Chapter 24: Cat or Shi Miao? You can only choose one.
The next morning, Jiang Yingxu closed the door and left.
Shi Miao yawned, took a picture of the nightmare prop for the other three members of the Jiang family as usual, and then slowly left the community.
Arrive at the classroom on time.
Jiang Yingxu sat in his seat, writing his exam paper, only slightly raising his head when Shi Miao sat down.
She changed her hair tie again today.
The flocked calico kitten on the rubber band swayed back and forth as it shook its head.
Amidst the sounds of students reading aloud, Shi Miao pulled out the test paper she hadn't finished yesterday. "System, I'm ready!"
How could an illiterate kitten, who has just started learning junior high school material, possibly be able to complete a senior high school exam?
However, in order to enter Ningcheng No.1 Middle School and the first class of the Qianfeng Class, one must have excellent grades.
"Whether we'll be exposed and kicked out depends on you, Commander!"
System: [...] Sigh.
Intelligent life has been reduced to a small system for searching questions.
The system diligently scans the exam paper, producing the answer in 0.01 seconds, and announces it in a flat, mechanical voice without any fluctuation.
Shi Miao buried himself in his writing.
You don't need to copy homework; just let the system report the answers with a 100% accuracy rate, and then you have to manually correct two mistakes yourself.
Shi Miao felt like an emotionless answer-writing machine. She finished three test papers in one go, put down her pen, and rubbed her slightly sore wrists.
The morning reading session is almost over.
Seeing that she had finally finished writing, Zou Yuanyuan gave her half a small bread roll.
"Miaomiao, the first class today is English. You need to recite the vocabulary you were assigned yesterday. Have you finished memorizing it?"
Shi Miao took a big bite of bread, but before she could even chew, she was stunned by the news.
She still clung to a sliver of hope.
"Does the teacher say the word (chew) that we need to memorize (chew chew)?"
Zou Yuanyuan: "Ren Ze, that's the English class representative, he was talking about in the class group last night... By the way, it seems you haven't joined the class group yet. Let me add you as a friend and add you to the group."
The school doesn't strictly control cell phones; you can bring them in, just don't take them out to play with them during school hours.
Zou Yuanyuan was about to take her phone out of her bag when Shi Miao waved her hands repeatedly, "I didn't bring my phone, maybe next time."
Zou Yuanyuan had no doubts and nodded in agreement.
Shi Miao swallowed the bread in her mouth, her eyebrows drooping, and obediently flipped through the vocabulary list.
You have to memorize it every morning and evening.
The kitten started cramming at the last minute, and amidst the gradually subsiding morning reading voices, it diligently memorized each word one by one.
Her voice was soft and sweet.
If she occasionally makes a mistake, the system will remind her.
At the table behind, Jiang Yingxu lifted his long eyelashes, his gaze lingering on her back for a few seconds, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
--cell phone.
Just as Zou Yuanyuan had predicted, in the first class, the English teacher entered the room with a faint fragrance and had the students in the first row pass around the vocabulary sheets for dictation.
Shi Miao muttered to herself as she did her final memorization, then took the vocabulary sheet from the student in front of her and paused for a moment.
"Why is there only one?"
What about Jiang Yingxu's share?
Zou Yuanyuan glanced at him and said lightly, "He doesn't need to. No matter what he does in class, the teacher always makes him do exercises on his own."
As long as Jiang Yingxu's grades don't drop, no one will bother him.
Shi Miao: "!"
The greatest villain in the original book is so impressive, it needs no further explanation!
The teacher on the podium is giving a lecture with great enthusiasm and expression.
Shi Miao opened the online course taught by a famous teacher and continued to study diligently.
Tense, inflection, clauses.
Algebra, geometry, coordinate axes.
Cells, solutions, climate.
After another day of studying, Shi Miao's eyes were filled with confusion as she slumped against the table once more.
The cat is studying hard; good for the cat.
The teacher was babbling on and on, I couldn't understand what she was saying. The teacher was mean.
During free time, with no teacher around, everyone enjoyed themselves, doing homework, chatting, and eating.
The chubby boy in front of me took out a bag of Mimi Shrimp Chips from his desk and enthusiastically handed out a small bag to everyone around him.
Shi Miao chewed on a shrimp cracker.
Little Fatty lowered his voice, and behind his thick 600-degree glasses, his small eyes gleamed with gossip.
Have you heard what happened in the second year of high school?
"What's up?"
"I think I heard something, that the police came to the school."
"Wow, is that exaggerated?"
Little Fatty chuckled, "What you all know isn't complete. Let me tell you, there was a boy in Class 1 of the second year of high school. I don't know if his phone got a virus and his data was leaked, or if a hacker was just being kind and sending a dozen or so videos of him abusing cats to their respective owners."
"hiss!"
Several people nearby gasped in surprise.
Little Fatty: "It's not over yet. This person is especially disgusting; he attacked his relatives' children..."
Shi Miao had her ears perked up, hoping to hear some gossip to relax her mind.
Upon hearing this...
That's all.
She lay down again, lazily popping shrimp chips into her mouth and crunching them.
After passionately recounting the disgusting things He Yi had done and hurling insults at those around him, Little Fatty changed the subject.
"You probably didn't expect that He Yi would also drag Jiang Yingxu from our class into this."
People around: "?"
Shi Miao: "?"
Xiao Pang: "I have a friend who is in the same class as him. When He Yi was brought to the school by the police, he swore that many cats attacked him last night, that he was instructed to do so, and that those videos were also released by someone with ulterior motives."
Ren Ze, who dragged a chair over, said, "You're not trying to say that he's trying to drag Jiang Yingxu into this, are you?"
Little Fatty snapped his fingers, "That's right!"
"???"
If question marks could materialize, they would all appear around the heads of people nearby.
Little Fatty glanced furtively at Jiang Yingxu, who was intently working on his practice problems behind him, and then lowered his voice.
“Yesterday after school, Jiang Yingxu’s cat came to pick him up, which resulted in a conflict with He Yi. So, he was blamed, and He Yi insisted on bringing the police to the school to check the surveillance footage.”
Ren Ze: "Wait, a cat?"
Xia Hui: "A cat?!"
Ge Sitong: "You mean, Jiang Yingxu's cat came to pick him up from school?"
All the arguments and conflicts between He Yi and others are irrelevant at this point.
Jiang Yingxu was a true academic genius in the eyes of everyone in the class.
She has a cold personality, is aloof and indifferent, and keeps people at arm's length.
It makes people afraid to get close.
They were used to Jiang Yingxu's unrealistic experiences and vaguely knew about his troubled family background.
Half admiring, half regretting.
As a result, Jiang Yingxu, who always went his own way, suddenly found himself being picked up from school by a cat.
For some reason, the aloof boy's association with fluffy little animals seems to have suddenly brought him down from the sky, imbued with the warmth of human life, and even his usually sharp features have softened a bit.
Xia Hui held up the book, and the dog asked furtively, "Um, will the cat come to pick him up from school today?"
"It's not that I want to see it, it's...it's Tongtong, she's interested in cats!"
Ge Sitong was dragged into the mess by her, pushed up her glasses, and didn't say anything.
Ren Ze rubbed his hands together. "Actually, I'd also like to see it. It's not that I like to join in the fun, it's just that I really like small animals."
Little Fatty coughed.
"How about we go after school today?"
Ren Ze: "Follow me, at the school gate?"
Xia Hui: "Disperse, hide?"
Ge Sitong: "...1".
The group quickly reached an agreement, their gazes turning to Zou Yuanyuan and Shi Miao, who looked bewildered for some reason.
"Yuan Yuan, let's go take a look together."
"And Shi Miao, come join our event!"
Zou Yuanyuan hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.
She also really liked kittens and was thinking of getting one after graduation. She was also genuinely curious and couldn't imagine how Jiang Yingxu would get along with a kitten.
Then, several pairs of eyes turned to Shi Miao.
Shi Miao: "."
Shi Miao: "I have something to do later, so I won't participate..."
Xia Hui was a little disappointed, but she could understand. "It's okay, your own business is important."
"Yes, maybe the cat won't come to pick us up today."
"Oh yeah, what if they don't come today? Will we still come tomorrow?"
"and!"
The group huddled together and began to make detailed plans.
Shi Miao scratched his face and smiled helplessly.
I'm so sorry, I won't be able to participate this time, or the time after that, or every single time.
After all, she was involved, so who will pick Jiang Yingxu up from school?
Cat or Shi Miao, it's a choice between the two.
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