to her and narrowed her eyes. Why did she find them so strange?
The evening activities were no different from last time: wandering around outside for a bit, then coming back to get ready and go to sleep.
The bed wasn't very big, only 1.5 meters wide.
After the two lay down on the bed, Shu Wangyue subconsciously leaned closer to Song Qi.
Song Qi said with her eyes closed, "If you move any closer to me, I'm going to fall."
Shu Wangyue stiffened and silently moved a little to the side.
Although Shu Wangyue leaned closer to me again halfway through my sleep.
Song Qi sighed, glanced to the side, and forced himself to fall asleep.
At five o'clock in the morning, Song Qi opened his eyes on time, pushed Shu Wangyue's hand aside, and when she tried to climb back on him, he quickly got out of bed, quietly finished all the things he needed to do in the morning, and went out.
Just then, Zhou Mian came out from another door and smiled at Song Qi.
"Good morning, Captain." Zhou Mian smiled at Song Qi, her face full of surprise.
"Hmm, why are you up so early?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to get up and go for a run. Does the captain want to come along?"
“Okay.” Song Qi nodded, having no reason to refuse.
Zhou Mian's smile grew even brighter.
The two walked out of the hotel side by side.
Song Qi started running along the road, with Zhou Mian following behind her, trying hard to keep up, but soon falling behind.
She took a deep breath and quickened her pace to catch up: "Captain, you run so fast!"
"You can run at your own pace; there's no need to force yourself to catch up with me."
Zhou Mian originally wanted Song Qi to wait for her, but Song Qi shut her up with a single sentence.
But I want to run with you.
"Okay, good luck then."
Zhou Mian: ...
Song Qi ran around for almost an hour, then found a breakfast shop and bought some things. After four days, she had roughly figured out what other people's tastes were like.
Zhou Mian, who was following behind, had long since disappeared.
When Song Qi returned, he saw Zhou Mian sitting in the hall, looking rather listless.
"Your breakfast." Song Qi picked out a small bag and handed it to her.
"Thank you." Zhou Mian's eyes lit up.
"Give this to Tian Tian." Song Qi then took another small bag.
Then I went upstairs and knocked on each door to deliver breakfast.
When Song Qi returned to his room, Shu Wangyue and Shi Xinyu were already up. Both of them looked unwell, clearly having had a fight as soon as they woke up that morning.
What are you two doing?
"Nothing," Shu Wangyue said curtly, then, noticing the problem with her tone, she took a deep breath. "Did you go for a run again? I didn't hear a thing."
"Hmm." Song Qi nodded. "You were sleeping very soundly. I even pried your hands off, but you didn't wake up."
Shu Wangyue: ...
Shi Xinyu laughed unkindly.
"You can call me to go for a run tomorrow."
“You can get up, but I might not wait for you to run away.” Song Qi glanced at Shu Wangyue. “You can ask Zhou Mian for details.”
Shu Wangyue frowned: "Did Zhou Mian go for a run with you this morning?"
"Yeah, I ran into her as I was leaving." Song Qi sat down in a chair and ate his breakfast.
She has a special fondness for siu mai.
Shu Wangyue put her hands on her hips and looked at Song Qi: "And then?"
"And then?" Song Qi took a sip of water. "Then, because she was slow, that was the end of it."
Shu Wangyue breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. Thinking of Zhou Mian's smug little expression, she felt even more relaxed.
In the following days, Song Qi would run into Zhou Mian whenever he went out, and he didn't know what medicine Shu Wangyue had taken, but she set an alarm for 5 a.m. and woke up with Song Qi every day.
Often, in the end, only Shu Wangyue and Zhou Mian remain, with no trace of Song Qi to be found.
On the seventeenth day of the trip, the college entrance examination results were released.
Song Qi's room was crammed with more than a dozen people, including livestreamers.
"Wouldn't it be bad if I did poorly on the test and it was broadcast live?" someone whispered.
Shu Wangyue didn't even think about it: "How could I possibly do poorly on the test?"
Song Qi entered his admission ticket number and password, clicked "confirm" several times, and finally the results appeared.
She looked at the numbers on the screen and frowned.
Shu Wangyue was the first to shout out: "Four hundred and twenty-one!"
Then, as if struck by a thought, she turned to the camera and said, "Listen up, our province's total score is only 480."
The live chat exploded.
[Holy crap???]
[Hey, who said Yinyin's grades weren't good?]
Is this score enough to get into University A?
Yinyin seemed calm, though she appeared somewhat unhappy.
[By the way, Yinyin's art exam results seem to be not good. Maybe she shouldn't go to art school.]
Everyone else was excited, but Song Qi remained calm. Although this score was indeed quite good, it was still a bit worse than her previous score.
She closed her laptop and made a phone call to her parents.
All four of them were watching the program when they received the phone call. The shouts almost deafened Song Qi.
Song Qi felt somewhat helpless.
She's trending again.
For the next few days, I continued to choose a school.
I still applied to University A; the exam this time was quite difficult, so I still have some hope.
As for her major, she basically chose them by drawing lots, and they were all science and engineering majors.
On the day they returned home, Shu's parents booked a table at a hotel for a family dinner, and invited the Lu family as well.
When Lu Nanyan saw what happened to Song Qi, his expression was somewhat conflicted, and he looked at Song Qi countless times during the meal.
"Sis, how did you do that?"
Song Qi looked up at Lu Nanyan and said, "You've opened up the Ren and Du meridians."
Lu Nanyan:......
The others were also somewhat puzzled, since Lu Nanyin's grades hadn't been very good before, but after not studying for a long time, they had actually improved, to an exaggerated degree. However, the others didn't ask any more questions, simply assuming that Song Qi had indeed unlocked his full potential.
The meal went fairly well, and Shu Wangyue didn't throw a tantrum this time, although she barely spoke throughout.
After returning, Song Qi still had a lot of work to do. She stayed at the Shu family's house for two days, then went back to the Lu family's house for two days, and then returned to the villa where she worked.
The agent secured numerous endorsements and various events for Song Qi, making him the most well-resourced among the group.
After all, the "academic genius" persona is still very appealing.
What's more, he's a true academic star.
After the results came out, Shi Xinyu became obsessed with staring at Song Qi, sometimes for a long time at a time.
Sometimes Song Qi wanted to cover her face with something.
"Why do you always look at me with such a strange gaze?" Song Qi closed the book, looked at Shi Xinyu, and said with a hint of helplessness.
"I'm trying to see what's different about you compared to before," Shi Xinyu said, frowning.
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