"Then what can you do to stay away from me?" The little man in the draft asked coldly, pulling the dog's ball of yarn away.

"If you like me more," said the held dog ball of yarn, "I will stay away from you."

There were a bunch of ellipsis next to the little man in the draft, and then he said, "Why should I like you?"

Under the moonlight, the dog ball in the draft suddenly moved like an animation. It raised its head, revealing a pair of silver-blue eyes: "Because the future you likes me very much."

The moment Bai Liu, who was sitting at the desk, met those silver-blue eyes, everything around him turned into lines and distorted in an instant. Bai Liu clearly heard the sound of something folded being opened in his mind, and countless memories flooded out.

The floor beneath his feet sank and reappeared, the moon outside the window turned into the sun, the blackboard in front of him turned from pitch black to bright yellow, and the only person behind him, Mu Sicheng, who was snoring, became surrounded by his classmates who were noisy and walking around, and the air was filled with sultry summer heat that hit him in the face.

Bai Liu slowly turned his head and looked around, then looked at the countdown in the upper right corner of the blackboard -

——【There are still three hundred days until the college entrance examination.】

He went back to the beginning of his senior year of high school.

Bai Liu had a very strange feeling, as if he was re-entering his memories from his own perspective. As the scene around him became more concrete, Bai Liu's memories gradually disappeared and receded.

Things that happened after he turned eighteen gradually became a blank in his mind.

Bai Liu's memory regressed to the age of eighteen. His originally calm gaze became cold and distant as his memory disappeared, turning into the look of a real eighteen-year-old Bai Liu.

The classmates in the class were discussing excitedly in whispers: "Will any of these senior high school students who have just come to the mountains go to the Gaokao Lake?"

"They are all top students with excellent grades. I don't think they would be interested in a place like Gaokao Lake, right?"

"Not necessarily. What if I help others with their questions?"

Someone glanced at Bai Liu, who was sitting in the front row, with ill intent. He raised his voice a little, "What if these top-ranked students have a friend who needs their help to look at this year's college entrance examination questions?"

The boy sitting next to this person followed his gaze and looked at Bai Liu. He couldn't help but burst out laughing, then waved his hands: "Forget it. Some people may not be able to answer the original questions even if they are given them in the exam room."

"I don't understand why Lu Yizhang and Fangdian are obsessed with him." The man muttered in dissatisfaction, with obvious malice and jealousy on his face, "He is still indifferent and pretentious. Is he worthy?"

"Now that everyone has gone up the mountain, I don't think anyone is coming to see him. How can he continue to maintain this attitude all by himself?"

Bai Liu sat there indifferently.

Qiao Mu Private High School is a place where the worship of grades is very serious. This directly leads to the fact that Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian, who are incredibly excellent in all aspects, are very popular in the school. Both top students and powerful students are very friendly to them and want to make friends with them.

Although these two people seem to get along well with each other, they are actually very good at keeping their distance from others.

Every time they came to class to look for Bai Liu, many people would try to strike up a conversation with them, but they would usually decline with a smile and would basically only communicate with Bai Liu.

This led to some people becoming angry and embarrassed after failing to strike up a conversation with someone again and again, such as the student to his right rear.

This student comes from an average family, and his purpose of entering this school is more for socializing than studying. He is keen on making friends with all kinds of privileged students and top students. He has a good relationship with Bao Kangle and they are birds of a feather.

The man began to chatter non-stop: "I think Lu Yizhang and Fang Dian only interacted with him out of sympathy before. They are not from the same world. Now that they have gone up the mountain, the people on the mountain are the ones who can really help them in the future. They will make friends with these people and forget about Bai Liu and never care about him again..."

"Bai Liu--!" Fang Dian's voice came from the front of the classroom cheerfully. She poked her head in from the door of Class 17 with a smile on her face and winked at Bai Liu who was sitting by the window. "Lao Lu and I escaped from the mountain to find you. Come out for a while!"

The student who was still complaining suddenly choked. He looked at Fang Dian who appeared at the classroom door in disbelief, as if he saw something that he could not understand at all.

Bai Liu packed up his things in a familiar way, and walked out under the dazed gaze of the student on his right rear. He walked in front of Fang Dian, still with that indifferent and cold look: "Let's go."

"Luo is waiting for us downstairs." Fang Dian said as he walked. "I looked at your schedule and knew that your next class is physical education, so you can skip it. I chose this time to come downstairs on purpose."

"Why did you come down the mountain to find me?" Bai Liu asked.

Fang Dian carelessly held Bai Liu's shoulders and said with a smile: "Lao Lu and I have already gone up the mountain. We were worried that it would be boring for you to stay down there alone, so we came down to play with you."

"Isn't that the reason?" Bai Liu asked calmly.

"That's why I came to see you." Fang Dian touched his chin, "But Lao Lu doesn't seem to be like that. He looks like he's worried about something."

They walked to the edge of the flowerbed beside the playground, facing a vast artificial turf playground. The weather was sunny today, with blue sky, white clouds and green grass. There were high school boys and girls running, exercising and laughing on the grass, full of youth and energy. It should have been a very relaxing scene.

"Lu Station!" Fang Dian waved his hand.

Lu Yizhan, with deep dark circles under his eyes, a haggard face, and dry lips, slowly turned his head with a pile of books in his arms. His eyes were full of emptiness and trance, and he exuded a dusty aura as if he was about to be buried. He slowly let out a "hmm" with an expression as if he was in an out-of-body experience, and responded to Fang Dian's call.

"How long did he stay up all night?" Bai Liu asked.

"I don't know." Fang Dian spread his hands, "It should be about a week."

Lu Yizhan was sitting by the flowerbed, holding a pile of heavy books and looking worried. When he saw Bai Liu approaching, he said nothing but sighed, "Bai Liu, I saw the results of your first mock exam in senior year."

"278."

Lu Yizhan seemed to be feeling lucky, with a faint light of expectation flashing in his eyes: "Did you fill in the wrong answer sheet?"

Bai Liu poured a basin of cold water on this light without hesitation: "No, I just can't do it..."

Lu Yizhan touched his face and took a deep breath: "...I know, you deliberately made mistakes in order to hide your points."

"Am I sick?" Bai Liu glanced at the Lu Post Station in silence, "Why would I do such a stupid thing?"

Lu Yizhan, who always does stupid things like hiding test scores: "..."

"This shouldn't be the case..." Lu Yizhan was a little dazed, "You are Bai Liu, how come you can only score 278?"

"What's wrong with that?" Lian Fangdian looked at Lu Yizhan in surprise. "Bai Liu barely studied in his first and second year of high school. It's already amazing that he scored 278, okay?"

"But 278 is too low." Lu Yizhan rubbed his hair with a frown on his face. Then he quickly found a lot of things from the pile of books next to him and handed them to Bai Liu one by one:

"These are the notes Fang Dian and I took on the exams for our first and second year of high school."

"This is a summary of the simple questions that account for 80% of the college entrance examination. It should be easy to get points for this part of the questions after reading this. I compiled it according to this year's exam guidelines."

"This is a summary of the types of medium-difficulty questions. You don't have to take this part. If you have time, you can take a look. If you don't have time, forget it. But you can take a look at the types of questions that appear more frequently. What if you are lucky enough to encounter them this year?"

"This is a common answer template for biology. Biology is a subject that requires a lot of vocabulary and is scored based on a lot of words. When you answer the questions, your words and sentences must meet their scoring standards. Otherwise, you will lose small marks when you read the paper. It will not be counted based on knowing the answer."

"If you are short on time, don't calculate the probability of the last genetic question. They will give you a lot of small points that need to be paid attention to, such as the prevalence rate in a certain population, and whether it is associated with x or y. It is not easy to calculate correctly."

"This is chemistry. If you don't ask about the types of metals and reactions that are not familiar to you, it's easy to get points for the inorganic salts question. You just need to be familiar with the most common metal reactions. The most you'll lose is three points for writing some weird metal reactions to balance the chemical formula."

"Just give up on the big questions on organic matter. There are a lot of calculations and reasoning involved. The heat release from combustion is not easy to calculate, so it takes a lot of time."

"Calculate the equation for the first question about the conic curve in mathematics, and you'll get these two points."

Lu Yizhan was chattering away as he took out various reference books and notebooks, all of which were neatly filled with test questions and notes. The handwriting on many of the notebooks was new, and it was obvious that they had been sorted out recently.

"Have you been staying up late lately to do this?" Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the thick notes, and asked softly.

Lu Yizhan sighed: "I didn't stay up late on purpose to do this for you, you don't have to take it to heart."

"The main reason is that I found out that you scored 278 points." Lu Yizhan's eyes were filled with resentment, his face full of bitterness and hatred, "I can't sleep, I feel uncomfortable, so I just got up and did the test for you."

Bai Liu: “…”

It doesn't have to come to this.

"I don't understand." Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with dismay and sighed, "You are so smart. You learn everything quickly from childhood to university. You can even complete the most difficult horror games in one go. Why are your academic performance so bad?"

"I don't think the problem is that Bai Liu can't do it." Fang Dian put her elbow on Lu Yizhan's shoulder, thinking, "I think it's because he doesn't want to learn."

Lu Yizhan followed up and asked, "Bai Liu, why don't you want to learn?"

Bai Liu flipped through the notes that Lu Yizhan had made for him. He looked up with a blank expression on his face: "I can't find the necessity of studying in high school."

Lu Yizhan was stunned: "How can it be unnecessary? If you have good grades, you can choose the university and major you like. After entering a good university, you can choose to do the job you like, and then live an ordinary, happy, normal life."

"I don't have a favorite university or major." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and dragged his chin casually, "I don't have any yearning for what you call an ordinary, happy and normal life."

"So what do you like?" asked Lu Yizhan.

Bai Liu answered crisply: "Money."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and tried to entangle Bai Liu: "If you study hard, you can go to a top university, get access to the most and fastest money-making channels and professions, and become the fastest rich person."

"But there is a problem now." Bai Liu raised his eyes nonchalantly, "This is indeed a normal and legal way to make money, but the cost-effectiveness of this way is too low for me."

"Compared to this long-term, wait-and-see path, I am better at things that are not so in line with social rules, but bring me a thousand times more money..."

Lu Yizhan's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly interrupted Bai Liu: "That's enough!"

Anger rarely appeared on his usually gentle and helpless face. He stood up and said, "But this channel will cost tens of millions of people the injury or even death. Do you still want to choose this path?"

Bai Liu paused for a moment and looked away: "That has nothing to do with me."

Lu Yizhan's chest rose and fell rapidly twice. The anger on his face gradually subsided, and turned into an indescribable sad expression. His voice also became lower: "...Do you have to go this way to oppose me?"

Bai Liu pursed his lips and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

There was silence between the two for a while.

Lu Yizhan silently opened the plastic bag beside him and handed it to Bai Liu: "I bought you a popsicle. Eat it and go back to class."

"If you don't want them, I'll collect these notes and put them back in the dormitory."

After saying that, Lu Yizhan lowered his head to organize the notes he had been working on for a week, then left first and returned to the dormitory without looking back.

Fang Dian looked at Bai Liu who turned away and didn't look at Lu Yizhan. She seemed a little helpless. She stretched out her index finger and tapped Bai Liu's forehead: "You, if you don't want to study, just say it directly. You have to say it so decisively and make Lao Lu so sad."

"He's really worried about you."

"I don't think Lu Yizhan would give up on letting me study unless we say this." Bai Liu lowered her eyelids and said softly, "But I'm really not cut out for it. I don't like studying."

"Is that the reason just mentioned?" Fang Dian asked tentatively, "Do you really think that those channels are better than studying?"

Bai Liu was silent for a long time before answering: "No."

"What's the reason?" Fang Dian tore open a popsicle and handed it to Bai Liu, "Here, I'll give you half."

Bai Liu took it, took a bite, and his eyelashes drooped: "Learning itself is a very boring thing. I don't know what kind of life I want, and I don't know why I want to study. Forcing myself to do something I am not good at is worthless to me."

"The kind of life that Lu Yizhan talked about..." Bai Liu bit off a piece of ice and swallowed it. His heart felt a slight chill because of the ice sliding down, which also made his voice cold. "I don't hate it."

“But I don’t like it either.”

Fang Dian asked softly: "So what kind of life do you like?"

Bai Liu pressed his lips against the popsicle. He paused for a long time, until his lips were frozen and turned red before he spoke: "I don't know."

"Then think about it again." Fang Dian touched Bai Liu's head. She seemed to be worry-free and smiled as cheerfully as ever. "You are only seventeen years old. You have plenty of time to think clearly about what kind of life you want. Take your time."

"Is it okay if I only scored 278?" Bai Liu glanced at Fang with the corner of his eye. "Is it okay if I fail the college entrance examination and can't get into university?"

"Well, how should I put it? Maybe it's not appropriate for me, the top student in my grade, to say this to you." Fang Dian bit the popsicle stick that she had already finished. She held her face with both hands, and the popsicle stick twitched when she bit it, but her eyes and tone were very serious. "But I really think that only getting 278 in the college entrance examination is nothing."

Bai Liu glanced at Fang Dian and said, "Aren't you afraid that if I don't go to college and don't have a good job, I will go astray, degenerate, and become a social outcast?"

"There are so many children in this world, and not every child has to score above 278 to be considered a good child." Fang Dian turned around and blinked at Bai Liu, "It's not like the child who ranks last in the exam will definitely commit a crime."

"Then we just need to arrest the kid who ranked last in the exam, and there will be no criminals in this world."

Fang Dian turned around again, looking at the high school students running on the playground, with a smile in her tone:

"It's not like you won't survive if you're ranked last. You still have the right and time to choose the life you want."

"But!" Fang Dian slapped Bai Liu's back hard, causing her to stagger. She smiled brilliantly, "Before you have figured out what kind of life you want to lead in the future, I still suggest that you study hard."

"Because when you encounter a future you like and want to choose that future, you will not miss it because you are not prepared."

Fang Dian glanced at his watch and exclaimed, "It's already this late. The next class is math. I have to go back to class."

"You've offended Lao Lu. I don't think he'll come down the mountain to see you anytime soon." Fang Dian stuffed the popsicle stick he had just finished eating to Bai Liu, waved his hand, and ran up the mountain. "I have to prepare for the physics competition recently. Be good and stay alone for a while. Tell us if you have anything."

After saying that, she ran away in a flash. Bai Liu sat alone beside the flower bed, looking down at the two wooden sticks in his hands.

One of these two wooden sticks was given to him by Lu Yizhang, and the other was given to him by Fangdian.

Both won prizes, and it said another one.

Bai Liu looked at the two popsicles in his hands and was about to get up and leave when he found a notebook where he was sitting that Lu Yi Station had not had time to pick up because he was sitting on it.

He paused, then took the notebook and opened it.

This is a very small notebook. When you open it, there are lines of chemical equations inside. It seems that it is for Bai Liu to understand and take notes quickly. Next to each equation, there are one or two lines of concise explanation. These are all equations that Bai Liu had missed before. They take up half of the notebook. The handwriting is very new, and it can be seen that the author worked overtime all night to finish them.

Bai Liu turned to the last page of the notebook and stopped. There was a prayer talisman for the top scholar tucked inside the inner page of the notebook.

This thing is a red paper talisman given away when you buy something at the stationery store near them. It is given away when you spend more than ten yuan. It seems to be a cheap feudal superstitious ritual that is of no use other than self-psychological comfort.

Bai Liu unfolded the paper talisman, and inside was Lu Yizhan's elegant and powerful handwriting:

——[I hope Bai Liu can study hard, get 400 points in the exam, and do what he likes. 】

Bai Liu held the paper talisman in his hand, blinked slowly, and then clenched it tightly.

There were people coming and going on the playground. Four classes were taking physical education classes at the same time, playing basketball, volleyball, and table tennis. This group of noisy and childish high school students were playing with each other in groups. Their laughter and talking could even be heard from the flower beds on Bai Liu's side. It was very lively.

Bai Liu should have been one of the people here, but he was equally conspicuous on the playground as he was outside it. Whether he was in the center of the crowd or not, he was alone.

And this person's condition will probably continue for some time.

Bai Liu put the notebook into his trouser pocket, without even looking at the group of high school students on the playground, he turned around and prepared to go back to the dormitory - he remembered that he had just put those notebooks back to his dormitory in his second year of high school at Lu Yizhan.

Just as he was about to leave, he felt his trouser leg being pulled. Bai Liu turned around, and he looked along the direction where his trouser leg was pulled, his expression froze.

A ball of fluffy, puppy-sized yarn appeared in front of the flowerbed. It looked like a rough draft that had been scribbled out with a 2B pencil. The rough draft stretched out a small yarn leg and grabbed the corner of Bai Liu's clothes. It raised its head where its face should be and looked at Bai Liu. It made a very strange sound, like the muffled sound of an animal whose vocal cords have not yet formed:

"Can you give me one of the popsicles in your hand?"

Bai Liu stared at the dark lines and fell into a strange stagnation.

The author has something to say:

Mini-theater:

Lu Yizhan's initial idea for the big boss of the first 657 world lines, Bai Liu, the derivative of the evil god's successor: Don't destroy the world.

Lu Yizhan's later impression of Bai Liu: He is an undergraduate

This is a flashback, the main emotional plot. Readers who don't like flashbacks and emotional plots can prepare to skip this part.